At 19:30 on May 8, the first leg of the 2018 AFC Champions League 1/8 final began, Guangzhou Evergrande challenged Tianjin Quanjian away, and finally the two sides exchanged blanks 0-0. Throughout the game, foreign aides on both sides wasted a lot of scoring opportunities, Guangzhou Evergrande's Alain missed 3 consecutive scoring opportunities in 20 minutes, and Gao Lin's clever pass after running more than 60 meters was also hit by Alain's long-range shot.
With an eight-match ban in the league, Alain has only recently been able to make appearances in the FA Cup and AFC Champions League matches. Since the Evergrande FA Cup was also eliminated by Guizhou Hengfeng, the only match that Alain could play was the AFC Champions League. In this campaign, Evergrande played more conservatively in the first half and did not get many shooting opportunities. However, after entering the second half, Evergrande began to grasp the situation on the field and frequently obtained opportunities to hit the goal.
From the 54th minute to the 75th minute of the game, striker Alain alone got three good shots on goal, but unfortunately the Brazilian's shots were deflected out of the goal and failed to create too much of a threat to Quan Jian. In the 54th minute, Gaulat stopped the ball on the front of the arc, fake shot real pass, dodged Zhang Cheng, Liu Yiming's falling blockage, and distributed the ball to Alain, resulting in the 8 meters in front of the goal of the single knife, he actually hit high, and then held his head with both hands and slammed the ground angrily!
In the 62nd minute, Gao Lin took the ball all the way from the backfield, successively shrugged off Su Yuanjie's entanglement, waded through Zhang Cheng's sliding shovel, and knocked back to Alain on the line of the penalty area, without thinking that Alain directly chose a long-range shot outside the box, and the ball flew to the stands again. The 60-meter "Belt and Road" was wasted, and Gao Lin also looked very depressed!
After wasting two consecutive attacking opportunities, Alain still had a chance to kill the game. In the 75th minute, Zhang Linpeng's inverted triangle pass from the bottom line on the right side of the penalty area, Alain passed Wang Jie and Quan Jingyuan in the penalty area, but unfortunately he shot into the side-netting on the right side of the small penalty area line.
In just 20 minutes in the second half, Alain missed three scoring opportunities in succession, and finally Evergrande won a 0-0 draw away from home. Although the team did not concede a goal, for the two-legged game, Evergrande has taken the lead. However, the status of foreign aid Alain and Gaulat is still a bit worrying.
Especially Alain, Evergrande FA Cup out, is because he took the lead in the game and lost a penalty. Alain, who has no game guarantee, is slow to enter the game on the field, and the competitive state has not been adjusted to the best, and the tacit understanding with his teammates has declined. In the second half of the game, he had a coordination error with Li Xuepeng, which caused Li Xuepeng's pass to go directly out of the sideline. Perhaps in a hurry to make a contribution, Alain's offensive choices in the game have repeatedly caused dissatisfaction among his teammates.
Alain, who is not in a good form in the forward line, has become a hidden danger on the way to guangzhou Evergrande's AFC Champions League promotion!