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When the Chinese players came out of the Etihad Stadium, it was close to 12 midnight. This 120-minute battle made the players exhausted.

When the excitement of the lore passed, everyone was attacked by Zhou Gong and yawned again and again.

Lippi hurriedly organized the team to take the bus back to the hotel and take a good rest. Three days later, they will face the more powerful Japanese team in the semi-finals. The players of the Chinese team must seize every hour to recover their physical strength, otherwise they will lose the game against Japan.

However, the fans of the Chinese team were still excited. For the first time in ten years, they had a good performance in the competition and reached the semi-finals. Their excitement that had been suppressed for many years suddenly burst out.

After coming out of the stadium, most of the fans chose to go to bars and nightclubs to continue the carnival, even if the next day was Monday, they didn't care.

Anyway, most of their bosses are local residents of Australia, and they have long been prepared for the face.

After returning to the hotel, it was already early morning. Xia Ze dragged his exhausted body back to his room like a walking dead, but Zhang Wei had already bounced and pushed open the door with a look of excitement, which made Xia Ze wonder if he had been beaten.

"Xiao Ze, we all scored goals today. My dad must have seen it. I'm going to call back!" Zhang Wei said excitedly while sitting on the bed.

"I said, is your reaction arc too long? It's been over an hour since the game, and you're still so excited. Are you tired?" Xia Ze said angrily, paralyzed on the bed.

"Xiao Ze, are you tired? I still want to call home, I will definitely have something to tell me." Zhang Wei didn't realize it.

"I don't know if you are really stupid or fake. If you want to fight, you can fight tomorrow. I am exhausted!" Xia Ze turned over with difficulty and turned off the light.

"Ozawa, why did you turn off the light?"

"Ozawa, I can't sleep..."

"Ozawa, let's chat..."

"Ozawa..."

...

The next morning, Xia Ze, who fell asleep as soon as he lay down last night, woke up feeling a bit sore in his muscles, but his fatigue was gone.

"David,

What’s wrong with you? Looking at Zhang Wei's appearance, Xia Ze couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Wei was sleepy, his hair was disheveled like a chicken coop, he was still awake, sitting on the bed, with two obvious dark circles on his face.

"I couldn't sleep last night. I counted more than 10,000 sheep..." Zhang Wei yawned and said with half-opened eyes.

Seeing him like this, Xia Ze was dumbfounded.

Because yesterday's game ended very late, the morning training was postponed for an hour, and the intensity was not high, just doing some stretching recovery training.

Lippi did not appear on the training ground, and assistant coach Fu Bo led the training.

From the mental state of each person's face, we can see the physical recovery of each player after a night's rest.

Veteran players like captain Zheng Zhi obviously don't recover as quickly as Xia Ze and the others, as can be seen from the exhaustion on their faces.

But when Fu Bo saw Zhang Wei's panda eyes, he immediately went to ask Zhang Wei what he did last night. When he knew that Zhang Wei was too excited to fall asleep because of scoring a goal last night, he had nothing to say for a while.

The players of the Chinese team are training in Melbourne, but China, which is thousands of miles away, has already been arguing about the upcoming semi-finals.

The match between China and Japan, due to historical reasons, will become the focus of the Chinese population every time. Especially on the sensitive topic of football, it makes the Chinese people angry but helpless.

The most recent confrontation between the two teams was in the 2013 East Asian semi-finals. The Chinese team tenaciously tied the score after falling behind 1-3.

However, the Japanese team was only the second team at that time, and no Japanese players who were playing overseas were called up.

The Japanese team, which played with all their strength, once drew with the Netherlands in the 2013 warm-up match and defeated the European upstart Belgium.

It can be said that the Japanese men's football national team has entered the ranks of the world's quasi-first-class teams, and it has not lost the slightest advantage in competing with European giants.

The domestic debate lies in what kind of mentality should be used for the match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team.

Some people believe that the Chinese team broke into the semi-finals in this cup, which has surpassed the pre-match expectations. In addition, the 120-minute hard fight against Australia a day ago required a lot of physical energy. The opponent of the Japanese team in full swing.

This group of people see the situation of the Chinese team and the strength of the Japanese team very clearly, but rational people are often in the minority.

More people believe that the morale of the Chinese team has reached its peak after winning three consecutive games, especially the victory over the host Australian national team in the quarter-finals.

The overseas players headed by Xia Ze are also performing better and better, coupled with the training of the world famous coach Lippi, they are absolutely capable of pulling the Japanese team down.

More and more fans and the media are full of expectations for the prospects of the Chinese team. They hope that the players of their own country can fight a beautiful turnaround under the pressure of Japanese and Korean football.

This desire for victory is getting stronger and stronger, and the Chinese team seems to be invincible. The calm voice is slowly drowned out by the clamor.

Some fans even raised this game to a political level. It seems that the country, nation and culture are all related to this game.

Xi Jinping, who loves football, also said that he hopes that the national football team can win Japan.

The news network broadcast news about the Chinese team's matches and preparations for the Asian Cup for several consecutive days, raising the heat of this match to an unprecedented level.

Nothing in the world could stop the news, not even the Pacific Ocean.

Although the Chinese team is training in closed mode in Melbourne, at the request of Lippi, the players have been kept away from the Internet for nearly a month in order not to be disturbed by domestic news.

But the news is pervasive. The domestic media's reports of this game and the expectations of hundreds of millions of fans in China have finally reached the ears of the Chinese team players.

Where the news came from, no one knew. They only felt that the eyes of the people across the country were looking at them, looking forward to the game two days later.

Originally, the Chinese team had already exceeded the goals set for this Asian Cup. The victory over the hosts is undoubtedly another shot in the arm for the sluggish Chinese football after Evergrande won the AFC Champions League a year ago.

However, the eyes of the fans and the opponents in this game still made the Chinese players who should have a relaxed mind feel a sudden increase in pressure. The sky above the training base was filled with tension, and the battle was at hand.

The seasoned Lippi naturally felt the change in the atmosphere of the Chinese team. This atmosphere of facing a big enemy can be seen from the eyes, facial expressions and training movements of every player. Some players even deformed their movements due to being too nervous. c