South Korea exaggerates the "roughness" of the Chinese team! Kim Min-jae: If the Chinese team does not fight violence with violence, it will be passive

On the morning of the 19th, the South Korean men's football team departed from Incheon International Airport and landed at Shenzhen Bao'an Airport at 11 noon after a flight of more than three hours.

At 8 p.m. on the 21st, the national football team and the South Korean team, which won the first game, will start the battle for the top spot in the group - this is the second time that the two sides meet in the world preliminaries after 2,434 days.

In the eyes of the South Korean media, this game is a revenge battle for the South Korean team that lost in Changsha last time.

Son Heung-min is the number one superstar of South Korea and Asian football.

In the last meeting in the World Preliminary Tournament, the South Korean team lost

South Korea comfortably beat Singapore 5-0 at home in their opening group game – a great start to the delight of coach Jurgen Klinsmann, who gave his team a day off the next day to refresh their mood.

The 18th was the last training session of the day before the trip, and the Korean team was open to fans throughout the whole process, and the team was relatively relaxed.

On the 19th, the team departed from Incheon International Airport, where hundreds of fans saw off the Korean team. When arriving in Shenzhen, there were also more than 100 fans to pick up the airport, and the South Korean team with Son Heung-min was indeed very popular.

It is understood that after the South Korean team arrives in Shenzhen, it will be stationed in the local five-star Pullman Hotel of Shenzhen Railway.

The South Korean team originally planned to go to the Shenzhen Football Association Guangming Training Base on the evening of the 19th for the first training after arriving there, but it is still unknown whether the South Korean team will arrange training on the 19th, and the coaching staff is considering arranging players to have a simple recovery training in the hotel.

The distance between the hotel and the Gwangmyeong base is more than 30 kilometers in a straight line, and if the South Korean team confirms to abandon this training, it may also be to avoid excessive fatigue of the players.

From the perspective of the strength of the two sides, the South Korean team has a clear advantage - 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last 5 meetings.

In the 2019 and 2022 East Asian Cups, South Korea defeated the national football team 1-0 and 3-0 respectively, and in the third game of the group stage of the 2019 Asian Cup, the two sides fought for the top spot in the group after winning two in a row, Hwang Yi-suke's penalty and Kim Min-jae's header helped South Korea win 2-0.

In the 2017 World Preliminary Tournament, Wang Yongpo assisted, Yu Dabao leaned over and scored with a header, and the national football team defeated South Korea 1-0.

However, the only time South Korea lost happened to come in the World Preliminary Round.

In the sixth round of the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers Round of 12, the South Korean team played against the national football team coached by Lippi in Changsha - in the 34th minute of the first half, Wang Yongpo's corner kick assisted Yu Dabao to nod the ball and then broke the goal, and finally the national football team defeated the South Korean team 1-0 and won the first victory in the round of 12.

From March 23, 2017 to November 21, 2023, the two matches were played a full 2,434 days apart.

South Korean media called the loss to the Chinese team the Changsha tragedy, and expected the South Korean team to complete revenge in this game, "That time Son Heung-min was suspended and absent, this time it is different, South Korean football's proud world-class striker Son Heung-min is expected to wear the captain's armband and lead the South Korean team to a shame." ”

In that game in 2017, Son Xingmin missed the national football team because of suspension.

South Korean players talk about "countering violence with violence"

At present, the South Korean media, which has always liked to "stir up trouble", has started psychological warfare before the game.

For the Sino-South Korean war, the South Korean media "attacked" and analyzed Chinese football from different angles - for Son Xingmin's possible defense against Zhang Linpeng, the South Korean media believes that "Zhang Linpeng, who was born in 1989, is already a veteran in the team, but he still plays as a starter, which shows that the replacement of the old and new Chinese men's football team has completely failed." ”

"Shaolin football" is also an indispensable adjective - South Korean media naver published an article claiming: "In the game against the Chinese team, they often cause injuries to Korean players, so head coach Klinsmann must control the injury risk of players to deal with injury problems in future events such as the Asian Cup." ”

In the last game against Singapore, Son Heung-min was violated and suffered a slight injury, and the South Korean media naturally did not let go of the opportunity to criticize the Singaporean players - but the Korean media's over-exaggeration of the opponent's fouls has actually affected the players' mentality to some extent.

Sun Xingmin said that in the next round of the match with the Chinese team, he will encounter more rough fouls and even provocations from the national football team, "In Asia, everyone is very rude, and sometimes they try to provoke me." But as long as the team can win, it doesn't matter what kind of aggression they encounter. ”

Kim Min-jae (right) and head coach Jurgen Klinsmann (left).

Kim Min-jae, who used to play for Beijing Guoan and currently plays for Bayern, said in an interview that if the Chinese team plays rough on the field, South Korea will also fight back.

"Singapore also played rudely against South Korea and if we don't 'fight with violence' against China, we will be in a disadvantageous situation and we need to react according to the way the opponent plays. ”

Physical confrontation is a common occurrence in football, and at least the last time the national football team beat South Korea in the round of 12, there was no trace of so-called "Shaolin football", and as a comparison, the Japanese team did not deliberately make any remarks about physical confrontation before the game.

Perhaps, this kind of over-rendering will eventually have the opposite effect.