After Hu Lai came off the field due to injury and Sun Haomin was sent off with a red card, although there was still nearly half an hour left in the game, the suspense of the game was gone.
The South Korean team was missing one player, and the one missing was the main central defender. Lee An-in had to replace forward Jung Dae-jin, who had just been substituted in the second half, and then replaced him with another main defender Seo Yong-cheol.
Under such circumstances, even at home court, it is still too difficult to get three goals back.
Not to mention that the current Chinese team players share the same hatred because of Hu Lai's injury - they don't even know that Hu Lai is actually okay...
Shi Wuyin immediately adjusted his tactics. Instead of letting the Chinese team continue to play a full-court press, he set up a bus and gave up the area outside the defensive third zone.
But even so, it is difficult for the Korean team to organize an effective offensive.
Park Guixian, who is known as the number one forward in East Asia U23, has a hard time getting opportunities in the game. Most of the time, he can't even enter the penalty area and can only shoot long shots from outside.
Everyone originally thought that this game would be a stage for Park Guixian to perform. After all, after the Kirin Cup, he was forced to apologize to Chinese fans and the media, but he considered it humiliating.
Isn’t the East Asian Cup now being held in our homeland the best opportunity for revenge?
Before the game, many Korean fans expected Park Kyuhyun to go on a killing spree and turn the humiliation in his heart into goals.
Unexpectedly... the protagonist of this game became a little-known player No. 14 of the Chinese team.
With a hat trick and a foul, he directly caused the Korean team to lose almost all its combat effectiveness.
Park Guixian said before the game that whether Guan Xinyan comes or not will not affect the game.
Now it seems that he was wrong. If Guan Xinyan comes, the Chinese team may not even be able to win!
Because Korean fans all know a little bit about Guan Xinyan, a talented newcomer who has emerged in Chinese football in recent years.
Together with Park Kyuhyun of the South Korean team and Tatsuya Sugiyama of the Japanese team, they are considered the three most promising young people in East Asian football.
It’s just that Korean fans feel that this is simply a bragging exercise by the Chinese media. In fact, it is about Shinyan’s ability. How can he be compared with Park Kyuhyun and Sugiyama Tatsuya?
This is basically because of China's international status, it forced the generals to be recruited and found them to make up the numbers.
As the game time went by, the expectations of Korean fans and commentators for the game ranged from "I hope we can achieve a shocking comeback and let the Chinese team know the consequences of irritating us" to "I hope we can equalize the score and at least guarantee a four-point victory over the Chinese team."
"The eleven-year unbeaten record can be continued", and then "I hope we can score at least one goal in the game and save some face, otherwise it will be too embarrassing to be shaved off by the Chinese team"...
But even with such a humble goal, it is not easy for the Korean team to achieve it.
In the end, Park Guixian simply fell into the trap of fighting alone. His physical fitness is indeed good, but he may not be able to win by relying solely on his body to fight the Chinese team's defenders.
The person responsible for guarding him in this game was Wang Guangwei, who also represented the Chinese team for the first time.
He defended Park Guixian very embarrassingly during the game.
In terms of physical fitness, he may be slightly inferior to Park Guixian, but his defensive skills are better, his timing is accurate, and his shots are steady and firm. Even in his own penalty area, he will never hesitate when he needs to take a shot, and he will hit the target with every shot.
As long as Park Guixian is attached, it is like a piece of chewing gum stuck to the sole of a shoe, and it is difficult to shake off easily.
In fact, Wang Guangwei's debut for the national team is definitely worthy of being on the front page of the news after the game.
But who said there is a more evil person in this game?
Hu Lai's hat trick and injury simply stole everyone's limelight.
In the remaining half hour of the game, both Chinese fans and commentators talked about Hu Lai's injury the most.
Seeing that he did not go to the locker room, nor was he taken directly to the hospital by the ambulance, everyone breathed a sigh of relief - it seemed that it would not be a very serious injury?
You must know that in the top 12 match last year, after Gao Chen was seriously injured by South Korean player Park Sung-heung, he was taken to the hospital by ambulance on the spot. He had no chance to sit on the bench and watch the game with ice.
Although it is possible that Hu Lai will miss the remaining East Asian Cup matches as he is now, as long as it is not a major injury that can affect Hu Lai's future career, everyone thinks it is acceptable.
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The South Korean team's offense became more intense in the final minutes of the game.
But the Chinese team tenaciously withstood their attack.
Seeing that there is not much time left in the game, the score is still 3:0, and the Chinese team is leading. Everyone knows that the Chinese team is going to win and beat the Korean team!
He Feng gritted his teeth and said: "We have said this sentence countless times in the past, so that later it became a joke mocking Chinese football... But now it is time to return this sentence to the Korean team - leave it to
The Korean team doesn’t have much time either!”
Not long after he finished speaking, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. After seven minutes of injury time, the game was over!
"The game is over! The game is over!" He Feng raised his arms and shouted in the studio behind the capital. "We won! We won! We defeated South Korea! The embarrassing record of not winning against South Korea for 41 years was broken today!
This is the end of 'Koreanphobia'!"
The bar was in a mess. Someone didn't know who they were calling. They shouted loudly on the phone: "Yes, yes, yes, it's 3:0! It's 3:0! Yes, yes... it's the Chinese team! Yes, yes... it's the Chinese team."
Men’s football team! Nonsense, the Korean team is also a men’s football team!!”
Some people wiped away their tears alone, while others hugged each other and cried.
There are still countless people crying and howling.
At this time, the person who originally said he would pay for the whole audience squeezed in front of Yan Yan with a bottle of beer and said to him: "Awesome, this classmate, you really hit the mark..."
Yan Yan saw the other person's appearance clearly and was stunned for a moment: "You are not a student of our school?"
The other party laughed: "Look, I don't look like I can be a student. I want to be a college student again, but I'm afraid that other schools won't want me, haha!"
Yan Yan looked at the excited classmates around him and said, "Uncle, you are going to bleed heavily today..."
"It doesn't matter. This is the first time in forty-one years, and the heavy bleeding is worth it!" The middle-aged man opposite raised the wine bottle, "Is there any more wine? I don't want any more."
"Yes, yes." Yan Yan quickly picked up a bottle of beer on his table.
"How come you know Hu Lai so well? His fans?" the middle-aged man asked.
Yan Yan first shook his head, then puffed up his chest and said proudly: "No, I am his teammate!"
"Why are the people from Flashing Star here?" The middle-aged uncle was surprised. This is a bar after all. As a fan, he is a little concerned when he sees professional players appearing in the bar.
Yan Yan also understood and quickly explained: "Uh, no... I mean I was his teammate when he was on the Dongchuan Middle School team."
"Oh yes, he came from campus football..." The middle-aged man suddenly realized. "You were his teammate in the school team, no wonder you know him so well... Come on, let's go."
The two bottles of wine clinked together, making a crisp sound.
Just then, someone stood on the chair and shouted: "I declare - everyone's orders are free tonight!!"
"Who are you?" someone asked loudly.
"Bar owner!" the other party replied confidently.
"Damn! The boss is awesome!"
"Audacious!"
"I wish the boss a prosperous business!!"
"Thank you so much! The Chinese team defeated South Korea today, we are all happy!" The boss stood on the chair and held his hands in front of everyone.
The middle-aged man withdrew his gaze, smiled at each other and Yan Yan, and drank the beer in his hand.
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Zhao Kangming saw that Shi Wuyin had just shaken hands symbolically with South Korean team coach Li Anren, so he couldn't wait to dial the phone.
But the ringtone on the other end of the phone kept ringing until the system automatically hung up, and the other party didn't answer.
"Oh, wait a minute...it's so noisy right now, how could he hear your call? And maybe it was muted before the game?" the wife advised.
Zhao Kangming paced back and forth in the living room anxiously, as if he couldn't sleep without knowing the specific extent of Hu Lai's injury today.
"Hey, Hu Lai?" While he was pacing back and forth with his head lowered, he heard his wife exclaim.
He quickly raised his head to watch the TV.
Hu Lai's figure did appear on the screen. He had already walked to the post-match interview area and was preparing to be interviewed by reporters!
"Huh?" Zhao Kangming was surprised. He widened his eyes and tried to look for props such as crutches in the picture, but he didn't see them.
So he turned around and asked his wife: "How did he get here?"
"How did it come about? It came here."
"How did you get here?"
"I just walked here with my legs..."
"I don't have a cane, and I don't have anyone to support me. What's my walking posture? Is it a limp?" Zhao Kangming asked repeatedly.
The wife shook her head: "I walked normally. There was no crutch, no one to support me, and I wasn't limping."
Zhao Kangming frowned and stared at Hu Lai in the picture.
Is this kid not injured?
Are you so lucky?
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"Look, he walked into the picture by himself, which means that his injury may not be serious, or he may not be injured at all." Hu Lixin pointed to Hu Lai on the TV screen and said to his wife.
Xie Lan stared at his son, but shook his head: "I'll ask him directly when it's over!"
"Tsk, why don't you believe me?" Hu Lixin said, "Let me tell you, if he was really injured, with that kind of serious injury, Hu Lai would never be able to stay here and would have been sent to the hospital long ago.
The team will never let him go for an interview like this... I think the fact that he can be interviewed means that there is no problem with his injury."
As he was talking, the reporter on the TV asked Hu Lai: "First of all, Hu Lai, everyone is very concerned about your injury..."
"Ah, I'm lucky. It was a little painful at the time, but now I can't feel any pain at all in my ankle. Thank you everyone for caring about me. I'm fine now."
"Is it true?" The CCTV reporter seemed a little unbelievable.
"Of course, otherwise Director Shi and they would definitely not let me come for an interview, right?"
"That's true..." The reporter also felt that what Hu Lai said was correct, so he added, "Congratulations to you, Hu Lai. This is your first national team game, and you have scored a hat trick, and the opponent is still
It is with your hat-trick that the Korean team ended the 'Koreanphobia'. Is there anything you want to say at this moment?"
"What I want to say... I'm just happy, very happy." Hu Lai smiled happily, and his smile made his answer particularly credible. "I didn't expect to have such a performance in my first show.
Performance, I originally thought that I could only score one goal, but I didn’t expect that I could score three goals. I feel..."
Here he paused and his eyes obviously glanced above the camera.
Because he saw Li Qingqing waving to him from the stands directly opposite him.
The smile on his face became even brighter.
Then he quickly withdrew his gaze and continued to look at the camera and said: "I feel that the Seoul World Cup Stadium is my blessed place. I especially enjoy playing here. If I have the opportunity in the future, I still want to play here!"
The CCTV reporter who interviewed him was a woman. When she heard Hu Lai say this, the smile on her face froze. With her female intuition, she felt that Hu Lai's words were obviously not just what he said.
This kid is actually mocking the performance of Korean fans today in a weird way, right?
Thinking back to his celebration after his third goal, the female reporter became more and more sure of her guess.
She suddenly realized that the "hero" of Chinese football in front of her might be different from the Chinese players she had interviewed before.
If you want to say that he is simple, he is obviously an "old onmyoji"; but if you want to say that he is very sophisticated, he didn't even say anything about the situation during the interview.
Even if he didn't mock the Korean fans at the end, what did he mean when he said "I originally thought I could just score one goal"?
How many people couldn't even score a goal in the China-South Korea game, but you said "just score one goal and that's it." Is this something that's okay? It's not a guaranteed consumption...
What did you think if other people heard it?
The female reporter realized that she was still doing on-site interviews and should not be distracted, so she quickly recovered her thoughts and asked: "We got a good start in the first game and defeated the powerful South Korean team. So, may I ask Hu Lai, are you
What is the ultimate goal in the East Asian Cup? Or what are your expectations for your performance in this East Asian Cup?"
Hu Lai chuckled: "Two small goals, first, to help the team win the championship. Second, to become the top scorer personally."
The female reporter was stunned for a moment, why did this answer sound so familiar...
By the way, isn’t this what Park Kyu-hyun said? When he was interviewed by the Korean media before the East Asian Cup, he was asked what his goal was, and this is how he answered...
Is Hu Lai going to fight with Park Guixian?
Let’s not talk about the issue of the championship. Let’s talk about personal honors. Hu Lai currently ranks first in the scorer list with one goal, while Park Guixian has zero. The gap is huge...
You must know that in previous East Asian Cups, there was even a situation where two goals could win the top scorer.
Even if Hu Lai doesn't score a goal in the next two games, these three goals may allow him to win the top scorer of the East Asian Cup.
It is really possible for him to get it, and others have the courage to say it!
The female reporter suddenly realized the weirdest part of this matter...
You have to know how many Chinese players have not dared to speak like this, regardless of their ability.
If you dare to say it, you will definitely be scolded by the media and fans.
"Arrogant", "disrespectful of opponents", "a toad wants to eat swan meat"...such hats were slapped on him one after another. Each person's saliva could drown such a player who didn't know the heights and heights of the world.
So much so that when reporters like her hear this kind of answer, they will be shocked by his attitude of daring to speak, rather than the specific content of his answer.
But the person in front of me not only said it openly, but also did not make her, a reporter, find it incredible. Instead, she seriously thought about whether he could really achieve it.
By the way, this young man said before that his dream is to represent the Chinese team and win the World Cup...
Compared with the East Asian Cup champion and the top scorer, the World Cup champion is obviously more powerful, right?
Now that the latter has been said, what does the former mean?
After all, compared with the World Cup champion, the East Asian Cup champion and the East Asian Cup top scorer are really just... "small goals"!
Thinking of this, the reporter suddenly felt that it was not worth making a fuss about, so she smiled and said: "Then I wish you good luck! Hu Lai!"