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On April 25, in the fourth round of the AFC Champions League group stage, Vietnamese team Jia Lai Huang Ying drew 1-1 with last season's K-League champion Jeonbuk Hyundai, and the two teams met in the first leg, and Jeonbuk Hyundai only won 1-0 in stoppage time. These two matches greatly increased the confidence of Jialai Huang Ying, and according to the Report of the Vietnamese media "Soha", they forced the club points obtained by the Jeonbuk team to equalize the club points obtained by the Jeonbuk team, helping Vietnam to surpass China in the Asian club standings and achieve a historic breakthrough.
Bringing back valuable points, Jialai Huangying turned the "nightmare" of Chinese football into reality
In the AFC Champions League group stage, Jialai Huangying was divided into Group H, along with Japanese team Yokohama Mariners and Australian team Sydney FC, although these three opponents are very strong, but from the first game, Jialai Huangying's performance was impressive. They lost 1-2 to the Yokohama Mariners in the first match, drew 1-1 with Sydney FC in the second match, and faced two encounters in Jeonbuk Hyundai, achieving a draw and a loss. In the draw against Jeonbuk, Jialai Huangying led 14-8 on goal, and after the match, the Vietnam Football Association gave Jialai Huangying a reward of 200 million Vietnamese dong (about 57,000 yuan).
Vietnamese media: Jialai Huang Ying was praised by the leaders of the Vietnam Football Association, who made the South Korean champion cry and receive a hot reward
Compared with the draw achieved by Jialai Huang Ying, what makes the Vietnamese media more excited is that with the 2 points obtained in this draw, after the fourth round of the 2022 AFC Champions League group stage, Vietnam officially surpassed China in the Asian club points ranking to the 12th place. Asian club standings are one of the important bases for determining places in the AFC Champions League and AFC Cup, and while Vietnam is unlikely to get more places, China is expected to see a sharp decline. What's even more embarrassing is that looking closely at this list, in addition to Vietnam, Thailand, Jordan and even Hong Kong are ranked ahead of China...
Ranking of points for Vietnamese media statistics
The reason for the repeated decline in the points ranking of Chinese clubs is the poor performance of Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League. South Korean media "starnews" said that the Chinese Super League team sent young troops to compete in the AFC Champions League reduced the quality of the event. With two rounds of matches left in the 2022 AFC Champions League group stage, four teams have confirmed early exits, namely Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou in China, as well as Jialai Huangying in Vietnam and Liancheng in the Philippines. And including the shanghai seaport that abandoned the game, all three Teams in China bid farewell to the AFC Champions League early. South Korean media said that the early exits of Guangzhou and Taishan were expected, and they, mainly players from the second or youth teams, were questioned by "reducing the quality of the game" in every AFC Champions League game. Guangzhou suffered four consecutive defeats, scoring 0 goals and conceding 21 goals, shandong Taishan, although equal to the Lion City mariners, but also only ranked first in the group with 1 point.
At the AFC meeting held in early January this year, the principle of "one year certain" for future AFC Champions League seats was adopted. That is to say, after the end of the 2022 AFC Champions League and AFC Cup, according to the "Technical Points Ranking of AFC Member Associations", the AFC will finalize the allocation of seats in the AFC Champions League and AFC Cup in 2024. Today, the AFC Champions League quota in the Chinese Super League has been adjusted from 3+1 to 2+2 in 2023, and according to this situation, under extreme circumstances, the technical points of the Chinese Super League in 2023 may fall out of the top 24 of the Asian League, and may even miss the AFC Champions League in 2024.
From the 2019 technical points ranking surpassing Japan and South Korea in the first place, to the current club standings surpassed by Vietnam, in just three years, the performance of Chinese teams in the Asian arena has fallen to the bottom, and the Chinese Super League has also been ridiculed by the Korean media as losing its position on the Asian stage and is walking an endless road of decline. After the bubble of Jinyuan football was punctured, the darkest moment of Chinese football has just arrived, and in the next few years, such disappointment may be accompanied by all those who care about Chinese football...
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