For Johor can lose 5, against the stronger Kawasaki, Evergrande suffered a tragedy is not surprising, 14 minutes in a row conceded 4 goals, the defeat has been decided. What is even more desperate is that Evergrande lost this game or the other side's second team. This is enough to see the huge gap in the strength of the two teams.
In the second round of AFC Champions League Group I, Evergrande (Guangzhou) faced Japan's Kawasaki Strikers. In the first round, Evergrande lost 0-5 to Johor, while Kawasaki drew 1-1 with Ulsan. This also means that if Kawasaki wants to be ahead of the competition in the future, he must strive for more goal differences. This is not a good thing for Evergrande. You know, as early as the group stage of the 2017 AFC Champions League, Evergrande, who played with a team lineup, played against Kawasaki in two legs was only 0-0 and 1-1, and the scene was extremely embarrassing.
In terms of players, Evergrande sent a 451 lineup, of which the goalkeeper is He Lipan, defenders Peng Jiahao, Feng Yifan, Fan Ruiwei, Wang Tianqing, midfielders Li Jiahao, Yang Xin, Chen Zhengfeng, Su Tianshi, Ye Runbiao, and Huang Kaizhou. On Kawasaki's side, this game made a large rotation, compared with the first game, replacing as many as 10 players in addition to goalkeeper Zheng Chenglong.
Only 6 minutes into the first half, Kawasaki's left corner kick was opened, Evergrande goalkeeper He Lipan abandoned the goal and made a serious mistake, Zhi Nianqing jumped high in the penalty area, and the header easily pushed the ball into the empty goal, taking the lead in breaking the deadlock. In the 10th minute, Ye Runbiao got rid of the defense outside the penalty area and fired a powerful long-range shot directly to the ball. This was Evergrande's first shot of the game.
Two minutes later, Kawasaki's long pass from the top of the field penetrated Evergrande's right side, Miyagi Passed the ball to the penalty area before the ball went out of the bottom line, and Zhi Nianqing wrapped up an easy goal in front of the goal to extend the score to 2-0.
In the 14th minute, the Japanese team passed the ball inverted from the left side, and the Evergrande defender followed in front of him, blocking several times in a row. The opponent's corner kick from the right was sent to the penalty area, and Shotaro Cheya was completely undefended, scoring the ball into the goal before the goalkeeper. 0-3, Evergrande conceded three goals in 8 minutes and quickly collapsed. After losing this goal, He Lipan was desperate and helplessly fell to his knees.
In the 20th minute, the Evergrande backline again made a mistake to send a penalty opportunity, and Kobayashi easily broke the goal and scored a hat-trick.
After losing 4 goals in a row, Evergrande's defeat has been decided, which has set 2 humiliating records: 1. The AFC Champions League suffered a tragedy against Kawasaki forwards, and 3 encounters were not won; 2. After losing to Kawasaki, Evergrande created the longest 8 consecutive defeats in the AFC Champions League, and also tied the longest consecutive defeat record in the AFC Champions League. In the 2021 season, Evergrande lost 6 consecutive games in the group stage, and this season, Evergrande suffered consecutive defeats again.