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Chapter 330 Asian Cup Final!
Chapter 174 Asian Cup Final!

For the Chinese team, reaching the semi-finals almost made the whole of China excited.

You must know that in the two Asian Cups before this Asian Cup, the Chinese team failed to qualify for the group stage, and returned home after three group matches.

However, despite the poor record in the past two Asian Cups, for Chinese football, the Asian Cup can be regarded as a good memory and memorable event.

Because since the first participation in the sixth Asian Cup in 1976, the Chinese team has not only participated in eight consecutive Asian Cup finals, but also won two runner-ups, two thirds and two fourths.The total record of 41 matches, 15 wins, 11 draws, 15 losses and 65 goals scored and 44 goals conceded made the Chinese football, which has little proud capital, only rank among the "triple crown" Iran and the two in the historical ranking statistics of the Asian Cup. After South Korea won the championship, it ranked third in Asia.

And this time, the Chinese team with Li Qingshan is expected to reach the final of the Asian Cup again and compete for the honor of the Asian champion.

As long as they beat their semi-final opponent - the United Arab Emirates.

However, the day before the start of the semi-final between the Chinese team and the United Arab Emirates, another semi-final was played first.

Hosts Australia take on Iraq at the Australia Stadium in Sydney.

After 10 and [-] minutes of fierce fighting, Australia, with goals from Sainsbury and Cahill, eliminated Iraq [-]-[-] and reached the final.

The day after this game, another semi-final will also start.

At 27:[-] local time on January [-], the match between the Chinese team and the UAE team was held at the Newcastle Stadium.

The United Arab Emirates drew the Japanese team in the quarter-finals, a result that made the Chinese team dare not take it lightly.

However, the strength of the UAE is not top-notch in Asia, and their players' personal abilities are not much better than those of the Chinese team.

However, Gulf Messi Omar's personal ability is indeed quite outstanding, and his breakthrough once caused huge troubles for the Chinese team.

But in the end, with Wu Lei receiving a pass from Li Qingshan in the 708th minute of the game, the Chinese team defeated the United Arab Emirates [-]-[-] and broke into the final.

Their opponent in the final will be the host Australia team at home.

Australia does not belong to Asia geographically, but their Football Association is affiliated with the AFC.

In fact, Australia officially joined the AFC in 2006. For Australia, joining the AFC naturally has many benefits.First of all, Asia has 4.5 World Cup places, while Oceania has only 0.5 places.If Australia stays in the Oceania Football Association, they can only get a place in the play-offs, and then compete with South America or Asia for a ticket to the World Cup finals.

It's okay to talk about Asia, but it's too difficult for the Australian team to compete with a certain South American team for a qualifying spot.

But joining the AFC is different.First of all, the level of football in Asia is not high. Except for Japan, South Korea, and Iran, Australia basically has few opponents in Asia that can threaten them. Therefore, it is not for Australia to compete for four official World Cup qualifying places. What a problem.

In fact, it is not uncommon for Australia to belong to other continents geographically, but it is another continent in the Football Association organization.

For example, Israel is located in West Asia, but it joined UEFA.Of course, Israel had no choice but to do it out of political considerations—the biggest benefactors of the AFC are the oil tycoons in the Middle East. Of course, Israel knows that if they are in the AFC, life will definitely be difficult.

The same example also includes Kazakhstan, which is a problem left over from history. Kazakhstan was a member of the former Soviet Union. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan chose to join UEFA instead of AFC.

Of course, the AFC is also happy to accept a rather strong team to join the AFC to enhance the strength of Asia and strive to win more World Cup places for Asia in the World Cup.And there are such precedents, the so-called love between a man and a concubine hit it off.

Therefore, Australia's departure from Oceania to join the AFC went very smoothly.

It's just that for other teams in Asia, the addition of Australia has made them complain.

Australia's technology is not much better than Asian teams, but they have one thing that other Asian teams can't match-that is their extremely powerful body.

Many Australian players have switched careers from rugby. Although their skills are rough, with their strong bodies, they face many teams in Asia like a tiger breaking into a flock of sheep.

Along the way, the Chinese team, relying on Li Qingshan's domineering performance, crushed many teams to reach the final.

However, whether Li Qingshan's strong body can withstand the tiger-like Australian kangaroo left many people wondering.

Moreover, this is Australia's home court, and the home whistle is inevitable. Even if Li Qingshan can have the advantage in physical confrontation, if the referee's scale is biased towards Australia, Li Qingshan will suffer a lot.

More importantly, apart from Li Qingshan, it is estimated that other Chinese players will find it difficult to compete with the Australians in physical confrontation.

The physical fitness of Chinese players is considered to be at the upper level in Asia. Although it is not as good as teams like Iran, it can still have a clear advantage compared to Japanese and Southeast Asian teams.

But still can't compare with Australian players.

In this game, the Australians will definitely make a fuss about physical confrontation.

The venue for the final was at the Australian Stadium in Sydney.

For the Chinese team, their semi-final match is one day later than the Australians, and they need to transfer from Newcastle to Sydney immediately after the semi-finals. The journey is tiring, but Australia is waiting for work.

Even so, when interviewed before the match, Li Qingshan expressed his incomparable confidence.

"Since we have reached the final, we will definitely go all out. Australia is very strong, but our strength is not weak. It will be a wonderful game, but the final champion will belong to us."

At the Australian Stadium at this time, a large number of Chinese fans occupied the surrounding area early on.

Many of them flew directly from China to watch the Asian Cup final of the national football team, and some of them have been in Australia recently to follow the Chinese team's games. There are also many local Chinese in Australia.

"Although this is Australia, with the support of our enthusiastic Chinese team fans, I believe that the national football team will not feel lonely in the Australian football stadium."

Duan Xuan was holding the microphone, and behind him was a crowd of fans.

"According to the official news of the Asian Cup, the [-] tickets provided by the organizers to the Chinese team have already been booked out. If fans and friends who bought loose tickets and travel tickets are included, it is expected that more than [-] Chinese fans will flock to Australia. stadium."

"Now the team's bus is slowly driving over. This much-anticipated Asian Cup final is less than two hours away from kick-off!"

(End of this chapter)