After the Chinese team took the lead in scoring, Coach Chen Yiming found that the biggest flaw of the Japanese team's lineup when playing with this team is that Atsushi Yanagisawa and Toshitaka Ohno do not have absolute speed, which causes the Japanese team to take advantage of the large number of people in the midfield to calmly pass and control, but after China's three central defenders are advanced, there is enough distance behind them to ensure that even if the Japanese team successfully completes the penetration of short passes or direct passes, Li Boen can easily catch up and delay the destruction of the opponent's attack. Even if the Japanese team replaced Shinji Ono, who was slightly faster, it would not help, as long as the Japanese attack could not pass the ball directly to the goal, the Chinese national youth were not afraid of the opponent's passing. I believe that in the group stage, whether it is Paraguay or Costa Rica, or even Spain, there is no way to crack the Japanese team's style of play like the Chinese team, if your back line does not follow the position of the back to the premise, then Japan will inevitably get more space in front of the penalty area to calmly organize the attack, on the contrary, if the back line is advanced, then your central defender will pray that he can reflexively catch up with the opponent. It is this kind of play that has never been seen in international football at present, and even Paraguay, which is known for its defense, has no choice but to do it, that is, there is a Puyol in the Spanish central defender, which allowed Spain to win the Japanese team 2:1.

So the most important thing for the Chinese team in defense now is not to give the Japanese team too many opportunities to break through the side, as long as the side is stuck, the back line of the Chinese team's premise makes the opponent not even have the opportunity to cross. After all, the defensive position of the three central defenders all refers to the position of the ordinary wide attacking player at 45 degrees.

As Chen expected, Japan's attack was compressed into a very small space for the rest of the first half, and China's midfielders and two wing-backs played more and more calmly. After two attempts to penetrate through the middle to no avail, the Japanese team had no choice but to end the attack with a long-range shot in the next attack, which further and further showed that the Japanese team is indeed unable to do anything in the attack. But it can't be said that the strange tactics they practiced are useless, it can only be said that they met one of the few central defenders in this era who can run fast, Li Boen, and the teenager is the natural enemy of the Japanese team's tactics.

The leading Chinese team is not in a hurry, and the Japanese team is playing more and more anxious in the case of many attacks without results and not seeing any hope, when there are still 3 minutes left in the first half, Sui Dongliang steals the forward Nakamura Shunsuke, in order not to give the Chinese team a chance to counterattack, Nakamura turned around in a hurry and shoveled Sui Dongliang from the side, and the referee from the Netherlands decisively showed a red card to the second engine of the Japanese midfield, and the backward Japanese team fell into a greater crisis. Sui Dongliang was also replaced by Zheng Zhi due to injury, and the meritorious captain of Chinese football in his previous life finally ushered in his national debut.

After a short halftime break, the Japanese team had no choice but to give up the no-striker tactic, replacing Atsushi Yanagisawa with Shinji Ono with a single arrow in front, and the position of the back remained unchanged, with Hidetoshi Nakata and Toshitaka Ohno forming a double front midfield. In response to the changes in the Japanese team, the Chinese team also adjusted, replaced Zhang Yonghai with Zheng Dongqi, changed to a double central defender, and at the same time Sun Jihai put the position of the middle back and Zheng Zhi was responsible for connecting the front and back courts, Jia Wenpeng, who had outstanding defensive ability, directly became a marking back, and the task given to him by the coaching staff was to stare at Nakata Yingshou. It is clear that the Chinese team is bullying the Japanese team with few people in the front court, just like playing chess, I take the person who has more of myself and then limit the core of your biggest card to death, and the offensive personnel of the entire Japanese team in the front court are left Shinji Ono and Toshitaka Ohno, if your two backs are inserted forward to participate in the attack, then be careful not to give the Chinese team a chance to break your ball, grabbing it is a counterattack, and you are too late to defend yourself.

15 years later, the retired Shunsuke Nakamura and Hidetoshi Nakata are always asked by the media about the most difficult game in their careers, and they always mention the top 8 matches of the World Youth Championships. And Nakata Hidetoshi said that this game made him feel like he had a big mountain on his back every time he faced off with Li Bourne in Serie A, and it was in the first half that he was passed by the opponent in such an extreme way that caused the Japanese team to lose points, and then Jia Wenpeng had to keep up with the defense so that Nakata Hidetoshi almost became a transparent person on the field, which was also a game that Nakata wanted to erase the most in his career.

In the next game, the Japanese team still played tenaciously, and the players continued to try to change the unfavorable situation, but unfortunately after the second goal was scored by the Chinese team in the 13th minute of the second half, the hope was completely shattered. At that time, Zheng Zhi stepped forward from the back position, and the Japanese team faced the surrounding of 3 people in front of the penalty area, Zheng Zhi's big heart allowed him to calmly pull the ball on the spot twice in a row, although the continuous action did not make Zheng Zhi continue to move forward half a step, but coupled with Wang Peng's running position and Li Jinyu's containment, the center of gravity of the Japanese team's defense line was concentrated in the middle, Zheng Dongqi, the wingback on the right side of the Chinese team, suddenly inserted into the penalty area, Zheng Zhi sent a scalpel-like accurate straight plug from the encirclement of the Japanese team's 5 defenders, Zheng Dongqi took the ball horizontally from the penalty spot and shook it past the Japanese goalkeeper and pushed the empty goal to score.

In the following game, the Chinese team completely occupied the initiative on the field, and the Japanese team left only Shinji Ono in front in order to withstand the defensive pressure, and even Toshitaka Ohno withdrew. Interestingly, even so, Jia Wenpeng still followed Nakata Hidetoshi to the death, and Nakata's seven or eight touches in the second half were all completed in hell mode, and the only one broke through the former's defense, and he turned around and was snatched away by Sun Jihai, who was in charge of the Chinese team.

In the end, in the 77th minute of the game, the Chinese team took a free kick on the right side, and Li Weifeng, who was outflanked at the back of the penalty area, jumped high and pressed Endo Hohito to push the ball into the near corner, helping the Chinese team lock the score at 3:0.

In the other games, Uruguay lost 1:3 to France, Trezeguet scored twice, and Henry sealed the win. Agogo and Ofriquaye each scored a goal, Ghana drew 2:2 with Spain, and after 7 rounds of penalty shootouts, Spain advanced to the semifinals with an aggregate score of 9:8. Brazil defeated England 2:1, Ronaldo and Owen scored one goal each in regular time, in the 113th minute of extra time, Xiao Luo won the ball in front of the penalty area, first pulled the ball horizontally to avoid Gerrard's tackle, a bull's tail in front of the penalty area passed Carragher, and then burst into the penalty area and faked the shot at the same time to Ferdinand and goalkeeper Lucas after pushing the empty goal at a small angle, and died suddenly! Brazil thrilled to end the game seven minutes before the penalty shootout.

On July 5, the two semi-finals of this World Youth Championship were played by China against France and Brazil against Spain. Domestic fans are boiling, and the interesting thing is that at this moment, not only did no one grab Leeborn's bold goalpost and continue to chatter, but this week there were defenders in all major leagues in the world who paid tribute to the teenager with practical actions, and the result was that on July 5th, the day was jokingly called "Ownal Innocence Day" by the fans, and what was particularly interesting was that the three goalkeepers in South America who supported Leeburn were collectively recruited, and the most aggrieved was Chilavert's teammates, The defender who didn't kick the ball to the post but kicked it into his own goal was about to cry in an interview with the media after the game, loudly reprimanding his teammate Chilavert for his injustice, obviously you said that you want to have such a defensive partner! Hearing the interview, Chilavert ran over 10,000 alpacas in his heart, and immediately said that his brother had a sentence in his heart that MMP didn't know whether to say it or not.