On April 17, the Champions League semifinals announced two teams, Dortmund and Grand Paris will meet in the semifinals, the two teams will compete for a ticket to the final, and tomorrow morning, Manchester City vs Real Madrid, Bayern vs Arsenal, who will get the last two semi-final tickets is interesting. Of course, what we want to talk about today is not the Champions League quarterfinals, but the AFC Champions League semifinals, which has now ended a contest, South Korean team Ulsan Hyundai defeated Japanese team Yokohama Mariner 1-0 and occupied the initiative to advance!
The AFC Champions League adopts a divisional system, East Asian teams and East Asian teams play, West Asian teams and West Asian teams play, which makes East and West Asian teams have less opportunities to compete directly, and can only wait until the final to meet, AFC This policy is to save East and West Asian teams from the fatigue, but it also makes the teams and players in the two regions lack the opportunity to communicate directly, whether it is for clubs or national teams, it is not a good thing.
AFC Champions League East Asia semi-finals, Ulsan Hyundai ushered in the challenge of Yokohama Mariners, since the start of the new season league, Ulsan Hyundai ranked 3rd in the league, Yokohama Mariner ranked 5th in the J League, this encounter, in the 19th minute of the game, Ulsan Hyundai took the lead, the left side attacked a low flat cross, Zhou Mingui turned his back to do, Lee Dong-kyung met the ball and pushed the goal, Ulsan Hyundai 1-0 Yokohama Mariner. The goal was the only goal of the game, and neither side changed the score afterwards, and finally Ulsan Hyundai won 1-0 to gain the initiative to advance.
Judging from this score, on April 24, Ulsan Hyundai challenged Yokohama Mariner away, and it is not easy to advance! Yokohama Mariner's home home has only lost 1 game in the last 10 games, on the other hand, Ulsan Hyundai's away results are very bad, the last 10 away games have lost 5 games, it can be said that the second leg of the competition between the two sides is the key to determining who can enter the final, with Ulsan Hyundai's away results, I am afraid that it is not optimistic. 4 hours to watch live + replay: live broadcast and replay of sports events are free to watch| Link3 has always been a tough competition between Korean teams and Japanese teams, two strong teams in East Asian football, who wants to step on their opponents to advance, who will die, we will wait and see!
Of course, regardless of the final result, Ulsan Hyundai's 1-0 defeat of Yokohama Mariners was an additional big package! According to the official FIFA rankings, Ulsan Hyundai defeated Yokohama Mariners to confirm that they are the highest-ranked club in Asia and have secured a place in next year's Club World Cup. Asian teams currently confirmed for the 2025 Club World Cup are Riyadh Crescent and Urawa Red Diamonds, with the last spot to be the AFC Champions League winners this season.
The match between Ulsan Hyundai and Yokohama Mariners is over, and the next thing is the much-anticipated Riyadh Crescent away game against Ain! At present, Riyadh Crescent defeated Jeddah United in the Saudi Super Cup to win the championship, and the team has won 34 consecutive victories, and the goal of facing Al Ain in the AFC Champions League semifinals at 0 o'clock in the morning tomorrow is to win 35 consecutive victories, and with the current state of the Crescent, it should be no problem, we will wait and see.