The game was over, and Manchester City dramatically reversed Gosau 2-1 in the last minutes with a pass and a shot from Bam Adebayo who came on in the second half, thus narrowly securing the second group qualification. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the game, Mancini hugged Adebayo excitedly, and his right hand slapped Adebayor's back for a long time, he was truly grateful to the player who saved him.

And Xiao Yang walked to the pitch after the game, pulled up the young players who collapsed on the grass after the game one by one, and then said to them who were crying one by one: "You have performed great, this is your first time playing in the Champions League, you can force the mighty Manchester City to a dead end, you can be proud of this, I believe that the next time you meet a strong enemy, you will be able to defeat them." Besides, we weren't eliminated again, we lost this game, we still deserve to be the first in the group, what do you have to cry about? ”

Listening to Xiao Yang's words, the young players stopped their tears, raised their heads and nodded firmly to Xiao Yang.

In the post-match press conference, several French reporters did not criticize Xiao Yang too much, they have seen the performance of Gosau's substitutes, it is not bad, and they also understand that even if Gosau sends all the main players, it may not be able to beat Manchester City at Manchester City's home stadium. Now that the matter has come to this, it is useless to accuse Xiao Yang of refusing to send the main force, but offending people for no reason, why bother?

The England journalist first congratulated Roberto Mancini on qualifying from the group and then asked him which player he would like to thank the most.

Mancini did not hesitate to say that the player he would like to thank the most now is Adebayor, the player who has just returned from a serious injury and contributed an assist and a goal to help the team turn against strong opponents. He also said that Bam Adebayor will play an important role in Manchester City's tactics in the future.

After all the group stages in this round are over, the top 16 of the Champions League have also been produced, and they are:

Group A: England Chelsea, Italy Juventus;

Group B: Valencia, Spain, AC Milan, Italy;

Group C: Shakhtar Hamburg, Germany, Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine;

Group D: Bayern Munich of Germany, Galatasaray of Turkey;

Group E: Barcelona, Spain, Lyon, France;

Group F: Werder Bremen of Germany, Real Madrid of Spain;

Group G: England Manchester United, Portugal Sporting Lisbon;

Group H: Gossau, Switzerland, Manchester City, England.

The draw for the knockout rounds of the Champions League will take place on 20 December, when the 16 teams will go head-to-head to see who will reach the quarter-finals of this season's Champions League through the final of the home and away legs.

A reporter asked Xiao Yang and Mancini respectively which team they would like to meet in the first round of the knockout round, and which team they least want to meet?

After Xiao Yang looked at the list of the top 16, he did not directly answer the question of which team he most hoped to meet, in his opinion, if he answered this question directly, no matter which team he pointed out, it was disrespectful to this team, he said with a smile: "I didn't expect so many strong teams to fall into the second place in the group, which is not good news for us." When it comes to the last teams we want to meet, I certainly don't want to meet Real Madrid, Juventus and AC Milan, all of whom have the quality and the potential to win the title. ”

Mancini smiled wryly at this question: "We are second in the group, is there any essential difference to us which group we meet?" Of course, if we don't meet Barcelona and Bayern Munich, it will be good news for us. ”

Back in Switzerland, Gossau hosted Swiss Super League side Arau in a fourth-round match of the Swiss Cup on 14 December, where they won 3-0 to reach the semi-finals of the Swiss Cup, where Egermann scored a goal to take his annual tally to 96, just four goals away from the 100-goal mark.

After playing Arau, the team flew to Dar Beida, Morocco, to compete in the World Club Cup.

The city of Dalbeda is not famous, but it is better known by its other name, Casablanca, which means "white palace" in Spanish, and the famous American movie "Casablanca" made this white city famous all over the world.

After the independence of Morocco, Casablanca was renamed Dalbeda, but people still like to refer to it by its original name, Casablanca.

This year's Club World Cup will be played at the Mohammed V Stadium in Casablanca, which has a capacity of 67,000 and is the largest and most modern football stadium in Morocco.

On December 15, the Gosho team flew to Casablanca, where they were warmly welcomed by local fans at the airport. Gossau have had a great run of results in recent years and have played beautifully for the most part, so they have a legion of fans who like them, even in Africa.

Gosso's players now have some big names in their game, and they are adept at signing autographs and posing for photos of their fans, all with smiles on their faces all the time. This is what Xiao Yang has always asked of them, because he believes that the attitude towards the fans is a major matter related to the image of the club of Gosau, and it cannot be sloppy at all.

Casablanca is Morocco's largest city and a scenic port city, but the players didn't have time to get around, and on the day they flew to Casablanca, the team watched two World Club Cup second round matches at the Mohammed V Stadium to get an idea of their opponents in the semi-finals.

One match in the afternoon was the North American champion Mexico América against the African champion South Africa Super Sports United, which resulted in a 3-1 victory over the Americas Super Sports United, and the match played in the evening was the Asian champion Kashima Antlers of Japan against the host Casablancaragja, which resulted in Kashima Antlers winning the Casablancaraga team with the same score of 3:1.

In the draw for the semifinals, Japan's Kashima Antlers became the opponent of Gosho in the semifinals on December 19. The other semi-final match is Mexico's América versus Copa Libertadores champions Argentina's Boca Juniors.

After the format of the match came out, a large group of Japanese reporters surrounded Xiao Yang, the head coach of the Gosho team, and asked him how he felt about the matchup. He has never had a good impression of the Japanese Xiao Yang, and he doesn't know much about the Kashima Antlers, so he doesn't have any feelings about this match. For him, Kashima Antlers are just one of Gosau's opponents they must overcome on their way to winning the Club World Cup.

However, although he has no good impression of the Japanese, Xiao Yang can't offend people too much, after all, the Gosau club still wants to open the Japanese market, you must know that Japanese fans are notoriously stupid, have a lot of money, and are willing to spend money.

So Xiao Yang perfunctorily told Japanese reporters that the Gosho team respects every opponent.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Xiao Yang is just a polite remark, but in the pen of a Japanese reporter, Xiao Yang's words were interpreted as "Kashima Antlers is a strong opponent and deserves the respect of the Gosho team", and the Brazilian coach of the Kashima Antlers Oliveira also released wild words to defeat the Gosho team in the semifinals, and some of the main players of the Kashima Antlers team also think that they are very likely to defeat the Gosho team in the semifinals, after all, the Gosho team is not from the five major leagues, the reputation is not obvious, and it is beyond many people's expectations to win the Champions League.

There's a reason why the Kashima Antlers are so arrogant, they have been the dominant J-League dominator in Japan, but their results in the AFC Champions League have been lackluster, and they have recently spent a lot of money to buy several high-profile stars from South America, and finally made a big breakthrough in the AFC Champions League last season, winning the title in one fell swoop, which has given them a lot of confidence.

Japan's high investment in football over the years has also paid off, with the number and quality of Japanese players in Europe growing exponentially in recent years, with their representative Shinji Kagawa performing well after his move to giants Manchester United, becoming the heart of Manchester United's midfield and widely regarded as having the potential to become a world-class star. It also makes the Japanese more and more confident in football. The nature of the Japanese is like this, they are extremely arrogant and arrogant when they have a little achievement, and they will not be convinced unless you can overwhelm them with indisputable strength and beat them to the pain.

The Japanese remarks made Xiao Yang angry, he thought in his heart, TMD little Japan, give you three points of color, you also opened a dyeing workshop, it seems that if I don't beat you to the face of peach blossoms, you don't know why the peach blossoms are so red.

Of course, Xiao Yang did not refute the Japanese in the media, he has always believed that it is better to do more than to say more. Xiao Yang gave a death order to the players in the team, he must defeat them in the game against the Kashima Antlers, and he must win big, win beautifully, and if he doesn't win beautifully, then don't blame himself for being unkind.

Looking at Xiao Yang, who was full of murderous anger and had obviously gone berserk, Ge Shao's players couldn't help but shiver in unison, and then expressed their determination to Xiao Yang together, they would definitely kill them in the game against the Kashima Antlers, and promised to beat them so that they couldn't even recognize their mothers. Xiao Yang nodded with satisfaction.

While the Gosau team was gearing up and sharpening their knives to slaughter the Kashima Antlers, the first semi-final to take place was América Mexico's match against Argentina's Boca Juniors on December 18, and they had to watch someone else's game as spectators first.

The South American champion Boca Juniors has a great reputation, but they don't have many strong stars in the team now, and the most famous player in the team is Riquelme, but he is 35 years old this year and has long passed his prime, so the strength of Boca Juniors is actually not much different from that of América Mexico.

This game is very intense, it can be regarded as exciting, even if the American players are not very famous, but the skills are still very impressive, many players play beautifully, of course, in Xiao Yang's eyes, many of their actions are not practical, so they can't get into Xiao Yang's eyes.

In the end, Boca Juniors, with their experience and heritage, defeated América Mexico 2-0 and took the lead in the final. Despite his age, Riquelme played an important role in the game, providing an assist.

On the evening of December 19, the second semi-final of the 2013 World Club Cup was held at the Mohammed V Stadium in Casablanca, with European champions Gossau of Switzerland taking on Asian champions Kashima Antlers of Japan.

Kashima Antlers' Brazilian head coach Oliveira fielded a 4321 squad in this game, and he laid out a heavy force in the midfield, hoping to take the initiative by controlling the midfield.

Xiao Yang sent all his main forces, with Branislav Ivanovic at the back and Lima at the front, a more attacking midfield combination.

Just two minutes into the game, Gosho scored a goal, in Gosau's first attack, Avazini received Ivanovic's ball, broke through the right back of the Kashima Antlers with the speed of the wind and crossed the bottom, Egerman used his strong body to unreasonably crash away from the opposing central defender Iwamasa Taiki, and a powerful header hit the goal, heading the ball into the top left corner of the Kashima Antlers' goal.

Iwamasa Taiki is nearly 1.90 meters tall and weighs 84 kilograms, he is the tallest and strongest player in the Kashima Antlers backline, and he is also a Japanese international, but he has no ability to resist in front of Egerman, this scene made Oliveira gasp, is this the real strength of the striker who has scored the most goals this year? It's really terrifying.

Kashima Antlers goalkeeper Tetsu Sugiyama was unresponsive to Egerman's close-range header, shaking his head in frustration and sighing to pick up the ball from the net after the ball went in, and then he drove the ball towards the center circle with a big kick. Little did he know that this was just the beginning of his nightmare for this game.

After the Gosho team led 1:0, the Kashima Antlers also hoped to recover the score as soon as possible, but they immediately found that under the active scrambling of the Gosho players, they couldn't even pass the midfield, and the Gosho team quickly controlled the midfield, and then launched wave after wave of indiscriminate bombardment of the Kashima Antlers' goal, and several defenders and goalkeepers of the Kashima Antlers became their busiest people on the field.

In the 5th minute, after Lima controlled the ball in the front court, he took a long shot at the edge of the penalty area, which was of high quality, but unfortunately it was rubbed by Tetsu Sugiyama with his fingertips and then hit the crossbar and popped off the bottom line, and then Ribeiro's corner kick was also grabbed by Caudijjo to the first point, but Caudienho's header was slightly off the post and flew out of the bottom line.

In the 7th minute, Horensten cut inside on the right flank and sent a through ball that was successfully countered offside, and in the face of the attacking Tetsu Sugiyama, his push was again slightly wide of the post. Missing the goal twice in a row made Kautingho beat his chest, but he still remembered Xiao Yang's murderous words before the game, if they couldn't beat the opponent by a big beat, they were very afraid of Xiao Yang's lion roar.

In the 10th minute, Caudijö finally scored his first goal of the game. Ivanovic's long pass from the back found Lima in the gap, and Lima dribbled past Kashima Antlers midfielder Gabier, who is a Brazilian compatriot from Lima, but he is still far from Lima's quality. Lima shook Gabil and sent a precise through ball that Courtinho got to the ground and had another chance to go on a solo shot, but he didn't waste another chance as he calmly shook off Tetsu Sugiyama with a feint to slot the ball into the empty net. In this way, the score on the field has become 2:0.

In the 13th minute, a long-range shot by Egerman went over the crossbar, and then, Tetsu Sugiyama kicked a goal kick, which was directly received by Ivanovic, who saw that Tetsu Sugiyama did not retreat to the goal line after the goal kick, but stood a little forward, so he picked up his right foot and directly came to a super lob shot 50 meters away. Tetsu Sugiyama saw the ball fly straight towards the goal he was guarding, he couldn't help but be shocked, quickly retreated, and when he was about to retreat to the goal line, he rose up with his back to the goal, and the ball that was about to cross the goal line was pulled off the crossbar, and then, Tetsu Sugiyama fell into the goal in an extremely embarrassed posture.

Then Ribeiro took a corner kick, and Salihovic, who stepped forward to assist, rushed to the top with a header and hit the post again, making the frightened Tetsu Sugiyama break out in a cold sweat again, but fortunately, Koji Nakata, the defender in front of the goal, reacted quickly and drove the ball that bounced back into the penalty area to the front.

In the next 20 minutes or so, the Gosho team had at least seven or eight shots on goal, five or six of which hit the frame of the goal, but fortunately Sugiyama Tetsu was quite brave today, otherwise the Kashima Antlers' goal would have become a sieve.

In the 38th minute, Gosau captain Avazini dribbled the ball at high speed on the left wing, and in the face of the Kashima Antlers right-back Alex, who was like a big enemy, he suddenly switched to the inside, which made Alex breathe a sigh of relief, this guy finally left his defense zone, let him go to the middle to harm others.

Avandzini cut inside to the middle, making Kashima Antlers midfielder Koji Nakata tense, and he stared at Avandini while taking small steps backwards, intending to slow Avanzini's advance. Suddenly, Koji Nakata noticed that Avandzini seemed to have made a mistake, one of his trips seemed to be a little bigger, and the ball was a little out of his control, Koji Nakata couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly stretched out his foot to cut off the ball at Avanzini's feet. But at this moment, Avandzini pulled the ball with his right foot, then knocked the ball to his left side, and his body turned around with his left foot as the axis, completing a wonderful Marseille slalom and breaking through the right side of Koji Nakata.

A sentence appeared in Koji Nakata's head: "Fooled! Then he tried to stretch out his right hand to pull Avandzini, even if he received a yellow card, but the ball at his feet had been broken, his body had lost his balance, and the pulling action only accelerated the process of losing his center of gravity, and his body fell heavily on the grass, and his hand only caught the air.

After breaking through Koji Nakata, Avazini had already dribbled to the front of the Kashima Antlers' penalty area, and he made a one-two with Egerman, who retreated to the edge of the box, and then broke through the Kashima Antlers' central defender Taiki Iwamasa, dribbled into the Kashima Antlers' penalty area, and then he pulled his foot and shot the ball into the top left corner of the Kashima Antlers' goal.

Although Tetsu Sugiyama made a save, the shot was too fast, his hand didn't touch anything, and he could only watch as the goal he was guarding was broken again.

In just the 38th minute of the first half, the score of this semi-final had become 3-0, and such a one-sided situation made the players of Kashima Antlers look like dirt, and they are only now realizing how big the gap between them and Gosho is, and how ridiculous their pre-match rhetoric was?

Oliveira also realised that the team he was leading was only the Asian champion, not the European champion, and he played a cold war as he watched the murderous Gossau players on the pitch. In order not to concede too many goals in this game, in the 40th minute, Oliveira replaced the idle striker Yuya Osako with defender Toru Arai to strengthen the defense at the back.

From this substitution, it can be seen that Oliveira is now taking away his mind, and now it is only 5 minutes before the end of the first half, Oliveira can't wait for the end of the first half to make substitutions, but it is very rare to change people in the first half, which is a complete negation of the starting lineup he sent.

Oliveira, despite adding a defender, could not prevent Gosau from continuing to extend their lead in the first half. In the 43rd minute, Eggman received a cross from Lima in the penalty area, and after stopping the ball with his chest with his back to the goal, he turned and volleyed directly, and the ball slammed into the upper right corner of the Kashima Antlers' goal like a cannonball. Tetsu Sugiyama didn't react to this shot, he just subconsciously raised his hands, as if to surrender to Eggman.

The first half ended with a 4-0 lead for the Gosho team, and the Gosau players entered the locker room with laughter, which was in stark contrast to the sad faces of the Kashima Antlers players over there.

In the locker room, Xiao Yang's face was a little gloomy, but he was still not ready to let go of the Kashima Antlers, he said to the players: "You played well in the first half, but in the second half I hope you don't relax, you continue to score, and the more you score, the better." ”

The players responded in unison: "Yes!" ”

After the start of the second half, the players of the Kashima Antlers were horrified to find that the players of the Gosho team did not have the slightest intention of giving up after taking a big lead, and they still launched a fierce attack on their own goal without mercy.

In the 48th minute, Lima, who had already sent two assists in this game, finally completed his first goal, when Ivanovic sent a long diagonal pass from 40 meters away in the backfield, Avanzini on the left side received the ball and passed diagonally to the penalty area just past the center circle, Egerman jumped up with his back to the goal and pushed the ball back to the front of the penalty area, Lima followed up and shot directly with his foot without stopping the ball, playing a wonderful world wave, the ball hung in the upper left corner of the goal, Although Tetsu Sugiyama, the goalkeeper of the Kashima Antlers, reacted to the save, the ball was too fast and the angle was too awkward, and his outstretched hand didn't even touch the skin.