I took my son to the parent-child activities held by Longteng Football School, and I had a long time of fun and play. On the way back, looking at the car in the rearview mirror sitting in the back seat of the car, wearing a seat belt, firmly holding the prize won in the afternoon activity in his arms - a very cheap and Q Longteng team player doll, and leaning on his wife sleeping on his son, Zhang Sheng's whole body was full of happiness.

In Jiangcheng in June, the sun in the afternoon was not small, and his son's little face was sunburned, although he had fallen asleep, he didn't know what he was still muttering at this time, maybe he didn't shoot in a few activities in the afternoon, and he was complaining.

Seeing Zhang Sheng's floating gaze, Ye Ting gently moved her son's head to make him more comfortable, and then gave her husband a sweet smile.

There's time, football, life is so simple, and so beautiful.

Back home, even if it is a holiday, Zhang Sheng has not forgotten to pay attention to football, tonight, there is a match between the Chinese national youth team and the Venezuelan national youth team, this game is also the quarter-finals of the World Youth Championships.

After eliminating the U.S. national youth team, this year's Chinese national youth team surpassed the previous one, if it can pass this hurdle, it will be able to catch up with the 2013 World Youth Championships in Turkey, Li Yun, Qin Minghao, Xu Mingyu that batch of semi-finals.

The domestic media are still immersed in defeating the United States on the Korean Peninsula again and completing the second victory of "Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea", and they do not attach importance to the Venezuelan national youth team, and even think that this opponent is about to arrive, but Zhang Sheng frowned, knowing that things are not so simple.

In fact, as long as you are a caring person, just look at the process of the Venezuelan national youth team qualifying. Extending to the fact that they started the South Youth Championship in South America, this team is amazing.

In the first group stage of the Southern Youth Championship, all five matches of Venezuela were drawn, surpassing last year's European Championship draw master Portugal and becoming the king of the balanced sect.

The team, which was based on the 2013 World Junior Championships in the United Arab Emirates, has not moved for many years, and in order to qualify for the World Youth Championships, they have played more than 30 warm-up games in the last year and a half, and their preparation is not inadequate.

It was with a solid, united team spirit that the team defeated the favourites 3-0 in the second stage of the South Youth Championships, and the future South Youth Championship champions Uruguay qualified for the World Youth Championships in South Korea with a third-place finish.

And in the group stage of the World Youth Championships, they made people's jaws drop even more.

As a third-tier team, they are divided into a group of Germany's national youth team, Mexico's national youth team, and Vanuatu's national youth team. The vast majority of the media announced in their pre-match predictions that Venezuela had the best results in the group, and the third place in the group would be incense.

The result?

Venezuela kept a clean sheet of 2:0 against Germany in the first group stage, beat Vanuatu 7:0 in the second game, and faced a top team in the perennial youth group like Mexico in the third game, they did not give any chance and won 1:0 without danger.

With 9 points from 3 wins, 10 goals scored and 0 goals conceded, Venezuela easily entered the round of 16, and their performance in the group stage was impressive enough.

In the quarterfinals, Venezuela met the Japanese national youth team, which has a talent like Kenei Kubo, known as the "Japanese Messi", who entered Barcelona early, and even made Real Madrid and Barcelona crazy in later generations.

In the end, Venezuela drew with the Japanese national youth team in the 90-minute game, relying on a goal in extra time to eliminate the Asian powerhouse with a difficult goal.

When the domestic media introduced this team, they did not explore the roots of the Venezuelan team at all, and directly judged that this was a mediocre team based on their past impressions of the country.

Indeed, Venezuela is now in turmoil, economically paralyzed, and even facing the threat of war, and their national team has long been known as the belly of South America.

However, as long as you have watched the previous World Youth Championships, you can see that the previous competitions have shown a phenomenon of high goals and low goals.

In fact, this is also the characteristic of the World Youth Championships. Due to the young age, the players' state is unstable, and the performance fluctuates greatly, in the group stage, the players' mentality is relaxed, and the difference in strength is more obvious, it is easy to play a disparity in scores or high goals, Venezuela has been playing together for a long time, relying on defense, relying on the team team is becoming more and more conspicuous.

In the knockout stage, the strength is gradually approaching, especially the honor of the "world champion" is getting closer and closer, the psychological pressure of young players is increasing, and it is becoming more and more difficult to score goals.

However, any international championship football tournament is always stable, and teams with good defense are easy to get good results, and Venezuela is such a team.

Fortunately, the domestic media was confident that the opponent was a dark horse that was beaten back to its original shape, but Maddaloni was experienced and insisted on a 3-5-2 defensive counterattack play.

When two teams that are both playing defensive counter-attacks come together, the game can be as boring as you can imagine.

Venezuela's head coach Rafael Dudamel was the second-most playing goalkeeper in the country's history as a player, and his best thing is to build a defensive system.

The team's biggest name is Perña Landa up front, a well-known South American demon who was recruited early on by the Apennines black shop Udinese, and in 2015-2106 he was loaned to Granada in La Liga, a team controlled by Chinese (and later Chongqing Lifan's owner, Jiang Glasses).

In 2015, he broke the record of the youngest foreign player to score two goals in Messi's La Liga, and the media once linked him with the young Messi and Ronaldo.

But in the eyes of head coach Rafael Dudamel, the core of his team is Victor Fariñez, who won the best goalkeeper in the South Youth Championship.

In addition, the strong midfielder Jángel Herrera is the pivot of the team's offensive and defensive transitions, the Manchester City academy player has been unable to establish himself in the Premier League and has been out on loan, and later went to La Liga Huesca and played against Wu Lei in Espanyol, who is the guarantee of the Venezuelan national youth team's waist hardening.

The two teams that attach so much importance to defense are willing to press on it easily.

Throughout the first half, the number of times the two teams attacked each other's 30-meter area was only a handful, and although there was a B2B midfielder like Jan Herrera like a dogskin plaster on the Venezuelan side, Jiang Shenglong and Wu Wei on the Chinese national youth team were not given in vain, and the purpose of the two of them on the field was to defend Zeng Prosperous.

In the past, the key offensive methods of the two teams, the players with fast speed in the front court used the space behind the opponent to make a fuss, but now it is more important to pay more attention to the players' ability to hold the ball, control the ball, and advance the position.

In this unfamiliar style of play, there are a lot of mistakes on both sides, and on the opponent's 30-meter area line, five or six players pass the ball back and forth left and right for half a day, and then try their luck with a long-range shot.

After the second half, the situation was still the same, and set-pieces became an extremely important attacking tool for both sides.

The most dangerous situation came in the 25th minute of the second half, this time it was Janher-Herrera who grabbed the ball of the Chinese national youth team in the front court, Zeng Xingxing was slightly sticky to the ball, and the ball was broken, so Jiang Shenglong, who came to fill the position, had to use his body to overpower the opponent and give Venezuela a free kick in the front court.

The free-kick was more than 35 meters away from the goal, and the Chinese national youth team put on a set-piece defensive formation to prevent passing, and as a result, Venezuela's left midfielder Ronaldo Lucena almost made the Chinese team suffer.

Ronaldo Lucena is only 1.67 meters tall, but the hardness of his feet is far beyond the imagination of the Chinese national youth team, who thought he would pass the ball, but he shot directly, and this ultra-long-range shot directly hit the goal post of the national youth team.

Goalkeeper Guo Quanbo didn't make any preparations at all, until the ball hit the post, and then moved in a panic.

It can be said that the national youth team did not concede a goal this time, and it was completely lucky.

Next, the Venezuelan national youth team still showed a slightly higher level of hard power than the Chinese national youth team, their left wing-back Yefersen Soteldo used his skills and speed to eat the physical midfielder Wu Wei, and then his low cross found Peñalanda who was inserted into the box at high speed, and the latter's vacant header smashed hard into the goal, Guo Quanbo made a contribution at this time, he lifted the ball over the crossbar with a single fist.

Madaloni's reaction was also very fast, Gao Zhunyi replaced Wu Wei to play central defender, Zhu Chenjie was pushed to the position of the back waist, and after seeing that Jiang Shenglong's physical fitness was also problematic, he replaced it with Wei Zhen and continued to maintain the sweeping strength of the midfield.

When the game dragged on to stoppage time, Maddaloni's first goal had been achieved, seeing Venezuela replace the striker with a midfielder and play a single striker, he hurriedly went to Yan Dinghao, removed Huang Zhengyu, increased the number of midfielders, and reduced the number of defenders.

In overtime, the Chinese national youth team began to exert its strength.

In the last round of the knockout round, the Venezuelan national youth team played a fierce battle with the Japanese national youth team for more than 120 minutes, and the physical consumption was far greater than that of the Chinese national youth team that scored a goal and played a defensive counterattack.

South Korea is so close to China, whether it is the climate, environment, time difference, etc., the Chinese national youth team, especially the Longteng players who come to South Korea to play every year, are very adaptable.

In terms of fans, not to mention the official Dragon Team fan team of the Football Association, studying in South Korea, there are countless Chinese working, in terms of economic conditions, China's domestic economy can also support a large number of Chinese fans to watch the game in South Korea, and some travel agencies even use the game of the national youth team as a gimmick to promote it.

As for the Venezuelan fans, there were not a few in the whole stadium.

There are more than 40,000 seats in the entire Jeonju World Cup stadium, and the attendance rate is even almost a quarter, and there is a large area of red in the stands.

When it came to extra-time, which was all about physical strength and will, the fans' assists became the last straw that overwhelmed the balance of the game.

According to the new rules issued by FIFA last year, when the game goes to extra time, the team can make one substitution, and the number of substitutions can reach four, and this rule is used in this World Youth Championship.

In the second half of overtime, Madaloni released his last hand, and Huang Zichang, who had not had a chance to play in the previous games, replaced Zhang Yuning, who couldn't run.

In the 116th minute of extra time, Huang Zichang suddenly broke through on the left side.

Huang Zichang's playing characteristics are unique in the Chinese Super League or among Chinese players. He is not tall, 1.73 meters, and looks like the traditional Chinese player who relies on speed on the side, but his style of play is extremely flexible, with a lot of work under his feet, and it is very rare to integrate into the confrontation of the game.

According to Uruguay's Under-20 personality coach Coito: "Huang Zichang looks like a South American No. 10 player. ”

This is not a low accolade.

And Venezuela suffered from him.

Jose Hernandez, who was in charge of defending the left side, didn't expect Huang Zichang to come to the action of a standard South American player - croquettes, and in a trance, he was passed by.

Huang Zichang, who entered the penalty area, played more dexterously, he made a very imaginative emergency stop, half-turned, knocked the ball through the back of his foot, and the left central defender Williams Velasquez, who has been very steady, obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm of small broken steps unique to South American short players like Huang Zichang, and swept Huang Zichang down with a kick.

The referee decisively rushed over and pointed to the penalty spot, and the Chinese national youth team won a penalty when the extra time was about to end.

"Oh, oh. Su Dong, who was in charge of commenting the game, was also frightened by Huang Zichang's operation, "Xiao Huang's ball is too imaginative." Undoubted penalty. ”

Meng Hongtao, who partnered with Su Dong, also said excitedly: "If this penalty is scored, then it is basically a quasi-kill." ”

"Who will punish this ball, oh, Lin Liangming. Su Dong looked nervously at the field, "Run, shoot." The goal was scored, and the Chinese national youth team led 1:0. There are four minutes left in the game, and if you count stoppage time, it won't be more than eight minutes at most, so if you hold on, we can reach the semi-finals again. ”

After Lin Liangming scored this goal, his tally of goals in the World Youth Championship also came to two. Meng Hongtao quickly reported the data, "The number of goals scored by the Chinese national youth team has also come to four, which can be regarded as more flowering." ”

On the field at this time, Huang Zichang took the ball again, and then three people from Venezuela surrounded him and squeezed Huang Zichang to the side.

Eventually, he also kicked the ball into his opponent's leg and won the throw-in.

"If you can grind for one more minute, you can grind for one more minute. "Su Dong doesn't care about the enjoyment of the game, anyway, this game is really not spectacular.

Under the various small means of the players of the national youth team to rub off time, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the Chinese national youth team relied on defense and once again reached the semi-finals of the World Youth Championships.