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Chapter 191

The game against the Argentine National Junior Team was Ding Yu's test of the overall strength of the Chinese National Junior Team.

Can the defense of the Chinese national youth team be stabilized under the attack of the Argentine national youth team, and can the offense of the Chinese national youth team pose a threat to the gate of the Argentine national youth team? Although this Chinese national youth team is known as the heyday.

Take these two opponents in the group stage as an example. The players of the Argentine National Junior Team were all born after January 89, 1, but the vast majority of them have also had the opportunity to play in professional leagues!These players are basically from San Lorenzo, Boca, Sarsfield, Athletic, River Plate and other top Argentine domestic teams. Among them, the captain Insua plays for Liverpool in the Premier League and often gets the opportunity to play. This alone, no player in the Chinese national team can match.As for the Spanish national youth team, all the players in the Chinese national youth team can be eclipsed by just using the demon boy Bojan who played for Barcelona.

Although Chinese football has made great progress in recent years, and talent has exploded, but the background of the world's first-class football powers is there. Just from the composition of the members of the national youth team, which they don't pay much attention to, it can be seen that the talents of these veteran football powers have never been out of stock.

The game was held at the Wenju Stadium in Ulsan, South Korea. This stadium is one of the venues for the 02 World Cup and can accommodate more than 1 people. However, in today's game, there were less than 1000 fans who came to watch the game, including more than [-] local Chinese students in Ulsan.

Ding Yu looked at the empty stands, and felt a little happy. Although the players under him had experience in professional leagues, they were young after all, and having such a relatively quiet environment was good for their performance.

At the beginning of the game, the Argentine national youth team launched a fierce attack. The two forwards, Cristado and Rios, are both players with excellent personal ability. The right forward Salvio is excellent in speed and technology. They are the main offensive starting point of the Argentine national youth team. The defense line of the Chinese team has been torn apart by the opponent.

Hu Gandang made a beautiful flying shovel in the middle, and shoveled the ball from the opponent's feet, but the ball that rolled out was immediately caught by another Argentine player and continued to attack.

"Damn it, have these guys gone through a long training camp?" Li Jie looked at the opponent in front of him with some trouble. After two years of honing in Germany, his marking ability has been greatly improved, but the current opponent does not use one person as the core of the attack, but constantly tearing apart the Chinese team's defense line through passing.

"Li Jie! Zone defense! Don't mark people, just watch the ball! Playing in Germany for two years, is your brain rigid?" Wu Bufan's roar came from behind, and Li Jie was stunned for a moment, only to find out his own problem - when he was in Hoffenheim, he had always played man-marking central defenders, and he was used to one-on-one duels with opponents.

"Stay in your position! Don't be affected by the opponent's running position!" Wu Bufan continued to roar, commanding the defense line loudly. Under his command, the Chinese team's defense line quickly stabilized.

"In the past two years... Wu Bufan has improved very quickly." Ding Yu off the field thought secretly in his heart, it seems that the position of goalkeeper does have his particularity. After getting the opportunity to practice, Wu Bufan obviously improved faster than others. It is no wonder that his talent and physical condition are quite outstanding, and what he lacks is only experience.

Before this game, Ding Yu didn't arrange any targeted tactics. Li Jiecai didn't know what to do at the beginning. Not only him, but other players were a little at a loss. Fortunately, Wu Bufan organized the defense in time, which stabilized the defense of the National Youth Team.

After all, the defenders of the Chinese team are also capable players. After stabilizing, no matter how fierce Argentina's offense is, it is impossible to tear their defense easily. After the pressure on defense weakened, they began to gradually launch counterattacks.

Li Jie pushed the opponent's cross, Jiang Qi grabbed the ball in front of an Argentine player and gave it to Hu Gandang. Hu Gandang immediately made a direct pass and passed the ball to Dai Guangming in front. The Chinese team began to counter-attack.

After two years of training in Spain, Dai Guangming's ability has also increased very quickly. Spain itself is a paradise for skilled players. Dai Guangming's grasp of the situation on the court and the basis for judgment have reached a very high level. While taking the ball, he has already observed that Zhang Yi around the two wings has advanced rapidly, but he did not directly distribute the ball to the side.

Long Bisheng put his back against the 1.9-meter-tall Argentine central defender Tobio, then jumped high, shook his head and headed the ball to the left!
Quickly plugged in around, started running wildly along the sidewalk, after a series of quick shakes, finally found a gap for passing the ball near the baseline, and passed the ball into the penalty area!

Long Bisheng in the middle was a step too late to catch up, but Zhang Yi, who was in the back, caught up, intercepted the ball at a small angle, and then lobbed the ball into the penalty area again. Long Bisheng jumped high and beat Tobio with a head shake!
The ball hit the crossbar hard and bounced back to the penalty area, and the defender who returned to the defense immediately kicked the ball out.

"That tall guy scored [-] goals in Serie B last season! Mark him tighter!" Argentina's goalkeeper Ojeda shouted to Tobio in shock: "They only have one striker, we must mark him to death, so that he cannot take off smoothly in the penalty area!"

Tobio nodded, and the returning captain Insua said in a deep voice, "No problem, I'll fill in, and Tobio is responsible for defending him."

This attack gave the Argentine national team a warning. In the next game, they began to pay attention to the defense against Long Bisheng, and the pressure on the Chinese team's defense began to weaken.

Soon Long Bisheng began to feel the essence of the Argentine defense-Argentine players are elegant and agile when attacking, but they are quite dirty when defending. This may be the characteristic of Maradona, the representative of Argentine football-a mixture of angels and devils.

Fortunately, Long Bisheng has already experienced these little tricks in Serie B, and it is not too difficult to deal with them. He used his height and jumping advantages to constantly overwhelm Tobio for headers.

"Among players of the same age, there are probably not many who can watch Long Bisheng in the penalty area... No, maybe none of them." Ding Yu thought from the sidelines: "But it is a pity that his foot skills have not improved much, at least not to the point where he can have a personal breakthrough ability with the ball. When the team is aggressively attacking and there are enough crosses, his ability can be maximized. If the team is playing an overall defensive tactic, his role on the field is not even comparable to that of an ordinary fast player. ...if he can break through with the ball alone..."

Ding Yu shivered at the thought of this. A forward who is invincible with a header inside the penalty area, can shoot long shots outside the penalty area, can control the ball and deliver shells on the spot, and a striker who is so energetic that he can run all over the field can break through with the ball like Ibrahimovic—is that still human?It is simply a bug that destroys the balance of the game!
Besides, it has only been seven or eight years since Long Bisheng officially played football. It is already a genius to have the current achievements. If he hadn't worked so hard, it would be impossible to have the current achievements. As he gradually grows older, has more game experience, and a deeper understanding of football, he may have a better performance.

Long Bisheng's current performance has far exceeded Ding Yu's expectations, but what kind of development can he achieve in the future?Ding Yu really looked forward to it.

For the rest of the first half, Argentina still had the advantage on the field, more ball possession and more shots, but the Chinese team's defense was very tight, which did not allow them to get too good chances, and the Chinese team's counterattack also made Argentina very afraid. With a center forward who could win 80.00% of the first shots in front, counterattacks were much easier, and the speed of Zhang Yi around Dai Guangming really surprised them.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the score was still zero to zero. Both sides had quite a few shots, but the defenses of both sides performed exceptionally well, and the scoring points were all under the strict marking of the opponent. Although Argentina shot nearly twice as many times as the Chinese team, the score of the tie seemed fair.

(End of this chapter)