Compared with the Chinese national junior team, the Mexican team's historical results in the World Junior Championships are much better, especially in the past five or six competitions, Mexico and Nigeria, another absolute hegemon of the World Junior Championships, take turns to sit in the bank, and the championship is basically in their pocket.

However, one thing in common with the Chinese national junior team is that this Mexican national junior team is also a foot-walking team, and their average height is relatively short, compared with several teams in Africa and Europe, much worse.

But their foot ability is extremely strong, the small cooperation of the players is very tacit, plus the speed of the two wingers on the side is very fast, and the individual ability is also very good, and the head coach of the Mexican team is also to make up for the weakness of the players' poor physical confrontation, so that the team strengthens the pressing in the frontcourt, and at the same time immediately counter-robs after losing the ball.

It can be said that these two teams are too similar in terms of player types and tactics, and how the game can be played depends on the manager's arrangement in small details, as well as the on-the-spot play of the individual abilities of the players on both sides.

After the start of the game, the two sides did play very anxiously, when the Chinese national junior team got the ball, the Mexican side was very smart to defend at several points of contact points of the national junior team player, not letting him pass the ball, and at the same time sent another player to force the player with the ball.

This kind of front-court pressing tactics is really the same as the Chinese national junior team.

In particular, Mexico's right winger Laura and left full-back Ulysses Torres put a lot of pressure on the Chinese national team.

Laura is the quintessential wide attacker, with his speed, agility and willingness to run, and he is always the one who runs the most in the front court.

Mexico's left wing-back Ulysses Torres is the most famous player in the Mexican team, and although he is only 17 years old, he has already played for the Mexican giants Club América.

He scored four goals as a full-back in Mexico's Under-17 qualifiers, and his attacking efficiency was evident, but what really caught his attention was his defensive prowess, who was arguably the strongest player in Mexico with the most physical and header ability.

In the eighth minute of the first half, the Chinese national junior team almost conceded a goal under the pressure of the opponent.

At that time, Zhu Chenjie was holding the ball, he looked at the position of his teammates, and found that there were Mexican players nearby, but his hesitation gave the Mexican players the opportunity to grab, and Laura made Zhu Chenjie pass the ball in a hurry like a hungry tiger.

Mexico's striker Aguirre rushed up as soon as he said that Zhu Chenjie's pass was broken, and after cutting off the ball, he chose to shoot without hesitation, but fortunately, Huang Dawei's attention was very concentrated, and he saved the ball with a side pounce.

"Oh yes, there shouldn't be such a mistake in the back. The commentator in charge of commenting the game was also scared, "The backcourt players must be decisive when they play the ball." Otherwise, it would be fatal to be beaten back and counterattacked. ”

In fact, Rick Link on the sidelines was also very anxious, the game had started for almost ten minutes, and the Chinese national junior team faced the frontcourt siege of the Mexican team, playing very embarrassed, Zhu Chenjie's mistake just now is a true portrayal of the team.

Mexico has been able to have good results in the U17 World Junior Championship, and they still have a good analysis of teams in this age group.

Inconsistency is the biggest problem for players in the Under-17 age group because they are young, and once they encounter that kind of organised and purposeful pressing tactics, it may be a problem at some point.

The Chinese national junior team has never encountered such a high-intensity pressing tactic in the group stage of the Asian Junior Championship or the World Junior Championship, and the result is that there is a problem after a little time.

Seeing this, Rick Link made a gesture to Shin Jun and Cao Jinghao on the left - a big kick.

Since it is difficult for the national junior team to advance step by step through positional battles, it is also a good choice to attract opponents' players to come up and force them, and to find the striker in front of them with a long pass.

In the tenth minute of the first half, the players of the Mexican team continued to tirelessly continue to press the backfield players of the Chinese national junior team, and Cao Jinghao came back as a left forward to help respond, this time Shen Jun also handed the ball to Cao Jinghao, who after receiving the ball, avoided the fierce robbery of the Mexican players, and sent it directly to the front court with a big foot.

At this time, Nie Jiang was very dead by the other party, so he simply pulled him to the outside of the penalty area and did a dismantling with Liu Ruofan, and the central defender who followed Nie Jiang was carried away by Nie Jiang and completely lost his defensive position.

And Nie Jiang's header just found Liu Ruofan, who rushed up, after receiving the ball, he kept the ball on the line of the big penalty area and volleyed directly, the ball crossed an arc, and flew out of the bottom line by grazing the left post, and at this time the Mexican goalkeeper's palm was still very far away from the football.

It can be said that Liu Ruofan is a little anxious, if he can pause after getting the ball from Nie Jiang and observe the position of the goal, this goal will be scored nine times out of ten.

The head coach of the Mexican team, Mario, yelled loudly on the field: "Pay attention to the defense!"

In fact, before the game, Mario told his players to be careful to defend Nie Jiang. Because Nie Jiang scored five goals in four games in the group stage and quarterfinals – including one game he did not play – he is arguably the sharpest knife in the Chinese national junior team's attacking line, and he is also valued by all opposing teams.

In the previous game, Nie Jiang relied more on running to fight for space, and this time in the face of the Mexican team that is not physically strong, or even a little weaker than himself, Nie Jiang can finally bully the other party, his height of more than one meter and eight, coupled with a relatively strong body, has caused a great threat to the central defenders and backs of the Mexican team, and this time he ran out of the penalty area after the ferry played the most typical role of a center forward.

The commentator in charge of the commentary also had to sigh at the comprehensiveness of Nie Jiang's ability: "This ball Nie Jiang is too beautiful, but it's a pity that Liu Ruofan is a little in a hurry." However, if it is still played like this in the back, it will be difficult for Mexico to defend against it. ”

This attack by the national junior team can be regarded as a wake-up call for the Mexican team, so that they must bring back a certain number of defenders to go back to defense.

However, the Mexican team chose to make the formation more pressing, and the tactics of creating an offside position on the back line to deal with the Chinese national junior team's long-pass counterattack, they seemed to be determined that the Chinese national junior team could not withstand their pressure, and wanted to finish the battle.

In the thirteenth minute of the first half, Mexico took advantage of Ulysses Torres' steal on the left and attacked again, and Torres was more cautious to stay at the back than at the beginning, this time he resolutely assisted in the front.

There's a reason why Mexico are bullish, and now they can tell from the attack on the left that their players are capable of executing tactics and the players themselves.

When Torres rushed up, the left winger of the Mexican team first ran to the ribs of the right fullback and right central defender of the Chinese national junior team, and then suddenly pulled the side horizontally, and the front of the Mexican team began to occupy the space of the right fullback of the national junior team that was pulled away by his teammates, and at the same time, the center of the Mexican team Aguirre also withdrew from the penalty area and pushed back on the line of the big penalty area, as for the right fullback Laura was to raise his hand high after pulling the side, so that the left defender of the national junior team did not dare to completely go over to help.

It can be seen that the Mexican players are very strong in understanding and execution of running without the ball.

Fortunately, the defense of the Chinese national junior team is also very active, when all the Mexican players run, they will be followed by people, under the command of Liming, all the defenders and players also observe the distance between each other, and at the same time, under the command of Zeng Prosperity, Zhang Huachen returned to the top of the arc of the penalty area to help fill the defensive space.

When the tactics of both sides are properly matched, this is when the individual ability of the players comes into play.

As Mexico's forward midfielder, Samudio's ability is really strong, he held the ball steady under Xiang Tiange's close pressing, and kept deceiving Xiang Tiange to change the center of gravity of his body through the feints at his feet, and in the end, although Xiang Tiange was not completely shaken, Samudio's passing space still came out, and he swept the ball into the penalty area with a beautiful horizontal pass.

Maybe his teammates didn't expect Samudio to pass the ball, center Aguirre rushed to the front of the pass, and Magania who was inserted behind was a little farther away from the pass, and Zhang Huachen, who came back to fill the position, resisted with his body, and Zhu Chenjie quickly drove the ball out of the penalty area with a big foot.

The commentator in charge of the commentary also talked about the Mexican team's attack this time: "Mexico's attack is very layered and very threatening. In fact, before this game, Mexico rarely had Ulysses Torres, who was very good at assisting, because just relying on the attacking combination of a few players in their front court could solve all the problems, including the previous matches against Argentina and Germany. But in this game, we clearly saw that Torres had a strong desire to assist, and obviously they also knew that they could not penetrate the defense of our national junior team by relying on the attacking combination of the front court alone. In fact, this is also a double-edged sword, his ability to assist is strong, but after the assist comes up, the bigger the gap behind, the more opportunities we have, it depends on whether our counterattack can hit the space left by their strongest point. ”

Of course, the national junior team will not let Mexico keep pressing like this, and soon they also used the same tactic as Mexico - crazy rush in the frontcourt.

The frontcourt pressing of the national junior team did put a lot of pressure on the Mexican team. Previously, Mexico caught the Chinese national youth team a little off guard through the pressing in the front court, and now it is the turn of the Mexican team to be a little caught off guard.

In the nineteenth minute of the first half, Cao Jinghao and Zeng Fanfang on the left side of the national junior team teamed up to snatch the ball from the Mexican left wingback Cortez, who was holding the ball more slowly, and then Cao Jinghao's pass directly found Nie Jiang in the penalty area, the latter's header was extremely threatening, forcing Mexico's goalkeeper Isai to make a save, and the ball was not too far away, thanks to the Mexican team's captain No. 3 Esquiwell was very focused, and he grabbed the ball out of the bottom line before Duan Liuyu, another frontcourt player of the national junior team.

It should be said that there is still a gap between the attack of the national junior team and the Mexican team before, and the difference is in the running of the people without the ball.

When Cao Jinghao and Zeng Fanxing stealed, the only one who moved into the penalty area was Nie Jiang, and when Nie Jiang shot, only Zeng Fanxing came to grab the second landing point, and the second landing point of the ball did not fall on Zeng Rongxing, but fell in another direction. If this ball Duan Liu Yu starts to run when Nie Jiang shoots, it will be more difficult for the Mexican team to find and grab this point, after all, the ball has not been saved out of the penalty area, the second point is not on the left but on the right, Zeng Fanfang stood on the left, Duan Liu Yu only needs to grab the second point on the right side There is a great chance to score, but Duan Liu Yu stood behind Nie Jiang and did not move.

Rick Link is also a little dissatisfied off the field, if the opportunity is there, but his own players don't fight for it, it is not worth it for other players to create this opportunity.

It's just that the player's running without the ball is not something that can be improved in one or two games, and it takes countless games to grind it slowly.

Duan Liuyu, as the first youth training "star player" in China worth more than one million in transfer fees, paid a great price for Luneng Football School at the beginning (including promising to send him out to stay abroad) to recruit him into his command, and he has good academic performance (usually among the best, and the six hours of the course that fell three months after the competition were fully mastered), so it was once very concerned, and everyone felt that this was a good seedling with both IQ and ball quotient.

However, after Duan Liuyu went to Brazil with Luneng's 99-year-old echelon, the plan was very good, but he encountered many problems in the operation, the most critical of which was that they could not participate in the regular youth events in Brazil because of local policy problems in Brazil, so they could only guarantee training but could not guarantee the competition.

This situation is a very big blow for a player who is in the middle of a rising season. It is said that after returning home from more than a year of studying in Brazil, the players of the 99th section found that the level had not improved, and even lagged behind the domestic players, and their confidence was seriously hit, saying that they didn't want to play football.

This is also the reason why Luneng sent the U15 echelon to Brazil for a long time, mainly to meet the Brazilian Football Federation's questions about the qualification of young players.

After the national junior team also strengthened the counter-robbery in the frontcourt, the two teams were a bit of a stalemate, everyone was desperately pressing, and the mistakes were slowly increasing as the game progressed, often in the midfield, one side grabbed it for less than a few seconds, and the other side took the ball away. And under the pressure of the opponent, the passing error rate has also become high, and the fluency of the game is miserable.

The commentator in charge of the commentary also said: "This game is really a bit drowsy to watch. The two sides played too cautiously, and the non-stop pressing made the game intermittent, and it was impossible to play a smooth attack at all, and the managers of both sides should make adjustments. ”