Chapter 11: The First Half of the Round Ends
On November 21, the new "World Club Cup" collided with the Toyota Cup and produced rolling sparks, and the draw and grouping ceremony was held in Shanghai under such an east wind.
Eight clubs, divided into four groups to directly participate in the round-robin knockout roundout, itself such a game is quite cruel, but considering the tight schedule of the big-name clubs, it has to be arranged this way.
In fact, the most tight club competition is the championship of the three major European cups and the Copa Libertadores champion, they have more intensity, intensity and difficulty than the champions of several other continents, but they are the strongest and the most likely team to reach the final of the Club World Cup.
Conversely, teams from Asia, Australia and Africa, who don't have a tight schedule, may have to go home in the first round – depending on how they are grouped.
Very, very faceless, Shanghai Shenhua and Fiorentina drew a group when they were grouped - this surprised many people, maybe many people think that this cup is held in Shanghai, that is to say, Shenhua is the host, but it is recognized as the strongest club in the world in a group.
Suffice it to say, even if all 35,000 fans at home cheer for the home team, Shenhua's victory over Fiorentina in this game is no less difficult than the difficulty of a camel passing through the eye of a needle as the Bible says.
In addition, River Plate and Parma were placed in a group. Sydney, Australia, who are arguably the weakest, meet African champions Al Ahly, while Chelsea are in a group with América Mexico.
The Shenhua team complained bitterly about this grouping, and they were in a group with Fiorentina. It's just too much to live......
And more importantly, Fiorentina's support in the hearts of Chinese fans is no worse than Shenhua - it may be much stronger, after all, there are several Chinese players there, after all, coach Maradona is an idol and hero in the hearts of Chinese fans, after all, Batistuta, Baggio, Zidane are enough to attract a lot of cheers from fans. After all......
After all, Fiorentina won 2:0 in this game, but it can be seen that Purple Lily did not use any strength at all. Such a team that gathers the world's top players is beyond the reach of a weak team like Shenhua, which is just starting out.
Fiorentina's momentum in Serie A is still strong this year. Although it can't be compared with last year's record of 29 consecutive rounds, the results of 10 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in 12 rounds are still very scary.
After Ling Feng left, Fiorentina vacated a vacancy for non-EU players on the field, so several Chinese youngsters in the youth team were brought up by Lao Ma, and their performance in the league was quite good, and one of the goals in this game was scored by striker Ding Rui after coming on as a substitute......
The Shenhua team went home honestly - in fact, it was most convenient for them to go home - Ling Feng meant that only a few senior members of the football federation understood that it was necessary to establish a fair and just league that would not favor any team, including the host, and Blatter suddenly felt a crisis, perhaps compromising with Ling Feng in the first place was a mistake that was enough to affect the future of FIFA.
But here's the thing. If you didn't compromise with Ling Feng, what could you do?
Four matches in four days, and the four teams will return to Shanghai in a month for the second round of matches, and the four teams that have advanced are as follows: Fiorentina, River Plate, Al Ahly and Chelsea.
Two of the top four are European teams, and their next round will be drawn a week before the tournament.
All in all, the first round of this Club World Cup was quite successful, although it was a little cruel, but it strengthened the ties between clubs on all continents, adding a new money-making opportunity for clubs......
There was nothing to do with Ling Feng, he just took the time to go back to China in the days of the game, said hello to the players and coaches of various clubs, did his best to be a landlord, and by the way, after the game, the players who pulled Shenhua had a meal with the group of hooligans in Florence - the authentic Chinese dishes made the guys full of praise, and a few guys who couldn't use chopsticks were also present regardless of the players of Shenhua, and they went directly to catch it, and finally each of them packed a copy back......
Let Chinese players and fans have more dialogue and contact with the world's top masters, this is Ling Feng's biggest goal, because only after contact will Chinese players find out: It turns out that these guys are also ordinary people, ordinary people like themselves, they love to make trouble and play, and they behave like children when they see strange things......
Many of the Fiorentina players here, such as the veteran Barty and Baggio are the idols of the Shenhua players, and in the hearts of some Chinese players, their status is the same as that of God, but after this meal, they found that the "god" would even fight for a small piece of snack - the most wolf-eating Carlos was unanimously protested by all the hooligans, and everyone collectively pressed this guy who thought he was the most handsome in the Brazilian team under the table......
Only by narrowing the distance between man and "God" can people hope to become "God".
The schedule of the Club World Cup is too long, in a sense, this is unreasonable, because the Club World Cup is different from the European Champions Cup, Europe is such a big place, and it is only a short time to fly, and the scope of the Club World Cup is too large, and it must be like the World Cup, and it must be held in consecutive matches within a month to determine the champion, and once this is arranged, it must also be held once every four years like the World Cup, otherwise. For the clubs, they simply can't afford to dedicate a month out of a busy season – even a holiday – to such a cup competition.
Everything needs to be improved.
The national leagues are still in full swing, in the Premier League's Serie A. Manchester United and Fiorentina are unstoppable, the leaders remain unchanged, and many people are looking forward to what will be the result after these two teams meet in the Champions Cup?!
In the Champions League, Manchester United have won two games in a row in the group. However, in the third away game against Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United were held to a draw at home by Saint-Germain led by Ronaldo.
In this game, Ling Feng played the whole game and did not release water at all, but Fernandez was quite strict with his defense tactically. And except for Ling Feng, the entire Manchester United did not expect that the Saint-Germain team would have a player with incomparably outstanding skills and almost gorgeous.
Ronaldinho!
At the World Junior Championships in '97. Ronaldinho was discovered by Ling Feng and sent him to Saint-Germain in advance, and very quickly. He became the third soul of Saint-Germain – after Georges. After Weah and Ling Feng, the new heroes of Saint-Germain!
It was this black guy with buckteeth who scored a goal and an assist after breaking through to the shouts and cheers of tens of thousands of fans at the Parc des Princes, and helped Saint-Germain draw Manchester United, which was many times stronger than himself!
Ling Feng scored the leading goal in this game, and he did not cheer after the goal. did not accept the cheers of his teammates, but gave a gentlemanly salute to the fans in the stands.
This action ushered in the goodwill of the Parisian fans, who gave applause to the former prince, and the transfer of players is a common thing, and it is rare that they can still think about their parent club after the transfer, and this alone is enough.
A touching scene appeared at the end of the game, 2:2, Saint-Germain forced a draw with the mighty Manchester United through his own efforts, and at this time Ling Feng pulled Ronaldinho and wanted to exchange jerseys with him.
Two shirtless men raised their hands to greet the fans, and the reporters quickly filmed such a scene, and the next day's "Team Newspaper" was headlined - "The King's Inheritance".
is indeed the king, although Ling Feng has only played for Saint-Germain for less than a year, but his contribution is greater than anyone else, and with Ling Feng's current strength and the honors he has obtained, it is not an exaggeration to call him the king of the ball - after Pele participated in the World Cup at the age of 17 and won the championship, the host Sweden at that time had media call Pele the "king of the ball" - Ling Feng just turned 18 years old this year, and the honors he won before were not able to catch up with the crows, and this title was naturally assumed.
And Xiao Luo, needless to say, this Brazilian also bears the reputation of the new generation of football kings according to his skills, strength and honor, but the only regret is that he did not win the Hercules Cup as the real soul of the Brazilian team, which makes him, like Ling Feng, the title of the king of the ball stained with some flaws.
But what made Luo depressed about this "Inheritance of the King" was that Ling Feng was a few months younger than him in terms of age......
Speaking of Xiao Luo, then we have to talk about Da Luo.
Ronaldo is quite depressed right now, very depressed.
His erratic performance in the World Cup final has caused him to be blamed by fans and the media, Ronaldo is not stupid, he naturally figured out what went wrong, but he did not intend to pursue it, because it was meaningless.
Now the alien is bent on scoring more goals in the league and other games, helping Inter Milan win yesterday's honor, and get rid of the blame as soon as possible, which is what he desires the most.
It is because of this momentum that Ronaldo has been particularly outstanding on the pitch, and Fiorentina's only defeat this year has been due to him.
Although Fiorentina's backline is strong, it does not mean that they can stop Ronaldo who is determined to win when they are not black-footed, and some teams have not strong backlines, but Ronaldo can not get up after falling......
In the game against Sampdoria in October, Ronaldo was tackled by a defender and rested for a month.
In the several rounds of Serie A games in which Ronaldo was absent due to injury, Inter Milan's front was not good, so Ronaldo did not rest for too long, and returned to the game when the injury had not fully recovered.
In the Milan derby, facing AC Milan, which has recovered, the Inter fighters fought very hard, and Ronaldo scored a goal, but could not save the team from defeat.
In the next Champions Cup against Arsenal, Ronaldo was injured again and doctors said that he would be out for at least three to four weeks.
Fortunately, the winter break is coming soon, and Ronaldo has time to rest.
Before the winter break, the Premier League broke out a shocking upset, Manchester United lost 2:4 away to Arsenal, and it was with Ling Feng on the field.
Although Ling Feng tried his best, it was clear that Arsenal had a much greater advantage at home, with Nicolas Anelka scoring a hat-trick and Bergkamp sealing the win.
This is a shame for Manchester United, and even more shame for Ling Feng.
Because this was the first time that Ling Feng had lost the game after playing the whole game!
Arsene Wenger's Hoached Tottenham defender Campbell performed exceptionally well in this game, successfully freezing Cantona, leaving Ling Feng without firepower support up front.
Looking at the situation on the field, Arsenal have little advantage in terms of possession time and shots, but they are much better than Manchester United in terms of ability to take chances, scoring four goals with a total of seven dangerous shots in the game, and perhaps even Anelka himself did not expect that his poke from outside the box in the opening three minutes could break the door for Manchester United......
Ling Feng suffered the first complete defeat of his career - although he scored two goals alone.
A generation of geek Anelka, Ling Feng's first friend among foreign stars, gave Ling Feng his first real defeat......
On January 5, 1999, the smoke of the first half of the five major leagues dissipated, and Manchester United in the Premier League was still the first in the league, but the news of losing Arsenal was like a lingering shadow over the heads of Manchester United players, especially Ling Feng.
However, there is no point in thinking too much at this time, he can only wait until the second half of the season to fight again to take revenge, and more importantly, now Ling Feng still has an important task on his body, he and Si Yue boarded the flight to Milan together......
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