Chapter 176: A Different Chinese Team (Part 2)

The Asian Cup trophy will be placed on the sidelines, and the two teams will be separated by the Asian Cup, one left and one right, and then step onto the pitch.

Chinese players, including Jiang Chenxi, as well as South Korean players, couldn't help but look at the trophy when they passed it.

In the history of the Asian Cup, Japan won the championship 4 times, is the national team with the most championships, Saudi Arabia and Iran won the championship 3 times, South Korea won the championship 2 times, Israel, Kuwait, and Iraq each won the championship, of which the South Korean team won the Asian Cup championship last time, it was 55 years ago, and the last time the Korean team reached the Asian Cup final was in 1988, which was their second entry into the Asian Cup final after 23 years, The Chinese team won the runner-up twice, which is the second time that the Chinese team has reached the Asian Cup final after 11 years. He Wei said, "We will wait and see whether the South Korean team stands on the top of Asia for the third time or the Chinese team wins the Asian Cup for the first time." ”

Yes, Israel used to be in the AFC and won the Asian Cup, and now there are fans who feel strange that Israel is located in Asia and has joined the European Football Association.

Israel is because of the war in the Middle East, the Arab countries are unwilling to play with it, and Israel has been driven out of the AFC, Israel has to join UEFA, and then found that this stage is broader than the previous one, Europe is full of powerful people, and there are so many big guys, although it is difficult to get out, but it is very exercised, and it is not bad.

In addition, our neighbor Kazakhstan is geographically an Asian country, but chose to join UEFA, in fact, Kazakhstan was the first to join the AFC, because there is no voice in the AFC, resulting in Kazakhstan often suffering in some important competitions, so Kazakhstan chose to leave the AFC and joined UEFA.

There is also Turkey is also an authentic Asian country, but for various reasons, Turkey has chosen to leave the AFC and choose UEFA, which has a more developed football, and there are also countries such as Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, etc., which are geographically Asian, have also chosen UEFA.

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Players from both sides line up and shake hands with each other.

Zheng Zhen, the captain of the Chinese team, and Ji Chengyong, the captain of the South Korean team, exchanged team flags, and in the link of guessing the coin, Zheng Zhen won Ji Chengyong, the Chinese team won the right to pick the edge, and the South Korean team won the right to kick off.

The camera gave a close-up of today's referee.

"The referee of today's final was Uzbek whistle Rafshaan. Ilmatov, the two assistant referees are Rasolov and Ilyasov, also from Uzbekistan. Duan Xuan said, "Ilmatov can be said to be recognized as the first referee in Asia, the opening match of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was Ilmatov law enforcement, before the game, the referee's law enforcement issue caused heated public opinion, the AFC finally chose this whistle to enforce the game." ”

The camera then swept over the faces of most of the players, and finally froze on Jiang Chenxi's body.

"As the World Footballer of the Year, Jiang has achieved a lot of honors in the club, however, the honor in the national team is a pity, this game, he will lead his national team teammates to attack the Asian Cup championship!" Lehmann said Sky TV broadcast the Asian Cup final live from former Arsenal star Lehmann and former Manchester United star Gary. Neville, this commentary duo is also very interesting.

"For South Koreans, how to restrain Jiang will be a great test." Gary. "Once the Koreans can make it, they're very close to victory," Neville said. ”

"Our Ali. Daei is the all-time leading scorer in the Asian Cup, scoring a total of 14 goals in the Asian Cup, including eight goals in the 1996 Asian Cup, the most goals scored by the top scorer in a single tournament in the Asian Cup, and helped Iran to a third-place finish that year. "However, it is a pity that in the semi-finals of the Chinese team's elimination of the United Arab Emirates, China Jiang increased his goal tally in this Asian Cup to 9 goals, and the World Footballer of the Year also set the latest Asian Cup single-season goal record." ”

The TV footage showed the starting line-ups of both sides today.

Chinese team lineup: 23-Wang Dalei; 2-Ren Hao, 3-Meng Fang, 5-Zhang Linpeng, 17-Zhang Zhangdong; 10-Zheng Zhen, 15-Wu Xi; 8-Cai Huikang, 7-Wu Lei, 16-Sun Ke, 9-Jiang Chenxi.

South Korea lineup: 23-Kim Jin-hyun; 5-Kwak Tae-hui, 19-Kim Young-kwon, 20-Jang Hyun-so; 3-Kim Jin-so, 6-Park Joo-ho, 16-Ji Sung-yong, 10-Nam Tae-hee, 22-Cha Duri; 7-Sun Xingmin, 18-Li Tingxie.

On January 31, 2015, at five o'clock in the afternoon local time in Australia, with the whistle of Uzbekistan referee Ilmatov, the 16th Asian Cup final, the match between the Chinese team and the South Korean team officially started at the Sydney Stadium.

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South Korea kicked off first, and they took advantage of the opportunity to attack the Chinese goal from the very beginning of the game.

When it comes to the Korean team, the impression of this team by fans outside of Asia is largely from the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, and the style of Korean football is relatively distinct, that is, using its physical and mental strength to run wildly, playing aggressively, playing rough, and always like to play tricks.

The strongest impression that Chinese fans have of the South Korean team is that this team has strong tactical execution and is very combative.

The biggest feeling after the Chinese Super League team played with the Korean K League team for the first time is that the Koreans are very capable of running, can run to death, and you can only follow their rhythm, and then you are oppressed and breathless, and before you know it, you find that you have no physical fitness.

South Korea's head coach Stillik has carefully studied the tactics of the Chinese team, and he divided the Chinese team into two stages, one is the Chinese team before Jiang Chenxi exerts his power, and the other is the Chinese team that Jiang Chenxi begins to exert his power.

He noticed that because of the lack of tacit understanding with his teammates, or to put it bluntly, the other players of the Chinese team could not keep up with Jiang Chenxi's rhythm, so the Chinese team often needed to play for a while before they could slowly find a little bit of a step to chase Jiang Chenxi.

Therefore, Stillik's tactics for the South Korean team are to try to score early goals before the Chinese team enters the state, or before Jiang Chenxi starts to exert its power, and try to take as many leads as possible in the score.

After taking the lead, preferably by more than two goals, the South Korean team can be more comfortable with the Chinese team, and he doesn't believe that the Korean team can't prevent Jiang Chenxi when the whole team works together.

However, it soon became apparent that the match was not what he had imagined......

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