Because there is no lack of understanding of the Japanese team, Chen Song is still full of confidence in the semifinals of the AFC Champions League in this leg. He did not choose the all-or-nothing double-back formation like the last group game of Gamba Osaka in this game, but directly sent the most commonly used formation of the Izumi City team - three cores!

Today's three-core formation has actually undergone a lot of changes, Lu Fei, Zhao Lin and Chen Biao, the three players can only be regarded as the pseudo-core of the Quancheng team, and there is only one real core, that is Lin Qi!

Under this "three-core" formation, the Spring City team has achieved very good results in this season's competition. Except for Lin Qi's encounter with the rookie wall at the beginning of the season, as long as the Quancheng team sent all the main players to play in the Chinese League, the Quancheng team won all of them.

For the playing style of the Spring City team, the teams in the Chinese League have not had a very good way so far.

However, the Quancheng team did not face a team from the Chinese League in this game, but Puhe Ruby from the Japanese J League.

In the face of this team, the confidence of the Spring City team is not without reason. They feel that although the Puhe Ruby team has advanced to the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League, their strength is not necessarily much stronger than the teams in the Chinese League, at least not much stronger than the Royal Yanjing team.

Urawa Red Diamonds and Osaka Gamba are actually a certain gap compared to Osaka Gamba in Japan's J League, Urawa Red Diamonds and Osaka Gamba are also considered rivals, but in the meeting between their two teams, Urawa Red Diamonds lose more and win less.

This season, they were beaten home and away by Gamba Osaka, and it was definitely not because Urawa Red Diamonds were affected by the AFC Champions League. However, no matter how intense the AFC Champions League is, they will also do their best in the battle against Gamba Osaka's arch-rivals.

The relationship between these two teams is even worse than the relationship between the Qilu team and the Quancheng team!

The reason why Urawa Red Diamonds were double-killed by the Osaka Gamba team is because their overall strength is slightly inferior to the Osaka Gamba team, of course, this is also related to the fact that the Osaka Gamba team itself was eliminated by the Izumi City team, and the Osaka Gamba team was eliminated in the group stage of the AFC Champions League, and they sprinkled their anger on the league rival Puhe Ruby.

So from this point of view, the Puhe Ruby team also has a certain grudge against the Izumi City team, if it wasn't for the Izumi City team eliminated Gamba Osaka in the group stage of the AFC Champions League, the Osaka Gamba team would definitely not beat them with a score of 4:0 at the home of Urawa Red Diamonds.

This is a disgrace for the Puhe Rubys. It is a shame for the entire Japanese football.

This time against the Springs team. Urawa Red Diamonds will be looking to save some face for Japanese football by knocking out Izumi City to prove that they are better than Gamba Osaka and that they are the strongest team in Japan's J-League.

With that in mind. Puhe Ruby waited patiently at home for the arrival of the Spring City team. Although this is the first ever meeting between the two teams. But the smell of gunpowder in this game is very strong.

The Puhe Ruby team has a deep hostility towards the Quancheng team. Their fans also have a deep animosity towards the Spring team.

It is worth mentioning that the status of the Kamagawa Ruby team in the J-League in Japan is somewhat similar to that of the Shanghai Shin City team, and they also have the largest fan organization in Japan!

Urawa Red Diamonds fans are arguably the most united and engaged fans in all of Japan. Their fans are very loyal, and no matter where the team goes, there will be a large number of fans with them. Especially in the AFC Champions League, Puhe Ruby fans will even arrange charter flights so that fans can go to the away stadium to cheer for the team.

In addition, the fans of the Puhe Ruby team also have this very special cheering tool, which is much larger than other flags "giant flag", such a huge flag is also very heavy, ordinary people can't even wave it, and the fans of the Puhe Ruby team can make these giant flags wave non-stop in the whole game time of more than 90 minutes, their loyalty to the team can be seen!

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As soon as the Quancheng players stepped off the plane, they found themselves in a completely different environment, surrounded by a large number of Puhe Ruby fans.

On the streets of Saitama City, Japan, you can see fans wearing the red jerseys of the Kamagawa Ruby team everywhere, and they welcome the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League in this way, and they also use this way to let the Izumi City team know whose home stadium it is.

The whole of Japan seems to be permeated with the tension of the AFC Champions League semi-finals, and the Izumi City team is like a flat boat in one of them, and it is possible to be swallowed up by the fans of the Puhe Ruby team at any time.

This is also due to the fact that the world's control of football hooligans ~ hooligans is relatively strict, otherwise, it is estimated that the Quancheng team will not dare to go out in Japan.

They were completely surrounded by the Japanese fans and the fans of the Puhe Ruby team!

Such an away environment has put a lot of psychological pressure on the players, and the Quancheng team has collapsed in the away game against the Shanghai Shencheng team.

And everything before this game seems to indicate that such a tragedy may be repeated in the Spring City team......

It's just that this time the players of the Quancheng team have also learned smart, as long as they feel that embattled feeling, the players will set their eyes on Lin Qi.

Although Lin Qi is young, he has an unusually big heart, and he has participated in the finals of the Asian Youth Championship and the World Youth Championship, which can be said to be the player with the most major tournament experience in the Quancheng team, so he will not be afraid of the atmosphere created by the Puhe Ruby fans.

Even, Lin Qi didn't feel any pressure on the Puhe Ruby fans, he just felt very festive, before the start of the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League, Japan actually sent so many fans.

From this point, it can also be seen how much Japanese fans attach importance to the AFC Champions League, and how much they attach importance to the J-League Dumiao Pu and Red Diamonds who remain in the AFC Champions League!

Japanese fans, like Chinese fans, no matter how fierce their infighting is, once a team participates in an external event such as the AFC Champions League, they show extraordinary unity.

Even the fans of Gamba Osaka have a lot running to Saitama City.

Japanese fans want to give the Puhe Ruby team the strongest fan backing!

In an atmosphere that is infinitely close to being embattled, the Quancheng team is not alone. Many Chinese fans, including fans of the Quancheng team, fans of the Shanghai Shencheng team, fans of the Royal Yanjing team, and so on, fans of various teams have also appeared on the streets of Saitama City.

In the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League this time, the Quancheng team represents not only the honor of their club, but the honor of the entire Chinese football!

As the AFC Champions League semi-finals date approached, the fans on the streets were growing and the atmosphere of the AFC Champions League, Asia's highest level competition, was evident before the game. (To be continued......)