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In the face of South Korea, Lee Chenglong defeated his opponent 3:2 with a hat trick and successfully advanced to the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship.

This game also set many records.

First of all, this is the third time in the history of England to reach the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship.

Secondly, after this game, Lee Chenglong has scored 9 goals in the World Youth Championship, which is the third-most goal scored in a single session in the history of the World Youth Championship.

This is only the Brazilian forward Adelton who scored 10 goals in the 1997 World Youth Championship in Malaysia, and the Argentine forward Saviola who scored 11 goals in the 2001 World Youth Championship in Argentina.

Now that England has reached the semi-finals, Jackie Lee still has two games to play. There is a great opportunity to tie or even surpass the two and set a new record.

In the end, Jackie Lee has completed two hat tricks in this World Youth Championship, which also tied the record for the number of hat tricks in a single World Youth Championship.

In the 1979 World Youth Championship in Japan, Maradona led Argentina to the first World Youth Championship in team history. Maradona was also successfully elected to the World Youth Championship that year, but the Argentina team scored goals that year. The most is striker Ramon Diaz.

Diaz completed a hat-trick in the group stage 5:0 victory over Indonesia and the quarterfinals 5:0 victory over Algeria, becoming the first player to complete two hat tricks in the World Youth Championship.

It is worth mentioning that Diaz scored a total of 8 goals in that World Youth Championship, the third-most goal scored in the previous single World Youth Championship, but now he has been overtaken by Jackie Lee with 9 goals.

In the 2001 World Youth Championship in Argentina, the super genius in Argentina at that time, the rabbit Saviola, known as the "New Maradona", not only scored 11 goals in 7 games, but also 7:1 in the Argentina group stage. Both the big win over Egypt and the quarter-final 3:1 elimination of France have completed hat tricks.

Both of these have maintained the World Youth Championship records until now.

In previous World Youth Championships, only these two Argentines have completed two hat tricks in a single game. Now Lee Chenglong is the third and the first in European football.

As for the Brazilian Adelton who scored 10 goals in a single session, most of his goals were brushed out.

In the World Youth Championship in Malaysia, in Brazil’s 10-3 win over South Korea in the group stage, Adelton scored 6 goals in a single game, but he only scored 10 in the end, and Brazil was defeated in the quarterfinals. Rival Argentina was eliminated 2:0, and the results were not ideal.

Today, Li Chenglong has tied the record of two hat tricks, and the next step is to attack the record of 11 goals in a single session.

And in this year's World Youth Championship in Turkey, no one else has done a hat trick. Only Jackie Lee came twice alone, which is worthy of his status as the number one star.

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England eliminated South Korea to advance to the semi-finals, and the other three matches of the World Youth Championship quarter-finals also continued.

France beat Uzbekistan 4-0, which is an expected match.

In addition to losing one game to Spain in the group stage and being squeezed to the second place in the group, the French team entered the knockout rounds and defeated Turkey and Uzbekistan.

In the game between Iraq and Ghana, which was considered to be a mutual pecking match, the two sides drew 2:2. Iraq won the penalty shootout and also successfully advanced.

In any case, the Iraqis made their own history and reached the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship for the first time.

And then they will continue to hit the Asian record to see if they can reach the finals.

The Asian teams had Japan and Qatar both reached the World Youth Championship finals before, but they all suffered a 0:4 defeat in the final. Japan lost to Spain and Qatar lost to Germany.

The final game between Spain and Uruguay was a focus game. Before the start, Spain was the first favorite and Uruguay was the fifth favorite.

In the end, Uruguay defeated Spain 1-0 in overtime and got the last four spots.

It seems that Spain, with the strongest overall lineup, is out, which is good news for England.

At this point, the semi-finals of this World Youth Championship are completely out, England against Uruguay and France against Iraq.

Since the four teams in the semifinals are all teams that have never won a World Youth Championship, there will definitely be a new champion in this year's World Youth Championship.

Among the four teams, Uruguay is the only team that has reached the finals. The other three teams have not even made the finals before.

In terms of scoring data, in addition to Lee Chenglong, other scoring players such as Hesse, Bruma, etc. are all out. Therefore, Lee Chenglong, who has scored 9 goals, has basically won the World Youth Championship Golden Boot. .

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On July 10, the England team came to Trabzonspor in northeastern Turkey, where they will play in the semifinals with Uruguay.

The Hussein Avni Stadium where the semifinals are held is the home stadium of the local team Trabzonspor.

Speaking of, when Li Chenglong was still playing in Scotland, Dundee United met Trabzonspor in the UEFA Europa League qualifying round, but after the first round of the game, it was temporarily affected by Trabzonspor. It was made up to play in the Champions League, so the second round was cancelled.

Now that it is the semi-final stage, there are still a lot of fans watching the game, especially when there is a well-known star named Jackie Lee participating, so the Hussein Avni Stadium with only 25,000 capacity is filled.

The game in England also went smoothly.

This Uruguay is a defensive-oriented team. The most famous in their team is the talented defender Jose Jiménez, who has already confirmed a transfer to La Liga powerhouse Atletico Madrid.

All the way from the group stage, Uruguay has won by defense, and there is no big win.

More than ten minutes after the game started ~www.NovelMTL.com~ Both teams played conservatively, after all, this was the semifinal.

But in the 19th minute, Rose Barkley's long shot created a corner kick.

In the corner kick attack, Harry Kane took Jimenez away by running, so Lee Chenglong beat the opponent's other center defender Gaston Silva in the penalty area to take off, successfully grabbed the first landing point and completed the header. Attack the door.

The ball was headed towards the bottom right corner of the goal, and after a small bounce in front of the goal, it flew into the goal.

"Bruce~~Super Bruce!! This is his 10th goal. His goal is in double figures. He continues to attack the record!!" The England commentator exclaimed excitedly.

Lost the ball early, which made the defense-oriented Uruguay a bit dilemma.

However, the two teams maintained the status quo in the first half, because the Uruguayan felt that there was enough time for the game and did not rush back.

But after playing for a while in the second half, Uruguay began to move around and couldn't help it.

The England side is naturally steady, and the main goal is to fight back quickly.

In the 74th minute, England's counterattack, Kane sent a through ball, Lee Chenglong inserted the ball in the back row and got a single chance.

Facing the goalkeeper single-handedly, Lee Chenglong volleyed a close corner after a calm fake action, completing his personal brace twice.

"The 11th ball!! Bruce's 11th ball!!!"

"Bruce Lee has tied the scoring record in a single World Youth Championship. He is Super Bruce! He is King Bruce!!"

After Li Chenglong scored, the fans of Hussein Avni Stadium all stood up and applauded for Li Chenglong. This was a moment to witness the record.

After these two goals, England began to slow down and Uruguay failed to make a big storm, so the score of 2:0 was kept to the end.