Chapter 106: Showing Strength

After two days of recuperation, the quarterfinals of the World Junior Championships officially began! In the midst of the media hype, the most high-profile match between the Chinese youth team and the Portuguese youth team was held at the same time.

The two teams finally faced off on the field.

The Chinese youth team played their best in this game. Aside from the first group game against England's youth team, the Chinese youth team has yet to really show their quality.

In the match against the U.S. youth team, fans and the media agreed that the Chinese youth team was a lucky win. The last match against Cameroon's youth team was not worth any reference.

After all, Cameroon is one of the weakest teams in this World Youth Championship, and even if the Chinese youth team is a substitute, the Cameroon youth team does not cause them much trouble......

The Chinese youth team has the intention to show their strength to fans all over the world once again in this game, and they want to let the European media know that the Chinese youth team can defeat the American youth team is not luck or fluke!

The Chinese youth team has made ample preparations for this game, and the Grape Youth team is a team that has won the World Youth Championship in the past, and although they have not played too well in the recent World Youth Championships, they are still a strong team to be reckoned with.

Portuguese football is rich in wide players, whether it is the most famous Figo or Cristiano Ronaldo, they all have very good wing attacking skills. In this Portuguese youth team, although there are no big stars, the tradition of attacking from the wing has been preserved.

Portugal's main attacking style is the two flanks, and from that point of view. The Chinese youth team's style of play is very similar to that of the Portuguese youth team. Because most of the attacks of the Chinese youth team rely on the wings, although Zhou Tao can also attack in the middle, he accounts for a very small proportion of all the attacks of the Chinese youth team.

Zhou Tao is still better at giving the ball to Lin Heng and Luo Ming, two wing players, after getting the ball.

Therefore, this game is also known as a battle on the wing, and whoever has a better side attack and a more solid side defense between the two teams will invisibly occupy a big advantage.

From the starting lists announced by the two teams before the game, fans can see that when it comes to attacking on the side, the Chinese youth team should be better, and their formation is more than that of the Portuguese youth team. Portugal's youth team is still in a typical 4-4-2 formation. The Chinese youth team played 4-3-3!

The 4-3-3 formation evolved from the formation of the Qilu team, which has created a 4-3-3 offensive system with An Run as the core since Shen Yue accepted, and in the AFC Champions League match between Quancheng and Gamba Osaka. The Quancheng team, with Lin Qi as the core, imitated the formation of the Qilu team.

This time. Liu Bo also used this formation.

in his team. There are not only Luo Ming and Zhou Tao in the trident of the Qilu team, but also Lin Qi at the core of the Quancheng team, plus Luo Ming and Xu Zhen, who participated in the match between the Quancheng team and the Osaka Gamba team. Liu Bo could have made some attempts at a 4-3-3 formation.

Liu Bo also believes that the Chinese youth team under the 4-3-3 formation should be the most powerful of them!

At a time when fans and the media generally thought that the strength of the Huaxia Youth Team was completely inferior to their luck, Liu Bo sacrificed a 4-3-3 big killer, and he wanted to use the strongest attack of the Huaxia Youth Team to respond to those doubts!

From an offensive point of view, the wing attack of the Chinese youth team is stronger than that of the Portuguese youth team. Defensively, however, the opposite is true, with the Portuguese youth team's wide defence clearly reassuring to the fans.

Among Portugal's youth defences, two full-backs are far more famous and powerful than their centre-backs, and even at the entire World Youth Championships, two full-backs are among the best of all defenders.

Portugal is rich in wide players, not only attacking players on the wings, but also defensive players, their full-backs are stronger than those at centre-backs.

The Chinese youth team is different, the defensive focus of the Chinese youth team is in the middle, and at Xu Zhen's point, their defense on the side is not comparable to the Portuguese youth team at all.

In addition, the formation of the Portuguese youth team is not as coquettish as the Chinese youth team~ coquettish, so it is clear which is stronger and which is weak in defense.

On the whole, the two teams can only win or lose each other. This has made this game even more interesting, and the other seven quarter-finals, there is a clear difference in strength between the two teams, if nothing else, the strong teams among them should be able to advance, of course, it cannot be completely ruled out that there will be upsets. Even if there is an upset, other games will not be as exciting as this kind of game with little difference in strength between the two teams.

Among the Chinese youth team and the Portuguese youth team, the Chinese youth team should have been the more favored strong team, after all, they qualified with a record of winning all the group stages, and the Portuguese team was only the second place in their group.

It's a pity that the victory of the Chinese youth team is considered the result of luck, and their strength has not been recognized by fans and the media.

Most fans believe that the strength of the Chinese youth team is at most comparable to the Portuguese youth team! This is still because they have the glory of Lin Qi's existence, if Lin Qi was not selected as one of the top ten superstars in the future, the strength of the Chinese youth team would be even less optimistic.

In any case, the much-anticipated match was finally staged in the anxious wait of the fans, and the stadium hosting the match was already full. Fans cheered loudly in the stands as they waited for the players to enter.

Lin Qi is no stranger to the cheers that came to the locker room in the stadium before the game started, but this time he had some uncomfortable feelings.

In previous games, most fans would shout the title of "God of War". It was the shouts of the fans of the Quancheng team or the Chinese fans who came to the World Youth Championships.

In the hearts of Chinese fans, the "God of War" Lin Qi is the symbol of the Chinese youth team, and they will cheer for Lin Qi "God of War" before the game.

But in this game, Lin Qi did not hear the cheers of the "God of War". WHAT HE HEARD WAS "LUCKYLIN"! This cheer was earth-shattering, Lin Qi could clearly hear it, this was not only the voice of Chinese fans, but also many foreign fans on the scene were also shouting the title of "LUCKYLIN", and even Portuguese fans also participated.

Although they shouted the same name, the meaning was very different.

CHINESE FANS THINK THAT THE TITLE OF "LUCKYLIN" IS MORE EXTENSIVE FOR LIN QI, AND IF YOU CALL "GOD OF WAR", THOSE FOREIGN FANS MAY NOT KNOW WHOSE NAME THEY ARE SHOUTING, BUT SHOUTING "LUCKYLIN" IS DIFFERENT, FOREIGNERS WILL KNOW AS SOON AS THEY HEAR "LUCKYLIN" THAT THIS IS THE CHINESE FANS CHEERING FOR LIN QI.

AND MOST OF THE FOREIGN FANS SHOUTING THE TITLE "LUCKYLIN" ARE FOOLING, AND SOME ARE MOCKING LIN QI......

In this warm atmosphere, the players of the Chinese youth team and the Portuguese youth team appeared one by one! (To be continued......)