U23 Asian Cup knockout round, and the Olympic preliminaries eight into four first two games, Japan overtime narrowly defeated Qatar 4-2, if compared with the whole of Asia, Japan is still a top team, but if compared with the previous golden generation, this batch of Japan's U23 ability is much inferior, from the group stage in the face of China almost lost points, to directly lost to South Korea, now in the knockout round, Japan in the opponent's goalkeeper 41 minutes was sent off, once 1-2 behind, although Kimura Seiji helped Japan equalize, but in regular time, Japan only won a draw, but after all, it is not the group stage, there is overtime later, Qatar's physical hidden danger finally broke out, Shindai Hosoya and Kotaro Uchino scored successively to help Japan get ashore in danger.
Qatar's performance, even if there is one less person is still excellent, at the national team level, Qatar has ended Japanese football, and now with the improvement of youth training, Qatar is on the right path, if goalkeeper Vallad did not kick people inexplicably, then this game is very likely to be Qatar winning, inside and outside the stadium, Qatar has a great advantage, the Asian Cup is an example, in the future, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia will encounter the impact of Qatar and Uzbekistan, back to Japan, the performance of Hosoya Shindai and Sato Megumi and others, it is difficult to equate with the Japanese national Olympic team that has been strong, plus Japan's fragile air defense capabilities, may have problems in the semifinals later。
Another game of eight into four, South Korea regular time and Indonesia 2-2, after a penalty shootout, lost to Indonesia 10-11, South Korea maintained a full victory in the group stage and did not concede a goal, in fact, like Japan, the performance of this South Korean Olympic Games is not good, especially the back line, all kinds of mistakes, can only be said to be lucky, plus the middle and former forwards are unreliable did not concede the goal, but the result is that the knockout round immediately lost the goal, especially the second goal, it is completely the back line to make mistakes, backward reversal is no stranger to South Korea, the Asian Cup is so.
South Korea also found Indonesia's problem, that is, the poor defense of the back, although the overall height has improved, but the goalkeeper is too short, this is the core shortcoming of Indonesia, South Korea's first goal is to take advantage of this, but a little embarrassing is that South Korea's group stage hero, is also the team's best header Li Yongjun was sent off with a red card, and South Korea, which has one less person to fight, has excellent will quality and physical fitness, and plays better than eleven people, but in adversity, the game is dragged into overtime, but the team makes mistakes, it is impossible to always have luck, South Korea and Indonesia experienced two rounds of penalty shootouts, and finally Indonesia broke out a super upset, eliminated South Korea, and advanced to the semifinals, Shen Tailong also eliminated his home team.
Indonesian football has achieved a huge breakthrough in just a few years, and the reason is very simple, that is, naturalization, maybe Shen Tailong has brought confidence to this Indonesian team, plus Indonesia has attached importance to youth training in recent years, but the key to the team's progress is undoubtedly large-scale naturalization, almost a change of team, like Strujk, who scored two goals, is from the Netherlands, and also plays in the Dutch league, in addition to Jenner, Zhou Ya'an and Hubuna, the three absolute main forces, the technical flow of Southeast Asia, and the integration and naturalization of strong and tall players in the European system, make up for the lack of physical fitness.