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The 2015 Asian Cup was held in Australia, and the schedule was from January 9 to 31, and the Chinese team reported all of them to the national team in December 2014. The Chinese team was divided into Group B, and the opponents in the same group were Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Uzbekistan. At the same time, the Chinese team is also the most vocal in the pipe, and domestic fans and media are looking forward to this Chinese team to bring a championship home, after all, the Chinese team has not been able to win the championship in this kind of competition.

Guo Fan also hoped that An Jiajun could win the championship, but he did not say such things in public, and only told An Rong in private to do his best to bring the championship back to the Chinese team, and An Rong also made it clear to him that this trip was for the championship. But in the face of the media, An Rong was still very modest and said that the opponents in the Asian Cup were very strong, and the Chinese team would definitely not take it lightly.

The first match of the Chinese team was on January 10, and the opponent was Saudi Arabia, and the Chinese team sent all the main players in this game. Slightly surprisingly, among the previous starting eleven, the "eleventh" was considered to be either Xiao Feng or Liu Jianwei, but An Rong was ranked Xu Zhixin. It is not difficult to see that An Rong wants to take advantage of the opportunity of the Asian Cup to train and cultivate this young player.

Xu Zhixin also lived up to expectations, and the first goal of the Chinese team in this Asian Cup was scored by him, and the goal time occurred in the 21st minute of the first half, a very wonderful volley. It was also the first goal of his career, and it happened in the national team, which is probably not very common in world football.

Many people thought that Zhang Shujie or Li Mu would score the first goal for the Chinese team, and Xu Zhixin completed this thing instead of the two, which can be regarded as repaying An Rong's trust. In the second half, Li Mu scored on the right side of the penalty area to expand the score for the Chinese team. Since moving to Chelsea, Li Mu has been more intense than he was at Juventus, scoring 23 goals in all 19 league games in the first half of the season, and is well ahead of second place in the scorers' charts.

After the injury, Zhang Shujie's state has not been very stable, but when he arrived at the national team, he still scored the first goal of this Asian Cup, a very difficult backward header, which helped the Chinese team lock up the victory with a score of 3:0.

In the second game against Uzbekistan, Zhang Shujie broke the deadlock in the opening seven minutes, and 15 minutes later, Chen Zihua extended the score, and Saudi striker Al-Sahrawi pulled a goal back near the end of the first half. However, shortly after the start of the second half, Li Mu turned the score into 3:1 with a long-range shot, and in the 80th minute, Xu Ziyi's goal fixed the score at 4:1!

The Chinese team won all two games, scored seven goals and conceded only one goal, and won the right to qualify ahead of schedule. In the third round of the matchup against North Korea, the weakest group in the group, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu did not play, Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi only played half a half, and Zhao Wenkang only played six minutes. However, the Chinese team swept North Korea 5:0, Liu Jianwei, Yan Tao, Huang Yu, Tang Ling, and Wu Xiao each scored a goal, and the Chinese team advanced to the quarterfinals as the first in the group.

In the quarterfinals, the Chinese team's opponent was the host Australia. In the World Cup qualifiers, Australia lost 1:4 to China, and now they want to take revenge, but unfortunately in front of this Chinese team with many giants, Australia seems a little powerless to fight back, even if they are the host.

After the opening, Yan Tao accidentally touched Cahill in the penalty area, Australia got a penalty, Cahill personally took the penalty, but was saved by Ma Junqiang, four minutes later, Li Mu used a goal to tell Australia the consequences of wasting a penalty, and after another four minutes, Zhao Wenkang expanded the score; in the sixty-first minute of the second half, Li Mu scored another goal, and the score became 3:0, and in the seventy-fourth minute, Chen Zihua locked the final score at 4:0!

After the elimination of the hosts, most of the media believe that the Chinese team's road to winning the championship is basically unhindered, their attack is too terrible, three goals per game, and the defense only concedes one goal. Although other countries are reluctant, they must also admit that these Asian countries are no longer on the same level as the Chinese team in terms of football.

China met the UAE in the semi-finals, and it would be a big mistake if the Chinese fans' impression of the UAE remained the same. In the quarterfinals, the United Arab Emirates eliminated Japan, which is an out-and-out powerhouse in West Asia, even if it is slightly stronger than the Chinese team's substitute lineup.

However, among these players in Europe, the strength of the United Arab Emirates is a little insufficient, Zhang Shujie's two goals in the opening fifteen minutes completely blinded the United Arab Emirates, followed by Xu Ziyi, Xu Zhixin and Liang Xiran scored again, the Chinese team won a big victory 5:0 and advanced to the final. In the statistics after the game, the media found that among the eleven main players of the Chinese team, only goalkeeper Ma Junqiang did not score, and the rest of the players all scored!

The Chinese team will meet their old enemies South Korea in the final, except for the South Korean media, almost no one is optimistic about them, South Korean players and coaches have said that they will not be afraid of the Chinese team, and also threatened to beat the Chinese team and win the Asian Cup.

After the start of the game, the South Korean players tried their best to defend the Chinese players, and some of the actions were even very dirty, reminiscent of the South Korea in the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan. But this is the style of Koreans, to put it mildly, it is shameless, and they will not compromise their means for victory.

In the nineteenth minute of the game, when Liang Xiran was defending Gu Zizhe in the penalty area, Gu Zizhe fell to the ground without obvious pulling action by Liang Xiran, and the referee decisively blew a penalty.

South Korea got a penalty, Gu Zi-cheol took the penalty, this time Ma Junqiang did not save the penalty like against Australia, he judged the right direction, but Gu Ji-cheol's penalty angle was very tricky, and Ma Junqiang could not do anything.

In the first half, the South Korean team led China 1:0, which was also the only game in which the Chinese team did not score in the first half of this Asian Cup, but it didn't matter, there were still 45 minutes left in the second half, and the Chinese team turned defeat into victory.

In the second half, the South Korean team used all their means as in the first half, and the players on both sides quarreled many times. However, with the strong individual ability of the Chinese team, Zhang Shujie pulled the score to 1:1 in 60 minutes!

This goal is very important, this is a release, the previous grievances caused by the behavior of the South Korean team also vented with this goal, in the following time, the Chinese team's attack was like mercury, the South Korean team was a little unable to parry, and there was only a matter of time left to overtake the score.

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