The group stage of the 2022 AFC Champions League season has ended, and I can only sigh that "the AFC Champions League has really changed"! The former points-giving boy can now press the clubs of China, Japan and South Korea in the group stage to qualify as the top of the group, which also proves from the side that the opponents of the national football team in Asia will add another one.
In this AFC Champions League competition, due to the influence of certain special factors, Changchun Yatai and Shanghai Harbor chose to withdraw. Since the AFC does not want all the teams in the Chinese Super League not to participate, it is mainly the AFC sponsors who have requirements. Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou can only go hard, but the main players sent are not the main players, but the players of the echelon, and the Guangzhou team even sends the fourth echelon players.
The opponent Guangzhou team met in the first match was Johor DT from Malaysia. When I heard that it was a team from Malaysia, the first feeling for our fans was that it was not too strong, that is, to send points. Yes, Malaysian football is not great, their club is naturally not much better, they used to participate in the AFC Champions League is to give points. What we didn't expect was that we had the impression of sending points, and the first game gave Guangzhou a dismount and won a 5-0 victory.
Of course, a 5-0 win over the fourth echelon of guangzhou is actually normal. However, until the end of the final match of the group stage, Johor DT actually defeated Jeongsan Hyundai from South Korea 2-1, thus qualifying as the top of the group. In 6 matches, Johor DT has only lost one game, and the other 5 games are 4 wins and 1 draw. In addition to the weak strength of the Guangzhou team, the opponents of the same group, South Korea's Sagayama Hyundai and Japan's Kawasaki striker are difficult bones to gnaw, but johor DT has to chew the hard bones and swallow them into the stomach.
I really didn't expect that the boy who once gave points in the AFC Champions League has now become the king of the group stage in the AFC Champions League. Since Johor DT can become the king in the AFC Champions League group stage, this also proves from the side that Malaysian football is on the rise, and it is no longer the fish belly that was once slaughtered in Asian teams.
The rise of Malaysian football has added another opponent to the national football team. When Xiaobian was in school, the national football team faced thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and other teams, and there was no problem in winning, just to see how many goals it could win. But now, the national football team has become Vietnam's defeated player in the World Preliminary Tournament. Once still in the warm-up match, he lost 1-5 to Thailand. Judging from the current situation of the national football team, in the next five to ten years, the results will only get worse and worse, and it is not impossible to lose to Malaysia.
All are passing on the next World Cup, FIFA will consider the issue of expanding the army, in view of the current situation in Asia, even if Asia is divided into 8 places, the national football team may not be able to enter. Because many of the national football team once defeated, now has become the strongest opponent of the national football team. The national football team is now ranked in the Asian range, probably outside the top ten.
Watching other countries improve at the level of football while we are regressing. I hope that the above will no longer shout empty slogans, to recognize the deficiencies, to taste the courage of ten to twenty years, I believe that the level of Chinese football can still go up.