Chapter 36: Beautiful Qinhuangdao
After winning the fourth round of the AFC Champions League, the Peninsula team did not return to their base, but flew directly to the next Chinese Super League match: Qinhuangdao, where they will face Huaxia Happiness. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
China Fortune has brought in large-scale reinforcements this year, with a large number of big stars, and finally the most famous is Gervinho, a striker who has been in the Premier League and Serie A for many years, and is known for his "Messi" dribbling.
As an indispensable member of the Argentine national team, he participated in the final of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and Germany, and had a good performance.
Kakuta and Nubia in the midfield are also strong players, with excellent dribbling and passing skills.
Defender Gürum is a Turkish international, who has dual citizenship of Turkey and Australia, and he used the Asian foreign aid quota to join Huaxia Happiness.
Not only at the level of foreign aid, Huaxia Fortune has also introduced a number of Chinese national team internationals.
Such strength gives them the strength to compete for the top three in the league or even the championship, and in the face of such an opponent, the Peninsula team will naturally not be underestimated.
After arriving in Qinhuangdao, the Peninsula team members were quickly attracted by the beauty of this coastal city, although Peninsula City is also a coastal city, but Qinhuangdao and Peninsula City are not at all the same style of urban construction.
After getting off the plane, the Peninsula team took a bus directly to the hotel, passing through the beautiful Corniche, with the beautiful sea on one side, the rows of "holly" on both sides of the road are particularly conspicuous, and the other side is a modern building.
There are not many cars on the road, the air is very clean, the surroundings are very quiet, and all the Peninsula players are immersed in the beautiful scenery of this coastal city.
The car is still a short distance away from the hotel, a 5-star luxury hotel that is clearly a better place to live than the criticism suffered in Hiroshima.
The comfortable living conditions and beautiful environment make the players feel happy, as if they have come to an outdoor peach orchard from the red dust of Hiroshima, and the comfortable life even makes the Peninsula players a little happy.
But they don't forget the purpose of their trip, it's nice to enjoy the view, but football is their profession. If you can't play the upcoming game, the mood of the entire trip to Qinhuangdao will be affected.
The team came to the Qinhuangdao Olympic Stadium for field adaptation training, the stadium built on the seaside is very beautiful, Qinhuangdao in the late east and early spring is still a little cold, coupled with the cold sea breeze, after getting off the car, the Peninsula team players shivered vigorously.
However, the temperature in Peninsula City and Hiroshima is not high, and the contrast with Qinhuangdao is not very large.
After entering the Qinhuangdao Olympic Stadium, the clean and tidy stands appeared in front of the players, although the whole stadium is not large, can accommodate about 30,000 fans, but the stadium that hosted the 2008 Beijing Olympic football match is still full of momentum.
Stepping on the lawn of the pitch, the soil is moderately hard, making it ideal for football matches.
As the time of the game drew closer and the fans in the stands grew, the Peninsula players returned to the dressing room to make final preparations for the game.
The voices of the fans outside became louder and louder, and the players on both sides finally came out, and the whole stadium was boiling, and the white shirt and black shorts of Huaxia Happiness were exactly the same as those of the German team.
Head coach Li Tie is dressed in sportswear, his hairstyle is still the same as before, with one hand in his trouser pocket, the other hand on the glass of the bench, and the identity tag on his chest is particularly conspicuous.
And Sandwich is still wearing a suit and a red tie, standing on the sidelines with a serious face.
Surprisingly, the crowd on the sidelines was dressed in red jerseys, which were the colors of the team's jerseys last season, unlike the home and away teams, but even so, the neat outfit still looked imposing.
The game started at 19:35 in the evening, the temperature had dropped a lot, and the wet and cold wind blowing from the sea made the players wearing only half sleeves a little stiff, and the lights on the sidelines were like lights in the refrigerator.
In such a low temperature, everyone was anxiously waiting for the start of the game.
The referee's whistle sounded, and the players on both sides quickly ran to their positions, and because of the low temperature, the movements of the players on both sides were a little stiff, and the scene looked a little uneventful.
The players on both sides of the bench sat there one by one, wrapped in thick down jackets and covered with thick clothes on their legs.
The players on the field are not much better, even if they wear sleeves, it is difficult to resist the wind and cold, and they can only keep running to warm up, but just after playing the AFC Champions League match against Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the fitness of the Peninsula players is not at its best.
Considering it was a 90-minute game, the players didn't run too much.
Huaxia Happiness, who was waiting for work, quickly controlled the situation on the field, and the Peninsula team consciously fought defensive counterattacks.
Jin Dapeng is still alone in the front court, and the four people on the back line of Huaxia Happiness are staring at him as a "lone seedling" in a hurry.
Al Jazeera's dense defence prevented Gervinho's advantage in speed from being exploited, and the crowded box made it difficult to shoot from distance.
Seeing that his team was unable to take the lead, the anxious Li Ti kept blowing the hair on his forehead, and the camera captured his action many times, while he himself still went his own way.
Not only could Li Tie sit still, Sandwich was also dissatisfied with the passive situation on the field, although he knew the difficulties the team was currently facing, Sandwich still signaled the players to attack boldly.
Jin Dapeng, who was uncomfortably frozen in the front court, took the initiative to retreat to get the ball, firstly, in order to have more opportunities to get the ball, and more importantly, to maintain body temperature and prevent deformation of technical movements.
For this game, it is completely acceptable to draw with Huaxia Happiness away, the opponent has introduced a large number of high-quality foreign and domestic aids, and the all-Chinese Peninsula team has just finished playing an AFC Champions League away game.
It is very difficult to defeat the opponent away from home, so the goal set by head coach Sandwich before the game is to win the draw.
In front of such a goal, the Al Jazeera players did not have much pressure to play, and their relaxed mentality made them calm when defending.
However, Huaxia Happiness does not have such a good mentality, they have not yet won a home game, in front of 30,000 goals, facing the Peninsula team that came from afar and does not seem to be strong, Li Ti has only one goal, that is, to score all 3 points.