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Chapter 37 Advance to the Finals

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the two teams entered the halftime break with a 3-0 score, and the Chinese team temporarily led by three goals.

In the locker room, Chen Qianjun warned everyone not to be careless, please remember the miracle of Istanbul, which was also the lead with three goals and was finally turned over by the opponent.

The Chinese team should not have such a background.

The players who were already very happy suddenly calmed down, especially those who obeyed 90 immediately took it seriously.

Sure enough, after a 15-minute break, the UAE replaced two consecutively and launched a fierce attack at the beginning of the second half, trying to score a goal.

Fortunately, the Chinese team itself has excellent team cooperation and personal strength in the midfield and backcourt, and was reminded by Chen Qianjun during the midfield that he did not underestimate the enemy, so the UAE did not succeed.

In addition to stabilizing defense, the Chinese team is also waiting for opportunities to counterattack.

You know, there are dribbling masters like Yu Hi, passers like Wu Xi, and counterattack masters like Wu Sanshi with speeds of up to 92/92.

The UAE has no choice but to use fouls to stop the Chinese team's counterattack in defense.

Although they have paid great attention to the location of the foul, sometimes the situation is urgent and they still don’t care about so much.

In the 65th minute, Wu Sanshi received a long pass from Zheng Zhi in the frontcourt and then scored a goal by one, and he was about to pass the last defender Mohamed Ahmed to form a one-on-one striker.

There was no choice but to pull Wu Sanshi's clothes while Wu Sanshi was about to go around him, and forcibly dragged him to the ground.

Such a single-kill foul undoubtedly gave the referee a yellow card and gave the Chinese team a free kick.

The position of this free kick is very good. Ahmed had to make a foul in desperation. In fact, he also knew how dangerous the free kick in this position was.

But there is no way. Now that things have come to this point, I can only try my best to line up a wall of the highest height under the command of the goalkeeper to block the Chinese team's free kick and directly attack the goal.

Hao Junmin did not do any fancy fake moves, and directly shot a free kick and sent the ball out.

The ball went around the top of the human wall, drew an arc in the air, and spun towards the upper left corner of the UAE.

Goalkeeper Nasser tried his best to make a save. His save posture in the air was quite relaxed. Unfortunately, his arms were not long enough to get the ball. In the end, he could only watch the ball flew into the net in despair.

In the 65th minute, Hao Junmin scored a direct free kick and scored twice, helping the Chinese team expand the score to 4-0.

Only at this point can the Chinese team be declared stable in victory. With less than 30 minutes left, the UAE will have to score four goals in a row and ensure that the Chinese team does not score goals. This is an unlikely task.

Not to mention the UAE, even if Brazil comes to play against the Chinese team before Shen Qianjun takes over, it cannot guarantee that four goals will be scored within 30 minutes.

In fact, not only others do not believe it, but the UAE's own players do not believe it. Some of them have already admitted defeat in their hearts and are sleepwalking on the court, and they cannot launch any decent counterattack.

Seeing this, Chen Qianjun started to change people every 5 minutes after the 70th minute, using up all three substitution places.

On the one hand, Wu Sanshi, Wu Xi and others who have not strengthened their physique will come off the court to avoid injury; on the other hand, it will also allow other players who have no chance to play to experience the Asian Cup stage.

The UAE did not score even a goal to save face until the end of the game.

In fact, in the 82nd minute, a long shot from the UAE from outside the penalty area hit Zhang Linpeng and changed the line. He was originally heading towards the ball in the lower right corner and refracted to the lower left corner.

When everyone thought that the ball had it, goalkeeper Zeng Cheng, who was ready to pounce on the lower right corner, stopped himself from the center of gravity on the right, turned around and pounced back on the left, and poked the ball out of the bottom line with his fingertips.

This save from the changed line ball is definitely a world-class save, once again extinguishing the flames of the UAE offensive.

This kind of change of line ball cannot be made. Zeng Cheng's save ability completely lost confidence in the UAE players. In the end, they could only let time pass and no longer have the desire to play.

Seeing this, the referee did not even fill up the three-minute stoppage time, and the whistle to the end of the game was blew in the 92nd minute.

The Chinese team defeated the UAE 4-0 in the 16th Asian Cup semi-finals in 2015 and advanced to the finals with their heads held high.

They will compete with Han National for the 16th Asian Cup at the Sydney Stadium on January 31.

The moment the referee blew the final whistle, the CCTV-5 commentator on the commentator jumped up and shouted almost in a crying voice:

"The competition is over!"

"The referee blew the whistle to the end of the game!"

"The Chinese national team beat the UAE with a 4-0 score and advanced to the final of this Asian Cup!"

"This is the third time that the Chinese team has reached the final of the Asian Cup after ten years. It is also the third time that the Asian Cup has entered the final of the Asian Cup since 1984 and 2004."

"The Chinese team failed in the first two times, lost the finals, and finally won only one runner-up."

"This time, it is the third time that the Chinese team has reached the finals and strives for the Asian championship."

"The so-called "no matters are three". I believe that this time, the national football team led by Shen Qianjun will not disappoint everyone anymore and will definitely win the first Asian Cup championship trophy in history."

The other Chinese fans in the stands were all in a crazy celebration.

Even Shen Dagui, Yuan Shutao, Gu Yuwei and others who had not watched the football before, shouted happily to celebrate under the guidance of the fans around them.

Even the baby Shen Yaojuan, who is only over 2 years old, was still yelling happily with the uncles and aunts around her in her mother's arms, and she was so happy.

In China, CCTV-5's live broadcast screen showed the words "Asian Cup final/Chinese team is here", which caused countless domestic fans watching the live broadcast to burst into tears.

Before the start of this Asian Cup, who would have thought that the national football team, which had fallen to the bottom in everyone's mind, could rebound strongly in this Asian Cup, reach the finals and be qualified to compete with the Han Chinese people for the championship?

At that time, everyone was thinking that it would be good to be able to qualify in the group.

Unexpectedly, General Manager Shen Qianjun and Shen, who came on stage at the last minute, was so awesome. He led the national football team to defeat Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Chaoxian, Australia and the United Arab Emirates, and advanced to the finals with an impressive record of 20 goals and conceding only 1 goal.

Many older fans were so excited that they shed tears of mixed feelings.
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