Chapter 166: The Second Half of the Season Begins

Halfway through the training camp, Luo Ming and Xu Zhen finally arrived late and joined the training camp of the entire Quancheng team. This time, the Quancheng team trained for two weeks, and after making sure that the players had reached their peak, Chen Song ended the training camp.

With the end of the training camp, the second half of the season for the Springs team is about to begin, and they will first welcome a Super Cup match.

Facing the challenge of a team from the Chinese Second League, the Quancheng team won easily with a score of 5:0 at home, and Lin Qi scored the first goal of the Quancheng team in this game, giving the Quancheng team a good start to the second half of the season.

Subsequently, the Quancheng team ushered in another game of the Chinese League, they penetrated the opponent's goal twice away from home, and finally won the game with a score of 2:0, and continued to bite the Qilu team tightly in the standings.

Next, the Quancheng team won two more games in the Chinese League, continuing their winning streak, and the Qilu team did not make mistakes in these three games, and they still lead the standings of the Chinese League.

After 22 rounds of matches, the Chinese League has formed a situation of two tigers competing for each other, the third-ranked Royal Yanjing team has begun to gradually unable to keep up with the pace of the Qilu team and the Quancheng team, if nothing else, the Royal Yanjing team has basically lost the qualification to compete for the championship of this season's Chinese League.

The poor Royal Yanjing team was a well-deserved giant in the Chinese League before this season. However, this season, they lost the Royal Cup at the beginning of the season, which they had monopolized for many years, and after that. They were eliminated in the group stage of the AFC Champions League and now they have lost the possibility of competing for the title of the Chinese League.

A giant, in this season, was left far behind by the Qilu team and the Quancheng team......

It's really that the performance of the two teams Qilu team and Quancheng team this season is too metamorphosing~

Not to mention the Qilu team, they have only been forced to draw by their opponents in two games in total so far, and the other games have all been won.

The arrival of Shen Yue made the entire Qilu team seem to be hanging, invincible in the Chinese League and the AFC Champions League, their luck this season is also very good, until the AFC Champions League round of 16, they have not encountered a real Asian team.

Ease in the AFC Champions League. Let the Qilu team also be at ease in the Chinese League.

Anrun's successful transformation. The joining of Lin Heng and Zhou Tao has injected a new force into the Qilu team, allowing them to maintain their undefeated golden body in such a dense competition.

Compared with the Qilu team, the Quancheng team has had a lot more difficult along the way. They had a huge start to the season. Lin Qi's rookie wall once put the Quancheng team in a quagmire. In the draw for the AFC Champions League, they also lacked a shred of luck.

However, in the face of so many difficulties. In the end, Quancheng became the only team that could keep up with Qilu and even eliminated the mighty Seoul FC and Gamba Osaka in the AFC Champions League to advance to the last 16 of the AFC Champions League.

Although the status of the second place in the group made them suffer a little in the second round of the draw, they have faced so many strong opponents, and when they meet a strong team like the Etihad, the Spring City team has no cowardice at all.

Because, they are growing into a real powerhouse!

If in the first half of the season, Lin Qi was carrying the Quancheng team forward, then in the second half of the season, the other players of the Quancheng team were no longer willing to be a burden to Lin Qi.

Together with Lin Qi, they will launch the most fierce impact towards the championship of the Chinese League and the champion of the AFC Champions League!

Compared with the Qilu team and the Quancheng team, the results of the Royal Yanjing team this season are really not very impressive. By the time the game had progressed, the Royal Yenching team had come to terms with reality and lowered their goals.

Their goal has changed from winning the league title to retaining third place in the league as they fight for a place in the AFC Champions League next season.

At the same time, the Royal Yenching team has also started a new round of reforms, and a large number of Royal Yenching team's meritorious players have decided to retire at the end of the season, and they want to give up their main positions for the new growing generation.

Today, with the rapid development of Chinese football, the Royal Yanjing team actively seeks change, and they are not willing to drag down the hind legs of Chinese football. Because they also know that if the Royal Yanjing team continues to develop like this, they may be completely reduced to a civilian team after a few seasons.

To reform, the Royal Yanjing team should choose a learning goal, they learned from the Qilu team and the Quancheng team, actively explore young players, and at the same time they also began to contact those young Chinese coaches who are working abroad.

In the early nineties, a large number of Chinese players retired and became coaches, and many of them chose to work hard in the mainstream European arena, the most representative of which is Shen Yue!

Shen Yue's success in the Qilu team provided a template for the Royal Yanjing team to reform, and they also began to seek a young coach like Shen Yue with experience in European competitions.

Whether it is a coach or a player, the Chinese league has begun to show a very obvious youth, and many older players and head coaches have chosen to abdicate at this time.

They are deeply aware that the existence of these people has gradually become an obstacle to the development of Chinese football, and they want to give more opportunities to young people, for which they even sacrifice their careers.

Because in their hearts, they also have a dream, and they are also looking forward to the day when Chinese football can truly stand at the top of this world. At that time, even if they are just a bystander, they can proudly say that they have contributed to Chinese football.

The report of "Huaxia Football Weekly" has played its due role, and many teams have entered a stage of adjustment after the start of the second half of the season, and it is obvious that Qilu team Quancheng team and Shanghai Shencheng team are not in the ranks of this adjustment.

Because they don't need to adjust, they don't have any time to adjust. After the 22nd round of the Chinese League, these three teams have ushered in the quarterfinals of their AFC Champions League.

Among them, the Qilu team played the first game, and they defeated their opponent with a score of 3:1 away from home without any suspense, if nothing else, the opponent will not be able to cause them any obstacles in the second round of the game.

The Qilu team can be said to have half a foot in the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League, and their road to the quarterfinals is unusually smooth, and after entering the quarterfinals, the challenge of the Qilu team in the AFC Champions League will appear in the real sense.

And by that time, perhaps both the Quancheng team and the Shanghai Shencheng team have been eliminated......

In the first round of the AFC Champions League quarterfinals, Shanghai Shencheng lost at home, and they conceded two goals in a row at their own devil's home stadium and lost with a score of 0:2.

The defeat at the Devil's home stadium almost made it impossible for the Shanghai Shencheng team to advance to the quarterfinals!

In this round of the game, the Quancheng team welcomed the powerful Ittihad at home, and finally the Quancheng team was overtaken by the opponent in the case of scoring a goal.

With a final score of 1:2, Springs suffered their first defeat of the second half of the season. And the defeat was in such an important game.

It looks like Springs are back in their AFC Champions League predicament...... (To be continued......)