Chapter 20: Guangzhou Derby

After being disgusted by the referee in the AFC Champions League, Dai Zhiwei was not affected too much, because even the final score of 2:2 allowed the Evergrande team to gain a big promotion advantage.

Evergrande is gathering strength for the next game - Guangzhou Derby!

At 20 o'clock on May 23, the defending champion Guangzhou Evergrande will meet the city brother Guangzhou R&F, and this time it is the seventh time that the two teams have staged a Guangzhou derby in the Chinese Super League.

But it is said to be a derby, but in addition to being in the same city between Evergrande and R&F, the atmosphere of the derby is not too strong, the two teams are brothers in the same city and rivals in the same city, but the relationship between the two clubs is very good. To a large extent, this stems from the tension between Xu Jiayin, the head of Evergrande Group, and the head of R&F Group, who have a very good personal relationship.

In the previous Guangzhou derby, Xu Jiayin and Zhang Zhang often met to watch the game. As big entrepreneurs in southern Guangdong, Xu Jiayin and Zhang Zhang are both financially strong and love football. In the previous stage of the Forbes China wealth list, Xu Jiayin and Zhang Zhang were on the list, but Xu Jiayin's personal assets were significantly more than Zhang Li.

In fact, Guangzhou R&F is not a native of Nanyue. As early as 2004, there was a founding team of the Chinese Super League named Shenyang Jinde, after which Shenyang Jinde "moved" to Changsha, Hunan Province and changed to Changsha Jinde. In 2010, Changsha Jinde was unfortunately relegated to the Central League, and then moved to Shenzhen and changed to Shenzhen Phoenix. In mid-2011, R&F Group acquired Shenzhen Phoenix Club, and Guangzhou R&F Club was born, and it was in 2011 that Guangzhou R&F achieved a breakthrough.

It can be seen that Guangzhou R&F can be described as an "outsider" in Guangzhou City.

Although Evergrande and R&F are both Guangzhou City teams, there are few "local langs" in the teams of both sides.

In the Evergrande team, except for Liao Lisheng, Wang Junhui and Liang Xueming, who are Cantonese, the rest of the players are not from Guangdong.

In the R&F team, except for Ye Chugui, Li Jianhua, Lu Lin and Chen Zepeng, who are Cantonese, the rest of the players are not Cantonese.

In addition, the exchange of players between teams in the same city has always been cautious and not much. However, between Evergrande and R&F, there is no shortage of large-scale exchanges between players. Among them, at the beginning of 2013, Guangzhou R&F introduced Li Jianhua, Wu Pingfeng, Li Yan and Jiang Ning from Guangzhou Evergrande, and the one-time import of 4 players to the same city team is rare in world football.

Evergrande's record after its promotion to the Super League is obvious to all, and R&F's record after the Super League is also remarkable, so the fan base of both sides is very large.

From the perspective of fan culture, Evergrande's fan camp brings together eight major leagues, with neat costumes, a variety of slogans and flags, and distinctive slogans.

On the other hand, the number of R&F fans in the camp is smaller than that of Evergrande, but R&F fans are extremely emotionally saturated when watching the game, and the slogans are more consistent.

From 2012 to 2014, there were frequent clashes between fans of both sides, with 2014 being the most intense.

In the second leg of the 2014 Guangzhou derby, fans of both sides fought before the game and caused a group fight, but fortunately, the police arrived at the scene in time to calm down the incident. And this is the first time that fans on both sides have had a fight. This shows how popular the Guangzhou derby is.

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"To be honest, I'm a little nervous." Dai Zhiwei said to Gao Lin in front of him.

Zheng Zhi did not enter the team's starting list today, so Gao Lin is the captain of Evergrande in this game.

"You kid has grabbed the main position, will you be nervous?" Gao Lin replied angrily.

Hearing Gao Lin's resentful words, Dai Zhiwei was happy and didn't say anything more.

May 23, 2015 at 19:00.

One of the highlights of the 11th round of this season's Chinese Super League - Guangzhou Evergrande's away game against R&F is about to begin, and players from both sides have begun to warm up in the field.

Tianhe Stadium is full today, Evergrande's fanatical fans have accumulated a long time of male hormones finally got the opportunity to release, the stands are full of Evergrande fans' abusive slogans, R&F players in the warm-up, every time they touch the ball, the stands will sound overwhelming boos!

In his previous life, he was just a small editor who made up more often in the Internet, Dai Zhiwei naturally had never seen such a posture, and he was really shocked for a while, he couldn't control the ball with two feet, and stopped the ball one meter away - unexpectedly showing the real technical level of the Chinese football elite.

Fortunately, this is his home stadium, and the fans are not targeting him, so after a while, Dai Zhiwei still eased up.

The starting line-ups of both teams -

Evergrande lineup:

Goalkeeper: Zeng Cheng

Defenders: Mei Fang, Yi Yi, Zhou Zheng, Li Xuepeng

Midfielders: Zhang Jiaqi, Zhao Xuyang, Liu Jian

Forwards: Zheng Long, Gao Lin, Dai Zhiwei

R&F lineup:

Goalkeeper: Liu Dianzuo

Defenders: Zhang Yaokun, Jiang Zhipeng, Zhang Xianxiu, Tang Miao

Midfielders: Wang Song, Jiang Ning, Park Jong-woo, Mitchell, Chang Feiya

Striker: Aaron

Seeing the starting lineup of the Evergrande team, everyone was surprised, Cannavaro not only did not send a foreign aid, but even the absolute main force was only a few people such as Zeng Cheng and Dai Zhiwei.

Is this really not taking the R&F team into account?

Or is Cannavaro relying on something?

At 8 o'clock, Gao Lin won the coin guess on behalf of Evergrande, picked the right to kick off, and with the referee's whistle, the game of Guangzhou Evergrande VS R&F team officially began.

Dai Zhiwei is about to usher in the first derby of his career!

Tianhe Stadium is full of noise different from previous games, whistles, curses, middle fingers and cheers, and even the on-site commentators have been warned by superiors to use less foul language many times, which can also see the popularity of the derby from the side!

The time of the game passed quickly, and soon the first half of the game was more than 20 minutes into the game, and the deadlock on the field was still not broken.

In the first 20 minutes of the game, due to the brutal fouls of the players on both sides, the scene was chaotic, with flying tackles and pushes flying on the field, fouls and yellow cards continuously.

The whistle in the referee's mouth has not been put down, ringing and ringing, blowing and blowing, and one by one the "Topaz God of War Cards" are given away cheaply to the players on both sides.

In the 20 minutes of the first half, both teams received three yellow cards each.

And as the number of fouls increased, the offense of the two teams became more and more chaotic, and the players began to be impatient after being tackled to the ground again and again.

After Dai Zhiwei was deliberately tackled by the opponent's defender, if it weren't for the old player Gao Lin to stop him, Dai Zhiwei would have wanted to use an iron fist representing justice to directly hit the opponent's kid in the face!

Just as the game time was about to jump to 30 minutes, a sudden change occurred on the field!

It was R&F team foreign player Mitchell who took the ball. Mitchell's speed began to slowly add up, and Wang Song's pass just now was very comfortable, allowing Mitchell to calmly pass Liu Jian who was rushing at the first time, and then rushed towards Guangzhou Evergrande's back line.

This time, the opponent Mitchell faced was still Mei Fang, Mei Fang looked at Mitchell's coquettish appearance, steadily lowered his center of gravity, and looked at Mitchell who was rushing towards him.

Mitchell made a bicycle action, and he was introduced by R&F at a high price, so he naturally looked down on the unknown guy in front of him.

But the experienced Mei Fang saw through it at a glance and instantly stretched out his foot to steal successfully.

"Bang!"

Mitchell staggered, the soccer ball was gone, and Mei Fang was frantically dashing forward.

"Mistaken...... Mitchell's breakthrough was cut off by the Mei side, and Guangzhou Evergrande's counterattack opportunity came! ”

After Mei Fang took the ball twice, he passed diagonally to Liu Jian on the right side of the front court.

The football successfully jumped over the back of the R&F team, Zheng Long took the ball on the side and flew wildly on the side after winning the ball, and the R&F team players who saw the bad situation were also crazy to defend.

Seeing the situation, Zhang Yaokun, the fullback closest to Zheng Long, hurriedly rushed up to Zheng Long, ready to leave Zheng Long behind first.

In the face of Zhang Yaokun's defense, Zheng Long was worried that the opponent would not keep the ball and foul unscrupulously, so he chose to pass. He crossed the ball to the middle, and then without stopping at his feet, he continued to cut forward near the baseline.

And it was Zhao Xuyang who received the ball in the middle, which was obviously an extremely familiar cooperation that Guangzhou Evergrande had trained for a long time, and Zhao Xuyang sent the football back to Zheng Long's feet for the first time - two over one.

The two successfully played a one-two, and Zheng Long easily broke through Zhang Yaokun's defense.

A scene on the field suddenly detonated the entire Tianhe Stadium, and Guangzhou Evergrande fans cheered wildly, looking forward to the appearance of the goal.

Zheng Long continued to calmly dribble the ball to the right side of the penalty area, and was about to cross. At this moment, Zhang Yaokun pounced violently, but Zheng Long was just a feint, only to see him lightly buckle and shake off Zhang Yaokun, who was too fiercely defended, and then he poured the ball to the familiar right foot position, and crossed with his feet unguarded.

And Zheng Long's passing point was Dai Zhiwei, who was being entangled by the opponent's defender Zhang Xianxiu, at this time, Zhang Xianxiu stopped Dai Zhiwei by the waist and hugged him, and suddenly looked like judo.

In Zhang Xianxiu's heart, as long as he entangles Dai Zhiwei for a moment, so that the other party misses this landing point, his teammates will rush back, and Guangzhou Evergrande's fast attack will fail.

But Jang Hyun-so's idea was doomed to fail, because he didn't understand Dai Zhiwei!

Dai Zhiwei looks great and upright on the outside, but in fact he is full of anger!