"Ah, fuck, those shopkeepers should take a piss and look at themselves in the mirror. Are their football skills even worthy of being compared to those of our great Republic of Korea?"
"Heh, it's nothing but the shopkeepers' impotent rage. So what if they field all their starters? They still won't be a match for our second team!"
"When they lose to our great Republic of Korea again, I wonder what excuses they'll come up with this time?"
South Korean fans treated the national team with a sense of lofty superiority. Deep down, they looked down on China's Men's Football Team.
But precisely because of that, they were extremely angry—even furious—that the national team dared to boldly claim they would defeat the South Korea team.
Influenced by this, the buzz surrounding the East Asian Cup opener between the Chinese team and the South Korea team rapidly surged throughout South Korea.
A large number of South Korean fans said they would buy tickets and watch the match in person, hoping to witness the South Korea team defeat the Chinese team and extend their unbeaten record against China once again.
On the national team's side, quite a few fans were also influenced by Lin Feng and wanted to watch the match live.
For a time, tickets for the match became incredibly hard to get, much to the organizers' delight.
The rapidly rising attention surrounding the match had one immediate effect on the national team: more and more reporters and fans were gathering outside their Training Base.
Quite a few of those reporters and fans were South Korean journalists and South Korean fans, some of whom had come to scout out the Chinese team.
Others came with even more malicious intentions, hurling insults and causing trouble in an attempt to disrupt the national