Shandong Taishan Youth Army and Lion City Sailors fought back-to-back, and the 0-0 draw turned into a 2-3 loss, but the draw was not low at all: they scored the first and second goals of the Chinese Super League team in this AFC Champions League! After a 0-7, 0-5 defeat to Daegu FC and Urawa Red Diamonds, The Tarzan junior played twice against the Lion City Mariners, who had won 3-0 over Daegu FC, saving face for himself and for the Chinese Super League in an unprecedented low!
(Although losing, but scoring goals)
Of course, some people will say that this is just a fig leaf for Chinese football, the national football world preliminary round was defeated, the four AFC Champions League teams in the Chinese Super League withdrew from the competition twice, two sent out youth teams that have hardly played professional matches to cope, the AFC Champions League group stage was more than halfway through to score the first point, after playing the fourth round to complete the goal, what can be shown off on the table? Yes, it is all right, but the three indiscriminate pots of Chinese football, no matter who carries it, can not turn this batch of children. Their expedition is destined to hit the stone with a pebble, but at the same time, they must also make the opponent feel pain! They did.
In the case that the first team cannot participate in the war, the original idea of Taishan Club was to form a mixed team to undertake the AFC Champions League task: the club G21 echelon is the mainstay, and then two or three first-team veterans are pressed, and at the end of last season, some players who returned from the loan of other Chinese Super League and Chinese First Division and Chinese Second Division teams returned to support, and even considered letting moises Moises, who was still in the contract period and had not yet renewed, fly directly to Thailand as the midfield core of this strengthened youth team, and did not seek to qualify from the group, at least it would not lose too badly. Unfortunately, these ideas could not be realized, and Yu Yuanwei, who was in danger, could only take the dissatisfied G21 echelon to battle. Speaking of the G21 echelon, in fact, the average age of the whole team is only a little more than 19 years old, and there are more than 3 children aged 17 or more among the rotating players.
(Lu Yongtao made a point of personal penalty and scored the first goal)
This group of players, Lin Guoyu had been loaned to Wuhan last season to play in the Chinese Super League, but only once played; then Yi Xianlong, Lu Yongtao had experience in the middle division and the second division respectively, and the other players did not say professional leagues, even if the adult team competition almost did not play. Such a team, the first time to participate in the official competition, it has landed in the highest level of AFC Champions League in Asia! To be honest, it is also rare that they can grit their teeth to complete the competition process, and it is obviously too harsh to make demands on the quality and results of the competition. The team's goal of "scoring a point and scoring a goal" is estimated to be something no one thinks they can do. Especially when Daegu FC, who encountered a non-K League traditional powerhouse in the first game, swallowed up seven eggs and goalkeeper Cao Zheng made a super low-level mistake, I am afraid that the concern of the spectators is no longer whether the team can score goals and scores, but whether the six group games kicked down and conceded goals combined, will output a shame situation that is almost like a big score in basketball games!
(Liu Guobao's left-footed shot broke the goal and scored the second goal)
Unexpectedly, the boys are not satisfied with just going through the AFC Champions League group stage, in terms of ability and experience, it is true that it is not up to them to carry this burden, but each of them is holding back enough to prove their existence. Two big scores of fiasco did not extinguish their desire to survive, and four foreign aid and a number of Singapore internationals led the Lion City Mariners two games, the scene and data in the overall inferiority of their fight to the end, and finally first grabbed a point, and then twice broke through the opponent's city gate, exceeded the goal of the expedition!
This AFC Champions League group stage East Asia division 16 days 6 games, the schedule is so dense, so cruel, even the first-line players of the Korean and Japanese clubs who have always been resilient and resistant to toss are difficult to bear, before the second battle between Taishan and the Lion City Sailors, Daegu FC and Urawa red diamonds made a second move, and the fatigue of both sides was deeply impressed, and played a dull and tedious 0-0. The Taishan Youth Army, which also consumed a lot of money before, still played vividly against the Lion City sailors, and it was in the second half that they scored two goals in the last moment, allowing them to fulfill their promise to score in the AFC Champions League. Maybe it's just an occasional flash of their careers, maybe they'll continue to lose miserably in the next two bad battles, maybe they'll return home and repeat the embarrassment of not having the ball to play... But this time, they could walk out of the arena with their heads held high.