63. The opponent is the University of Liga

Five to one, this score is simply too much of a slap in the face.

Before this match, the Japanese media and fans were very loud, especially the fans of Gamba Osaka, who shouted that they would win against Liverpool and advance to the final of Zuihou. And before the game, seeing the Liverpudlian's arrogant and arrogant appearance deeply stung the strong national pride of Japanese fans.

Gamba Osaka and Japanese fans are clamoring to make the arrogant Liverpool look good in the upcoming game, and let the arrogant Liverpudlians know how good they are in Japanese football. Before the game, they were full of confidence and super confident. But, after only ninety minutes, they were stupid.

At this time, they realized that in front of them, Liverpool had the qualifications to be arrogant. Of course, it can also be said that Liverpool's performance before the game was not arrogant, but that there was no place for Gamba Osaka in Liverpool's shijie.

This unforgiving fact hit the Japanese fans hard, and the Japanese fans could only shrink their necks, hide in the corner, and lick their own wounds.

Before the start of this match, the Shijie Club's fifth name match was underway, with African champions Al Ahly and Asian runners-up Adelaide United. These two teams were rivals in the first round, when Adelaide United beat Al Ahly 2-1.

This time, Adelaide United still showed their quality, beating Al Ahly 1-0 again. Won the fifth place in this year's Shijie Club Cup.

After these two matches, the next day, the local sports and entertainment media in Japan covered the two matches, especially the 1-5 defeat of Gamba Osaka to Liverpool, which made it clear that their team is very far from the current European powerhouses.

When it came to this game, Qiu Ze was the best player of the game, scoring two goals and planning the first goal, and after the game, he was touted by countless media, claiming that he deserved to be the number one star of the Liverpool team, the biggest favorite for European Footballer of the Year and Shijie Footballer of the Year.

Gamba Osaka's defeat will disqualify them from competing for the Shijie Club Cup, and they will have to fight for third place against the other semi-finalists. To be honest, this third place is really incomparably chicken.

However, the third place finish is likely to be a healing medicine for Japanese fans, who will have to recover from the defeat as soon as possible.

The other semi-final of the Shijie Club Cup was between the South American champions Liga Universidad Club from Ecuador and the CONCACAF champions Pachuca from Mexico.

The match, which was played the day after the match between Liverpool and Gamba Osaka, attracted a lot of attention and of course, the Liverpool team is also watching this game as they get to know their opponents.

On this day, Liverpool did not train, they had a day off and in the evening they went live to watch the match between Pachuca and Liga.

These two teams are very new to Liverpool, and even to mainstream football, so it is really necessary for Liverpool to watch this game and understand the strength and characteristics of both teams. Liverpool have almost no secrets for these two teams, and these two teams are very mysterious to Liverpool, and Liverpool can be said to know nothing about them.

War, the future knows oneself and knows the other. It's the same in football, the situation is not good for Liverpool Flight, and they have to understand the situation of their opponents.

The semi-final between Pachuca and Universitatea Liga is Liverpool's only chance to get to know the two teams, and Liverpool certainly won't miss this opportunity.

In order to give the whole team a certain understanding of these two teams, Liverpool manager Rafael 61 Benitez organized the whole team to watch the game live, allowing them to see the style of play of these two teams up close.

The game started very quickly, and the two teams had their own characteristics, and the strength of the two teams was actually about the same, and the University of Liga had a slight advantage. Football at the University of Liga is very different from traditional Ecuadorian football, most of the team is black and rough, with body and speed, especially speed, and is good at defense.

Universidad Liga were very good in this match, not giving Mexico's Pachuca a chance. They themselves took advantage of Pachuca's two mistakes and scored twice against Pachuca's goal, and in this way, the mysterious teacher from South America, Liga University defeated Pachuca 2-0 and advanced to the final of this Shijie Club Cup.

The University of Riga is very unfamiliar to everyone, even for South America, the University of Riga team is very unfamiliar.

Universidad Liga has won the domestic league nine times and this year became the first Ecuadorian side to win the Copa Libertadores.

In 1918, the University of Liga established an amateur football club composed of teachers and students. In 1930, the club had a more formal governing body, and this year is also considered to be the year when the club was officially founded. The club's development since then has not been smooth sailing, and in the 80s of the last century, it even suffered the embarrassment of not winning a championship for ten years, but since the 90s of the last century, it has gradually recovered its true character as a strong team, and has won four league titles since the 21st century.

The current coach is fifty-year-old Argentine Edgardo 61 Bausa. Under Bausa's tutelage, the University of Liga became an outlier in South American football. Unlike traditional South American teams that focus on offense, jishu, and lazy style of play, the team values defense, excellent confrontation ability, and strict discipline.

Litgar University is accustomed to 3412 or 3421, although there are only three defenders, but they are equipped with two strong interception midfielders, focusing on wide breakthroughs in attack, sharp counter-attacks, and very good at scoring from set-pieces. In the first leg of the Copa Libertadores final, the University of Liga scored the goal of Fuminis twice from corners.

With several former or current Ecuadorian internationals such as striker Delgado and goalkeeper Cevarros, the Universidad de Liga squad has not changed much from the team that won the title in July, but the departure of midfielder Gelon (who moved to Getafe) has led to a decline in the quality of the team's counter-attack. Away from the highland home stadium with an average altitude of more than 2,800 metres, the performance of the University of Liga is bound to decline.

However, former Rosario Central defender Bausa very much hopes that he can lead the team to win this Shijie Club Cup, so that the whole Shijie knows him. And this guy is really strong, and the University of Liga has achieved good results under his leadership.

Under his leadership, Universidad de Deportes de Libertadores defeated Brazil's Fluminense at the Maracanã Stadium to win the Copa Libertadores.

As an upset South American champion, Bausa hopes to make Jeon Shijie know himself through an upset. Before arriving in Japan, the injuries of many of the team's main players were unknown, and Bausa did not dare to talk about the goal of the Club World Cup. It wasn't until the plane that the main force basically returned, and Bausa was full of confidence and revealed his ambitions before the game.

"We can beat anyone." At the press conference, the Argentine coach showed his ambitions.

Now, with a 2-0 semi-final win over Mexico's Pachuca, Bausa is even more confident that they will be able to compete even against European champions Liverpool, who are in a matter of certainty.

Speaking at his post-match press conference after his match against Pachuca, Pausa said: "Liverpool are a strong team, they are the favourites to win the Shijie Club Cup, and we are not favourites. But all the way to winning the Copa Libertadores, we were not favored. That's our strength, and in the final, we're going to give it our all. ”

The 2-0 win over Pachuca did give Patsa a lot of confidence and he is confident that his side will be able to play well with Liverpool. They are the winners of the Copa Libertadores, not the Asian champions Gamba Osaka, and he does not admit that they are too far apart from Liverpool.

Three years ago, Liverpool played in the Shijie Club Cup, when their opponent in the final was the Copa Libertadores champion Sao Paulo from Brazil, when Liverpool lost to Brazil's Sao Paulo, making Sao Paulo the winner of the Shijie Club Cup.

Now they are also the winners of the Copa Libertadores, and since the former Copa Libertadores champion Sao Paulo can beat the European champions Liverpool, Weishenme they Liga University can't beat Liverpool?

Bausa is very confident in his team, not only did he show his ambitions in the press conference after the game against Pachuca, but they have also revealed in front of the media on a number of occasions since then, that they are confident of beating Liverpool and winning the Shijie Club Cup.

Liga University were confident and boasted before the game that they would win against Liverpool and that the Shijie Club Cup title was theirs. And Liverpool's side is silent, without any statement, which makes everyone very surprised, what is wrong with Liverpool?

Liverpool was very high-profile when they played against Gamba Osaka, and that arrogant appearance is still fresh in the memory of Japanese fans. Why, when it came to Liga University, Liverpool became like this? In the face of the provocation of the University of Liga, you dare to let out a fart now?

This made some radical Japanese fans despise Liverpool very much, saying that Liverpool is the master who bullies the soft and fears the hard, and the villain is garbage. Hehe, by this time, these guys have forgotten who is the most bullying and afraid of hard master on this shijie.

Before the match between Liverpool and the University of Liga, the third and fourth place finals of this Shijie Club Cup will be played, which will be played the day before the final, and the two sides will be Gamba Osaka and Pachuca.

Now the fans in Japan are watching this game with their eyes, and they want to use this game to soothe their wounded hearts.

Of course, the Pachuca team will also want to win this game, and they also want to vent their grievances.

However, this game has no impact on Liverpool and Liga University, so they are not paying attention to this game, they are all preparing for the next game.

This game is very much fan attention, by this time, the entire stadium is basically Osaka Gamba fans, here has become the actual home of Osaka Gamba famous teacher, the whole stadium is all for the Osaka Gamba team cheering sound, which makes the Pachuca team very unhappy.

With the cheers of the fans, Gamba Osaka did not disappoint the Japanese fans again this time, defeating Pachuca by one goal at his home stadium and finishing third in this year's Shijie Club Cup. Although this result is not good, it is more or less comforting.