111. The powerful national junior team (3)

At this time, Ecuador's central defender clung to Nie Jiang as if he was facing a big enemy, not giving him a chance to turn around, and at the same time, another defender rushed over and headed the half-high ball passed by Tiange, hoping to destroy the ball out of the penalty area.

When everyone had already Nie Jiang would give up shooting and pass the ball out, Nie Jiang made a move that surprised everyone.

In the face of Xiang Tiange's half-high pass, Nie Jiang leaned on the Ecuadorian central defender behind him, flipped the ball with his thigh, and then he used a barb shot to shoot the goal.

Nie Jiang's set of stopping the ball, turning the ball and barbing the shot in one go, the defender behind him did not expect that another opponent who wanted to destroy the header in the past was also a step slower, and the most important thing is that the sight of the Ecuadorian goalkeeper was blocked by the central defender who was close to Nie Jiang.

When Nie Jiang's barb shot made the ball fly over, the goalkeeper realized, but unfortunately it was too late at this time, and the football flew directly into the goal over the goalkeeper's outstretched hands.

Nie Jiang's goal process stunned Li Xin: "Zeng Prosperity has turned to the side. Xiang Tiange took the ball, the beautiful two-over-one, he passed it to Nie Jiang, this is not easy to turn around. Wow, oh, oh! Juggling the ball, barbing, shooting, beautiful! Genius, you don't have to turn around, you can score without turning around, Nie Jiang has unlimited imagination in this ball!"

"Nie Jiang, a player, has improved again. Dong Lu also sighed, "In the early days of the league, Nie Jiang, a seventeen-year-old player, was born out of nowhere, and he kept scoring goals in the league and the AFC Champions League, becoming a new star in the limelight. But after everyone stepped up their defense, he fell into a goal drought in the middle of the league. But he soon made adjustments and began to slowly learn how to run and how to cooperate with assists. Now we can see that he has learned to think about how to solve problems when he is in a tough confrontation with the other person, and he has solved it perfectly!"

"I think this goal should be the best goal of this round of the World Junior Championship. Li Xin sighed while praising him, "I haven't seen such a talented player in our Chinese football for many years." ”

Not only were the two commentators praising Nie Jiang, but Zhang Sheng, who was watching the broadcast in front of the TV at this time, couldn't help but applaud Nie Jiang.

When Zhang Sheng taught Nie Jiang before, he explained to him the understanding of the court space, and gradually Nie Jiang learned how to run, learned how to create activity space, and now he finally began to try how to give full play to his skills in the existing space, and tried to succeed.

In order to get back the score, Ecuador's head coach Rodriguez waved his hand, and Ecuador reversed the obscenity at the beginning of the game after kick-off again, and began to press hard.

As the tactical core of the team, Washington Corrozo is between the back and center back of the Chinese national junior team, and from the point of view that he was able to carry the strongest dawn of the national junior team and grab the head, his tactical fulcrum and ferry role in the front court are still very strong.

Sure enough, in the twenty-fifth minute of the first half, Washington Corrozo used his body against Dawn and then kicked back to Guerrero, who first faked a real shot and shook the back of the national youth team Zhang Huachen, and then a powerful long-range shot threatened the goal of the national junior team, fortunately, Huang Dawei's attention was very concentrated, and after seeing Guerrero's pass in the middle, he stimulated all his adrenaline, and in the face of this powerful shot, a beautiful side save saved the ball to the side of the penalty area.

Shin Jun, who came from the fullback to fill the position, grabbed the second point at the first time, and used his body to resist Washington Corrozo, who came to grab the second point, and then drove the ball to the front with a big sideways foot.

Shin Jun is the kind of player who looks obscure on the field, as a fullback player, his defense is extremely stable, the passing coordination is first-class, and the assist on the side is also very resolute, but his speed is not too fast, and he is not as strong as those beast-type players in physical confrontation, but he is strong in the balance of various attributes and extremely tenacious will, and he is definitely a player that any team likes.

This time, Shen Jun's characteristics came into play, and he directly found striker Liu Ruofan with a long pass after resisting the opponent's offensive harassment, who is a player who countless people in domestic football have high hopes and is known as the East Asian demon star. Not only does Xu Genbao care for him, but even Chai Zhenhua, who is the chairman of the Football Association, has used him as a benchmark when mentioning young players in media interviews several times. He is not tall, but he starts very fast, his body is stronger than Wu Lei, and the frequency of his feet is fast, these characteristics make him too threatening in the attack, especially when playing counterattacks, no wonder some people will say that he is a "strengthened version of Wu Lei", and even that he can be compared to Hao Haidong in the future.

After Liu Ruofan saw Shen Jun's pass, although in order to prevent offside, he only stood parallel to the Ecuadorian players, and even fell behind a quarter of the body, but when it came to starting, he overtook the opponent for the first time, and even if he was hit by the opponent with his body, he had a good balance and a relatively strong figure.

The counterattack of the national junior team was extremely sudden and very threatening, and Li Xin was also extremely looking forward to it: "The counterattack of the national junior team." It was very fast, there were only three people in the back on the Ecuadorian side. Liu Ruofan was pulled by the other party, this is a foul. Not bad, not bad, stand firm, Ecuador's left side is empty, chances for the national junior team. ”

In Li Xin's expectation, Liu Ruofan rushed directly into the penalty area with the ball, and at this time, Nie Jiang and Zeng Fanfang both rushed up in both directions.

The Ecuadorian players are desperately retreating, hoping to stop the counterattack of the national junior team. But that hope was quickly dashed, as Liu Ruofan's threat was too great, and the Ecuador side had to send a player to defend closely, as well as a passing line that had to run to get him.

Seeing that two players from the other side came to defend him, Liu Ruofan passed the ball out in time, and Ecuador's last vacant defender stared at Nie Jiang, the most threatening defender, but leaked Zeng Wangfang, who faced the attacking goalkeeper and calmly pushed the lower right corner of the goal.

The score became 2:0, and the national junior team had a great advantage in the first half.

Li Xin had completely relaxed his mood at this time: "Haha! Zeng Prosperous shot, with such an empty goal, Ecuador can't help it." They pressed the attack on all fronts, and there were too many opportunities to be counterattacked later, and several players of the national junior team were too decisive. ”

"Fifty percent of the function of this ball should be counted on Shen Jun, the long pass is too accurate and timely. Dong Lu also said with a smile, "The next thing is the rapid counterattack of several players in the front court." Take a look at these players, two academy players from Longteng Club, and one academy player from Genbao Base, they took care of this attack. In this year's national junior team, the team framework is basically built with these two youth teams plus Luneng's players. Liu Ruofan's pass to Zeng Fanfang is a good sign that they cooperate with each other. ”

The goal of the national junior team was a big blow to the morale of Ecuador, and he finally got a good opportunity to attack, and then he was hit by a counterattack and lost the ball.

In the face of the momentum of the Chinese national junior team, the manager of Ecuador wisely chose to stabilize the rhythm, and the choice of the national junior team was also very safe, and they began to slowly pass down in the midfield to find opportunities to attack.

Seeing the situation on the field, Li Xin also smiled: "The playing style of the national junior team is very mature, 2:0 lead, it is the opponent who is anxious, not us, we can choose to be stable and control, but the opposite side is not good." ”

"In this year's national youth team, Huang Dawei played the main Chinese Super League and AFC Champions League for most of the season, and Nie Jiangke played in the first team for nearly a whole season. Dong Lu analyzed, "So don't look at their young age, they have a lot of experience in the game." They've been through so much when and at what pace on the pitch. The grinding of the game is so important for the young players. ”

Ecuador is also helpless against the Chinese national junior team's style of play, they want to press the national junior team by pressing, and they did press the national junior team back, but the national junior team immediately used the space pressed by Ecuador to fight back again, and almost got the chance to score again.

Fortunately, the Ecuadorian goalkeeper did a very good job, making a successful save to keep the ball firmly under him.

Ecuador, which was supposed to be good, played defensive counterattacks, but after playing, it became the Chinese national junior team to play defensive counterattacks. The Ecuadorian team can now be said to be in a dilemma, playing to the end, completely relying on Washington Corozo on the front line, by him to head the ball to find the second point of the teammate, but unfortunately afraid of being counterattacked by the national junior team, they are not many people who put into the attack, the second point is always obtained by the numerical advantage of the national junior team, and the attack is often in vain.

Until the end of the first half of the game, the national junior team led the score 2:0 and gained a great advantage.

At halftime, the national junior team did not make any personnel changes and maintained the lineup for the first half, while Ecuador put on a player with a stronger breakthrough ability in the middle, Nazareno, hoping to use his foot skills to target the national junior team's midfield.

It was also a risky substitution, with an attacking player replacing a defensive midfielder, and Ecuador's defensive formation would be even weaker.

However, this risk is still a bit threatening, shortly after the start of the second half, the new Nazareno made a series of breakthroughs in the midfield, first Zeng Fanfang, then Cao Jinghao, and finally forced Zeng Fanxing to desperately chase back and pull him down and eat a yellow card to end the Ecuador team's attack.

The previous national junior team played a lineup similar to 4-2-3-1, but after finding that the opponent had a technical midfielder, he decisively changed the formation to 4-3-2-1, which made Nie Jiang retreat a little and became a nine-and-a-half, and at the same time strengthened the thickness of the midfield.

After the national junior team changed the lineup, the number of midfielders increased, and the difficulty of Ecuadorian players to break through also doubled.

In the eleventh minute of the second half, Nazareno once again made the idea of a breakthrough, it should be said that his individual ability is still quite strong, he took the ball in the midfield, went to the side, and avoided the interception of Zeng Prosperous, but of course he wanted to go to Cao Jinghao, Zhang Huachen and Cao Jinghao teamed up to snatch the ball.

At the moment when the national junior team grabbed the ball, Shen Jun keenly inserted the assist, and the back Zhang Huachen ran to the middle to cover the middle, and Zeng Fanfang came over to form an offensive triangle with Shen Jun and Cao Jinghao.

The speed of the national junior team's attack from defense to attack is very fast, the three people on the left side of the continuous rapid pass, and then advanced from the half of the national junior team to the opponent's half, just when the Ecuadorian players thought that the national junior team would continue to attack the left side, Zeng Prosperity suddenly pulled the ball and turned around after a fake pass in the middle, and turned the direction of the national junior team's attack.

This turn made Ecuador's defensive formation chaotic, and the gap on the right side was so big that when Zeng Prosperity passed the ball to Nie Jiang, who was inserted diagonally, there was no one to defend him.

There was such a one-on-one opportunity to face the goalkeeper, and Nie Jiang did not waste it, he pushed in front of an extremely safe ground, and the ball rolled under the goalkeeper's armpit into the goal.

The national junior team extended the score to 3:0.

Such a score, coupled with the great superiority of the Chinese national junior team, basically lost the suspense of the game.

Rick Link began to make substitutions in the 20 minutes of the second half, but unlike Ecuador's substitution adjustment to try to get back the score, the substitution of the Chinese national junior team is completely the meaning of training newcomers.

Among them, Lu Yangyang and Wang Xing are the substitutes that Rick Link must investigate, the two of them, Lu Yangyang gave Rick Linking the confidence to let the central defender plug in the attack, after all, his ability to chase back is too good, and Wang Xing is a hammer in the period when the team is attacking, his height and header ability are definitely trustworthy.

After the substitution, the national youth team did not slow down the pace of attack, but obviously Ecuador did not want to concede any more goals, and the difference between a small loss and a heavy defeat was still very big. Wang Xing formed a header opportunity in the penalty area many times, and the opponent desperately did not let Wang Xing score a goal, and Wang Xing, who had been seeking a goal, failed to do so until the end of the game, and finally the national junior team won the opponent 3:0 with undisputed strength.

After this match, the national junior team successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, and they will next face Mexico, a traditional powerhouse in youth football.

This Mexican team is very strong, they beat Argentina and Germany respectively in Group C to beat these two strong teams to qualify for the first place in the group, and then in the quarter-finals they swept the host Chile team with a score of 4:1, and it can be said that their strength is the top three teams in this World Junior Championship.

The Chinese national junior team will meet the biggest opponent since the World Junior Championships.