It turned out that Shi Wuyun's pre-match reminder was correct.

The teams that can enter the knockout stage of the U23 Asian Cup are not soft persimmons that can be pinched casually.

The Palestinian national team is not a strong team in Asian football, but that doesn't mean their Olympic team doesn't have two brushes.

After the start of the game, the Palestinian Olympic team mainly defended and counterattacked, and the defense was very tenacious.

It wasn't until the 32nd minute that the Chinese team broke the deadlock through Chen Xingyi, when he made a one-two collision with substitute Guo Junfu's Li Chengwu in front of the Palestinian penalty area, burst into the Palestinian penalty area, and scored with his feet.

Although they conceded the goal, Palestine did not give up their defensive counterattack tactics and pressed out to attack the Chinese team.

They knew they would die faster, but they continued to defend and counter-attack, and maybe there was a chance to equalize.

After all, only one goal was conceded, and it was not an insurmountable gap for them.

At the end of the first half, they stubbornly held on to the 0-1 scoreline.

In the locker room at halftime, Shi Wuyun comforted his players, telling them not to be anxious, not to be impatient because they were only one goal ahead, after all, it was already a good result to be able to lead by one goal.

Keep your mind at peace so that you don't give the Palestinians a chance to take advantage of it.

In the second half, the Palestinian Olympic team continued to defend and counterattack, trying to make the Chinese players impatient.

But their strategy didn't work out, because in the 59th minute, Hulai scored for China.

He received a cross from Rokai in front of goal and headed the ball into the back of the net.

"Hulai! 2:0！！ The Olympic team leads Palestine 2:0! It was Hulai's eighth goal in this Under-23 Asian Cup! He is far ahead of the scorer list, and it can be said that there is almost no suspense about winning the top scorer of this U23 Asian Cup! He Feng said excitedly.

At present, there are five people in second place in the U23 Asian Cup scorer list, namely Park Gye-hyun of the South Korean Olympic team, Hoang Van Hue of the Vietnamese Olympic team, Ibrahim Mahavi, midfielder of the Iranian Olympic team, and Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai of the Chinese team, all five of whom have scored two goals.

But there is a huge gap between them and Hulai, and unless one of them can score five goals in a game, it may be difficult to pose a threat to Hulai.

Hulai's goal not only made him top scorer, but also reassured many Chinese fans.

The Chinese team, which leads by two goals, has a much higher probability of winning the game.

Reaching the semi-finals means that the Chinese team is only one step away from qualifying for the Olympic Games.

The long-cherished wish of Chinese fans for many years is finally coming true!

The stands of Jingyang People's Stadium, which welcomed the National Olympic team for the first time, erupted in huge cheers, and the fans of Jingyang expressed their enthusiasm and love for the National Olympic team in this way, and they did not lose to Dashun fans at all.

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When conceding the first goal, the players of the Palestinian Olympic team were able to keep their composure, after all, they were only one goal behind and there was room to turn the game around.

But when they conceded the second goal, many of the Palestinian players began to feel overwhelmed.

Next, do you continue to defend and counterattack, or do you want to press out and attack?

They were confused.

The game restarted, the chaotic Palestinian Olympic team was divided, and some players wanted to attack and pull a goal back as soon as possible, so there was hope. Some players want to defend solidly, after all, the Chinese team has just scored a goal, the morale is soaring, they will definitely continue to attack, what if we attack the back line and concede the goal?

The two sides are not unified in thinking, which is manifested in the game, they just can't attack and can't defend back.

The chaos gave the Chinese a chance to score eight minutes after Hulai's goal.

Wang Guangwei took advantage of the opportunity of a corner kick and scored his first goal with a header.

The audience roared with joy.

With more than 20 minutes left in the game, the Chinese team had a three-goal lead, morale was high, and the advantage of the home stadium made it basically impossible for the Palestinian players to turn the tables again.

Whether it is at the scene or watching TV at home, every Chinese fan can start celebrating without any worries.

Shi Wuyun also began to make substitution adjustments, allowing more substitute players to practice and find out the state of the game.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated the Palestinian Olympic team with a score of 3:0 at the Jingyang People's Stadium and reached the semifinals of the U23 Asian Cup.

There is only one match to go until the Madrid Olympics qualification, or at most two races away.

Chinese fans and media alike began to look forward to the scene of the Chinese Olympic team appearing in the Olympic arena.

Although this is not the first time that the Chinese team has participated in the Olympic Games, it is the most anticipated.

After all, the strength of this national Olympic team is far stronger than any previous national Olympic team, and after playing four games in the U23 Asian Cup, the national Olympic team scored 14 goals and conceded only one. This performance was the best of all the teams involved.

Such a talented national Olympic team went to the Olympic Games, what surprises can it bring to everyone?

At the very least, it shouldn't be an embarrassing record of "no wins, no goals", right?

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A day later, the other two quarter-finals were played and the semi-finals were announced.

In the end, Japan, China, South Korea and Vietnam will be the semi-finalists of the Under-23 Asian Cup, and three Olympic quotas will be created among them.

Marked by Qatar's 1:7 defeat to the Chinese team, the West Asian team was wiped out. So in the end, people still have no way to know whether the AFC really wants to send Qatar to win the U23 Asian Cup as rumored on the Internet......

However, one thing is certain, that is, Alireza Fahani, an Iranian referee who should have been trained by the AFC, has finally been planted this time.

After the match between China and Qatar, Fasiani did not appear in the U23 Asian Cup. Later, some media saw Fahani at the airport dragging his suitcase and preparing to leave the country, and it was clear that he had been banned from officiating the next U23 Asian Cup match.

It seems that this time the AFC fully felt the anger of the Chinese Football Association, after all, the hope generation of Chinese football was almost killed by a black whistle.

There are rumors on the Internet that the Chinese Football Association is putting pressure on the AFC, and they have no evidence to prove that Farhani received black money, but they just decided that the penalty made by Farhani in that game was a black whistle, not as simple as the punishment standard is not uniform.

The nature of this conviction is different.

In front of the angry Chinese Football Association, the AFC also had to make a big concession this time, and put the "silver" referee they once wanted to shape into the cold palace.

After Farhani was approached by Chinese media at the airport, a reporter approached him and tried to interview him, asking him bluntly if he had received money from Qatar.

Farhani's face turned ugly when he heard this.

He refused to answer the question and wanted to leave, only to be spotted by more travelers, so he was besieged.

There were also excited Chinese fans at the scene who tried to shoot at the black whistle, and if the airport security hadn't arrived in time, the Iranian referee would not have been able to return home intact.

This is also a big news, the Iranian Football Association is very dissatisfied with this, the Chinese side naturally arrested a few fans who participated in the disturbance at that time, but because it did not cause too serious personal harm to Farhani, it was more of a mental fright, which is difficult to quantify. So in the end, most of them were verbal warnings, and only one person was sentenced to five days of administrative detention for actually beating Farhani.

But the detained fan has also become a hero in the eyes of fans across the country, not only opening a Weibo with real-name verification, but also a short video account, and becoming an Internet celebrity.

It is said that the Chinese Olympic team also gave him a jersey signed by all the players, but there is no evidence, it is just a legend.

Of course, everyone is very happy to take this incident as a real thing and circulate it on the Internet, as a beautiful talk that "the national Olympic team has lived up to the fans, and the fans will also live up to the national Olympic team".

Whether it's true or not, at least it's a way to bring Chinese football closer to the fans, and to build a stronger bond between the two sides.

After all, they are all Chinese fans, who wouldn't want their country's football to be good?

And when the football in your own country is really worthy of the efforts of the fans, how can you be stingy to show their love as a fan?

In this way, a virtuous circle was formed, and China's football culture was gradually established.

After all, no culture can be built on attacks, abuse, and failure.

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The semi-final matches of the U23 Asian Cup are China against Vietnam and Japan against South Korea.

As long as the Chinese team can beat Vietnam, they can guarantee Olympic qualification. Otherwise, they will have to face Japan or South Korea in the third or fourth place final.

In comparison, it is clear that Vietnam is better to fight.

But there is a different opinion on the Vietnamese side.

Vietnamese football, which has also vigorously developed youth training, has also made great progress in the past five or six years.

Now they need to find a milestone in the reform and development of national football.

There's nothing better than going to the Olympics.

If the Vietnamese Olympic team can participate in the main event of the Olympic Games for the first time in history, it will be a great positive stimulus for the country's football, and Vietnamese football will develop by leaps and bounds under the impetus of the Olympic craze.

If this development continues, the World Cup will no longer be an unattainable pipe dream!

Therefore, for Vietnamese football, they are also determined to qualify for the Olympic Games this time.

Before the game, Hoang Van Hue, the number one star of the Vietnamese team, challenged the Chinese team bluntly in an interview: "...... We know that the Chinese team is the host, but we are not afraid of them because we have the support of 90 million Vietnamese people behind us! Each of us is prepared for this semi-final with the determination to win, and we are confident of winning no matter how strong the opponent is! ”

Hoang Van Hue, as Vietnam's number one striker, scored all of Vietnam's goals in this U23 Asian Cup.

He himself has been a beneficiary of Vietnam's football reforms, a leader in the country's youth soccer academy, and now he is only 23 years old in Japan's J2 League, but is already considered the future core of the Vietnamese national team.

Huang Wenhui's remarks aroused the disgust and dissatisfaction of many Chinese fans, who believed that the opponent was incompetent and arrogant.

But Hu Lai did not see it that way, and when he was asked in an interview with reporters what he thought of Huang Wenhui's words, Hu Lai said: "It's normal, don't any players who participate in the game want to win? If you don't say you have to win, do you have to lose? Vietnam wants to win, and we want to win. They think the victory is theirs, and I think the victory will be ours. Everyone has their own words, and finally when it comes to the competition, they will compete again to see who the victory belongs to. ”

Some reporters are concerned about whether the players of the Chinese team will have psychological fluctuations at such a historical moment.

"Nervous?" Hu Lai thought for a moment, then shook his head, "I don't feel that everyone is nervous, and I don't feel any other emotional ups and downs. For us, it was just a normal Under-23 Asian Cup semi-final. ”

When many reporters heard Hu Lai say this, they thought that Hu Lai was talking about the scene, after all, he couldn't openly admit that the team was nervous, right?

But Hulay wasn't lying.

There is really no nervousness within the national Olympic team.

After experiencing the game against Qatar, many players of the national Olympic team have a sense of calmness and calmness of "I have never seen any strong winds and waves", and they can only underestimate the enemy and not be nervous.

That's experience.

When a team has accumulated enough experience, it is only natural that they will change dramatically.

In the past, the players of the Chinese team had poor psychological quality, encountered some difficulties and setbacks, or when the development of the game did not match their expectations, they panicked and did not know how to play.

And now many players of this national Olympic team, after such experience, their psychological endurance will be greatly improved.

In the long run, they will definitely be different from their predecessors.

The so-called fine tradition is accumulated bit by bit and gradually formed.

Is the "women's volleyball spirit" there from the beginning? It was not by winning one victory after another that the confidence was laid, and the incomparably strong heart of the women's volleyball team was finally formed after sinking and rising up in the midst of difficulties.

Football is the same, without the glorious victories of the past, and without the pride of falling into hell and then coming back, the inheritance of a collective and a project will not exist.

Now, some good changes are happening.

The Vietnamese need an Olympic qualification to strengthen their pace of football reform, so doesn't Chinese football need such a milestone?

Chinese football did not have a spirit before, so it is from their generation to shape this spirit.