After Gao Zheng left the game, some things happened in the game, but no one took these things seriously.

Every Chinese fan has already started to discuss whether it is better to meet the hosts Australia or South Korea in the quarter-finals.

Many people hope that the Chinese team can touch South Korea, after all, the word "Koreanophobia" is too famous, and South Korean football has caused the most and deepest damage to Chinese football.

Now if you don't take advantage of the team's excellent state and the opportunity of Gao Zheng's blessing, what else do you want to think about completely ending Koreanophobia?

The last time the Chinese national team defeated South Korea in a game was in the East Asian semifinals in 2010, when the Chinese team led by Gao Hongbo defeated the South Korean team 3:0.

However, some people said that the game was meaningless, because the South Korean team was full of domestic league players at that time, and none of the foreign players were called. Although goalkeeper Li Yunzai was a famous general, he was thirty-seven years old at the time, and his state had declined seriously, and he was no longer at his peak.

Therefore, the South Korean team defeated by the Chinese team can only be regarded as the second team of South Korea, and it is not a martial victory.

Although many people think that this kind of opponent loses and helps the opponent find a reason is stupid, they do hope that the Chinese team can use an unrefuted victory to gag the mouths of those two devils.

What a joy it would be to beat South Korea, the all-main team in the Asian Cup?

In addition, South Korea has a compulsory military service system, which is mandatory for male citizens between the ages of 20 and 28, even celebrities and sports athletes. Now, Son Heung-min, the number one star of South Korean football, is also facing the problem of military service in the future.

Think about it, when your career was in full swing, and suddenly returned from a European club and served in the army for 18 months, who could stand this?

According to South Korea's military service law, the top three Olympic and Asian Games champions may be exempted from military service, or if they have made significant contributions to the country, they can be exempted from military service, and replaced by four weeks of military training.

During the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, in order to avoid becoming the first host team to fail to qualify for the group stage, the government gave the South Korean men's football team a special clause to boost morale: as long as the team qualified for the 2002 World Cup group and advanced to the round of 16, all members of the team could be exempted from military service.

As a result, the South Korean team made a historic run to the semi-finals of the World Cup, and all players were exempted from military service.

Later, because the Korean baseball team also reached the semifinals of the first World Baseball Classic, but was not exempted from military service, this led to a big discussion in public opinion. Eventually, under pressure, the Korean Military Service exempted the 2006 baseball team players from military service.

Athletes in other sports have since protested the decision to exempt themselves from military service, demanding that they be treated accordingly.

The South Korean government eventually introduced a clause for athletes exempting themselves from military service, stipulating that athletes in any sport can only be exempted from military service if they achieve outstanding results in major international competitions in which they participate.

At the 2012 London Olympics, the Korean Olympic team defeated Japan in the third-place and fourth-place finals, won the bronze medal, and the whole team was exempted from military service.

Twenty-year-old Son Heung-min was playing for Hamburg, and in order to fight for a better position in the Hamburg team, the Korean Football Association did not call him up for the Olympics. This caused him to miss his first opportunity to be exempted from military service.

At last year's Incheon Asian Games, the South Korean team narrowly defeated North Korea 1:0 in the final and won the Asian Games championship again after 28 years.

At that time, Son Xingmin himself really wanted to participate in the Asian Games, but because he had just transferred to Bayer Leverkusen, the club refused to release him on the grounds of avoiding affecting the team's new season. Son missed a second opportunity to be exempted from military service.

So this year's Asian Cup has become Son Xingmin's third chance to be exempted from military service.

If the Chinese team can meet the South Korean team, the Chinese fans have already shouted "Send Sun Xingmin to be a soldier!" "Serving in accordance with the law is the unshirkable responsibility of every Korean male citizen!" Such a slogan.

As for meeting with the host Australia, Chinese fans are also worried that the AFC will be forced by the pressure of the football market and broadcasting, and make a stumbling block, submitting Australia to advance to the semi-finals, at the expense of the Chinese team.

Therefore, he is not willing to meet Australia in the quarter-finals.

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Three minutes after stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

The Chinese team won the group as they wished, and once again the whole team circled the stadium after the game to thank the Chinese fans who had come from afar.

Fans chanted for the Chinese team: "Brisbane! Brisbane! Brisbane! ”

This is their agreement with the Chinese team.

On January 22, they will meet again at the stadium.

Australia beat Oman 4-0 and South Korea narrowly beat Kuwait 1-0 in the two Group A group games held yesterday, with both teams winning two games and qualifying ahead of schedule. But who will win the group will depend on the direct dialogue between the two teams in the last game.

Because Australia's goal ratio is better than that of South Korea, as long as they don't lose to South Korea, even if they draw with the opponent, in the case of the same score, the relationship between victory and defeat is the same, and Australia has the advantage of goal difference, and they can become the first in the group.

At the post-match press conference between China and Uzbekistan, Perrin was also asked by reporters whether he wanted to meet hosts Australia or South Korea.

Perrin did not answer the question, but said: "Our next match is the third game of the group stage, and our opponent is North Korea. As for what we will face in the quarter-finals, it's not something to think about because it's useless how I think about it. ”

Gao Zheng is more sincere, and when reporters asked him who he wanted to meet in the quarterfinals, he said without thinking: "South Korea." ”

Then he laughed, and the reporters laughed too.

This is simply the choice that the vast majority of Chinese fans will make.

Why fight Australia when you can fight South Korea?

Is Australia easy to fight?

It's all just as tough to deal with anyway, so why not choose the one you want to deal with the most?

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The match between China and North Korea in the third round of the group stage is not being followed at all.

In addition to sporadic calls for the Chinese team not to drop the chain and strive to qualify from the group with three consecutive wins.

But more people are still paying more attention to the quarter-finals.

On January 17, the third round of Group A kicked off at the same time, and there was no Chinese participation in the two group games on this day, but one of the group games was very concerned by China, and many Chinese media even reported this game in Brisbane, even if the next day was the Chinese team's game in another city, which would cause them to go back and forth, which was very hard.

Just because this match is a match between Australia and South Korea.

Who will be the opponent of the Chinese team in the quarter-finals will be known after this game.

South Korea scored in the 32nd minute of the first half.

The score meant Australia would finish second in the group and meet China in the quarter-finals.

This is not what the vast majority of people would like. So after the South Korean team scored, the Chinese reporters in the media table sighed, which made many Australian colleagues very puzzled - they thought that this group of oriental faces were South Korean reporters...... How can there be a goal scored by their own national team, but the reporters sighed?

It was only later that they found out...... This is a group of Chinese journalists.

But when they understood this, they were even more confused.

Doesn't it mean that Chinese football has "Koreanophobia"? How do you look at the meaning of the group of Chinese reporters, who still want the Chinese team to play with the South Korean team in the quarterfinals?

South Korea's Lee Jeong-hyeol was substituted before half-time with an injury, which caused the Chinese reporters in the stands to cheer, only to draw angry eyes from the South Korean reporters.

Australia stepped up their attack in the second half, and perhaps they didn't want to run into a high-spirited Chinese team in the quarter-finals.

Under wave after wave of offensives, the South Korean team's defense is precarious.

South Korea also paid the price in order to withstand Australia's attack.

Their winger Han Kyo-won was fouled on the return to defence and received a yellow card. It was his second yellow card of the tournament and would result in him being suspended for one match and not being able to play against China in the next game.

If South Korea does meet China in the quarter-finals, it will be good news for China.

In the 78th minute of the game, the moment of excitement for the Chinese journalists finally came when Australia capitalized on South Korea's own defensive mistake and scored the equaliser!

If this score is maintained until the end, it means that Australia will be the first team in the group, and the second team will squeeze the South Korean team to the second place in the group to meet the Chinese team!

As Chinese journalists cheered for Australia's goal in the media gallery, they didn't bother to consider the mood of the South Korean journalists......

Playing South Korea at the best of their best is what fans and reporters across the country are thinking.