Episode [397]: The World Club Cup Is Coming

Cristiano Ronaldo has been substituted!

If he is not replaced, Cristiano Ronaldo may be scrapped by the Birmingham people.

Zhong Cheng replaced Cristiano Ronaldo with Marco Reus.

Marco Reus had an astonishing performance as soon as he came on the field. After receiving the pass from the wing, he suddenly used his abnormal speed to drive straight in, then suddenly cut in laterally and took a shot, and the football was drawn. A perfect arc, grazing the far post and flying out of the baseline.

The Leeds United fans at the scene were amazed.

Marco Reus is also awesome!

Marco Reus has a different style from Cristiano Ronaldo. He does not have such fancy foot skills, but his dribbling speed is very fast, and the movements of his feet are very simple, direct and fast.

Marco Reus's combination of man and ball is very good, and he uses this extreme speed to tear apart your defense. Marco Reus is more direct than Cristiano Ronaldo!

Marco Reus's performance was really good.

At this time, Zhong Cheng changed people again.

Zhong Cheng replaced Kompany with Leonardo Bonucci and replaced Mesut Ozil with Toni Kroos. Zhong Cheng was protecting the main players of Leeds United.

At this time, the Birmingham players were indeed a little out of control.

However, fortunately, the referee in this game had good control and kept the situation under control, so there was no performance that caused the situation to get out of control.

However, Birmingham had no good chances.

This game gradually became intermittent, and there wasn't much to watch.

Zhong Cheng's emphasis at this time is no longer on scoring goals. He is asking the Leeds United players to protect themselves and not to suffer any injuries in this game.

Injuries are the biggest impact on Leeds United.

Zhong Cheng doesn't want this matter to affect Leeds United anymore.

Leeds United players are much more cautious on the pitch, so their opportunities are also much less. Gradually, Birmingham's chances came up, but their ability to threaten Leeds United's defense was still lacking.

Although Mats Hummels and Leonardo Bonucci are still relatively young, both of them are very strong, which was fully demonstrated in this game.

Even in this game, Leonardo Bonucci performed more eye-catching and better than Mats Hummels. Leonardo Bonucci behaves more like a super mature centre-back.

Zhong Cheng was very satisfied when he saw this. Leeds United really has a successor.

When the game reaches this point, there is not much suspense anymore. Birmingham cannot threaten Leeds United's victory at all. Leeds United must win this game.

However, the players on both sides did not give up and continued to attack and play well in the last few minutes of the game.

In the 90th minute of the game, the Birmingham team got a chance for a corner kick. Zhang Ningpeng sent the football into the penalty area with an arc. Dongfang Zhuo, who was unguarded at the back of the penalty area, headed the ball towards the goal. The football headed into the Leeds United goal, one to three.

The Birmingham team got a goal back, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

At the last moment of the game, Leeds United's defense was still lax.

But what no one expected was that in the 93rd minute of the game, Leeds United substitute Marco Reus received a pass from Toni Kroos and came directly to the penalty area line. With a blast, the football flew quickly into the Birmingham goal.

Four to one, Leeds United defeated their opponents with this goal.

Yes, no one expected that Leeds United actually scored Birmingham's goal in the last minute of injury time. Birmingham was really in danger of losing in the late quarter.

However, in this game, Leeds United's players obviously performed much better than Birmingham's players, so Leeds United's victory is well deserved.

In the end, Leeds United defeated Birmingham 4-1 away from home.

This game also clearly showed that Leeds United is much more skilled than Birmingham. Birmingham is currently a mid-lower team in the Premier League. There is still a big difference in strength. They are not a threat. To Leeds United.

Zhong Cheng was quite satisfied with winning this game. At the press conference after the game, he said: "Well, winning this game is the most important thing. Now victory is for us as Leeds United." It’s really too important, what we have to do now is to try to win every game, put pressure on the teams in front and let them make mistakes, and then we have our chance!”

Yes, Leeds United is really far behind the previous teams.

If Leeds United wants to come from behind, it really has to rely on the teams in front of them to make mistakes, especially Chelsea.

The sixteenth round of the Premier League is over. Leeds United won and got three points, which is very, very good.

What Zhong Cheng cares about now is the performance of other teams in the Premier League. Of course, what he cares most about is the performance of the top-ranked Chelsea team, because the Chelsea team is really too strong now, and they are indeed far ahead of them. Zhong Cheng I hope Chelsea will make a mistake.

Sure enough, Zhong Cheng succeeded in milking Chelsea to death.

Chelsea were held to a draw by Everton at their home court in this round, 3-3. Everton equalized the score at the last moment of the game. Zhong Cheng's good friend David Moyes helped Zhong Cheng!

However, even with the draw, Chelsea are still top of the Premier League.

Chelsea's record is twelve wins, one draw, three losses and 37 points. Chelsea really has the capital.

In this round of competition, the Red Devils Manchester United, Arsenal, Sheffield Wednesday and Leyton Orient all defeated their respective opponents and scored three points.

In this way, Leyton Orient, Red Devils Manchester United and Gunners Arsenal all have a record of 11 wins, one draw, four losses and 34 points. They rank in the 20th and 30th places in the Premier League respectively.

Leeds United and Sheffield Wednesday both have ten wins, three draws, three losses and 33 points. Leeds United relied on their goal difference to surpass Sheffield Wednesday and successfully reached the third place. In fifth position, Sheffield Wednesday has reached sixth position.

Leeds United finally moved forward by one spot, which is not easy!

However, Leeds United's position is also very unstable, and they will have to continue to work hard in the following games.

However, Leeds United will not be able to participate in the next two rounds of the Premier League for the time being. They will participate in the World Club Cup. This game conflicts with the next two rounds of the Premier League, so these two rounds of the Premier League The competition will be rescheduled and moved to January.

Therefore, Leeds United will have two fewer games to play. If they have two fewer games to play, Leeds United's ranking will be much lower.

Zhong Cheng is actually a little worried, but he hopes that the Leeds United players can withstand the pressure.

Next, Leeds United's main battlefield is the World Club Cup.

The entire World Club Cup is the FIFA World Club Cup and is now the Club World Cup.

This is an event organized by FIFA. The participating teams are composed of the host country and the intercontinental championship teams from each continent. This is an exchange between the top clubs from each continent. Although the championship is not important, But the major clubs still pay more attention to it.

The first Club World Cup was held in 2000, but the organizers of that event were UEFA and CONMEBOL, and it was not a true Club World Cup. Moreover, it was held during the most frequent period of European football matches, so the European giants Manchester United and Real Madrid did not pay attention to it and were eliminated early, resulting in a very low influence and an unsuccessful game.

Originally the second Club World Cup in 2001 was going to be held in Spain, but due to problems with event promotion and event sponsorship, the event ended up being aborted.

The second Club World Cup did not arrive until 2005. Of course, this time the organizer was no longer UEFA and CONMEBOL, but became FIFA. FIFA merged the Club World Cup and Toyota Cup to form the current FIFA Club World Cup.

Therefore, many people also call the 2005 Club World Cup the real first Club World Cup.

There are a total of seven teams participating in the Club World Cup. They are the host country, the Oceania champion, the African champion, the Asian champion, the South American champion, the Central and North American and Caribbean champion and the European champion.

The specific rules of the event are as follows. First, there will be a qualifying match, which is a single-round knockout match between the host country and the Greater Asia champion. Whoever wins will advance to the second round.

The second round of competition is a one-on-one knockout match between the winners of the first round of qualifying, the Asian champions, African champions and CONCACAF champions. The two winning teams advance to the semi-finals.

The European champion and the South American champion appeared in the third round, and they automatically entered the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, the South American champion and the European champion faced off against a team that won the second round, a single elimination round. The two winning teams advance directly to the finals.

This fourth round is the final.

Therefore, if Leeds United participates in the World Club Cup as the Champions League, they will only play two games at most. If they lose in the semi-finals, they will only play one game.

If Leeds United only plays one game, then the 18th round of the Premier League does not need to be rescheduled, and then Leeds United will only reschedule the 17th round.

However, Leeds United is ready to go, so Leeds United must give its best to win the final championship.

From 2005 to 2008, the World Club Competition was held in Yokohama, Japan. This year's World Club Cup is the first time to go out of Japan and will be held in the United Arab Emirates.

According to FIFA's schedule, the 2009 and 2010 World Club Cup will be held in the United Arab Emirates, the 2011 and 2012 World Club Cup will return to Yokohama, Japan, and the 2013 and 2014 World Club Cup will go to Morocco in Africa. , and then the Club World Cup will return to Yokohama, Japan in the next two years...

Yes, this is the current rules of the Club World Cup.

Therefore, now Leeds United is not flying to Yokohama, Japan, but to the United Arab Emirates in Asia!