The national football team suffered a penalty misjudgment! The world preliminaries lost 0-3 to South Korea, and Son Xingmin shot two shots and one pass
Son Heung-min scores from the penalty spot.
In the 45th minute, Son Heung-min scored with a header from a corner kick.
In the 87th minute, Son Heung-min assisted with a free kick, and Jung Seung-hyun scored with a header.
Losing to the South Korean team may not affect the national football team's qualification from the group, but losing in such an unwilling way is really depressing.
On the evening of the 21st, the national football team sat at the home of Shenzhen and faced South Korea in the group stage of the round of 36 of the World Preliminary Tournament - in the first half of the game, Qatari referee Jassim made a controversial decision, and the South Korean team scored the first goal through a penalty.
In the 8th minute, Huang Xican fell to the ground in the penalty area, and the referee punished Zhu Chenjie for a foul. Slow-motion footage showed that it was a controversial decision as South Korea striker Cho Gyu-sung kicked out a team-mate.
Before this goal, the scene of the national football team did not fall behind, and even organized counterattacks many times... However, it is a pity that there is no VAR video assistant referee in the world preliminaries.
In the end, the national football team lost 0-3 to the South Korean team at home, and Son Heung-min scored two goals + one assist. At this point, the national football team has also ended all the matches in 2023.
After Son Heung-min scored, he made a gesture to shut up. Screenshot
The gap is stark
Indeed, we have to admit that there is a clear gap between the national football team and the South Korean team.
According to the latest FIFA rankings, South Korea is ranked 24th in the world and third in Asia, while China is ranked 79th in the world and 11th in Asia.
According to the statistics of the data website "Transfer Market", the total value of the South Korean team is 187.55 million euros, and the highest value is 60 million euros for central defender Kim Min-jae, who is worth more than five times the value of the national football team (11.7 million euros).
The second most valuable South Korean team is Son Heung-min with 50 million euros, with an average value of 8.15 million euros.
The Chinese team is the most valuable Wu Lei (2 million euros), and the average value of the whole team is only 487,500 euros.
Kim Min-jae moved to Bayern Munich for 50 million euros, and he played for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super League.
South Korea's 23-man squad has 13 players playing in overseas leagues, including Kim Min-jae (Bayern Munich), Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur), Lee Jae-seong (Mainz), Hwang Hee-chan (Wolves), Lee Gang-in (Paris Saint-Germain), and Jung You-yeong (Stuttgart) – six players who play in Europe's top five leagues.
In terms of age comparison between the two sides, the average age of the national football team is 28.7 years old, and 12 people are over 30 years old, while the average age of South Korea is 28.7 years old, and 11 people are over 30 years old.
The starting lineup of the national football team.
Son Xingmin: Don't give the national football team a chance to breathe
Judging from the starting lineup, out of fear of South Korea's strong strength, and at the same time recognizing the team's performance in the 2-1 reversal of Thailand in the last game, Jankovic basically continued the starting lineup 5 days ago, and only made two adjustments to the left wingback (Liu Yang replaced Li Lei) and the back (Wang Shangyuan replaced Li Ke).
The national football formation has become a 5-4-1 system - goalkeeper Yan Junling, three central defenders Zhang Linpeng, Jiang Shenglong, Zhu Chenjie, Liu Yang and Liu Binbin play wingbacks, double back Wu Xi partners Wang Shangyuan, Wei Shihao and Wu Lei are separated on the wings, and Tan Long is a single arrow.
Li Gangren shook Yan Junling and pushed the empty goal, and Zhu Chenjie saved on the goal line.
This game is Zhang Linpeng's 100th game for the national football team - in December 2009, the 20-year-old Zhang Linpeng made his debut for the national football team, and in the next 13 years, he made a total of 99 appearances for the national football team, scoring six goals.
Zhang Linpeng is also the only player in the current national football team to win two games against South Korea, and he played in the two matches of the national football team in 2010 3-0 South Korea and the 2017 national football team 1-0 South Korea.
Wu Lei protested against the referee and received a yellow card.
South Korea's head coach Jurgen Klinsmann continued the 4-3-3 system that beat Singapore 5-0 in the previous game, with a pure defensive midfielder Park Yong-woo replacing Mainz midfielder Lee Jae-seong, and Lee Gang-in and Hwang In-beom forming a midfield three, while the trident was Son Heung-min, Hwang Hee-chan and Cho Gyu-sung.
After yesterday's pre-match training, captain Son Heung-min shouted to the whole team to boost morale: "I heard that the crowd will be full, so we have to show our football and not give the other team a chance to breathe at all." ”
Fans came to the stadium early to support the national football team - 39,969 fans were present in this game.
The "nemesis of Chinese football" is here again
The historical head-to-head record shows that the Chinese team and the South Korean team have played each other 46 times, with a record of 6 wins, 12 draws and 28 losses, and since 2010, the national football team and South Korea have met 9 times, with a record of 2 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses.
In the Gao Hongbo era, the national football team defeated South Korea 3-0 in the East Asian Cup, which is one of the best memories of Chinese fans, and Yu Hai, Gao Lin and Deng Zhuoxiang scored in that game.
Before this game, Deng Zhuoxiang also posted the No. 10 commemorative jersey presented to him by the national team on social media.
Deng Zhuoxiang posted his commemorative jersey.
The last time the national team beat South Korea was in 2017 – in the sixth round of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, South Korea faced Lippi's national team in Changsha.
In the 34th minute of the first half, Wang Yongpo's corner kick assisted Yu Dabao to nod the ball and then scored a goal, and finally the national football team defeated the South Korean team 1-0 and won the first victory in the round of 12.
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.
But unexpectedly, the referee became the protagonist of this Sino-Korean match.
Qatari Jassim was the referee of the match, and he has officiated many major tournaments such as the World Cup and the Club World Cup, and also came to China to officiate the Chinese Super League in 2013.
Due to the previous enforcement of Chinese clubs and national teams to make many unfavorable decisions against the Chinese team, Jassim is also known as the "nemesis of Chinese football".
The national football team made a steal in the frontcourt, and Tan Long missed a great opportunity.
In this game, Jassim once again made a highly controversial decision - in the eighth minute of the first half, he punished Zhu Chenjie, who fell to the ground, for a foul on a South Korean player, and Son Heung-min scored from the penalty.
But slow motion shows that it was most likely South Korean striker Cho Gyu-sung who knocked out his teammate...
Since then, the national football team has not given up, but it is a pity that Tan Long regretted missing the opportunity in front of the goal... Before the end of the first half, Son Xingmin scored twice from a corner kick, and the national football team fell behind 0-2 in the first half.
In the second half of the game, the national football team successively replaced Dai Weijun, Zhang Yuning and Chen Pu, hoping to improve on the offensive end, but they still couldn't break through the goal of the South Korean team... On the contrary, in the 87th minute, the South Korean team once again scored from a set-piece.
According to the World Preliminary Tournament arrangement, the national football team will play against another opponent in the group, Singapore, in March next year.