Blowing all the wild sand to the gold, Guangzhou Anhua Chong B success!

On the afternoon of October 27, the 2024 China Champions League National Finals staged the second round of cross-elimination competition. Guangzhou Anwar fought 1-1 in Zengcheng's home stadium with Qianxinan Xufengtang for 90 minutes. In the brutal penalty shootout, Guangzhou Anwar once again relied on the brave play of goalkeeper Hou Yu and finally defeated the opponent 6-5. In this way, Guangzhou Anwar finally won this battle of life and death and successfully qualified for next year's China B League!

For this life-and-death battle, Guangzhou Anwar has already established the belief that it will win. However, due to the suspension of the two main players of striker Yang Youxian and fullback Diao Jiahao, it has brought difficulty to coach Tan Ende's arrangement to a certain extent. After careful consideration, Tan Ender finally replaced Yang Youxian as the left winger with the veteran Tan Jiajun as the starter, replaced Diao Jiahao with Che Xumin as the right wingback, and Fan Ruiwei changed the position to the left wingback.

Although Guangzhou Anwar did not win three games at home in Zengcheng in the group stage, nearly 1,000 fans at home today were still enthusiastic, and everyone was looking forward to seeing Anwar's success at home.

After the opening, Guangzhou Anwar fell into a fierce scramble with his opponent. In the 3rd minute, the opponent rushed to the top of the goal with a corner kick, but fortunately, Anwar goalkeeper Hou Yu reacted quickly to save the ball. In the 7th minute, Anwar also won a corner kick on the left side of the field with a color. Li Zhuobin took a corner kick from a good spot, and veteran Chen Jianlong saw the opportunity to volley in the box, and the ball flew straight into the bottom of the net. Guangzhou Anwar got off to a dream start.

After that, the more experienced visitors began to press forward and counterattack, frequently threatening Anwar's goal with long-range shots. Guangzhou Anwar stood firm on the defensive line and was not in a hurry to attack, but just took advantage of the gap in the opponent's defense line to counterattack. At half-time, Anwar led 1-0.

In the second half, Qianxinan Xufengtang was replaced by a Guangdong veteran, high school striker Wei Jingxing. He has previously played for many teams in Guangdong Province, such as Guangzhou Youth Team, Guangdong Rizhiquan Team, Shenzhen Kaisa B Team, etc. Just five minutes into the second half, the visitors played a counter-attack on the right, and after a cross, Anwar's defense leaked, and Wei Jingxing seized the opportunity to push the net at the back post to make it 1-1. After conceding the goal, Anwar's team fell into a certain passivity, and captain Chen Jianlong was replaced early due to injury.

However, the Guangzhou Anwar youngsters who were playing at home were not discouraged and withstood the opponent's attacks in turn, and finally won the 1-1 score to the end of the 90 minutes. In this way, according to the format of the Champions League, the two sides immediately have to engage in a brutal penalty shootout.

Since both sides passed on penalties in the first round of the knockout round, everyone was not nervous about another penalty shootout. In the regular first five rounds of penalty points, 10 players from both sides missed shots. Guangzhou Anwar has scored the following players: Huang Peizhao, Zhong Juzhan, Shao Renzhe, Fan Ruiwei, Li Zhuobin. In the crucial 6th round, Hou Yu saved the opponent's penalty kick first. Immediately afterwards, Hou Yu personally did it, and it was done overnight! In this way, with the stable performance of the penalty shootout, Guangzhou Anwar eliminated the opponent 6-5 and successfully completed the goal of rushing to the second level! Goalkeeper Hou Yu won the best player of the match with his brave performance for two consecutive games, and also became the biggest contributor to Anwar's Chongyi.

After the success of Chong Yi, the generals of the Anwar team were very excited, and they pulled a banner that read "Guangzhou Anhua has succeeded in pursuing his dream, galloping with you along the way", and thanked hundreds of die-hard fans at the scene in the songs such as "With You Along the Way" and "Wordless Gratitude".

Hou Yu, who won the best player, thought after the game that he was happy to be able to help the team achieve his goal through two consecutive penalty shootouts, but the result of Chong Yi was by no means his own credit, but the crystallization of the collective efforts of the whole team in the past two months.

"It's not easy to succeed in Chong B, this year from the regional competition to the finals to the knockout round, along the way, we can say that we have encountered all the difficulties, but we have never given up, and we always believe that we can achieve the goal of Chong B." Tan Ender said, "I would like to thank the Guangzhou Football Association for their concern for our club all the way, and thank the investors of Anhua Club for their trust in me and the whole team, and for always supporting us during the most difficult time of our year. We finally managed to enter the second division from the fifth place in the finals group, and the result looks like a miracle, but in fact, our young team is strong, and the style of play that insists on passing and controlling is relatively rare at the level of the Champions League. At the same time, we also want to summarize the problems existing in the whole process of this year's Champions League, and then we must carefully study how to face the new challenges of the China B League next year! ”

Zhou Mingxian, Chairman of Guangzhou Football Association, Liu Xingwei, Secretary of the Party Branch and Secretary-General of Guangzhou Football Association, Song Xiaobo, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of Guangzhou Football Association, and other leaders were present to supervise the key game of Guangzhou Anwar.

Guangzhou Anhua Football Club would like to express its heartfelt gratitude to the Organizing Committee of this year's Champions League for its hard work in organizing the event, and thank the Guangdong Football Association, Guangzhou Football Association and Zengcheng District Bureau of Culture, Radio, Tourism and Sports for their great help in our home games.

Without yesterday's you, without this day's me,

Even if you try hard, it's tasteless!

But with you inspiring, you can do anything.

For you and I will choose this long road,

Just want to let you know that you are no longer willing to regress!

Thank you again to all the fans and friends who have supported Guangzhou Anwar this season!

See you in 2025!