Chapter 119: The Group of Death

In the third round of the Asian qualifiers of the World Cup, the Chinese men's football team was transferred to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and met a team like Vietnam in that embarrassing era. In a bloodless 4:0, with the goals of Su Maozhen, Peng Weiguo and Zhang Enhua, the Chinese men's football team returned to Beijing with 9 points and 11 goal difference in a row.

Immediately afterwards, the kind-hearted men's football players collectively gave a big gift to the dolls who like football across the country on June 1st, and the national football team returned to the Beijing Workers Stadium and defeated Turkmenistan with a score of 5:0 again. Tajikistan in the same group returned to the home field and once again sacrificed a high-altitude killer to defeat the Vietnamese team.4 rounds of battles, the Chinese team won all 4 games, accumulated 12 points and 16 goal difference, firmly occupied the top spot in the group, and the next game only needs to draw Tajikistan to get the top 10 places in the Asian region in the second half of the year. For the current national football team, Li Bern naturally has 100 points of trust, so after the game that day, the teenager chased the national youth 2 team to his girlfriend's country - France.

The Toulon Cup is played in the small town of Toulon, 60 km east of Marseille, and consists of 8 teams. This year's grouping is as follows:

Group A: France, Argentina, Turkey, Ukraine Group B: Brazil, Germany, Spain, China

Turkey and Ukraine did not enter the final of the World Youth Championship in Malaysia this year, while France, Argentina, Germany, Spain, and Brazil, the five powerhouses of world football, are purely because of the large number of talents in the youth team. As a result, the French really didn't treat us as outsiders, and divided a group of death to the Chinese team, and the players in the team joked that this was because Li Bern robbed the dream lover common to young French.

If you want to win the top spot in such a group, even the national youth 1 team that was sent to participate in the World Youth Championships is difficult to do, and the teenager feels that getting 4 points on these three teams is the most ideal result. And with a record of one win and one draw, there is actually a high probability that you can qualify from the group in such a group of death. Of course, the task after qualifying from the group can only be handed over to his teammates to continue to work hard, after all, Li Bern still has World Youth Championship games to play. The Toulon Cup starts on June 3, and there is a group stage in 3 days, which means that the 3 group games are played on June 12, just in time for the World Youth Championship, which started the next day.

The opponent of the first game of the national youth 2 team is the second-rate top Spanish team in Europe in the 90s, take a look at the lineup of this Spanish national youth 2 team:

Almunia (Arsenal, goalkeeper)

Cap de Vera (A Coruña. Villarreal, left-back)

Amo (Sporting Gijón, central defender) Casal (Racing Santander, central defender)

Pablo (Deportivo La Coruna, right-back)

Javier. Falinos (Valencia, Inter, midfielder) Albelda (Valencia, midfielder)

Ivan. De la Pena (Barca, striker)

Victor. Alexis Sanchez (Real Madrid, right winger) Luiz. Garcia (Liverpool left winger)

Jose. Mari (Atletico Madrid, striker)

The 4-3-3 offensive play, you can know by looking at the lineup of this team, the real outfield is the midfield, and the parentheses are not the teams that the players play for now, but the teams that played at their peak.

Facing the strong Spanish team, Chen Yiming, the head coach of the national youth 2 team, sent a 4-5-1 defensive counterattack formation to respond:

Goalkeeper: Chen Dong

Defenders (left to right): Zheng Bin, Li Boen, Shu Chang, Wu Jun

Midfielders: Xiao Zhanbo (back), Chang Weiwei (back), Li Xiaopeng (right midfielder), Bai Guanghai (left front), Wen Junwu (front)

Forward: Yang Chen

Lao Chen is also an experienced practical coach, this lineup ensures the thickness and control of the midfield to the greatest extent, and several players on the field are also players with good skills at their feet, which allows the Chinese team to make more use of the advantage of the number of midfielders and the opponent around, Yang Chen's counterattack and kick to ensure that the Chinese team can play an efficient counterattack. is also lucky, among the three world-class teams in the same group, Spain's back line can be said to be the worst, and in Chen's heart, even his own defense line is stronger than the opponent's.

The process of the game was also as expected before the game, and the Spanish team did not take the Chinese team into account at all. The Spanish national youth 2 team, who were the first to kick off in the first half, quickly organized the first attack through the wing, and Sanchez on the right was indeed fast, so he felt that he could easily break through the Asian team's defence. To his surprise, although the opponent's full-back was not fast, he was very good at predicting his feints, using his body to jam Sanchez's forward path, but Sanchez had to stabilize the ball and hand it to De la Pena in the middle. Although the latter is only 21 years old, he made his debut very early, and at the age of 14, he was a talented teenager who was famous all over Spain, and because of his appearance, he also won the title of "Little Living Buddha", and he has been the main midfielder of Barcelona since the age of 19 in the 95 season, and he has scored 7 goals in 33 games that season.

De la Pena, who is 1.7 meters tall, is small and flexible, and his style of play is quite a bit of the taste of the later briquette king. I saw that he stopped the ball and flicked it past the Chang Wei who grabbed it, and then before Xiao Zhanbo could make up for it, he had already started at high speed and rushed towards the national youth penalty area, and then the small bald head shook off Xiao Zhanbo with continuous feints and distributed the ball to Jose on the penalty line. Mali, he plunged into the penalty area as soon as he could, which is clearly going to hit the wall 2 over 1! It's a pity that the ball with the little bald head didn't reach Jose's feet, and Li Byrne, who judged the opponent's movement in advance, made a first kick to complete the steal. Immediately after that, the teenager quickly shook off De La Pena with the ball, and dribbled to the center circle in a moment, facing the future Bats' iron-waisted Albelda, Li Byrne made a feint to pass the ball to the side, and then moved the ball from the back to the left side of his body with his right foot to easily break through Albelda's defense, and Javier on the right side. Falinos hurriedly posted up to defend. The boy raised his head and quickly observed the position of his teammates in the front, and before the opponent came up, a straight ball was passed from between the two central defenders of the opponent, Yang Chen from Beijing Guoan understood it, and instantly got rid of the opponent's two central defenders with a height of 1.87 meters. Seeing that the next step was to step into the opponent's penalty area, at this time, the only one on the Spanish team's back line who was later mixed out of Capdevilla came out, Yang Chen Yuguang also saw the other party, so he shot decisively on the penalty line, but he didn't expect the future Spanish international to actually leap to the top and fly to clear the siege, this goal is unfortunately out of the bottom line, the first counterattack of the Chinese team got a corner.

The opposing goalkeeper Almunia also seriously reminded his teammates not to underestimate the enemy at this time, this Asian team still looks like there is something.