Chapter 22: Reaching the Semifinals

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At this time, Artemisia Junmin showed his dribbling stunt, using continuous feints to get rid of the opponent's defense and successfully went down, the opponent's other central defender saw this and hurriedly rushed over to block the angle of his cross, but Artemisia Junmin at this time passed a beautiful arc ball around his head, Yu Hai, who rushed into the penalty area at high speed, jumped high like a peng spreading his wings, and the opposing fullback who followed him could not make an effective defense at all under the height difference of more than 10 cm, and could only watch Yu Hai push the ball into his own net. The Chinese team took the lead again in the fourth game of this competition, leading 1:0!

Just 3 minutes later, Hao Junmin repeated the old trick again, but the Costa Rican team, which had already learned a lesson, attacked Yu Hai with central defenders and fullbacks, Yu Hai reluctantly put the ball back to the middle, and Gao Jun, who had just retreated, stepped forward in time to get the ball, and accurately pushed the ball into the lower left corner of the opponent's door at the first time, and the Chinese team led 2:0!

In the 28th minute of the first half, Hao Junmin once again started the ball on the side, but under the strict defense of Costa Rica, Yu Hai failed to reach it, but under mutual interference, the opponent's two defenders also did not reach it, and the ball drifted to the back point, at this time, the Chinese team striker Jiang Chen, who has scored three goals since this game, squeezed away the opponent's defender with his extraordinary strength, and volleyed vigorously after stopping the ball on his chest to break the net, helping the Chinese team to achieve a huge advantage of 3:0, which is really a fantastic start!

At this time, even Costa Ricans felt a little desperate, but the Chinese defenders carried forward the "friendship first, game second." The glorious tradition took the initiative to give a big gift. In this game, the newcomer Lang Zheng, who replaced the main central defender Cai Xi who was suspended from the red card, faced the pressure of the Costa Rican striker, and did not choose to transfer the ball quickly, but wanted to rely on his not excellent skills to get rid of the opponent, but the clever opponent suddenly stepped forward to grab the ball, and then used the speed to drive straight in, shaking Zeng Cheng to score an empty goal, and the score was pulled to 3:1, and Liu Chunming, who was so angry that he jumped like thunder.

Just two minutes later, another central defender made another mistake and was seized by Costa Rica to chase back a goal, and the score became 3:2, and the advantage of the previous Chinese team's frontcourt players was almost wiped out in a blink of an eye

But just when Liu Chunming, the head coach of the national youth team, was panicking and preparing to replace another defensive player to keep the victory, Gao Jun began his gorgeous performance.

By this time in the game, Gao Jun had noticed that Costa Rica played with civility (the team has historically won the Sportsmanship Award at this World Junior Championships) and did not make rough moves even when they were three goals down, so he decided to try the results of three years of hard work

"Nice feints!" , The on-site commentary suddenly shouted excitedly, including him, no one thought that Gao Jun, who was basically a kick out of the ball before, and it was rare to even take the ball would actually break through with the ball by himself, but the first guy who was shaken could be said to be careless, but continuing to shake the second and third opposing players was enough to show that Gao Jun's dribbling ability was excellent, and his final shot also maintained the previous high level, in the face of the attacking goalkeeper, he shot lightly and directly penetrated two goals

After discovering that Gao Jun's breakthrough ability was also not weak, the head coach of the Costa Rica team had to send an extra defender to guard him, but in this way, the gap in other places was even greater, especially since the two wings were completely opened by the Chinese team. In the 71st minute, Yu Hai broke through two opposing players in a row and crossed, and Hao Junmin, who was outflanked at the far end, shot the ball into the net, and the score expanded to 5:2!

In the 79th minute, Li Benjian's free kick caused a scuffle in the opponent's penalty area, and Gao Jun grabbed the shot in the chaos, and the score expanded to 6:2!

Although the strength of the Costa Rican team is not weak, but the psychological quality of the junior players is far inferior to that of adults, after losing to the present, the team's psychology has completely collapsed, in the last moment of the game, Artemisia Junmin took advantage of the chaos of the opponent's defensive organization, dribbled the ball and rode alone, scored a wonderful goal, and finally locked the score at 7:2! The Chinese team marched to the semi-finals with their heads held high!

China's status as underdogs was finally confirmed after a surprising sweep of a strong Costa Rica side, but most still believe they have come to the end of the tournament as their next match will be against the favourites Brazil.

But even if it stops in the semi-finals, the Chinese national junior team still has the best results of the Chinese national junior team in the World Junior Championships, so not only many well-known sports newspapers in China sent reporters to Finland, and even CCTV Sports Channel also sent people to contact the Finnish side about the broadcast, but in the end, although it was negotiated, due to the tight time, it was impossible for the Chinese team to participate in the semi-finals to be broadcast live, but fortunately, no matter whether the semi-finals won or lost, there was always a game behind, and that live broadcast could still be guaranteed.

At this time, Liu Chunming fulfilled the responsibility of a head coach, and he unceremoniously blocked those reporters out, so that the team could prepare for the game with peace of mind, which made Gao Jun somewhat confident about the next game.

However, this Brazilian national youth is indeed strong, although there are no football superstars in later generations, but the team's tactical coordination is very skillful, and the defensive system is quite good, and it is often such a Brazilian team that is the most terrifying in history. In fact, this Brazil team is not the strongest under-17 Brazilian team of all time, just look at their invincible record in history.

However, in the junior game where the maximum age of the player is not more than 17 years old, the gap between the levels of the countries is far less than that of the senior team, and the performance is more inconsistent, so there is still a chance for an upset, especially now that the team has a high army as the core of the team's attack

On August 27, Beijing time, the 2003 FIFA Finland Under-17 World Youth Football Championship entered the ninth match day and began the semi-finals, in which the match between Brazil and China was played at the Latina Stadium in Tampere, a city in southwest Finland, with 7,675 spectators attending the game.

Only 3 minutes into the opening game, the Chinese team, which was full of confidence because of the last wild victory, created a killing chance, Zhang Chenglin, who boldly assisted to the front, received a pass from teammate Li Chunyu 30 meters from the goal, and suddenly sent a cold arrow, but the Brazilian goalkeeper Bruno was very focused, he struggled to jump up and block the ball with his arm.