Chapter 102: Scoundrel

The U.S. youth team made full use of Howard's characteristics, and they forced the Chinese youth team to only shoot from outside the penalty area, which will undoubtedly greatly reduce the threat of the Chinese youth team to their goal.

With Howard, the goalkeeper, the long-range shot threat of the Chinese youth team is not much.

The game went slowly in a relatively dull atmosphere, with fans in the stands even yawning as the American youth team picked up the ball. The U.S. youth team's offense was unhurried, and in the opening fifteen minutes, they didn't have a chance to attack.

This is the strategy of the American youth team in this game, when the opportunity is not good, they would rather not attack than leave any space for the Chinese youth team in the backfield.

The U.S. youth team has been waiting, with their solid defense waiting for the perfect counter-attacking opportunity to come.

The Chinese youth team did not have a good way to take the American youth team for a while, a team that refused to attack at will and only defended with all its might, anyone would feel a headache when encountered.

The Chinese youth team can only try to shoot from the outside of the penalty area, they really can't get the ball into the penalty area of the American youth team, even the tacit cooperation between Luo Ming and Lin Qi can't let Lin Qi get a chance to hit the goal in the penalty area.

As soon as the soccer ball enters the box, the four defenders left in the box by the U.S. youth team will immediately clear the ball. The U.S. junior team is a scoundrel, but it's practical.

The commentator from Europe kept ridiculing the American youth team: "The American youth team simply used eleven players on the field to block their own goals, what is the meaning of such a way of playing." ”

"This is the World Youth Championships, not the World Cup. The U.S. youth team played too cautiously, making it the most dreary game since the start of the World Youth Championships. ”

Commentators from all over the world are complaining about the way the U.S. youth team plays.

The U.S. youth team has no way to do it, the biggest and most reliable star in their team this year is Howard, and the World Youth Championship is a stage for star performance, so they gave Howard such an opportunity.

This is also the reason why defensive players are not as popular as offensive players, a defender, a goalkeeper, the better they are, the more dull the game will be.

Their performances were nowhere near as passionate as the attacking players.

Howard had a very good performance in this game, and the Chinese youth team had half an hour into the game. A total of sixteen shots were taken. Apart from six shots that didn't hit the woodwork, the remaining ten shots were saved by Howard.

He tried his best to keep the U.S. youth team goal open!

The attack of the Chinese youth team is still very strong, 30 minutes, 16 shots on goal. On average, there is a chance to hit the net in less than two minutes. But even this kind of attack can't knock on the goal of the American youth team.

Because those sixteen shots were all done from outside the box. It's not that the Chinese youth team hasn't tried to hit the ball into the U.S. youth team's penalty area, but with the U.S. youth team's dense defense, they can't find any space to hit the goal in the penalty area.

The game was completely one-sided. The Chinese youth team, a team that is not good at ball control, all achieved 63% possession in this game, which is enough to see how conservative the American youth team is.

The defenders of the Chinese youth team have overwhelmed the half of the American youth team, and they have launched wave after wave of attacks around the American youth team's goal.

Howard was by far the most photographed man in the game, making great saves in front of the camera time and time again.

The Chinese youth team's long-range shooting was too conducive to his play, and in the face of this kind of attack, Howard said there was no pressure.

The Chinese youth team has not found a good way to break the goal, but the American youth team used a counterattack opportunity to rewrite the score on the field when the game was 36 minutes into the game.

The Chinese youth team pressed too high, giving the American youth team an excellent opportunity to counterattack, which was the third attack of the American youth team in this game.

Their two strikers are not slow, and their speed still dominates in front of the defenders of the Chinese youth team. The two strikers used their speed to run all the way to the empty penalty area of the Chinese youth team except for the goalkeeper.

In the face of the goalkeeper's attack, the No. 10 striker of the U.S. youth team calmly shot and sent the football into the door of the Chinese youth team.

1:0! The U.S. youth team takes the lead!

"The counterattack of the American youth team paid off, the Chinese youth team played around their goal for more than 30 minutes without completing the goal, and the American youth team used their third counterattack opportunity to rewrite the score on the field!" The commentators on the scene did not have much passion after the goal of the American youth team, and they explained the goal of the American youth team very flatly.

Only Huaxia's commentator expressed his resentment.

"The U.S. youth team was playing tricks, they weren't worried that it was going to be a draw, so they defended with all their might from the start of the game, and then they took the opportunity to counterattack and scored first."

"Liu Bo has to think of a way to hurry up, and he can't let this score last until the end of the game." Huaxia's commentators felt very aggrieved like the players on the field of the Huaxia youth team.

However, there was no change in the scoreline, and the American youth team took the lead in the score, and they took the lead in the score when the situation was not dominant across the board.

In the next game, the American youth team played more steadily, they didn't even fight back, they just defended and defended.

The Chinese youth team can only continue to shoot from a distance that they can't contribute, this is their only chance, maybe a long-range shot will be able to score......

Until the end of the first half, the Chinese youth team was not able to break the goal of the American youth team.

1:0 in the first half, the U.S. youth team led the Chinese youth team!

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the half, the players of the Chinese youth team hurried back to their locker room, and these players who played very aggrieved in the first half couldn't wait to hear what kind of arrangements and what kind of countermeasures the head coach Liu Bo would have.

In the locker room, Liu Bo was already waiting for the players, his brow furrowed slightly, as if he was still thinking about how to deal with the rogue style of play of the American youth team.

Seeing Liu Bo frowning, the players did not disturb him, but sat quietly in their seats to drink water and rest, waiting for the moment when Liu Bo thought of countermeasures.

Silence seems to have gone on for a long time.

Liu Bo woke up from his thoughts and smiled bitterly.

"The U.S. youth team is too unreasonable...... Liu Bo first teased the U.S. youth team.

Although the score was behind, the players of the Chinese youth team and the head coach Liu Bo did not feel any pressure, and they were confident that they could get the score back in the second half!

The question is how to get it back?

Liu Bo will tease the American youth team so easily, obviously there is a way to get the score back. (To be continued......)