Baseball people likened the Chinese Taipei team to a sleeping lion that, once awakened, could shake the rafters in any stadium but asleep was pray to the most docile of opponents.
中華隊就像睡獅在此次亞洲盃的參賽隊伍中，澳洲隊原被預估為實力僅次於中、日、韓的強隊之一。