On the afternoon of the second day, as on every match day, fans were already gathered inside and outside the Osaka Expo Memorial Arena.

The only difference is that the crowd outside the stadium today in red and black fandom is unusually large, and it seems to be more than the home team's fans in blue and black.

This is also due to the fact that the capacity of the Osaka Expo Stadium is not large, and the stadium can only accommodate more than 20,000 people at most, so the Gamba Club has distributed less than 5,000 tickets to the fans, even if they are generous. As a result, a large number of fans who could not enter the stadium were stranded outside the stadium, and when the FC team bus came and passed through the red and black, the players in the bus thought they were at their home stadium.

When Li Xuyan stepped down from the bus, he couldn't help but look at the crowd of fans, as if he was looking for someone's shadow.

Ji Chengyong, who was walking behind him, patted him on the shoulder, and seemed to know Li Xuyan's mood very clearly: "Let's go, she will definitely watch you from the stands today." ”

Li Xuyan nodded slightly, and then shook his head again, at the moment of the war, he felt that he shouldn't have cared about other things that had nothing to do with the game, but his mood couldn't help but jump out of his own thinking, he still cared about that gaze, that smile, that bet, and that person.

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Kim Taeyeon came to the stadium early as promised, sat down in the VIP seat, ignored the curious and excited eyes of everyone around her, and just lost her mind. Although this game and that agreement have long been doomed in her heart, there is still an unknown worry in her heart that tugs at her heartstrings. The closer you get to the game, the more unsettling it becomes.

Wait a minute, this qiē should end like this...... Kim Taeyeon kept comforting herself with such thoughts, as if this was the only way to calm her down a little.

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Although the number of Japanese fans at the scene was small, less than 10,000, they were well-organized and well-trained, and the cheering songs resounded throughout the stadium before the game even began, and it seemed to create a warm atmosphere of tens of thousands of people.

For this match, the fans in Osaka are very confident. They seem to have started celebrating their victory in advance. The song was full of joy, looking at the FC fans with a solemn atmosphere opposite, an irrepressible sense of superiority arose spontaneously, when talking about this game. They've basically taken the Er FC like a bunch of dead people.

In fact, this atmosphere has been going on for a long time before the start of the competition. It's not just Osaka fans. The media in Osaka and the generals of Gamba all look like they are sure to win.

But it cannot be said that they are arrogant...... Because the shape shì is really irrefutable.

Gamba Osaka won five games in the group stage and qualified early, and FC still needs to win their own game in the end, while praying for rival Shandong 1n to lose. In order to create a miracle of zào's qualification. And Osaka Gamba, as the judge of fate, naturally has the capital and confidence to stand on a high place and look down on the team.

But the feeling of being looked down on like this made the players of Er FC really unhappy. Contrary to the completely pessimistic view of the outside world, the more difficult they are in such a difficult situation, the more ambitious they are to create a miracle.

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As a result, the FC team sent the strongest squad they can send at the moment, compared with the personnel at home against Osaka, only the central defender Park Yongjun replaced the French defender Kevin Hatch, who has been poor for some time ago, and the other positions have not changed, and the controversial "Beijing Four Young" have all played.

The Osaka Gamba side with the captain Nagato Hohito and three Brazilian strong foreign aid as the core of the absolute main force have also appeared, only a few positions to rotate a few young Japanese players, from this point of view, Gamba coach Nishino Lang still attaches great importance to this game, and is not as proud as in front of many media.

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At this time, the reporters were standing or sitting in the media booth, holding the list of the lineups of both sides, and discussing the game before the game began.

Journalists are the most active in Osaka.

"I think Gamba can at least make it to the finals......"

"This team is in great shape and it's not impossible to defend the title this year and win it again!"

"Who will be the next opponent?"

"God knows, no one can stop Gangba anyway."

These Japanese are already discussing the future, and no one cares about the life-and-death battle in this game.

The media is worried.

"It's very severe...... Will there be a chance of a turnaround? ”

"The FC fans say they will fight until the last minute, but I really hope that this last minute doesn't come too soon!"

"Pray for a miracle!"

"Is it really going to be the only South Korean team to go out of the group stage?"

"Our domestic league is now ranked first, but the Asian arena is going to be out early, I am really unwilling!"

The feelings and momentum of the reporters on both sides are completely different, which is very in line with everyone's attitude towards this game before the game.

The fate of the visitors has been sealed, while the home team is in high spirits.

It's not that as long as you can win this game, all the efforts of this side of FC will be in vain, and even if you win Osaka in an upset, you won't be able to qualify beyond Shandong 1N.

Therefore, half of the fate of Er FC is still pinched in the champion who went to Indonesia, Shandong 1N.

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Thousands of miles away at Sri Vijaya's home stadium, the weather in Palembang, Indonesia is as hot as ever, and the match between Shandong 1n and Sri Wijaya will kick off at the same time as the match in Osaka.

Compared with the enthusiasm of the local fans when R FC first came to Indonesia, the atmosphere of Sriwijaya fans who have lost the AFC Champions League has cooled down a lot, and the number of fans who came to cheer for the team in the stadium may not be the same as Er. But the atmosphere of the fans has dropped, but the temperature has not dropped, but it has become hotter. At the beginning, the FC almost capsized in the gutter during the race in such hot and humid weather. Therefore, an important reason why the FC is not completely desperate is that the bad weather in Indonesia does not expect the strength of Shandong 1n to lose to Sri Wijaya, but they pray for the heat of Shandong 1n to lose to Sri Wijaya.

Indonesia is too far away, so there are not many Shandong fans who have always liked to follow the team to play away from home.

But among the few fans who followed Shandong 1n to Indonesia, there is an eldest sister surnamed Dong who is very famous among Shandong fans, and she is the backbone of Shandong 1n fan club. As a die-hard fan, she almost has to be there for every game of the Shandong team, so even if it is far away from Indonesia, she is here.

Looking at the Shandong players who entered the stadium with the theme song of the AFC Champions League, Sister Dong was excited. As the only hope of the four teams participating in the AFC Champions League. As long as they win against this unpopular opponent, the Shandong team can break into the AFC Champions League knockout round!

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At the same time, Kim Taeyeon, who was at the Osaka World Expo Stadium, sounded to the rousing entrance music in the stadium. I watched as the players of FC and Gamba Osaka walked out of the tunnel side by side. Her mood was just a flurry of confusion. Then he silently said in his heart, in another two hours, just wait until the end of this game. You can be liberated......

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A few minutes later, with the referee's whistle, the final round of the AFC Champions League group stage, which affected the fate of countless people, kicked off.

After the start of the game, Gamba Osaka did not attack as much as usual, their tactics were a little more steady, Nishino asked the whole team to focus on the rhythm, not crazy attack - this is a matter of course, they have already qualified, this game is only to spend the minimum cost to win, not to mention against the South Korean team who attack in a desperate posture, the slow play is more in line with the Japanese style, can also play the effect of overcoming the rigid with softness.

A champion coach like Nishino is very good at thinking.

Osaka slowed down the tempo and looked like he was going to play a defensive counterattack, which increased the number of players. If it is against a team like Indonesia, FC is not afraid to play positional battles, because they have a strong center forward like Dejan in the team, and it is enough to poke into the opponent's penalty area and come with a few headers.

But not today, the Japanese are not as fragile defensively as the Indonesian players, without the support of the midfield, and the center is an island in the sea, which does not work at all.

In this way, Li Xuyan, who was pushed by Güneş from a full-back, to the forward position, is very important as the core of the FC attack.

Although Li Xuyan broke through Gamba Osaka's goal twice in the home field, Nishino Lang didn't pay too much attention to Li Xuyan's player, because Li Xuyan's overall swing was not very good last time, and there was no threat after he was closely marked, so that Güneshi replaced him before the game was over.

At that time, the main person in charge of defending Li Xuyan was the Osaka team Soul Endo Hohito. And today's game is the same as the first leg, Endo Baoren is in charge of Li Xuyan's defense, and with his rich experience, Li Xuyan can't get the ball in the midfield and calmly organize it; Judging from Nishino Lang's observations, he already knows very well that Li Xuyan is a player with distinctive characteristics and obvious shortcomings, and his shortcoming is that he is weak in confrontation, although Li Xuyan has made great progress in training in the past two months, but he still doesn't take much advantage of Endo Hohito's defense for a while.

Nishino really doesn't understand why Günesh would use such a person as the core of the attack, maybe it can be useful in low-level games, right? But this is the AFC Champions League, and Osaka Gamba is the Asian champion.

Being able to mix well in South Korea does not mean that you can eat it all in the AFC Champions League.

Nishino Lang was very careful in terms of tactics, and he felt that his arrangements should be enough to freeze Li Xuyan. As long as Li Xuyan is frozen, then he can break up Er FC's offense. It's a lot simpler.

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The task given by Güneshi to Li Xuyan was to organize the midfield with the ball and connect the team's attack, which Li Xuyan did at the beginning. Due to Osaka's tight defense, he frequently retreated to the midfield to get the ball, but Endo's follow-up defense made him organize the attack very ineffectively.

His forward line was very tightly blocked, including Endo and other Osaka players, and he could only keep returning and crossing, and he couldn't use his advantage because of the lack of depth to break through with the ball.

Osaka's defensive strategy is very simple - it is to rush around in the half, I don't care if you are Li Xuyan, or Ji Chengyong, or Li Qinglong, anyway, after half the game, you are surrounded by our Osaka Gamba people. Want to get close to goal? It's hard to climb! Don't even give a chance to shoot!

Güneshi also saw it, he turned his head to look next door, Gamba Osaka's head coach Nishino Lang was calm and relaxed, and he was really very well prepared. People's self-confidence is also well-founded......

But how do you score a goal in this way?

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Just when FC was at a loss for his attack, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the bad news he was worried about finally came.

The first to get the news was on the bench of Ernesh, an assistant coach leaned into Günesh's ear and muttered a few words, and then saw that Güneš's already solemn face was even more ugly, and he hurriedly made a silent gesture, as if he was afraid that the news would be heard by others.

But there is no impermeable wall in the world, and soon, there was a commotion in the stands, and then everyone knew - in distant Indonesia, Shandong 1n scored!

Just learned the news of Shandong's away lead off the field, the captain of Gamba Osaka on the field, Nagato Hohito, cut off a forward pass from Li Xuyan, and then directly divided the side with a long pass, and found their leading striker Lucas in front of him, Lucas took the ball to break through the FC right-back Park Yonghao and then passed the ball to Gamba in the middle Another Brazilian foreign aid Leandro, Leandro relied on the degree to shake off the central defenders Kim Jin-gyu and Park Yong-jun who were marking him, and went straight in with a single knife, facing goalkeeper Kim Ho-jun with a kick......

Easy to break down!

Gamba Osaka 1:o lead!

It was a goal to add insult to injury.

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As everyone expected before the game, the only remaining hope of qualifying was almost killed by the simultaneous goals of the two games...... (To be continued......)

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