A previous article: In addition to the champion, the runner-up and third runner-up palace have also been taken, liaoning team past Asian Club Cup history full review, Xiaobian took you to review the history of Liaoning team to participate in the previous Asian Club Cup, today continue to introduce to you the hegemon of the Chinese football A era, Dalian Wanda in the 1997-98 season to participate in the 17th Asian Club Cup experience.
In July 1997, the 17th Asian Club Cup officially began, and Dalian Wanda team represented Chinese clubs as the champions of the 1996 Chinese Football League A.
In the first round of the preliminary round, Dalian Wanda's opponent is Thailand's Bangkok Bank, and the two sides will play a home-and-away two-legged match to decide the winner.
On August 9, Dalian won 4-2 at home and won the opening goal. A week later, Dalian will be visiting Bangkok for a second leg against their opponents. Who knows that before the start of the match, the main international players in the Dalian Wanda team were drawn clean by the national team, and in desperation, they could only let Han Wenhai take a group of young players to the away game, and the result was fortunate to be not dishonored, and the Dalian Wanda, which was dominated by the youth army, forced a 0-0 draw with the Thai Bangkok Bank team and advanced to the next round.
Many people may feel that it is not necessary to force a Thai team to draw, what is there to be proud of. The Bangkok Bank of Thailand team won two consecutive Asian Club Cup titles in 1994 and 1995, and their strength is definitely not weak.
In the second round, Dalian Wanda encountered Hong Kong Super League powerhouse Nanhua.
On November 20, Dalian Wanda defeated Nanhua 4-0 away.
On November 29, Dalian returned home to play the second leg of the match against Nanhua. At that time, sitting on the coaching bench of Dalian Wanda was still chi Shangbin's guidance.
In the first half, the two teams exchanged blanks 0-0. In the 58th minute, the South China team burst into the box from the left side and knocked a foot into the middle of the road, and Gletch rushed to the ground before Han Wenhai attacked and stabbed the ball into the net, giving Nanhua a 1-0 lead.
In the 71st minute, Li Ming received a long-range shot outside the penalty area, the ball flew into the far corner of the goal with the turf, and the score became 1-1, at that time, Li Ming's appearance was definitely the peak of domestic football, and the ball skills were absolutely first-class.
In the 84th minute, Dalian Wanda players were put down in the South China team's penalty area during the attack, the referee decisively awarded a penalty, Wang Tao (small) hit the penalty, and finally Dalian Wanda won 2-1, eliminating South China with a total score of 6-1 in two legs and advancing to the final four of the Asian Club Cup East Asia Region.
In February 1998, the Asian Club Cup East Asian Quarterfinals opened in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, in addition to Dalian Wanda, the other three teams are Myanmar Caijin, South Korea's Pohang Iron and South Korea's Kashima Antlers, the game adopts a single-loop point system, and the top two teams enter the final four of this Asian Club Cup.
On February 11, Dalian Wanda defeated Myanmar Caijin 4-1 in the opening match of the East Asian Quarterfinals.
On February 13, Dalian Wanda welcomed its second rival, South Korean powerhouse POSCO. In order to fill the gap in the team's left-back, Chi Shangbin borrowed Wu Chengying from Shanghai Shenhua to help. You read that right, it's really borrowed. Xiaobian has seen many netizens say that this is where Chinese football is not professional, and it is free to borrow people to represent other teams in intercontinental competitions. It is said that this is 1998, and the professionalization of Chinese football has just entered its fourth year. Now in 2021, we have been professionalized for 27 years, and we have not seen how professional it is!
Dalian Wanda and POHANG Iron & Steel played until the 70th minute of the second half, Pohang Steel crossed near the bottom line on the left side, and the back point foreign aid Konovalo scored a header to give Pohang AD a 1-0 lead.
In the 76th minute, Dalian Wanda midfielder transferred a long pass to the left side, Wu Chengying plugged in at high speed, faced a defender on the other side, suddenly got up and shot, the foot ball hit very suddenly, the arc of the ball flying in the air was very high, but finally fell into the back corner of the goal, but also through the net.
In the 82nd minute, Dalian Wanda opened a corner kick on the left side, and Wei Yimin, who was in the middle of the penalty area, jumped high to press the Pohang iron defender's header to break the goal, and Dalian Wanda won two consecutive victories 2-1.
On February 15, Dalian Wanda faced Kashima Antlers in Japan.
Kashima Antlers first used a corner kick opportunity to create a killing chance in front of Dalian Wanda, and in the confusion, the header broke through the Dalian team's goal.
Behind, it was Wu Chengying who broke through the cross on the left side, Li Ming drew into the net in front of the goal, and Dalian Wanda pulled the score to 1-1.
In the following game, the Kashima Antlers player made a cross from the left and pushed the net in front of the back goal, and Dalian Wanda lost the game 1-2. However, Dalian Wanda still ranked second in East Asia with two wins and one loss, and together with Pohang Steel in South Korea, it advanced to the final four of this Asian Club Cup.
On April 3, the final four of this Asian Club Cup began in Hong Kong, China, at this time, the head coach of Dalian Wanda had been replaced by Xu Genbao.
In the semi-finals, Dalian Wanda beat Iran's powerhouse Peruzzi 2-0 to reach the final. The opponent in the final showdown turned out to be the old enemy of the East Asian Quarterfinals, Pohang Iron and Steel in South Korea.
On April 5, the final of the 17th Asian Club Cup was staged between Dalian Wanda and POHANG Steel, and the two teams fought for 120 minutes without success, and the match entered a brutal penalty shootout.
In the first five rounds, Pohang iron player Bai Chengzhe took the lead in losing the penalty, while Dalian Wanda's first four appearances of Wang Tao, Li Ming, Nemechek and Xu Hong all hit, but unfortunately, the fifth young player Wang Peng failed to withstand the pressure to shoot the penalty off and missed the opportunity to end the game.
In the sixth round, Sun Jihai and Pohang Iron & Steel's players both hit penalties.
In the seventh round, wu jun, the first youngster, deflected the penalty, and then Pohang Iron & Steel's foreign assistant Jassem pushed a kick and popped up on the goalpost. Just then, the referee on duty made a puzzling penalty, allowing Jassem to take a heavy penalty.
This time, Jassem did not miss the opportunity, a kick hit, just like that, Dalian Wanda lost 5-6 to POHANG Steel on penalties, and passed by the Asian Club Cup champions.
After the match, Dalian Wanda refused to come on stage to receive the award, but was later punished by the AFC.
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