The next day, the Korean media's criticism of Jeonbuk Hyundai was like a storm.

The huge investment at the beginning of the season, the oath before the game, the result is that when the opponent's investment is strategically contracted, it still can't win, and at the end of the game, it is still pressed and beaten, so what is the significance of the two sets of lineups that the club spent a lot of money to prepare at the beginning of the season?

At 9 o'clock in the evening, the verbal criticism of Jeonbuk Hyundai was finally snatched away by another Korean club.

Because in the other AFC Champions League match that just ended, Shuiyuan Samsung, which went away to challenge Guangzhou Evergrande, was beaten 6:0.

This score is not to say that Korean fans can't stand it, and Chinese fans themselves feel incredible, but this is the difference in strength between the two teams.

Guangzhou Evergrande, playing at home, showed a terrifying attacking ability, and Diego Costa, who transferred in the middle of the break, destroyed the entire defense of Shuiyuan Samsung in front of him, and his strong body, terrifying impact, and top-notch foot skills completed a hat-trick in the first half.

Paulinho's brace and Goulart's icing on the cake then made the second leg completely meaningless.

Compared with Guangzhou Evergrande, although Shuiyuan Samsung has invested less this season, the score of 0:6 has indeed stimulated the South Korean media, and labels such as "the most humiliating day of Korean football" and "the shame of the K League" have been slapped on Shuiyuan Samsung.

The players of Shuiyuan Samsung who returned to China were attacked by the rotten eggs of the fans at the airport, and then the players had to kneel down and ask the fans for forgiveness.

In this round of the AFC Champions League knockout round, the club results of one win and one draw gave the Chinese national team a boost to the upcoming top 12 of the World Preliminaries.

The media in China is full of confidence in the upcoming war between China and South Korea.

Some compare the players from both sides, first list the players in Europe from the two teams, including six from the South Korean national team, Son Heung-min, Ji Chengyong, Gu Zi-cheol, Li Qinglong, Ji Dong-won plus Huang Xichan, who went to the Red Bulls Salzburg team this season, and the Chinese team is also six, they are Li Yun, Qin Minghao, Ding Huaiyi, Zhang Linpeng, Xu Mingyu and Zhang Yuning.

Although in terms of overall quality, these Korean players who have played in the Premier League and Bundesliga for a long time have been famous for a long time, especially Son Heung-min, who is only 24 years old this year, has already worn the "Asian Ball King" On the other hand, the foreign aid of the Chinese team, only Li Yun and Qin Minghao play in the five major leagues, and they have just been promoted from the Bundesliga this season, and they have not been tested by many Bundesliga games, and the other players are either in the Eredivisie, Austrian League, or in the second-tier league such as the Portuguese League, Zhang Linpeng and even the third-level league of Italy.

But in terms of numbers alone, at least the two sides are tied.

In terms of the comparison of domestic players, the media unanimously believes that the Chinese clubs that have the upper hand in the AFC Champions League in recent years have proved the strength of Chinese domestic players, especially the domestic defensive players who have been plagued by excellent and even world-class foreign strikers in the league are much better than South Korea.

Some media have counted the history of the confrontation between Chinese and South Korean teams in the past three or four years and the comparison of the results of the competition, from the 93 National Youth to the latest Olympic Games, whether it is a direct dialogue between the two teams or a comparison of the final rankings, the Chinese team has obviously achieved better results.

The media even gave the conclusion that the further back they play, the more mature, more capable and more experienced the younger Chinese players will be - they are optimistic about China and South Korea to draw away and win at home.

The optimism of the media has given fans more confidence, and Chinese fans who want to see the Chinese national team play well flock to Seoul. In order to fight for the interests of the fans, the Chinese Football Association also opened its mouth - they booked 50,000 tickets from the South Korean side in one go.

You must know that the venue of this game - Seoul World Cup Stadium can only accommodate a total of 66,704 people, how could the South Korean side allocate 50,000 tickets to China, and finally the Korean Football Association allocated 15,000 tickets to the Chinese Football Association (Dragon Team Fans Association), and at the same time, Korean travel agencies sold about 15,000 tickets to Chinese audiences (international students, tourists, etc. bulk tickets).

These more than 30,000 tickets can be said to make the South Korean team's home stadium not so "home", and the Chinese fans who occupy half of the venue will give the Chinese team great support, and may even overwhelm the Korean fans who are fighting at home, so the South Korean side is also calling on South Korean fans to be able to come to the scene and cheer for the South Korean team.

On August 29, the Chinese team that trained in China flew directly to Seoul, for which the Chinese Football Association specially chartered a plane of China Southern Airlines, and it was the kind of configuration that the seats could be laid down to sleep, which could not be described as insufficiently prepared.

When half of China's media circle and the entire football circle were worried about the World Preliminaries, South Korea also slowly recovered from the big defeat in the AFC Champions League.

Compared with history, they began to pay more attention to the collection of information about the Chinese national team.

For the domestic players of the Chinese team, the Korean Football Association specifically consulted with Korean practitioners who play and coach in the Chinese Super League. The South Korean team's current training squad has 5 players in the Chinese Super League, including Kim Young-kwon, Jang Hyun-so, Hong Jeong-hee, Kim Ki-hee, and Jung You-young, among which the clubs they play for Guangzhou Evergrande and Jiangsu Suning have Chinese internationals.

The South Korean media triumphantly revealed that several players from the Chinese Super League have had detailed talks with South Korean team coach Stillik to explain the situation of the Chinese players they have mastered. Among them, the main striker of the Longteng team is also the main striker of the current national team, Nie Jiang's various details and characteristics on the field are described in great detail, and it just so happens that these Korean players are the absolute main force on the back line of their respective clubs, and Nie Jiang has been played at least twice a year, although they have basically been scored, but their information is becoming more and more valuable.

In addition to these five Korean players, there are also many Korean coaches currently coaching in the Chinese Super League, including Choi Yong-so, Hong Myung-bo, Park Tae-ha, Lee Jang-so, and Zhang Wai-yong.

Among these people are Li Zhangzhu, who has coached big clubs such as Guangzhou Evergrande and knows Chinese football well, Zhang Wailong, who has coached many small and medium-sized Chinese Super League clubs, and Hong Myung-fu, who once served as the coach of the South Korean team.

It is said that they have handed over all the relevant information and their own advice, especially the bits and pieces when playing against the Yongteng team, to the head of the Korean Football Association. It is reported that their unanimous suggestion is that the Chinese internationals, who are mainly based on current and former Longteng players, have not been well rested, and are currently riddled with injuries and fatigue, and the South Korean team must seize the advantage of physical fitness and speed to play a pressing attack.

The Korean players who are familiar with Chinese football are working together, and the Korean overseas players, who are the absolute core of the team, are also cheering up the team.

As a header star, Son Heung-min said: "I know that China has made a lot of preparations, and their strength has grown rapidly in recent years. But we are also aware of the importance of this game, this is the first game of the World Preliminary Tournament, and I hope that the team can show the advanced side of Korean football in the game. It's a matter of focus, we need to come together to win the game and we need the support of the fans. ”

'We want to win this game at home. In the end, Son expressed his confidence in the match.

As the game approached day by day, all the players of the Chinese team converged, and Peilan, who had always been unkind, finally had a little smile, especially when the domestic players of Longteng and Guangzhou Evergrande came to the team with an undefeated record, the entire Chinese team finally became a little angry.

In fact, when these two teams played in the AFC Champions League, the normal training of the players of the Chinese team should not be enough. According to the regulations of FIFA and AFC, the number of players registered for a single game of each team in the top 12 is 23, but the Chinese team brought the 25 players in the squad to South Korea for the sake of preparation training and unity of the team.

The only unpleasant thing is that the training ground provided by South Korea to the Chinese national team is a "leaky on all sides" location, although Perrin put forward a request for closed training, in the end it did not achieve any effect at all - the training ground is simply separated by barbed wire, as long as the eyes are okay, the training situation of the Chinese team can be seen clearly, not to mention that there is a small hill on one side of the stadium, standing on the hillside for the Chinese team's training content is even more unobstructed.

When the Chinese team was training, at least 10 or more South Korean media came to the scene and erected cameras, and 100% of these video materials will be taken away by the Korean Football Association for study.

In this kind of open and secret battle between the two sides, at 19:00 Beijing time on September 1, the game officially started.

When the starting list was announced, Perran's arrangement was a big surprise, because whether it was the selection of players or the formation that could be matched, it was really incomprehensible.

Like the vast majority of Chinese fans, Zhang Sheng at this time was also confused about the starting list of the hands he got, because from the selection of players, Li Yun, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng, Ma Yongli plus Shu Jun, and then Zheng Zhi, as many as six players who can play defenders start.

"Is this going to play five defenders?", Zhang Sheng was very surprised, because since Pei Lan began to coach the Chinese team, although the tactics have been constantly changing, and there are as many players as if he had crossed the river, he has never played five defenders, and the consequences of choosing such a large change in formation before such an important game are really hard to say.

In the midfield, Ding Huaiyi and Xu Mingyu did not enter the starting line, and Lin Feng, who was more active in defense and more balanced in attack and defense, was on the front line, Wu Lei, who had a high voice before the game, was replaced by Zou Weijia, obviously Peilan's plan was to hold the ball steady on the front line first and then organize the attack.

After the official start of the game, the 5-3-2 formation of the Chinese team was very obvious, and Zheng Zhi's position was the same as that of the club, which was the back midfielder. It can be seen that this is a Chinese team that is fully defensive.

The arrangement of the head coaches of both sides determined the situation on the field after the game, and the Chinese team, which had retracted deeply in the entire formation, was pressed in the half and basically couldn't get by.

In preparation for the game, Jianglong Data, a subsidiary of Jiangsoft Technology, the largest sports big data company in China, an affiliate of Longteng Group, made an analysis and prediction based on the data of 29 games since the head coach of the South Korean team, Stielik.

Through his connections in Germany, Zhang Sheng handed over these data to the chief intelligence analyst of Jianglong Data, the German football legend - Mateus, and entrusted him to make an analysis report.

Mateus made it clear that given that the South Korean team can guarantee an average of more than 70 passes per 15 minutes against European powerhouses such as the Czech Republic, more than 70% of the offensive in sports warfare comes from the wings, and the heat map area of pressing is concentrated on both sides of the front court.

While pointing out the advantages of the South Korean team, Mateus's PPT of more than 60 pages also made suggestions to the Chinese team, that is, positional battles, flexible running and defensive counterattacks behind the Korean team's fullbacks.

This report was solemnly handed over to the Chinese Football Association, hoping to let Pei Lan make a reference.

Judging from Perran's arrangement, it is obvious that he is a little arrogant, starting with more muscles than brains, relying on the iron-blooded strangulation of the central defenders to obtain defensive intensity, is this how he won this game, or Perrin did not expect to win in this game at all, and it was his ultimate goal to get a point.

Unlike the Chinese team in history, Gao Hongbo at that time used Zheng Zhi to play center back, and Ren Hang, who had been suspended for a few months, played left back, but Zheng Zhi caused the first own goal and Ren Hang caused the last two goals.

Now Peilan's Chinese team has players in Europe like Li Yun and Zhang Linpeng, and excellent young defenders like Ma Yongli.

It's just that the players on the field are extremely aggrieved - we are not here to accompany the Koreans in offensive and defensive drills.

Compared with the ease of the Longteng team at Jeonbuk Hyundai's home stadium a few days ago, Guangzhou Evergrande's destruction of Shuiyuan Samsung in Tianhe, the Chinese national team built with these two teams as a framework has completely changed.

Under the passive defense, the South Korean team made full use of the width of the two courts, the speed of Son Heung-min and Ji Dong-won on the wings, and attacked the left and right wings of Jang Linpeng and Shu Jun again and again.

Even with Ma Yongli and Feng Xiaoting's auxiliary defense positions, the side side, which is already slightly inferior in strength, is still extremely embarrassed.

The old friend of Chinese football who officiated this game, the UAE referee Hassan, was very strict with the foul blowing, and when he was only halfway through the first half, he had already warned Zhang Linpeng and Shu Jun at least twice.

The Chinese fans who came from the stands were like fifteen rabbits in their arms - seven up and eight down, both glad that the team held on and did not concede the goal, but also frustrated that the team could not pose a threat to the opponent's goal.

On the other hand, the fans of the South Korean team were in high spirits, and every time the South Korean team broke down the wing, they screamed, as if this attack would lead to a goal.

Compared with the performance of the club team, the two national teams of China and South Korea are really two heavens of ice and fire.