Football: The immortal legend on the green field

In addition to the terrifying Spanish team, the host Netherlands team in Group A is also the focus of the coaching staff. After defeating their East Asian neighbor Japan 2:1 in the first round, they defeated Australia 16:3 on the 0th.

In addition to these two teams, Colombia in Group E defeated Italy and Canada 2:0 respectively.

These three teams are the ones that have achieved two consecutive victories except the Chinese team. The strength of the adult team does not necessarily mean that the youth team will be able to do so. From this aspect, it is not wrong for the coaching staff to pay attention to these teams.

In addition to caring about the strong teams, the coaching staff is most concerned about China's next opponent. In order to find out the next opponent that the Chinese team may encounter, they must first find out which two groups' third places will not qualify.

Because if the Chinese team gets first place in the group, according to the rules, they will have to play third in one of the three groups A, D, and E. Whether it is Turkey or Ukraine, the third in the group, they should have no problem defeating Panama. Then the Netherlands team in Group A will play against the third in the group.

Except for the Netherlands which won two consecutive games in Group A, the other two games were draws, so the third in Group A is definitely eliminated. Then China's opponent is very likely to be the third in Group E. The current situation in Group E is that the United States and Germany both have one win and one draw, with 4 points, and Argentina has one win and one loss, with 3 points. Egypt in this group is definitely eliminated.

Since the United States should have no problem winning against Egypt in the last round, it is very likely that the United States will get first place in the group. Then China's opponent is obvious, which is the loser between Argentina and Germany. Neither of these two teams is an easy opponent to deal with.

As luck would have it, the second-placed team in this group's knockout match opponent is also in Group D. According to the rules, the second-placed team in Group B will play against the second-placed team in Group D.

Then there is no choice, China's opponent should be the loser between Germany and Argentina.

The unclear situation in Group D gave the coaching staff some headaches. In the third match against Panama, how should the Chinese team play to be more advantageous in the following games?

In addition to the coaching staff's headaches, the Chinese team's next opponent in the knockout stage is also a topic of concern for fans across the country. On July 7, the day before the Chinese team played against Panama, CCTV-17 invited retired Fan Zhiyi and Yang Chen to analyze the situation of the Chinese team in a special program for the World Youth Championship. The conclusions reached made most fans frustrated.

According to Fan Zhiyi's analysis, if the Chinese national youth team meets Germany, which is currently ranked fifth in the odds of winning the championship, in the round of 16, it will be difficult to defeat Germany with its current strength.

The German team has the defensive general who plays for Bayern Munich and is a starter, Lahm who is known as the new Beckenbauer, Sweinsteiger nicknamed the piglet in the midfield, Ozil who is a starter for Bremen, and Podolski who plays for Cologne as a striker. Even if they try their best to defeat the German team, it will be nothing more than a miserable victory of "killing ten thousand enemies and losing eight thousand of their own", and it will be meaningless when facing the next opponent.

If the Chinese team wants to avoid the German team, they will have to face Argentina, which has Messi. After two rounds of games, Argentina still has the highest odds of winning the championship. As a leader of the new generation who is as famous as Shen Bin, Messi has already played for Barcelona last season and performed well in the Champions League. He also scored his first goal in the Champions League group match against Stuttgart.

It is generally believed that Messi's personal strength is stronger than Shen Bin. Even if Shen Bin and Messi cancel each other out, there is still a big gap in strength between the other players of the Chinese team and Argentina.

Therefore, whether at home or abroad, almost all experts are very pessimistic about the Chinese team.

Most of them believed that the Chinese team's final result would be to qualify from the group stage.

No matter what others think, as the head coach of the Chinese team, Krauzen knows his team too well. He knows that under the leadership of Ali Haan and Gao Haiyang, the team has only exerted 50% of its energy. If he exerts all his energy, who knows what will happen. He does not want to face such a terrible opponent like his own country, the German team.

The German team's logistics team has secretly found him, and his advice is to never try to meet the Chinese team.

The three members of the Chinese team stared at each other in the conference room. Will the Chinese team be first or second in the group? Will it be the German team or the Argentine team?

No one has spoken for nearly 10 minutes. "Why not call Shen Bin over? After all, the players have to play against all kinds of opponents, and they will feel it more strongly," Ali Han suggested.

Shen Bin's words made the three of them simply throw all their opponents aside, no matter what kind of opponents they would encounter in the future.

"How do we get second place in the group? Do we have to lose to Panama by six goals? What if we lose by six goals and Turkey and Ukraine draw? These two games have to be played at the same time. Even if we get second place in the group, can we control the results of Germany and Argentina?"

"If we lose to Panama by a large margin, the Chinese team will become a joke internationally. We are a big country, unlike our neighboring Yan'er gang that does some dirty things."

"It's not us who are afraid of them now, it's them who are afraid of us. No matter what you think, I will not give up the game against Panama."

"Do we need to rest like in the last two games?" Krauchen asked without knowing the reason.

"No, except for Jiang Ning who got a red card, and Tan Wangsong who fought too hard in the last game, we have to show our fangs. Through two games, we have been able to roughly know which players should be the main players and which ones are substitutes. We should play with all the main players in this game."

Shen Bin wanted to get all three points in the match against Panama and qualify with a perfect record. After saying that, Shen Bin got up and left the office.

After Shen Bin left, the three began to study the Chinese team's starting lineup.

On the issue of how to deploy the troops, Krauchen and Ali Haan had differences again. Krauchen still wanted to use the 4-4-2 formation used in the last two games, but Ali Haan had a different opinion. Since the Chinese team had the strongest midfield, they should try to play to their strengths and further expand their advantage. Both of them knew that the tone of this game was basically the direction of China's future development, so the two refused to give in to each other. In the end, Ali Haan's proposal was supported by Gao Haiyang.

To everyone's surprise, the Chinese National Youth Team announced the starting lineup for the match against Panama on the afternoon of July 7th.

Goalkeeper: No. 1 Zeng Cheng

Guards: No. 2 Zhang Fanlin, No. 3 Feng Xiaoting, No. 4 Lü Jianjun, No. 15 Fan Weiwei

中场：6号沈彬、7号蒂奥特、8号陈韬、10号邓桌翔、11号郝俊闵

Forward: No. 9 Dong Fangzhuo