Fengba Greenery

Chapter 108

Chapter 37 External tricks
This game also caused an upsurge in South Korea. Compared with the Chinese media's optimism about Guangzhou Evergrande, the Korean media is more confident in the strength of Seoul FC.

Although Guangzhou Evergrande's offensive ability is amazing this season, and they have eliminated such strong teams as Lehvia and Bai Helios by a large score one after another, Koreans have always sneered at Chinese football, and they don't think Guangzhou Evergrande can beat South Korean champion Seoul FC.

The Korean newspaper "Chosun Ilbo" headlined the headline "K-League Continues to Conquer the AFC Champions League, Seoul FC Will Challenge" as the headline, previewing the final of the AFC Champions League.

"Chosun Ilbo" mentioned in this article: "Since the AFC organized Asian-wide club competitions in 1967, a country's team has been able to enter a season final for five consecutive years, and South Korea is the first. From 2009 By 2013, South Korean teams had reached the finals of the AFC Champions League for 5 consecutive years. Before that, only three countries in Asia could reach the finals three times in a row, namely Iran, South Korea and Japan. Even in the strongest UEFA Champions League in Europe , a country’s team can enter the finals for 5 consecutive years, and there are only five cases. Counting from the Asian Club League (the predecessor of the AFC Champions League), South Korean teams have entered the finals a total of 16 times, and won the championship 10 times. Asia is also unique."

In this report, Chosun Ilbo used another set of data to prove their strength.

"Since the reorganization of the AFC Champions League in 2003, Korean teams have played against Chinese teams 54 times. Among them, the Korean team has a clear advantage with 30 wins, 11 draws and 13 losses."

In addition to using data to prove the advantages of the Korean team, some Korean media are ridiculing that Guangzhou Evergrande is a "RMB" team built with money. As long as Korean players show their willpower and "patriotism", they will be It can offset the advantage of the opponent's super foreign aid!

Some Korean media even compared the foreign aid of the two sides, thinking that although Guangzhou Evergrande’s foreign aid is more expensive than Seoul FC’s, Seoul FC’s foreign aid will play more roles in the game than Guangzhou Evergrande’s foreign aid.Reporter Han believes that from the analysis of personal characteristics, the speed of Evergrande's Muriqi is better than that of Dejan, while Dejan, who has just played for the Montenegro national team, has the advantages of heading the ball and controlling the ball to cooperate with his teammates. The most important role will be to organize more offensive routines and instigate shots near the opponent's penalty area.The reputation of Molina from Colombia is obviously not comparable to that of Conca, but his game experience and tacit understanding with his teammates are much higher than that of Conca. He is better than Conca in controlling the rhythm of the game. It seems that the Seoul team In terms of the ability and actual performance of foreign aid, it must beat the Evergrande team.

Of course, in addition to showing the consistent "self-confidence" style of the Koreans, there are also Korean media offering advice to Seoul FC. Some Korean media have analyzed the biggest weakness of Guangzhou Evergrande, saying that the biggest weakness of Guangzhou Evergrande lies in air defense. Among the goals conceded by Guangzhou Evergrande this season, the conceded goals in the air accounted for a large part.

Just when the Chinese and South Korean sports media were focusing on the first round of the AFC Champions League, Guangzhou Evergrande’s chartered flight landed at Seoul Airport.

Guangzhou Evergrande came to Seoul, South Korea on October 10. When they landed at the airport, it was already past six in the evening.

Since the game on the 26th was at [-]:[-] pm local time in South Korea, Lippi had arranged half a month ago that after they got off the plane and settled in the hotel, they would conduct a field training that night.And half a month ago, Guangzhou Evergrande had already contacted Seoul FC, hoping that the other party could provide a training venue for Guangzhou Evergrande.

In the AFC Champions League, according to the regulations of the Asian Football Confederation, the home team is obliged to provide the visiting team with help in terms of hotels and training venues.

However, as soon as the Guangzhou Evergrande team got off the plane, they received a notice from the Guangzhou Evergrande Korean advance team. Because the hotel provided by the home team was too far away from the venue and the conditions were not very good, the Guangzhou Evergrande team could only temporarily Find a hotel near the game venue to stay.

When he saw that the condition of the hotel temporarily replaced by the team's advance working group for the team was not bad, Lippi's face was slightly unhappy.

Lippi is a person who pays great attention to details and executes according to the plan. If the team's preparation is affected by such a trivial matter as the hotel, it is estimated that the club staff will bear Lippi's anger.

The players, on the other hand, were relaxed, talking and laughing. From getting off the plane to taking the airport bus to the hotel, the players still had relaxed smiles on their faces.

After the players settled in the hotel, the players boarded the bus and prepared to go to the training ground for their first training in South Korea.

But when they came to the venue, the person in charge of the training ground said that they would not turn on the lights on the training ground without the permission of Seoul FC.The staff of Guangzhou Evergrande had to call Seoul FC urgently, but they were told: "To turn on the lights or change the venue, you need to apply to the Korean Football Association first."

Lippi almost laughed angrily when he heard the staff's report. As an Italian, the shamelessness of the Koreans made the whole of Italy unforgettable in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup.

Unexpectedly, after 11 years, Lippi refreshed his impression of Koreans.

The Guangzhou Evergrande team could only stand awkwardly on the training field without lights. Of course, the team could not arrange training when the lights could not be turned on.

Guangzhou Evergrande even communicated with the Chinese Football Association, the AFC and the Korean Football Association, but the other party still refused to provide the illuminated stadium.

On the way back to the hotel, the players of Guangzhou Evergrande lost their smiles before, and the actions of the Korean made the players furious.

After returning to the hotel, Lippi had to arrange for the players to do some simple stretching exercises in the corridor of the hotel.On the first day in South Korea, Seoul FC gave Guangzhou Evergrande a blow!

Until the pre-match press conference the next day, Silver Fox’s face was gloomy. He said angrily at the press conference: “This is the first time in my 30-year coaching career that I have encountered such a situation. 15 finals, including the World Cup final, the Champions League final and this AFC final, this is the first time I have encountered such unreasonable and presumptuous news!"

Afterwards, he was still unhappy, and continued: "I want to appease the Seoul club and the head coach of Seoul first. After they come to Guangzhou, they will not encounter any problems with training time, training venues, etc., because this is an international practice. We will arrange all this for them. After we came yesterday, we couldn’t find a place to train in all of Korea. It’s unbelievable to encounter such a problem in the AFC finals. This is related to the regulations of the AFC finals Contradictory. Seoul did not provide us with any training venues, but I can tell them that they will not encounter any difficulties in Guangzhou."

The head coach of Seoul FC Cui Yongzhu responded: "Coach Lippi is a world-class coach. Before the start of the game, the war has actually begun. We have provided all the help we can provide for the problems on the training ground. We have negotiated with the Korean Football Association. As for our second round going to Guangzhou, we will not make any additional demands."

Before the final of the AFC Champions League, China and South Korea were already at war with each other, full of gunpowder.

(End of this chapter)