I have to say Platini has a good idea, but the former French football superstar didn’t know that Johansson and beckenbauer, two black-bellied guys, had already teamed up with him to dig a big hole and wait for him to jump in it foolishly.
Well, let’s stop here for these people. Let’s turn the topic back to the World Cup.
On June 1st, Zhuang Ge and his party watched the World Cup opener between defending champions Brazil and Scotland in the box in stade de france, a suburb of the French capital.
However, Brazil didn’t take much advantage of Scots in this opening match, which was regarded as disparity in strength. Sampaio scored once to give Samba the lead, but Collins scored a penalty in the 30th minute to equalize the score. If Cafu hadn’t created an opponent’s own goal in the 73rd minute, I’m afraid zagallo would have led Brazil to an embarrassing draw in the first match of the group stage.
However, in this Brazilian national team, there are actually two players who can attract Zhuang Ge’s attention: Ronaldo and Carlos. Even Cafu and Emerson, two future world-class stars, can’t attract Zhuang Ge’s attention.
After all, for people who are all Italian fans, such as Zhuang Ge, this opening game can be regarded as a stomach dish, and the Italian national team competition is the focus of their trip. Other games can be regarded as the embellishment of the World Cup journey.
So after the opening match, Zhuang Ge and his party left Paris overnight for Italy. The first match of the World Cup was in Bordeaux, a city in southwest France.
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Chapter 646 Different World Cup (1)
On the second day of the World Cup, the Apennines led by Old Maldini finally ushered in their first group match in the World Cup. Their opponent was Chile, a South American powerhouse with a "double-pizza combination" of zamorano and Salas.
Due to the sudden emergence of Florence in this world, the old Maldini’s influence in Florence is gradually closer to Viola’s tactical play. Instead of blindly sticking to the two-waist and two-sided avant-garde four-four-two formation, Capello often tries other tactical changes. For example, in the decisive battle, he often makes the four-three-three Florence regular play, the small diamond midfield player four-four-two formation.
It is precisely because of this that the list of the 22-man Italian World Cup in France has changed a lot compared with Zhuang Ge’s memory-Moreno and Keus, two low-key players, were replaced by Totti and Pirlo, and costacurta, who was in a depressed state, was excluded from the big list by the old horse because of Materazzi’s sudden emergence. Dibiagio was replaced by his teammate tommasi in Florence due to injury.
By the way, panucci finally reversed the tragic fate of failing in every major competition this time, and Zambrotta was selected by Old Maldini together with these two full-backs, which made Torricelli and Pessoto regretfully lose the opportunity to participate in the French World Cup.
It can be said that Italy really has no shortage of defenders in this period, such as Pepe Soto, Torricelli, Zambrotta, panucci, Bergomi, Benarivo … These full-backs all have the absolute main task in a national team, but in Italy, where talents are abundant, they can get into the national team and squeeze their scalp.
Italian side vieri and Inzaghi, a good friend of Roma teenager Totti, together formed the trident veteran Roberto Baggio in the front court of the Italian game, and took on the organizational offensive weight behind them.
Behind Baggio is albertini and another Baggio in the Italian national team-dino baggio is at the peak of his career, and both of them are able to attack and defend the super low back, which is enough to double insurance the Italian defense; On the right side of the defence line is Zambrotta panucci, who was placed on the bench and replaced Lala as the starting player. Cannavaro is the partner of the central defender. The starting position of the left defender is still firm. Maldini Jr., the world’s best left defender, can be said to be the most talked about by the outside world. The reason is that paolo maldini and his father Maldini Sr. appeared in the World Cup at the same time and fought side by side. This rare scene of seeing his father together will naturally arouse people’s heated discussion.
In front of the goal was pagliuca from Inter Milan Club. Obviously, the old Maldini believed in the goalkeeper who played well in the World Cup in the United States four years ago. Whether toldo or Buffon was a little too immature compared with pagliuca, it was far from the sense of stability and security of the latter.
In this way, Italy’s formation in the first match of the World Cup finally surfaced. Obviously, the old Maldini intends to take advantage of this first match with the Chilean national team to observe on the spot how powerful he can play in the World Cup by arranging three strikers in imitation of Florence.
However, before the Italians express their opinions, the outside media have taken the lead in talking about the old Maldini’s arrangement. After all, the most impressive thing in Italy is the reinforced concrete chain defense of the defense line, which pays more attention to attacking the four, three and three formations. It is really rare to see Italian coaches dare to make this tactic in the competition.
So now several fans and the media are watching the old Maldini with his 4-3-3 formation and the players at Shabang Delmas Stadium on the evening of June 11th.
In the face of Salas and zamorano leading Chile, Italy’s World Cup premiere in France was not perfect. Although vieri scored Italy’s first record only ten minutes after the game, Salas, who played for the Argentine giants Riverbed Club, unexpectedly helped Chile to reverse the score by two cities near the end of the half-game!
However, although the Chileans’ attack surprised many people, the quality of their defense line was obviously inversely proportional to their offensive end-whether vieri and filippo inzaghi or Roberto Baggio was a rookie, Totti could easily find a good chance to shoot in the restricted area of Chile.
It is precisely because of this treacherous defense line that Chile failed to keep this goal advantage in the lead position, and was defeated by the flood of Italian attacks and lost the first group match.
Finally, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the Italian national team beat the South American powerhouse Chile 3-2 in the first match of the group stage with goals from vieri and Roberto Baggio, and won the World Cup in France!
However, although Italy won the final victory, the Italian media were all worried about the team’s performance in the first game-it was really abnormal for Italy, which is famous for its strong defense, to be attacked by a team like Chile twice.
Although everyone knows that Italy has always had the habit of slow-heating, but it is so easy to score goals by opponents, and it is still an unknown Salas (note that before the arrival of the internet age, European teams’ understanding of players outside Europe was mostly limited to their performance in major competitions, so it is normal to know Salas at this time). Is this really a problem with the quality of defense?
So after the game, Italian media and fans asked the old Maldini to attack after a game to consolidate his defense, but he made up his mind that the old horse obviously wouldn’t change his decision easily. After all, he won the first game on his own, didn’t he? This proves that this tactic has good practical value, and it is more because of the lack of tacit understanding between Instad and Cannavaro that the team has many loopholes in defense, not a certain formation fault
In this uneasy atmosphere, six days after defeating Chile, Italy welcomed the second opponent of the group stage, the African lion Cameroon, in Montpellier, a port city in southern France.
Chapter 647 Different World Cup (2)
To tell you the truth, Cameroon is a very strange team. Since it shined in the summer of 1999 in Italy, its book strength has been stronger than that of Cameroon in any World Cup competition, but its performance in the World Cup has become more and more deceptive, giving people the feeling that they just came to play a bottle of soy sauce.
This time, of course, it was no exception. Old Maldini still insisted on the 4-3-3 play. This time, he was finally proud because his team shot the opponent’s goal into a sieve in about half an hour!
With three points, the old Maldini made a certain rotation according to the players’ physical fitness. Inzaghi was replaced by dimatteo, panucci and tommasi respectively replaced Zambrotta and dino baggio for their first World Cup match.
In addition, toldo became the starting goalkeeper in this game, and pagliuca sat on the bench and waited for the call of Old Maldini at any time.
In dimatteo, Baggiototti assisted vieri, who was in the front, in the Cameroonian penalty area for 25 minutes, and then he scored his first hat-trick in the World Cup by kicking three cities in a row!
By the way, vieri’s hat trick is also the first hat trick in the World Cup!
In less than 30 minutes, the situation of falling behind by three made the Cameroonians in a mess, so the Italian players took this opportunity to continue to attack and further expand the score advantage!
Totti scored his first personal goal in the World Cup. Roberto Baggio increased his total number of goals in the World Cup to nine and a half. When he came off the bench, Pirlo and Inzaghi each scored a goal to seal the score at seven!
This game made all Italian fans feel relaxed and happy. They have long been used to defensive counter-attacks. They never thought that Italy could play such a pleasing game and win seven goals beautifully!
At this time, the media, who have always been moral-minded, have been criticized by have it both ways for touting the old Maldini and SHEN WOO, and the 4-3-3 formation has been declared as the most suitable tactic for Italy, which makes everyone in the Italian national team feel ashamed.
In the other group match of Group B, Chile and Austria fought for a full 90 minutes, and made a 1-1 draw. In this match, Salas scored another goal and three World Cup goals, which made the Chilean killer temporarily ranked first in the World Cup scorer list. vieri had a goal difference.
However, due to the tie between Cameroon and Austria in the first round of Group B, the points of each team in Group B are 6 points for Italy, 2 points for Austria and 1 point for Cameroon and Chile respectively.
This means that Italy, who drank a whole bottle of 7-up from Cameroon, won the group qualification after two rounds of group matches and before six points, and also locked the top spot in the group!
The result of locking in the first place in the group before gave the old Maldini more confidence in the last group match, and adopted rotation tactics to give his players more rest to adjust their state so as to better cope with the next elimination match.
So six days later, in the first two games against Austria, in the face of several people’s criticisms, we must insist on making the old Maldini in the 4-3-3 formation suddenly change his position and play directly. For several days, we have been studying carefully, such as dealing with the 4-3-3 style of play in Italy. The Austrian was caught off guard.
Pagliuca, panucci, Bergomi, Materazzi, Di livio, tommasi, dino baggio, Pirlo, dimatteo, vieri and Inzaghi are the Italian starting lineup against Austria.
Although the old Maldini rotated most of the main players in this game, the strength of the starting eleven players is still higher than that of the Austrian. From the game, Pirlo and others have firmly controlled the situation, constantly shifting the ball and making the Austrian players eager to compete for another group’s qualifying quota tired.
"Andrea (Pirlo) is really an incredible player. It is reasonable to say that a young player like him in Italy should honestly give a hand to those veteran stars, but he can command these stars who are much more famous than him to closely surround him and play according to his own ideas." This is a special guest who appeared in the live broadcast, and the famous dino zoff commented on Pirlo during the game. "It will have such a strong influence and control on the game and the team before the weak championship!"
Organizing and scheduling in Pirlo, Italy firmly controlled the rhythm of the game, thus creating more scoring opportunities. The biggest beneficiary is the starting striker combination in Italy, and Pirlo’s teammates in Florence, vieri and Inzaghi.
In the 42nd minute, Pirlo passed two Austrian players in a row in the middle, and then sent a straight plug. Inzaghi succeeded in offside and shot Italy first!
Since then, vieri and substitute Baggio have also made great achievements. They also sent assists, Pirlo, who is only 19 years old!
Although the Austrian tried his best to resist under the leadership of captain andreas herzog, the huge strength gap between the two teams made the Austrian players feel motivated.
Finally, at the end of the game on the spot, Italy won by a score of 3-1, so that the three victories made it to the top 16 of the World Cup!
With the performance of the Italian international in the group stage, the price of the Italian international has risen, and he scored five goals in the three group stages. vieri dominated the scorer list and became one of the most powerful stars in the World Cup. Pirlo, who was praised by Zoff, was attracted by giants such as Lazio and Real Madrid, and cragnotti even made a high offer of 20 thousand US dollars. Tommasi’s remarkable performance in the game has given Fiorentina the confidence to ask for a high offer when negotiating with other clubs …
Austria, the losing side, had to face the bitter fruit of being eliminated-in another Group B match at the same time, veteran zamorano made a great effort to kill Cameroon and Chile in front of the final whistle, winning three precious points!
It was with these three priceless points from Cameroon that Chile edged out Austria at the last minute and followed Italy into the knockout stage of the World Cup!
Chapter 64 Different World Cup (3)
After breaking through the group stage and successfully reaching the 16th World Cup, Chile sang praises to Italy’s fair play-after all, Chile was only one point behind Austria in the first two games. If Italy deliberately lost the match with Austria, even if Chile won the match with Cameroon, it would be blocked from the 16th World Cup because of less points than Austria!
If Chileans are grateful to Italy for this move, then two days later, after the final round of Group D, Chileans felt it was great that they could be in the same group with Italy-the Spanish matador was blocked by Nigeria and Paraguay in the same group and had to face the cruel reality of going home after the group match!
"Spain really didn’t get killed in the group stage." Looking at the newspaper headline that had just been printed in the hands, little Groz left his pie mouth and said contemptuously, "Antonio really made you guess. Clemente led this Spanish team to be miserable in the group stage."
"Rebecca, please believe me anyway, okay?" Express surprise at little Groz, Zhuang Ge replied naively, "it break my heart to always be so skeptical about my prediction."
"Ah ha ha ~ people don’t know enough about football, Antonio. It’s not unclear that you said," In the face of this, Zhuang Ge Xiao Groz is good at playing dumb and playing cute. "Don’t care about this kind of thing. Men who are too serious will be hated."
"hey! Rebecca, what do you mean … "
"Tony, why don’t you analyze this for us? Why will Spain be eliminated in the group stage? " Karin asked aside, because the worker often comes into contact with football, she naturally has her own opinion on the reasons for Spain’s exit. Now this problem is more about helping Groz.
Sure enough, after Karin had this problem, little Groz immediately cast a thank-you look at Karin, and the latter immediately winked at her to indicate that this was what she should do.
"Well … in my opinion, this Spanish club will be eliminated in the group stage for many reasons." After being successfully diverted by Karin, Zhuang Ge pondered for a while and expressed his views. "The first reason is that Clemente, the Spanish coach, is really too veteran. For example, in the case of having two goalkeepers, canizares and Molina, he still insists on letting the veteran zubizarreta take the lead, although zubizarreta used to be. A world-class goalkeeper, but now he is 37 years old, but he is just a veteran who has lost his scenery. It is also because of his poor performance that Spain has been reversed by Nigeria and lost three points. "
"Secondly, the psychological quality of these Spanish players is really poor. Although they lost to Nigeria in the first game, they actually had to play hard at that time. The probability of Spain qualifying in the next two games is still very high." Zhuang Ge continued to explain his views with Karin and Little Groz. "However, the loss to Nigeria had such a great impact on Spanish players that they were distracted and eventually tied by their opponents in Paraguay, thus giving them the initiative to qualify for the group."