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+First starter of the China League Stealing King?

2:50am, 5 September 2025【Football】

A 2-1 narrow victory not only made the Chinese U22 national team highly criticized, but also made the Chinese team lose an excellent opportunity to win a goal difference. Judging from the performance in the first game, this Chinese team has a poor offensive ability and lacks sufficient hardness on the defensive end. In the second game, the Chinese U22 national team needs to make adjustments in the center, front and back midfield positions.

Center: Xiang Yuwang is embarrassed by the great task, Zhu Pengyu OR Baihe Lamu starts at the center position. Although Xiang Yuwang has 56 appearances in the China League One in the past two seasons, he seems to be able to hide behind the powerful center, interspers or make up for the shot. The "bayonet" style of playing with his opponent's central defender is obviously not what Xiang Yuwang is good at.

In the game against East Timor, the players who performed the best in the Chinese team were actually No. 9 Baihe Lamu, Wang Yudong, Kuai Jiwen, and Xiang Yuwang, none of them had the ability to press in the frontcourt. Xiang Yuwang wasted opportunities many times. Judging from the subsequent games, Zhu Pengyu started, or simply let Zhu Pengyu and Baihe Lamu be in the forward position. The team changed to play 4-4-2, and the double midfielder position was probably a good choice.

Front and back midfielder: Mao Weijie replaces Kuai Jiwen, can Xu Bin start?

For the front midfielder, Kuai Jiwen's lack of pressing ability, Li Zhenquan's physical fitness in the back midfielder could not support the whole audience in carrying out a "scavenger" sweep. You can consider letting Mao Weijie and Xu Bin serve as front and back midfielders respectively. In this way, we must first fill the Chinese team's pressing and hardness. Similar to the situation where East Timor completed 9 shots in the first game, it cannot happen again in the second game.

In addition, Xu Bin's problem is that he suffered injuries. It's obviously a pity if he can't get back in the second game. In this game, the four midfielders of the Chinese U22 national team, Xu Bin, Mu Talifu, Chen Zeshi, and Yi Mulan, all suffered injuries. This is obviously a more extreme situation. I can only pray that Xu Bin will recover before the game against the Australian team, otherwise it will be extremely difficult for China U22 to defeat, or at least tie Australia.