Chapter 52: Attacking and Defending Each Other

The second leg of the 2015 AFC Champions League final Evergrande vs Al Ahli in Dubai will be held at 8 p.m. on November 21 at Tianhe Stadium.

The AFC Champions League is imminent, and it is hard to find a ticket. The 1,500 yuan ticket was fried to 3,000 yuan, and the 4,000 yuan ticket was fried to 5,000 yuan.

Because the vast majority of tickets cost more than 4,000 yuan, there were concerns before the game that there might be empty stadiums.

However, even though the ticket prices are frighteningly high, the celestial bodies are still full.

According to incomplete statistics, Evergrande's box office generated by this game exceeded 150 million, setting a record in the history of the Asian arena.

The last time Evergrande played the AFC Champions League final at home, it changed the chest advertisement from "Evergrande" to "Evergrande Ice Spring", and that sudden marketing gave Evergrande Ice Spring a brand effect.

In this final, Evergrande came up with the same tricks, and the chest advertisement changed from the daily "Dongfeng Nissan Venucia" to "Evergrande Life".

Evergrande has entered the financial industry, and Evergrande Life Insurance is the first insurance brand they mainly promote, and it is so eye-catching as soon as it is launched. From beginning to end, for six years, Evergrande Group has always regarded football as their biggest advertising platform, and this time of course, it will not let go of such an opportunity. This action also shows their eagerness to launch a new brand on the occasion of the final.

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At 20:00 local time, in the referee's whistle, the second leg of the 2015 AFC Champions League final was played at Tianhe Stadium, the home of Evergrande.

Chinese fans rarely enjoy the glory brought to them by football, and they have endured the suffering brought to them by Chinese football for most of their lives, so this AFC Champions League final is a rare and proud moment for them.

From the very beginning of the game, Huaxia fans cheered for the home team all the time, and the red represented by the home team's jersey filled the night at Tianhe Stadium!

As all fans expected, because Evergrande won 2:1 in the first leg, Al Ahly had to attack, so it was an extremely fierce battle!

The line-ups of both sides -

Evergrande lineup:

Goalkeeper: Zeng Cheng

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

Defenders: Paulinho, Zheng Zhi

Avant-garde: Dai Zhiwei, Gao Lart, Huang Bowen

Forward: Elkeson

Al Ahly line-up:

Goalkeeper: Mahmoud

Defenders: Sangur, Hamis, Kwon Kyung-won, Waleed Abbas

Midfielders: Hassan, Ribeiro, Fardan

Forwards: Hamadi, Lima, Khalil

Zheng Zhi won the ball when he guessed the coin, and an attack launched by Evergrande in less than a minute into the game almost made the hearts of nearly a thousand Al Ahli fans from afar jump out of their throats!

After Elkeson kicked off the ball, he knocked back to Zheng Zhi in the back, Zheng Zhi observed the position of his teammates while receiving the ball, and found that Dai Zhiwei had quickly advanced near the Al Ahly penalty area, so Zheng Zhi immediately made a long pass with a big foot without hesitation.

Zheng Zhi's large-scale passing can only be regarded as average, although his strength is one of the best in the domestic midfield, but Huaxia football is too far from the top level of world football, and most of the domestic top to the international are not even average.

Zheng Zhi's pass went over the head of Al Ahly's midfield, landed between Dai Zhiwei and Hamis, and even closer to Khamis on the right.

The two are basically in the same straight line at the moment, as long as Dai Zhiwei takes the ball into the penalty area, then this ball Hamis is not easy to handle.

There is no doubt that this is a good opportunity for Evergrande!

Although football seems to be closer to Hamis, Dai Zhiwei's speed and explosiveness are at the top level in the entire world of football.

I saw him rush out as if he had been transformed from an F1 car into a supersonic plane, rushing ahead of Khamis and controlling the football at his feet.

You must know that at this time, it is no more than 20 seconds before the referee blows the opening whistle, and the defenders of Al Ahly are still warming up to find a feeling.

By the time he reacted, football had reached the feet of Dai Zhiwei, the arrow figure of Evergrande and the most worried of the Al Ahly team.

The first to realize that something was wrong was naturally Hamis, who was closest to Dai Zhiwei, who originally thought that he would be the first to receive the football, but he didn't expect Dai Zhiwei's speed and explosiveness to be so amazing.

At this time, Dai Zhiwei had already noticed Hamis's sliding tackle, directly poked the football lightly with his toes, jumped up to avoid Hamis's foul, and wiped into the penalty area.

However, Hamis's tackle played a role after all, Dai Zhiwei just stabbed the ball a little bit harder, and Al Ahli goalkeeper Mahmoud did not hesitate to attack when he was about to break through Hamis, and kicked the ball out of the sideline before Dai Zhiwei.

"Alas!"

The regretful voices of the Chinese fans in the stands formed a strange sound, and they were all pity in their hearts, if Evergrande scored a goal in less than 30 seconds in the opening game, it could basically declare the ownership of the locked championship.

In Al Ahly's penalty area, Khamis crawled on the grass and scratched the turf, Mahmoud wiped the cold sweat from his head, and Dai Zhiwei kicked the air in a fool's hand.

"It's better to dodge a little bit, and if you are tripped, forget it!" Dai Zhiwei muttered, "At least you can get a free kick in a good position." ”

After all, it is a home game, a familiar climate, a familiar venue, and many supporters, as the game slowly progresses, the home team Evergrande, which occupies the right time and place, gradually began to grasp the initiative on the field.

Although Al Ahly was given a very unfriendly dismount by Evergrande at the beginning, the total score was behind, so they could not blindly defend, so they quickly launched an extremely threatening counterattack.

Lima received a through ball from Hamadi after breaking through in the middle at the edge of the small penalty area, and the shot was saved by Zeng Cheng, who was in good shape and reacted quickly.

In the subsequent corner kick, it was Lima who grabbed the top again after Feng Xiaoting's reckless grabbing, and the direct volley football grazed the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line again.

However, in addition to this wave of Al Ahly's attack, in the next 20 minutes, Evergrande completely dominated the field, and Al Ahly's midfielders did not seem to have entered the state and were completely suppressed.

Khalil, who is Dai Zhiwei's biggest opponent in this year's Asian Footballer of the Year selection, has also become invisible under the joint strangulation of Evergrande's central defenders.

As Evergrande's offensive became more and more fierce, the emotions of the fans at the scene became more and more high, everyone got up from their seats, and the red flag fluttered in the stands of Tianhe Stadium.

If this continues, I'm afraid it won't be a good score and ending for Al Ahly after 90 minutes.

Unfortunately, just because you're on the offensive doesn't mean you're sure to score.

After more than 30 minutes of bombardment, Al Ahly slowly stabilized his formation in the wave of Evergrande's attack, although the football was still flying around in Al Ahly's half, but there was no danger just now.

At this time, it was Evergrande's attack, and Goulart took the ball and ran while observing the positions of the players on both sides.

On Evergrande's side, Dai Zhiwei, Elkeson and Huang Bowen were on the side, Al Ahly was quicker to defend, all four defenders were back, and Hamadi and Fardan in midfield were also chasing quickly.

Goulart looked at Huang Bowen on the left, and saw that the defensive center of gravity of the Al Ahly player shifted a little to the left, and his eyes didn't move, but with a shake of his ankle, the football accurately fell to the feet of Dai Zhiwei on the right.

Dai Zhiwei, who received the ball, was running wildly, and Sangur, who was defending him, was still some distance away from him, and was running towards Goulart desperately.

Seeing Sangur rushing towards him, Dai Zhiwei accelerated again in his running, wanting to break through Sangur.

But Sangur guessed Dai Zhiwei's intentions, and when he ran towards him, he did not directly target people, but came to his forward route in advance.

When Dai Zhiwei was about to rush to the bottom line, Sangur was stuck in front of him, which meant that the ball could pass and people should stay.

Dai Zhiwei faced Sangur's defense, and continued to use his feet to cross the ball and go back and forth, but Sangur just stabilized his center of gravity, and did not blindly kick out in the face of Dai Zhiwei's bicycle, but kept taking small steps back with Dai Zhiwei's movement.

"Lao Tie, you can't be so unenterprising!"

Seeing that the other party was not confused by his feints, Dai Zhiwei turned around, squeezed Sangur behind him, pulled and jumped with his right foot, and the football flew over the heads of the two and flew towards Elkeson in the middle.

When Dai Zhiwei turned around, Elkeson grabbed in front of Hamis, and when the football reached him, the Brazilian bear tossed to the left with the instep of his foot, but the man turned to the right and wanted to wipe past Hamis.

Kwon Kyung-won knew that Khamis couldn't face Elkeson alone, and after seeing his opponent receiving the ball, he stepped forward directly to help defend.

It happened that Elkeson was going to divide the ball, and Kwon Kyung-won took the lead and intercepted the football directly.

In the blink of an eye, the ball returned to Al Ahly's hands, seeing that most of the Evergrande players had pressed through the half, and there were three defenders in the backfield, Quan Jingyuan did not pass the ball to the defenders around him, but drove directly to the front court.

In the blink of an eye, the offensive and defensive situation changed, and the situation changed in an instant!