Grassroots Glory

Dortmund's half league has ended early. They have 13 wins, three draws and one loss with 42 points.

Whether he can win the half-time championship, Klopp no ​​longer cares about this matter. For Dortmund, the half-time championship really has no practical significance.

The half-time champion does have a 70% probability of eventually winning the championship, but last season Dortmund fought for the other 30%.

Now Klopp puts all his thoughts on the Club World Cup. This is the last event of the year, and everyone can go to enjoy the holiday after the game.

Although most of the Club World Cup is just a formality, Klopp still did not lower his requirements. I just gave everyone one day off as usual, and then devoted myself to the preparations for the Club World Cup.

As champions of the Champions League, Dortmund have a bye in the first round of the Club World Cup, and they can start directly from the second round, which is the semi-finals, so their preparation time is relatively sufficient, and they have ten days to finish the league. Prepare for war.

The schedule of the Club World Cup is also quite strange. Like Dortmund participating once, in fact, it only needs to play two games and go through two cutscenes.

This year's Club World Cup was moved to Morocco, North Africa. Before Dortmund set off to participate in the Club World Cup, the Club World Cup was already underway.

In the opening game, the host league champion Casablanca defeated the Oceania champion Auckland City 2:1.

On the second day of the game, it reached the first climax of attention since the start of the Club World Cup.

This season's AFC Champions League champion Guangzhou Evergrande played against the African champion Al Ahly of Egypt.

More than half of Zhou Tiancheng's national team teammates will make an appearance.

For this reason, the enthusiasm of the Chinese media to report on the World Cup is at an all-time high. And the more important reason is that, according to the lottery that has been drawn, the winner of this game will run into Dortmund.

The Chinese media have ten thousand reasons to pay attention, and they are very much looking forward to the confrontation between Guangzhou Evergrande and Dortmund. Zhou Tiancheng and the national team teammates confront each other as opponents.

Although everyone knows who is strong and who is weak, the result does not mean everything for fans to enjoy football. Although victory can bring the greatest joy, it is not always the case. Sometimes as long as the process is enjoyable enough.

Lippi, the head coach of Guangzhou Evergrande, did not make any mobilization before the game. He only said one sentence to the players: If you want to compete head-on with Zhou, go and win this game!

All the players looked forward to the game in their eyes,

Not only these international players, but also the three foreign players in the team. This is not a friendly match like in summer. For them, being able to play against the champions of the Champions League once is already very satisfying. Speaking of which, they are not as good as these local international players, at least they still have the opportunity to be teammates with Zhou Tiancheng.

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Good goal, beautiful! Brazilian foreign aid Elkeson opened the scoring for Guangzhou Evergrande, the champion of the AFC Champions League! This team has continued its absolute dominance in the Asian arena. This is the rhythm of victory! They are heading towards Dortmund at high speed, Fans should be able to relax, because the matchup you are looking forward to is not far away.

He Wei was relieved a lot. According to Guangzhou Evergrande's performance in the AFC Champions League this season, the victory should be sure. Although the opponent is the African champion, with the development of African professional leagues, the level of the club is higher than that of Asian teams. Not much higher.

On the coach's bench, Lippi looked very relaxed. It is very challenging for the national team and the club to take on two responsibilities at the same time, but fortunately, both sides have been run-in and formed, and there is a strong foreign aid team in the club's frontcourt, so the pressure is much less.

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On the flight, Zhou Tiancheng was bored anyway. He picked up the tablet equipped on the plane and watched the live broadcast of the game online.

He doesn't know much about Guangzhou Evergrande, but he knows that this is the opponent they may face, and it is necessary to know the opponent.

In fact, it is impossible for him to have no bias in his heart. He basically automatically ignored Al Ahli, who is also a possible opponent on the opposite side, and almost all his attention was on Guangzhou Evergrande. He wanted to see how the teammates of the national team were doing.

The two sides were evenly matched in the first half, but in the 20 minutes of the second half, after adapting to the opponent's rhythm, Guangzhou Evergrande fully grasped the opportunity and scored two goals in a row to almost seal the victory.

Zhou Tiancheng nodded secretly. According to European rhythm standards, Guangzhou Evergrande is still a bit behind. Dortmund really have no trouble matching them, but he is still very happy. After all, this is a Chinese team representing Asia at the club level.

And for one of the goals, Zheng Zhi sent a kick forward more than 30 meters to the ground, which made Zhou Tiancheng slap his thigh.

Damn it, brother Zhi is awesome, the older you get, the more monster you get.

Even Zhou Tiancheng couldn't help but like it.

His movement attracted Lewandowski next to him. The Pole leaned half his head in front of the screen and asked, Zhou, what are you watching? What team can make you so interested?

Zhou Tiancheng raised his head and replied, Our opponent in the next round.

Lewandowski's expression suddenly showed two points of playfulness: Uh... I heard it is a Chinese team?

Zhou Tiancheng stared at him: That's right, what's the matter, does it feel like playing against a Chinese team is cheap?

Lewandowski's face stagnated and he quickly explained: Uh, haha, Zhou, look at how sensitive you are. I just think it's funny. You're about to play against your country's team. I'm wondering what you are Feel.

This reason is lame, Robert. Your expression has betrayed you. Zhou Tiancheng pursed his mouth: Maybe you don't look down on any Chinese players except me. It's okay, I can understand. But you have to understand that any contempt Your opponent’s actions can cost you.”

Oh, by the way, let's change it next time. We are going to play the World Cup this year. Have you entered the World Cup yet?

Lewandowski's expression suddenly became awkward. But Zhou Tiancheng didn't deliberately try to embarrass him, he really didn't know the situation of the Polish team.

After Zhou Tiancheng finished speaking, he ignored him and focused on the screen.

With the goals of Brazilian foreign aid Elkeson and Argentine foreign aid Conca, Guangzhou Evergrande successfully eliminated its opponents, and a group of international-level defenders did not make any changes in the game.

The game is over! The game is over. Congratulations to Guangzhou Evergrande. They defeated the African champion Al Ahli 2-0. Lippi's team fought for a chance to play against Dortmund. After three days, all fans look forward to it. We It was a rare matchup to be seen.”

He Wei's expression was very excited. Since the Confederations Cup was not won, this was the first victory of Chinese football on the world stage. It always feels very lucky to be able to witness it live.

All Chinese media have long been prepared. All scripts are going according to their expectations.

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