Chapter 86: AFC Champions League Group Stage
Last season, when Wang Shuai was still in Youzhou Trust, he fought with Kashima Antlers once in the second round of the AFC Champions League group stage, and finally the Trust brought back a 7:0 victory from Kashima. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Originally, Trust and Antlers had another group game, but by that time Wang Shuai had also returned to Polytechnic, and in the end, Trust won 2-0 at home.
Judging from the results of the game, Kashima Antlers is weaker than Youzhou Trust, that is, the level of the middle and upper reaches of the Chinese Super League, and Wu Shi also said that judging from the confrontation between Songjiang Tianyun and Kashima Antlers in previous years, the other party does not belong to a too strong team, which gives the whole team great confidence.
It is true that the coaches of Huachao have studied for almost half a month, but they have not cracked the tactics of Youzhou Institute of Technology, let alone Kashima Antlers, who have never been in contact with Polytechnic at all.
So, after another 7:0, Kashima Antlers returned to his hometown Dongying, and Youzhou Institute of Technology successfully broke into the AFC Champions League group stage.
After this match, followed by the draw ceremony for the group stage of the AFC Champions League, Youzhou Institute of Technology was placed in Group B, and the three opponents were Urawa Red Diamonds of Dongying, Hanseong FC of South Korea, and Hanoi TT of Vietnam.
For Youzhou Institute of Technology, this grouping is not too bad. Hanoi TT is a team from the Vietnamese league, which is similar in nature to the Hong Kong Super League, and Hanoi is also a 10,000-year escort team in the AFC Champions League qualifiers. This year should have been the same, but as a result, Jeju United, the opponent of Hanoi TT in the third round of qualifying, was not accustomed to the soil after coming to Vietnam, and the absence of several main players led to a significant reduction in strength, which allowed Hanoi TT to take the opportunity to take the position and enter the AFC Champions League group stage in a historic way.
For an opponent like Hanoi, of course, Youzhou Institute of Technology will not take it to heart, but the other two teams are different. Urawa Red Diamonds were runners-up in the East Ying J-League last season and one of the top four teams in the AFC Champions League. Hanseong FC's results are a little better, winning the championship of the South Korean K-League last season, but unfortunately in the AFC Champions League final, Yangcheng Hengyuan did not score a goal, and missed the championship.
For fans from the rest of Asia, the qualifiers for Group B have already been decided, and that is Urawa Red Diamonds and Hanseong FC, and in their opinion, Hanoi TT and a team that have just risen from the second division are destined to be cannon fodder. However, fans in China are much more optimistic, less than half a month ago, Youzhou Institute of Technology just defeated Yangcheng Qigui 5:0, this score is not a cannon fodder team can do.
As for Youzhou Institute of Technology itself, they are still very optimistic about this qualifying situation.
First of all, for the time being, their micro-tactical system is still unsolvable in China. Urawa Red Diamonds and Hanseong FC have not yet seen Polytechnic's style of play, so they will definitely suffer a big loss in the first meeting, which means that Polytechnic can easily retain two victories.
Secondly, even if you don't look at micro-tactics, just look at the strength of the lineup, Wang Shuai and Wu Shi are the strongest offensive players in China, Cisse and Pat are also world-class fullbacks, even if the strength of other players will be a little weaker, the overall strength is not bad, such strength itself can fight with Red Diamond or Han Cheng.
Finally, there is mentality, Cisse and Pat are world-class stars, and they have always looked down on Asian teams, and the rest of the team has a reverence for Wang Shuai has reached 100, what is this concept? This means that as long as Wang Shuai thinks that this game will be won, then they will never think that the game will be lost. To put it simply, it is blind worship, just like Zong Penghai at the beginning.
In this season's AFC Champions League, Huaxia has two teams participating in the AFC Champions League qualifying round, in addition to Polytechnic, there is also Wu Cheng Guoning, but Guoning's luck is not so good, away to Australia's Sydney Rovers, and finally fell on the penalty shootout.
As a result, a total of four clubs in Huaxia entered the group stage, except for the strongest teams from Polytechnic and Dongying and South Korea, the other three teams were in a much better situation. Many domestic fans are optimistic that this season may be able to see the situation of Huaxia Big-4 qualifying together.
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At the end of August and the beginning of September, there were a lot of things at Youzhou Institute of Technology during this time, and when the AFC Champions League qualifying round and group stage draw were all over, the team newcomers came to report.
Not counting Zhan Liqun and Liu Xingyu, the team has a total of six newcomers this year, five first-year undergraduates, and one first-year graduate student.
After Youzhou Institute of Technology's record is getting better and better, the school's requirements for football students are getting higher and higher, so when Wang Shuai opened the "Teammate Information" interface, he was surprised to find that all the new players were amateur players. And the three graduate students have already touched the threshold of the professional level, and they are almost at the door, presumably Zhan Liqun and Liu Xingyu have not lacked training in the year they have been away from school.
Among the six newcomers, there are four midfielders, a striker and a defender, which is exactly what Wang Shuai and Nangong Zheng like to see.
Youzhou Institute of Technology is now facing two problems, one is that the bench depth is not enough, which can be found from the game, Nangong Zheng rarely changes in the game, even if it is replaced, it is a fixed number of players, the reason is that Nangong Zheng is unavailable. Well, a striker and a defender just make up for the team's lack of manpower at the front and back ends.
Another problem is the single style of play in the midfield. In the case of the lack of people in the team's forward line, Wang Shuai also had to adjust the formation to 4-4-2, the reason is that the midfield is even more lacking. Although the number of midfielders has decreased by one now, Wang Shuai and Nangong Zheng still feel that it is difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice, so in several games this season, Wang Shuai has played the whole game, because there is no one to replace, and Liu Fang, who has grown too slowly, is simply overwhelmed in this season. In this way, Polytechnic's midfield formation has been fixed, and the offensive tactics have become single. Although their tactics are still working well, when they can't keep it right, other coaches will come up with a way to crack it.
And now that there are four more midfielders all of a sudden, there are more tactics for Wang Shuai to choose from, and there is no need to be limited to the 4-4-2 formation.
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After the recruitment work ended, the team's affairs during this period of time came to a halt, and Wang Shuai and Nangong Zheng also began to have time to make a detailed season plan for the team.
Since the Chinese Super League team does not need to participate in the FA Cup qualifying round, the cup competition of Youzhou Institute of Technology starts in the second half of the season, which means that Youzhou University of Technology only needs to participate in the Chinese Super League and the AFC Champions League group stage in the first half of the year. The team of the Chinese Super League is still very unfamiliar with the tactical system of Youzhou Institute of Technology, which makes Youzhou Institute of Technology relatively easy in the first half of the league. Therefore, Wang Shuai and Nangong Zheng also focused on the AFC Champions League group stage, and the first game naturally became the top priority.
On September 13, Youju Polytechnic flew to the capital of South Korea to take on their first group stage opponent, last season's AFC Champions League runner-up, Hanseong FC.
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PS: There is no change when I go out at night, the difference is 4000 words, and I will make up for it in two days