After a hustle and bustle, the dust returned to the dust and soil. The two teams set out on their way back to the hotel with a strange mood. After a simple rest, at 18:00 on the 4th, all members of the Guangxi team lined up in an orderly manner in the restaurant on the first floor.

The coaching team specifically emphasized that we should pay attention to maintaining order in the restaurant and strictly prohibit loud noises. However, the players' happy expressions and words can easily see how the team performed in the afternoon. It is not just Guangxi team, but the dining atmosphere at the dining tables of other winning teams is also relaxed and pleasant. On the contrary, eating silently and chewing wax expressions can basically see the clues.

After dinner, everyone rushed to the results announcement board at the same time, looking at the content they were most concerned about.

In one afternoon, four more games in the January 8 finals were decided, and the last four places to enter the quarterfinals were decided.

Yunnan 2:3 Guangxi gave birth to the first golden ball of this competition, contributed by Li Weizhen of Guangxi team. He scored twice in this game and also rose to the fifth place in the scorer list with 7 goals.

Jiangsu 0:1 Hong Kong, overtime in the third game of this competition, the second golden ball was created. Faced with the simple and practical long-pass and hoisting tactics of Hong Kong's British football, Jiangsu team had few ways, and they persisted until the end of the game and could not break through the opponent's city. Instead, they were attacked by the opponent at the last moment and were eliminated with regret. Hong Kong forward Dong Wusheng, who scored the final goal, also tied for the second place with Beijing's Liang Shuang and Liaoning's Dong Yuanzhuo with 8 goals.

Liaoning 3:1 Tianjin. With the second score of "Hao Haidong II" Dong Yuanzhuo, the king of Northeast China, Liaoning, easily defeated Tianjin under the feet of the emperor in the regular game, becoming the only seed team with a veritable performance.

It's interesting to say that the Liaoning team started badly and was always nicknamed "coward team", which satirized them as being among the seeds. However, with the elimination round, they, who had first-class physical fitness, won people's respect for their stable performance.

Henan 3:4 Zhejiang, the game with the most goals in the first round of knockout matches was all produced within one hour of the regular game. The intensity can be imagined, especially the wonderful goals jointly contributed by both sides, which made the audience excited.

After Zhejiang was helplessly ranked second in the group, he finally showed strong oppressive ability to face opponents who were lower than their own level in this knockout match, always holding the opponent's nose, and finally kept the fruit of victory until the end as he wished, killing the opponent's attempt to drag the game into overtime.

Although the Henan team was not as strong as the opponent, they were always in a backward situation, with the biggest score difference even reaching 4. However, they never gave up and united closely around the forward captain Gao Lin, bravely attacked and fought against the opponent, and also played the most beautiful and longest net game since the start of the game.

Especially in the last moment of the second half, they set off an offensive craze. They scored continuously and caught the score difference to only one. Unfortunately, there was not much time left in the game and they failed to turn the tables. Their captain Gao Lin scored twice and topped the list with 10 goals in the scorer list, becoming the last figure of Henan people who stayed on this stage. They were lonely and beautiful, sad and ecstatic, heartbreaking and heartbreaking.

The team spaces in the second round of the knockout match chart also filled the teams, and the four quarter-finals matches clearly emerged: Shanghai-Guangdong, Guangxi-Liaoning and Beijing-Shandong, Hong Kong-Zhejiang.

What’s interesting is that in these four matches, in addition to the confrontation between domestic football enemies such as Guangdong, Shanghai and Beijing and Shandong, the appearance of Guangxi and Hong Kong is also particularly dazzling, because they are also the two non-seeded teams in the quarterfinals, both of which are below the third level, which also adds a lot of highlights. While paying attention to who can reach the top of the traditional strong teams such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shandong, and Liao, how far can the two big dark horses of Guigang go? It is also a hot topic.

The real world where competition is increasingly cruel is a living jungle law. The principle of survival of the fittest is applicable to all. As a sports event invented by humans, football is actually a microcosm of human society. In this small society on the court, the strong will always be worshipped by people, just like the World Cup on the highest honor stage of football, the champion will always be the most glorious.

However, after all, there is only one champion, and it is impossible for everyone to be a champion. Under such circumstances, those "weak teams" who are not afraid of strong enemies, dare to fight, have a level of competition, and have a style of competition are particularly easy to remember, and these teams are affectionately called "dark horses".

At last year's World Cup in France, Croatia, the plaid legion that won the third place for the first time, was the most dazzling dark horse. Billions of viewers around the world were fascinated by their dazzling style and uniforms.

In addition, the performance of the Viking Denmark is also amazing. As the creator of Danish fairy tales in the European Championship, Denmark's ancestors were once a wealthy team and were also a strong team. However, the Danish team who came to France has never been favored by others.

It was not until they qualified from the group stage and eliminated the African Eagle Nigeria, and came to the quarterfinals, and they were indisputable in the fight with defending champion Brazil. They were ultimately defeated and were defeated by Rivaldo's goal. The golden generation of Danish football left the final star mark on the World Cup stage.

Regardless of the strength factors, it is unusual for Hong Kong and Guangxi to come to the final eight stages. Hong Kong only returned to the motherland two years ago. They are known as the "Pearl of the Orient". Due to the constraints of various objective factors, they have too few opportunities to communicate with the motherland mainland;

As an autonomous region of ethnic minorities, Guangxi has few opportunities to show off on the national stage due to its economic strength. It was only after it eliminated Hunan, which was stronger and Yunnan. After the quarterfinals were released, the media couldn't wait to start the speculation that the biggest dark horse of the tournament was expected.

As long as the two teams take another step forward and reach the semi-finals stage, they will definitely be the best dark horse, no one. Judging from the situation faced by the two teams, Hong Kong is obviously more dominant. Although Hong Kong was divided into the fourth-tier team before the game, this is obviously a kind of secret shot of the pearl. The basis for division is only because they came to participate in the competition for the first time, and their past record is pale and it is difficult to determine the rank, so they can only start from one lowest level; however, Hong Kong, the fourth-tier team, does not have only four levels of strength, they are underestimated strong teams.

Before Hong Kong returned, when the British government was under the management of the British government, a large number of British people, other Europeans and Americans flocked to the development here, bringing an international perspective, while also allowing Hong Kong on the banks of Hong Kong to have an advantage in the development of football that the mainland has incomparable to the mainland in the development of football, that is, the foundation of football.

As a former colony of Britain, Hong Kong should follow the history of this modern football birthplace, setting the stage for the first time. It began to develop its football career as early as 1900 at the beginning of the century and established the Hong Kong Football Association in 1914. This is the first not only in China, but also in the entire Asian region.

Li Huitang, known as the "Asian Football King", was a superstar born in Hong Kong and grew up in the Hong Kong League. After joining the national team, he led the Chinese team to create the "Seven Far East Fights". The 1920s became the first golden age in the history of Chinese football.

After the return of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has a certain advantage in football, both in terms of mass base and sports atmosphere. Although the Hong Kong team is not as good as the national team in the competition of adult team performance, the lower the age group, the mainland team really does not have an advantage. In addition to the situation mentioned above, there is another key factor in this, which is the existence of naturalized foreigners.

When the door to naturalization has not yet been opened here in the mainland, Hong Kong has long been a common operation, so you can often see the Hong Kong team full of players of all kinds of skin. The Hong Kong team that came to the stage of the "Qihang Cup" national competition includes yellow-skinned Chinese such as Dong Wusheng, Lin Feixiang, Chen Hao, Tan Ming, and foreigners such as McGeedy, Roberto, Jixun, and William Lee. It is not a strange thing that such a team with complex components will eliminate the powerful Jiangsu today.

The Hong Kong team is like a wild wolf, suddenly coming to a place full of sheep. Who can stop them and where can they go? All of these have become the hot topics of attention.

In contrast, the Guangxi team, which advanced with its tenacious fighting style and spirit, is not optimistic. Their next opponent will be Liaoning, which is in a hot state. This is a team that is more physically consuming than their group match Shandong. Guangxi team has suffered a huge loss of short body before the game, and soon became a popular team that was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Chapter completed!