In a focus match in the first round of Group F of the U20 World Cup group stage, which ended in the early morning of May 23, Beijing time, the runner-up of the previous World Youth Championship, South Korea's U20 men's football team from Asia, overturned the European powerhouse France U20 men's football team 2-1 and made a good start.
In the 22nd minute, Kim Yong-hok pushed back and sent a diagonal assist to Lee Seung-won to calmly push and score the goal, and the South Korean team took the lead to break the deadlock.
In the 64th minute, Lee Seung-won drove a set-piece on the left flank and Lee Yongjun snatched his head to score, extending the South Korean U20 men's team to two goals.
In the 70th minute, South Korean goalkeeper Kim Seihong saved the ball to Efeclair and ate the yellow dot set, and Fergenius hit it, and the French U20 men's team pulled back the city.
At the end of the game, the French team, unwilling to lose, set off a stormy attack, but the united South Korean team managed to maintain the 2-1 score until the end. According to post-match statistics, the South Korean team had only 23% of the ball in this game. Eight shots and five shots on target scored two goals, while France scored 23 shots and only one penalty on six shots. It has to be admitted that the South Korean U20 men's team is quite efficient in attack.
What makes Chinese fans lament is that at the U20 Asian Cup in early March this year, the South Korean U20 men's team also met the Chinese U20 men's team in the 1/4 final. At one point, the Chinese team was led by Mu Talipu to break the deadlock and take the lead. It wasn't until the 62nd minute that South Korea equalised with a slightly controversial penalty. In overtime, South Korea took advantage of the overdraft of the Chinese national youth to score 2 goals in a row to get through the danger.
Now, two months later, the South Korean team competes against the world's top teams in the World Youth Championships, while the Chinese national youth team can only continue to practice and play warm-up matches in Europe, and the Chinese national youth team has been away from the World Youth Championship for 18 years.