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Liverpool's special plane arrived at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, which immediately caused shouts outside the airport.

Although the annual Club World Cup is supposed to bring together champion teams from all continents of the world to compete, the European champion is undoubtedly the most popular.

As a well-known European giants team, Liverpool will naturally not lack fans, especially with the addition of the Premier League's overall influence in Asia.

Moreover, there is also an Asian star Lee Chenglong in the Liverpool team, which is another big attraction for fans.

When he was in Schalke 04, Lee Chenglong was teammates with Japanese star Atsuto Uchida, and the relationship between the two was pretty good.

It is worth mentioning that in the season after Jackie Lee left Schalke 04, that is, last season, Uchida suffered a serious injury in the Champions League and returned after half a year of recuperation. His condition is not as good as before.

In the season when he was the main player and won the Champions League with Schalke 04, many Asian media praised Uchida as the world's number one right back, but now he has been ruined by injuries.

Coming out of the airport, Jackie Lee saw a huge poster drawn by fans outside for him, a huge bust with arms outstretched.

Under the bust, there is a string of words - Welcome to Tokyo, King Bruce! ! !

There is no doubt that Jackie Chan is the biggest star 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 several days ago.

The Club World Cup is contested by intercontinental champions from all continents around the world. However, the Antarctic Penguin team has not given up face for a long time and has not participated in the competition, so they gave up their places to the host team.

According to the schedule of the Club World Cup, the first round of qualifying matches will be held between the host country and the Oceania champions. The winners will draw lots with the Asian champions, North American champions, and African champions for the first round. The European champions and the South American champions will play against each other, and the winner will advance to the final.

However, since the European champions and the South American champions have long-term obvious advantages in strength, in most cases, the Club World Cup finals will be played by the Champions League champions against the Copa Libertadores champions.

Although the schedule is like this, in fact, the draw for the Club World Cup was fixed by drawing lots a few months ago. After the champion teams from each continent are determined, they just need to be seated according to their numbers.

As early as the number 1, the host Japanese league team Sanfrecce Hiroshima had a qualifying match with the Oceania champion New Zealand team Auckland City. In the end, Sanfrecce Hiroshima easily won 2:0.

The next day, the first round of matches also took place. Hiroshima Sanfrecce played against the African champion Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Asian champion Guangzhou Evergrande played against the North American champion Mexico America from Mexico.

The end result was that the two Asian teams advanced hand in hand.

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 upcoming semi-finals will be played by Liverpool against Guangzhou Evergrande and Sanfrecce Hiroshima against South American champion River Plate of Argentina.

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, when the AFC champion Doha Saad and the host Kashiwa Helios advanced to the semi-finals together.

However, although two Asian teams have advanced to the semi-finals, in principle, the two teams can even meet in the finals.

But everyone knows that they don't have that strength at all.

Indeed, with the overall strength of the Asian teams, it is difficult for both of them to pass the semi-finals.

The best result of an Asian team in the Club World Cup is just third place.

In other words, no Asian team has ever reached the final of the Club World Cup before.

So this time two Asian teams reach the semi-finals of the Club World Cup, even if they can't pass the semi-finals, they can still win three or four finals. Club Cup best result.

But it is hard to say which team has a chance.

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After Liverpool arrived in Japan, they were preparing for the Club World Cup step by step.

On this day, the 2015 Club World Cup semi-final was played first.

At the Osaka Nagai Stadium, home of the J-League team Osaka Sakura, Hiroshima Sanfrecce, which has a home court advantage, performed very well. They played back and forth with the South American powerhouse River Plate, but in the end River Plate was better at seizing opportunities. With a set-piece opportunity in the second half, they successfully scored a goal, defeated Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1-0, and advanced to the final first.

River Plate, who advanced to the final, was very confident. They challenged Liverpool directly at the press conference after the game.

The Europeans have already won twice, this time it's our turn.

This year's Club World Cup champion will definitely be ours. Liverpool has never won in Japan.

Although River Plate is provocative, they are also telling the truth. Liverpool lost the Club World Cup (Toyota Cup) three times before, all in Japan.

Now that I am coming to Japan for the fourth time, it really doesn't look like a good sign.

In addition, the Champions League champions have won the last two Club World Cups, and the last time a South American team won the Club World Cup was in 2012.

The team that represented Europe that time happened to be the Premier League, the Blues Chelsea, who lost to the Brazilian team Corinthians in the final.

In addition, Liverpool lost the Club World Cup final three times before, all of which were lost to South American teams.

So from all perspectives, Liverpool is going to reach the final and then lose to the South American team.

However, Liverpool defeated Evergrande to advance to the final. There is not much suspense about this, everyone thinks so.

No., the semi-final between Liverpool and Guangzhou Evergrande is about to begin.

In an interview before the match, Lee Cheng-long responded to the provocations of the River Plate generals.

The purpose of my joining Liverpool is to break the record. We will definitely not lose the fourth time in Japan...

At 7:30 p.m. local time in Japan, the match between Liverpool and Evergrande began at the Yokohama Arena.

The Yokohama Arena is the home ground of the J-League team Yokohama Mariners, and it was also the venue for the final of the 2002 World Cup. At that time, Ronaldo scored twice here, helping Brazil beat Germany 2:0 and successfully promoted to five-star Brazil.

In this game, Liverpool made a certain degree of rotation.

Goalkeeper: Mignolet

Defenders: Robertson, Skrtel, Gomez, Klein;

Midfielders: Emre Can, Milner, Lallana;

Forwards: Mane, Firmino, Lee Jackie.

Uncle Zha rotated the midfield. Neither Coutinho nor Henderson started the game, and the young central defender Gomez got the chance to start.

For Evergrande, they arranged a 442 formation.

Goalkeeper: Zhang Shuai;

Defenders: Zou Zheng, Jin Yingquan, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng;

Midfielders: Zheng Long, Zheng Zhi, Paulinho, Huang Bowen;

Forwards: Elkeson, Goulart.

This year, Evergrande relied on this lineup to win the AFC Super League double.

For this game, the Evergrande team came with an idea. They expressed their determination before the game-there is still a dream. What if it comes true?

They are aboveboard citing a famous quote from Papa Ma, one of their team owners.

It is worth mentioning that Ali Baba has officially become a sponsor of the Club World Cup this year.

In this game, the Yokohama General 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 also a superman balloon star Lee Chenglong.

Evergrande is an Asian team, and there are also many Chinese fans at the scene.

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