No matter how prepared the two sides were, the quarterfinals between the Dragon Country and the South Korean team started as scheduled.

In this game, the Longguo team continued to send the strongest lineup at present, with Shen Feng and Wu Lei on the front line, and the four midfielders were Zhang Xizhe, Hao Junmin, Zhao Xuri and Zheng Zhi; The four people on the back line are Zhang Linpeng, Feng Xiaoting, Shi Ke and Deng Hanwen, and the goalkeeper is Yan Junling.

On the Korean team's side, it is also the strongest lineup, and several big-name players who play overseas all play, led by Son Xingmin, whose status as the "first brother in Asia" has been violently impacted by Shen Feng.

Born in '92 and not yet 27 years old, Son Heung-min is in the prime of his career, currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, and team-mate Harry Kane, the current England captain who shone at last year's World Cup.

Tottenham Hotspur have been one of the Premier League's traditional powerhouses, especially in recent seasons, having qualified for the Champions League three seasons in a row.

This is directly related to the rapid growth of young players represented by Son Heung-min and Harry Kane in recent seasons.

Son Heung-min has also won the AFC's "Best Overseas Player" for several consecutive years for his outstanding performance in the Tottenham Hotspur team, and is recognized as the "first brother" in Asian football.

Son Xingmin's value is indeed the highest among Asian players at present, and the latest value has reached 35 million euros, which is 20 million euros higher than Shen Feng, who is currently only 15 million euros.

However, with Shen Feng's emergence in last year's World Cup, winning the "Golden Boot Award" of the World Cup after only three games, and becoming the youngest "top scorer" in the history of the World Cup in one fell swoop, Sun Xingmin's status as "Asia's first brother" has been strongly challenged.

It's a pity that Shen Feng did not take advantage of the heat of the World Cup like Wu Lei and Zhang Xizhe to land on the European stage, and continue to stay in the Dragon Country, although he successfully helped Jianye Team win the first "Triple Crown" in the history of Dragon Football last season, but the Dragon Super League is far away from the world football center after all, and the influence of the AFC Champions League in the world is far from being comparable with the Champions League.

Shen Feng slowed down the pace of catching up, and Sun Xingmin's position as "Asia's first brother" was relatively stable in the past half season.

Before this match, Shen Feng and Sun Xingmin had never met on the court.

The year before last, in the 2017 East Asian Cup, Shen Feng represented the Dragon Team in the match against the South Korean team and helped the Dragon Team win the championship of that event, but Son Xingmin did not participate in that competition.

In order to be exempted from military service, Son Heung-min participated in the Asian Games last year (2018) and helped the South Korean team win the men's football championship of the Asian Games, and was exempted from military service as he wished, but Shen Feng did not participate in that event.

By mistake, the two most representative top players in Asian football did not speak directly to each other for the first time until this time.

Although the position of the two people on the field is forward, due to the position of the two people in the game, there are not too many opportunities for direct collision in the game, but this game will definitely have a certain impact on the status of the two people in Asian football in the next few years.

Therefore, this game has also been interpreted by some media as a "status struggle" between Shen Feng and Son Xingmin, the two current leaders in Asian football!

Son Heung-min was appointed as the new captain of the South Korean team after helping the South Korean team win the men's football championship at last year's Asian Games and successfully exempted him from military service so that he could continue his professional life.

This is a common practice in world football today - the captain of a team is often no longer the oldest and most respected player in the team, but becomes the core of the team and the most famous player.

Including Ronaldo and Messi, when they took over as captains of their respective national teams, they were both twenty-five or sixteen years old.

There has also been a discussion on the side of the Dragon Country team, after the old captain Zheng Zhi quits the national team, whether to hand over the captain's armband to Shen Feng, the well-deserved core of the team, in accordance with international practice - although it has not yet been decided, the probability of doing so is very large.

Of course, as of now, the captain of the Dragon Country team is still Zheng Zhi, a meritorious veteran who has reached the age of 38.

In the side-picking ceremony before the official whistle of this game, it was also Zheng Zhi, representing the Dragon Country team, and Son Heung-min, the captain of the South Korean team, who completed the side-picking ceremony under the auspices of the referee on duty.

The live commentary of South Korean TV over-interpreted this scene, borrowing Zheng Zhi's age, comparing the Dragon Country Team to an old car, although it is well maintained, but the performance has fallen behind in an all-round way, and the power is slightly insufficient.

The South Korean team represented by the young and energetic Son Heung-min is, of course, the latest supercar, with superior performance and full of power.

In such a competition between two cars, the winner is clear at a glance before the start.

It's a pity that this rather creative interpretation seriously deviates from the facts!

At present, the best representative of the Dragon Country Team is not Zheng Zhi, who will retire from the national team after this Asian Cup, he is just the spiritual leader of the Dragon Country Team, and the core of the Dragon Country Team is Shen Feng, who is younger and more capable than Sun Xingmin!

If Son Heung-min is a sports car produced by Hyundai Motor, a representative company in South Korea, then Shen Feng is Maserati!

Of course, Shen Feng only has the potential to become a Maserati at present, and has not yet proven himself in the center of international football - the European arena.

Shen Feng and Sun Xingmin will win or worse, and the result of this match, which has officially whistled, will become an important reference.

The Dragon Country and South Korea teams have not played each other directly in the past year, but as close neighbors with a strip of water, the two teams have paid great attention to each other, and have timely grasp of each other's personnel changes and tactical adjustments.

Therefore, the warring parties are quite familiar with each other.

Despite this, after the start of the game, the performance of the Dragon Country team and the South Korean team in the game was quite cautious.

From the perspective of personnel composition, the Dragon Country team and the South Korean team are both offensive and defensive types, and the forward combination of the Dragon Country team is Shen Feng and Wu Lei, who have scored 10 goals together in this Asian Cup; South Korea's Son Heung-min has also scored 3 goals in the previous four games and is in good shape.

Shen Feng and Sun Xingmin are both players with the ability to kill with one blow, and their ability to create and seize opportunities is very strong, which makes the defenders on both sides of the war dare not take them lightly.