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In fact, a day earlier, the U20 World Cup had already begun, with the opening match featuring hosts Austria against European powerhouse Greece.

Compared with the Greek national youth team, the strength of the Austrian national youth team is slightly inferior, but with the home advantage of the host, the Austrian national team finally kept the score at 1-1 and stubbornly won a point.

As in previous editions, there are a total of 32 teams in the final finals of this World Cup, and 32 teams have been divided into eight groups, with the top two teams in the group stage advancing directly to the 16th, and then in the knockout round, the final winner of this World Cup will be determined.

In Group B, where the Chinese team is located, the other three teams are the African powerhouse Ivory Coast national youth team, the European upstart Switzerland is the national youth team, and the championship favorite Brazil national youth team.

There is no doubt that in Group B of the Chinese team, the Brazilian national youth team is the strongest, and after that, the strength of the other three teams, including China, is basically the same, so for the Chinese team, there is still a very good chance to qualify for the round of 16 in the group.

Of course, if the Chinese team can give full play to its strength, there is still a very good chance to fight for the top spot in the group, after all, everyone knows that in the Chinese team, there is Chen Long, who is at the top of the new star list. Chen Long's personal ability is obvious to all, coupled with the overall improvement of China's national football level in recent years, which also makes the overall strength of this national youth team look the strongest compared with previous years.

In the match with the Swiss team, coach Tern sent the strongest squad that the Chinese national youth team can send at present, although to a certain extent, the strength of the Chinese national youth team is stronger than the Swiss national youth team, but it is clear that the coach is very cautious, after all, this is the first game of the group stage, the first win, for the future games may be more helpful, no one wants to lose the first game.

Not surprisingly, the starting lineup of the Chinese team is led by Chen Long, in this starting lineup composed of eleven people, there are eight players, who are members of the main lineup of the previous national junior team, in this starting lineup, there are three positions, the players are different from the players of the previous national junior team, one is the goalkeeper position, Guo Haoran, who has a better performance and stronger strength, replaced the original main goalkeeper Luo Ning, and became the goalkeeper of this starting lineup, which is also expected.

Eighteen-year-old Guo Haoran is now the main substitute goalkeeper of the Evergrande Club, the overlord of the Chinese Super League, so to speak, in today's Chinese Super League, the overall strength of each team has been qualitatively improved compared with before, so to become the main substitute goalkeeper of the Evergrande Club, it is obvious that Guo Haoran's strength is quite good.

Chen Long's double teammate Zou Zhaolun in the national junior team and Cesena club also started, after being promoted to Serie A, Zou Zhaolong is now the core of Cesena's midfield, the first five rounds of the new season Serie A ended, Zou Zhaolong's play is also remarkable, under his leadership, Cesena as a promoted horse, achieved three wins, 1, draw and 2 losses, than some perennial Serie A long-term survival team played better.

In this game, head coach Tern also has high hopes for Zou Zhaolong, who is the core of the Chinese team's midfield organization, and the midfield combination that he and Chen Long continue to partner can expect that this will bring great trouble to the opponent.

The other two positions, Fang Xu, who played for Lazio youth team in the forward position, were replaced by Zheng Shaoqiu, a supernova of Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan. For Zheng Shaoqiu, Chen Long is also fresh in his memory, when he first debuted and played in the reserve league in the Evergrande Reserve Team, Zheng Shaoqiu, who was from the Beijing Guoan Reserve Team at that time, was the only player who could match him in terms of speed, however, a few years have passed, and it is unknown what the speed gap between the two is now, however, it is conceivable that Chen Long is still stronger.

The other position is that the left-back position, the original Yang Lele, was replaced by Du Yi, Du Yi is the "oldest player" of the national youth team, before Chen Long was selected for the national youth team, Du Yi was already the captain of the national youth team, and he was an important contributor to the national youth team being able to break through from Asia and enter the World Cup finals, with certain game experience.

On November 18, 2013, Beijing time, at 7 o'clock in the evening, at the Reed~Ette Stadium in Austria, there were not a few fans who came to watch the game, among which the most fans who supported the Chinese national youth team were the most, that is, most of the fans were Chinese.

It is true that this is not China, and it is not the so-called home stadium, but there are many Chinese students studying in Europe, and in recent years, the overall level of football in China has been continuously improved, which means that there are more and more fans who pay great attention to the national team's games.

The European continent is not big, and the transportation is very convenient, and today is a Sunday rest day, so there are also a lot of fans who come to support the Chinese national youth team.

When Chen Long and them lined up in turn, under the leadership of the referee, they walked to the court through the players' tunnel one after another, and the fans in the stands also broke out into warm applause and cheers, which made Chen Long and their hearts quite moved.

Chen Long looked around, looking at the enthusiastic fans, constantly cheering for them, and his heart gradually became excited, he knew that they had to have an excellent performance on the field, which was the best reward for the fans who came to support him.

"Good morning, friends and viewers in front of the TV, welcome to watch the group stage of the 24th U20 World Cup, the first game of the Chinese team in Group B, no surprise, ten minutes later, this game officially started."

Beijing Central Studio, CCTV5 Sports Channel also broadcast the game live, responsible for the live broadcast of the game is the commentator Luo Tao, and the guest commentator Li Yi.

Before this game, Chen Long became the captain of this team, so after entering the court, he guessed the side on behalf of the Chinese team, and it seemed that Chen Long had good luck today, and the Chinese team won the tee-off.

"Toot"

With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.

In the first few minutes of the game, neither side took a more aggressive approach, and it looked like both sides were playing more cautiously.

However, such a dull state obviously will not last long, in the sixth minute, this game, the first wave of attacks of the Chinese team began, and the attack was naturally launched by the midfielder Zou Zhaolong, who had high hopes for coach Tern.

Zou Zhaolong was near the halfline, and after getting a pass from defender Du Yi, he made a feint to break through with the ball, quickly crossed a Swiss player who was defending him, and then suddenly turned from the middle to the side to continue to break through. (To be continued.) )