In the 19th minute of the first half, as the Chinese team scored the first goal, the rhythm of the game was also driven. The Japanese team, which was one goal behind, also began to strengthen its attack, after all, it was already the final, and it was still one goal behind, so there was no point in playing at this time.

As mentioned earlier, the Japanese team has a strong learning ability, and it can be seen from this game that they have also studied our style of play after losing to China in the group stage, and the midfielder with Hidetoshi Nakata as the core has also strengthened the off-ball running, and shouted at each other on the field if they didn't have a tacit understanding, and for a moment it seemed like this was a volleyball game, and every pass of the Japanese players would be accompanied by an incomprehensible Japanese sentence. When there is a mistake in coordination, it is often the two players who are close to each other and immediately start a fierce counter-attack. In addition, in the finals, for the fluency of the game, the penalty scale was relatively relaxed, and for a while, the pressure on Zheng Zhi and Jia Wenpeng, the two backs of the youth team, doubled, Zheng Zhi was better, Jia Wenpeng's strength was defense after all, his personal skills and ball control were not so good, and he was robbed 3 times by the opponent in just ten minutes. Thanks to Jia Wenpeng's excellent defensive awareness, he was able to quickly find the position he should make up for on the field after losing the ball, and finally did not let the Japanese team take the opportunity to sneak attack.

In the small twenty minutes of stalemate, the Japanese midfielder took the initiative, forming two low crosses and two long-range shots in front of the penalty area. The most uncomfortable point for the Chinese team now is that the midfield and midfield positions cannot be effectively connected in tandem with the midfield, and the offensive organization is supplemented. The Japanese team has no high point in the penalty area, so they can only find a way to penetrate little by little, and the two sides of the Chinese team are very good at defending Shunsuke Nakamura and Shinji Ono on the right, and the offensive pressure of the entire Japanese team is resisted by Hidetoshi Nakata.

The Japanese team's coaching staff made adjustments without a bit of mud and water, and after Makashi Motoyama came on to replace Yasuhito Endo, he swapped places with Shinji Ono and Nakamura. In this way, both sides of the Japanese team have the ability to break through individually, Nakamura, who is good at connecting the team with passes, is put in the middle midfield position, and Nakamura Shunsuke does not have to be targeted by Zheng Dongqi of the Chinese team. It can be said that this adjustment was immediate and quickly had an effect.

Towards the end of the first half, after a series of combinations on the right side of the Japanese team, the ball returned to the feet of Nakamura in the middle, and at this time, Atsushi Yanagisawa in the middle stood behind Li Weifeng and was in an obvious offside position. Shunsuke Nakamura made a pass over the big head and went straight into the penalty area, Li Weifeng didn't think much about it and raised his hand to signal that Atsushi Yanagisawa behind him was offside, but when he raised his hand, he saw that his teammates were quickly shrinking the defense in the penalty area, and then Li Weifeng found out that the ball Atsushi Yanagisawa didn't move at all, since he didn't participate in the attack, it definitely can't be regarded as offside. However, Hidetoshi Nakata started quickly at the moment when Nakamura got up and surpassed the Chinese team's backline that was offside. After this anti-offside, he inserted the opportunity to take advantage of the Chinese team's attention to the offside position, and when Li Weifeng, who was closest to Nakata, turned around, he was blocked by Yanagisawa who raised his hand to express his innocence. With such a block, Nakata Hidetoshi had a full second to adjust, and for the Japanese midfield maestrum, there was so much that could be done in this second, including finishing the game.

1:1, the ball goes in. Japan equalized. The big head was still chasing the referee to signal that he was blocked by Atsushi Yanagisawa, and Li Byrne ran over to stop the big head, telling the latter that the ball was indeed a problem with the back line as a whole, and no one paid attention to when Nakata started, so it can be said that everyone was affected by inertial thinking and was interfered with by Atsushi Yanagisawa who was obviously offside. This ball can only be said to be played smartly by the Japanese team, and deliberately put a loophole for you, even if you bet to see if the Chinese team will make mistakes. As a result, since they won the bet, they can only continue to work hard in the back, and trying to solve the offensive problems is what they need to do now.

After the Japanese team took the initiative to adjust, the Chinese team also adjusted according to the situation on the field, Xin Feng of the 3 central defenders was adjusted to the position of right back, and Wu Jun on the left also withdrew from left wingback to left back. The Middle East Seven was placed in the back position, and Jia Wenpeng was responsible for the defense of the back position, and Zheng Zhi mentioned the center midfielder, who had more freedom in the transition between attack and defense. Striker Wang Peng retreated and Shao Jiayi formed a double forward waist. The tall field stays on the front line, and its role is to strive for the first point of the header in the next game, and point the ball down to the teammates behind him, so as to form a secondary attack in the front court. This means that for the time being, the Chinese team has given up the style of play of gradually advancing from the midfield, but more to the field in front of the ball, using the high point to make a fuss.

It can be said that both adjustments made by the coaching staff of both sides in response to the unfavourable situation on the pitch were very effective, with Japan just seizing the opportunity to regain control of the midfield and equalise the game. Here, the Chinese team immediately switched to bullying the Japanese team with the usual methods used in the past, and there is no way to let you really not have an advantage in height.

In fact, such a change The Chinese team did not hope that the second point could immediately form a scoring opportunity, but advanced to the front court in a simple and rough way, and the advantage of competing for the first point will inevitably bring pressure to the Japanese team's defense, for the Chinese team's midfield, this is the best time to take advantage of the chaos to organize an attack.

Sure enough, after an attempt, Tian Ye, who grabbed the first point of the header for the second time, pushed the ball back to Shao Jiayi behind him. Under the close pressure of Junichi Inamoto, Shao Jiayi passed the ball to Zheng Zhi, and at the same time, Zheng Dongqi also came up from the back position, and quickly stepped forward after receiving Zheng Zhi's pass, facing Nakamura Shunsuke's defense, Zheng Dongqi once again easily passed the opponent one-on-one, just a fake action with a heavy shoulder, and then quickly adjusted the center of gravity back to the right foot, a change of direction accelerated, and Nakamura was left behind. At this time, the Japanese team only had 4 defenders left, but they had to face the siege of 5 players from the Chinese team. Zheng Dongqi handed the ball back to the middle, and at the same time made his own momentum and cut into the penalty area, Yuji Nakazawa stuck to Zheng Dongqi and did not give the latter the slightest chance to receive the ball easily. And the Chinese team just took advantage of the gap that Zheng Dongqi pulled out when he cut in, when the ball was started by Zheng Dongqi, Zheng Zhi had already followed up to the position of the former before, Shao Jia in the middle gave the ball to Zheng Zhi, at this moment Yuji Nakazawa found that Zheng Dongqi was just a feint, so he turned back to block the passing route between Zheng Zhi and Zheng Dongqi. Just as he turned around and returned to the defensive position, Zheng Zhi made a pick-up pass, and the ball flew over the heads of Nakazawa and Zheng Dongqi into the penalty area. Then everyone saw that it was a field with a height of 1.88 meters, after the opponent's big man Nakazawa was led away, facing another defender who was only just 1.8 meters tall, he easily pushed the ball back to the position of the penalty spot, this attack is already very clear, that is, to use the header advantage in the front court to ensure the landing point, and then quickly organize the attack, using the more and less caused by the back insertion player, to create a hole in the key position of the opponent's penalty area.

The ball landed clearly half a meter behind the penalty spot, and the picture was frozen at this moment. In front of it is the field that competes with the opponent, and on the back line of the penalty area is Yuji Nakazawa and Jung Dongqi, who have lost their defensive positions, but the middle is empty. Then people saw that Shao Jiayi followed, picked up his left foot and shot a burst shot from the penalty spot, the goalkeeper didn't even make a save, and the ball hung straight in the upper right corner.

2:1, the Chinese team also took advantage of the process of the opponent still adapting after the formation adjustment, seized the opportunity to rewrite the score, and achieved the advantage on the field. The game is getting more and more exciting. Both teams have their own understanding of football and can play on the pitch effectively. The audience at the scene also bought tickets and bought value, in just half a game, there were pre-match conflicts, beautiful free kicks of the Chinese team, there were goals scored by the Japanese team in front of the penalty area by deceiving the opponent, and the Chinese team quickly adjusted and overtook the score cleanly again.

At halftime, the fans of both teams were desperately cheering for their teams, and there were 45 minutes left, and the importance of this game for this group of young players marked the starting point of another round of competition between the three East Asian countries in the next decade. After a whole game of bayonets, no one wants to see their opponent rise to the top of Asia before their eyes.