Chapter 6: First encounter with Hallyu
Kim's hat-trick gave his team a 3-1 lead with less than 15 minutes to go, and the City Green players were close to their fitness limits as they kept running hard. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Although Hong Mingfu used up the final substitutions but could not turn the situation around, the defensive counter-attacking tactics of the Peninsula team were very effective, and as time passed, the City Green team basically gave up the idea of winning.
At this time, the Peninsula team also made a decision to make substitutions, the fourth official held the number plate high, Jin Dapeng saw his No. 10, replaced him by only 18-year-old Wang Ke, he was shocked at first, and then understood that there was no big problem in winning this game, Sandwich began to prepare for the next away game against Seoul FC and by the way to train the young players.
Although it was an away game, Jin Dapeng still waved to the fans at the end of the game, which also attracted applause from some fans, although they were not in a good mood at this time.
Jin Dapeng was substituted, and his teammates on the field also understood the manager's intentions, they defended unhurriedly, and the City Green team did not organize a decent attack.
In the end, the Peninsulars beat City Green 3-1 away to claim their first win in the Chinese Super League, but they did not let up on a victory and will take on a strong Seoul FC away four days later.
Although they defeated the City Green team away from home, the Peninsula team did not get more high views, after all, the strength of the City Green team is limited, and the Super League City Green team is originally a relegation team, and in the eyes of most people, the Peninsula team just won a relegation game.
The real test for the Peninsula team was the away game against Seoul FC, who defeated Japanese J-League powerhouse Sanfrecce Hiroshima 4-1 in the first round of the AFC Champions League.
The Peninsula team rushed to Seoul after playing against the City Green team, and many of the Peninsula players arrived in Seoul exhausted after a tough away game, followed by a tiring flight to South Korea.
Sandwich looked anxious and helpless when he saw that the players were not in shape one by one, and on the first day of his arrival in Seoul, the team could only conduct recovery training, and the intensity of training was very low.
But Sandwich knew that he would have to train in a tough and technically strong team like Seoul FC.
Throughout the pre-match period, Sandwich was pondering a way to deal with Seoul FC, and the head coach of Seoul FC was not idle, he was also looking for a hole in the Al Jazeera, as the world's highest-ranked Asian coach, Seoul FC head coach Choi Yong-ju is now ranked 12th in the world, while Sandwich is not in the top 500 for the time being.
The public opinion before the game was also one-sided favoring Seoul FC, with a number of powerful players in South Korea, plus a number of strong strikers in the team, Seoul FC is enough to make any Asian team feel awe.
In the last round of the AFC Champions League, Seoul FC scored 4 goals with a strong strength of Hiroshima Sanfrecce, and the Japanese giants were powerless, and the result of the game against the little-known Peninsula team in this round seems to have been clear.
Domestic fans also sweated for the Peninsula team,
"The Hiroshima team has scored 4 goals, the Peninsula team...
"A new tragedy squad is about to be born"
"It's all about losing anyway, it doesn't matter how many you lose, just get used to it"
"It is estimated that Seoul FC is starting to prepare for the next game against Melbourne Victory"
"It doesn't matter, it's not a shame for the whole Chinese class to lose, it's really a shame if those local tyrant teams lose"
"As far as the strength of Seoul this year, the Daheng team is hanging"
"Koreanophobia is deepening again"
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South Korean fans are very optimistic,
"Chinese teams come to the AFC Champions League every year to send points, and this year it is more direct"
"Won't it be shameful to win only 5 times?"
"The Chinese are giving up the rhythm of treatment and directly sending a relegation team"
"I searched for a long time and didn't find any information about the Peninsula team, it turned out that they were still in the middle league last year"
"The level of playing with them will drop, alas, just send the second team"
"I wanted to see the big stars of the Chinese Super League"
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In the press conference before the game, Seoul FC head coach Choi Yong-ju bluntly stated that the team must win, while Sandwich was much more low-key, just saying that he wanted to try to get points away from home.
The game was played as scheduled at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, and the temperature in Seoul in March was very low, and Kim Dapeng walked out of the rest area, and a gust of cold wind blew, although there were some insulation measures, but the low temperature was still very uncomfortable.
When Jin Dapeng entered the stadium, he looked up and saw a large number of Chinese fans holding five-star red flags in the audience, they were not fans of the Peninsula team before, but as long as it was a team from China, they all supported it, some of them were students from South Korea, and some of them came from China on a special trip, such a courtesy was something the Peninsula team had never encountered before.
Although not as many as the home team's fans, Peninsula fans still occupy a large area of the stands, cheering enough to rival the home team.
Seeing this, Jin Dapeng's heart immediately surged with a warm current, which was resisting the cold current from South Korea, and this warm current made Jin Dapeng's body full of strength.
When the March of the Volunteers sounded at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, the Chinese fans in the stadium sang the national anthem, and at this moment Jin Dapeng secretly vowed in his heart that even if he couldn't win the game, he would fight for Chinese football.
Sandwicz's starting formation was exactly the same as in the previous games, and the formation was also 451, and everything looked the same as usual. Seoul FC used a 433 offensive formation, and at the top was the center forward Dejan of the Montenegro national team, who scored more than 10 goals in seven consecutive seasons in the Korean K-League, won many Korean K-League Golden Boot awards and MVPs, and is a legend in Korean football.
Another striker of Seoul FC is South Korea's rising star Yoon Il-rok, born in 1992, he is a representative of South Korea's new generation, and has performed well in the K-League, European giants Porto have repeatedly tried to bring in the South Korean international but was rejected by Seoul FC.
The other striker is South Korean veteran Ha Dae-sung, who was born in 1985 and has not experienced a significant decline in his form, but his game experience is very high, and the team's control of the situation on the field is first-class.
Not only the forward line, but also the midfielders and even the defenders of the Seoul team have strong scoring ability, coupled with the tough style and physical fitness of the Korean team, the strength of the entire Seoul FC is undoubted.
Although I had heard about it before the game, when I really saw Seoul FC's strong attacking line, the whole team was still very nervous.