Chapter 642: Li Zihan: We will create Zào history!

The news that the Japanese team was eliminated from the competition was even hotter than the news that the Chinese team eliminated the Australian team two days ago

Unexpectedly, the Japanese team, which is the highest call to win the championship, was eliminated like this, and it was also eliminated by the United Arab Emirates. Although the UAE is ranked higher in the world than the current Chinese team, ranking 61st.

But they are not a strong team, and their only honour in their history was a Gulf Cup title in 2007. The previous Asian Cup matches were all group failures, and even in 2000, they didn't even get through the group stage and hung on the qualifiers.

It's such a team, and it actually killed the Japanese team, the first brother in Asia, and it is also the Japanese team that is the main force!!

The media also took Li Zihan's sentence "They (the Japanese team) became deserters!" "I put a big headline on it.

On the other side, there was also a small upset, and the West Asian powerhouse Iran was eliminated by Iraq. Like Japan, the two teams went to the penalty shoot-out with a score of 3-3, and then the penalties of Iran and Iraq were played in the seventh round, and finally Iraq won 7-6 in the penalty shoot-out.

In this case, South Korea, who beat Uzbekistan, will face Iraq in the semi-finals, while China will face the United Arab Emirates, who magically defeated Japan. The winners of the two games will go to the finals, while the losers will go to the third- and fourth-place finals.

The media and the Internet fully believe that this year's Asian Cup should be the meeting of the South Korean team and the Chinese team, the two old enemies, in the final. Because Iraq surprised out Iran, when it became clear that they would not be a match for South Korea.

And the current Chinese team is not the previous Chinese team, and they have great hopes of winning against the United Arab Emirates. Especially when Li Zihan is in such a hot state.

Three days later, the final results were also in.

The South Korean team once again came to a 2-0 victory over the Iraqi team. And the Chinese team also won, and it won very easily, beating the United Arab Emirates 3-0.

Among them, Li Zihan scored one goal, but contributed two assists, and all three goals are inseparable from him, which shows his importance in the Chinese team.

In this way, the Asian Cup final will be a big battle between China and South Korea.

This made the Chinese fans very excited, because they were very happy against both Japan and South Korea. Although this has something to do with history and politics, they don't want to meet West Asian teams even more

Therefore, just after the results of the game came out, many media websites gave several reports to analyze which team was more likely to win the championship.

But in the final result, the two sides are five or five, because the Chinese team is playing very well now, although only Li Zihan is famous in international football, but other players who are not famous are not bad, such as Wu Lei, Wang Shangyuan, Gao Lin, Zhang Linpeng These players. The main thing is Li Zihan, his variables are too great, if the state comes, there is no problem for one person to pick up a team.

On the Korean side, their overall strength is more even, and the cooperation is more tacit. There is also Son Heung-min, a powerful player who has a thriving role in the Bundesliga, plus Che Duri, Ji Chengyong, Ji Dongyuan, Gu Zizhe and other players with good ability to assist, and his strength should not be underestimated. In Asia, when it comes to the overall strength of the team, Japan is the first, and South Korea is the second.

So everyone is very much looking forward to this confrontation between China and South Korea, of course, if it was put in the past, Chinese fans would definitely be sad when they saw the South Korean team, because of the well-known Koreanophobia that hurts.

On December 16, 1978, at the Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand, the Chinese team lost 0-1 to South Korea, and in the 32 years since then, the Chinese team has been invincible in international A-level competitions until February 10, 2010, when the Chinese team defeated the Korean team 3-0 in a heart-wrenching game. However, the outside world generally believes that the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games qualifiers are the beginning of "Koreanophobia".

The so-called "Koreanophobia" has always been the strong self-pression given to by the Chinese themselves, and a psychological shadow has formed over time.

But once this psychological shadow is shattered, no one is afraid.

The main thing is that the current performance of the newly established Chinese team of Perrin on the field has given fans confidence, and they believe that their team can compete with the South Korean team completely!

Before the final, the third- and fourth-place matches began with the battle-torn Iraq against the Middle Eastern giants UAE.

In the end, the local tyrant team had the last laugh, and the UAE narrowly defeated Iraq with a score of 2-1 to finally win the third place in this Asian Cup, while Iraq won the fourth place.

The final is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. Beijing time on January 31 at the Australian Stadium in Sydney.

With two days to go before the start of the game, both the South Korean team and the Chinese team were in full swing making final preparations.

Li Zihan said in an interview with reporters: "Our goal? It's all in the finals, obviously the champion, in this case, only people with brain diseases will not focus on the champion! What the? The Chinese team has a bad historical record against South Korea? Please, you yourself said that it was a historical record, and a historical record is history. We will not forget history, but there is no need to live in history, because from now on, we will create a new history!! ”

Li Zihan's words immediately made popular headlines, unexpectedly, everyone was very interested in a lot of foul language in the front, but the sentence in the back.

"Li Zihan: We are going to create a new history!!"

This headline invariably appeared on the front page headlines of many media, and it was very domineering. It not only reflects Li Zihan's expectations for this game, but also expresses Li Zihan's outlook for the future of the Chinese team.

At least the Chinese fans are very satisfied with this passage, while the Koreans don't see it very well.

South Korea's midfielder Ji Sung-yong said in an interview with the media: "Lee is strong, but the South Korean team is stronger, so our Korean nation will win in the end." Win the championship! ”

And the veteran Cha Duri said: "Lee's ability is undoubted, but football is not a one-man sport, I believe this game will definitely be a tough game, but the final champion is the Korean team!" ”

And Son Heung-min, a South Korean genius who is now in the limelight throughout Europe, said: "Lee said the championship is theirs? Then let the horse come, you know that the game is not just a matter of words, we will let him see with his own eyes the gap between Korean football and Chinese football, they still have to learn! ”

Sun Xingmin is very unhappy, and he has a reason to be unhappy. Before the start of this Asian Cup, Son Heung-min swore in front of the media that he would win the Golden Boot award for this Asian Cup. Although he faces opponents such as Li Zihan, who is famous in European football and has a direct pursuit of Messi and Ronaldo, as well as Shinji Kagawa, the former number one brother in Asian football, Keisuke Honda, who transferred to AC Milan, a top giant, and Shinji Okazaki, who is also in the Bundesliga like him, and Australian veteran Cahill. However, South Korean winger Son Heung-min is still very confident, and he believes that he can score at least five or six goals in this Asian Cup, if South Korea reach the final, while the other candidates are about three or four goals.

But in reality? Reality has given him a big mouth, so far in this Asian Cup, the South Korean team has played a total of six games, and he Son Heung-min has started every game, four of which have played the full 90 minutes and two games have played more than 70 minutes.

So how many goals has he scored now?

It was very embarrassing, embarrassed that Sun Xingmin almost found a hole to get into.

Zero!! Not a single goal scored

This is the number handed over by his little grandson, which is not as good as Wu Lei of the Chinese team and his teammate midfielder Ji Chengyong

But fortunately, Koreans have a natural national talent - "really thick-skinned!" ”

So he quickly put this embarrassment behind him and turned to the final championship.

So when he heard Li Zihan pointing to the championship, he felt uncomfortable.

This kind of situation is naturally what reporters like to see, there is no gunpowder smell in this World Cup, and there is no scolding war between teams and teams, players and players, which is very unpleasant for reporters.

Can a game without a scolding war be called a football game? How do you write this manuscript for us?!

A slight spark was the fact that the teams of East Asian countries, represented by Japan, South Korea and China, expressed their dissatisfaction with the AFC and the teams of West Asian countries, believing that they had been treated unfairly

So as soon as he heard that Sun Xingmin had the intention of firing at Li Zihan, he immediately added fuel and vinegar.

"South Korean team striker Son Heung-min said that the championship is ultimately the Korean team!"

"Sun Xingmin: I will sue Li in the game, football games are kicked, not blown out!"

"South Korean striker Son Heung-min called Ban Li, the final has not started yet, and the smell of gunpowder between the two sides is already on the verge of breaking out!"

The media has always been like this, lest the world be chaotic!

In this regard, some media immediately asked Li Zihan what he thought of Sun Xingmin's words.

And that's what Li Zihan said

"Who? Sun Ximin? Son Heung-min?? Who is he? What did he say? ”

And then naturally, there was a big fight in the air.

"Li Zihan: Who is Sun Xingmin?"

"Li Zihan expressed disdain for Sun Xingmin!"

"Sun Ximin, Sun Xingmin, Li Zihan is stupid and can't tell the difference"

The dialogue between Li Zihan and Sun Xingmin packaged by the media naturally kicked off the final.