Starting with playing defensive midfield for Evergrande

Chapter 57 What if Conca could plan? (Please continue reading)

Evergrande is truly patriotic!

Football may just be a sport, but after Evergrande's series of high-profile moves and massive publicity, it's clear that football is a very different sport.

Suddenly, the name Evergrande appeared in the ears of many people who didn't pay much attention to football.

After this series of actions, Evergrande Real Estate's stock and housing prices soared overnight!
2013 years!
In this year, no other company can really compete with Evergrande in terms of public opinion.

Especially after Evergrande won China's first-ever AFC Champions League title in November!
Of course, these are all for later.

Now, after happily earning over two million yuan, Su Hao has once again thrown himself into his daily training and competitions.

2013 3 Month 29 Day.

Guangzhou Evergrande faced Qingdao Jonoon, a newly promoted team in the Chinese Super League, at Tianhe Stadium.

Because the third round of the AFC Champions League group stage is in four days.

Therefore, Lippi rested most of his key players in this match.

Su Hao was still suspended for kicking the Japanese player, so this was the first time he was teaming up with Qin Sheng and Zhao Xuri.

With no specific defensive duties, Su Hao naturally moved directly to the attacking midfield position.

As for Qingdao Jonoon, seeing that Lippi had actually benched 70% of his key players, the Qingdao Jonoon coach was naturally happily fantasizing about getting a point or three points at Tianhe Stadium.

So Qingdao Zhongneng actually lined up in a 4-3-3 formation, trying to go toe-to-toe with Evergrande.

then
Less than 10 minutes into the game, Qingdao's head coach Zhang Wailong suffered a crushing defeat, which completely broke him down.

After dribbling past Qingdao Jonoon's two key midfielders, Yao Jiangshan and Quan Lei, Su Hao delivered a graceful long pass with the outside of his foot to Evergrande veteran Feng Junyan, who suddenly made a diagonal run down the right flank.

A dream-like long pass over the top allowed Feng Junyan to simply extend his toe and poke the ball into the net, scoring his first goal of the season!

1: 0!

Zhang Wailong was dumbfounded!

He thought he could put up a good fight against Evergrande with three foreign players and his full starting lineup, but who would have thought that his tactic of surrounding Su Hao with four players would have no effect at all.

However, what truly broke Zhang Wailong's spirits was yet to come.

19th minute of the match!

Qingdao Zhongneng's aggressive pressing left their defense completely exposed, and they were once again hit by Su Haodong's precise shot. Yu Hanchao, who had not had a chance to play for a long time, sent the ball into Qingdao Zhongneng's goal for the second time with a signature shot.

2: 0!

In front of the Evergrande bench, Lippi still looked as relaxed as if he hadn't slept.

Zhang Wailong was already in tears!
4: 0!

This is the final score of the third round of the Chinese Super League between Guangzhou Evergrande and Qingdao Jonoon.

Su Hao provided two assists, scored a header, and orchestrated another goal, unsurprisingly earning the MVP award for the second time!

After three rounds of the Chinese Super League, Guangzhou Evergrande has 9 points, scoring 12 goals and conceding only 2, and sits atop the table.

With his two assists in this game, Su Hao now holds the top spot on the assist leaderboard with a total of four assists in two rounds!
At the post-match press conference, Qingdao's head coach Zhang Wailong made the classic statement to reporters, saying that Evergrande does not have three foreign players, but rather three foreign players plus one super foreign player.

At first, many people thought Zhang Wailong was just trying to save face.

But it wasn't until the end of the season, when Su Hao's outrageously high stats came out, that everyone realized Zhang Wailong wasn't joking at all!
With the Chinese Super League season concluded, Guangzhou Evergrande players are already preparing intensively for the third round of the AFC Champions League group stage. Their opponent in the third round is Muangthong United, a traditional powerhouse from Thailand.

Before the match, because the Thai U23 national team had previously thrashed the Chinese team 5-1, many Thai fans who came to Guangzhou were arrogant and said that they would thrash Guangzhou Evergrande just like their national team.

There was even a brainless Thai person who provoked three Evergrande fans from Northeast China in a bar in Guangzhou the night before the match.

then
The man from Heilongjiang couldn't resist and poured a whole bottle of liquor!

To everyone's surprise, the Thais not only refused to kneel and apologize, but also dared to retaliate.

And so, a private conflict between fans officially began.

Because there were about ten Thai fans at the beginning, the three men from Northeast China were attacked from both sides and were at a disadvantage for a while.

However, after another table of local Evergrande fans shouted "Dou Lei Lao Mou!"
In an instant, all the Chinese people in the bar united as one.

The conflict between the fans ultimately ended with a Thai organization demanding that the local authorities severely punish the perpetrators. However, the top officials in the authorities were also Evergrande fans, and Evergrande Group quickly stepped in to pay the Thai fans' medical expenses and compensation, thus the matter was dropped.

Here's a little anecdote from before the game.

For this match, Guangzhou Evergrande naturally raised their security measures several levels.

As for the process of the competition...
Even with Su Hao, the current star player of Evergrande, sitting in the VIP stands, Evergrande still easily sent the Thai team off with a crushing 6-0 defeat!
The game has just begun!
More than 50,000 Evergrande fans greeted the more than 2,000 Thai fans who had come to Guangzhou with a unified chant of "Diu Lei Lao Mou".

It was under the enthusiastic encouragement of this greeting that we were encouraged.

Less than 10 minutes into the game, Conca scored the first goal of the match with a powerful long-range shot.

Immediately after scoring, Conca didn't celebrate himself. Instead, he rushed to the VIP section where Su Hao was sitting, pointed at Su Hao, and patted his chest.

The fans were puzzled, but those within the Evergrande team knew very well.

During this time, Conca kept pestering Su Hao to share his long-range shooting techniques with him.

Those familiar with Conca know that Conca scored with a long-range shot using the same style as Su Hao!
Conca and Su Hao started interacting.

Many fans at the scene also fantasized about how beautiful the Chinese team's midfield would be if the national team could naturalize Conca.

Conca has been in China for almost three years since 2011. According to FIFA rules, as long as one can reside in the country for more than four years (modified) and has never represented any country's national team in any official match, one is eligible to qualify.

Therefore, at the latest by early 2016, Conca could officially join the Chinese national team through naturalization.

Born in 1985, Conca was only 30 years old in 2015. (The sentence fragment "having Conca..." appears to be incomplete and lacks context.)
Asian Cup champion?
Or perhaps the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia?
The fans began to have wonderful fantasies.

Meanwhile, the entire Guangzhou Evergrande team on the field began to relentlessly attack the Thai player!
14 minutes into the match!

Conca orchestrated the attack, Muriqui made a sharp breakthrough, and finally Elkeson held off the opposing center-back in front of the goal to end the attack with a low shot!
2:0! ! !

28th minute of the match!

After thwarting Muangthong United's furious counterattack, Conca delivered another beautiful long pass, completing the Kon-Mourinho connection.

3:0! ! !

6: 0!

When the final, utterly devastating score appeared on the big screen at Tianhe Stadium, the more than two thousand Thai female fans who had come with the team were already sobbing uncontrollably.

They used to arrogantly say that even the national team could beat 5-1!

But who could have imagined that they would face Guangzhou Evergrande!
How could their top domestic team, boasting star foreign players, suffer an epic 6-goal massacre?
P.S.: The pace needs to be picked up a bit, it's almost the end of the month, please vote for me!
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