Chapter 325 You Are Playing Big Swords in Front of Guan Gong and Looking for Your Own Death

Later, the development of the game was as Chang Sheng knew. In the quarter-finals, Seongnam Yihe from South Korea defeated Al Wahda 4:1 and advanced to the semi-finals, while Mazembe defeated Zhonghua 1:0. Pachuca, the North American champions of Mexico, also advanced to the semi-finals.

In the draw for the semi-finals, Inter Brazil was drawn into a group with Mazembe as expected.

Lazio's opponent is the South Korean team Seongnam Ilhwa.

On the East Asian tour this summer, Lazio also played against the Korean team Seoul F, and they have a preliminary understanding of the Korean team, at least not completely ignorant. So that friendly match was tantamount to a warm-up for today's semi-final...

Seongnam Ilhwa was the runner-up of the Korean K-League in the 2009 season, and then they participated in this year's Asian Champions League as the runner-up. They passed all the way and reached the final. In the final a month ago, they defeated the Iranian Super League team Zaber Ahan 3:0 and became the new Asian champions.

This is also the second time in their history to win the AFC Champions League.

It is also the Korean team that has won the AFC Champions League for two consecutive years.

Korean football is in full swing now, and Chang Sheng is responsible for putting out the fire.

The semi-final between Lazio and Seongnam is the second semi-final, and the first semi-final is between Brazil Inter and Congo's Mazembe.

After all, the popularity is the highest, and the best team always has to stay until the end to play, the so-called grand finale.

This is also convenient for Chang Sheng, he can first see who wins and who loses in the match between Brazil International and Mazembe.

As a result, Mazembe surprisingly defeated the powerful Brazil international team 2:0 in the semifinals and entered the final!

"This is a victory for African football! 2010 is destined to belong to African football!"

The commentator on TV shouted loudly when the final whistle blew.

Chang Sheng clapped his hands. It seems that there is no difference between the above and what I know.

If the opponent is Mazembe, this is easy to fight.

This championship, he is sure of it!

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Lazio then made his first appearance in the Club World Cup this season.

Their opponent is Chengnan Yihe.

Seongnam Ilhwa from South Korea intends to use their abundant physical fitness to wear down Lazio.

They thought that Lazio was going on a continuous campaign. I have traveled a long distance, so my physical fitness must not be very good.

This really made Chang Sheng laugh endlessly.

Comparing physical fitness with Lao Tzu's team?

You are playing big swords in front of Guan Gong, using axes in class, and bringing shame on yourself. Suicide!

Lazio's physical fitness is not a problem at all. Originally, Changsheng planned to deal with Seongnam slowly, just like the previous two Champions League group matches.

Use a slow pace to play Dead City Nan Yihe.

But after seeing Seongnam Ilhwa's tactics in the first half, he decided to change his strategy.

Let the Koreans see what is truly immortal!

So Lazio changed tactics in the second half, and Chang Sheng offered an upgraded version of his mad dog tactic, the mad wolf tactic!

Mobilize opponents with fast passes and wide-range runs.

At the beginning, Chengnan Yihe relied on his good physical fitness and ran with the rhythm of Lazio, so the two teams ran wildly in the game.

But soon Seongnam couldn't stand it anymore, and their players even felt their lungs were burning.

Their speed gradually slowed down. I can't keep up with Lazio's running rhythm.

While Chengnan Yihe was exhausted physically. Also declared a collapse.

They were one goal behind in the first half. In the second half, they conceded three goals in a row, and finally lost with a score of 0:4.

Towards the end of the game, South Korean players began to fall to the ground frequently. Rolling around with their calves in their arms, with painful expressions—they all had cramp!

It can make Koreans who are good at running cramp. And Lazio's players still seem to be able to do a job with ease, and their physical fitness is indeed surprising.

The Asian commentator said: "Lazio's physical fitness is so good, I am afraid that 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 of praising Lazio is to mock the Korean team.

"Koreans are famous for their physical fitness, but now it seems that in front of Lazio, their physical fitness is no more than that..."

West Asian football and East Asian football have always had feuds. The Asian Football Federation is basically a confrontation between East Asian football and West Asian football. As for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia...that's all 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 in the AFC.

People in West Asia look down on East Asia, and people in East Asia look down on West Asia.

Now seeing the East Asian team Seongnam Ilhwa being eliminated by Lazio, the West Asians are naturally elated.

Anyway, their team has been eliminated long ago, so they support Lazio now.

They don't have any "big Asian concept". We are all Asian teams, so we have to cheer for the Asian brothers. Only the Chinese media are so naive...

There are territorial disputes in China, not to mention the whole of Asia.

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In this way, Lazio will compete with Mazembe for the Club World Cup.

It is the first time that an African team has reached the final of the Club World Cup, so Mazembe has also attracted the attention of the media, and everyone is surprised.

Of course, the fans are not very happy, especially the neutral fans - they want to see the pinnacle of European football and South American football, who wants to watch African teams...

Chang Sheng knows this team quite well, because when Mazembe entered 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 Chang Sheng has also read all the articles introduced - he likes to read information about teams that people don't know much about.

So he knows what's going on with this team.

Fans who are familiar with African football, Zamalek in Egypt, the Cairo nation, Tunisia's desert star, hope. The enthusiasm of Casablanca in Morocco, the mimosa in Côte d'Ivoire, and the oak heart in Ghana are more familiar to African giants, but the Mazembe club from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is little known.

This football club was founded in 1939 by the Benedictine monks of Lubumbashi at the time. It has been one of the two giants of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the past half century. As early as 1967 and 1968, under the shadow of the dictator Mobutu, the Mazembe Club won the African Champions Cup for two consecutive years and then reached the finals for two consecutive years. The Giants tied.

But after that. The African Champions Cup has always been monopolized by clubs from North and West Africa. Among them, only the Vinda team from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, reached the final twice and won the championship in 1973. In thirty-eight years, North African and West African teams have divided up sixty-seven of the seventy-six final seats. Since the South African Orlando Pirates won the championship in 1995, which took advantage of the opportunity of racial reconciliation, there has been no African champion in the past 13. Teams outside of North and West Africa get involved.

Last year, Mazembe participated in the reformed African Champions League as the runner-up of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He successively defeated Sultan Umdurman Crescent and Nigeria Center, and won the African Championship again after 41 years. At that time, they were ambitious to go to the Abu Dhabi Club World Cup, but they were accidentally eliminated by Posco in the first round. The subsequent competition for fifth place had no interest in fighting. It was defeated by Auckland City of New Zealand 3:2. The debut of the Club World Cup is the last place.

This year. Mazembe specifically gave up the league to make a comeback. In the African Champions League, he eliminated Algeria's Kabel and Tunisian Hope Team, and once again aspired to Africa. this time. Having learned from experience, the Mazembe team first defended and beat Mexico's Pachuca 1-0 in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, they faced the complacent Copa Libertadores champion Brazil International. After holding on to the first half, Kabangu broke the deadlock in the 53rd minute of the second half. Kaluituka sealed the victory five minutes before the end and scored in one fell swoop. finals.

The African media spoke highly of Mazembe's historic entry to the Club World Cup final. They believed that this was definitely a milestone moment for African football as a whole, no less than Ghana's 2009 World Youth Championship. The Club World Cup, formerly known as the Intercontinental Cup, has been a rivalry between Europe and South America in the finals for forty years, but this year, Mazembe from Central Africa overthrew the monopoly of Europe and South America on this highest club-level event.

The head coach of this team is Lamine Ndiaye, the former head coach of the Senegalese national team, and he only took over the team in September this year. French coach Gazto. But in just three months, he not only led the team all the way to win the African Champions Cup, but also reached the final of the Club World Cup, achieving achievements that his predecessors could not have imagined. Both Ndiaye and his predecessor Gazto adopted a 433 attack formation, but most of the time it was actually a 451 conservatism, which is a bit like Mourinho.

Mazembe has always been a rich and powerful team in Africa, and of course it is still incomparable with Europe.

But in Africa, they are really local tyrants.

Because they have a real rich boss. The chairman of Mazembe's club is Moshe Katubi, the first democratically elected governor of Katanga, the largest province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Mazembe's financial budget this season is as high as 10 million US dollars, which is almost the sum of the budgets of all top league clubs in Central and Southern Africa (except South Africa)!

At the same time, Katubi also spent two million dollars to build a brand new stadium for the team. Although the capacity has dropped from 35,000 to 180 million, this is the only all-seat stadium in the entire Democratic Congo and even the Middle East, which can even meet UEFA's four-star standard.

Almost all members of Mazembe come from mining families in Katanga Province, and the only foreign aid is also produced in neighboring Zimbabwe and Zambia. For North African and West African teams that use a lot of foreign aid from South America, this is definitely the most localized team building strategy. What's more, the treatment the players get is simply European-level: The Bulldozers' salary expenditure was only $3.6 million in 2008, and it has ballooned to $10 million in 2010. Captain Mputu's annual salary is as high as US$500,000, making him the player with the highest salary 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 what ever-victorious Lazio will face in the Club World Cup final.

(to be continued)