The 2022 AFC Champions League Round of 16 was released last night, and the J-League and K-League in East Asia will stage civil wars, and Hong Kong team Jie Zhi, a Chinese Hong Kong team that has reached the knockout round for the first time in history, suffered from last season's Thai Super League champions Baton United. The AFC Champions League Round of 16 will be played from August 18 to 19, with a single-game tiebreaker.
The AFC Champions League round of 16 faces east Asia
Daegu FC (Korea) vs Jeonbuk Hyundai (Korea)
Johor (Malaysia) vs Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan)
Baton United (Thailand) vs Jai Chi (Hong Kong)
Kobe Victory Ship (Japan) vs Yokohama Mariners (Japan)
In the final round of the group stage yesterday, Jasper team twice fell behind and equalized twice, and the injury time tie helped them draw 2-2 with Kobe Victory Ship. Due to the withdrawal of the harbor, the remaining three teams in Group J, Kobe Victory Ship, Jiezhi and Chiang Rai United, Jiezhi ranked second in the group with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss with 7 points.
According to the rules of qualifying for the AFC Champions League this season, the top five groups in the East Asian zone and the top three groups in the second place were promoted. For groups with retired teams, the results of matches between the second and fourth ranked teams will not be included in the calculation when calculating the second place in the three best groups. The Team pushed out the Kawasaki Striker, who had eliminated the result of the match against Guangzhou, and became the first Hong Kong team in the history of the AFC Champions League to enter the knockout stage.
This is the third time that the Team has competed in the AFC Champions League, and the pre-match prediction for this group is that the Kobe Victory Ship will be able to qualify easily, but it is the Team Kita that gives Kobe a headache. Jie Zhi first doubled Chiang Rai United, sending them home, and then slammed the Kobe Victory Ship until the final time of the group stage, and then joined hands to qualify.
The Jay Chi team is a dark horse team that should not be underestimated and despised.
Dejan and Alex, who scored two goals each in the AFC Champions League group stage, are veterans of the Chinese Super League. Known as "Montenegro Ibrahimovic", Deyang, who played for Jiangsu Sainty and Beijing Guoan, will celebrate his 41st birthday in July this year, and his total AFC Champions League goals have risen to 42 (Seoul FC 25, Beijing Guoan 2, Suwon Samsung 9, Hong Kong Jiezhi 6), continuing to refresh the total number of individual goals scored by himself.
Originally from Nigeria, Alex obtained a Hong Kong passport in 2015, joined Chinese League one Yanbian Fude in 2018, and made four appearances under Choi Kang-hee after joining Dalian in 2019, but with the appointment of Benitez, he was completely abandoned. In early 2021, Alex returned to the Jays.
Jasche's opponents in the round of 16 avoided the stronger Japanese and South Korean teams, and facing the Thai Super League's Baton United, it is not impossible for Jascheon to go further in the AFC Champions League.
After the end of this season's AFC Champions League, the AFC will finalize the AFC Champions League places for the 2024-25 season based on the results of the last four years. In the past two seasons, Chinese Super League clubs have sent youth troops to compete in the AFC Champions League, and this season's AFC Champions League results in Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou are also very unsatisfactory, which makes the Chinese Super League only get 0.5 points in terms of club points, plus points in 2021 and 2019, in the latest AFC technical score rankings, the Chinese Super League has slipped to 15th and East Asia 7th. This means that the 2024-25 AFC Champions League may have only 1 place in the Chinese Super League, and only the 2023 Chinese Super League champions will be eligible to participate in the AFC Champions League this season.
The reduction of the AFC Champions League places is more unfavorable to the promotion of Chinese Super League teams after the epidemic, but according to the current AFC Champions League seat allocation practice, as long as the Chinese Super League teams that participate in the AFC Champions League with "2+2" seats in the 2023-24 season try to compete for technical points, then it is not ruled out that the AFC Champions League seats in the Chinese Super League can be increased back soon.