China's U17 men's soccer team prepared for the U17 Asian Cup final in Bangkok, Thailand, on the evening of June 8, beating Qatar U17 3-2 in a warm-up match, according to Beijing Youth Daily.
Due to the rare warm-up opportunity, the U17 coaching staff decided to go with two completely different lineups for the first and second halves of the game (starting goalkeeper Xie Gongbo was the only one to play a full game), with 11 of the starting players basically being the same ones who were the starters during last year's U17 Asia Cup qualifiers. For example, attackers Wang Yudong and Raccoon Jipeng. Just two minutes into the match, Wang Yudong helped his team score the first goal by utilizing the team's middle penetration. However, just a minute later, the U17 national football team was equalized by the opponents due to a low-level mistake of the defense line. In the 20th minute, the opponents also took advantage of the mistakes of the Chinese U17 defense line into the counter more than 5 minutes.
Going into the second half, head coach Yang Chen replaced 10 U17 national football players except the goalkeeper. In the 55th minute, Liu Chengyu utilized his team's side breakthrough to score one of the U17 National Football Team's goals, and one that sealed the win. In the end, the U17 National Football Team won the warm-up match 3-2.
The schedule suggests that on June 17, China's U17 men's soccer team will face Tajikistan U17, their first opponent in the group stage of the U17 Asian Cup, in Chonburi, Thailand.
