Greentown's side was not at all expected Zeng Prosperity's foot ability, he continued to accelerate in the midfield to get rid of the three people on Greentown's side, and attracted one of Greentown's central defenders, and then Zeng Prosperous's pass was handed over to Ni Kai, who was on the left side of the high-speed insertion, who received the ball and a beautiful ball shook past Greentown's right fullback into the penalty area, so that the last central defender had to run over to defend him.

Because the two central defenders went out and were taken away by Ni Kai, when Zou Weijia received Ni Kai's inverted triangle pass, there was no one around, in this case, Zou Weijia even if the shooting ability at his feet was no longer good, in the face of the goal that was almost empty, he easily sent the ball into the net with the safest instep push, and the Longteng team broke the deadlock on the field and led 1:0.

At this time, the backward Greentown woke up like a dream and began to attack desperately, Zhang Sheng also accepted it when he saw it, and successively replaced Ni Kai and Zeng Fanfang, who were more inclined to attack, with Cao Jinghao and Shen Jun, and completely pulled the formation back.

Until the end of the game, the score of 1:0 was firmly maintained, and Greentown could only accept the fact of defeat after suffering a dull loss.

After this game, the situation of relegation changed abruptly, with Changchun Yatai, who were at the bottom of the rankings, won a 1-0 victory to get three points, and the difference between Hangzhou Greentown and the bottom two was only five points.

At the same time, Evergrande was full of firepower under the leadership of Diego Costa, and the team defeated Luneng 4:0, and Costa scored a hat-trick again in a terrible way, scoring two hat-tricks in a row, equaling the previous record of Guangzhou R&F foreign aid striker Hamed, Evergrande once again made people look sideways.

Costa's highlight performance also made Chinese fans look forward to the upcoming AFC Champions League.

Guangzhou Evergrande, which is also a third-line battle, will meet the challenge of South Korea's K-League team Shuizuya Samsung at home, plus the match between Longteng and Jeonbuk Hyundai, this is another time that China and South Korea will host the rhythm of the AFC Champions League.

With the addition of this round of the league, the Chinese Super League is about to make way for the first round of the World Cup qualifiers round of 12 on September 1, and the two sides of the game are China and South Korea, and the debate about who is stronger and who is weak in football between the two countries has suddenly become the focus.

If it is in real history, it goes without saying that even the most optimistic Chinese fans do not think that the strength of the Chinese team can catch up with the South Korean team.

Now this timeline is different.

Whether it is from the national team (mainly the youth national team) or the club, China has lost to the South Korean team in recent years has become less and less, even Shandong Luneng such a team that saw South Korea fall can actually play back and forth with the South Korean team, Beijing Guoan is to break the embarrassment of losing more and winning less, as for emerging clubs like Shanghai SIPG and Jiangsu Suning, the results of the Korean team are not bad, not to mention Guangzhou Evergrande's repeated victories against South Korean opponents, of course, the emergence of the Longteng team, so that the Korean club can not raise its head - so far the Longteng club against the South Korean K League club is still undefeated。

There is still a lot of controversy on the Internet, and most of the opposition comes from questioning the club's foreign players.

For example, this reply on the Internet received a very high number of likes: "Please remove the number of goals scored by foreign players in both clubs? Yes, the club I'm talking about includes the Dragons who were blown into the sky by you. ”

And when Chinese fans with red pants mentioned the record of the Chinese national junior team, the national youth team and the national Olympic team in the past few years, they were sprayed by the fans with white pants: "What can the results of the World Junior Championships, the World Youth Championships, and the Olympic Games prove? Can the World Youth Championships win the World Championships, can the World Cup win the championship? Can the World Youth Championships reach the semifinals, can the World Cup reach the semifinals? The National Olympic team can win the third place in the World Cup? Let's blow it after entering the World Cup first." ”

"Then we'll see. "There is no actual victory to corroborate, and the fans who are optimistic about the Chinese team can only respond with ruthless words.

The controversy on the Internet this time has made waves again on the football topic that has just won the Olympic bronze medal and has not subsided, and even Zhang Sheng, who has faintly become the first local coach in China, has been involved.

Before the Longteng team set sail for South Korea, several media interviewed him and asked about the strength of the Chinese and South Korean teams, as well as the prediction of the next two teams.

Zhang Sheng can only play haha: "The outcome of the football game is difficult to predict, and the strength of the two sides cannot be 100% sure of the final score." We can see the progress of Chinese football in recent years, but we can neither be complacent nor arrogant. In the end, it will definitely be the team that plays harder and is smarter will win. ”

What else could he say?

said that the strength is stronger than the South Korean team, and it will definitely be able to win, Zhang Sheng is really not optimistic about the results of the Chinese team led by Peilan, and admits that it is not as good as the other party, and if he wants to lose, it will be a big blow to the self-confidence of the players of the Chinese national team or the players in his own team on the eve of the war.

In Zhang Sheng's thoughts, the chances of an away victory over South Korea are very small, and if he can get a draw, he should celebrate.

Of course, for his team, Zhang Sheng has the confidence that he will win.

Also holding the confidence of winning is Choi Kang-hee, the head coach of Jeonbuk Hyundai.

In last year's AFC Champions League, Jeonbuk Hyundai also met the Longteng team in the quarterfinals, at that time, Jeonbuk Hyundai lacked major generals, and the front line could only let the thirty-six-year-old Li Tongguo be the core, and when the score was behind, the substitutes that could be used were actually foreign aides who could not play in the league.

And this year they are different.

In order to win the AFC Champions League again, the team invested as much as 32.8 billion won this year, equivalent to 193 million yuan, although such an investment is put to the level of the relegation team in the Chinese Super League, but in the South Korean K League, that is an incredible data, almost double that of Seoul FC, which invested second.

This is an absolute outlier in the K-League, which is generally underpaid.

As early as the beginning of the season, the Jeonbuk team put forward a plan to form two sets of squads, and introduced Ko Moo-yeol of Pohang Steelers, Kim Shin-wook of Ulsan Hyundai, Choi Jae-so of Suwon Samsung, Kim Chang-so of Pak Suns, Kim Bo-hyung of Wigan Athletic, and Kim Shin of Lyon;

These players cost Jeonbuk Hyundai a lot of money, and the top three players in the top 5 annual salaries of Korean local players are all Hyundai players: Kim Shinyu 8.81 million yuan, Kim Fujiong 6.05 million yuan, and Li Tongguo 5.2 million yuan; In the TOP5 of foreign aid annual salary, Jeonbuk Hyundai also occupies 1, 3, and 4 positions: Leonardo 10.22 million yuan, Edu 6.11 million yuan, and Lopez 5.38 million yuan.

If there are several teams in the Chinese Super League at the same time that are comparable in terms of salary, Jeonbuk Hyundai in the Korean K League is completely outstanding, and the Korean fans who show off their scalps are numb.

With a high level of foreign aid, a large number of international-level domestic players, and then counting a group of international-level players in their own team, Jeonbuk Hyundai's strength is the first grade in the whole of Asia.

All of this stems from the fact that Jeonbuk Motor Group, the group behind the club, attaches great importance to football, and unlike Samsung Group, which focuses on the domestic baseball market in South Korea, Hyundai Motor Group Vice President Chung Eui-sun is a staunch footballer. Not only does he have a good personal relationship with Lee Tong-guk and Choi Kang-hee, but he also includes sports and even football as part of the group's high-level brand strengthening strategy, and is even ready to follow the example of the Chinese Super League club to buy world-class stars.

Of course, Jeonbuk Hyundai's operation methods are also the trend of South Korea's K-League big clubs, and in recent years, the K-League has become more and more rich and poor, such as Jeonbuk Hyundai, Seoul FC, and Ulsan Hyundai, all of which have adopted the method of hoarding international players to build teams, and are allowed to use up 4 foreign aid places with high salaries.

So far, Jeon-seo Hyundai have an unbeaten record of 17 wins and 12 draws in the regular season in three round-robins, which is the best result in the K-League.

Moreover, such an achievement was achieved under the very large off-field interference factor of Jeonbuk Hyundai, which is even more commendable.

However, Jeonbuk Hyundai's off-field distractions this season are not to blame on others, because it is their own trouble.

The reason is that in the 2013 season, the scouts of Jeonbuk Hyundai Club gave monetary bribes to the two referees who enforced the law that season, and gave a total of 5 million won (equivalent to about 27,500 yuan) in five installments, which was exposed by the media in May this year.

Soon South Korea's judicial authorities intervened in the matter to investigate, and it is said that the result of the penalty will be given in the near future, judging from the news that Jeonbuk Hyundai will be deducted points this season, it is certain, and whether it will be banned from participating in next season's AFC Champions League is also a question.

Such an external environment did have an impact on Jeonbuk Hyundai, but Choi Kang-hee, as the "pope" of Jeonbuk, at least superficially stabilized the situation.

Last season, Cui Kangxi, who was full of self-confidence, did not look up to the Longteng team very much, in his eyes, the Longteng team is not much different from other Chinese Super League clubs, it is a team that relies on top-level foreign aid to play the game, once the foreign aid is restricted to death, the team's offense is completely dumb.

For such a team, Cui Kangxi thinks he has a lot of experience - this is how Shanghai SIPG was beaten by him.

But in the actual game, the performance of the domestic players of the Longteng team still made Cui Kangxi feel that he had miscalculated, and the 0:3 defeat at home in the first leg made him realize the difference between the Longteng team and other Chinese Super League teams.

In the second leg, they were able to draw 2-2 away from the Longteng team, which proved that the veteran coach has a very good adjustment ability.

In this year's AFC Champions League, Jeonbuk Hyundai has been waiting to meet the Longteng team again, and this time it was finally a chance to be found, and Choi Kang-hee even hated the Longteng team for selling Pato and Ben Alfa, because in his opinion, even if he defeated the Longteng team, it was not enough to reflect the gold content of the victory.

So before the game, Cui Kangxi gave a death order to his disciples: "In this game, I just need to win." Now there are a lot of people out there who say that our wins were bought back by money, not only the players but also the referees. But as we all know, every victory we have won depends on us. ”

"To shut up the guys out there, I want you to prove yourself strong until we win the AFC Champions League. Choi Kang-hee categorically stated his desire for the AFC Champions League.

At this time, on the other side, Zhang Sheng looked extremely relaxed: "I bet that the other party must be swearing through gritted teeth now." We scored three goals here last year and kept a clean sheet against them. The Koreans are particularly vindictive, and it's safe to imagine how crazy they'll be attacking in this matchup. ”

"But that's our chance. Zhang Sheng began his usual guided tactical arrangement, "In last year's game, we have seen the tactics of Jeonbuk Hyundai, which is basically based on the full-court pressing as the core, and more like to play the tactics of high school forwards, responsible for the ball are two wings, and I like to play a 45-degree oblique hanging at every turn." ”

"So how to limit their two wings is the most important place. Zhang Sheng went straight to the point, "This season, Jeonbuk bought Ricardo Lopez, and with Leonardo in the team, he finally got the two foreign players he wanted on the side. Paul, Tiange, don't take care of the two of you, resolutely hit the back of their two fullbacks to assist, Qi Ming and Tao Wentao, you expand the defensive range, stretch the area out, and don't give their two wingers a chance to shoot inside. ”

"Finally, I want to emphasize that they like to scramble, so we'll show them what it means to really press, and that's something we've been emphasizing for most of the season. Zhang Sheng finally said proudly.

The managers of both sides are arranging tactics, and the commentators in charge of the commentary are also analysing the upcoming match.

As the highlight of the AFC Champions League, both China and South Korea have sent extremely strong line-ups.

On the Chinese side, CCTV 5 did the broadcast, and the classic combination of He Wei and Xu Yang was responsible for the commentary, and the cross talk combination of Li Xin and Dong Lu was on LeTV, which has the right to broadcast live on the Internet; on the South Korean side, it was partnered by the top commentary group that commented on the two teams' events last year, the host Bai Shengcai, and the top commentator in the Korean football commentary industry, Park Wencheng.

These three pairs of commentators while analyzing the past history, while introducing the comparison between the two teams this year and last year, China's commentators agree that the strength of the two sides is closer than last year - the strength of the Longteng team has weakened, and the strength of Jeonbuk Hyundai has been significantly strengthened, but the chance of the Longteng team winning away is still not small; 。

Sure enough, after the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, Jeonbuk Hyundai's players who got the right to kick off poured up like a tide, and most of these players on the field had played against the Longteng team, basically losing more and winning less, this time they gambled on their honor, and the will for revenge began to burn.