Vol 5 Chapter 32: The 16th Asian Cup Final

"Beep ~ beep ~ beep ~~"
With the three long whistle of the referee Hassan on duty, the first semi-final of the 16th Asian Cup in Australia was declared over in 2015, and finally the Chinese team won the qualifying place for this Asian Cup final with the Japanese team 2: 0.
At the same time, every Chinese player who appeared in the broadcast screen hysterically concealed a long-term sense of excitement in his catharsis.
The Chinese fans in the stands had fallen into extreme madness long before Hassan blew the long whistle, especially the fans of the "Dragon Team Fan Club", who jumped on their shoulders and jumped on their shoulders so much that they sat Fans in front of the TV have a sense of sight of a small earthquake.
The enthusiasm created by the Chinese team's advancement to the Asian Cup finals and the Chinese fans on the scene seemed to have infected Chinese fans in front of the TV. This time happened to be around eight o'clock Beijing time, so the fans seemed more excited.
Dancing, hysterical roaring is the most common state, and even some over-excited female fans in bikinis ran all the way in the lively market, venting the excitement of the Chinese team to the Asian Cup finals.
Many fans supported when the Chinese team was at its lowest point. Now that the Chinese team is at its peak, they are particularly excited.
Of course, the fans who gradually like football and the Chinese men ’s football because of the strong national football are also very excited, but they do not have the pride and eyebrows of the older generation fans.
I remembered being ridiculed by friends, colleagues, and classmates for a long time because I liked Chinese men's football. When the Chinese team succeeded, that feeling was really difficult to describe in words.
When the Chinese team advanced to the quarter-finals of the Brazil World Cup last year, a fan posted a thought-provoking picture on Weibo. The content is-if I can't support you when you fail, how can I say when you succeed I love you.
This picture can be said to be meaningful, because as the performance of the Chinese men's football is getting better and more, more and more fans are joining midway, so there is a lack of hardship similar to the history of struggle.
But for every Chinese, the better the Chinese men's football performance, the more proud they are.
I just do n’t know if the strength of the Chinese men ’s football team will stop after a few years, and it ’s not clear if they will abandon Chinese football ...
In the end, Tang Zheng, who contributed a goal and an assist in this game, became the deserved best in the game, so he was particularly intimate with the live guide, and the fans sitting in front of the TV can clearly see the rise of the Chinese team. Soul player.
Although Zhao Lina, who has no holidays, can only sit on the sofa and watch TV, her blushing and pretty face is particularly proud.
Because ... the dream star of countless female fans is her ... boyfriend.
In the future, it will be her husband.
Thinking of this, Zhao Lina had a look of anticipation in her slick fish-like face, looking forward to the day when she became Tang Zheng's wife.
Although the father and mother Tang who came to the scene have long been accustomed to the pride brought by his son Tang Zheng, they will always give birth to new pride every time.
Feeling the enthusiasm coming from the face, and then listening to a large number of fans shouting Tang Zheng's name, as a parent, pride is the most basic.
Once CCTV did a program called "Born as a Tang Zheng", and his father and mother were the guests.
Listening to the praise of Tang Zheng from the whole country, which parent has no pride?
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A day later, Australia defeated Iraq 2-0 at the Australian Stadium in Sydney and met with the Chinese team in the final of the Asian Cup.
In the days when the Chinese team advanced to the Asian Cup finals, Real Madrid maintained a very good performance. In addition to the Kings Cup promotion to the quarterfinals, the league also achieved three consecutive victories, respectively won 3-0 away Getafe and 2: 1 won Cordova, defeating the Royal Society 4: 1 at home.
Real Madrid was not affected by the draw with Valencia, and it also made Tang Zheng put more of his thoughts on preparing for the Asian Cup final.
The Asian Cup finals of the Chinese team and Australia are only three days away from the end of the second semi-final, but for the Chinese team it is clearly more advantageous, they get one more day off than Australia.
But considering the Australian home game, this advantage is basically negligible.
However, Chinese fans have their own confidence and expectations, because the Chinese team is currently the best defensive team in the Asian Cup and has scored the most goals.
The defense wins the championship and the offense wins the fans.
It happens that the Chinese team has both, and it is not easy to ensure the quality of defense while playing beautifully.
Most media in Asia are optimistic about the Chinese team's prospects for winning the championship, including some Australian local media, that the Chinese team has the strength to beat Australia.
Of course, the Chinese players preparing for the Asian Cup final did not drink this bowl of poisonous milk.
It is a matter of course that the domestic Chinese media are optimistic about the Chinese team, and the Australian media are still optimistic about the Chinese team?
This is not poisonous milk?
Coach Lippi has quite a lot of experience in coaching, and naturally knows what is most important before the game.
As the Asian Cup enters the finals, the Chinese team has no more skills and tactics to practice, preparing for the finals is more psychological defense and adjustment.
Italy's ability to win the final championship in 2006, in addition to its strength, is directly related to the player's mentality.
It is important to know that Italy at the time fell behind in the final before equalizing the score, and finally dragged the game into overtime and penalty shootout.
When a team wants to play its best, the player has the first sense of common sense first.
Lippi is not very worried about the current Chinese team. After all, most of the players participated in the World Cup in Brazil last year. The experience of the competition is ample and the mentality is good. The top-level Asian competitions are not as nervous as before.
That is to say, the current Chinese captain knows that playing is no longer so restrictive, and he can play his best level with a good attitude.
Before the Asian Cup finals came, the Japanese team played a final match with Iraq in the third and fourth rounds. The two sides played 2: 2 in regular time. Overtime with the final word of Kagawa Shinji finally won Iraq by 3: 2 and won the 16th Third place in the Asian Cup.
As the Asian Cup finals get closer and closer, Sydney, an international metropolis, has a strong sense of football.
In this city, there are many more Chinese with yellow skin and black eyes. They speak fluent Mandarin and travel through the streets of Sydney.
Except for a small number of Chinese people who came to Sydney for sightseeing, most Chinese people cheered to cheer for the Chinese team.
However, tickets for the finals are limited. As the second largest stadium in Australia, the Australian Stadium can accommodate about 83,000 spectators. However, considering various safety factors, fans are controlled within 75,000.
Less than 70,000 tickets were sold outside of sponsor tickets, sponsors, players and other gifts.
However, there are more than 100,000 Chinese in Sydney. As the host, Australia must have more home tickets than home teams, so many fans are destined to be unable to buy the third final of the Chinese men's football team in the history of the Asian Cup.
When the demand is far higher than the number of tickets, the price increase of fixed tickets is inevitable.
A ticket valued at RMB 100 was fired to RMB 5,000, and it was priceless without a market, especially when the final was imminent. It was even harder to get a ticket, so many local tyrants claimed to buy the Asian Cup Tickets for the finals are not available.
This shows how the Chinese team with the prospect of winning the championship is optimistic about the Chinese.
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The time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye came to the 2015 Australian Asian Cup finals. According to the schedule, the finals of the Chinese team and Australia were at 7 pm on January 31, Australian local time, which is equivalent to 5 pm in Beijing time. .
Although this time point is still working or just after work for most Chinese people, considering that the time is on the weekend, and the domestic private bosses are very cheerful in the past two years, supporting employees to cheer for the national team, it does not affect everyone Sit in front of a TV or a computer and cheer for the Chinese team.
Half a day before the start of the game, tens of thousands of fans have gathered in the outer square of Sydney Australia Stadium, with Chinese fans wearing red shirts accounting for the vast majority.
If you do not know that the 16th Asian Cup will be held in Australia, it is estimated that many people will think that this Asian Cup will be held in China ...
There are also a large number of media reporters in the noisy outer square. They carry cameras and microphones to interview the enthusiastic fans of both sides.
It is worth mentioning that there are still many blonde foreign fans wearing Chinese team jerseys to cheer for the Chinese team. These special fans are the key interviewees of Chinese domestic media reporters.
Fans sitting in front of the TV also like to see these news reports outside the stadium. Want to know where there are foreigners supporting the Chinese team in the past?
It ’s good not to vomit and defame ...
Of course, this has a lot to do with Tang Zheng and the successful overseas players in Europe. Their presence is more like watching idols playing in their hearts.
Two hours before the game, there were long queues at every entrance to the Australian Stadium.
The players on both sides of the game also took the bus and parked at the designated position of the Australian Stadium. Then, in the huge loud voice made by their fans, they walked off the bus and entered the locker rooms inside the stadium from the passage.
An hour before the game, both sides submitted the starting list to the AFC official.
Australian coach Postkoglu, who got the Chinese team's starting lineup, frowned, and the Chinese team's starting list was not much different from his imagination, but containing the Chinese team's offense and breaking the Chinese team's defense was the most troublesome thing for him. .
The Chinese team is the team with the most goals and the fewest goals in the Asian Cup. Postkoglu has no bottom.
After watching it for several minutes, his attention was focused on the name of Li Kui.
Li Kui's performance in the semi-final against the Japanese team is remarkable. The few "stains" are "emotion control" deviations. Although they can converge after receiving the yellow card, the importance of the Asian Cup finals and the finals are two. Concepts.
How many young people are able to perform in the finals now, without tension?
Not without, but rarely!
Postkoglu believes that Li Kui is a point that Australia can use.
At the same time, Lippi, the Chinese coach, is also looking at the Australian starting list, which is almost the same as his guess with his assistant Madaloni before the game.
The overall strength of this Australia is actually not strong. Veterans like Bresiano and Cahill can also become the main force of the team. It is not difficult to see that the Australian national team is in a very awkward stage.
Green and yellow.
Old old, small.
The ability to advance to the Asian Cup finals is largely because the overall strength of most Asian teams is not enough to threaten Australia, and luck is also very good.
In addition to the strength of the Korean team in the group stage, which is regarded as the best in Asia, neither Oman nor Kuwait faced a threat to Australia, nor was Uzbekistan in the quarter-finals.
The semi-final opponent Iraq is also in an awkward green and yellow stage, and Australia itself is at the top of Asia and has the advantage of home court. Winning Iraq to advance to the Asian Cup final is the expected result.
So Lippi has only one requirement for the team in the Asian Cup finals-step by step, boil the frog in warm water.
Bresiano and Cahill veterans have rich experience in the game, but the hidden dangers are more obvious, their physical fitness has dropped significantly, and physical fitness is a problem.
Before the start of the game, the head coaches of both sides decided to make targeted adjustments.
However, how effective it is depends on the game.
Shortly after, the cultural performance before the final of the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia came to an end. Players from both sides of the game came to the player channel from their respective locker rooms, and then slowly entered the stadium under the leadership of Iranian referee Fahani Ariza.
"Aoao Aoao--"
Almost all over the stadium full of Australian stadium sounded loud deafening loud cries.
At this moment, everyone does not distinguish between each other, only contribute their own strength for the upcoming Asian Cup finals.
Due to Zheng Zhi ’s injury during the warm-up before facing the Japanese team in the semi-finals, coach Lippi considered that Zheng Zhi ’s recovery did not reach the desired level. For security reasons, the semi-final performance was still sent in the midfielder double midfielder position. Notable Li Kui partner Tang Zheng ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Captain Zheng Zhi missed the starting list, Tang Zheng once again served as the captain of the Chinese team, so the Chinese fans sitting in front of the TV watched Tang Zheng lead Ten teammates entered the court and then stood in a row facing the main stand with the referee group as the center.
Immediately, the live broadcast sounded the Chinese national anthem "Volunteer March".
Listening to the familiar melody, every Chinese person awed at this moment and couldn't help singing the national anthem in tune.
Including the Chinese fans in the stands, they stood in front of their seats, raised their heads and raised their chests, and looked at the five-star red flag flying high, very proud.
Then came the Australian national anthem "Australia on the move", then the two sides of the match shook hands, took a group photo, and the captains of both sides went to the referee to guess the ball.
Two minutes later, Gao Lin stepped on the football with his right foot, Lv Liang stood next to it, and the enthusiasm of the Australian Stadium was minimized.
It's not about the emotions of the fans, it's that the fans are holding back and waiting until the game begins ...