Chapter 246: Old Man Grows Stronger

In an atmosphere full of gunpowder, on December 5th, the final of the '99 Super Cup between Springs and Royal Yanjing was officially launched at the Royal Stadium.

The Royal Stadium can be regarded as half of the home stadium of the Royal Yanjing team, although it is not owned by the Royal Yanjing team, but this stadium is in the same city as the Royal Yanjing team.

The reason why the Royal Yanjing team can almost monopolize the championship of the Royal Cup also has a lot to do with this, their fans have more convenience than fans of other teams, and it is easier for them to come to the scene to support the Royal Yanjing team.

This match was no exception, with the Royal Stadium packed and more than 70 per cent of the fans being fans of the Royal Yenching team. The number of fans who came to the scene of the Quancheng team was simply pitiful compared to the Royal Yanjing team.

The fans of the Royal Yanjing team used their shouts and cheers to create the atmosphere of the home stadium of the Royal Yanjing team.

They cheer for the Royal Yanjing team, and they bid farewell to the older generation of players of the Royal Yanjing team!

Playing this Super Cup final in such an environment, the Quancheng team has to bear a lot of pressure, and before the game, the players of the Quancheng team even felt the feeling of the devil's home stadium of the Shanghai Shencheng team from the field.

The fans of the Royal Yanjing team are very excited and crazy, as the only possible championship of the Royal Yanjing team this season, the fans have great enthusiasm, as the curtain call of many of the older generation of players of the Royal Yanjing team, the fans have given the greatest support.

Fortunately, after this season's experience, the players of the Spring City team are no longer too afraid of this "away" atmosphere. In the AFC Champions League, in the Chinese League, they have experienced too many scenes like this.

The madness of the fans could not frighten them, and the cheers and boos of the fans could not stop their desire for the championship!

Chen Song did not continue to use the "second-tier lineup" of the Quancheng team in the Super Cup in the final, and of course he could not send all the main players in this game when the AFC Champions League final was approaching.

Chen Song sent a relatively mixed lineup, with substitute players accounting for half of the starting lineup, while the other players were the absolute main force of the Quancheng team, including Lin Qi Luoming and Xu Zhen.

Needless to say, no matter what kind of game it is, he is the main force of the Quancheng team. And Luo Ming, who was a substitute, also sat in the main position of the Quancheng team after Lu Fei was injured. He became Chen Song's first choice in the right midfield.

As for Xu Zhen, although most of the time, he is only Chen Biao's substitute, but he has also got a lot of starters this season. And if Springs use a two-back formation in the game. That Xu Zhen is the main player like Chen Biao.

These three young players who participated in the World Junior Championships have gradually become the mainstay of the Spring City team. They will lead the Spring City team to a death-and-death showdown with the Royal Yanjing team in the final of this Super Cup!

Except for these three. Chen Biao and Zhao Lin, who are usually the main players of the Quancheng team, failed to start in this game, and the Quancheng team must still have to save for the AFC Champions League final to be held in a week.

With the idea of preserving his strength, Chen Song can be regarded as catering to the fans. He fielded a team younger than the average age of the Springs team in this game.

The average age of the players in this starting Spring City team is only 20 years old!

And the Royal Yanjing team didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but they also sent a lineup that was different from them to play in the Chinese League, and in their starting list, except for Zhu Shaofei, there were no other young players.

As a result, the average age of the Royal Yanjing starting lineup for this game has reached the level of 30 years old!

The average age is 30 years old, which can be called a senior team on the football field, and the Royal Yanjing team uses such an senior team to face the Spring City team to win the Super Cup.

"From the starting lists of both teams, we can see that the Super Cup championship is not so important in the hearts of both teams, and they have turned this game into a veritable battle between the old and the new!" The commentator was very excited, and he could predict that this game would be more exciting than any previous Super Cup final!

There are too many names and explosive points in this game, the battle between the old and the new, the curtain call battle of the older generation of players of the Royal Yanjing team, and the battle of the first young center in China between Lin Qi and Zhu Shaofei!

These names have made this game more attention, and of course, most fans do not agree with the last name. In their opinion, Zhu Shaofei is no longer a player on the same level as Lin Qi, Lin Qi is not only the first young center in China, he is simply the first center in China, and he is also sprinting towards the first center in Asia.

If the AFC Champions League final a week later, the Quancheng team can finally win the championship, the media will definitely put the name of Asia's No. 1 center forward on Lin Qi.

He has scored the most goals in the Chinese League this season, the most in the AFC Champions League and the most in all competitions in Asia.

What reason is there for such Lin Qi not to be rated as the No. 1 center forward in Asia?

Although I think that Zhu Shaofei and Lin Qi are not comparable, most of the media still added the duel between them to the highlight of this Super Cup final, after all, Zhu Shaofei is also a leader of the young generation in China, he wants to challenge Lin Qi, which is a good thing, and the media will not use mean language to dispel Zhu Shaofei's enthusiasm.

With all sorts of explosions, the Super Cup final between Springs and Royal Yanjing is about to start, and the players of both teams are already waiting in the tunnel to enter.

The atmosphere in the tunnel was a little strange, neither player from the two teams spoke, but the eyes they looked at each other were full of raging fire.

The pre-match media hype relieved Chen Song and the head coach of the Royal Yenching team from a lot of burden, and they did not have to make any mobilization or encouragement to the players at the beginning of the game.

Mobilization is not required. The players of both teams are already full of fighting spirit and do not need encouragement, and the players of both teams know what they have to do on the field - to defeat the opponent, to defeat the opponent at all costs!

The Super Cup trophy has become an add-on for the players of both teams, and they want to beat their opponents more and make them look good.

The players of the Royal Yanjing team stared at Lin Qi with sharp eyes, although this arrogant young man had the strength that they had to admire, but his attitude really annoyed the older generation of players of the Royal Yanjing team.

They want Lin Qi to take a look, and let the Quancheng team see that these old guys are not so easy to bully!

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In the on-site commentator's briefing on the starting lineups of both sides, the players of the Spring City team and the players of the Royal Yanjing team appeared one after another. The players of both sides shook hands first.

In this link. No matter which player of the Royal Yanjing team will unconsciously increase his strength when shaking hands with Lin Qi, Lin Qi is certainly not the kind of person who will suffer a dark loss, and he will repay it twice as hard as others give him.

Lin Qi's usual training made him not suffer in this handshake link. He's not just got a lot of power on his feet. Long-term physical training has made him stronger throughout his body.

However, even the strong Lin Qi. After shaking hands with the players of the Royal Yanjing team, I also felt a trace of soreness on my right hand.

When the players of the Royal Yanjing team caught attacking Lin Qi, they were not merciful at all.

But. The rest of the Quancheng players are not vegetarians, and although their average age is ten years younger than that of the opposing team, their fighting spirit and strength are no less than those of the Royal Yanjing players.

The players of both teams couldn't help but move their fingers after shaking hands with each other.

This scene did not escape the eyes of the on-site commentator: "The players of both teams are moving their fingers, it seems that they have the first round of competition in the handshake session, the result of this round should be that the two teams are evenly matched, and none of the players on the two teams show painful expressions." ”

The commentator also looks like he doesn't think it's a big deal to see the excitement, and he is happy to see the Quancheng team and the Royal Yanjing team go toe-to-toe like this, because it will make this game more exciting.

After the handshake was completed, it was the captains of the two teams to guess the edge, and finally the Royal Yanjing team guessed the correct side of the coin face up, and the Royal Yanjing team also got the right to pick the side, and the Quancheng team was the first to kick off in the first half of the game!

With the referee's whistle, Lin Qi passed the football under his feet, and the game officially began!

The Quancheng team did not play conservatively at all from the beginning of the game, in this big battle of the old and the new, they were the young side, the team full of vitality, they certainly did not choose to shrink the defense, but took the initiative to launch a fierce attack on the goal of the Royal Yanjing team.

In the fierce attack of the Quancheng team, the Royal Yanjing team played without impatience, they fully reflected their team's rich combat experience, in such an important game, the players of the Royal Yanjing team will not be as impulsive as the Quancheng team, their first thing to do is to stabilize the situation on the field.

The Royal Yanjing team did gain a firm foothold on the field earlier than the Quancheng team, although the Quancheng team took the lead in the first half of the game, but the Royal Yanjing team temporarily occupied a big advantage in possession.

Neither the Quancheng team nor the Royal Yanjing team are good at ball control, but the Royal Yanjing team is slightly stronger than the Quancheng team, and their players are more stable.

Not to mention, the Royal Yenching team's style of play worked very well, and while ensuring the dominance of possession, the Royal Yenking team took the initiative on the field in the first 20 minutes of the game, and they got more and more threatening attacking opportunities than the Spring City team.

The players of the Royal Yanjing team played very seriously, although they felt angry with Lin Qi and the Quancheng team, but the anger did not overwhelm them, after all, this is a group of experienced old players, after all, it is a group of meritorious players who have created the glory of the Royal Yanjing team.

They will not be as impulsive as young people, in their opinion, the best way to teach Lin Qi a lesson to the Quancheng team is definitely not to make some small moves on the field, but to defeat them!

Under the strong desire to win, the Royal Yanjing team showed more composure. They are like a battle-hardened old horse, maybe not so fast, but they can run far, far away.

This mentality of the players of the Royal Yanjing team is a reflection of their experience, and they also know the Quancheng team relatively well, although they do not target any player in the Quancheng team in the team's tactical arrangement, but they target the entire Quancheng team.

As the youngest team in the Chinese League, Quancheng has more youthful characteristics, their attack is very impactful, and their defense is solid, but it is not the kind of old solidity. Much of their defence is based on the tireless running of their players.

Chen Biao is the best proof of this. As the core of the defense of the Quancheng team, and as the biggest contributor to the relatively stable defense of the Quancheng team, his characteristics represent the characteristics of the defense of the Quancheng team.

Whether it is offensive or defensive, in short, the characteristics of the Quancheng team are in one sentence. Young!

Against this kind of young, energetic team. What I am most afraid of is that they will break up their formation. Disrupted their own rhythm. The Quancheng team is very good at using the word "chaos", whether it is in the offensive or in the defense, the winner in the chaotic battle must be the Quancheng team.

And all the Royal Yanjing team has to do is maintain their formation. Keep their rhythm in attack and defense, as long as their rhythm is not disrupted by the Spring City team, then the Spring City team will not get too many threatening offensive opportunities.

In this regard, the players of the Royal Yanjing team have done a very good job, they have used their rich experience to play non-stop with the Quancheng team, patiently looking for opportunities to break the goal of the Quancheng team.

The Quancheng team and the Royal Yanjing team, fundamentally speaking, can be said to be mutually restrained.

The old guys of the Royal Yanjing team are most afraid of being disrupted by the rhythm and formation, their physical strength does not allow them to participate in the chaotic battle, once the Quancheng team creates a chaotic battle scene, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for the Royal Yanjing team.

The players of the Royal Yenching team can use their rich experience to firmly control the rhythm of the game at their feet, as long as they do this, they can make the Spring City team powerful.

After all, if football is not at your feet, then no matter how young you are, no matter how energetic you are, you are just doing useless work on the field.

In the first half of the first half of the game, the two teams played back and forth, with the Royal Yanjing team trying to control the rhythm of the game with rich experience, while the Quancheng team used their impact to hit the goal of the Royal Yanjing team again and again.

On the whole, the two teams are on par, and they are both able to make full use of their own advantages and overcome the enemy's weaknesses with their own strengths!

The game was very exciting, but the situation was a little stalemate, and the first to break the deadlock of the game was the Royal Yanjing team!

After all, the Royal Yanjing team is old, in front of their experienced defensive players, even Lin Qi can't get too good a chance to score, and the Royal Yanjing team can always find a way to defuse the Quancheng team's attack.

After another successful attempt to defuse the crisis in front of goal, the Royal Yanjing team regained possession of the ball.

The players of the Royal Yanjing team who got the football were not in a hurry, they were backing back and forth in the backfield, which made the players of the Quancheng team a little impatient, if you want to attack, you can attack, if you don't want to attack, simply return the ball to us, what does it mean to pass the ball back and forth in the backfield.

The unstoppable Quancheng players pounced on the defenders of the Royal Yanjing team, and they tried to steal the football at the feet of the Royal Yanjing players.

However, what the Royal Yanjing team was waiting for was the close pressing of the Quancheng team, and when the players of the Quancheng team pounced, they suddenly ended the backward foot in the backfield, but passed the ball directly to the frontcourt, that is, the backcourt of the Quancheng team.

At this time, the backfield of the Quancheng team was a little empty, and the impatient pressing made their formation relatively forward, and Xu Zhen, the core of the Quancheng team's defense, had already forced to the midfield position.

The Royal Yanjing team took advantage of this opportunity to pass directly behind Xu Zhen, and they formed a three-on-two situation in the frontcourt. In the end, the players of the Royal Yanjing team chose to pull the side.

The wings of the Quancheng team are more empty than the middle, and the wings also make it more difficult for the Quancheng players to return to defense, and the defenders of the Quancheng team run to their own penalty area when they see the football passed to the backfield, which makes their wings appear huge gaps.

The Royal Yanjing team seized this vacancy, and the inside cut on the side caught the Quancheng team off guard, and the football was finally passed to the feet of Zhu Shaofei in the penalty area. Zhu Shaofei is not an old guy, he also has the quick reaction ability of a young player, Zhu Shaofei, who received the football, turned around and volleyed directly!

The football successfully bypassed the ten fingers of the goalkeeper of the Quancheng team, and hit the net in the goal of the Quancheng team quickly and accurately!

"The ball is in!!!! Zhu Shaofei's shot pierced the goal of the Quancheng team in one fell swoop!! Thirty-two minutes into the game, the score was 1:0! The veteran Royal Yanjing team took the lead! The narrator at the scene looked up to the sky and roared.

"The Real Yanjing team is still very experienced, and their patience on the court is obviously much stronger than that of the Quancheng team, and the backcourt players of the Royal Yanjing team first used the continuous reversal of the ball in the backfield to wear out the patience of the Quancheng team, and then used a change of rhythm to suddenly threaten the goal of the Quancheng team."

"The Quancheng team actually pressed the formation near the midfield when they were pressing, and they were pitted by the Royal Yanjing team. Although the Royal Yanjing team is not a Japanese team that is good at changing the offensive rhythm, the rich experience of the players and the presence of Zhu Shaofei in the front court make the change of offensive rhythm possible in the Royal Yanjing team. ”

"Beautiful goal, the older generation of players of the Royal Yanjing team are really getting older, they broke the opponent's goal first, and took the lead in the score......" (To be continued......