Chapter 194: The offseason is coming

In the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League, Jianye defeated Ulsan Hyundai from the K League 3:2 over two legs and advanced to the quarterfinals.

However, in several other quarterfinals with the participation of the Dragon Nation team, there was a succession of surprising news.

First of all, the Evergrande team was pulled down by the Quanjian team due to the lack of away goals and stopped in the top 16!

The head coach of the Evergrande team this season is the Cannavaro who led the Quan Jian team to beat a strong opponent last season and won the fourth place in the Dragon Super League standings and caught up with the last train of the AFC Champions League!

Now that Cannavaro has been defeated by his former disciples, he doesn't know how he really feels in his heart.

Then, it was SIPG that performed well in the Dragon Super League, and lost 1:3 away to the Lone Kashima Antlers team in the J League in the round of 16 of this season's AFC Champions League, and then at home, although SIPG did its best to defeat the opponent 2:1, but still lost to the opponent with a total score of 3:4 over two legs and stopped in the round of 16.

Although the teams from the Dragon Super League did not achieve the feat of occupying three of the top four places in the East Asian zone in this AFC Champions League, there are still two teams that have advanced to the top four of the East Asian zone, and the other two spots in the top four of the East Asian zone are from the K League and the J League respectively.

Jianye's next opponent is still from the K-League, which is Jeonbuk Hyundai. Jianye has already met three K-League teams in this season's AFC Champions League, and they have the posture to compete with Korean football.

If Jianye can eliminate Jeonbuk Hyundai in the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League, then three of the four K-League teams participating in the AFC Champions League this season will be eliminated by Jianye and can be called the K-League nemesis.

There is a long gap between the quarter-finals and quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League, and the first leg of the quarter-finals will not start until August 29, more than three months away.

At this point, before the offseason, Jianye team only has one game left in the eleventh round of the Dragon Super League.

This season, Jianye team has an outstanding record on the three fronts of the Dragon Super League, FA Cup and AFC Champions League, with nine wins and one draw in the first ten rounds of the Dragon Super League; The FA Cup started in the fourth round and defeated the opponents in the fourth and fifth rounds respectively.

In the AFC Champions League, six group games and two quarterfinals were played, with an excellent record of four wins, three draws and one loss, and the only victory was because the Jianye team did not send the team's thigh Shen Feng in order to retain its strength.

Such a record is second to none in Asia!

In the eleventh round of the Dragon Super League, Jianye team challenged the previous opponent R&F team in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

R&F team's record in the Dragon Super League this season is average, with five wins, one draw and four losses in the first ten rounds, temporarily ranking sixth in the league standings.

R&F's thigh Zahavi is still in hot form this season, scoring a total of 9 goals in the first 10 rounds, and is currently in the league scorer list, second only to Shen Feng, and Wu Lei, who has a hot shooting sensation this season, ranking third.

In this game, Zahavi originally wanted to compete with Shen Feng for a high level, but Shen Feng did not play, but Zahavi still worked very hard, but he never had a chance to score.

In the end, the R&F team playing at home scored a goal by Xiao Zhi, while the Jianye team playing away won a penalty in the final stage of the game, and the two sides finally drew 1:1.

Shen Feng watched the whole game and got enough rest, so that he could go to the Dragon Country team that was about to regroup in a better state to report.

Although Shen Feng did not get a minute of playing time in this game, with his excellent performance in the first ten rounds, he was still the best player in the Dragon Super League before the offseason!

Not only led the Jianye team to an unbeaten record of nine wins and two draws in the first eleven rounds of the Dragon Super League, but also led the scorer list with 21 goals in terms of personal data, and almost booked the top scorer of this season's Dragon Super League!

At the end of the eleventh round of the Dragon Super League, Wu Lei ranked second on the scorer list with twelve goals, Zahavi ranked third on the scorer list with nine goals, and the combined number of goals between the two of them was the same as Shen Feng, who ranked first in the scorer list.

At the same time, Shen Feng also has eight assists, ranking first in the assist list, and his offensive performance is unmatched!

The excellent state of Shen Feng and Wu Lei is a good thing for the Dragon Country team that is about to go to the World Cup!

On May 20, the eleventh round of the Dragon Super League came to an end, and the Dragon Super League will enter a 57-day off-season, and the twelfth round of matches will not start until July 17.

A few days before the arrival of the offseason of the Dragon Super League, the Dragon Football Association has announced the latest training list of the Dragon Team, this 23-man squad, if nothing else, will be the final list of the Dragon Team to the World Cup in Russia.

Before that, the group draw ceremony for the 2019 Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates was held in Dubai, and the Dragons were lucky enough to draw a lottery.

As the seeded team in Pot 1, the Dragons were grouped into Group C, with Saudi Arabia in Pot 2, Kyrgyzstan in Pot 3 and the Philippines in Pot 4 also in Pot 4 of the Philippines who qualified for the Asian Cup finals for the first time.

Of the three opponents in the group stage of the Dragon Nation, only Saudi Arabia is slightly stronger and can cause some trouble for the Dragon Nation, while Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines are both newcomers to the Asian Cup finals and pose no threat to the Dragon Nation.

Moreover, according to the regulations of the AFC, the Dragon Nation team is in Group C, the first group in the eighths finals, will face the four better results of the group third, with the current strength of the Dragon Nation team, there should be no problem in winning the first place in the group.

And to meet the third place in the weaker group in the quarterfinals is very beneficial for the Dragon Country team to advance to the quarterfinals.

It can be said that such a draw result can basically guarantee the Dragon Team to the quarterfinals of the Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

Of course, the quarterfinals are by no means the ultimate goal of the Dragon Country Team against the UAE Asian Cup, and the Dragon Country Team has only one goal in this Asian Cup, that is, to win the final championship and achieve a historical breakthrough in Dragon Country football!

The Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates will be held from January 5 to February 1, 2019, which is more than half a year away, so there is no need to worry.

When the offseason of the Dragon Super League arrived, there were only about 20 days left before the start of the World Cup in Russia, and the time left for the Dragon Team to prepare for the game was very limited.