Compared with losing South Korea, Chinese football found something more important in the Asian Youth League

BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) question: compared with losing South Korea, chinese football found something more important in the Asian Youth Championship

reporter Bian Liqun

in the 1/4 final of U20 Asian Cup, which ended on the evening of 12th Beijing time, the Chinese team fought hard in overtime, and finally 1:3 lost to the South Korean team and failed to advance to the top 4. It is only one step away from breaking the embarrassing record of the 18-year World Youth Championship.

Although there are some regrets, for this U20 national football team, enough surprises have been created and all efforts have been made.

Compared with regret, the Chinese team gained much more in this U20 Asian Cup. For Chinese football, it also lights up the way to continue to catch up.

The process of the game

in this game, the Chinese team’s struggle and physical confrontation are still very active, destroying the rhythm of the Korean team. In the 20th minute, the South Korean team completed a corner by heading in chance.

After that, the South Korean team gradually adapted to the rhythm. In the 25th minute, the South Korean team, Park Yuyou, cut a foot of power shot on the side of the road and was confiscated by goalkeeper Li Hao.

In the 38th minute, the South Korean team passed on the left. Cheng Zhenrong in the penalty area shot at close range and was attacked by Li Hao, the goalkeeper of the Chinese team.

Yi bian fought again. In the 47th minute, the goalkeeper of the South Korean team was cut off by the Chinese team. After launching a counterattack on the spot, Mutalifu broke into the forbidden zone with a small angle! China team 1:0 leads South Korea!

In the 61st minute, the Chinese team Yang Minjie accidentally handball in the restricted area, and the referee sentenced penalty kick. The Golden Dragon Crane takes the penalty. China team 1:1 South Korea team. Finally, the score was kept until the end of the regular time, and the game entered the overtime stage.

In the 97th minute, the South Korean team Li Yongjun was close to heading in, and the Chinese team goalkeeper Li Hao once again made a wonderful rescue.

But under the exhaustion of physical fitness, the Chinese team finally failed to resist the opponent’s attack. In the 100th minute, after receiving the long pass in the restricted area of Chengrong town, he turned around and shot. The Korean team exceeded the score by 2:1.

In the 105th minute, Cui Xixuan expanded the score header, China Team 1:3 South Korea team.

The harvest is much more than regret

from the First Battle of the group Match 1:2 to the powerful Japanese U20, to 2:0 to defeat the powerful Saudi Arabia, at the end of the group match, I bit my teeth to draw Kyrgyzstan at 1:1. After 9 Years of Asian youth competition, the Chinese team has created enough surprises.

The surprise is not only the result, but also the process.

Although the scene was somewhat passive under the tactics of “swinging the bus”, the Chinese team found a way to compete to a certain extent against the Japanese team and scored the goal first, the two goals of the Japanese team that completed the reversal were also suspected of offside and handball respectively.

Including facing Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan in the future, the boys of the Chinese team can also hold up at the critical moment and grasp the opportunity of counterattack well.

Against South Korea, which is still stronger than himself, the Chinese team, which continues to “swing the bus”, can at least be evenly matched in the scene and effectively contain the opponent.

But when it came to overtime, the Chinese team who continued to defend did finish all the bullets.

Four high-quality Asian competitions are also self-evident to the growth of these boys. After entering the Olympic level, they even represented the national football team in the FIFA World Cup qualification and Asian Cup, and they were able to better cope with the big scenes.

For Chinese football, we can also find some ideas through this Asian Youth Games.

How to deal with the competition under the objective condition of limited overall strength at this stage or even in the future?

After defeating Saudi Arabia, a voice said that the Chinese team was accidental. However, an “accident” obviously cannot cover up the highlights of Chinese team playing overall football and the design and implementation of tactics.

Looking back on this Asian Youth League match, when facing the Asian strong teams such as Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia, we were not passively beaten as before, nor were we “swinging the bus” for the purpose of “swinging the bus”.

The important thing is to get to the point. On the basis of hard work and unity, appropriate techniques and tactics play a decisive role.

How to train the defense level and how to defend more aggressive. If you threaten and efficiency in the conversion of attack and defense, it is a direction worth thinking about. For the national football team and the Chinese women’s football team, this is also a very useful attempt.

See a little hope of Rebound

After 9 years, the Asian Youth competition is out of line. For Chinese football in the dark night, it is undoubtedly a very precious light and some hope.

After all, in the previous Asian Youth Games, the national youth team did not qualify in 2016 and 2018 and the 2020 Asian Youth Games, and the Chinese team suffered the first failure in 25 years.

Now the distance from the World Youth Championship is only one step away. For Chinese football, which has been declining in recent years, it has finally seen some signs of bottoming rebound, at least not so far away from the distance.

In history, the national youth team participated in the world youth championships five times in 1983, 1985, 1997, 2001 and 2005.

In the recent 2005 World Youth Championship, the national youth team with players of 1985 age as the base of the team went out, and the knockout match fought against the German team, and finally suffered a reversal loss at 2:3.

The Chinese team’s “unique singing” in the World Youth Championship corresponds to the fact that later this group of players made Chinese football close to the World Cup for a long time.

In the Russian World Cup qualifier, Lippi’s national football team was only 3 points away from reaching the World Cup directly and only 1 point away from the qualification of the play-in.

It can be predicted that the low ebb and struggle will continue at the National Football level where the blue and yellow are not met.

But the rebound of the National Youth at least brought some hope and practical ideas on how to compete against the strong team.

At this moment, it is useless to aim too high. How to do the best under the current conditions and how to fight to the point will be a major topic and theme of Chinese football for a long time in the future.

If you do this well, Chinese football will catch up with it pragmatically and rationally, and it will eventually gain something. (Finished)