Godfather of national football

Chapter 430 History Changes Again

Parramat Stadium.

This is the home ground of the Western Sydney Wanderers. This stadium had bid to host the 2015 Asian Cup, but it was finally brushed down because the facilities of the stadium were not up to standard.

Li came here to watch the first round of the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League, between Evergrande and Western Sydney Wanderers.

In the previous life, this game caused huge controversy. In the end, Evergrande lost 0 to 1. Although they returned to the home court and defeated the Western Sydney Wanderers 2 to 1, they were still eliminated due to the disadvantage of few away goals.

It stands to reason that such a game is nothing to watch, but in view of what happened in the World Cup in Brazil, Li Guo is less and less sure about the continuity of history. How many things will change?
Li Guo also has another purpose for this game, which is to inspect the national football team. There are still many Chinese national football teams in Evergrande, such as Zeng Cheng, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng, Huang Bowen, Liao Lisheng, Gao Lin, and Zheng Zhi.

Especially fringe international players like Gao Lin will work harder to prove themselves, and the AFC Champions League is the best stage. In an interview before the game, Gao Lin expressed his desire to return to the national team.

Missing the World Cup in Brazil is Gao Lin's biggest regret, but in the current situation, he is indeed a little worse than the other three forwards.

For Li Guo, there are more and more unknown things. On the one hand, this makes Li Guo fearful, and on the other hand, it also makes Li Guo excited. So what will happen in 2018?

Li Guo invited Bob to watch the game with him. In fact, Bob refused at first because he liked football more.

"Li Guo, I really don't have much interest in football."

"Is this good? As compensation, how about I watch a football game with you next time?"

"Hehe, I'm not strong."

"What's wrong with you Australians? You're going to hold the Asian Cup next year, and the football atmosphere is still so weak."

"In Australia, rugby is like your Chinese table tennis. What do you think? Think for yourself."

Li Guo almost lost to Bob, it seems that the only one who can arouse Bob's interest is Brother Kong Fang.

"Well, I can increase the tour guide fee for you, what do you think?"

"Haha, there's no need. I don't love money as much as you think. Okay, let's stop chatting. The competition is about to begin."

Founded in 2012, Western Sydney Wanderers is a standard rookie and is recognized as the best in the top 8. In the previous life, many people couldn't figure out why such a rookie finally eliminated the defending champion of the AFC Champions League.

Li Guo didn't know either, but after watching the Asian Cup, Li Guo felt that he had vaguely found the answer, and that was the body!
Especially in the final against the South Korean team, in fact Australia does not have that big advantage. It is not even as good as South Korea in terms of stars. At least South Korea has players like Sun Xingmin and Ki Sung-yong who play in Europe.

But the final winner was Australia. After the whole game, the physical advantage of the Australians was too obvious. It has to be said that world football has a tendency to return to domineering football. This is also related to Spain's failure in the World Cup in Brazil. The football circle no longer superstitiously believes that technology can solve everything.

After the start of the game, Evergrande's advantage on the field was quite obvious. Evergrande had the international football team and Brazil's foreign aid as the base. Although they had more time to control the ball and scored a lot of times in the opponent's 30-meter area, in front of the defense of the Western Sydney Wanderers' "high-level men", Evergrande had very few absolute opportunities.

Don't think that the Western Sydney Wanderers players are just tough. They are actually quite tricky. As long as there is a physical confrontation, they will roll to the end immediately, just like suffering from Dou E's injustice. Gao Lin received a yellow card because of the opponent's frame in the first half.

"It seems that Busquets' unique skills have become popular, and now it is standard to fall to the ground as soon as you touch it, and cover your face when you fall to the ground," Li Guo thought to himself.

The first half ended in a flat 0-0. Bob said: "That's why I don't like football. You know, if it was rugby, both sides would have scored goals and even fought."

Here I want to talk about the difference in the rules of rugby. Although it is also called football, almost every game of rugby involves blood. Broken noses and broken ribs are commonplace. Li Guo doesn't know how these players survived.

"Don't you think football is very civilized? At least you won't bleed when playing football."

"Haha, that's why it's meaningless. What's football without fighting?"

Li Guo's three views were lifted, it seemed that he was more rare than strange, "rude, no quality."

After the start of the second half, the situation changed suddenly, and the Western Sydney Wanderers, who were all huddled in their own half, suddenly pressed on and swarmed wildly in the frontcourt.

"It turned out to be a tactic. It's not bad to gather enough physical strength to go out in the second half," Li Guo thought. In contrast, Evergrande's head coach Lippi seemed a bit dull and lacked mental preparation.

Generally, there is a criterion for this two-round knockout match, that is, away goals, 1 to 1 is heaven, and 0 to 0 is hell, because the former has away goals.

In order to score an away goal, Evergrande went all out, but with an unbalanced mentality, Western Sydney Wanderers seized an opportunity, and striker Ulrich counterattacked successfully.

"A goal, finally a goal," Bob shouted, "I'm going to fall asleep if I don't score again." For Li Guo, of course, he was upset. Although he had watched this game once, he felt that Haisa was different on the spot, and there were Australian friends beside him.

But something unexpected happened, 5 minutes later, Gao Lin received a cross from Aishen in the penalty area and scored a header. The ball was smashed into the goal of Western Sydney Wanderers, and the score was equalized!

At this moment, Li Guo jumped up, shouting: "It's different, it's different!"

Bob doesn't understand, he doesn't understand why Li Guo is so happy, isn't it just equalizing the game and not winning?That's because he doesn't know the value of away goals.

After Gao Lin scored the goal, the opponent immediately became anxious and pressed harder. Now it is the Western Sydney Wanderers who are at a disadvantage.

In stoppage time, Elkeson counterattacked and scored another goal. Evergrande defeated the Western Sydney Wanderers 2-1 away.

This should be a normal result and the result expected by the outside world, but it is unusual for Li Guo, and history has changed again.

"Congratulations, your team won," Bob said.

"Haha, I promised you, watch a football game with you, I will do what I said, I will pay for the ticket if you buy it."

Bob once again showed an expression of disbelief, "Li Guo, do you think the tickets for the football game are just for sale?"

(End of this chapter)