Chapter 339: Ticket to the Finals

With the offensive strength of the UAE team, it is almost impossible to break through the defense of the Dragon Country, unless the Dragon Team itself makes a mistake and gives a big gift!

Therefore, although the current lead of the Dragon Country team is not very large, only two goals, it is enough to ensure that the Dragon Country team can successfully pass the semi-finals and get the ticket to the finals.

However, due to the fact that the Dragons sent a number of former fringe players in this game, these players wanted to show themselves as much as possible in this game in order to have a chance to appear in the final game, so they did not have a win in their hands, so they let go of their slack.

In the rest of the first half, the Dragon team created many good chances on goal, Wu Lei and Fan Xiaodong made contributions one after another, helping the Dragon team to rewrite the score to 4:0 at the end of the first half!

Although there is still a second half of the game, the outcome of the game has lost suspense at this time.

In view of this situation, the Dragon Country team made personnel adjustments at halftime, replaced Shen Feng and Zhang Xizhe from the break, and began to prepare for the final finals.

The two cores of the front court of the Dragon Country team went down together, which made the overall strength of the Dragon Country team appear to have a significant decline, although the new players also performed very hard, but the control and threat on the field have obviously decreased.

This gave the UAE team, who were suppressed in the first half, a little respite.

Although it is impossible for the UAE team to achieve a reversal with the current situation of the game, this game, after all, was held in front of their home, and the fans who came to the game today were the first time that the number of fans was evenly matched in the game of the Dragon team.

Under the watchful eyes of so many Chinese people, including many members of the royal family, the UAE team does not want to lose so completely, even if the result is definitely lost, at least to score a goal to save some face.

Therefore, in the course of the second half of the game, the warring sides finally had some back and forth attacks, and it was no longer like the first half of the game, when the completely one-sided Dragon team was pressing the UAE team.

Yan Junling, as the current No. 1 goalkeeper of the Dragon Country team, can be said to be the easiest one among all the players who have appeared in the Dragon Country Team in this Asian Cup, and has hardly encountered any real tests, even if he has lost a goal, it has nothing to do with him, either the defender makes a mistake, or the opposing player is too lucky.

The same is true of this game, in the first half of the game, Yan Junling had almost nothing to do, so idle that he could sit down and have a cup of afternoon tea.

It was in the second half that the UAE team's offense had improved a little, and it was really able to advance to the goal of the Dragon Country team, and there were not many attacks that threatened the goal of the Dragon Country team.

However, the Dragon Team still conceded a goal in the 73rd minute of the game, and this conceded goal was the luck of the UAE team, which could not be stopped.

The situation at that time was like this, an attack of the UAE team, when it advanced to a position 30 meters away from the goal of the Dragon Team, there was no way to continue to move forward, the dribbling players of the UAE team, did not want to let this hard-won offensive opportunity, and then return in vain, regardless of whether there were dates or not, pick up a shot to try, no matter what the quality of the shot was, at least one shot can be increased, so that the statistics after the game look better.

The UAE team's shot was full of power, but the part was not too right, and according to the initial trajectory of the ball, it was impossible to hit the goal frame of the Dragon team.

However, after the ball was kicked out, it touched the defender who was dragged by the Dragon Country Team at the back, and the body of the captain Zhang Linpeng on the field produced a line change, so that the ball that should have flown out of the bottom line turned a corner, grazed the inside of the far post of the Dragon Country Team, and drilled into the goal.

Yan Junling was helpless against this ball.

Moreover, Zhang Linpeng didn't expect that his subconscious interception would backfire and help him!

Neither of them had much responsibility for conceding this goal, and it can only be said that the UAE team was too lucky to meet the dead mouse.

As a result, the score was rewritten to 3:1.

This unexpected goal boosted the morale of the UAE team, and after reproducing the kick-off, they pressed it hard and wanted to keep it up!

However, the Dragon Country team did not leave them with any more opportunities to take advantage of, but took advantage of their big pressure and the void of the air defense, and scored another goal in the 77th minute of the game to extend the lead to three goals again!

The fourth goal scored by Yang Xu, who came off the bench, completely killed the suspense of this game.

In the remaining ten minutes of the game, the two warring sides who had reached a tacit understanding did not make any achievements, and the score of 4:1 was maintained until the final whistle sounded.

With this clean victory, the Dragon Country team won the ticket to the final of this Asian Cup.

This is the third time that the Dragon Country team has reached the final of the Asian Cup, and the previous two impacts on the championship ended in failure.

The final opponent of the Dragon Country team is the old enemy Japanese team.

In the 2007 Asian Cup, the Dragon Country team also met the Japanese team in the final, and lost 1:3 to the opponent, passing by the Asian Cup championship trophy.

It was the last glory of the last period of development since Dragon Country football reached the World Cup finals for the first time in history in 2001.

Since then, Dragon Country football has fallen into a decade-long slump, until Shen Feng came out of nowhere to help the Dragon Country team reach the World Cup finals for the second time.

The 2007 Asian Cup final was the curtain call for the 2002 Golden Generation of Dragon Football.

This Asian Cup is represented by Shen Feng, the declaration of the new generation of Longguo football!

Although the players in the 95 and 97 age groups have not yet provoked the pillars of the Dragon Country team in this Asian Cup, and the 91 and 93 age groups of players still need to make a transition, but the trend of developing in this direction is irreversible.

Especially in the semi-finals with the United Arab Emirates team, the Dragon Country team, which played in the main lineup of the next World Cup cycle, showed good strength, making everyone more optimistic about the future of this team!

The grievances and entanglements between the Dragon Kingdom and Japan, needless to say, against the Japanese team, for the players of the Dragon Country team, there is no need to mobilize!

Because the semi-finals were held one day later, the time for the Dragon Team to prepare for the final was one day less than that of the Japanese team, but because the Dragon Country team gave a number of main players over 30 years old in the semi-finals to take turns off, the preparation time was less, and it did not have much impact on the Dragon Country team.