Chapter 423: Club World Cup

Liverpool’s special plane arrived at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, which immediately caused shouts outside the airport.　
　　The annual Club World Cup, although it is claimed to be a championship team from all continents around the world, the European championship is undoubtedly the most popular.
　　 Liverpool, as a well-known European giants team, will naturally not lack fans, especially with the overall influence of the Premier League in Asia.
　　 And there is an Asian star named Jackie Lee in the Liverpool team, which is another big attraction for fans.
　　 When he was at Schalke 04, Jackie Lee and Japanese star Uchida Atsushi were teammates, and the two had a good relationship.
　　 It is worth mentioning that the season after Li Chenglong left Schalke 04, that is, last season, Uchida suffered a serious injury in the UEFA Champions League game. He returned after recuperating for more than half a year, and his state has been much worse than before.
　　 The season when he was a main player and won the Champions League with Schalke 04, many Asian media touted Uchida as the world's number one right back, but he has now been ruined by injuries.
　　 Coming out of the airport, Li Chenglong saw huge posters drawn by fans outside for him, a huge bust with open arms.
　　 Below the bust, there is a string of words—Welcome to Tokyo, King Bruce! ! !
　　 There is no doubt that Jackie Lee is the biggest player in this year's Club World Cup.
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　　 Although the Liverpool team came to Japan relatively late, in fact this year's Club World Cup started a few days ago.
　　The Club World Cup is played by intercontinental champions from all continents all over the world. However, the Penguin team of Antarctica has not shown face for a long time and has not come to the competition, so they gave up their places to the host team.
According to the World Club Cup schedule, the host and the Oceanian champion will have a qualifying round. The winner will be drawn against the Asian champion, North American champion, and African champion. The first round will be played against each other. The European champions and South American champions played against each other and the winners entered the finals.
　　 However, because the European champions and South American champions have long-term obvious strength advantages, in most cases, the Club World Cup finals are played by the Champions League champions against the South American Libertadores Cup champions.
　　 Although the schedule is like this, in fact, the lottery for the Club World Cup was fixed a few months earlier. After the championship teams of all continents are decided, their respective seats will be matched.
　　As early as on the number, the host Japanese league team Hiroshima Sanfrecce competed with the Oceania champion New Zealand team Auckland City. In the end, Hiroshima Sanfrecce easily won 2-0.
　　 When the number was followed, the first round was also played. The Hiroshima Sanfrecce played against the African champion Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Asian champion Guangzhou Evergrande played against the North American champion Mexico America from Mexico.
　　 The final result was that the two Asian teams joined hands to advance.
　　 Guangzhou Evergrande relied on Paulinho's lore to defeat Mexico America 2:1, and Hiroshima Sanfrecce easily advanced with a big score of 3:0.
　　 The semi-finals that are about to begin now will be Liverpool against Guangzhou Evergrande and Hiroshima Sanfrecce against the South American champion Argentina River Plate.
　　 Two Asian teams have advanced to the semi-finals. This is the second time in the history of the Club World Cup. The last time was in 2011. At that time, AFC Champion Doha Saad and host Bai Helios advanced to the semi-finals together.
　　 Although there are two Asian teams that advance to the semi-finals, in principle, the two teams can even compete in the finals, but everyone knows that they have no such strength.
　　 It is true that with the overall strength of the Asian team, both of them are sad to pass the semi-finals.
　　 The best result of an Asian team in the Club World Cup is only third.
　　 In other words, no Asian team has ever reached the final of the Club World Cup.
So this time the two Asian teams have reached the semi-finals of the Club World Cup, so even if they are not able to pass the semi-finals, they can also win three or four finals. There will be a team that can match the Asian team in the world Best results in the Club Cup.
　　 But which team has a chance, it's difficult to say for the time being.
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　　 After Liverpool arrived in Japan, they were preparing for the Club World Cup.
　　On this day, the 2015 Club World Cup semi-final was played first.
At Osaka Nagai Stadium, home of the J-League team Osaka Sakura, Sanfrecce Hiroshima performed very well with home court advantage. They played back and forth with South American powerhouse River Plate, but in the end, River Plate has a better ability to seize opportunities. They successfully scored with a set-piece opportunity in the second half, defeating Hiroshima Sanfrecce 1-0, and advanced to the final.
　　 The riverbeds who advanced to the final were very confident, and they directly challenged Liverpool in the press conference after the game.
　　 "The Europeans have won twice, this time it is our turn."
　　 "This year's Club World Cup champion will definitely be ours. Liverpool has never won in Japan before."
　　 Although the river bed is provocative, they are also telling the truth. Liverpool have lost the Club World Cup (Toyota Cup) three times before, all in Japan.
　　I'm here for the fourth time in Japan, which is not a good sign.
　　 In addition, the last two years of the Club World Cup were won by the Champions League. The last time a South American team won the Club World Cup was in 2012.
　　 The team that represented Europe happened to be the Premier League, the Blues Chelsea, they lost to the Brazilian team Corinthians in the final.
　　 In addition, Liverpool have lost the Club World Cup final three times before, all of them lost to South American teams.
　　 So from every aspect, Liverpool is going to make it to the final and then lose to the South American team.
　　 But Liverpool defeated Evergrande to advance to the final, this is not too suspenseful, everyone thinks so.
　　, the semi-finals between Liverpool and Guangzhou Evergrande are about to begin.
　　 In an interview before the game, Li Chenglong responded to the provocation of the generals in the river bed.
　　 "I joined Liverpool for the purpose of breaking records. We will definitely not lose the fourth time in Japan..."
　　 At 7:30 pm local time in Japan, the match between Liverpool and Evergrande began at Yokohama Arena.
　　 Yokohama Arena is the home of the J-League team Yokohama Mariners. It was also the venue for the 2002 World Cup finals. Ronaldo scored twice here, helping Brazil beat Germany 2-0 and successfully promoted to five-star Brazil.
　　 In this game, Liverpool did a certain degree of rotation.
　　Goalkeeper: Mignole;
　　 Defenders: Robertson, Scotter, Gomez, Klein;
　　 Midfielder: Emre Can, Milner, Lallana;
Forwards: Mane, Firmino, and Jackie Lee ~EbookFREE.me~ Uncle Zha has a rotation of the midfielder. Coutinho and Henderson both have no starting games, and there is also a young central defender Gomez. Si got the chance to start.
　　 On the Hengda side, they arranged a 442 formation.
　　 Goalkeeper: Zhang Shuai;
　　 Defenders: Zou Zheng, Jin Yingquan, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng;
　　 Midfielder: Zheng Long, Zheng Zhi, Paulinho, Huang Bowen;
　　 Forwards: Elkerson, Golat.
　　 This year Evergrande relied on this lineup to win the AFC Super League double crown.
　　 In this game, the Heng Daquan team came with ideas. Before the game, they showed their determination-dreams still have to be there. If it is realized?
　　 They quoted the famous quote of one of the owners of their own team.
　　 It is worth mentioning that Ali Baba has officially become a sponsor of the Club World Cup this year.
　　 In this game, the Yokohama Arena with a capacity of more than 70,000 was basically filled.
　　 Both Liverpool and Evergrande received a lot of cheers before the game.
　　 Liverpool is a well-known European giants team, and there is a superman balloon star named Jackie Lee.
　　 Evergrande is an Asian team, and there were also many Chinese fans.
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