As long as Jiezhi remains undefeated in this “life-and-death battle”, he will become one of the 3 best second-placed teams in the 5 groups in the East Asia region and advance to the top 16. The team will continue to use the main selection lineup for the first two games, and Hong Kong general Ernst Yongjia will return to the main selection; Before the game, it was determined to qualify for the offline. Compared with the main selection lineup, which defeated Jiezhi 2:1 in the first round, nearly half of the team was rotated. Among them, there were 5 changes. The 3 international main players were Yuya Ogiya, Kotoku Sakai, and Yoshiki Muto, who was injured at the beginning of the season. They are all reserved first, and the former Spanish international Baozan is not on the list.
The Blue Jays attacked the goal first, and the backbone of Elio made a high pass from the back. The captain then had another header but failed. In the first half, Dane Nuyu had several shots on goal, all of which were also secured by Kobe goalkeeper Qian Chuandai. He responded to Kilton’s wonderful pass in the 31st minute to break offside, and was intercepted by enemy defender Reyo Osaki; Kobe used it. Many young players “Danzheng”, rarely attacked into the penalty area of Jiezhi in the first half, but opened the scoring after 43 minutes, Renzheng’s arrow of the menu turned around and fell to the ground in the penalty area, the ball went straight. Refers to the midfielder Barna kicked down a foul penalty of 12 yards, goalkeeper Paul failed to save the 21-year-old Brazilian winger and shot. The Blue Jays lost 12 yards before the half-time against Chiang Rai United in the last match, but less than 2 minutes before the end, they won 12 yards with a handball in the penalty area by Reyo Osaki. His 2nd goal this year and his 42nd goal in the AFC Champions League, with a 1:1 tie at halftime.
Jiezhi took as many as 11 shots in the first half, and the pace of the game was slightly slower in the early part of the second half. Kobe captain Hiroshi Yamaguchi was swapped out due to injury at halftime, but coach Luo Tianna swapped in 3 players in 64 minutes, including a pair of international arrows Da Yuyao and the comeback Kazuki Muto to strengthen their offensive power. Bluebird goalkeeper Paul rescued Tetsuhi Yamakawa. The header was not lost, and the Bluebirds replaced the veterans Huang Yang and Tang Jianwen to strengthen their defense. The soldiers resisted Kobe’s late offensive with their lives. Kobe was then headed by Muto Yoshiki, but Balna took a corner kick in stoppage time. Equalize, even if two yellows and one red were ejected immediately, they still maintained a 2:2 draw and scored one point each.
Kobe ranked first in Group J with 2 wins, 2 wins and 8 points, and Jiezhi ranked second in 4 games with 2 wins, 1 loss and 7 points. In the best second-place situation, with 7 points and +1 gains and losses, they were overwhelmed. Melbourne City in Group G and Kawasaki Frontale in Group I became the 3 best second-place teams and advanced to the top 16, writing the history of Hong Kong football.
Jiezhi has played in the AFC Champions League qualifiers since 2015, and he has been stopped for many times. Later, the AFC Champions League was restructured to allow more national or regional teams to participate. The star Kelan joined the front line, only 1 win and 5 losses in 6 games and scored 3 points in the bottom of the rankings, but at the Hong Kong Stadium, with Zheng Zhanlong’s goal, 1:0 lore Japanese professional team Beresul, won for the Hong Kong team “Zero breakthrough”, won the first victory in the AFC Champions League.
The last AFC Champions League was restructured to increase the number of participating teams. In addition to factors such as the withdrawal of the North Korean football club due to the epidemic, Jackie was able to enter the group stage after two years. With a goal difference of 1 goal, it missed the second place of one of the best teams to advance, but it has set the best result of the Hong Kong team in this Asia’s highest level club cup. This year’s Jiezhi played in the group stage again in Thailand, and played in the group stage for the third time, becoming the first Hong Kong team to enter the knockout stage of the AFC Champions League since its restructuring in 2002.