Chapter 29: The Long Arrow Sunset

In addition to Guangzhou Evergrande, the teams that reached the quarterfinals of this year's AFC Champions League in East Asia also include South Korea's Jeonbuk Hyundai, Japan's Kashiwa Sun God and Osaka Gamba; In West Asia, Tehran Oil, Al Ahli, Lekhvia and Al Hilal are located.

However, Dai Zhiwei does not pay attention to the situation in the other half of the region at all, after all, they will only meet their opponents in the West Asian region in the final.

The draw for the quarter-finals took place on June 18 at the AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. As the only seedling of the Chinese Super League, Guangzhou Evergrande was signed, and the team's opponent in the quarterfinals will be the Japanese Kashiwa Sun God team, which won 8:1 in the two legs of the 2013 AFC Champions League semi-finals.

Evergrande will usher in the first leg of the 1/4 finals on August 25, and host the Kashiwa Sun God in the second leg on September 15.

According to the rules of the tournament, East and West Asian teams will not meet before the final. The draw will not only determine the quarter-finals, but also the semi-finals and the home-and-away order will be determined directly by the draw for the quarter-finals.

Since they were drawn in the QF3 position, if Guangzhou Evergrande reached the semi-finals, then the semi-finals will now be played at home.

In addition, the two-legged final of this AFC Champions League will be played by teams from West Asia at home first, in other words, if Guangzhou Evergrande can advance all the way, then in the battle for the final title, it will have the advantage of the away team and then the home.

This season, Kashiwa Suns won the top spot in Group E with 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, and the quarter-finals team eliminated South Korea's Suwon Samsung over two legs by virtue of the advantage of away goals to advance.

In the past four meetings between the two teams, Guangzhou Evergrande has won 3 and drawn 1 to remain unbeaten. In the 2013 AFC Champions League semi-finals, Evergrande beat the opponent home and away, and the huge score difference of 8:1 in the two legs also gave Guangzhou Evergrande an absolute psychological advantage when they met again.

It is worth mentioning that the Kashiwa Suns have shown strong attacking firepower in the AFC Champions League this season, and their 14 goals also rank first in the group stage of East Asia, which needs to be paid enough attention to Guangzhou Evergrande, whose defense is not stable at present.

However, considering the gradual recovery of the injured, the team's combat effectiveness will inevitably improve significantly when the AFC Champions League resumes. The advantage of comprehensive strength and the favorable schedule of the first away and then the host make Evergrande's promotion hope greater.

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"Xiaowei, how's it going?" There are still a few minutes to start the game, and at this moment, Evergrande's players are making final preparations in the locker room, Zheng Zhi glanced at Dai Zhiwei, who was tying shin guards, and asked: "Playing with Bai Sun God, see that you are very excited!" ”

'yes, I'd like to score a few goals on them.' Dai Zhiwei put on his socks and responded.

Dai Zhiwei is currently far ahead of the Super League scorer list, with a gap of 10 goals between the second place and him, and with only 6 rounds in the league, this season's Super League Golden Boot can almost be announced in advance as Dai Zhiwei's.

Dai Zhiwei is also the top scorer in the current AFC Champions League scorer list, but the gap between the second place and him is only 1 goal, and the gap between the chasers behind him is not much, so his AFC Champions League Golden Boot is not nine out of ten.

Therefore, in the face of a soft persimmon like Bai Sun God, Dai Zhiwei is ready to score a few more goals in order to secure the top position of the AFC Champions League scorer list.

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"Oh, the players from both teams are starting to enter the field!" The focus of the AFC Champions League quarterfinals was held at the Hitachi Park Football Stadium, and the live broadcast of this game was the Huaxia TV Sports Channel, and Huaxia Channel 5 also attached great importance to this game, sending their ace football commentator He Wei and guest Xu Yang.

Xu Yang still introduced the teams of both sides quite old-fashioned: "Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides-

Evergrande lineup:

Goalkeeper: Zeng Cheng

Defenders: Zou Zheng, Jin Yingquan, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng

Midfielders: Paulinho, Zheng Zhi, Huang Bowen,

Forwards: Gao Lin, Goulart, Dai Zhiwei

Kashiwa Sun God lineup:

Goalkeeper: Takaken Kanno

Defenders: Kim Chang-so, Yuta Nakayama, Yuki Otsu, Daisuke Suzuki

Midfielders: Eduvaldo, Yuto Fujita, Kosuke Taketomi, Yoo Ibarata

Forwards: Strongman Kudo, Cristiano

"Evergrande and Bai Sun God have met 4 times in the AFC Champions League, and Evergrande has formed an absolute advantage with 3 wins and 1 draw. In the semifinals of the 2013 AFC Champions League, Evergrande swept the Bai Sun God with a score of 8-1 over two legs. In this battle, Evergrande was composed of Goulart, Gao Lin and Zheng Long to combine the attack line, and Zheng Zhi and Paulinho sat in the midfield. Elkeson is out due to injury. He Wei said.

Kashiwa Suns picked the side to win and chose the direction of the first half of the attack.

Evergrande encountered an unfavorable situation at the beginning, Zhang Linpeng fought for a high-altitude ball in the side defense, but his face was hit by Yuta Nakayama's head, Zhang Linpeng's face was bleeding non-stop, and he could only be treated by the team doctor off the field.

And in the case of 10 people, Evergrande, who was actively attacking, almost scored a goal.

In the 7th minute, Huang Bowen passed, Dai Zhiwei finally got a chance at 24 yards in the middle, Dai Zhiwei received Huang Bowen's pass, and sent it directly forward after stopping the ball on his chest, and then his left foot was tense, and the football was a powerful volley before it landed!

But Dai Zhiwei's powerful shot was blocked by Yuta Nakayama who hurriedly stepped forward - the ball hit Yuta Nakayama's elbow and bounced off the bottom line.

"Handball!"

Dai Zhiwei saw that Yuta Nakayama's handball was not punished by the referee, and rushed directly to complain about the handball foul of the Bai Sun God defender, but the referee thought that the latter's hand was not stretched out and it was not intentional handball, so he just gave Evergrande a corner kick.

Dai Zhiwei knew that the referee would definitely not award the home team's penalty area handball + penalty because of such an unintentional handball, and the reason why he rushed up to complain was mainly to put pressure on the referee and avoid adverse penalties that might occur later.

In the next corner kick, Huang Bowen crossed directly, and Yuta Nakayama, the defender of the Kashiwa Sun God, saw Dai Zhiwei and immediately posted it.

Who is Yuta Nakayama?

I'm afraid not many people know that he was born on February 16, 1997, is 1.80 meters tall, plays as a defender or midfielder, and has only made a total of 3 appearances for Kashiwa Suns.

The young Yuta Nakayama has completed the triple jump in the last five years, and in 2011 he was only a student on the Atago junior high school team in Ryuzaki City, and was selected for the U15 youth team of Kashiwa Suns.

A year later, he came to Chiba Prefecture to attend high school, and naturally entered the U18 echelon of Kashiwa Suns, and quickly became the captain of the team. He then moved into the Kashiwa Suns reserves, made his way into the first team last year and made his debut on the bench for the league game against Niigata Swans on May 10, 2014.

Although he hates Japan more than he appreciates it, Dai Zhiwei has to admit that in the cultivation of young players, Huaxia is completely incomparable.

However, no matter how strong the young Japanese players are, in front of Dai Zhiwei, who has a football player system, they are not opponents at all!

This time, although Yuta Nakayama has a height of 180cm, he was blocked by Dai Zhiwei and couldn't move at all.

Resisted the Empress Dowager Zhongshan, Dai Zhiwei jumped up, he didn't shake his head directly to attack the goal, Huang Bowen was a little lower than this pass, because it was originally going to pass to Goulart.

Dai Zhiwei stopped the ball with his thigh and bounced forward, then immediately took a step forward, and immediately raised his foot sideways to pull the ball under the pull of Yuta Nakayama behind him.

Dai Zhiwei didn't practice this kind of difficult action in training, but the moment he stopped the ball just now, he suddenly remembered the usual teaching of Zheping in the next life - no matter when you shoot with the most suitable action, you must be imaginative.

So, he subconsciously used it, and when he shot, he didn't notice the goalkeeper and the situation in front of the goal, but just shot the ball out by feeling!

It's all about feeling, and that's why so many fairy balls are generated!

Of course, it can also be said in another way - blindness!

Dai Zhiwei smoothly drew the ball, the moment the ball touched his foot, the force was slightly deflated, and then immediately returned to a round shape and quickly flew out towards the goal!

Dai Zhiwei was lucky, the ball got through the dense crowd in the penalty area, and Sugano Takaxian, who was standing in front of the goal line, couldn't see the shadow of the football at all, and then before he could react, the football had quickly flown into the left side of the goal!

The Hitachi Park Football Stadium was silent for two seconds, then the dominant noise and the few cheers rang out over the stands.

"Cool!"

After Dai Zhiwei scored, he jumped up directly, then clenched his fist towards the sky and swung his fist fiercely!

If you want to ask how Dai Zhiwei feels at this moment, there is only one word - cool!

At this moment, the hatred of the country and the hatred of the family are all in this foot!

Then the players in the penalty area all rushed up and hugged Dai Zhiwei together.

Cannavaro saw Dai Zhiwei take the lead for the team, and he also celebrated wildly on the sidelines.

This game aside, Dai Zhiwei can be considered to have been single-handedly picked up and cultivated by Cannavaro - although the big air wing in the system may not think so.