Chapter 117: Proper Measures (Addition, Collect!) )
The first leg of the intercontinental play-offs of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers in Russia between the Dragons and Honduras was 0:0 after 90 minutes of fierce battle.
The process of this game is lackluster and very dull, and it is really difficult for the on-site commentator Liu Jiayuan and commentator Xu Yang of the National Television Sports Channel.
A score of 0:0 is acceptable to both warring parties.
Lippi's tactical arrangement in this game is to go for a draw, otherwise he would not have replaced Shen Feng, the strongest attacker in the team, early.
The Honduran team accepted this draw, it was a bit forced, they didn't want to win at home, but the team was not superior in the first place, and the Dragons were so cautious in this game that they didn't leave them a chance to speculate at all.
Although it was just a lackluster draw, the media of the Dragon Country, as always, launched another round of praise for the Dragon Country team that retreated from the away side, thinking that back at home, the Dragon Country team defeated the Honduran team and entered the World Cup finals for the second time in history, which has been nine times out of ten!
This is not only the wishful thinking of the media, but also the majority of fans, as well as the Dragon Country team, are full of confidence in the final result.
Although I have full confidence in my own strength, I still have to use some off-the-field tricks that should be used!
The Dragon Country team put the venue for the second leg of the match with the Honduras team in Shen City, Liao Province, located in the northeast of the Dragon Country, for two reasons, first, the Dragon Country team reached the World Cup finals for the first time, and it is here, which is considered the blessed land of the Dragon Country team.
The second reason, relatively speaking, is more important.
It was November, and Shen City, Liao Province, located in the north of the Dragon Kingdom, had entered the early winter season, and the first snow of the year had already fallen.
The second leg of the World Cup qualifying intercontinental play-off between the Dragon Country team and the Honduras team will be held on November 15, according to the weather forecast, the weather in Shen City on that day is cloudy to sleet, and the minimum temperature will be below zero.
This kind of weather is not suitable for holding football matches, which is an additional disturbance for both warring parties, but relatively speaking, the impact on the Honduran team will be greater.
Because Honduras is located in a tropical region, even if you have experienced such cold weather, you will definitely not have much experience.
Although the players of the Dragon Country team do not have much experience of playing in this cold weather, relatively speaking, they still have more players than the Honduran team.
In general, the cold weather in Shen City is a good thing for the Dragon Country team.
Of course, how to take advantage of this advantage is also a kind of attention to the Dragon Country team.
After the first leg of the competition with the Honduran team, the Dragon Country team immediately took a chartered flight back to the Dragon Country, arriving in Shen City, Liao Province, the venue of the second leg of the two-leg competition between the two teams, one day earlier than the Honduran team.
The weather in Shen has not been good in recent days, with overcast clouds and a bitter north wind, as if a snowstorm is brewing.
After the Dragon Country team arrived in Shenshi, this city that was not ranked in the Dragon Country became the focus of attention of the Dragon Country, not only fans, but all the people.
There has been news of the Dragon Country team, and it has been occupying the champion of the Weibo hot search list in the past few days.
If someone doesn't care about the information of the Dragon Country, they have nothing to talk about with their friends!
Dragon country football, after 16 years, is once again on the threshold of the World Cup finals.
The entire Dragon Kingdom, after 16 years, is once again caught in the football carnival of national participation!
The stadium where Shen City hosted the life-and-death battle between the Dragon Country team and the Honduran team is the Olympic Sports Center Stadium, which can accommodate 60,000 spectators at the same time, and once hosted the football match of the Dragon Country 08 Olympic Games.
The 60,000 tickets for this game were snapped up by enthusiastic Dragon Country fans the moment the sales window opened, and the sales speed was definitely able to set a record for ticket sales for an event in the history of world football!
Nowadays, the original price is only about 100 yuan for the last row of tickets, in the scalper market, has also been speculated more than 100 times the original price, but there is still no market!
According to statistics, a few days before the start of the game, a total of hundreds of thousands of fans from all over the country poured into Shenshi, bringing great pressure to the hotel industry in Shenshi!
In order to maintain public order before and after the competition, Shen not only mobilized local government workers at all levels to participate in the maintenance of social order, but also transferred thousands of police forces from other cities in the province to strengthen the security force during the competition.
On the day of the competition, Shen City invested as many as 50,000 people in order maintenance, not only all the city's police forces, but also a part of the local garrison forces.
The second leg of the World Cup qualifiers between Dragons and Honduras starts at 5 p.m. on November 15, 2017.
The venue of the event, the stadium of the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center, stipulates that the time for fans to enter is three o'clock in the afternoon.
However, from seven or eight o'clock in the morning, around the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium, there were already fans who couldn't wait to gather and began to gather.
The reason why these fans came here so early was to see if they could meet a well-wisher who was willing to transfer their tickets before the game started.
Although I know this thought, in the current situation, it is just a luxury!
By the time it was ten o'clock in the morning, the streets around the Olympic Sports Center Stadium had been completely occupied by the swarming fans.
Fortunately, Shen City has been prepared for this for a long time, and has announced a few days in advance that on the day of the game, traffic control will be carried out around the Olympic Sports Center Stadium to remind citizens to pay attention to travel needs.
In addition, in order to prevent fans from blocking the road leading to the stadium from the hotel where the Dragons and Honduras teams stayed before and after the game, which would affect the normal progress of the game, Shen City temporarily set up large screens in many large civic squares, commercial centers, and playgrounds of primary and secondary schools in the city to broadcast the game in real time.
From the moment the fans began to gather around the Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Shen City arranged for the security police around the Olympic Sports Center Stadium to work part-time to persuade the guidance personnel to invite the fans without tickets to go to the above locations to watch the broadcast of the game in a centralized manner.
Due to this series of effective measures taken by Shen City, when the bus of the Dragon Country Team departed from the hotel, in addition to the way, there were still some Dragon Country fans who stuck to it and marched for the Dragon Country Team, and there were no large number of fans gathered near the Olympic Sports Center Stadium.