Chapter 279: Youth Power

The final of this World Cup will be held at 11 p.m. on July 15, Dragon Super League will be rekindled after that, and the Jianye team will first go to the away team to challenge the Beijing Guoan team.

Now there are more than ten days before the game is held, but the training of the Jianye team has begun, and after Shen Feng returns to the team, the lineup of the Jianye team is all complete.

Prior to that match, Jianye will play a quarter-final match of the FA Cup on July 8, also away, against Suning.

In this game, Jia Xiuquan did not plan to take Shen Feng over, but left him enough time to recover and adjust.

However, although Shen Feng didn't have to play the game so quickly, he couldn't rest completely, and then he had to participate in a series of activities organized by Jianye Club, Yu Province, Shangdu Municipal Government, and the two-level Football Association.

In the quarterfinals of the FA Cup on July 8, the Jianye team that lacked Shen Feng lost 0:1 to the Suning team.

After a series of adjustments such as changing coaches and introducing new signings this season, the team's combat effectiveness has been greatly improved compared with last season, and it has returned to the ranks of competing for the championship and competing for the AFC Champions League qualification.

The Jianye team's record on all fronts this season is still better than that of the Suning team, but in terms of the team's paper strength, the Jianye team is still slightly inferior, especially in the absence of Shen Feng.

Therefore, it is reasonable for Jianye to lose away in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.

Due to the FA Cup's format, starting from the quarterfinals, a two-legged home-and-away system is adopted, so losing away does not mean that Jianye team loses the possibility of going further in the FA Cup.

The Jianye players and coaching staff who returned from the away game were also not affected by this defeat.

Prior to this match, the quarter-finals of the World Cup were all over, and the other two teams that reached the last four were England and Croatia.

England defeated Sweden 2-0, and Croatia experienced the second penalty shootout in the knockout round of this World Cup, and finally defeated the host Russia team with an aggregate score of 6-5 (4-3 penalty shootout) to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup for the second time in team history.

In this match between England and Sweden, there is a focus of attention of Dragon Country fans, that is, whether Harry Kane, the captain of the England team, will continue to score goals, so as to catch up with Shen Feng's goals on the scorer list.

Shen Feng is still at the top of the scorer list of this World Cup with 7 goals, Harry Kane scored 5 goals in the group stage, and scored 1 penalty in the previous quarterfinals, and the total number of goals in this World Cup has reached 6, only one less than Shen Feng.

What worries Dragons fans didn't happen in this quarter-final, with England scoring two goals in this game, neither of which was scored by Harry Kane.

However, the worries of Dragon Country fans have not been eliminated, because the England team has advanced to the semi-finals, which means that they still have two games to play, Harry Kane only needs to score 1 more goal in these two games, he can catch up with Shen Feng's goals, if he can score 2 more goals, he will surpass Shen Feng and lead the scorer list.

Although Dragon Country fans eagerly hope that Shen Feng can win the "Golden Boot Award" in this World Cup, due to the strength limitations of the Dragon Country team, Shen Feng has only played three games in this World Cup, which is four games less than Harry Kane.

Such a gap makes Shen Feng at an absolute disadvantage in the competition for the "Golden Boot Award".

Moreover, such a situation cannot be reversed in the short term.

Fortunately, Shen Feng's attitude towards the "Golden Boot Award" is still relatively peaceful, although he knows that if he can win the "Golden Boot Award" of this World Cup, he will be able to get a lot of rewards from the "Shenfeng System", but the matter has come to this, it is useless to think about it, after returning to China, he has withdrawn his mind from the World Cup and transferred it to the Jianye team.

In the previous quarter-finals, the Croatian team was involved in a penalty shoot-out, and the opponent in the quarter-finals, the host Russian team, also passed through the penalty shoot-out to pass the quarter-finals.

In this game, the two teams played to a 1:1 draw in 90 minutes of regular time, and scored a goal each in 30 minutes of extra time, but they were still evenly matched, and could only fight through penalty shootouts again.

In the end, the Croatian team performed better in the penalty shoot-out that tested their psychological quality, eliminating the host Russian team and advancing to the semi-finals.

The two semi-final matchups were played between France and Belgium, as well as England and Croatia.

At two o'clock in the morning on July 11th, Longguo Beijing time, the semi-finals were played first, and the two sides were France and Belgium.

The youthful French team showed good control in this game, facing the Belgian team led by Hazard, Lukaku and other top stars in international football today, the performance was easy, and the whole game hardly gave the Belgian team any chances.

Although the French team did not get too many opportunities under the strict defense of the Belgian team, they still eliminated the Belgian team with a goal from the iron defender Umtiti who played for the La Liga giants Barcelona and entered the World Cup final again after 20 years!

The current French team has some similarities with the Jianye team, or in other words, the current Jianye team is a low-profile version of the French team.

Both teams are now led by young people.

The core players in the French team, Griezmann is 91, Pogba is 93, Kante is 91, the aforementioned Umtiti is 93, and there is a 98-year-old Mbappe, in the main squad of this World Cup, seventy percent are post-90s, and they are the youngest team with an average age among the 32 participating teams in this World Cup.

In the current main lineup of the Jianye team, Shen Feng is 97 years old, Hu Jingheng is also 97 years old, Liu Heng is 96 years old, Long Cheng is 95 years old, Zhong Jinbao is 94 years old, and foreign aid Basogo is 95 years old.