Chapter 136

"Group G, POSCO, Adelaide United, Tokyo FC, Shandong Luneng."

When the result of the draw comes out, Gao shunyao, who is resting, also pays attention to the result of the draw together with Li Ze and Chen sirou. When looking at his team, after a long time, he sighed bitterly. Such a signing is not what he expected, or even quite different from what he expected.

Although the team has a holiday, but in the rest, Gao shunyao is still concerned about his team's grouping. And he never hide, he hopes his team can draw a weaker group, to ensure the smooth qualification. However, when he saw the team in the group, Gao shunyao could not say a word. It was absolutely unexpected that they had such a terrible opponent.

After the reform in 2008, according to the regulations of AFC, only the countries whose League points are in the AB level can participate in the Asian championship. In Asia, there are only Japan and South Korea in a league and more than a dozen in B League, but most of them are concentrated in West Asia. In East Asia, only China, Mongolia and India or Hong Kong and Taiwan have their own leagues, but they all fail to meet the standard of B League. In addition, North Korea, which has good football strength, has no professional league at all, Therefore, in the end, only China, Japan and South Korea dominate the football matches in East Asia, while Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia play together.

In the East Asia Division, there are 16 teams in four groups. China, Japan and South Korea are the first, second and third leagues in Asia. Each league has four teams. Although the Australian Super League level is not low, even the top teams have enough strength to make the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean teams headache, it is more embarrassing that it is only a semi professional league to participate in Some of the players in the Australian Super League also have part-time jobs in their spare time, which is not good in terms of the scale of the league. Therefore, they are also suppressed to occupy only two seats in the Asian championship. Among the remaining places, in 2009, the Indonesian League occupies one and a half places, and the remaining half places are won by Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore The second place in the competition.

And the result is quite interesting. There are only four teams in East Asia, and there is the principle of avoiding the same country. This will make each team have a team from China, Japan and South Korea, plus a team from other leagues. But this kind of avoidance principle, causes the team grouping time, naturally also did not have with the Champions League such strong and weak points to speak of. Strong teams and strong teams, weak teams and weak teams are likely to meet in the Asian championship.

Because the Champions League has just been restructured, there is no so-called avoidance principle in the current Champions League draw. Last year, J-League champion deer antler and k-league champion Samsung Shuiyuan were drawn into the same team. But this year, this rule has not been changed - after all, the leagues in East Asia are limited. There are only a few leagues. If we really implement the seed system of avoiding the champions of each league, then the drawing of lots will basically become distribution, and the rules are not easy to adjust. AFC has always been lazy, so the draw is still possible for any team.

Such a rule is not good news for those strong teams: if a top team draws another top league in the group stage, it will also consume a lot of physical strength. For a team as weak as Tokyo, such a draw is a chance and good luck. No one knows what the final result will be. If all the teams are strong, it's not good news for Tokyo. If all the teams are weak, maybe they can be promoted.

"As far as this year is concerned, the team that I hope to win most is the team that comes out of the qualification match. Although the Singapore warriors are also the dominant team in the Singapore League, what is the population of Singapore? This kind of overlord is one eighth of the rank of Tokyo. "

Before the team holiday, in the team, the team-mates also talked about it. At that time, they all joked, and they did not hide the idea that they wanted to meet a weak team. "If it's not good, it's better to hit Percy PRA - the strength of the Indonesian team is not very good, it's much easier than dealing with the Australian team."

When it comes to which team you want to meet, the first thing your teammates think of is the country that everyone regards as a weak team: the qualification match is not finished yet, and the final team will be decided by the champions of Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam and the second place of Indonesia, but the strength of this team is not very good.

Of course, they make fun of Singapore, but at least compared with the Australian super team, they still hope to be able to draw these weak teams. In recent years, the Chinese Super League has not been playing very well in the Asian Champions League, and the Japanese team has not paid much attention to the Chinese Super League. And if you can meet a weak team, then within a group, it will become a smooth promotion of Japan and South Korea, and other elimination situation. Such a group can at least guarantee the team to qualify.

In recent years, Japan has played well in the Asian championship, and the promotion of the group is also the most basic requirement. If this requirement can not be met, Tokyo will definitely not accept it. Although it's the first time to play in the Asian championship, the Japanese team, which has always regarded itself as the first league in Asia, naturally has full confidence in the qualification of the group.However, full confidence does not necessarily mean good luck. Looking at his group, Gao shunyao is more than a wry smile, such a group, the group is really difficult to qualify.

It can be said that Tokyo drew a lot.

The distribution of this group is extremely depressing: there are POSCO, the champion team of last year, the runner up team of 2008, and Adelaide United, the champion of last year's Australian Super League. Such a group can definitely be called the death group. Tokyo FC finally entered the Champions League, but the draw is not good enough.

In this group, first of all, POSCO is the most powerful enemy. Although the Japanese have always been unable to get along with the k-league, they like to say that the strength of the k-league is very poor, but how to say, POSCO is the champion team of last season's Asian championship. Although the defending champion does not necessarily mean that the strength is still the strongest, they are the ones to win the championship Hot teams, there's always no problem.

It is quite possible for POSCO, the four teams in this group, to occupy one place as the defending champion.

The other contender is likely to be Adelaide United.

POSCO is regarded as one of the strong rivals, and Adelaide United can not be underestimated. The Australian team has a very good football tradition, their players are generally dominant in the body, the huge difference in this respect, let the J League players headache. Adelaide United is the best team in Australia. In 2008, they also reached the final. Although they only finished second because of Lucas' excellent performance, this record is still the best result of the Australian Super League in the Asian championship.

In the division of the Asian championship, East Asia and West Asia are separated. Among the East Asian teams, the most frightening are the k-league and the Australian Super League. However, Tokyo FC just won the two strongest opponents in the two leagues. POSCO, the defending champion of the Asian championship, and Adelaide United, the best team in the Australian Super League, both of which are famous and powerful enough to suffocate people.

Looking at his group, Gao shunyao has nothing to say.

"This luck how so good, just met the death group!"

After seeing the result of the draw, Gao shunyao was also stunned. It's not just him who was stunned and saw the result. Even Li Ze and Chen sirou are hard to believe.

"This is definitely the most difficult group to play You're in trouble Seeing the result of the draw, Li Ze spoke immediately.

Among the four groups in East Asia, this group should be the strongest. Although Kajima antler unfortunately won the k-league champion all North Hyundai, two teams in their group are Changchun Yatai and Indonesia champion Percy pra. When it comes to competition, their group competition is not as fierce as group G - after all, the two strong and two weak teams and the three teams are likely to qualify.

Of course, Li Ze thinks that Shandong Luneng has no competitiveness.

Li Ze admits that he hasn't seen the CSL for a long time, and even before, he didn't care much about the Champions League situation. In his memory, Shandong Luneng didn't play very well in the Asian championship. This team has a good record in the league, but it's always a layman to play outside. Especially last season, their strength is worrying.

Last season, Luneng's actual performance is hard to be said to be the real fourth. At the end of last season's CSL, they scored 45 points with Shenhua and TEDA. Such rankings and points form an interesting cycle. According to the rules of the Chinese Super League, teams with equal points compete with each other, and those with more points are in the top of the list. Shandong wins and loses one game against Shanghai, while Tianjin wins and draws one game against Shanghai. For each other's points, Luneng wins Shanghai's 7 points by 9 points and gets the right to go out.

If Shandong wins and Shanghai scores, the difference between them is only a long time. But in the end, Shandong won the place under the pressure of Shanghai. He really didn't agree. Secondly, the relationship between TEDA and Luneng in the CSL competition has always been close, and some people even suspect that TEDA lost to Luneng as a result of letting go of water, which makes boss Zhu feel more unbearable and scolding.

However, looking at the luck of the draw, Li Ze felt that boss Zhu had no need to complain. There are Posco and Adelaide United in the group. Whether they come to Shandong or Shanghai is not very different.

Such a group, even if Tokyo can't squeeze out, let alone Luneng?

"You're really in danger this year." Li Ze and Gao shunyao said casually. He frowned, but he was thinking about something else.

This year's Asian championship is different from previous years: This is the year of the world cup, and major events will be more valued. This year's Asian Championship played well. It was supposed to be an important bridge for Gao shunyao to go to Europe, but now it seems that it is very difficult.