A few days ago, the South Korean media once again issued an article trolling China's U20 men's soccer team, stating that the team had committed many brutal fouls in the game against South Korea. Even coach Antonio was penalized with two yellow cards for his rude and heated remarks. In this case, the Chinese media started glorifying the game after the match, saying that the Chinese men's soccer team can compete with the top Asian teams like Japan and South Korea.
In this regard, the Korean media's comments about the Chinese media are shameful. Finally, the Korean media also talked about the CFA's failure to renew the contract of National Youth Coach Antonio, arguing that Antonio's failure to get a new contract so far is just a slap in the face of the glorified failure of the Chinese media. Many Chinese fans saw the anger of the Korean media and felt that Korean soccer was as patternless as ever.
The Korean media always seizes on the number of fouls committed by the Chinese team, but fails to mention that the two goals scored by Korea were controversial. The penalty kicks that Korea got could have been denied by the referee in principle. It was because of this controversy that Korea dragged China into the penalty shootout. Otherwise China would have beaten Korea in normal time and advanced to the semifinals with their heads held high.
In addition, South Korea scored more than the score in overtime and allegedly pushed for a foul. The Korean media did not dare to face up to this. The arrogance of the Korean media allowed South Korea to completely lose themselves in the semifinals of the Asian Youth Championship. Facing the mighty Uzbekistan, Korea was basically crushed. Finally, in the penalty shootout, the Korean team completely collapsed.
All three of South Korea's penalty kicks were softly hit and easily parried by the Uzbekistan goalkeeper, eliminating them from the semifinals. I wonder if the South Korean media, seeing such a weak performance from South Korea, will name and shame Uzbekistan by docking their opponents for committing too many fouls and just winning the game by savage soccer? The Korean media's mockery of the Chinese men's soccer team only proves that the Chinese team did play well against South Korea, which made the Korean media anxious.
