Chapter 20 World Junior Championships in Finland

Helsinki is a beautiful city, but the strict management of the Chinese national team has never had a chance to go out and see unless they can do well in this tournament, so that the coaching staff may be able to give everyone a day off before returning home. However, it did not seem easy to do so, and the national junior team unfortunately met the hosts Finland in their first game.

But to the surprise of the audience, as soon as the game started, the Chinese team took the lead. In less than 3 minutes of the opening game, the Chinese team won a free kick, Li Benjian threw a very fast low flat ball, the landing point was just right, No. 11 Jiang Chen pulled out his foot and shot angrily, a goal! The Chinese team leads 1-0!

However, just two minutes later, the Finnish team also used a cross to equalize the score with a header from fellow No.11 Palica. After that, the Chinese team fell into passivity for a while, and then Gao Jun stood up, and he signaled the team to recycle the overall formation, so that the thickness of the defense was greatly increased, and more importantly, Yu Hai, who was amazingly fast, had more space to sprint

In the 28th minute, Li Benjian passed a beautiful ball behind him, Yu Hai immediately accelerated to catch up with the ball, and at this time, all the Finnish players except the goalkeeper were left behind by him, and the on-site commentators couldn't help but exclaim, "This speed is faster than the wind, does Robben have a little brother in China?" ”

The reason why the commentator thinks of Robben is naturally the extremely similar "small broken step" of the two, but Yu Hai's speed can indeed be called galloping, now he is only 16 years old, but the 100-meter speed has already run into 11 seconds 3 (hand timing), which is definitely a rare fast horse in the World Junior Championships where the players are under the age of 17, plus the defender has to turn around, so it is natural for Yu Hai to be pulled away all of a sudden

Although the Finnish defenders chased after them, they were too late to catch up and had to put their hopes in their goalkeeper. However, what really saved the Finnish team was their goalpost, only to hear the sound of "bell", Yu Hai's powerful volley hit the ball on the right post of the goal and popped out! Yu Hai, who missed this single opportunity, couldn't help but regret it

The goalpost made a great contribution, but the danger in the Finnish team's penalty area has not been lifted, and the fast horse into the big penalty area Artemisia Junmin shot angrily, but this high-quality shot was quickly blocked by the Finnish goalkeeper who quickly returned to the position, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw a ghostly figure rushing into the penalty area, facing the ball with a gentle push with the arch of his foot, and the little guy who seemed to be unwilling to enter the door was sent in lightly, 2:1, the Chinese team was once again ahead of the host!

Although the Finnish team wanted to equalize quickly, they were afraid of the Chinese team's counterattack but they no longer dared to press as much as before, and the Chinese team had a goal advantage in hand anyway, so naturally they were not in a hurry, so the scene was a little dull for a while, but the level of Finnish fans was obviously generally high, and they did not make a noise for the team to counterattack, but just kept cheering it on.

In the 18th minute of the second half, the Chinese team could have killed the game directly, but Hao Junmin, who was not good at headers, topped Rong Hao's cross, which had just the right speed, arc and accuracy.

Wasted opportunities are punished, the Finnish team took advantage of a free kick opportunity one minute later, and No. 9 Pederescu took a strange ball that seemed to be a pass and shot, and the tall Finnish No. 13 jumped high, interfering with the judgment of the Chinese team's goalkeeper Tian Xu, making the Finnish team score the ball somewhat unexpectedly, and the score was 2-2.

Seeing that the two sides were about to shake hands and make peace, the Chinese team got a corner kick opportunity in the front court, after seeing the code given by Gao Jun, Hao Junmin decisively threw a straight to the near corner of the ball, and the quickly started Gao Jun grabbed the ball before the opponent's defender, and the football immediately changed direction and flew into the net, 3:2, the Chinese team killed the host in the first game!

In this game, Gao Jun's greatest contribution was to stand up and adjust the tactics on the field when the head coach was at a loss, thus quickly turning the situation on the field. And he himself, once again showed the true character of an efficient goalscorer, a total of 5 shots in the whole game but scored two goals, although the state is far less than when playing the Asian Junior Championship and the Second Division, but considering that the opponent is stronger, Gao Jun got 4 of the 5 chances he is relatively not good at headers, such a table is already quite good.

The first win made the head coach Liu Chunming very satisfied, but the main goalkeeper of the national youth team, Tian Xu, lost Liu Chunming's trust because of his low-level mistakes.

The opponent of the second game is the strong Colombia (which has historically entered the semi-finals), Gao Jun considered that the South American team, especially the youth team, has strong individual ability but relatively loose defensive organization, and advocates the use of passing to create opportunities, and the skills of Chinese players may be poor, but because the frontcourt players except for one Jiang Chen, the other players are in the same club of the Oriental team, the tacit understanding Cheng dù is very good, and the advantage of tacit understanding Cheng dù is enough to make up for the lack of personal ability when using the overall play style based on passing and cutting cooperation. In particular, the playing style of the Dongfang team was originally based on relying on the cooperation of passing and cutting to carry out ground penetration, so there was no problem of not adapting, and Liu Chunming, who was increasingly dependent on Gao Jun, finally agreed to this construction

In the 32nd minute of the first half, the Chinese team unexpectedly played a beautiful match of a continuous pass, and finally Artemisia Junmin, who was cut into the ribs, received Gao Jun's penetrating pass to form a single knife, and after taking a step, he shot near the corner of the small penalty area to break the net, and the Chinese team led 1:0! For this wonderful team goal, the fans at the scene who are experts have responded with warm applause.

In the 67th minute, the Chinese team got a free kick opportunity, Jiang Chen punched forward and shot in the lintel to pop up, fortunately the ball bounced to himself, Jiang Chen received the rebound ball and immediately passed to Yu Hai on the left side, Yu Hai pushed with his left foot, the ball went to Zhang Chenglin on the edge of the penalty area, the latter volleyed vigorously, although the opponent's goalkeeper Arenas saved, but because the power was too great, the ball still went into the net, and the score became 2:0, but this also forced the Colombian team to counterattack with all its might, Its powerful impact immediately made the fragile Chinese team's backline rumored