Chapter 325 You are playing a big sword in front of Guan Gong, seeking your own death
Later, the development of the game was as Chang Sheng knew. In the quarter-finals, Seongnam Il from South Korea defeated Al Wahda 4:1 and advanced to the semi-finals, while Mazembe defeated Zhongnan 1:0.
North American champion Mexican team Pachuca also advanced to the semifinals.
In the semi-final draw, Internacional was assigned to a group with Mazembe as expected.
Lazio's opponent is South Korean team Seongnam Ilhwa.
In this summer's East Asia Tour, Lazio also played against the Korean team Seoul FC, and they had a preliminary understanding of the Korean team, at least not completely ignorant. So that friendly match was equivalent to today
Warm-up for this semi-final...
Seongnam Ilhwa was the runner-up in the Korean K-League in the 2009 season, and then they participated in this year's Asian Champions League as the runner-up, passing all the way and reaching the final. In the final a month ago, they defeated Iran 3:0
Super League team Saeki Ahan became the new Asian champions.
This is also the second time in their history that they have won the AFC Champions League.
It is also the second consecutive year that a Korean team has won the AFC Champions League.
Korean football is now booming, and Chang Sheng is specifically responsible for putting out the fire.
The semi-final between Lazio and Seongnam Yihe is the second semi-final, and the first semi-final is between Brazil International and Congolese Mazembe.
After all, the most popular and best team always has to stay until the end, the so-called finale.
This is also convenient for Chang Sheng. He can first see who wins and who loses in the match between Internacional and Mazembe.
As a result, Mazembe surprisingly defeated the powerful Brazilian International team 2:0 in the semi-finals and reached the final!
"This is the victory of African football! 2010 is destined to belong to African football!"
The commentator on the TV shouted loudly when the final whistle blew.
Chang Sheng clapped his hands, and it looked like it was no different from what he knew.
If the opponent is Mazembe, it will be an easy fight.
He is a sure winner of this championship!
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Then Lazio played for the first time in this season's Club World Cup. Their opponent was Seongnam Yihe.
Seongnam Ilhwa from South Korea plans to use their abundant physical fitness to bring down Lazio.
They thought that Lazio was playing consecutive games and traveling long distances, so their physical fitness must not be very good.
This really made Chang Sheng chuckle.
Comparing physical fitness with my team?
You are just showing off your sword in front of Guan Gong, and you are seeking your own death!
There is no problem with Lazio's physical fitness at all. Originally, the winning team planned to slowly deal with the draw with Seongnam, just like the first two Champions League group matches.
Play the dead city Nan Yihe at a slow pace.
But after he saw Seongnam Yihe's tactics in the first half, he decided to change his strategy.
Let Koreans see what it means to truly be immortal!
So in the second half, Lazio changed their formation and tactics, and Chang Sheng used his upgraded version of the mad dog tactic, the mad wolf tactic!
Use quick passing and wide range movement to mobilize opponents.
Chengnan Yihe relied on his good physical fitness and followed Lazio's rhythm at the beginning, so both teams showed a crazy running situation during the game.
But soon Chengnan Yihe couldn't stand it anymore, and their players even felt that their lungs were burning.
Their speed gradually slowed down and they began to be unable to keep up with Lazio's running rhythm.
Chengnan Yihe also collapsed when his physical energy was exhausted.
Originally, they fell behind by one goal in the first half, and conceded three goals in a row in the second half, eventually losing with a score of 0:4.
When the game was about to end, the Korean players began to fall to the ground frequently, rolling around with their calves in their hands, with painful expressions on their faces, and they all had cramps!
It can make the Koreans, who are known to be good runners, cramp, but Lazio's players still seem to be able to do it with ease. Their physical fitness is really surprising.
An Asian commentator said: "Lazio's physical fitness is so good. I'm afraid no other team in today's football can compare with them!"
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After the game, the UAE media praised Lazio's performance.
Of course, one of their purposes for praising Lazio is to ridicule the Korean team.
"Korean people are famous for their physical fitness. But now it seems that in front of Lazio, their physical fitness is nothing more than this..."
West Asian football and East Asian football have always had a feud. The Asian Football Confederation is basically the confrontation between East Asian football and West Asian football. As for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia... they are all just soy sauce.
This situation has not changed until Australia abandoned Oceania and joined the Asian Football Confederation. After all, Australia is alone, and there is still a dispute between East and West Asia in the AFC.
West Asians look down on East Asia, and East Asians look down on West Asia.
Now seeing the East Asian team Chengnan Yihe being eliminated by Lazio, the West Asians are naturally elated.
Anyway, their team has been eliminated long ago. So they support Lazio now.
They have no concept of "Greater Asia". We are all Asian teams, so we have to cheer for our Asian brothers. Only the Chinese media is so naive...
There are regional disputes in China, let alone all of Asia.
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In this way, Lazio will compete with Mazembe for the Club World Cup championship.
This was the first time that an African team reached the Club World Cup final, so Mazembe also attracted the attention of the media, and everyone was surprised.
Of course, the fans are not very happy, especially the neutral fans. They want to see the peak showdown between European football and South American football. Who wants to see African teams...
Chang Sheng knows this team quite well, because when Mazembe reached the Club World Cup final and played against Inter Milan, it also caused a sensation in the media. At that time, there were many reports about Mazembe in the media. Chang Sheng has also read the articles introduced. He likes to read information about teams that people don’t know much about.
So he knows the situation of this team.
Fans who are familiar with African football are more familiar with African giants such as Egypt's Zamalek, Cairo Nation, Tunisia's Desert Stars, Hope, Morocco's Casablanca Passion, Côte d'Ivoire's Mimosa, and Ghana's Hearts of Oak. Horses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo Zembe Club is little known.
This football club, founded in 1939 by the Benedictine monks of Lubumbashi at the time, has been one of the two largest clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the past half century. As early as 1967 and 1968, under the dictator Mobutu Under the shadow of the club, Mazembe Club once won the African Champions League and reached the finals for two consecutive years. This feat of winning the championship was not equaled by the Nigerian Elephants in 2004.
But since then, the African Champions League has been monopolized by clubs from North and West Africa. During this period, only the Vida team from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has reached the finals twice and won the championship in 1973. In the past thirty-eight years,
Teams from North Africa and West Africa shared 67 of the 76 final seats. Since the South African Orlando Pirates won the championship in 1995 through the opportunity of racial reconciliation, no other African champions in the past 13 have been from North Africa and West Africa.
The team got involved.
Last year, Mazembe participated in the reformed African Champions League as the runner-up of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and successively defeated Sudan Umdurman Crescent and Nigeria Heartland, winning the African championship again after 41 years. At that time, they set out with great ambitions
In the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi, they were unexpectedly eliminated by Pohang Steelers in the first round. In the subsequent fifth place match, they were defeated by Auckland City of New Zealand 3:2. They finished last in their debut in the Club World Cup.
This year, Mazembe specifically gave up the league and made a comeback. In the African Champions League, he eliminated Algeria's Kabaire and Tunisia's Hope team, and once again aspired to Africa. This time, Mazembe's team, which has learned from experience, first based on defense, four
They beat Mexico's Pachuca 1:0 in the quarter-finals, and faced the proud Copa Libertadores champion Internacional Brazil in the semi-finals. After holding on for the first half, Cabangu broke the deadlock in the 53rd minute of the second half.
In the first five minutes, Karuituka sealed the victory and reached the final in one fell swoop.
The African media spoke highly of Mazembe's historic run into the Club World Cup final. They believed that this was a milestone moment for African football as a whole, as much as Ghana's World Youth Championship win in 2009. Formerly known as Intercontinental
For 40 years, Europe and South America have been competing in the finals of the Club World Cup, but this year Mazembe from Central Africa has overturned the monopoly of Europe and South America on this top club-level event.
The head coach of this team is the former Senegalese national team coach Lamine Ndiaye, and he only took over the team in September this year, replacing the team that suffered a 0:3 defeat to Tunisia in the African Champions League group stage.
French coach Gazito. But in just three months, he not only led his team to break through and win the African Champions League, but also reached the final of the Club World Cup, achieving an achievement that could never be imagined by his predecessors. Ndiaye and him
His predecessor Gazito used a 433 attack formation, but most of the time it was actually a 451 conservatism, which is a bit similar to Mourinho.
Mazembe has always been a wealthy team in Africa. Of course, it cannot compare with Europe.
But in Africa, they are really rich.
Because they have a truly wealthy owner. The president of Mazembe's club is Moses Katumbi, the first democratically elected governor of Katanga, the largest province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Mazembe's financial budget for this season is as high as 10 million US dollars, which is almost the combined budget of all top league clubs in Central and Southern Africa (except South Africa)!
At the same time, Katumbi also spent two million US dollars to build a brand new stadium for the team. Although the capacity dropped from 35,000 to 18 million, this is the only full-scale stadium in the entire Democratic Republic of the Congo and even in the Middle East and Africa.
Sitting in the stadium can even reach UEFA four-star standards.
Almost all members of Mazembe come from mining families in Katanga Province, and the only foreign players are also produced in neighboring Zimbabwe and Zambia. For North African and West African teams that use a large number of South American foreign players, this is definitely the most localized
team-building strategy. More importantly, the treatment the players receive is simply European-level: the Bulldozers' salary expenditure was only US$3.6 million in 2008, which has surged to US$10 million in 2010. Captain Mu
Putu's annual salary is as high as 500,000 US dollars, making him the highest-paid player on the entire African continent. You must know that the top annual salary standard of the Serie A team Udinese is only 500,000 euros...
This is the opponent that the ever-victorious Lazio will face in the Club World Cup final. (To be continued...)
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