Chapter 43: The First Battle of Japan

On October 20th, in the first match of the group stage, the Chinese national youth team played against the Japanese national youth team, which is the strongest in the group. This game was not broadcast live on the central five, and there was also a match of the national team Asian Cup in the same year, so domestic fans can only watch this game in Guangdong Sports. Of course, the commentary is very emotional Cantonese. In this game, the Japanese national youth team was bound to drive and put on a 3-5-2 attacking lineup. Many fans probably don't know what more famous players were on the Japanese national youth team in 96. Let's take a look:

Goalkeeper: Shinya Yoshihara (Yokohama Marinos)

Defenders: Tomo Yamaguchi (Osaka Flying Feet), Yuji Nakazawa (Atletico Mineiro training at their own expense), Ogasawara. Mannan (Kashima Antlers)

Defender: Junichi Inamoto (Osaka Flying Feet) Endo Hohito (Minor League: Yokohama Flying Wings)

Full-back: Shunsuke Nakamura (Yokohama Marino) Masashi Motoyama (Kashima Antlers)

Front: Hidetoshi Nakata (Hiratsuka Hitori)

Forwards: Shinji Ono (Urawa Red Diamonds) Atsushi Yanagisawa (Kashima Antlers)

After reading this list, it is estimated that many people are speechless. Isn't this Nima the Japanese national team in 5-10 years? That Endo hasn't retired in 2021. Hidetoshi Nakata will move to Serie A club Perugia in the next 98 years. Yuji Nakazawa Chinese fans should also be familiar with it, it is the height of this 187 that solves the problem of Japanese air defense. Atsushi Yanagisawa has only made eight appearances for Kashima Antlers this season, but a seventeen or eighteen boy has scored five goals in just one appearance. In fact, the last game was the real one, and it was also the victory of the Chinese national youth without dominance, when Jianlibao was still in Brazil.

For this game, the teenager is the same as ever, as usual is still his usual lineup in the club. After all, Zheng Dongqi is also a good player on the side, especially against Shunsuke Nakamura, who is not mature enough in technology and experience at this time, and the wild kick makes it difficult for the other party to deal with it. The other positions are also fielding the strongest lineups available at the moment:

Goalkeeper: Li Leilei

Three central defenders: Li Weifeng, Li Bourne, Xin Feng

Back: Zheng Zhi, Jia Wenpeng

Left and right wingbacks: Wu Jun, Zheng Dongqi

Front waist: Shao Jiayi

Forwards: Wang Peng, Tian Ye

In all fairness, this lineup, in terms of the players' future achievements, that is, Zheng Zhi and Li Weifeng can be compared with a group of Japanese players. But football is a team sport, relying on the whole, and the two weeks at the Qinhuangdao training base have made these young people want to prove themselves in this cup competition. Not to mention that they don't know how much higher the Japanese players on the other side will be than them in the future, and even if they do, no one will back down, just the momentum they are holding back now, I wish it was the Brazilian national team playing on the other side.

At 6:30 p.m., the referee blew the opening whistle. The Japanese team kicked off first, and Junichi Inamoto, who received the return pass, distributed the ball to the feet of Shunsuke Nakamura on the left side, the top player in Japanese football in the coming period was not ready for the next move, and the highly focused Zheng Dongqi made a sliding tackle at his feet, a very clean tackle. Zheng Dongqi, who rushed forward quickly with the ball, passed the ball before the opponent's left-back Tomoshi Yamaguchi came up to grab the ball. Unexpectedly, this ball did not look for Shao Jiayi in the forward position, but directly gave it to Wang Peng who was in front. Wanda Fengba also didn't drag his back to Yuji Nakazawa at all, and his right foot kept begging and directly used the arch of his foot to end the ball diagonally behind, which penetrated the Japanese team's 3-5-2 weak defense. This set of Zheng Dongqi has played a lot with Uncle Gu in the club, and he has long been familiar with the way, and he has already started to speed forward to the gap behind the opponent's fullback when he passed the ball to Wang Peng, so Wang Peng's pass has not yet landed, and Zheng Dongqi took advantage of the situation to step into the Japanese team's penalty area. The feeling of the Japanese defenders is probably the same as that of the common people in Nagasaki, Tokyo during World War II, the battle in front of them was fierce, and in the blink of an eye, the US planes bombed their own territory. Yuji Nakazawa hurriedly went to make up for the position of Tomoshi Yamaguchi, but it was too late to take it. This is the Japanese team is too big.,Blindly believe in the control of their midfield.,After receiving the ball without passing two feet, it was cut off by the opponent for a quick counterattack.,The current situation is that Yuji Nakazawa has a 2-meter-long beautiful leg that doesn't help. Zheng Dongqi took a look at the situation on the field, after Nakazawa returned to defense, the field at the far end was closely guarded by the opponent's right back, Junichi Inamoto was close to Shao Jiayi, who was inserted in front, and Endo Hohito, who was very fast in the 60-meter short distance, was slightly faster, but it was only to the top of the arc of the penalty area. Zheng Dongqi took a step to the right sideways to avoid Nakazawa's sliding tackle and passed the ball to the penalty spot before the goalkeeper came out, and the unmarked Wang Peng easily pushed it into the far corner.

1:0, opening 1:03. The head of the Japanese Football Association in the stands was still shaking hands with the AFC officials for a group photo, and this sudden goal made the head of the Japanese Football Association look extremely ugly. The live broadcast camera of Guangdong Sports also cooperated to push a close-up shot, which is so close that it almost reaches people's faces. This can make domestic fans look high.

Shunsuke Nakamura, Yasuhito Endo, Junichi Inamoto, Tomoto Yamaguchi, and a group of Japanese players squatted on the ground with their heads bowed. The Chinese players are celebrating uncontrollably. Hehe, if you have the intention to fight or not, you can't steal one? What's more, your three defenders have a lot of holes. This game is to bring out the shadow on your hearts as the core players of the future Japanese national football team.

The coaching staff here asked the AFC staff in the stadium and learned that this goal broke the current record for the fastest goal in the Asian Youth Championship, and the entire bench was also jubilant. Anyway, if you do it with Japan, we will be comfortable if we make the other party uncomfortable, and we can't go wrong.

Back in the middle circle, the Japanese team kicks off. This time they didn't dare to be careless, and began to try to control the midfield slowly, and they were not in a hurry to attack, the purpose was to raise the formation of the Chinese team through the inverted feet of the midfield, disrupt our defense, and there will always be defensive loopholes in the non-stop movement. For example, the well-known Barcelona is to mobilize the opponent's defense through continuous short passes, but there is a premise that you can't just pass the ball in different positions, which requires a lot of running without the ball, and the player's running is the magic weapon to tear apart the opponent's defense, and the passing is just an aid. After all, you're a player running around and you don't have the ball at your feet, as long as you don't get the ball in a dangerous position. It is clear that these young players in the Japanese team will not be able to reach the level of Xavi Iniesta's Barcelona, and even ten years later they will be far from their own level.

After playing with themselves for three or four minutes, they found that the Chinese team was ignoring them at all. It's clear that these young players haven't really understood what it means to control midfield. In an ordinary game, it is inevitable that the opponent wants to grab the ball, so the players around the central axis and the wing can speed up the pass and find opportunities to tear apart the opponent's defense. So now the first Chinese team's defensive position is standing well, as far as the Japanese players pass this way, when you hand the ball to the front and the side front feet, the players on my side stick a little closer, you have to honestly pass the ball back, to put it bluntly, it is not enough to run without the ball. The Japanese team that has not experienced the baptism of two or three World Cups is not terrible at all, unlike the South Koreans who are shameless to win the fourth place in the World Cup, the Japanese team has paid the tuition from the three competitions of 98, 02 and 06. The football of China, Japan and South Korea is like three school-age children. At the beginning, China's foundation was the best, South Korea was okay, and little Japan looked weak. After going to school, China became the most naughty student, and he could keep up with everyone in primary school, but when he started to have any small problems in junior high school, his grades naturally became worse and worse; South Korea,It's still very hard to study.,But this guy always likes to be smart.,Not down-to-earth.,I like to hear others say they're awesome.,So when I got to junior high school, I found out that I could cheat in the big exam (World Cup).。 In this football, only the little Japanese son has always studied diligently and honestly. There's nothing to deny this. Even if the 02 World Cup is the junior high school stage of the three countries, after which they enter high school, the Koreans find that cheating can't work, and they start to work hard. One of them went to a key high school, and the other studied hard in an ordinary high school, haha, Chinese football went to a technical school. Your own efforts are one thing, but the most important thing is a child's growth environment, in fact, it is easy to conclude that dad can't do it. Who is the father of the national football team? Football Association.

After chatting and returning to the game, the Japanese team found that their vaunted midfield control did not play any role on the Chinese side, and began to speed up the tempo in impatience. However, when they started to find out that the Chinese national youth team was more adapted to this rhythm than them, when Shao Jiayi and striker Tian Ye who played in the front also began to retreat to participate in the defense, the Japanese team in the back position of the Boshihito Endo and Inamoto Junichi began to feel uncomfortable playing this ball. The front can't be attacked, and the ball returns to the feet of the two backs, which is no problem, but I haven't seen the opponent's front and striker play like this to grab it! After two or three times, Endo still made a mistake, and after he finished the ball, he did not pull to the empty space and then pick up his teammates. Just slackened like this, Inamoto, who was in his early 1.7 meters, made Shao Jia, who was 1.85 meters tall, lose his balance with a reasonable collision. Then Shao Jia walked forward with the ball, one of the two backs was lying down, and the other hadn't reacted yet, what a good opportunity. The remaining 3 defenders of the Japanese team are like big enemies.

Now this situation is 3 to 3, to say that it is a must score, it is really early. But don't be afraid, after watching the technical and tactical analysis clips for half a month, and practicing running without the ball for half a month, what did the Korean teenager say?

"Don't be under pressure, it's not from a club in the first place, and it's normal to make mistakes in cooperation. But you have to dare to run and pass, and if you lose the ball, you can get it back. No player in this age group is worse than the other, you are more decisive than the opponent and you have half a second advantage over the opponent. Bold kicks, you can't go wrong."

So these three against three, not to mention that the current score is still 1:0, what pressure does my attacker have. Shao Jia passed the defense line as soon as he took the ball, and the opponent's central defender didn't dare to pounce all at once, so he could only follow the retreat, try to drag the rhythm of the opponent's attack, and wait for the return of his own midfielder. Shao Jiayi was not verbose, gave the ball directly to Wang Peng on the right, and then ran to the side of the big penalty area, after a simple 2-by-1, Shao Jiayi's position to get the ball was almost the same as the position of Zheng Dongqi at the time of the first goal. Yuji Nakazawa was stuck between Wang Peng and Shao Jiayi this time, so he didn't give the two a chance to connect. Then the next second this thing cried, the left-footed player Shao Jia shot with his foot, the far corner, scored, 2:0. The ball was also very decisive, and after receiving the ball, he didn't think much about it, the goalkeeper didn't even have time to come out to seal the angle, and the ball had already spun and flew into the far corner.

There was no suspense in the next game, and when the boys of the national youth found that what they practiced was really effective, and they were more advanced than the opponent's style of play, their confidence came out. For midfielders, it is basic that they have to pull into the open to receive the ball after the ball is released. The Chinese team's offense can be called smooth in general, and of course there will be mistakes. If I don't pass the same way you run, then I'll lose the ball. It doesn't matter, there is always someone to help you make up for the first time you lose the ball, and the first time to limit the opponent's rapid counterattack, the position on the field is dead, and the person is alive. Although the Japanese team has a certain ability to learn and adjust, the effect of temporary cramming can be imagined, and the Japanese team that has strengthened its running can finally create a little threat. But this pass and run thought too much, afraid of mistakes, but hesitated to let the Chinese team seize a lot of opportunities. There were at least five or six steals and fast breaks in the second half.

The final score was fixed at 3:0, and the Chinese national youth team got off to a good start in the group stage, and the Japanese national youth team had no power to fight back. Football practitioners throughout Asia are frightened, this is just a temporary lineup of the Chinese national youth, and the Brazilian group has not yet come out of the mountain. Haha, the effect that the boy wants has been achieved, so you can tremble!