Chapter Forty-Eight: Lee Byrne's Little Book

On October 30th, the third and fourth finals of this Asian Youth Championship took the lead. The South Korean national youth team, supported by the tsunami of 60,000 fans in the stadium, defeated the United Arab Emirates team 4-2 and qualified for the World Youth Championship held in Malaysia the following year, which was a small comfort to the domestic fans. It is also the luck of the South Korean team, just in August this year, the FIFA meeting just passed the 97 World Youth Championship to expand to 24 teams, and the Asian quota has increased from 2 to 4, otherwise this third will also be in vain, and you will still have to watch live TV at home next year.

Before the start of the race on the 31st, the media reported an interesting fact. Because there are many Chinese and Japanese in Seoul, 60,000 tickets for this game were sold out, and according to statistics, the fans who watched the final were almost three-point stands. The good thing is that South Korea's KBS TV station did a random interview with a passer-by, asking whether its fans would support China or Japan to win the championship, but after the show was broadcast, people found that the location host did not get many positive answers, but the white eyes can really be taken out and calculated by tons. It's not boring.

As a result, the number of fans who were evenly matched finally changed thanks to the efforts of Japanese fans who died to the death. As the players warmed up in the stadium for the final, a group of Japanese fans held up a cheering banner with the Japanese military flag under the scoreboard on the north side. This made the Chinese and South Korean fans at the scene quickly become angry, after all, both countries were oppressed by Japan during World War II. In the end, the group of Japanese fans were escorted out of the stands in a "friendly" manner by security guards, and the banners they brought were not allowed to be taken away. Then several Chinese and South Korean fans in the stands next door dared to turn over the stands, took out the lighters they carried with them, and lit the banners printed with military flags, and at this moment the audience erupted in a huge cheer mixed with Chinese and Korean, followed by long-lasting applause. Because of this unexpected incident, the game that was supposed to start at 7 p.m. was postponed for almost 40 minutes. In order to better encourage the Korean fans who suddenly joined our camp, Li Boen shouted goalkeepers Li Leilei, Li Weifeng, Wang Peng and Shao Jiayi together, and five people ran to the sidelines and stood in a row with their backs to the camera, from left to right were Li Leilei, Wang Peng, Li Weifeng, Li Bonn, and finally Shao Jiayi. The footage captured by the camera was also projected on a huge scoreboard, and it turned out that the numbers of these five people were grouped together according to their standing position to be 1945.8, which was the time of Japan's surrender in World War II. When the audience saw this picture, first all the Chinese fans chanted long live China, and then the Korean fans also shouted in Chinese. More than 40,000 people shouted in unison: "China! Hooray!" At this moment, KBS TV's audience survey finally had an answer. In the end, under the intervention of the fourth official, the two sides said that they would not let the incident continue to ferment in a bad direction, and would treat the game as a pure football game.

After picking the side, the Chinese team took the lead in kicking off. The Japanese team did not play a 3-5-2 against the Chinese team this time, but honestly used their 4-5-1 to counter. Probably expected that the Chinese team would still attack their own left side, after all, Nakamura Shunsuke's defense is indeed a lot worse than Masashi Motoyama, the speed of Endo Hohito's defense in this game is very fast, the first attack of the Chinese team in the opening, both times Zheng Dongqi broke through Nakamura's defense, and was forced back by Endo Hohito and left back Yamamoto Tomoto, but the ball is still controlled at the feet of the Chinese team. Seeing this, the boy shouted at Ah Qi in the backcourt: "Continue to play this point, don't rush to the bottom line, cross Nakamura and go to the middle to cut in, and shoot when you have the opportunity." This is not to give the Japanese team a chance to get familiar with the rhythm of defense, once the opponent adapts, it is unrealistic to want to put so much pressure on the opponent's left side, that is, to tell you that I can also go to the middle to seek cooperation without considering crossing, can pass the ball to find opportunities and can also shoot directly to threaten your goal, next time I hit your left side, you first think about whether to prevent a breakthrough in the middle or a cross from the bottom.

Next, the Chinese youth team continued to patiently attack the Japanese team, but after several official games, now all members of the Chinese national youth team have firmly engraved the word possession in their minds, especially in the stalemate stage, since everyone has not scored, the first thing to ensure is possession, is the safety of the back line, even if it breaks through to the penalty area, if there is no more than sixty percent certainty, I would rather pass the ball back to the midfield, Basically, it's rare to see players on this team rush to shoot from a distance when they don't have a way to attack. This is not the case for the next two times, Zheng Dongqi and Shao Jiayi each have a long-range shot opportunity in front of the penalty area, but the opponent's back and central defender's defense is very fast, and it does not give you a very comfortable shooting opportunity after adjustment, both times the Chinese players chose to pass back, and even Zheng Dongqi's attack on the other side of the two forced to grab, A Qiyi's long pass directly returned the ball to Li Byrne, who was at the end.

To say that the Japanese team is really strong in learning, it can be seen that they have studied our style of play since losing to China in the group stage. The tiki-taka football played by Pinnacle Barcelona under the leadership of Xavi and Xiaobai is not something that any team can replicate. But it doesn't mean that this style of play is the strongest, it still depends on whether it suits your team. Zheng Zhina of the first team must be no problem, but if you change to Cai Huikang of the first team or something, you must change your playing style. And the youth team is not trying to copy Barcelona's style of play now, but modern football running without the ball is very basic content, which is why it is normal for professional players in Europe and the United States to run more than 10,000 meters a game, and Berbatov's alternative is only a handful after all.

Then back to the game, the Japanese team is now Junichi Inamoto completely withdrew in front of the two central defenders, stuck in this throat position, you have to go down to the bottom that is the defensive responsibility of the fullback, and the job of filling the position is also done by Endo Hohito, anyway, I won't go anywhere, you can just fall your feet, I will lose if I move. This also leads to the situation we just mentioned, as long as the ball reaches the middle, it is a big traffic jam. The Chinese team has no good way at the moment, so it can only be more patient to try to find the opponent's loopholes again and again, even if only one time is enough. But it is true that there are times when people are unlucky, or in this game, the performance is that the Japanese team has played very well at the back. At this time, it is necessary for players to take the initiative to stand up and use their individual abilities to change the situation on the field.

Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives! Zheng Dongqi cooperated with Shao Jiayi in the middle lane again, and then the two switched positions, Shao Jiayi, who finished the wall, pulled to the side, Zheng Dongqi cut horizontally and walked to the middle lane, Junichi Inamoto pouted disdainfully, thinking that you are not finished yet. Then Endo also caught it from the side this time, and it seems that the Japanese team is also actively looking for opportunities to steal and counterattack. At the moment when the two were about to close the door, Zheng Dongqi walked the ball straight between the two, and then rushed forward at a speed, but this time Zheng Dongqi played a trick, his original intention was not to force a breakthrough from the front of the two backs, if the opponent's defense was not completely in place during the counterattack, it was still possible, but not now.

What does Zheng Dongqi want to do? Some Chinese players on the bench have already thought that this thing is going to touch porcelain! Ah, no, it's a foul. Sure enough, Zheng Dongqi's body hit Junichi Inamoto's thigh when he started to speed, and then with an "ah" sound, he saw that Ah Qi had completed a live diving performance. Sure enough, the referee gave a free kick in front. It's still a very desirable position, less than 5 meters out of the top right corner of the penalty area.

It stands to reason that even if this ball is really fouled and touches him, it will not be injured and unable to get up. But this thing just couldn't get up on the ground, until Li Boen also ran to the front court, and there were people on both sides pestering the referee, and I saw this guy lying on the ground with his back to the referee and the Japanese player, shouting at the boy: "Free kick book, hurry up and arrange it, let's go first!" Then the teammates around Zheng Dongqi understood the intention of this diving. Okay, Li Boen summoned Wang Peng and Shao Jia over to explain it, and he was waiting for the serve.

The referee warned Junichi Inamoto not to make such a big move, and then signaled the Chinese team to prepare to serve. This ball, Zheng Dongqi and Zheng Zhi stood in front of the ball, and Shao Jiayi stood in the back position. The referee blew the whistle, Shao Jia started to run, and at the same time Zheng Dongqi dialed the ball to Zheng Zhi, who stepped on it first, as if to help Shao Jia run the shelf, and suddenly at the moment when Shao Jia touched the ball, someone in the Japanese wall had begun to move outward to try to block the shot with his body, and the other players were also ready to jump to interfere with the shot. As a result, I didn't expect Zheng Zhi to stretch out his foot again, a pick-up pass, and the ball flew over the top of the Japanese team's human wall. And a red shadow on the side of the wall flashed in!

The ball hits the ground, kicks into the far corner, and scores! It's Wang Peng again! It seems that this opportunity to score easily Tian Ye also took the initiative to give up to Wang Peng, hoping that the other party can improve the record of the top scorer in the Asian Youth Championships more, and the chance of being broken by others in the future will be much smaller. After scoring the goal, Wang Peng did not choose to celebrate, but ran back and hugged a few teammates, which was also to express his gratitude to his teammates.

This goal really caught the Japanese team off guard, who would have thought? Especially when Zheng Zhi stepped on the ball, basically 90% of the defenders would be deceived.

When the Chinese team players who finished the celebration walked to their own half, they saw several members of the coaching staff on the Japanese bench recording something, and Zheng Dongqi said shyly: "Let's be small!" Bourne's stuff in the book, you're afraid the Japanese team won't want to enjoy it again in the short term. Remember, write it down this time, and next time I'll change another one to clean you up!"

After leading by 1 goal, the Japanese team is finally about to attack. The test of this game has just begun.