It has not been easy for Taishan Club to engage in football in recent years.

In the past two years, under the influence of national policies, the intensity of state-owned enterprises' investment in the tertiary industry has weakened, and the examination and approval supervision has become more and more stringent. Coupled with the poor domestic football environment, the Football Association has issued a series of regulations to limit investment and expenditure. These regulations, for private companies with deep pockets, are like a king's eight shares - turtle belly, and there is no use for hair. There are many ways to circumvent policies, such as what kind of positive contracts, what high signing fees are not recorded, and what are bonuses in the form of advertising endorsements······· In short, do whatever it takes!

But for large state-owned enterprises with extremely strict internal audits, it is almost fatal, and no one dares to break the rules and regulations of the regulations, after all, no one will risk losing their hats for the sake of a football club.

In this context, the budget for the Taishan team to recruit is only 40 million yuan, which is about 5.3 million yuan when converted into euros. As we all know, foreign players join the Chinese Super League for the sake of money, so the signed contracts are generally premium contracts, and according to the general situation, the premium ratio of the contract is generally between 40% and 60%. In other words, the Taishan team took 5.3 million euros and went to the international football transfer market, and could only sign a player with a real price of less than 3 million euros.

Who can you buy under 3 million euros these days? Either a veteran over the age of 30 who is starting to decline, or a newcomer in his 20s who has little development potential. Who will come to the Super League for this money?

Even if you look at the Super League, this price is really pitiful, the highest price in the Super League is Paulinho of the Evergrande team, 35 million euros, the second place Shanghai Port Arnautovic 32 million euros, the third Oscar 30 million euros······ None of the top 10 foreign aid in the Chinese Super League has a price of less than 15 million euros. Even the price of domestic player Wu Lei has reached 10 million euros!

In other words, that's enough money to buy a hairy one!

The insiders of the club are also a little chilled, leaving Gil with a price of 10 million euros, but the replacement can only go to the scrap market below 3 million euros to go to Taobao. The Taishan team, who is used to being rich, is very unaccustomed to it. However, in the current environment, such a child is estimated to be the norm in the future, and everyone has to get used to tightening their belts.

To this end, the club held a special meeting to study and unify the thinking. It was decided to take a "two-handed" approach:

On the one hand, under the existing budgetary situation, the recruitment team is working overtime to find suitable targets in the international football transfer market; On the other hand, continue to pressure the board of directors to obtain more funding for reinforcements. The team's record in the AFC Champions League will directly affect the attitude of the board of directors, if it can defeat the Evergrande team and enter the top 8, it will definitely get a supplementary budget.

Therefore, the next AFC Champions League round of 16 knockout rounds will be the top priority.

In the recent period of training and preparation, the focus has been on the AFC Champions League knockout round, so that the league has played a little unwillingly, and the main players have taken turns to rest, and two consecutive games that should have been won ended in one draw and one loss.

However, except for a few keyboard warriors who continue to spit fragrance on the Internet, most fans don't care too much, because everyone knows that this year's league results are like this, and the key is whether the AFC Champions League can cross the mountain of Evergrande and make a new breakthrough.

Time flies like a white horse, and soon, it will be the AFC Champions League.

The format of the AFC Champions League 1/8 match is a two-legged home and away match, which is a 180-minute battle. Since the Taishan team is the first in the group, it has a slight advantage in the home and away arrangements, and the away team first and then the home.

In the first game, he sat in Yangcheng Tianhe and challenged Evergrande.

At the pre-game press conference, Li Xiaopeng was asked by reporters about the topic of "poor historical confrontation record", and Li Xiaopeng replied categorically: "History is used to break!" ”

Everyone knows the importance of this ball, and they are holding back their strength and vowing to break the curse of not winning away against Evergrande.

Before the start of the game, Li Xiaopeng made a surging pre-war mobilization:

"It's been nine years, and we've never won Evergrande in Tianhe! Looking at the whole super also wood has a few such drops! Shame on you! Yatai and Renhe have all been reduced to the middle league, and they have still done Evergrande! R&F and Sway are relegated every year, and they are also afraid of Evergrande! Our dignified Taishan team, the team members stand one by one, afraid of what he will beat!

It's been nine years, and it's our turn to win! This is no ordinary competition, this is the AFC Champions League knockout round! The hometown fathers and elders are looking at us! Fans all over Asia are watching us! At this time, if anyone is blind and who wants to play well, he will personally think about it, is it worthy of the name of the Taishan team? Is it worthy of the hometown fathers? I don't have much ink, so I ask you, what are you going to do with this ball? ”

The team members were instigated by Lao Li's earthy speech, and they yelled: "Do him!" ”

"What are you muttering? Inaudible! ”

"Do him!"

"Louder!"

"Do him!"

Even the two foreign aids, Pelle and Fellaini, pulled their throats and shouted in half-baked Chinese: "Do him!" ”

Li Xiaopeng applauded with satisfaction and said loudly: "Okay, let's play, do him!" ”

Gao Yuan also felt that the fighting spirit was high, Zhou's blood was boiling, and he said in his heart: Morale is available, this ball has a play!

After 90 minutes of fierce fighting, the previously surging Taishan players walked off the court one by one.

1:2, TM lost again!

People really can't fight with their fate! Just like Guoan can't beat the Taishan team, the Taishan team can't beat Evergrande!

Without Gil, the Tarzan backline was very messy, facing the onslaught of Tariska and Paulinho. was completely crushed by the opponent in one-on-one personal ability, although Liu Junshuai, who replaced Jill, was very diligent, but the gap in ability was really not something that could be made up by diligence, the speed could not keep up, the technology could not be prevented, and the confrontation could not be hit, and he staged a disastrous performance.

And goalkeeper Wang Dalei's performance is not much better, he has a leg injury, which affects the speed and bounce, and he seems a little hesitant to attack a few times, and the two goals scored by the opponent are not very difficult unsolvable balls, if the state is good, it can be completely resolved. So much so that after the game, Evergrande fans joked: "The Evergrande team still relies too much on Wang Dalei to win!" ”

Compared to the backline, the attack didn't play either. Because it is an AFC Champions League game, foreign aid can play "3+1", so in Paulinho

In addition to Tarisca, the central defenders used Browning and Park Zhizhu to use double foreign aid, plus the original Zhang Linpeng and Feng Xiaoting, the four defenders launched an encirclement of Pelle. Especially Park Ji-so, the South Korean international staged the highest level of performance since joining Evergrande, desperately defending against Pelle, even pulling and dragging, and making small movements, so that the Italian cannon had no temper at all, and was directly dumbfounded.

According to someone's post-match analysis, Evergrande coach Cannavaro knew the truth of the South Koreans' favor of the Italians after experiencing the nightmare of the 2002 World Cup, so he sent Park Zhisu, who usually does not play much, to defend against the Italian artillery Pelle.

With the double metaphysical blessing of the Koreans to conquer the Italian cannon and Evergrande to conquer Taishan, it is strange that the Taishan team can play Evergrande.

But fortunately, the Taishan team was not a complete defeat, at least at the end of the game, the veteran Zhang Chi exploded and pulled a goal back.

Don't underestimate this goal, in a two-legged home and away match, an away goal is more valuable than gold. This means that back at home, the Taishan team only needs a score of 1:0 to eliminate Evergrande with the advantage of more away goals.

In the Olympic Sports Center, is it difficult for the Taishan team to score a goal? Of course it's not that hard!

However, without Gil's backline, is it easy to keep a clean sheet against Evergrande? Of course, it's not easy!

At the post-match press conference, Li Xiaopeng encouraged himself: "This is a 180-minute battle, we only played the first half in Tianhe, and now we will return to Ludong and continue to play the second half." For us, the situation of the game is already clear, we just need to score one more goal and not let the opponent score! ”

In a week, the second round will begin.

Back in Ludong, Li Xiaopeng first convened a meeting of the coaching staff to discuss countermeasures.

Gao Yuan has sorted out the analysis report of the last game and distributed it to everyone on the coaching staff.

Everyone looked at the report in their hands, and saw that the number of goals of both sides was 11:13, the positive number was 7:3, the offside was 2:1, the possession rate was 43%:57%, and the corner kick was 4:6·····

Hao Wei said strangely: "Just looking at the data, it's obviously not equal!" It seems that our data is stronger! Only the number of positive goals is not as good as Evergrande, why can't you see it in the game! Just looking at the game, it's like we're on the suppressed side! Is it really Evergrande Ke us? ”

Everyone was silent, and Li Xiaopeng asked Gao Yuan, "Xiao Gao, what do you think?" ”

Gao Yuan cleared his throat and said loudly: "When I first sorted out the data, I was also wondering, I have been thinking about this for the past two days. Later, I gradually got some ideas, and I think we were fooled! ”

"Fooled?"

"Yes, I fell for that little fox in Cannavaro. What level of team is the Evergrande team, it is a strong team at the level of the Asian champion, in the Chinese Super League and even the AFC Champions League, it has always pressed the opponent to play, and the possession rate is less than 60%, and it is embarrassing to say hello! As a result, the possession rate in such an important game at home is lower than ours this time, what does it mean? It shows that they deliberately gave us possession of the ball! ”

A word woke up the dreamer, Li Xiaopeng and Fabio's faces already showed a look of sudden realization, while Hao Wei and Pep were still a little ignorant.

"What's in it for them to give us the ball?" Hao Wei asked suspiciously.

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