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Halftime report: China national football team drew 1:1 with South Korea national football team in the first half. Hwang Hee-chan won a penalty and converted it himself, while Wu Lei equalized.
"Fighting!"
Considering that their opponents were the third-place finishers at the last World Cup, South Korea national football team had performed fairly well overall in this match.
That, however, made CCTV's commentators anxious.
At this year's home AFC Asian Cup, China national football team's ultimate goal was to win the title and claim the nation's first-ever back-to-back AFC Asian Cup championships.
At such a crucial moment, they absolutely could not suffer an upset defeat to South Korea national football team!
[Daehan Radio]
"Tang Ye led China national football team to third place at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, but I watched the entire tournament, and I don't think third place reflected China national football team's true level, smnida."
"Mo?"
"Last year's China national football team was very much like Borussia Dortmund in the 2020-21 season. Every time they advanced, they only just scraped through. If Netherlands and Spain had been even slightly more normal, China national football team would never have made it that far. And most of China national football team's goals came from Tang Ye. The team's overall level was raised by Tang Ye's ability, but in truth, they did not have the level of a World Cup third-place team, smnida."
The Korean radio commentator explained a principle to his country's fans, one drawn from an old Chinese saying: what goes around comes around; Heaven spares no one.
"That saying was spoken by the ancestors of the great Korean people."
"China national football team pulled off too many upsets at the World Cup. Now it's time for other teams to upset them, smnida."
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The male