From a certain point of view, this match is actually the best game played by the 03 national youth.
Strategically, the task of advancing to the quarterfinals has been completed, although it is only one step away from the World Youth Championship, but the promotion is an excess surprise, and it will not be overly criticized if it is eliminated, and the adult national team cannot complete the goal, and it makes no sense to criticize 20-year-old players.
Based on this situation, against the South Korean team, the tactics are actually relatively simple and executable. Although there is a Korean phobia at the level of public opinion, Korean football has always only had a clear advantage in the conversion stage, and there is not much way to face the shrinking team.
This kind of game is exactly what can happen.
Against strong teams, physical closeness and confrontation are essential, and various ways such as fouls and teases are used to compress the net game time, so that the opponent cannot enter his own rhythm of the game.
This is the normal way of thinking for weak teams to play against strong teams in an underdog fashion.
Therefore, in the opening stage, the Chinese team continued to use big moves and gradually tested the referee's penalty scale:
The result is that the referee's whistle is on the tight side, but this is not a bad thing for the Chinese team.
If there was any disadvantage for the Chinese team before the game, it was that Baihramu's suspension was a pity.
This big man has a very heavy offensive and defensive responsibility tactically, but his physical advantage at this age group is obvious, and what is more valuable is that under the big man's body, he also has an unreasonable ability to handle the ball, so the impact formed is quite amazing.
Supplemented by the sudden Eiffelding, this is an important reason why the Chinese team was able to perform well in the last two games and qualify for the group.
In this round of suspension, Antonio chose to use the previous substitute Mutaliff to take this role, compared to Baihlamu, Mutalif's pass is okay, but the impact is not as good as Baihlamu:
Of course, its performance on the defensive end is okay:
But back and forth, it still means that the Chinese team lacks an impact that can radiate from the wing to the middle and an important option to attract the opponent's defense.
In this way, Eiffelding needs to work more.
According to common sense, the decline in forward momentum will put more pressure on the team's backfield, but against the South Korean team, the defensive problem is not too difficult.
Compared with Japanese football, Korean football is far from enough skills and patience in attack, and the adult national teams with experience and overseas travel experience are the same, let alone youth football.
So in the 23rd minute, the South Korean team began to play this inefficient cross with little meaning:
Even if the Chinese team is cramped defensively, the South Korean team cannot use the space in the ribs to create a greater threat:
Entering the end of the first half, even the advance stage began to make long passes:
Throughout the first half, the South Korean team actually only threatened to attack twice:
In the long 45 minutes, being hit twice by the opponent to threaten the goal was a perfectly acceptable result, and the decision to put the defense aside against the South Korean team was very appropriate.
In the second half, China took advantage of the opening goal and Mutalip caught the goalkeeper's mistake and scored from the near corner:
When there is a physical advantage, grabbing the start of the first and second half is also a strategy that the Chinese team often adopts in this competition, and the effect is still very good.
This goal will actually push the South Korean team to a desperate situation, and in this mentality, the drawback of the Korean players is that they will be more impatient and less patient to attack the ribs, so as to play more long passes and crosses.
Even shortly after conceding the goal, the level of the South Korean team's combination of two sides was quite bad:
Unfortunately, in the 61st minute of the game, we gave the opponent a chance to switch, which entered the favorite rhythm of Korean football:
At high speeds, there is plenty of room for attack, thus combining their impact and technology.
This attack created a penalty for China, and South Korea successfully missed:
Although the goal dampened the confidence that the 03 youth team had just built and boosted the confidence of the South Korean players, the South Korean team continued to carry out quite inefficient crosses until the end of the game:
For this reason, they changed to high school forwards early, which further highlights the comfort zone of Korean football in the face of difficulties, which actually shows one thing:
If Chinese football starts to improve driven by young people, the first Asian strong team in the traditional sense to be surpassed by us will be the South Korean team.
However, at the end of the competition, the 03 national youth team experienced a large number of physical exhaustions.
This is not surprising. In the three games of the group stage, the personnel appearance of the Chinese team is quite clear, roughly 14 or 5 people are deeply involved, because of the suspension and injury and other factors, the game itself has personnel damage, four games accumulated, the main force fell one after another is a very normal situation.
We don't have the ability to rotate in the group stage, the qualifying places are all fought by the main players, and today it is time to run out of fitness.
However, when it comes to substitutions, it will start to pull down the average ability of the team.
A good example is Mutalip.
Mutaliff's goal in this game was not his first goal of the tournament, but in Antonio's plan, he would have been a substitute for about 60 minutes.
In this game, the substitute became the starter because Baihlamu was suspended, and when Mutalif could not hold on, it was time for the substitute to play.
So in extra time after several substitutions, the Chinese team conceded two goals in the first half and lost the ability to compete:
After four games, the progress of the Chinese team is obvious.
In the first game against Japan, from the coach to the players, we were too cautious, which prevented us from getting the best result on Japan.
After the first 90 minutes, the whole team has a clearer understanding of the intensity of the game, so in Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan, we showed more courage, started more forward, and got better results.
In this game, after three games of attrition, the Chinese team still scored first, and even dragged the South Korean team into overtime. If we can imagine some ifs, we are not without a chance to drag South Korea into a penalty shoot-out, or even without a chance to achieve the dream of a World Youth Championship in 90 minutes.
This step is indeed not far away.
However, this step is far from that.
If that, if we can do that, it means that we need to spend less in the group stage and accumulate the best cards and as much energy as possible into this game.
That's about the overall level of our entire team, including all the players and coaching staff, not just the 14 or 5 players.
That would require more effort and more effort from Chinese footballers, but the result is already very good, because compared with the current situation of Wan Maqiao, hope is already visible to the naked eye.