When Zhang Sheng and the others were chatting happily, the players returned to the locker room one after another under the leadership of the assistant coach.

After everyone arrived, Zhang Sheng began the final arrangement before the game, he clapped his hands and focused the players' attention: "The game is about to start. Are you nervous?"

"Not nervous. ”

Zhang Sheng's question was greeted with uneven answers and different tones.

"False. Zhang Sheng pursed his lips and said, "I just talked to Team Leader Yu and Team Leader Xing, and they all said that they were nervous, you have eaten rice for a few days, can you win these old rivers and lakes?"

Hearing Zhang Sheng's words, the players below didn't care, and they all laughed.

"Alright, alright. Zhang Sheng clapped his hands again to quiet everyone down, "The AFC Champions League final is the first time, and it is impossible not to be nervous." It's good to be nervous, and it proves that you're interested. It's the AFC Champions League final and I want everyone to show their best enthusiasm. ”

"We've been preparing for tactics for a long time, so I'm not going to talk about it, and guarding against arrogance is the only thing we have to do in this game. At this time, Zhang Sheng has changed from a giggling chat with his coaching staff to a serious training mode.

"The last thing I want to say is. We are here today not only to represent ourselves, but also to represent the entire Chinese Super League and even the country. Zhang Sheng said seriously, "I think everyone has seen it in the past few days." A lot of the Chinese fans who came to watch the game were not fans of our Longteng team, and many of them weren't even fans, they came to cheer us on, just because we were a Chinese Super League team, a Chinese team. ”

"From the first day we came here. The local Chinese and the country's consulate here have given us the greatest degree of help, and we have to give them feedback on this game. Zhang Sheng took the game up a big bit.

Next, Zhang Sheng eased the atmosphere and said: "Of course, if you can turn those spectators who are not fans into our fans, it can be regarded as winning glory for the club." ”

Finally, Zhang Sheng announced another news: "Before the game, the group gave a new AFC Champions League reward system - as long as the game is won, for every additional goal difference, the group will be rewarded with an additional 3 million!"

Before Zhang Sheng said that the competition was so lofty, he almost talked about ideals and life, and everyone was just faintly excited, but now as soon as the news of the prize money was announced, the scene immediately exploded.

All the domestic players let out a tsunami-like cheer, and several foreign players also raised their hands and shouted "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" after hearing the translator's relay.

Zhang Sheng could only shake his head in his heart, it seemed that there was no money to make.

When the big guy's momentum came up obviously, Zhang Sheng looked at his watch and greeted loudly: "Let's go!"

At this time, on the side of Al Ahli in Dubai, the head coach Olaroyo was still telling his players: "This is our home stadium, as long as we keep an eye on a few of their key figures, Pato, Ben Alpha and Lin Feng, the victory will definitely belong to us." ”

When the players from both sides stood neatly in the players' tunnel, the strongest combination of CCTV who was responsible for commenting the game, He Wei and Xu Yang, was introducing the starting lineups of both sides at this time.

When talking about the lineup of the Longteng team, they looked very confident, and He Weihe carefully introduced: "In this game, the Longteng team sent their strongest lineup. The center forward is Zou Weijia in the front, the front court players are Pato, Ben Alpha, Tao Wentao, the two backs are Lin Feng and Roque Gill, of course, Lin Feng may be more involved in organizing the attack, the four defenders are Zhou Zhou, Lu Zhihui, Ma Yongli and Xiao Yunfan, and the goalkeeper is Zhou Wei. Judging from Zhou Zhou, Coach Zhang Sheng still focuses on stability, otherwise Wei Zhimin, who has stronger attacking power, will start. ”

"This lineup should be the best in Asia. The domestic players at the national foot level plus three foreign players with excellent strength, and at the same time a team that plays overall tactics, they can easily win the Chinese Super League championship is deserved, and this lineup is still lined up because of the absence of absolute main players such as Nie Jiang and Huang Dawei. Xu Yang said with certainty, "As long as there are no special circumstances, I am more optimistic about the Longteng team." ”

"But Al Ahli won't throw in the towel easily. He Wei still reminded, "This is the first time in ten years that the UAE team has entered the final of the AFC Champions League, and they will attach great importance to it, and there are local media reports in Dubai before the game, and the Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum of Dubai, and the Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of Al Ahli Club, Hamdan will be present to watch." For this game, the relationship between the UAE Football Association and the Saudi Football Association, which has always been very strong, is also very stiff. You must know that at the beginning of the year, before the start of the Asian Cup, the Saudi team fired the former coach Carlo, and due to the lack of time to find a new coach, the Saudi Football Association also turned to Dubai Al Ahli for help and moved to Olaroyo on temporary loan. Firefighting', led the team to the Asian Cup, and this time the Al Ahly team for the AFC Champions League final spot with the Saudi club to the FIFA, and this is Al Ahly's home stadium, they have not lost in the AFC Champions League for 18 consecutive home games, if you take into account the home referee factor, our players must be careful on the field. ”

In the commentary of He Wei and Xu Yang, the players of both sides officially entered, and after the national anthems on both sides were played, the game also began.

After guessing the edge, Dubai Al Ahly chose the tee-off.

But just five minutes into the game, Al Ahli Dubai's head coach Olaroyo was on the sidelines from the dugout, as the idea of organising an attack by getting the kick-off was out of line.

Al Ahly was in a standard 4-4-2 position, with Ribeiro, the team's 'brain', organising the team on the left near the midfield, but from the first five minutes of the game, it seemed that he couldn't get the ball in the first five minutes.

The Dragons played a typical zone defense, and did not send anyone to defend Ribeiro as Olaroyo thought, but treated him as an ordinary opponent, except that all of Ribeiro's passing routes were stuck.

After passing the ball back to the back of the field in the opening period, Al-Ahly defender Majid Murphy Al Ahly was left behind. Hassan handed the ball to Ribeiro and sought cooperation, but Tao Wentao has been following him closely and did not give him the opportunity to pick up Ribeiro, as for the other players, striker Lima and Khalil, one is at the front point, sandwiched between the central defenders and midfielders of the Dragons, Ribeiro has no passing route, and the other striker Khalil is defended by Roque Gil very deadly, and the two wing players are also Pato and Ben Alfa are ready to break the passing line at any time.

As for Ribeiro himself, he was in Lin Feng's defensive area, and he retreated all the way under Lin Feng's pressure, Ribeiro saw that Lin Feng was pressing him tightly, and after looking around and not finding a chance to pass the ball, he could only choose to pass the ball back to his other defender, Faldan.

The opportunity for the Al Ahli team to organize a positional offensive was completely lost.

In fact, this is the tactic that Zhang Sheng has been preparing before the game, that is, since you Ribeiro wants to organize an attack, it is nothing more than two ways, one is to play an attack with his own one-stop pass, and the other is to pass the ball to his teammates to play cooperation.

But Ribeiro himself is not the kind of player with a very strong impact, his style is roughly equivalent to the previous king of celestial bodies, Conca, only 1.74 meters tall, he wants to crush the opponent like that, it is really impossible to do it, so once he can't dispatch the ball, Al Ahly's attack has no threat at all.

In the eighth minute of the first half, Ribeiro was forced to pass the ball nowhere, and he chose to force the ball to Lima in front of him, but the pass with too obvious intention was detected, and Roque Gil, who had been in charge of controlling Lima's receiving line, and Ma Yongli, who had been in charge of Lima's receiving line, teamed up to break the ball.

Dubai Al Ahli also learned from the Longteng team to do the siege, and wanted to go to the passing line between the players of the Kalongteng team, but the short pass cooperation between the two or three players of the Longteng team was extremely skilled, and when the players of Dubai Al Ahli ran for a while, they found that the hair of the ball was not touched, and they were almost ready to give up.

Seeing that the opponent's pressing strength relaxed slightly, the attack of the Longteng team accelerated, and the acceleration point was really one of the foreign aides they had talked about countless times before the game - Pato.

In the twelfth minute of the first half, Pato on the right side saw that Fardan, who was defending himself, was a little far away from him, and after receiving Lin Feng's pass, he did not give the ball to his teammates, and chose to accelerate the breakthrough.

Pato's sudden change of speed caught Dubai's Al Ahli side a little off guard, especially Fardan, who was in charge of defending Pato, chose to come over and grab in order to make up for his poor defensive mistakes.

It's just that Fardan overestimated his own strength, and his top grab was easily broken through by Pato and succeeded.

When Pato made a successful pass, the solid defence of Al Ahli Dubai was leaked, and it was the team's left side that was directly threatened.

The left wing-back who started in this game was Sancur, not Waleed Abbas, but whether it was Sancur or Waleed Abbas, they were both right-footed, which means that they were not orthodox left-backs.

As a right-footed player on the left side, in addition to the inside cut in the attack, whether it is the bottom of the attack or the center of gravity of the body in the defense is very disadvantageous.

This time it was exactly like this, Pato dribbled the ball at high speed, Sancur didn't dare to grab it, for fear of being overcome, so he could only step by step to the side of this Pato retreat, such a backward defense to deal with a speed master like Pato is extremely passive.

Pato also saw the opportunity, and suddenly changed the line with the ball and cut in laterally.

Sancur saw that he was going to be passed, and used a lateral interception action with his legs to block Pato's forward line, it should be said that this action is an obvious foul, and the position of the foul is also very dangerous, just two or three meters in front of the big penalty area, for the Longteng team with Ben Alpha and Pato's shooting masters, this position is very good.

But just when Jang Seung was about to arrange the next free kick in the front court, the referee Kim Jong Hyuk did not say anything, and pointed forward with the hand holding the whistle to signal the game to continue.

Pato, who had been put to the ground by Sancur, thought that the free kick was stable, but he didn't expect to catch even a yarn.

Pato is also a battle-hardened old fritter, he has really never encountered such an outrageous penalty, Pato reacted angrily slapped his hand on the ground to express his dissatisfaction, and the Dubai Al Ahli team took advantage of the opportunity for the Longteng players to argue with the referee and played a quick counterattack.

Because Pato is still in the opponent's front court and has not returned, the right side of the Longteng team can be said to be a big gap, and Fardan, who just got the ball from the Dubai Al Ahli team, launched an attack on the right side of the Longteng team with the ball.

Considering that his right side was completely in a vacuum, Tao Wentao, as the front midfielder, chose to foul Phaldan at the first time - he pulled the opponent's jersey from behind Phaldan, so that the opponent's speed with the ball was reduced at once.

As soon as Tao Wentao's foul action was made, referee Kim Jong-hyuk decisively blew the whistle and ran over to give Tao Wentao a yellow card.

Tao Wentao, who received the yellow card, was so angry that even the green tendons on his face were about to burst, because Sancur's foul just now was more serious than his own, after all, he was a foul in the opponent's front court, and there was no hurtful action, Sancur's action just now was easy to hurt Pato's calf, and it was still a backcourt position to end the opponent's offensive foul, but the referee did not say anything.

Seeing that Tao Wentao wanted to rush to the referee, Lin Feng, as the captain, was much calmer, he hugged Tao Wentao with both hands, blocked Tao Wentao and the referee with his body, and pushed him back, you must know that Tao Wentao has now received a yellow card, once the referee feels that you are challenging his authority, he will take out a yellow card for you, and you will not refute it.

Another thunderous one was Zhang Sheng, who was on the sidelines, who yelled at the field and kicked a bottle of water away from the sidelines.

The fourth official of this game rushed directly over and began to warn Zhang Sheng.

How could Zhang Sheng, who had been completely carried away by anger, calm down, and he argued with the fourth official without giving a step: "The foul on the other side before was so bad that anyone who doesn't understand football can see it, is the referee blind?"

The fourth official didn't say anything to Zhang Sheng at this time, he directly called the referee over the walkie-talkie, the purpose was obvious, and the better result was to let the head coach warn Zhang Sheng, and the serious point was to directly send Zhang Sheng off the field.

Seeing the referee coming over with a straight face, the coaching staff of the Longteng team hurriedly pulled Zhang Sheng back, as the team's assistant coach, He Lijun also knew that it was time for him to stand up and block the head coach.