The U24 national soccer team will have its second match against South Korea on the evening of June 19 under Djurdjevic. The first time, the U24 national soccer team lost 1-3 to South Korea. However, as a warm-up match and to better prepare for the Asian Games, the U24 national soccer team has arranged overage players who are not the strongest team. For example, Zhang Linpeng and Wu Lei, with outstanding strength, helped the national team. Wu Xi was injured. Many of the midfielders who excelled in the domestic league, such as Xu Xin and Xie Pengfei, are helping the national team. The warm-up with South Korea was more about practicing tactical formations.
After the first round match against South Korea, U24 national soccer team head coach Djurdjevic adjusted his team's lineup. This was to avoid South Korea exploiting the U24 national soccer team's previous tactical holes and over-researching us. Changing the tactical lineup also reflected Djurdjevic's more comprehensive tactical perspective. As a head coach, he watched the match between Korea and China. And saw the current problems of the Chinese team, which will also be improved through tactics.
It is worth noting that the fighting spirit of the whole team of U24 national soccer players became stronger before the match after the match against South Korea. Jiang Shenglong, a young player with excellent domestic defense, openly stated in front of the media that the whole team will give full play to the tactical lineup in the next match against South Korea. Regardless of the outcome, we will do our best. With such fighting spirit, I believe the U24 national soccer team will not perform poorly in the coming matches.
The Hangzhou Asian Games were held in China. In order to achieve good results in the intercontinental competition and revitalize Chinese soccer. The Football Association arranged the strongest lineup of players of the right age. And added three overage players to help. It is worth noting that apart from China, only South Korea and a few other teams also arranged the strongest lineup of ageable players. Most of the other teams arranged relatively young lineups or Olympic teams to participate in the tournament in order to work on the young players' match experience.
Therefore, the U24 national soccer team chose to warm up with South Korea, which expects the Chinese team to better themselves. Practice tactical lineups through high-intensity matches. At the same time, we are eager to achieve good results in competitions like the Asian Games. Although we lost 3-1 in the first match, we still organized a lot of threatening attacks and shots on goal to bring trouble to our opponents, judging from the situation on the pitch. Especially the appearance of 2001 player Tao Qianglong clearly broke through the opponent's defense in the left position.
In fact, the overall strength of the U24 national soccer team is relatively strong. This team played against the South Korean national team at the 2022 East Asian Cup, losing 0-3 but gaining experience in the tournament. It also beat Hong Kong and Japan 1-0.The U24 national soccer team has improved its fighting spirit this year under the leadership of Jankovic and Djurdjevic by getting some quality matches in overseas training. Djurdjevic's tactical style, like Jankovic's before him, is one of high-intensity, high-confrontation training.The U24 national soccer team will try its best in the upcoming match against South Korea.
