Yea, it’s usually the physically mature players that dominate these age groups. I remember Jay Emmanuel Thomas absolutely destroying every age group until hitting U23s and fully grown adults and suddenly he looked very average.
Thankfully coaches can usually tell the difference between a player that is performing due to technical ability or due to physical advantage and know which ones who speed up through the age groups.
I missed the midfield but how did Ozil get in ahead of Cesc? Holy hell. Must be recency bias from people that never watched Cesc.