Chapter 160 Korea and Japan Showdown
The 5-0 score in the first half has completely lost the suspense of this game. Even the hard-core Iraqi fans do not have hope for the Iraqi team. In football history, there has never been a team that has won a draw or won a victory when they were so far behind in the first half.
With such a score, the Chinese team has already entered the semi-finals first.
In the semi-finals, China will face a winner between Japan and South Korea. Judging from the current situation of the two teams, the South Korean team has a greater hope of winning.
At the beginning of the second half, Lu Feng was replaced very early. Not only that, Francis even replaced three people in less than 10 minutes.
When the outcome of this game has lost its suspense, letting more Chinese players play and accumulate game experience is very beneficial to their growth.
There was no suspense in the final result. In the second half, the Chinese team and Iraq each scored one goal, and the final score became 6-1, and the Chinese team easily advanced to the semi-finals.
The head coaches of the other teams who watched this game felt tremendous pressure on the strength shown by this Chinese team and Lu Feng.
With the current state of Lu Feng and the Chinese team, none of the remaining teams is their opponent.
After the Iraqi team and China team's match ended, another quarter-final match was Australia against India.
The points for the entire group stage are as follows.
The four teams in Group A are: South Korea, Iraq, Thailand, and Vietnam. The South Korean team won all three games, ranking first in Group A, Iraq won two and lost, and qualified in the second in the group. Vietnam and Thailand ranked third and fourth.
The four teams in Group B are: North Korea, Australia, Qatar, and Iran. Australia and Iran both win and draw in Group B. Australia rank first in the group with a goal difference, and Iran can only rank second.
In Group C, China won all three games and qualified first, Japan won two and lost two, and Bahrain and Jordan were eliminated.
Saudi Arabia won two wins and one draw in the group, and India ranked second with one win and two draws. The UAE was originally optimistic, with one win and one draw and one loss, unfortunately ranked third. The remaining Malaysian team is completely like a soybean.
The Indian team is known as the biggest dark horse in this Asian Youth Championship. It was enough to surprise many fans by reaching the finals of the Asian Youth Championship.
As a result, India actually successfully qualified from the UAE and Saudi Arabia team, which proved its identity as a dark horse.
In this game, the Indian team also showed their outstanding strength, with high-pressure and super fast pace in the whole game, which brought huge trouble to the Australian team.
At the end of the first half, it was surprising that India actually led the Australian team with a corner kick.
After the second half of the game started, the Australian team, which was stronger, made full use of their physical advantages and launched a high-altitude bombardment.
Such an offense achieved good results. Less than five minutes after the second half, Australia equalized the score.
After the score equalized, the Australian team seemed unhurried and patiently controlled the ball and looked for opportunities. On the other hand, the high-pressure of the entire game was undoubtedly a huge expense for physical fitness. Even though this was a youth team game, the young people couldn't stand it.
With the huge loss of physical fitness, the Indian team's defense finally had a loophole. The Australian team also decisively seized the opportunity and scored a key goal in the 86th minute, killing the game.
In the end, Australia reversed India with two goals in the second half and became the semi-finals with a score of 2-1.
Another quarter-final match came from Saudi Arabia against Iran. Both teams were West Asian teams and their feet were outstanding. The only difference was that the Iranian team's style of play was stronger.
At the beginning of the game, both teams seemed quite conservative, and neither side dared to take the lead in attacking, for fear that the other side would seize the opportunity first.
In this way, the first half of the two teams can be said to have played quite ugly.
With a score of 0-0, the teams of both sides started the second half.
In the second half, both sides were still very cautious, after all, both teams wanted to further reach the semi-finals.
So, in the second half, both sides still did not score.
After the game entered the overtime stage, Iran caught a mistake by Saudi Arabia and scored a goal before the game ended.
In the end, with a 120-minute game, the Iranian team entered the semi-finals.
The last four spot will be generated between Japan and South Korea.
If the Chinese team did not perform so well in this Asian Youth Championship and Lu Feng's strength was so strong, I'm afraid everyone would think that the final championship would be between Japan and South Korea.
After all, these two teams, whether they are adult or youth teams, have first-class strength in Asia, and they have won the most championships.
However, even though there is such a strong Chinese team in this Asian Youth Championship, many people are optimistic that Japan and South Korea will eventually win the championship. The matchup between Japan and South Korea has undoubtedly attracted widespread attention.
This game, which was dubbed by many Japanese and Korean media, began in the eyes of everyone.
There is a huge gap in the results of the two teams in the group stage. The Korean team showed strong dominance in the group and easily qualified first in the group.
As for the Japanese team, not only did they meet the Chinese team in the first game, but they were also directly fooled by the land wind that was in a state. So much so that in the second game against Bahrain, the Japanese team almost capsized in the gutter and lost the game.
Fortunately, the Japanese team held on at the critical moment and finally defeated the opponent with difficulty. In the last round against Jordan, the Japanese team found its original state and quickly defeated the opponent with a score of 3-0, ensuring that they qualified in the second place in the group.
But unexpectedly, as the second qualifying group in Japan, he met the Korean team in the knockout round. This made many Japanese media and fans feel cold. When I met the Chinese team before, the results were not very good. Does meeting the Korean team mean that after this game, the Japanese team's Asian Youth Tour will end?
Fortunately, at the beginning of this game, the performance of the Japanese team gave people who supported the Japanese team confidence.
The game started just 10 minutes, because the Korean defender was too low to make a mistake in the low level, giving the Japanese forward a chance to score a one-on-one shot.
Faced with such a generous gift, the Japanese forward did not refuse, and decisively chose to pass the goalkeeper and then shoot, and the football rolled into the goal.
Chapter completed!