Chapter 35 AFC Champions League Format

"Lin Jun, you scored four goals in three consecutive AFC Champions League matches to help the team occupy a favorable position in the group qualification, what do you think Tokyo FC can achieve in the first AFC Champions League?"

"Our minimum goal in the AFC Champions League is to enter the knockout round, and this goal has now been basically achieved, and no one knows how far we can go after entering the knockout round."

"Lin Jun, just now the manager of Beijing Guoan said that you will transfer to the Chinese club in the upcoming summer transfer period, is this true?"

"I need to discuss the transfer with my agent, and I haven't made any decisions yet."

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At the post-match press conference, Ringer, who scored twice and was named Man of the Match, was surrounded by questions.

In addition, the AFC Champions League has now played four rounds of group stage, Ringer has played three times, started two games and made a substitute, scoring a total of four goals, and actually climbed to the first place in the AFC Champions League scorer list, which is very unexpected.

Tokyo FC, as the weakest team in Group F before the start of the AFC Champions League, suddenly became a dark horse, and now basically got the opportunity to qualify from the group, Ringer is the leader of this dark horse team, at least in the AFC Champions League.

The fourth round of the AFC Champions League is over, Tokyo FC defeated Guoan 3:0 at home, Ulsan Hyundai in the same group defeated Brisbane Roar 2:1 in Australia, Tokyo FC and Ulsan Hyundai are both 4 rounds of 2 wins and 2 draws to accumulate 8 points, while the other two teams in the same group Guoan and Lion Roar are only 2 points, leading by 6 points with two rounds left, Tokyo FC and Ulsan Hyundai have almost locked the qualifying places, Guoan and Lion Roar have basically been eliminated, and the chance of qualifying only exists in theory.

With the end of the fourth round of the AFC Champions League group stage, the so-called Sino-Japanese confrontation has also ended. In the other two groups of the fourth round of Sino-Japanese confrontation, Tianjin TEDA drew 0:0 away from Nagoya Whale Eight, and Tianjin continued to retain the suspense of qualifying, although it was not big, but it was better than Guoan's only in theory; Evergrande defeated the Bai Sun God 3:1 at home and climbed to the top of the group in one fell swoop, which is also the only win for the Chinese Super League team in six matches against China and Japan.

The Chinese Super League has just entered the golden era, and the Chinese Super League team is still mainly losing more and winning less in the face of Japanese and South Korean teams, and only Evergrande is supporting the scene. In a few years, the Chinese Super League teams will generally invest heavily, which will change the situation and occupy an advantage in the confrontation with Japan and South Korea.

Tokyo FC is also paying attention to Group H where Evergrande is located, because according to the current format of the AFC Champions League, the two teams that have qualified from Group F will fight against the two teams that have qualified from Group H, which means that the opponents of Tokyo FC in the round of 16 are in Group H, but at present, Group H is very chaotic, and it is not clear who will qualify and who will be eliminated.

In Group H, Evergrande is currently ranked first with 7 points, Jeonbuk Hyundai and Briland are in second and third place with 6 points, and Kashiwa Sun God is at the bottom with 4 points. There are still two rounds of group stage, and it is really difficult to judge who can qualify in Group H, and even the bottom Bai Sun God still has a chance of qualifying for the top spot in the group.

At present, the AFC Champions League system, the group stage and the top 16 are divided into East Asia and West Asia semi-regions, Group A to Group D are the West Asian team semi-region, and Group E to Group H are the East Asian team semi-region. At the end of the group stage, the first group in Group A automatically plays the second in Group C, the second in Group A plays the first in Group C, and so on, Group B vs. Group D, Group E vs. Group G, Group F vs. Group H. After the end of the top 16, the top eight will be drawn again, and at this time, East Asia and West Asia will no longer be divided, and the mixed draw will be counted.

This year is the first time Evergrande has participated in the AFC Champions League, with little experience and instability, which can defeat South Korea's strong team Jeonbuk Hyundai 5:1 away, or lose to Thai team Briland 1:2 at home, Evergrande's instability is also the main reason for the current chaos in Group H. Wait until next year, a more stable Evergrande will appear, the knockout round will be massacre all the way to the promotion, and the West Asian team will jointly write a letter asking for another restructuring, and the AFC will agree to the restructuring, so the future AFC Champions League East Asia and West Asia will be completely separated, and only the final will meet.

As far as the current situation of Tokyo FC is concerned, with Ulsan Hyundai with 8 points, the final round of the group stage is Tokyo FC to challenge Ulsan Hyundai away, and that game is likely to determine who is the first in the group and who is second in the group.

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In April in Guangzhou, the average temperature remains above 20 degrees for a long time, and it is common for it to climb to 30 degrees at noon. For those who are afraid of heat, this is already not a low temperature.

Lao Lin was walking around CUHK in a long-sleeved shirt as he had a class at 9:50.

Passing by the newsstand on campus, Lao Lin went to buy two newspapers as usual, which is a habit that people of their age have developed all their lives.

"Professor Lin, buy newspaper purple." The newsstand owner greeted him warmly, with a bit of an accent.

"Take a copy of Yangcheng Evening News and Southern Metropolis, and add a People's Daily." Needless to say, the People's Daily, and the first two are provincial newspapers that sell well in eastern Guangdong.

"Thick~" The boss skillfully pulled out the newspaper and handed it to Lao Lin.

After taking the newspaper, Lao Lin thought for a while and said, "Give me another football newspaper." ”

In the past, Lao Lin never read sports newspapers such as football newspapers, but since his son went to play professional football, Lao Lin has also begun to care about football. Although he knew that most of his son was just a whim, and maybe he would obediently go back to school one day, Lao Lin still couldn't help but buy a sports newspaper every once in a while to read it, at least to understand the professional football industry. Football newspaper is a national sports newspaper that originated in eastern Guangdong, and its sales have been good in eastern Guangdong, so Lao Lin bought this newspaper easily.

Walking on the green path, Lao Lin habitually looked at the front page of each newspaper to see if there was any major news.

The first three newspapers were still like that, and there was nothing important, and when he opened the football newspaper, Lao Lin was stunned.

"Mysterious Chinese Youngster Shines in the AFC Champions League"

The picture on the front page is a young man wearing the No. 8 jersey gliding on the green field with his arms outstretched, but Lao Lin is very familiar with this "mysterious young man", isn't this his son.

Jingle bell~~~

Lao Lin still wanted to take a closer look, but the bell rang, this was the bell for the end of class, and there were 10 minutes before his class, Lao Lin couldn't help but put away the newspaper with curiosity, and sped up his pace to rush to the classroom, it was not his habit to be late.

Ringer was selected for the AFC Champions League Team of the Year for the first time, which made fans on the Internet pay attention to him; In the last round of the AFC Champions League, he scored a goal to help Tokyo FC take away a point at the Workers' Stadium, so that he began to appear in mainstream sports newspapers, but Guoan is a northern team, and the main media reporting him is the media around Beijing and the northern media, and most of the sports newspapers in the south focus on Evergrande, and the report on Guoan's game is more of a mockery of Guoan's home draw, and Ringer is only mentioned in passing.

In this round, Ringer scored twice to lead the team to a 3-0 victory over Guoan, and temporarily occupied the first place in the AFC Champions League scorer list, all the sports media in China have given a lot of coverage, but for most fans, Ringer is indeed still a mysterious figure, and he suddenly appeared like this, and he has never heard of it before.

"After Hao Haidong, there will be Chinese players who expect the AFC Champions League Golden Boot? 》

"Guoan failed miserably to "its own people", and qualifying only exists in theory"

These are all reports from the domestic sports media.

In the first AFC Champions League after the AFC Champions League restructuring in 02, Chinese player Hao Haidong became the AFC Champions League Golden Boot that year with 9 goals, and it is also the only AFC Champions League Golden Boot for Chinese players at present and even before Ringer's rebirth. Hao Haidong also helped Dalian Shide team reach the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League, which is the best result of the AFC Champions League of the Chinese Super League team so far, and will not be broken by Evergrande until next year.

The Beijing media set off another round of calculating the theoretical probability of qualifying, calculating how Guoan will win next to squeeze out Ulsan Hyundai to qualify from the group, Guoan and Tokyo FC The result of the meeting is one draw and one loss, and each other's records are already at a disadvantage, and then even if they chase 6 points, they can only consider squeezing out Ulsan Hyundai. Of course, Tokyo FC did not qualify in advance, because theoretically, getting 2 distributions Lesbane Roar also has a chance to squeeze out Tokyo FC to advance.

Of course, this probability is slightly equal to zero, and you let Barcelona Real Madrid come to be eliminated with a high probability, and you are just asking for a comfort.