On the evening of January 18, 2022, Beijing time, the national football U20 played a warm-up match with the UAE U20 at the United Arab Emirates Football Association training base. As a result, before the end of the first half, captain Eiffelding knocked on the door with a penalty opportunity. UAE also scored a penalty in stoppage time in the second half to draw 1-1. It is reported that tomorrow the two teams will play another warm-up match. After that, he continued to train elsewhere and finally met the real test of the U20 Asian Cup.
This game doesn't have much reference value. For the UAE U20s, their training is not very meaningful, and they did not even enter the final round of the U20 Asian Cup. They seem enthusiastic about warm-up games, though. They also played a warm-up match with Indonesia the other day, with UAE U20 winning 1-0. In this match, because the UAE's domestic league has just ended, the players are also relatively tired, and there is no U20 Asian Cup task, so the player's state and mood cannot be improved at all.
Moreover, the national football team U20 replaced all 11 players on the field in the second half, which shows that the nature of this game is also a teaching game, and it is not even a warm-up game. Judging from our participation in the past matches of the U20, including confrontation, it is estimated that it is also average.
In the domestic media, many people were actually waiting to watch this game last night, and the major sports live media also interspersed this game. However, when the game started, there was no video broadcast, and even the statistics of the game were abruptly stopped. This question has caused many people to speculate, thinking that it will be under the intervention of the senior management of the football association, afraid that during the Spring Festival, in case of losing the game, it will add congestion to domestic fans, and form some unnecessary public opinion trouble, so they temporarily suspended the live broadcast of this match.
The main match of the U20 Asian Cup will be played from March 3 to March 9. At that time, the national team U20 will have three games to play, they will face Japan U20, Saudi Arabia second, and Kyrgyzstan in the final round. Frankly speaking, if nothing else, the first two rounds of the national football team U20 were basically a loss, and the last round of Gisgistein's game was basically a game to regain face. It's just that this face is really not in a hurry. In the history of the U20 Asian Cup, the Chinese team has only defeated teams such as Myanmar and Maldives in recent years, and as long as it meets players such as Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia, it has ended in failure.