Under the upsurge of national sentiment, Gao Zheng's words in the locker room, "Life and death are downbeat, if you don't accept it, you will do it" was circulated, and it quickly became popular on the Internet.

It has become the best propaganda slogan for the Sino-Korean war.

It was also reported by the Korean media at the same time, of course, the style of comments under the Korean media news can be thought of by everyone with their butts, and it must be one-sided cynicism.

Gao Zheng himself was quite surprised that his words became popular on the Internet, and when the media found him, he said that he didn't have time to pay attention to what was said on the Internet: "Ah, I haven't been on Weibo for a long time...... This shows how much hope you have for us...... Pressure? Of course, there is pressure, but facing pressure is the daily life of professional footballers, and I don't think there is any need to amplify the meaning of this pressure...... What do Korean fans say? Where do I care what they say? They like to say whatever they want, and I'm a Chinese player. Portrait? I'm not angry, it's a regular practice for South Korean fans, didn't we see it at the 2002 World Cup? They were a portrait of Klose P...... Football still speaks with our feet and I believe we can beat South Korea. I am in good health and do not have 'Koreanophobia'. ”

At the pre-match press conference with the South Korean team, Gao Zheng, as a player representative, talked about many recent hot topics.

At the time, a media reporter commented on his response: "Gao Zheng seemed very frank and sincere, he didn't avoid those sensitive issues, and he didn't do anything perfunctory." I believe that behind his frankness and sincerity is confidence, and it is precisely because of self-confidence that he is honest this time......"

Of course, the Korean media may not think so, and there are many Korean media who participated in the pre-match press conference, and in the news they released later, Gao Zheng was described as an arrogant guy with no one in his eyes: "...... Gao Zheng may think that it is still the time of the Ming Dynasty, but even at that time, we have the best admiral in Asia, Li Sunsin! ”

Lee Sun-sin can be said to be South Korea's national hero, and it is obvious that the South Korean media wants to refer to Son Heung-min here.

In terms of comparison between the two people, Gao Zheng is better than Sun Xingmin in terms of both his worth and his current performance, and if he only compares the two people, it seems that he really has the meaning of the Ming Dynasty and the current North Korea, but because of Li Sunsin, the Koreans feel that they can also straighten their waists in the face of the "Ming Dynasty" like Gao Zheng.

Some South Korean media believe that Gao Zheng slandered South Korean football and fans, and mentioned the 2002 World Cup in order to pour dirty water on South Korea.

Under this report, it is conceivable what the reaction of South Korean fans is.

However, after this press conference, Gao Zheng did not make any response.

It's getting closer and closer to the game, so let's talk about football when the time comes.

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On January 20, all the group stages of the Asian Cup were completed, and Australia, South Korea, China, Uzbekistan, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Japan and Iraq broke through their respective groups to become the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup.

China will face South Korea at 9:30 p.m. on January 22, and before that, hosts Australia will be the first to make their debut against Uzbekistan in the quarter-finals.

On January 23, Iran vs. Iraq, the Iran-Iraq war on the football field. Later on the same day, it was a match between Japan and the United Arab Emirates.

The first quarter-final kick-off kicks off at 6:30 p.m. local time, and after 90 minutes of play, the home team Australia defeated Uzbekistan 2-0 to reach the semi-finals first.

At this time, in China, some people can't wait to turn on the TV and wait for the game to start, even though it is an hour and a half before the game starts......

Because Australia enforces daylight saving time, their eastern time zone is three hours ahead of Beijing time, and the kick-off time there is 9:30 p.m., while China actually has 6:30 p.m.

Many families have even just eaten.

For this game, many people either eat in advance, or simply invite three or five friends to come to their home, prepare good wine and food, and prepare to drink while watching the game.

For example, Zhao Ju and Yang Gui are like this, in Yang Gui's home, Shi Niang made a table of good dishes, and invited Zhao Ju and Guo Wei to come to the house to watch the game while drinking.

And in Gao Zheng's house, it was even more lively, when Gao Zheng bought a new house for the second elder, the two of them were still too big, saying that there are not so many relatives and friends here, how can they use such a big house?

Now they find that the house may still be small — the living room and dining room are full of people, the city's sports leaders, and a large number of journalists, carrying cameras, cameras, and filling the room.

They all came to watch the game with Gao Zheng's parents.

For this game, which is very concerned by the people of the whole country, these leaders also want to rub off on the heat and show their faces.

But if they lose the game, they'll have to act like they haven't been there......

If Gao Zheng was at home, he would definitely refuse the leaders' arrangement, but the two elders are honest people, ordinary people, and in the face of those "big officials" who can only be seen in the news program of the city TV station, they came up with a spring breeze and shook hands with him, saying that they wanted to watch the game with him and cheer for Gao Zheng, but they couldn't come.

So I could only sit next to the "big official" with a stiff smile on my face, and wait for the game to start together under the watchful eyes of many reporters.

Feng Shiyu had already asked Xiao Yingying to push off all the work on January 22, so this evening, in her rental house, she and Xiao Yingying were wearing pajamas, curled up on the sofa with their heads, and the coffee table in front of them was full of various snacks that the two of them loved to eat, duck tongue, duck neck, chicken feet, braised vegetables, peanuts and melon seeds, fruits, potato chips, shrimp crackers, etc...... Lots of variety.

This is the "dinner" they prepare for themselves.

Xiao Yingying had a chicken paw in one hand and a duck neck in the other, and she was eating vigorously, and when she found Feng Shiyu holding water to drink, she asked, "Sister Feng, are you not hungry?" ”

"I'll eat it now, and what will I eat when I'm playing in a while?"

"Hey, if you don't eat now, can you still take care of eating when you play in a while?"

Feng Shiyu thought about it carefully and found that what Xiao Yingying said made sense, so she also picked up an apple.

At the same time, the TV was showing the warm-up pictures of the Chinese team players, and Gao Zheng appeared in the picture the most.

He and his teammates pressed each other's legs, and there was laughter.

The host at the back was saying: "It seems that the mentality of the Chinese players is relatively relaxed, which is good news." Actually, we played a lot with the Korean team, so we can say that we are already familiar with it......"

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While the Chinese team warmed up, the South Korean team also warmed up on the other side of the court.

South Korean and Chinese fans were already seated in the stands, and the Chinese team wore the white home jersey for this game, while the South Korean team wore the red home jersey.

However, because the cheering T-shirts of Chinese fans are also mainly red, so as far as the eye can see, the stands are red, and it is impossible to tell which are Chinese fans and which are South Korean fans.

This can only be distinguished by the waving national flag, the five-star red flag in China is predominantly red, while the Taiji flag in South Korea is predominantly white. Looking at it this way, it is found that there are obviously more Chinese fans than South Korean fans. On the one hand, the domestic official has organized a lot of fans in this Asian Cup, and when playing such an important game in South Korea, naturally more Chinese fans came from China to cheer for the national team. On the other hand, Australia already has a large number of overseas Chinese, as well as Chinese studying and working here, and in the first three games, the Chinese team basically enjoyed the home treatment.

In terms of the number of fans, the Chinese team overwhelmed the South Korean team.

However, football matches are not decided by the number of fans, otherwise the Chinese team would have won the World Cup a long time ago.

In the end, it depends on the players on both sides of the field.

Gao Zheng and Sun Xingmin, as the leaders of the two teams, are the objects of the media's greatest attention, and these two people frequently appear in the live broadcast screen.

A reporter from the Korean TV station was reporting from the sidelines, analyzing the Korean fans in front of the TV: "...... Although Sun Xingmin is slightly inferior to Gao Zheng, the overall strength of the South Korean team is stronger, and it is much stronger than the Chinese team. Therefore, when the strength of the two leading stars is almost the same, the overall strength will determine the outcome of the ......"

And very coincidentally, in the half of the South Koreans' warm-up, it was a gathering area for Chinese fans, so a banner happened to appear in the live broadcast of Korean television.

It seems that in order to be afraid that the Korean players will not understand, they also very thoughtfully prepared another banner under the Chinese banner, writing the same meaning in the same large Korean:

"It is the duty of every citizen to perform military service in accordance with the law, let us send Sun Xingmin to be a soldier!"