Then, after a moment of silence, Choi Kang-hee, who was getting angrier and angrier as he thought about it, finally exploded. He said, "Since the Round of 16 to the Round of 8, we have played three games against Japanese teams. If something keeps happening, it's not by chance, but someone is doing it on purpose. We still want to play football next and we can only kill our opponents like we did last time. I've been to 3 AFC Champions League finals and have an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of the knockout stages, so what can I say."
Based on Cui Kangxi's comments, regardless of whether the penalty should have been blown or not, Cui believes that the referee's decision must have been problematic, or more precisely, that the referee was clearly biased in favor of the Japanese team. This situation is not surprising though, as we can understand when we think back to the injustices suffered by the Chinese men's soccer team at the Asian Cup, where the controversy caused by Chinese soccer was an embarrassment to the AFC. When the Chinese Super League teams performed poorly in the AFC Champions League, the AFC was very upset with Chinese soccer, which is why Chinese men's soccer and Chinese teams suffered from discrimination. In order to get out of this situation, the best way for Chinese men's soccer and Chinese teams to fight back against the skepticism is by improving their performance on the field of play, and there is no other way to do so but with victory after victory.
