Chapter 329: A Bad Omen
With a bustle of fans on the TV screen, the game is about to begin.
The first side to kick off was Seoul FC, and the camera looked down from the air, only to see that Li Xuyan was already standing in the center circle with his teammate Dejan, stepping on the football.
Li Xuyan looked around the packed stands in the center of the venue.
It's the AFC Champions League final – most people must feel that way.
Li Xuyan calmed down, he had a feeling of dreaming, but at this moment he knew that he had to calm down.
It was then that he saw the referee raise his hand while he heard the whistle.
Li Xuyan kicked the football to Ji Chengyong, and then shook his head and rushed forward without hesitation!
"It's time for the game—" the commentator shouted.
There was a loud cheer from the stands, accompanied by flashing lights.
From the very beginning of the game, the whole Seoul FC team launched a fierce attack on the Etihad goal, and they kept in mind what Güneş wanted of them.
From the players themselves, even if they don't have the manager's arrangement, they will do it - ... Who wouldn't want to end the game in the first thirty minutes, kill the whole suspense, and turn the remaining sixty minutes into garbage time?
Of course, whether you can do it or not is another matter, but as Li Xuyan thinks, but first you have to dare to think!
In the fourth minute, Seoul created a dangerous attacking opportunity.
Ji Chengyong passed the football to Li Xuyan in the counterattack, Li Xuyan did not be greedy, but directly stuffed the football into the air, and the leader of the Deyang Heart Association had already inserted it into the void, received the football and brought it into the penalty area, and then grabbed a shot when the defender who defended him came.
The football ended up in the side-netting, which shocked the Etihad fans in the stands and made the Seoul fans happy for a while.
"Ahh What a pity...... Sidenet! Dejan's shot misses the target and goes just wide! He shocked the Etihad fans into a cold sweat! From the very beginning of the game, Seoul launched a swift offensive! They seem to want to establish an early lead in this final and put the rest of the race into their tracks! For this reason, they did not try at all, and just attacked the Etihad team. If you look at it this way...... Maybe we can hope that this game will not be dull? ”
Dejan, who didn't score a goal, also looked annoyed, he ran back with his hands on his face, obviously ashamed that he would have deflected the ball, his nickname is "Asian Ibrahimovic", the real Swedish striker Ibrahimovic is not only height and header.
The Seoul fans were thrilled by Dejan's goal, singing and shouting in the stands to cheer on the team.
……
FC Seoul's offense is really fierce.
Just a minute after Dejan's shot missed, Li Xuyan made another cold shot on the line of the penalty area, but the football was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Mabrouk Zayed, the No. 1 national goal of the Saudi national team.
"Ah, Li Xuyan! Zayed's save was crucial! ”
In the twelfth minute, Seoul won a direct free kick, and the free kick taken by Lee Wook Yan was directly received by Zayed.
The stands resounded with cheers from the Etihad fans.
Güneš frowned from the sidelines.
Ittihad's tactics were no different from what he had in mind, and it was true that he set up the bus from the beginning and used defense to contain Seoul's goals.
It wasn't much, but he found a bad sign in those attacks – and that was that the Etihad goalkeeper Mabrouk Zayed seemed to be out of shape......
You can tell from his two saves that he is very excited and active.
This is a typical trait of a goalkeeper who is in excellent form. Of course, the goalkeeper position needs to be stable, but that's the foundation, and in the foundation of stability, you have to be excited and get into the game quickly. The striker can still heat up slowly, and if the goalkeeper heats up slowly, there will be no regrets about losing the ball.
In fact, the goalkeeper is a bit of a nue tendency - he always needs to be bombarded to maintain his condition, and if he has been idle for the first 89 minutes of the game, maybe the opponent will score a goal in the 90th minute.
Now Güneş looks at Zayed like this, and there are some signs that he is out of form...... It's not a good sign, a goalkeeper is good enough to top half of the team.
Listen to the cheers of those in the stands, although the number of Saudi fans is small, they basically died down at the beginning of the game, and there was no sound. But now it's like a fish thrown into the water, and it's active.
Their momentum is growing, which will increase the confidence of the Etihad defence, and once the confidence and morale of the whole team are raised, it will be difficult for Seoul to play. Güneš was going to play a blitzkrieg in this game, and he didn't want to be dragged into the quagmire of Stalingrad by the Etihad, which would definitely not be good for his team.
In order to avoid complications, you have to score early.
……
Güneş should have calculated his fortune for the day, because it backfired, and the game went on for almost 30 minutes, and Seoul had not yet been able to blast the door of Saudi Arabia.
In the 30 minutes of the half, everyone saw the whole Seoul FC team bombarding Zayed's goal, but either the shot flew off target or was saved by the goalkeeper.
During this time, the names mentioned the most in the mouths of the commentators, and the name shouted the loudest was not Li Xuyan, who was pinned on before the game, nor was it Ji Chengyong. But......
"Mabrouk Zayed!! Pretty, pretty! He blocked Li Xuyan's long-range shot!! ”
In the 30th minute, Li Xuyan got a chance to shoot from a distance, when he was 28 meters away from the goal, slightly to the right, he took his right foot and shot directly into the goal.
The soccer ball flew like a cannonball to the far end of the goal. Many fans in Seoul were ready to stand up and chant "ASa", but Zayed flew up and blocked the football with both arms.
Because the power of Li Xuyan's shot was very large, even though Zayed only blocked it with his arms, the football still popped up on the sideline under the strong reaction force, and did not fall in front of the goal, so that Li Shengyeol, who was about to make up the shot, pounced, but he didn't expect Li Xuyan's heavy artillery to help Zayed.
When he got up from the ground, he rubbed his two arms, and he could see how "heavy" Li Xuyan's kick was just now! But no matter how heavy it was, there was no goal, and Li Xuyan was not happy. It's been 30 minutes and he hasn't been able to break the deadlock and get on the scoresheet.
He's been active for the last 30 minutes, trying hard to find a goal. Helplessly, either I have a bad chance, or I have a good chance, but I meet a goalkeeper who is obviously out of shape, what a ghost!
He kicked the air a little suffocated, as if it were a football, and wanted to kick it into the goal.
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Time flies, the game can't go faster from more than 30 minutes to the end of the half, Li Xuyan feels as if the first half should only be halfway through, why is it over? And it ended in a 0:0 draw......
How to explain the advantage of Seoul in this half?
It was only in the 37th minute that Al-Ittihad had his first shot on goal...... Perhaps this can show some sense of how embarrassed Ittihad was at half-time.
But even in this embarrassment, they did what the manager gave them in the whole half... - no goals conceded!
They were qualified enough to walk off the pitch and back into the dressing room with a proud look on their face.
The few Etihad fans in the stands were also cheering loudly for the players.
"Well done! Ittihad! That's it! Let's pull them off in the second half! ”
Compared with the more satisfied players and fans, the players in Seoul frowned when they left the game. The fans are also much quieter. At the start of the half, they were all confident of winning the game, and with the quality and form of the team, it was not a problem to win the Etihad.
What do you think......
They squandered forty-five minutes of their time and gained nothing. This obviously does not bode well! (To be continued.) )