FC United will play a friendly match against Beijing Guoan on their last day in Beijing before leaving this proud place.

In order not to affect the team's preparations, FC United and Beijing Guoan's friendly match chose to be midweek, and Guoan, who had just defeated Guangzhou Evergrande in the league, was full of confidence, even if it met the Championship champion.

But Lu Wei did not give the team he once supported a little face, and played a 3:0 in the first half, and the German head coach Schmidt, who had just come to Beijing, also shook his head helplessly, and the hard power is still much worse.

In the second half, both teams changed players in the first half, Beijing Guoan's Song Boxuan and Soriano helped the team to pull back two goals, but Balbosa sealed the victory with a world wave, and the 4:2 score also made the Guoan players realize the difference in strength, and they could also feel that FC United's defensive intensity was not large in the second half, otherwise there would not have been those two goals.

That night, Lu Wei took the players to leave Beijing and go south to Nanjing, they will hold the fourth "Friendship Cup" competition in the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center, Burleigh's owner refused to participate in the "Friendship Cup" held in other places due to insufficient club funds, but this matter did not affect the friendship between the two teams, Burleigh also took the initiative to contact another team to participate in the "Friendship Cup" instead of them.

Hong Kong Kitchee Football Club, one of the oldest sports clubs in Hong Kong, switched from Reading to Burleigh Academy last summer to train at Kitchee as a teenager, and Burleigh also approached them to replace Burleigh in the warm-up match of the "Friendship Cup".

The other two teams that Lu Wei contacted were Zhenjiang Huasa in Jiangsu and Schalke 04, who also came to China to warm up.

Zhenjiang Huasa, now Kunshan FC, is an amateur football team formed by a group of Barça fans in Jiangsu in 2014, won the provincial amateur league championship in the first year, and represented Jiangsu in the Chinese Football Association Amateur League, that is, the fourth level league, that season due to the third ranked Wuhan Chufeng joint abstention, and the Chinese second division of Tianjin Lokomotiv announced its dissolution, so that Zhenjiang Huasa obtained a ticket to enter the Chinese football professional league through by-replacement.

This season is struggling to relegate in the China Second League, but Lu Wei knows that in the future, after accepting investment from Kunshan Yangcheng Lake Cultural Tourism Group, they will enter the Central League two years later, and won the China League One championship in 2022, and successfully entered the top league after only eight years of establishment, which Lu Wei admires very much.

It's a pity that Lu Wei didn't know that due to some things affecting the local trust in football culture, Kunshan FC, which lost investors, had to announce its dissolution in March 2023, and the curse of the dissolution of the Jiangsu team winning the championship was fulfilled again.

The simple lottery ceremony was not publicized everywhere by the local organizers in Nanjing, although Schalke 04 is very popular in China, but Arsenal, Bayern, AC Milan and other giants have also landed in China at the same time, compared with them, the "Friendship Cup" has no traffic at all.

The final draw resulted in FC United winning Zhenjiang Huasa, and Schalke 04 automatically formed an opponent with Hong Kong Zhijie.

There are several giants, Lu Wei originally thought that FC United's games would not attract too many spectators, and the tickets were not priced too high, just the price of an ordinary Chinese Super League, but did not expect that although the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center was not full of spectators, it also attended more than 40,000 people, and most of the local fans in Jiangsu came here to cheer for the local little brother team.

There were also many FC United fans across the country wearing red jerseys and singing "Nobody Can Drag Me Down", which deeply touched FC United players, and I didn't expect that there were fans who supported us in the far east.

This match was really not on the table because of the strength of the opponent Zhenjiang Huasa, Lu Wei even felt that FC United seven years ago could defeat them, and only sent Sancho, Ben. The youth team led by White and others and seven new signings also asked the players to release water properly and not play the game too ugly.

Even so, it was a 6-1 game after the game, with Zhenjiang Huasa only scoring a goal by striker Sun Jianhong in a scuffle.

Although the big score lost, the fans still applauded Zhenjiang Huasa, Zhenjiang Huasa's owner Shi Xiukun was honored to have a play with FC United, Lu Wei also heard about the owner with football dreams, and also respected what he did, briefly chatted a few words, and also sent some advice.

On the other hand, Schalke 04 unsurprisingly defeated Hong Kong Zhijie to meet FC United in the final, and in the final the next day, the two teams played a big open and close head-to-head match.

Swiss monster Embolo scored from a corner and scored from Tarkovski's header to give Schalke 04 the lead, and it wasn't long before Lozano used a counter-attack opportunity to assist Sollot to equalize the score. Gretzka's long-range shot in the 31st minute deflected Rice's thigh and Mendy stumbled but failed to stop the ball from entering the net.

There were six or seven men on both sides in the second half, with Barbosa turning around at the front of the box to create space for himself and equalised again with a low shot, and in the 78th minute, Tavernir assisted Tarkovski with a set-piece to win the "Friendship Cup" in China.

"Oh, I'm so tired, when will it end, I want to go home."

Back at the hotel in the evening, Madison directly lay down on the bed, played three games in just five days, although they were only warm-up games, but they had just flown for nearly 20 hours, participated in several activities, played a game in Gongti and Beijing Guoan, and rushed to Nanjing non-stop, and the hard work almost exhausted the players' physical strength.

Hayden, who lived in the same room as Madison, handed him a bottle of water, opened a bottle himself and poured it with his mouth.

"This is almost over, I used to envy those giants who can go abroad to play everywhere, but now no, there are too many things outside the football stadium, there is no time to train these days, and I don't know what the head thinks, we still have to play the Europa League qualifiers, why do we have to run so far to train together."

Madison took the water and sat up.

"Are you still worried about Europa League qualifying? The head is not worried about you have nothing to worry about, in previous years at this time the league has not yet started, the head definitely wants to train with the competition, as far as the Europa League qualifying teams, to be honest, I really didn't look at it, last year we were able to beat them easily.

"You are also saying that there are really no strong teams in the first few rounds of Europa League qualifying, and the real test is the last round, but I also hope to finish this training camp and return to England as soon as possible."

Lu Wei's subsequent itinerary did not disappoint the players, and after two more warm-up matches in Hong Kong and Singapore, he chartered a flight back to England, with only seven days left before the second round of Europa League qualifying.

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