Chapter 64: Bad luck

Buriram United's small team from Thailand should not be overlooked, despite their shortest average height in this group, shorter than little Japan, but they have the highest points.

The AFC Champions League group stage has been played over four legs, and Buriram United ranks first in Group E with a record of three wins and one draw!

With two rounds left in the group stage, they have already secured a place in the group, and the only thing that is uncertain is whether they will finish first or second in the group.

And this suspense will also be answered after the end of this round.

The only one who can threaten Buriram United now is Quancheng, who are second in second place with six points. If Springs win the next two games and Buriram United loses both games, it is possible for Springs to qualify as the top of the group.

However, this is too unlikely.

After all, Quancheng are the weakest in this group, and their next two opponents are Buriram United and Gamba Osaka, either of which is almost impossible for Quancheng to beat.

The current Quancheng team doesn't dare to think about the question of winning the group at all, and their only goal is to try to qualify from the group! Despite the fact that the Quancheng team is now on higher points than Gamba Osaka and FC Seoul, their hopes of qualifying are not as good as those two teams.

Yes, FC Seoul now have the same hopes of qualifying. As long as they win their next two games, they will qualify for the round of 16 as group runners-up.

That's actually the charm of the group of death. At this point in the game, every team still has a chance of qualifying from the group. In addition to Buriram United, the remaining three teams, Spring City, Gamba Osaka and FC Seoul, will decide the remaining group qualifiers!

Although Buriram United have already confirmed their qualification, they still take this away game against Spring City very seriously, as this game is about whether they can win the group one round earlier.

In order to achieve this goal, Buriram United will play their best in this game. They didn't have any contempt for the Quancheng team, although everyone thought that the Quancheng team was the weakest in the group, but they were able to win two rounds of home and away games against Seoul FC, and the Quancheng team was not necessarily weak.

And. The performance of the Spring City team at Buriram United's home stadium also impressed Buriram United.

I really want to talk about it. The tactics of the Quancheng team are actually quite restrained by Buriram United. The Buriram United players are small and have poor header skills, but the Spring City team happens to have a Lin Qi who is good at heading goals!

For Lin Qi's defense, the head coach of Buriram United really has no way. The disadvantage in size is something he can't compensate. He can only hope that the Springs team will not get too many opportunities to attack.

Buriram United is all about using their strengths. To suppress the opponent's advantage!

What are the strengths of Buriram United. They are also short in stature, and their short players are all very flexible, which makes it very difficult for the Spring City players to defend.

Buriram United can fully reduce the attacking chances of the Spring City team by constantly possessing the ball.

But. They seem to have forgotten that this is the home of the Springs team!

This time, the Spring City team faced Buriram United and adopted a completely different tactic than the away team. They were not conservative at all in this game and from the very beginning of the game, they launched a fierce attack on the goal of Buriram United.

The head coach of Buriram United can recognize each other's strengths and weaknesses, and Chen Song can certainly recognize it too. If this is to be played like the away game against Buriram United, Quan City will still not be able to be the opponent of Buriram United.

If Springs wants to win this game, they must take advantage of the home advantage!

Be surprised and get ahead as soon as possible! Only with the lead will they be able to take advantage of the situation and the psychological advantage that will give them a chance to win against Buriram United.

If you really wait for Buriram United to react, the Quancheng team will have fewer offensive opportunities, and there will be no offensive opportunities, even Lin Qi will not be able to help the Quancheng team win this game.

Therefore, Chen Song arranged for the players to attack as soon as they came up.

"The Spring City team played a very aggressive style of play, and they beat the Thais to no point before Buriram United could react!" The commentator at the scene saw this situation and was fascinated.

"That's home advantage, maybe the overall strength of the Spring City team is not as good as Buriram United, but if they make good use of the home advantage, it is not impossible to win this game." The commentator is still very confident in the Quancheng team, and since the last game of the Quancheng team away to Seoul FC, he has been full of inexplicable confidence in the Quancheng team.

Because the Quancheng team has Chen Song, because the Quancheng team has Lin Qi!

This commentator is already a brain-dead fan of Chen Song and Lin Qi, as a brain-dead fan, of course, he hopes that the Quancheng team can win this game, so that the possibility of qualifying from the group is greater.

However, it seems that the good fortune of the Springs team ran out in the last game.

They did get a couple of chances at the start of the game. Among them, Lin Qi completed a very threatening shot, but unfortunately his shot hit the post.

Springs missed a great opportunity to break the deadlock!

After this opportunity, Buriram United, who were playing away, gradually entered the state. They began to gain possession and, although they still did not organise an effective attack, managed to reduce the number of opportunities for the Spring City team.

In terms of possession, Quan Cheng is no match for Buriram United at all.

The defenders of Springs also suffered when facing Buriram United's small men, and their turns and reflexes simply could not keep up with the nimble movements of Buriram United's players.

Coupled with the fact that Buriram United was not in a hurry to attack, they deliberately slowed down the pace of the game, but it really allowed Buriram United to control the situation of the game.

Once Buriram United stabilizes, it will not be so simple for the Spring City team to get offensive opportunities again.

Until the end of the first half, the Springs team did not get any more decent chances. Thankfully, Buriram United didn't have much of a threat in the first half, with the closest they came to scoring was a long-range shot from outside the box.

At the end of the first half, the two sides reached 0:0! In the first ten minutes, the Quancheng team played very well, but when Buriram United stabilized the situation, the scene of the game was a little dull.

After a short fifteen-minute break, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

The Springs team is still brave to attack and want to take the lead in the score. In this game, the momentum of the Spring City team at home was fully exerted, but it was unlucky.

In the seventh minute of the second half, the Quancheng team got a free kick opportunity in front, and Zhao Lin, who is good at long passes, took the penalty.

Zhao Lin's penalty spot was pinpointed, and Lin Qi jumped high in the middle of Buriram United's defenders and completed a header.

Unfortunately, his header hit the crossbar.

"Oops... What a pity!! The ball only needs to be five centimeters lower to penetrate the Buriram United goal. Quancheng team had some bad luck in this game, Lin Qi's shot hit the post in the first half, and his header was blocked by the crossbar in the second half. The Huaxia commentator at the scene shouted pity.

He felt that the goal of the Spring City team's home stadium was really naughty enough, so unrelentingly hindering his team's goal......

Hitting the frame twice, the luck of the Springs team is no longer compatible with the difference, which is quite a difference.

With such bad luck, the blow to the momentum of the Quancheng team is quite large. Especially when these two shots came from Lin Qi, Lin Qi is the player who can grasp the opportunity the most, but he failed to grasp these two opportunities.

I can't blame Lin Qi, Lin Qi is already very good to be able to complete these two shots, sometimes luck is really uncertain......

With this header not going in, the game completely entered the rhythm of Buriram United. Springs just wanted to launch a fierce attack and couldn't find any way, Buriram United were so good at possession that they were firmly in control of the game.

Then in the 72nd and 86th minutes of the game, Buriram United broke the goal of the Spring City team twice.

The final score is 2:0!

Buriram United defeated Quan Cheng at home and advanced to the round of 16 as the top of Group E one round in advance! (To be continued......)