In a key battle in Group B of the second round of the U23 Asian Cup, the Chinese Olympic Games lost to the South Korean Olympic Games, suffered 2 consecutive defeats, and fell to the bottom of the group with 0 points, which was also eliminated in the first round. In this game, coach Cheng Yaodong continued to make a magical substitution, and sent a 2-meter-tall goalkeeper to Kim Yong as a cameo striker at the last moment, but it still had no effect, and the Korean media thought it was a ridiculous substitution decision after the game.
There is a huge difference between the two teams in the Under-23 Asian Cup, with South Korea winning the 2020 tournament and having never progressed to the knockout stages in all of their last four appearances. According to statistics, the two teams met in the group stage in 2020, when the National Olympic Games lost 0-1 to South Korea.
Now, after 4 years, the two teams are in the same group again, and the difference in strength is still very large. In the first round of the group stage, South Korea defeated the United Arab Emirates by one goal, and the National Olympic Games lost to Japan by one goal.
The National Olympic Games had the opportunity to score, because of the low shooting skills, wasted opportunities again and again, but South Korea seized one of the few good opportunities to complete the goal, and Lee Yongjun scored a brace to help South Korea win 2-0, and the opening two consecutive wins locked the qualification one round in advance.
This loss made the national Olympic team suffer 7 consecutive defeats in the U23 Asian Cup, and did not score a goal in 5 consecutive games, and the performance continued to be poor.
It is worth mentioning that coach Cheng Yaodong's substitution operation of letting the goalkeeper make a cameo as a striker also aroused heated discussions among domestic media and fans.
In the first game of the National Olympic Games against Japan, the 2-meter-tall goalkeeper Jin Yong came off the bench, and Cheng Yaodong asked him to play as a center forward, but he did not receive any effect. Now against South Korea, goalkeeper Kim Yong continued to come off the bench and tried to use high-altitude bombing to break South Korea's goal, but it also ended in failure.
After the game, South Korean media "Xports News" talked about Sung Yaodong once again sending the 2.01-meter-tall goalkeeper Kim Yong as a cameo striker, saying that this was a ridiculous tactic and the goalkeeper could not play any role. This is a farce created in the collapse of Chinese football.
Now the National Olympic Games 2 consecutive defeats accumulated 0 points, reduced to the bottom of the group, due to the same point in the case of the first comparison of the relationship between the winners and losers, so there is still a glimmer of life to qualify, is to hope that South Korea won the last round, Japan lost 2 games in a row, the National Olympic Games defeated the United Arab Emirates, 3 statistics are indispensable, then the 3 teams with the same score, can be compared with each other's goal difference to determine the second place in the group.
In the end, the National Olympic Games did not wait for a miracle, after Japan defeated the United Arab Emirates, it joined hands with South Korea to qualify one round ahead of schedule, while the National Olympic Games were eliminated with the United Arab Emirates one round ahead of schedule, and both missed the Paris Olympics.