Green giants

After the group stage, because the Chinese team is the first in the group, the competition area has not changed.The Chinese team is waiting for Uzbekistan, who is second in Group B, to come to challenge in the Asia-Pacific West Region.

This won the Chinese team an extra day of adjustment time. Chen Yaodong gave the players a day off to rest and adjust, and he led the coaching staff to study the Uzbekistan group match video.

In the words of the coaching staff, this is called coaching. The coaching is to practice first, understand the opponent, and formulate a good tactical play, which can often achieve twice the result with half the effort.

To be honest, the strength of the Chinese team has no advantage over the Asian giants, otherwise it would not have participated in the World Youth Championship for 15 consecutive years.This year's players are the same, there are very few who have absolute talent. You must know that Chen Yaodong led this group of players to participate in the Asian Minor Championship 3 years ago, and the losers at that time were miserable.

These 3 years have passed. Although everyone's level is improving, players from other countries are not soy sauced. Everyone is improving. Even many Japanese and Korean players have gone to Europe to study abroad to improve their level, while China has only a handful of players. Several people have not so successful overseas experience.

If there is anything different about this National Youth Team from the past, it is that they have a tacit frontcourt combination.Li Tianxiang, Wu Jin, and Zhang Boyuan spent a full year playing, training and even living together in Liaoning.The cooperation of the three can be said to be the best among all teams. Of course, Li Tianxiang's excellent personal ability is also the key to the smooth sailing of the National Youth Team.

In the past, it was a big problem for the Chinese team to score goals in games. The striker's ability to seize opportunities is really unflattering. Now with Li Tianxiang, the problem is easily solved.

He has solid basic skills and good psychological quality, and there are no situations where he stops the ball out of bounds, separates the ball from the man, anti-aircraft guns, or crooked handles.It is worth mentioning that Li Tianxiang's grasp of the single-handed ball can be said to be unique. According to authoritative statistics, Li Tianxiang has won 14 single-handed ball opportunities in the Chinese A game and scored 13 goals. The only reason for his failure was because of distance. The goal was too close, the goalkeeper blocked the angle in place, forced the kick and shot the ball on the side net.

Chen Yaodong carefully watched the video of Uzbekistan and kept making records, while assistant coach Zhang Hong was responsible for writing down the key points that Chen Yaodong was going to show the players.On the other side, the team's video analyst is cutting the video according to the requirements of the coaching staff. These will provide players with a more intuitive impression when listening to the coach's explanation.

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Li Tianxiang took advantage of the rare rest day to sleep in. This is already a great indulgence for him who has always been self-disciplined.After breakfast, Li Tianxiang habitually turned on WeChat on his mobile phone. Needless to say, there was another 99+ message prompt. Li Tianxiang glanced at it. Most of it came from former classmates and teammates. The speed of information is much faster.

Not surprisingly, the headline in the sports section was that the national youth team advanced to the knockout round first, and the photos of myself interviewed after the game actually became popular searches.The reason was his abs, which surprised Li Tianxiang. If he knew that this would be a trending topic, he would have taken off his clothes to celebrate.

The mobile phone turned to the dialog box showing "wife", Xu Xiaoyan left a message: Don't make videos these few days, take a good rest, and talk about it after the game is over, okay!

Li Tianxiang looked at it and smiled, and had no choice but to reply with an emoji. Thinking of Xu Xiaoyan's bright smile, his heart became very comfortable.

Reaching the semi-finals will qualify for the World Youth Championship, just one game away.Li Tianxiang thought that a good performance in the World Youth Championship should allow him to enter the field of vision of European clubs. Among the trifles of the altar.

I just signed a one-year contract, and it seems to be a good thing now. When this season is over, I will go to the Jiangning team. I went to the Jiangning team not because I have a lot of money and few things, and I am close to home. Well, if you are lucky and have a good performance in the World Youth Championship, you may be able to play in Europe after next summer. At 20, um, it’s not too late.

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In the eyes of everyone, the Chinese youth team ushered in their own key battle. As long as they beat Uzbekistan, they will be able to enter the semi-finals and qualify for the World Youth Championship.

Before the game, the leaders of the Sports Bureau have come to Jakarta and offered a prize of 100 million to the team to help out.You must know that the National Youth Team has been absent from the World Series for 12 years, and the leadership of this game cannot be missed.

Uzbekistan is not as strong as Saudi Arabia in the group, so Chen Yaodong normally arranged a 433 formation, requiring the formation to press forward, speed up the pace of the game at the beginning, and strive to gain an advantage in the first half.

After watching the Chinese team's game in the group stage, everyone expressed optimism about the result of the game.However, the development of the scene still left the audience a little dumbfounded.

After the opening, under the strong impact of the Chinese team, Uzbekistan did not even have a decent counterattack. Their midfield was completely lost, and it took only 30 minutes for them to be defeated.

Throughout the first half, the Chinese team's ball possession rate was as high as 70.00%, and they shot 14 times, including 8 shots on target, scoring 4 goals, Wu Jin and Zhang Boyuan each scored 2 goal, and Li Tianxiang scored [-] goals again.This may be the happiest game for Chinese fans. The leaders sitting in the private room have not been able to sit down since the start of the game. This game is too enjoyable.

"This is too powerful." The deputy director Cai Yunyi sighed: "The national youth team is so strong. I watched the replays before, but I don't know that watching it live is even worse. You say we can't make it to the World Cup if we keep playing like this?"

"That's that." A group of people echoed.

"After the Asian Youth Games, we need to encourage these players. This kind of game can improve morale, especially now that the public opinion on the men's football team is not good." Cai Yunyi thought.

The second half of the two teams basically became garbage time.Uzbekistan, which is behind by a large score, has no intention of fighting, and the Chinese team does not want to reduce personnel due to unnecessary fighting, so both sides played more restrained.The score has been maintained at 10-[-], and in the last [-] minutes of the game, Li Tianxiang, Wu Jin, and Zhang Boyuan were replaced respectively, and Chen Yaodong has already started to prepare for the semi-final against South Korea.

The smooth victory of the game allowed the China Youth Team to get a ticket to the World Youth Championship next year, and the fans across the country were also jubilant.

Such a competitive team has rekindled the hope of many Chinese people for the national football team to break out of Asia. After all, these players must be good prospects for the national team in the future.

At the same time, the scattered domestic football environment is showing signs of recovery. The most obvious thing is that the bars and barbecue stalls are full again. Everyone gathers to watch the men's football game, and the atmosphere is full of enthusiasm.The bosses were also happy from ear to ear. The last time there was such a grand occasion was the Korea-Japan World Cup 16 years ago.