I don't mean to add oil to the fire, neither is this my sub-forum, but the game on Monday was higly emotional for me/our nation..
You weren't unlucky against us.. you were lucky that we played TIE, not expecting you to play CT, which allowed the game to be close - you can't call it unlucky when you play CT and lose. Your tactics were just super poor, you played copy+paste of what you played against Macedonia the week before, except changing from TIE to CT.
I was very disappointed, as I had spent hours analyzing your team and calculating and wondering what you would prepare for us, to then see that you just chose the "easy way" of going CT and ignoring the tactics entirerly.
China has the highest salaries, but that doesn't automatically make them "the best team in tournament" - 3 of their players are on the market and none of them would make a regular rotation for us. Salaries are not everything, not in U-21 nor in NT - as an experienced coach, you should know that. And if you analyzed their team/players even for 20 minutes, you would know that they are not unbeatable and your team could take them on, if you didn't waste all enthusiasm vs us.
Of course, luckily in the end we still won and preparation and risks I took, paid dividends for us, but a team of Lithuanian stature, going CT without tactical preparation in international tournament, playing for something or not, is embarrasing.