Chapter 65: Advance to the finals

In the second half, the players from both sides walked out of the player channel and came to the field. Now the players of both teams asked the head coach to arrange the next tactics in the locker room, and the head coach of the Swedish team even shouted directly at his players.

In fact, he was very dissatisfied with Sweden's offense in the first half, mainly because the Swedish forward players' health was better than the Chinese team, but they were unable to better utilize their physical advantages to play the game. Instead, the midfield of the China Youth Team led by Mark was very passively defended.

So now the Swedish team will continue to strengthen their offense in the second half. They don’t want to enter the penalty shootout, because the Toulon Cup system has regulations. If the two sides have not rewritten the score after 90 minutes of the game, there will be no overtime and they will directly enter the penalty shootout.

Therefore, the Swedish team, which is very confident in their own strength, naturally does not want to enter the penalty shootout, because once they enter the penalty shootout, it is because both sides decide that the outcome is not strength, but psychological tolerance, and luck.

So after the start of the second half, the Swedish team launched a tide of attacks against the Chinese Youth Team. Almost all the Swedish players were running and then hoping to make achievements for their team.

However, because the Swedish team's current formation gradually began to move forward without realizing it, their current defensive players are becoming more and more agile. The current players of the China Youth Team are just tired of defense. If there is a chance to counterattack now, I believe that even if the China Youth Team rewrites the score, it will not be difficult.

The opportunity came soon. After resisting the 15-minute attack of Sweden at the start of the second half, the players of the Chinese Youth Team gradually adapted to the Swedish team's barbaric offensive routine. At this time, the Chinese Youth Team directly intercepted the ball from the left and handed it to Mark's feet. After all, Mark is the key target of the Swedish team's defense, so when the Swedish players saw Mark get the football, two consecutive players came forward to rob Mark.

However, Mark is not panicked by the Swedish team's robbery. He still has the ball under his feet, and then uses his speed advantage to shake off two Swedish players who are defending themselves and then rushed out.

Now is the critical time for the offense and defense transition. Mark's current breakthrough, and the Swedish players were stunned for a moment. When a player wanted to come up to intercept Mark again, Mark passed the ball at this time.

Mark directly kicked in front, and Mao Jianqing, the current cross-border defender of the China Youth Team, has already rushed out. Mao Jianqing is the fastest player of the China Youth Team. All experts say that he is very similar to Qu Bo, the right winger of the China Youth Team back then. Coincidentally, Mao Jianqing and Qu Bo are both right forwards, and they can also play forwards, and their speed is very fast. Therefore, when head coach Yin Tiesheng was training tactical play, he used Mao Jianqing's back row to attack as a weapon.

Mark's long pass now called out that after the frontcourt, the Swedish central defender was tall, so his reaction was very heavy, and their goalkeepers had already come out, but Mao Jianqing did have some aura now. He did not stop the football at all. Instead, he saw that the opponent's goalkeeper had already attacked and jumped into the net with his right foot.

The Chinese Youth Team is now leading the Swedish team with one goal in a passive situation. Seeing the disappointed expressions of the Swedish players formed a sharp contrast with the excited expressions of the Chinese Youth Team players, all the Chinese Youth Team players are gathered together to celebrate.

"Mark, the pass is beautiful." Mao Jianqing and Mark are now the best partners. In the last game, Mark's pass made Mao Jianqing score. This time it was the cooperation of the two people, so Mao Jianqing was very grateful to Mark for assisting him in scoring.

Mark feels very good now. In an environment where there are no players he hates, Mark can indeed use all his strength to see. This is what the Chinese Youth Team is like now. Although these players are very young and not very good at strength, they at least know how to fight and strive for it. This is the cutest thing.

After seeing the Chinese Youth Team scored a goal, the head coach of the Swedish team was also cursing at his players. All the Swedish players are scolded by the head coach. Of course, the scolding of the players is just to vent his anger and dissatisfaction with the players on the field. There are still 30 minutes left in the game, and the head coach of the Swedish team will continue to arrange the next tactics.

He summoned several players to briefly arrange the tactics on the court, and then he made continuous adjustments to substitutions, sending offensive players and forwards to equalize the score as soon as possible.

The head coach of the China Youth Team, Yin Tiesheng, has made a substitution adjustment now. He directly replaced the midfielder Wang Hongliang and replaced the central defender Yuan Weiwei. This time the China Youth Team is equipped with five defenders.

Maybe Yin Tiesheng was not very satisfied with Wang Hongliang's performance on the court, or maybe it was because he wanted Mark to solve the problem by himself in the midfielder. Anyway, no matter how he thought about the current defense line of the China Youth Team has been reclaimed again, and the current team has become a May 41 formation.

Zhu Ting, the forward player of the China Youth Team, has retreated to his half. It seems that the China Youth Team is preparing to defend the fruits of this victory to the end.

But the Swedish team has not given up on the offense now. Their physical confrontation is already very strong. Now they have encouraged the long pass and rushing attack in order to be able to pass the midfield more concisely and then find opportunities to score.

Now Yin Tiesheng is very satisfied with the conservative tactics he adopts, because he is a very conservative coach himself, especially when he is able to win the game immediately. This is a ticket to the finals, so he will be replaced by a defender player at this time.

Although the Swedish team's high ball offense now has an advantage in their ball possession time, the footballs that have passed into the penalty area have been destroyed by the Chinese team, and there are few opportunities to score in the penalty area.

Even if the Swedish team got such an opportunity once or twice, it was destroyed by the goalkeeper of the China Youth Team, who performed very well in this game.

Now the game has been in progress for another ten minutes. Head coach Yin Tiesheng made another substitution adjustment. Front midfielder Chen Tao left the court and midfielder Wancheng came on the court. This time Wancheng's appearance represents Yin Tiesheng's stronger defensive belief. It's not that Wancheng's current position is a back midfielder. Originally, Wancheng's position is also a front midfielder, but his technical characteristics are that all abilities are very average, so Wancheng's current appearance is also helping the team defend rather than attack.

Mark is also very busy now. The Swedish team's offense is a long pass, but their forward players either shoot directly or make midfielders shoot for midfielders. Mark can be said to be very busy now. Since the Swedish team's midfield is now only two engineers' midfielders are intercepting and defending, but these two players are just capable of scoring long shots, so that means that Mark is now defending the attack of these two players alone, which is also very pressured to Mark's defensiveness.

It can be said that now it is only a player like Mark who is full of explosive power that can do such defensive actions. If it were another person, it would be an impossible task.

But Mark did do it, which is directly related to the lack of ability of the current Swedish players. Although the Swedish players have participated in professional competitions, most of them are in domestic Sweden, so the strength of these players is still limited after all, and they are all engineer players. The other skills are very rough in addition to long-range shooting. The most important thing is that Mark is very prepared for football's judgment. Often after the Swedish striker heads the ball back, Mark can always discover the football route at the first time, which is the ability to predict. This also creates a situation where Mark can defend one and two.

Now after Wan Cheng took the field, Mark felt much more relaxed. With him to relieve himself of the pressure on defense, Mark could breathe a sigh of relief. But Mark was wondering whether head coach Yin Tiesheng was taking revenge on himself and letting himself run back and forth on the court. But soon Mark denied this idea. Mark was more willing to believe Yin Tiesheng's love for football, and he hoped that the team could win the game.

In fact, Yin Tiesheng did not mean to play Mark on the court, but he just believed in Mark's ability more. The current game time is also passing by as the players on the court run.

The defense of the Chinese Youth Team is getting further and further behind. They can say that they are becoming more and more confident in their defense, because there are five minutes left in the game, and all the players of the Chinese Youth Team hope that the game can end the game as soon as possible and enjoy the joy of victory themselves.

However, in the last few minutes of the game, the players are most likely to relax. At this time, the players are in a state of extreme fatigue, so it is also the time when they are most likely to get away with their numbers.

The Chinese Youth Team did make such a mistake. The Swedish team got a free kick opportunity in the frontcourt. In fact, Sweden's free kick opportunity this time was not very good, but because their players were tall and strong, and their central defenders had already put on assists. It can be said that the current Swedish team's offense has reached a stage of fighting for every goal.

Because there is not much time left for them now, and their players are also very unwilling to lose to the Chinese team. Although the Chinese youth team has always had good results, the Swedish team feels that losing to the Chinese youth team is also a shameful thing. They don’t want to be teased and lost to a football desert country.

At this time, the Swedish team's free kick was taken, and their central defender jumped up and headed the ball to score, but Feng Xiaoting, the defender of the China Youth Team who defended him, seemed to have a brief hesitation and did not jump up with him. If the goal was directly pushed this time, the defensive efforts of the China Youth Team would be in vain.

The current head coach of the Swedish team couldn't help but feel happy after seeing his players heading the ball. He is ready to run out of the coach's seat to celebrate. He has been holding it in for a long time. If the ball enters the goal, the anger in his heart will suddenly become much more comfortable.

But at this time, Mark suddenly appeared before football and directly pushed the football out of the bottom line with his head.

"It's hard to be distracted. The game is not over yet. I'm optimistic about your players who are defending. It's time to enjoy the victory until the game is over. Now if we are going to be scored, we will be passive." Mark shouted at his teammates in his penalty area.

Now all the players felt that it made sense after hearing Mark's words. Mark's shout woke up all his teammates. They were no longer distracted from thinking about other things, and their attention was back in the game.

In this way, the players of the China Youth Team gritted their teeth and persevered in the last few minutes of the game. The players of the China Youth Team are united and always insisted on winning the game. All the players nowadays have put aside their utilitarian ideas and completely devoted themselves to this football game. It can be said that the players of the China Youth Team have completely obeyed Mark's command, and they have already regarded Mark as the captain on the court.

Mark is indeed qualified to give orders to the players around him, because Mark has now become the main player in Ajax. Even Dong Fangzhuo, a foreign player who cannot play in the Toulon Cup, has not achieved such a result as Mark. Therefore, Mark is now the leader of the China Youth Team.

The players of the Chinese Youth Team are also a whole. What the Chinese Youth Team, which is playing overall football, now needs to do is to persist in the last few minutes and advance to the finals, which shocked everyone and made the Football Association officials who no longer value the youth team.

"Dingdie" After the referee's last whistle sounded, the Chinese Youth Team defeated the Swedish team in Nordic and advanced to the finals. Now the opponent they will face next will be the French team.

"Wow...we are in the finals." All the players of the Chinese Youth Team hugged each other. All the players are proud of this historic moment. The players of the Chinese Youth Team have breathed a sigh of relief after the game, because their physical fitness has reached its limit. If it weren't for the breath supporting them, they might not have been able to stick to it until now.

The Chinese Youth Team has made history. The best result of the Chinese Youth Team in the Toulon Cup was the fourth place that Jianlibao team won. The Chinese Youth Team has gone further and directly qualified to advance to the finals. The Chinese Youth Team is now the worst result of the Chinese Youth Team is also the second place, and it is even possible that the Chinese Youth Team can win the championship.

Feng Jianming, director of the Youth Department of the Chinese Football Association who was watching the game on the sidelines, also breathed a sigh of relief. It is indeed a historic breakthrough for the Chinese Youth Team to achieve such a result.

But Feng Jianming is only a supervisor of the youth department after all, and he has no way to interfere with the investment in youth construction within the association. In fact, this is not a problem of Chinese football investment. This is mainly a system issue. Although everyone celebrates that the current system in China is not suitable for the growth of football, everyone feels very helpless because the system is not something that his mere youth department owner can change.

Feng Jianming has now given himself a face, because the previous Toulon Cup match has already made the Chinese football world, which has just failed again, lose enough confidence, so no one pays attention to this game at all. So when the funding is very tight, Feng Jianming still brought the team to France. According to Feng Jianming's expectations, as long as he qualifies in the group, he would win, but what he didn't expect was that everyone in the team led by Mark was shocked. Not only did he qualify in the group, but he actually reached the final.

Of course, this is very related to the tactics of head coach Yin Tiesheng. This Toulon Cup is a game of defensive competition. All popular teams have top defensive players, while the teams with gorgeous offenses were eliminated early.

For example, if the French team eliminated Brazil, it can be explained. France used its muscle midfield to directly overturn the Brazilian team of the Samba Legion. Some people may say that the Brazilian team did not pay attention to this game, and the players sent were not the main players. Of course, this is not wrong. However, even the strength of the Brazilian Youth Second Team cannot be shown, because there are too many talented players in the kingdom of football. Even second-rate players can perform well in the teams in mainstream leagues. This can directly illustrate a big problem.

But fortunately, the main color of this Toulon Cup is mainly defense, otherwise the Chinese team may not be able to achieve such results, because defense also requires fouls as the cost, so the number of fouls in the Chinese Youth Team is the second most fouls among all teams. If the referee had not been cheered, perhaps a large number of people in the Chinese Youth Team would not be able to participate in the next game.
Chapter completed!