No matter how everyone thinks of this game, the quarterfinals between the Chinese and South Korean teams are gradually approaching.

This time, Asia has three seats in the quarterfinals, and is the continent with the most entry into the quarterfinals. This performance surprised many people. This also indirectly shows the improvement of Asian football level.

August 4th can be called "Asian Day" in the Olympic men's football field, because all three Asian teams that reached the quarterfinals will appear on this day.

The first team to debut is the Japanese Olympic team, and their opponent is the Egyptian Olympic team. The match between South Korea and China will begin after this game.

The Japanese national Olympic team won a lot of lottery as soon as they debuted at the Olympics because they defeated the favorite Spanish national Olympic team.

In this quarter-final, they played very easily against Egypt, who was not strong enough. They took the lead in just fourteen minutes. They scored two goals in a row at the end of the game, easily eliminated the Egyptian National Olympic Team with a score of 3:0 and entered the semi-finals.

This is their second time in Olympic history to reach the semi-finals - the last time they entered the semi-finals was the distant 1968 Mexico City Olympics. After that, they finally won a bronze medal, achieving a breakthrough in Asian teams' zero medals in Olympic football matches.

The Japanese team seems to really want to fulfill their promise and win the Olympic gold medal.

As long as they can beat the winner between Britain and Mexico in the semifinals.

After this game, the match between the Chinese and South Korean teams is about to begin.

Korean media and fans are paying close attention to this game. In addition to the grudges and hatreds that China and South Korea have, they have even greater goals.

Since Korean football appeared in the Olympic finals, its best result is the quarterfinals. Seeing that the Japanese team that has been competing has entered the quarterfinals, they naturally hope that they can also enter the quarterfinals.

Sixty-four years ago, it was also the London Olympics. The Korean team entered the quarterfinals for the first time in the Olympics. Since then, in 64 years, they have never been able to surpass their best results.

Although I met the Chinese team with Zhou Yi this time, the Korean media still hoped that the Korean team could defeat the Chinese team, enter the semi-finals, and create history.

For the Chinese team, they have made history, and every step they take is creating new history.

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When Zhou Yi and his teammates appeared on the court, he found that there were obviously more spectators in the stands than in the group stage. On the one hand, it was because it was the quarter-finals after all, it was a knockout match. On the other hand... this game is very important to both China and South Korea, so many Chinese and Korean fans came.

The five-star red flag and the South Korean Tai Chi flag were waved and fluttered in the stands by their respective fans.

Looking around, there are red oceans in the stands - because the jerseys of the Chinese and Korean teams are red. However, in this game, the Chinese team drew the home team's lottery, so they can not only use the home team locker room, but also wear home jerseys.

But the Chinese team's home jersey is not red, but white...

Therefore, although Chinese fans wear traditional Chinese red clothes to cheer for the Chinese team, from the visual effect, they seem to be fans of the Korean team in the whole audience...

Although the red of the Chinese team and the red of the Korean team are actually not the same, the red of the Chinese team is very positive, and the red of the Korean team is a bit pink. However, this difference is still not obvious enough.

In fact, many Chinese fans have complained about this - China's traditional color is red, and red also has the meaning of festiveness in the eyes of Chinese people, while white is always associated with dead and funerals for Chinese people, which is not very auspicious. But the Chinese national team has always insisted on using white as their home jersey color, and red is used as away games. I don't know if there is a problem with the Football Association's brains, or the design decision that Adidas made when he didn't understand China's national conditions...

Moreover, there are many bad memories in Chinese football history that there are white jerseys in them, so now everyone thinks that it is unlucky for the Chinese team to wear white jerseys, and they will feel upset.

Now that the game has not started, everyone has seen the unlucky white again, and many people are scolding the Football Association and jersey sponsors.

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The captains of both sides quickly completed all the ceremonies before the game, and the players were all in their place, and the game was about to begin.

The referee of this game, Roaldan, whistle, and the game began on time.

Following the whistle, a huge cheer sounded from the stands.

After the game began, the Chinese team unexpectedly did not choose the defensive counterattack tactics they had been using before.

Instead, actively control the ball.

Zhou Yi is the core of the Chinese team. He keeps running during the game, appearing not far from every teammate to serve as a supporter, regardless of whether his teammates will pass the football to him. In other words, if other Chinese players do not pass the ball to Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi will be a waste of time.

But this will not affect Zhou Yi's continued doing so.

As a core hub, this is what he has to do.

Of course, he has another purpose of doing this, which is to increase the difficulty of defense for defensive players. He keeps running, and his position is uncertain, and can always create gaps in the opponent's defense line.

In view of Zhou Yi's characteristics of playing football, the South Korean team sent a person to defend Zhou Yi in this game. This person is their captain, Ji Chengyong, the midfielder who plays for the Scottish Celtics. He is a midfielder with both offense and defense and has also performed well in the Celtics.

At the same time, Ji Chengyong is also among the top ten most anticipated new stars of this Olympic Games selected by the British media.

In this Korean team, in terms of midfield ability, Ji Chengyong is probably the only one who can compare with Zhou Yi, and others do not even have the qualifications to compare.

No matter where Zhou Yi went, Ji Chengyong followed him, whether it was the middle or the side.

Koreans have super physical fitness and tenacious will that are very suitable for doing this kind of thing.

This made Zhou Yi feel a little as Yang Muge defended himself at the time.

I have to say that Ji Chengyong is indeed an outstanding player.

If Zhou Yi was replaced with other Chinese players, he might have been denied the attack.

But unfortunately, Ji Chengyong's opponent is Zhou Yi, who is able to lead Dortmund to win two league championships and reach the semi-finals of the Champions League.

Under Ji Chengyong's control, Zhou Yi still sorted out the Chinese midfielder in an orderly manner. He rarely lets the football stay at his feet for more than three seconds. Stop the ball and observe it again, such a thing almost never happens to him.

No matter what method the football was passed, after being stopped by him, it could be passed out immediately and accurately find other Chinese players.

So Ji Chengyong really just followed Zhou Yi, but it did not have any impact on Zhou Yi's passing.

The Korean commentator was still constantly praising Ji Chengyong for his "unseparable" defense against Zhou Yi, believing Ji Chengyong performed well. But Ji Chengyong himself knew very well that the effect was not as good as he imagined...

Although Zhou Yi has not sent any threatening passes yet, Ji Chengyong does not think that it is his credit. It may be just because Zhou Yi feels that there is no need to pass a threatening ball. Ten minutes into the game, the Chinese team only had one shot, but this does not mean that the Chinese team is at a disadvantage. In fact, their possession rate is higher than that of the South Korean team. Zhou Yi and his teammates are more crossing and returning, such as back-end feet.

Most fans will pass the ball that seems meaningless, but in the eyes of Ji Chengyong, the midfielder of the Korean Olympic team, these seemingly ordinary passes seem to be like spiders weaving a web, one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, and are confused, but in the end, they may weave a large net that makes the prey unable to escape.

In the fifteenth minute, Zhou Yi suddenly stopped passing the ball. When the football rolled towards him, he leaked directly behind him and then suddenly turned around!

Ji Chengyong was caught off guard and was left behind by Zhou Yi.

You must never let Zhou Yi break through like this!

This was Ji Chengyong's thoughts being squeezed behind Zhou Yi. He reached out to pull, grabbed Zhou Yi's jersey, and pulled him to the ground. The referee's whistle sounded and a foul!

At the same time, the Chinese team was given a free kick 31 meters away from the goal.

After the referee yelled Ji Chengyong for a foul, he did not show a yellow card, nor did he even give a verbal warning. Zhou Yi did not protest against the referee not playing cards, but got up from the ground by himself.

Everything was normal, but Ji Chengyong's chest was fluctuating a bit violently, just like he had just completed a 100-meter sprint run. But in fact, Ji Chengyong's physical fitness class would never be so bad. He was gasping for breath because he was a little scared.

Zhou Yi's sudden turn was without any warning. If he didn't hold on to this foul and let him break forward, what would happen? Ji Chengyong, who played football in Europe, knew very well.

Just when Ji Chengyong was scared, the Korean commentator said excitedly: "Ji Chengyong! His reaction was really sensitive, and he prevented Zhou Yi's breakthrough in time! He once again strangled the Chinese team's offensive intention!"

But then, the Korean commentator exclaimed - He Ying took the penalty for the Chinese team's free kick. The player from Lamacia's youth training camp kicked the football towards the goal. The football bypassed the wall and flew towards the goal. It was blocked by the Korean Olympic team's goalkeeper Zheng Chenglong in front of the goal line.

Almost entered!

"It's so dangerous!" the Korean narrator exclaimed.

"Oh! What a pity!" He Ping hugged his head with both hands in the commentary seat.

The Chinese fans in front of the TV also hugged their heads with their hands and shouted, "Damn it."

He Ying also seemed very regretful, but Zhou Yi gave him a thumbs up and signaled that he would play beautifully.

"It's okay, we still have opportunities!"

He shouted in Chinese. If it were changed to English, the Korean players who went abroad would probably roll their eyes when they heard it - it seemed like this game was your chance!
Chapter completed!