China beat the defending champion in the Asian U20 Championship

China is very thirsty for victory after the opening match lost to Japan 1-2. But instead of focusing on playing a double attack, coach Antonio Puche Vicente's army retreated deep into the squad, defended with a large number of people, waiting for opportunities to counterattack. Their multi-layered defense system works effectively, sealing the middle, making it impossible for Saudi Arabia to organize face-slapping situations. The defending champion had to switch to cross from both sides, but it was also ineffective against the opponent's tall defenders.

China defended well, but the counter-attack was ineffective in the first half. Due to being too deep in the formation, when they got the ball, they had to go a long way to the opponent's goal and did not have a large number of troops, so they were easily neutralized.

In the second half, Saudi Arabia played more risky when pushing the offensive line up. They created opportunities to score, but Suhayb Al Zaid's long shot sent the ball to the post in the 50th minute, and two consecutive close-range shots by Musab Al Juwayr and Abdullah Radif 10 minutes later were blocked. City Li Hao blocked.

Passionate about attacking, Saudi Arabia revealed too much space behind the defense. In the 65th minute, in a quick transition with more than 3 players participating in the attack, China opened the scoring. Aifeierding Aisikaer escaped down the left wing, swerved across the front line, and let second-half substitute Mutalifu Yimingkara touch the ball to score.

After the goal, Saudi Arabia was more impatient to push the squad up to attack to find an equalizer. As a result, China has more advantages with counter-attacking because there are too many spaces. In the 72nd minute, the representative of East Asia stole the ball, there was a situation of "three against two". Captain Aifeierding Aisikaer turned Mohammed Al Dosari's flank, before releasing the ball for Mutalifu Yimingkara to cross to Xu Bin's close range to make it 2-0.

China only held the ball 24.1% the whole match, finished 8 shots, half of the opponent but had two goals. This victory helps them keep their hopes of winning tickets to the next round. In the final series of Group D matches on March 9, China only had to meet the team that was eliminated after two consecutive defeats, Kyrgyz, while Saudi Arabia faced the team with 6 points, Japan.