Throughout the winter break, the entire team trained non-stop, because they knew that in order to do well in the new season, they had to work harder than anyone else. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The AFC Champions League starts a little earlier than the Chinese Super League, with Peninsula playing their first game at home to Melbourne Victory, who finished runners-up in last year's AFC Super League and qualified for the AFC Champions League.

Australia in the southern hemisphere is in the middle of the season and the teams are already in shape, while the peninsulars have only played a few friendly matches and are not at their best.

Before the game, the Peninsula players who looked at the details of the Melbourne Victory players were all black lines on their faces, and several of the Melbourne Victory players used to practice rugby, and their bodies were as strong as cows.

"It looks like you're going to suffer some crimes," Jin Dapeng looked at Li Jie, who was not too strong, and said,

"Madamn, why did you get some rugby players" Li Jie looked unhappy,

Seeing this, Li Tet was also a little unconfident, "There is no way, I can only bite the bullet",

Sandwich is confident, "I've found their weaknesses"

Hearing Xi Wa say this, his teammates all shifted their attention to the head coach one by one, "Let's talk about it"

"Melbourne Victory players are physically strong, but they are generally slower, and we can rely on a small and quick style of play to deal with them," Sandwich has clearly studied Melbourne Victory thoroughly, "and that's our tactic".

One thing that all Melbourne media had in common about the Peninsula before the game was mystery, a team that had only been promoted from the Central League and directly participated in the AFC Champions League, which had rarely appeared in the public eye before.

In the pre-match press conference, the head coach of Melbourne Victory said that the only goal was to get all three points, while Sandwich was much more low-key, just asking the players to play at their own level.

The game was played as scheduled at the Peninsula team's home stadium, the Peninsula in February was still winter, while Melbourne in the southern hemisphere was a hot summer, Melbourne players all wore thermal suits on the court, and the Peninsula team, which was more adapted to the climate, played more actively.

Soon after the game began, the Peninsula team won a corner kick, Lei Jiasi took the penalty, Jin Dapeng jumped high in front of the goal, header on the goal, the football was blocked by the Melbourne goalkeeper on the goal line, the ball fell at the feet of Xi Wa, Xi Wa followed up to score the ball.

Al Jazeera got off to a fantastic start with their first goal of the new season and the first in AFC Champions League history.

Xi Wa rushed to the coach's bench and hugged Sandwich tightly, and other teammates also stepped forward to celebrate, and the fans chanted Xi Wa's name.

Melbourne Victory, who scored the first goal, woke up from a dream at this moment, and this goal seemed to stimulate the Melbourne Victory players.

After the restart, Melbourne Victory relied on their strong bodies to continuously squeeze the Peninsula defence, and the Peninsula players could not hold the ball comfortably, and the passing error rate also increased significantly.

Feng Bu drove the goal kick to Li Jie, the Melbourne Victory players saw this and grabbed it, Li Jie faked and shook the opposing striker, and the Melbourne Victory midfielder who followed up clung to Li Jie, Li Jie lost the ball in a stumble.

Melbourne Victory striker Green received the ball into the penalty area and got a one-on-one chance, Font attacked to try to block the opponent's shot angle, Green picked up a light shot, the ball crossed Font and rolled into the goal.

In less than five minutes, Melbourne Victory equalised, and the goal severely damaged the morale of the Peninsula team, leaving the fans silent and Sandwich helpless.

Even more dangerous than the equaliser was that the Peninsula team did not have a good way to deal with the strong physical advantage of the Melbourne Victory team, and it was very fearful that the Peninsula players were afraid of physical confrontation.

The Peninsula's midfielders did not organise an effective attack after kick-off, but Melbourne Victory continued to rely on physical superiority to disrupt the Peninsula's attack.

Lei Jiasi complained with a blank face, "This is too strong to carry it at all"

"There is no choice but to hard top" Xi Wa is also very helpless,

Jin Dapeng was silent on the sidelines, and his teammates hoped that the striker could help the team through the difficult time.

Melbourne Victory, which is getting more and more smooth, began to organize attacks more unscrupulously, often leaving only 2 people to defend in the backfield, and the front court exerted huge pressure on the Peninsula team, threatening the Peninsula goal many times, if it wasn't for Feng Bu's good play, the duty would have been rewritten long ago.

The first half lasted 30 minutes, with Al Jazeera having 38 per cent possession against Melbourne 62 per cent, a performance that was unsatisfactory considering that Al Jazeera were still playing at home.

The CCTV commentary directly said that he couldn't stand it anymore, and it was a matter of time before the Peninsula team lost the ball if he kicked it like this, and the goal off the field and in front of the TV was probably very anxious.

Melbourne Victory won the ball in front of the penalty area again, Green shot vigorously in front of the penalty area, the ball was saved by Feng Bu, Leeter grabbed the second drop point, and cleared the front court without stopping the ball, the ball just fell into the control of Jin Dapeng, Jin Dapeng jumped high on his chest to stop the ball, turned around and did it in one go.

Melbourne Victory due to a large attack, leaving only 2 players on defense, Jin Dapeng picked up the opponent's defender after receiving the ball, and used the advantage of speed to get rid of the defender's defense, Melbourne Victory defender turned slowly due to his heavy body, it was difficult to keep up with Jin Dapeng's rhythm.

Although the Melbourne defenders kept pulling behind their backs, Jin Dapeng, who had accelerated up, was unstoppable, and he single-handedly went to the opponent's penalty area and faced the goalkeeper directly.

Jin Dapeng pretended to push the far corner, and then suddenly pulled the ball into the near corner, easily got rid of the goalkeeper, and pushed the empty goal.

After the goal, Jin Dapeng once again showed his trademark move, he ran to the front of the camera to the cheers of the audience, first pointed his index finger at himself, then extended his left thumb, gently stroked the back of his left thumb with his right hand, and pointed to the camera lens with his index finger.

At the scene, he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and kept shouting Jin Dapeng's name in a long voice, and after seeing the goal, Sandwich also jumped up from his seat excitedly.

The Melbourne Victory players were obviously disappointed with the goal, they had been on the field instead of scoring, but let the opponent lead, the depressed defender kicked the ball directly to the audience, causing the audience to boo, the Melbourne coach also kept shaking his head, obviously thinking about how to break the goal, how he couldn't accept the result of being scored.

The Melbourne Victory team, which was behind in the score, had to make adjustments to the tactics on the field, but the 1::2 score was not the final result.