The Club World Cup final is still played in Yokohama.

The stadium was full on the match day!

Because Atletico Madrid's opponent is from the host Kashima Antlers.

In the Club World Cup, which brings together intercontinental champions from various continents, Kashima Antlers entered the finals with the status of the host.

This is the first time that an Asian team has stood on the final stage of the Club World Cup.

The Club World Cup final, which has always been a contest between South America and European teams, has become a battle between European and Asian teams.

It is conceivable that Atletico Madrid's position in Yokohama has become a guest challenge, and Kashima Antlers have an absolute home court advantage.

Japanese media summarized the strength gap between the two teams in this final in one sentence before the game.

Kashima Antlers’ entire team is worth 30 million euros, but they can’t buy Ye Yifeng’s leg!

Not to mention Ye Yifeng's leg, he shouldn't even be able to buy one of Griezmann's leg.

The battle starts at 6 pm, and Chinese fans can also watch the final of the Club World Cup at supper time.

All Atletico Madrid's main players made their debut.

Simeone's memories in Japan are not beautiful. Argentina competed in the Korea-Japan World Cup 14 years ago. Argentina's three group matches were all in Japan, and he returned home from Japan after the group match.

Perhaps because of this psychological taboo, Simeone does not want any trouble in the final.

There is no reservation in the lineup, and the strongest player is sent to each position.

Kashima Antlers sent a team of all local players.

Of course, the teams in the J League will also have foreign players, but Kashima Antlers insists on fighting all local players from beginning to end in the Club World Cup. The whole world clearly has no expectations for them, but they seem to be stubborn to prove something.

Chinese fans pay special attention to this game in order to watch Ye Yifeng.

But he was upset by the "full-day" lineup of Kashima Antlers.

If this were the "all-Chinese team" of the Guangzhou team, let alone entering the finals, I would be grateful if I could not be abused.

But the Japanese team created the history of the Club World Cup, which represented Asia in the final stage for the first time.

Chinese media will naturally also discuss the secrets of Japanese football success.

Ye Yifeng has a strong say in this.

What is success?

Success is that no matter how many detours you have taken or how many mistakes you have made in the past, when you succeed, all the past will be interpreted as tempering and beautified and packaged as a test of success.

He was admitted to the Hall of Fame on his former campus, and he appeared frequently in student books, and he was shaped by the media as an inspirational model.

The same is true for football, but there is actually no absolute secret to success.

How is the leagues between Argentina and Portugal compared to the top five European leagues?

Messi and Ronaldo are still able to be out, but there has not been a second in more than 10 years.

What kind of football foundation does a country with a long-term civil war in Côte d'Ivoire have?

Stars such as Drogba and the Toure brothers were born.

Japan's football population base determines that their talent resources are the number one in Asia.

Today's success of Kashima Antlers may not necessarily make Japanese football particularly proud.

Because Kashima Antlers can only represent the Japanese league, but cannot represent the highest level in Japanese football.

Their best players are all in Europe, not in China.

When the two starting players of the team shook hands before the game, Ye Yifeng clearly felt that the players of Kashima Antlers looked at him with a special look.

These little days... the Japanese who lived a good life seemed to see a monkey popping out of the stone!

In the past, they had seen Ye Yifeng in media reports or videos, but they were always far away.

But today, I had a close contact and seemed to want to see through him at a glance.

This is not the first time Ye Yifeng has been seen like this by his opponent, but he has been a little less in the past two years.

He stood in the middle with Griezmann to prepare for the kickoff.

Griezmann looked at the players of Kashima Antlers, then Ye Yifeng, and suddenly said to Ye Yifeng: "You seem to be stronger than them. Are you really Asian too?"

Ye Yifeng looked at Griezmann and asked, "Do you want to make a bet?"

Griezmann shook his head immediately.

After knowing each other for so long, he knew that if he nodded, he would lose 99% when he saw Ye Yifeng's expression!

It seems that the words just now are annoying.

The game started, Ye Yifeng ran to the frontcourt. Kashima Antlers had the most attention-grabbing player today. With the end of the J League, he had a great hope to enter European football during the winter break.

Ye Yifeng organized the offensive in the frontcourt, and still shot the ball as quickly as possible, then ran and rushed forward to grab the point.

Sharpening a knife will not delay chopping wood.

Bronze and relax.

What surprised Simeone and Atletico Madrid players was that Kashima Antlers did not take a defensive counterattack after the opening, and even played a little radically.

The Japanese team has excellent basic skills in team passing and cutting.

Within 30 minutes, Kashima Antlers won two consecutive games!

Shibasaki scored twice!

The Japanese fans in Yokohama were so excited.

Champions League champion?

That's it?

Simeone was still sitting in the coach's seat. Apart from her bad face, she did not run to the sidelines to scold the team's performance.

Atletico Madrid made mistakes in predicting the situation and did not show all its strength.

The main force belongs to the main force, and it is too serious to despise the opponent in terms of mentality.

It seems that he doesn't regard his opponent as a human being!

OK, now two goals are behind.

Atletico Madrid's entire team has improved its aggressiveness against the enemy.

Before the end of the first half, Ye Yifeng received a pass from Carrasco in front of the penalty area line.

He dodged the pressing of Ryota Nagaki, and took the initiative to fight when he hit the penalty area. Ueda immediately rushed straight to intercept the ball from the side. Ye Yifeng took the lead in protecting the ball and then blocked the opponent.

At this time, Chang Ziyuan came close again. Ye Yifeng pulled the ball with his left foot and lightly completed the dodge. He forced the direction to cut into Zhitian and went straight behind him. Facing the goalkeeper Zeng Duanzhun pushed the ball into the lower right corner of the goal.

Atletico Madrid recovered a goal.

After Ye Yifeng scored, he did not go to celebrate, but turned around and briefly slapped his teammates.

The Japanese fans at the scene were stunned.

They really didn't expect Ye Yifeng to crush the Japanese team's defense with his physical confrontation and ball protection skills!

They couldn't help but have questions in their hearts: Can Yoshida Maya, Sakai Hiroki, Endo Yoshihiro defend Ye Yifeng?

Who knows?

You will know if you have the chance.

In fact, Ye Yifeng rarely uses the rampage move he learned in Ligue 1 to break out of his opponent.

Because most of the time, the opponent will always foul him outside the penalty area more promptly.

He had to avoid his opponent and not dodge, and it was probably back with a set piece. If the referee was temporarily blind or had a foul action not obvious, it might not be cost-effective.

Moreover, under intensive defense, the situation after a strong breakthrough will be more complicated, narrowing your outgoing vision and line choice.

Today he is indeed a hard line of Kashima Antlers defense line, and his idea is very simple: see if he can do it.

The two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half.

Atletico Madrid made a tough defense and did not let Kashima Antlers find a chance to score.

Ye Yifeng was also under key guard in the frontcourt.

However, he was relaxed in the frontcourt and organized an offensive to create opportunities for his teammates.

Carrasco, Griezmann, Cork and Saul shot a lot, making Kashima's antler defense line dizzy.

Even the Japanese commentator couldn't help but sigh: "Although we have excellent offensive organizers like Honda Keiyuki and Shinji Kagawa, we can see Ye Yifeng delivering wonderful passes decisively, accurately and easily on the court, it is obvious that our best players have a level gap with the best players in China."

Ye Yifeng's confidence comes from his strong confrontational ability.

He is not afraid of Japanese players' close entanglement, just protect the ball or dribble the ball and retreat.

Since he has been blessed by the abilities of liberos such as Beihuang and Mattus, he seems to have learned his skills on the court.

In the past, I would give back when I saw the difficulties, but now I use the turn and retreat as a means to get rid of and tear the opponent's defense.
To be continued...