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"Thank you for watching this game. The Chinese team brought us a wonderful performance today. Every player performed very well on the court..."

Duan Xuan's voice appeared on the TV, and in the picture were the players of the Chinese team holding hands, thanking the audience in the stands.

In the video room of Guangzhou R\u0026F Club, Wang Jingcun, Luo Jin, etc. were talking with Li Chunhua and Zhang Xuexing. They were all very excited about the victory of the Chinese team in this game.

But what made them even more gratified was that Xia Ze and Zhang Wei performed very well in the game and helped the Chinese team win a big victory.

"The next game will be held in a week. The Chinese team will compete with the host Australia team for a ticket to the semi-finals. At that time, we will continue to follow the performance of the national football team on the sports channel..."

Following Duan Xuan's concluding remarks, the live broadcast of this game officially came to an end. The dozen or so people in the room all stood up one after another, preparing to leave.

Wang Jingcun hurriedly called Li Chunhua and Zhang Xuexing to stop, talked to them, and invited the three of them to come over to watch the next match before the meeting ended.

The Chinese team is in Group C, while the host is in Group A. The first in Group A will face the second in Group C, so the opponent of the Chinese team in the quarterfinals will be the host Australia.

Although the stars of the Australian team in Europe in recent years have not been as famous as before, they are still very strong. Coupled with the advantage of the host, they have won all three games in the group stage, scoring 8 goals and conceding 1 goal. Defense is terrifyingly strong.

Although the Chinese team performed amazingly in the last two rounds of the group stage, they were still unable to win the top spot in the group and avoid Australia. In the face of a powerful host, the national football team has only Huashan.

After the end of the third round of the group stage, there is a week of adjustment time, and the game will be played on January 18, which is also Sunday.

The four knockout rounds will be held on the 17th and 18th. The match between the Chinese team and the host Australia will naturally be arranged on the next day.

The venue of the match is still the venue for the first two group matches of the Chinese team, the Etihad Stadium.

It can be said that the familiarity with the Etihad Stadium may be the only advantage of the Chinese team in this game.

After qualifying for the knockout rounds,

The coaching staff of the Chinese team headed by Lippi conducted two consecutive days of tactical research, studying the videos of the Australian national team's group matches and analyzing the opponent's tactics in order to find a way to deal with it.

The players of the Chinese team did not relax after the victory over North Korea.

Although they have reached the goal of qualifying for the group stage under the Football Agreement in this competition, but at this point, they want to continue to move forward no matter what, even if the opponent is the host.

In the Asian Cup of the World Cup in previous years, Australia left a deep impression on fans all over the world. Their reversal of the Japanese team in the 2006 World Cup is still vivid.

However, in the past two years, with the aging of the group of players who advanced to the top 16 of the 2006 World Cup, the Australian team's football talents are a little out of date.

Australian players are almost invisible in the mainstream European leagues, but they are still very competitive in this competition.

Bresciano, Cahill and other veterans who have become famous more than ten years ago have also been selected for the national team in this Asian Cup. This will also be the farewell of Australia's "golden generation".

The Australian kangaroos, who once shined on the stage of the World Cup, are also ambitious in the Asian Cup held in their homeland this time. They hope to use a championship trophy to give the veterans the perfect ending.

Whether it is in Australia, Australia, or in mainland China, the media of the two countries have carried out overwhelming publicity for this game.

In China, the criticized performance of the national football team in recent years has disappointed fans all over the country.

However, with Lippi's entry, the outstanding performance in the last two games of this group stage, especially the overwhelming victory over North Korea in the final round, has rekindled the enthusiasm of the fans for Chinese football, and they have returned to China in a trance. The night when the Chinese team entered the World Cup 13 years ago.

Under the publicity of the media, this game became the hottest topic in the domestic media for the next week or so.

Whether the Chinese team can perform well in the match with the host Australia team, and even eliminate the opponent and advance to the semi-finals has become a topic of endless debate in the media.

Most fans are not optimistic about the situation of this game. After all, it is against the host country, and Chinese football has been sluggish for a long time.

But they feel that as long as the national football team can play a good game and cause enough trouble for the host Australia team, then the task has been completed.

After all, Chinese football has been at a low ebb in recent years, and the performance in the next two games of this Asian Cup is enough to inspire people.

A week passed in a flash. Due to the restriction of the Internet, Xia Ze and the others did not know the domestic views on this game. They only knew that the team had no performance requirements for this game. No matter how far they can go, they will win .

One day ago, on January 17, the two quarter-finals had already been fought. Iraq and Japan respectively defeated their opponents and advanced to the semi-finals first.

Today, in addition to the two teams of China and Australia, South Korea will also play against Saudi Arabia to compete for the other two semi-finals.

According to the schedule, the winners of China and Australia will meet the Japanese team in the semi-finals.

In the evening of the same day, the Chinese team took the bus and set off from the hotel to the Etihad Stadium to challenge the host Australia team. The match started at 8:00 pm local time.

The Chinese team's bus was traveling on the designated route. Xia Ze, who had already seen the scenery on both sides several times, couldn't help but look out of the window when he was sitting in front of the window. Because the scenery on both sides of the road today is different from before.

Previously, the opponents of the Chinese team were all Central and Western Asian teams, and the number of Chinese in the local area was larger than the population of any other country, so the Chinese team felt an atmosphere close to home.

But at this time, they were facing the Australian team. On both sides of the road of the team bus, the Australian flag was planted on the roof everywhere, and some slogans were pulled out to express the support of the local people for the Australian national team.

"Chinese, you should go home today!"

"We'll beat you to the ground!"

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The eye-catching slogans were stretched between the houses on both sides of the road, which was extremely dazzling to Xia Ze. c