Due to special reasons at the beginning of the year, only Guoan had a contest with the Thai team Chiang Rai Lian. In other words, Shenhua and Shanghai need to play 6 group matches at the same time, and Guoan also has 5 group matches. Fortunately, Evergrande's group rival Johor retired, leaving only four group matches. However, the intensity of the three-day 1 match has not changed. Compared with the just-concluded Super League, AFC Champions League is more intensive.
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Super League BIG4 has multiple advantages, and it is not impossible to achieve good results.
For Super League BIG4, the biggest advantage may be that the last Super League season was also in the form of championship system, with closed management. This model allows the four teams to adapt faster. However, although the domestic leagues of Japanese, Korean and Australian teams are also empty, it still takes some time to adapt to the home and away game system. Garratt went to the AFC Champions League with Evergrande.
Super League BIG4, Evergrande ended the season at the latest, that is, 12 only ended the second round finals with Suning.cn, and the domestic competitions in South Korea ended earlier. The warring parties in the final of the Korean Football Association Cup were Jeonbuk Hyundai and Ulsan Hyundai, and the second round was held in 1 18, so the Korean team had about 10 days to prepare for the AFC Champions League. However, the J League in Japan has been going on. The three teams that played the AFC Champions League, Yokohama Mariner/KOOC-0/65438+/KOOC-0/0/4, also played against Urawa Red Diamond, and Kobe Victory Ship and Tokyo FC/KOOC-0/5 finished the game and went to Doha.
In terms of preparation time, the Super League is not as good as South Korea and Australian Super League (the new season has not yet started), but it is better than Japan. Except Jeonbuk and Ulsan, the Korean team is not very competitive, and both teams were kicked into the relegation group in the K League just past.
In addition, it is reported that the closed management mode of hotels, training grounds and competition venues in AFC Champions League is copied from the scheme of China Football Association, which is relatively simple for Super League BIG4 to adapt to. Under such conditions, as long as the 4 teams in the Super League play normally, the probability of qualifying from the group is quite high. However, considering the differences in the staffing of each team at present, Evergrande with the neatest lineup should be the absolute standard-bearer team of Super League BIG4.