Despite not being on the pitch, Lippi, who has a lot of coaching experience, can see a look on the faces of the Australian players called "give up".

So, in the 33rd minute of the second half of the game, Lippi replaced the number one hero of the game with Yu Hanchao.

Even if the defensive pressure they need to bear after Feng Quan leaves the field, and at the same time, after the "ability bonus" of Chinese players such as Zheng Zhi and Gao Lin disappears after Feng Quan leaves, the Australian team with no fighting spirit will still be unable to form a threatening attack.

In the end, with Feng Quan's strong performance, the Chinese team defeated the host Australian team by three goals without dispute, and broke into the semi-finals of the Asian Cup again after more than ten years.

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When the referee Hassan blew the whistle for the end of the game, the Chinese fans at the scene, more than 1,000 meters, suddenly burst into hysterical cheers. Since the 2004 Asian Cup in China, they have not seen the Chinese team play such a hearty game for more than a decade, let alone defeat Australia, the top Asian team with such a big score of 3-0.

Although the national team during Gao Hongbo's time defeated the invincible South Korean team by three goals in the 2010 East Asian Cup, ending the "Koreanophobia" of the national football team for more than 30 years. But the kind of event that is closer to the nature of a friendly match has nothing to do with the shock that it brings to the fans, and it is simply not comparable to a continental event like the Asian Cup.

What's more, the South Korean team that lost at the feet of the national football team was not their strongest squad, and many South Korean players who played in major European leagues were not called up to participate. The Australian team, which aims to win the championship as the host of this Asian Cup, has almost lined up the strongest lineup they can put out.

In the case of the elite of the Australian team, but still by the Chinese team's neat three goals, the Chinese fans who have been depressed for a long time because of the national football team's indisputability have finally been fully released after the national football team won a hearty victory.

As a result, Chinese fans, who are very subtle and restrained compared with European and American fans in the eyes of foreigners, invariably issued "Chinese team, champion!" in the stands. The crazy scream.

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The quarter-finals of this Asian Cup are destined to be a hotbed of upsets, just after the Chinese team upset the last runner-up and host Australia, the defending champions Japan lost to the United Arab Emirates in a penalty shootout; West Asian giants Iran, who were aiming for the title before the start of the Asian Cup, were also defeated by Iraq in a penalty shootout.

Even South Korea, who qualified for the knockout round as the top of Group A, did not defeat Central Asian powerhouse Uzbekistan 2-0 until extra time thanks to two goals from Son Heung-min.

Still, China's qualification process went far smoother than the other three rivals, with the vast majority of industry insiders and fans still lining up South Korea as the favourites to win the title.

South Korea, which has twice won the Asian Cup, took the lead in the first semi-final on January 26, changed the caution of the quarter-finals and launched a fierce offensive into the hinterland of the Iraqi team from the beginning of the game.

Although the overall strength of the Iraqi team is only the second-rate level in Asia, with tenacious defense and sharp counterattacks, they won the 2007 Asian Cup in an upset.

Although with the passage of time, more than half of the players of the Iraqi team that won the championship are no longer in the team, and even the offensive core of the team has long since passed the old age, but the Iraqi team that still adopts a steady counterattack strategy is still a difficult bone to gnaw, as can be seen from the fact that they were able to drag the Iranian team into a brutal penalty shoot-out and win.

Therefore, in the face of the Iraqi team, which takes defense as the foundation of its team, it is also very courageous for the South Korean team to resolutely choose to attack.

Of course, the most fundamental reason why the South Korean team dares to adopt a relatively strong style of play is that its absolute strength is significantly stronger than that of its opponents, and at the same time, many of the core teams in the team who play in the five major European leagues can also play a great role in the process of attacking.

The embarrassing performance of No. 10 striker Younis, who has been able to repeatedly defeat the strong with weakness, has only scored one goal in four games in this Asian Cup, which is also an important reason why the South Korean team dares to put more energy into attack.

It is precisely because Younis's competitive state has long since lost the courage of the past that the South Korean team dared to launch an onslaught against the opponent without fear.

The tenacious Iraqis withstood South Korea's onslaught in the opening stages, but in the 21st minute of the game, they were able to take advantage of a free-kick opportunity to break through the goal.

At that time, Son Heung-min's forced breakthrough on the right side of the field forced the Iraqi defender to take a tactical foul, and he received a yellow card while delivering a well-placed free kick.

Immediately afterwards, after the golden pearl sent the ball near the goal point, Li Tingxie, who followed up quickly, grabbed a powerful header before the goalkeeper hit the ball and sent the ball into the upper right corner of the goal. This is also Li Tingxie's second goal in this Asian Cup after beating Australia in the final round of the group stage.

The unfavorable situation of conceding a goal forced the Iraqi team to strengthen the attack, but due to the team's limited offensive means and the core players were not in good shape, they not only failed to save the score from behind, but were seized by the South Korean team in the subsequent game to seize two chances to finally lock the score at 3-0.

A day later, China's second Asian Cup semi-final against the United Arab Emirates also started as scheduled.

At this time, although the Asian Cup has entered the final stage of the championship competition, because the host has been "upset" out, the enthusiasm of local fans has also decreased sharply. If it weren't for more than 12,000 Chinese fans entering the stadium to watch the game, I am afraid that the attendance of this game would be more than half, but this situation made the national football team fighting in Australia unexpectedly feel a rare home atmosphere.

With the enthusiastic cheers of more than 10,000 supporters, the Chinese team launched a fierce attack on the hinterland of the UAE team as soon as the game began.

Facing the menacing Chinese team, the Emiratis, who relied on the "bus tactic" to knock out the defending champions in the quarter-finals, once again sacrificed the same strategy.

Although the Chinese team had the absolute initiative on the field, when only one person was left in the opponent's front court to harass, and the rest of the players were all recycled to the vicinity of the penalty area, even though they completed 10 shots in the first 30 minutes, they were never able to break the deadlock on the field.

Although the Asian Cup's winning record since the start of the game has boosted the morale of the national football players to the peak, and the team has indeed created several good scoring opportunities under the leadership of Feng Quan, but under the strict defense of the opponent, Gao Lin, Wu Lei and others have missed the goal one after another.

Seeing such a situation, the hearts of more than 10,000 Chinese fans at the scene couldn't help but wonder if the UAE team was stronger than Australia, or was the Chinese team inflated itself because of the previous consecutive victories?