Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Final Four!
Like Chinese football, Iraqi football is also ushering in their golden generation, but the emergence of their golden generation is more accidental, which is completely different from Chinese football.
Iraqi football is indeed the emergence of several football geniuses, they are destined to cast the glory of Iraqi football sometime in the future, but Chinese football has never lacked geniuses, after all, the population base is large, eleven geniuses can still be put together, the reason why the golden generation appeared in China is because of the change of the Chinese football system, because of the excavation.
As long as you are good at digging, Chinese football will never lack football talents, which means that today's Chinese national team is a golden generation, but every Chinese national team in the future will be a stronger golden generation!
The golden generation of Chinese football is more durable and stronger, and this quarter-final battle just proves this!
In this game, Lin Qi was still sitting on the bench, although he proved that he could integrate into the Chinese national team in the group game against Kuwait in the last game, Liu Yihai still did not put him in the starting lineup.
The main striker of the Chinese national team performed well in the first two group games, and there is no need for the old monster to rush to let Lin Qi replace him, or that sentence, Lin Qi's time to join the Chinese national team is too short, and he needs more run-in.
In Liu Yihai's view, this Asian Cup does not belong to Lin Qi's arena, if the Asian Cup is held in the summer half a year later, Lin Qi may be very eye-catching, but now, he can only be used as a super substitute for the Chinese national team, and can only be used as a miracle soldier in Liu Yihai's hands.
The game against the Iraqi team was not difficult, and the Chinese national team has always occupied the initiative on the field. The performance of the Chinese national team in this Asian Cup is somewhat similar to the performance of Qilu in the AFC Champions League, and they seem to be able to play effortlessly no matter what kind of opponent they face.
The final score was 2:1. The Chinese national team won the undisputed victory in the quarterfinals!
The Iraqi national team is really worthy of Iraq's golden generation, and their players are also performing very well, but compared with the Chinese national team, they lack some discipline and the overall quality of the team.
The Chinese national team won this game by virtue of this advantage, judging from the score. It seems that it will not be easy for the Chinese national team to win, and perhaps they may be equalized or even overtaken by their opponents when they are on the field.
But in fact, the players of the Chinese national team really did not do their best, they played in strict accordance with the arrangement of head coach Liu Yihai throughout the game, which allowed them to save a lot of physical energy and let them cope with this game calmly.
The Asian Cup is not too long, but if you want to win the eventual title, you have to play at least six matches, which makes the competition schedule quite dense. And the further you go, the stronger the opponent will become.
In this case, of course, Liu Yihai wants to let the players save some physical strength, of course, he doesn't need to let the Chinese national team work too hard in the quarterfinals, after all, although the Iraqi team is not weak, it is not too strong, Liu Yihai has full confidence to defeat them.
The Chinese national team and the Iraqi team do not have the same deep hatred as the South Korean team, and the score of 2:1 is just right.
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The Chinese national team successfully entered the semi-finals of this Asian Cup. The other three teams that reached the semi-finals at the same time as them were Iran, Saudi Arabia and Japan.
And as for the South Korean team. It suffered a defeat in the quarter-finals with Saudi Arabia, and a score of 0:2 put the South Korean team on the plane home early.
South Korea's memories of the Asian Cup are not great, and although they qualified from the group like the Chinese national team, they played a total of four games, scoring only two goals and conceding a full eight. The goal difference is minus six, which is a huge shame for South Korean fans......
It is for this reason that although the South Korean team entered the quarterfinals, it fell to eighth place in the ranking of the whole of Asia, and the ranking of the whole world. For the first time, South Korea dropped out of the top 50 and ranked 53rd.
As a frequent visitor to the World Cup, as a South Korean team that flaunts itself as the first in Asia, but has achieved such a bad result in the Asian Cup, it has to be said that it is still related to Lin Qi.
Korean fans no longer like Lin Qi after learning that he is not Korean at all, but they hate this nemesis of South Korean football very much, and in the eyes of many Korean fans, the reason why the South Korean team has gone such a bad way in the Asian Cup is all because Lin Qi participated in the Asian Cup.
I really hope that when he goes to Europe, Henry will be able to repair him well, and also give us Koreans a long life.
South Korean fans have such expectations, although the god of war Lin Qi is not Korean, but they have a more powerful Korean because of the blessing of disguise.
And the South Korean still doesn't know that he is actually regarded as a compatriot by the South Koreans, and he is still hoping that Lin Qi can choose his first stop in Europe at Arsenal, in Highbury......
Wang Yi has not yet made a decision, and Lin Qi does not know which team he will go to next season, the only thing he knows is that in the current Asian Cup, the Chinese national team must win the championship.
Although he has never been rewarded with the championship of the football king system, Lin Qi is still full of indescribable desire for the championship, which is the pursuit of all professional players, and the championship is an important source of such passion for football.
Lin Qi is a professional footballer, and he is also a very passionate professional footballer, and he will certainly be hungry for championships.
Like him, the entire Chinese national team is also full of desire for the championship, and they are also full of confidence, and now they are only two games away from the final championship, as long as they win these two more games, the Chinese national team will stand on the final podium.
But the players of the Chinese national team also know that the next two games will be their real challenge in the Asian Cup!
The Asian Cup is really boring, Asian football is too weak, there are too few strong teams in Asia, I am afraid that only the teams that have entered the top four can barely afford the title of "strong team", and as for the other teams that have already been eliminated, at most they will come to the Asian Cup to play soy sauce, and they can't even leave any wonderful pictures for the Asian Cup.
In Lin Qi's previous life, the Chinese national team was such a soy sauce team, when the players and fans were still complacent about entering the quarterfinals, they didn't know that only by entering the semifinals could the Asian Cup just start.
The games before the semi-finals can only be regarded as a warm-up for the Asian Cup competition, in other words, except for the semi-final teams, the other teams participating in the Asian Cup have no sense of existence, they are supporting roles, absolute supporting roles.
Fortunately, in this world, the Chinese national team is not used to being a supporting role, they have a heart to become stronger, they have a heart to win the championship! (To be continued......)