86_86638"Group G, Pohang Steelers, Adelaide United, Tokyo FC, Shandong Luneng. ”

When the results of the draw came out, Gao Shunyao, who was resting, also paid attention to the results of the draw with Li Ze and Chen Sirou. When I looked at the team of my group, it took a long time before I sighed fiercely. Such a signing was not what he was expecting, and it could even be said that it was very different from what he was expecting.

Although the team has been on vacation, during the break, Gao Shunyao is still paying attention to his team's grouping. And he never hides that he hopes that his team can draw a weaker group to ensure that he will qualify. However, when he saw the teams in the group, Gao Shunyao was a little speechless - they were absolutely unexpectedly drawn against such a terrible opponent.

The AFC Champions League has just been reformed in 08, and after the reform, according to the regulations of the AFC, only countries with league points in the AB two brackets can participate in the AFC Champions League. There are only Japan and South Korea in the Asian A league, and there are more than a dozen leagues in the B file, but most of them are concentrated in West Asia, only China in East Asia, Mongolia and India in East Asia, or Hong Kong and Taiwan, although they have their own leagues, but all of them do not meet the standards of the B file, and North Korea, which has good football strength, does not have its own professional league at all, so the football games in East Asia, in the final analysis, only China, Japan, and South Korea occupy the majority, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia is playing with these countries.

In the East Asian Division, there are 16 teams in four groups, and China, Japan and South Korea are the first, second, and third leagues in Asia in terms of scale, and each league accounts for 4 teams, and although the level of the Australian Super League is not low, even the top teams have enough strength to give China, Japan and South Korea teams a headache, but what is more embarrassing is that it is only a semi-professional league, and some players who participate in the Australian Super League also have part-time jobs in their spare time, which is not good in terms of its own league scale. Therefore, they are also suppressed in the AFC Champions League to occupy only two places, and the remaining places, the 09 regulations are that the Indonesian league occupies one and a half places, and the remaining half of the places are Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, these countries compete to win, and compete for the second place in the Indonesian league.

And the result is a rather interesting grouping. There are only four groups in the East Asian zone, and there is a principle of avoidance by the same country, which will make each group have a team from China, Japan and South Korea, plus a team from other leagues. And this principle of avoidance makes it natural that when the team is grouped, there is naturally no strength and weakness like the Champions League. Strong teams and strong teams, weak teams and weak teams are all likely to meet in the AFC Champions League.

Because the AFC Champions League has just been restructured, the current AFC Champions League draw does not have the so-called avoidance principle. Last year, J-League champion Kashima Antlers and K-League champion Suwon Samsung were drawn to the same team. And this year, this rule has not been changed - after all, the leagues in East Asia are limited, and there are only a few leagues, if there is really a seed system that the champions of each league avoid, then the draw will basically become an allocation, and the rules are not easy to adjust. The AFC has always been lazy, so the draw is still possible for any team.

Such rules are certainly not good news for those very strong teams: if a top team draws the top team from another league in the group stage, it will also consume a lot of body for it. For a team like Tokyo, which is not very strong, such a draw is a possibility of chance and good luck, and no one knows what the final draw will be. If the squad is full of strong teams, it is definitely not good news for Tokyo, and if the squad is full of weak teams, then maybe they can also advance without worry.

"For this year, the team I would most like to draw is the team that comes out of the qualifying round - although a team like the Singapore Warriors is also the dominant team in the Singapore League, what is the population of Singapore? Such a hegemon is literally one eighth of Tokyo's rank. ”

Before the team's holiday, in the team, teammates also talked about it, at that time, they also used to joke, and they did not hide their idea of wanting to meet an underdog, "And if it is a little closer, it is better to draw Pesipula - the strength of the Indonesian team is not very good, it is much easier than dealing with the Australian team." ”

When it comes to which team they want to meet, the first thing that comes to their minds is the country that everyone sees as a weak team: the qualifying round has not yet been played, and the final team will be determined from the champions of Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the second place team in Indonesia, and the quality players of this team are not very optimistic.

Of course, they are a bit ridiculous when they say Singapore, but at least compared to the teams in the Australian Super League, they still hope to draw these underdogs. In the AFC Champions League in recent years, the Chinese Super League has not played very well, and Japanese teams have not paid much attention to the Chinese Super League. And if you can meet a weak team again, then within a group, it will become a smooth situation where Japan and South Korea will be promoted, and other eliminations, such a group can at least ensure that the team can qualify from the group.

In the past few years, Japan has played well in the AFC Champions League, and group promotion is also the most basic requirement, if even this requirement does not meet Tokyo's acceptance. Although it is the first time to play in the AFC Champions League, the Japanese team, which has always regarded itself as the first league in Asia, is naturally full of confidence in qualifying from the group.

However, full faith does not necessarily mean good luck. Looking at his grouping, Gao Shunyao smiled bitterly, with such a grouping, it is really difficult for the group to qualify.

It can be said that Tokyo drew a lottery.

The distribution of this group is extremely depressing: the group includes last year's champion team Pohang Steelers, and the runners-up in '08, last year's Australian Super League champion Adelaide United, such a group can definitely be called the group of death. Tokyo FC finally entered the AFC Champions League, but this draw was really not good enough.

In this group, first of all, there is one of the most powerful enemies, Pohang Steelers - although the Japanese have always been incompatible with the K-League, and like to say that the strength of the K-League is very poor, but no matter what, Pohang Steelers is the AFC Champions League champion team last season, although the defending champion does not necessarily mean that the strength is still the strongest, but it is always no problem to say that they are the favorites to win the championship.

Of the four teams in this group, Pohang Steelers FC will be the defending champions and it is quite possible that they will occupy a spot.

The other contender for the other spot is likely to be Adelaide United.

Pohang Steelers are considered one of the formidable opponents, and Adelaide United should not be underestimated. Australian teams have a very good football tradition, and their players generally have a physical advantage, and the huge difference in this area is a headache for the players in the J-League. And Adelaide United is the leader of the Australian team, in the 08 AFC Champions League, they also reached the final, although because of Lucas's excellent performance, they only won the runner-up, but this record is still the best result of the Australian Super League in the AFC Champions League.

In the AFC Champions League, East Asia and West Asia are separated, and among the East Asian teams, the most feared are the K League and the Australian Super League, but Tokyo FC drew the two strongest opponents in these two leagues. As the defending champion of the AFC Champions League, Pohang Steelers, and Adelaide United, the best Australian Super League player, these two teams are enough to make people feel suffocated in terms of name and strength.

Looking at his own grouping, Gao Shunyao was also a little speechless.

"How can this luck be so good, but I just met the group of death!"

After seeing the results of the draw, Gao Shunyao was also stunned. Not only was he stunned, but when he saw this result, even Li Ze and Chen Sirou were a little unbelievable.

"It's definitely one of the toughest groups to play...... You're in trouble. Seeing the results of the draw, Li Ze immediately spoke.

Of the four East Asian groups, this group should be the strongest - although Kashima Antlers were unlucky to draw K-League champions Jeonbuk Hyundai, but the two teams in their group are Changchun Yatai and Indonesian champion Persipula. When it comes to competition, their group competition is only less intense than Group G – after all, it's not the same as the two strong and two weak teams and all three teams are likely to qualify.

Of course, the one Li Ze thinks is not competitive is Shandong Luneng.

Li Ze admitted that he hadn't watched the Chinese Super League for a long time, and he didn't care much about the AFC Champions League situation in the Super League before. In his memory, Shandong Luneng seems to have not played very well in the AFC Champions League. This team has a good record in the league, but it is always a layman when it comes out. Especially last season, their strength was even more worrying.

Last season, Luneng's actual performance was actually hardly a real fourth. After the end of the Chinese Super League last season, they accumulated 45 points with Shenhua and TEDA. And such rankings and points have formed an interesting cycle - according to the rules of the Chinese Super League, teams with equal points compete with each other and have more points in the top rankings, while Shandong has one win and one loss against Shanghai, and Tianjin is a double kill, and Shanghai has one win and one draw against Tianjin, and the mutual points, Luneng beat Shanghai's 7 points with 9 points and got the right to qualify.

This rule made the boss of Shanghai scolded for a long time - first, because Shanghai won Shandong 4-1, and Shandong returned 1-0, the difference between goal difference and the number of goals is so big, if you only look at the relationship between the two teams, it should be Shanghai to qualify. But in the end, Shandong pressed Shanghai to get the ranking, and he was really unconvinced. Second, the relationship between TEDA and Luneng in the Chinese Super League game has always been relatively close, and some people even suspect that TEDA's loss to Luneng was originally released, which made Boss Zhu feel even more unbearable and scolded endlessly.

However, looking at the luck of this draw, Li Ze felt that Boss Zhu was afraid and there was no need to complain. There are Pohang Steelers and Adelaide United in the group, whether they come from Shandong or Shanghai, and the difference is really not big.

Such a group, even Tokyo is afraid that it can't be squeezed out, let alone Luneng?

"You're really dangerous this year." Li Ze and Gao Shunyao said casually, he frowned, but he was thinking about something else.

This year's AFC Champions League is different from previous years: it's a World Cup year, and the big events will be more important. This year's AFC Champions League was played well, and it was supposed to be an important bridge to help Gao Shunyao go to Europe, but now it seems that it is very difficult