Not to mention these trivial matters, Brazil and Nigeria took the lead in the semi-final three days after Spain was eliminated.
The Brazilian Football Association attaches great importance to the gold medal in the football match of the last Olympic Games, so they almost recruited a group of the best young players in Brazilian football to participate in the competition. Three over-age players are also famous winners of the 1994 World Cup in Brazil. Bei Beituo and aldair have all entered the list for the Atlanta Olympic Games, but somehow the third over-age player is not Cruz (not the one who played for Inter Milan) in Zhuang Ge’s memory, but Dunga, the captain of the Brazilian national team.
To be honest, if romario hadn’t offended head coach zagallo, the "lone wolf" would have been the third over-aged player of the Brazilian Olympic team to participate in the 2008 Olympic Games.
Add Dida, Zerroberto, Zemalia, Zeelias, rivaldo, Doriva, a famous disciple of cerezo, and others. This Brazilian team is really gorgeous.
Moreover, the Brazilian team once played against Nigeria in the group stage of the 2008 Olympic Games. In that game, they finally beat their opponents with a wonderful personal performance by Ronaldo. It can be said that the Brazilian team in Nigeria has an absolute advantage in terms of personal ability and psychology.
However, even if the Brazilian team is strong, even if there is a little change in the Olympic list, this degree change is obviously not enough to stop the historical wheel from moving forward.
As in history, from the first Brazil team, it benefited from its strong personal ability and technical advantages, and firmly grasped the initiative. At the end of the half, Brazil achieved a 3-1 lead with Bei Beituo’s goal and Flavio Da Conceio’s goal twice. Everything seemed to develop as expected before the game.
It was the same when the game entered the half-time. Although Nigerian players tried very hard to equalize the score, Brazil’s strong strength still firmly controlled the situation. Starting goalkeeper Dida even saved Okocha’s penalty kick in the 64th minute!
However, just when everyone thought that Nigeria’s general trend was over, Kanu, the main striker of Nigeria, came out. First, in the 76th minute, he was plugged into Okocha from the left high speed and scored a powerful volley at the front of the restricted area of Brazil. Before that, he made a wonderful save and arrived at Kanu. There was no way to watch the ball go into the net.
Nigerians tied the score to two to three!
However, the Brazilian team was not on high alert because of this goal. The players all thought that the goal was just an accident. With their own ability, it was not a problem to take Nigeria to the final in these ten minutes. The most terrible thing was that everyone seemed to hold this idea.
The Nigerian boys obviously don’t think so because of Kanu’s goal. Since they have the ability to score two goals in Brazil, why can’t they score two more?
It is precisely because of this that I hope that the Nigerians will become more and more brave in the coming years and frequently put down the Brazilian players in the confrontation, and the Brazilian players were also angered by their opponents’ outrageous play. So in the last ten minutes of the half-time, the players of both sides were put down by the opposing players one after another. The young and energetic Brazilian players did not notice that they were subtly diverted by the cunning Nigerians, and they did not notice that they had actually put more energy into quarrelling with their opponents instead of scoring another goal as soon as possible to re-establish the score advantage of two goals.
The Nigerian strategy paid off. At the end of the half game, Okocha threw an out-of-bounds ball on the right and flew directly into the restricted area of Brazil. In the chaos, the ball strangely passed through the legs of several players and rolled to Dida’s feet in front of the goal!
Just when Dida noticed this dangerous situation, Kanu, who was standing beside Dida, had reacted and stabbed the ball into the gate guarded by Dida! Three to three! Nigerians miraculously equalized the score at the last minute!
However, the Brazilian players are cursed, and they can watch all this happen as bystanders, but they have no ability to stop this miracle from happening. They finally paid a heavy price for their youthful spirit.
At the last minute, the result of being equalized by the humble Nigeria was obviously no less than the blow to this group of arrogant people. Many of them did not seem to have recovered from the goal of Kanuna in overtime, and this slip of the number made them taste the bitter fruit again.
Only three minutes into extra time, Nigerian midfielder Okocha steals rivaldo’s ball in the middle of the game, and then immediately throws a straight ball through the Brazilian defense line, which is still in the state of attack and defense conversion!
I have scored twice, and Kanu has given full play to his outstanding explosive force and successfully formed a single-handed ball to attack Dida with a calm push to complete the golden ball lore! At the same time, he also scored his third goal in the game! Hat trick!
Four to three! Brazil’s Olympic team, which is considered to be the favourite to win the football championship in the 2008 Olympic Games, was eliminated by the African eagle Nigeria!
Chapter 35 Different Olympic Games (5)
Just as Brazil, the favourite to win the championship, was eliminated by Kanu’s hat-trick at the last minute and was able to compete for the bronze medal, the semi-finals between Italy and Argentina were about to start.
Zhuang Ge appeared in the semi-final stands on time. He wanted to see if the Italian Olympic team, which is many times stronger than history, could reach the final under his influence.
Let’s not say anything about changing history. The fact that the Italian Olympic team can qualify from the group this time has already changed the historical trend.
But then again, the Italian Olympic team in history is really a loser. Compared with the previous Italian youth team that won the European Youth Championship, the Italian Olympic team was only missing one panucci who retired due to injury. As a result, they actually defeated South Korea in three Olympic group matches, only two against Ghana and Mexico, but they didn’t win one.
"Antonio, do you think Italy can win this game?" The original Zhuang Ge planned to watch the game in the ordinary seating stands by taking a people-friendly route. However, because Rebecca, Karin and Arisha all expressed their opposition to this, Zhuang Ge finally chose to watch the game in the VIP box. "Aren’t you always accurate in judging the results of this knockout? Come and predict it for us!"
Hearing Rebecca say this, Karin and Arisha are also staring at Zhuang Ge with expectation, hoping that they will take a fancy to this man and bring them a surprise again.
"Well, it’s hard to say." Zhuang Ge always plays tricks on several beautiful women before hearing the news. This time, he finally knows what shooting himself in the foot means. He guessed it correctly because it was all in his memory. Now the history of this game has never happened. If he guessed wrong, didn’t he smash his signboard?
In fact, more importantly, guessing wrong will make Zhuang Ge lose face in front of these beautiful women. Of course, Zhuang Ge will never admit this …
For this Argentine Olympic team, I still know many players, such as Crespo, who ended up in football, Ayala, the captain of Valencia and Argentina, Sati, the greatest foreign captain in the history of Inter Milan, Claudio López, Ortega, Almeida, three over-age players, sansini, Cha Mote and diego simeone, and so on.
In Zhuang Ge’s view, if Kanu didn’t play like a god in this Olympic Games, Brazil and Argentina would be the most powerful contenders for the gold medal, even Italy would still be a little short.
However, due to Zhuang Ge’s crossing, Florence has developed a large number of newcomers at the same time, such as birindelli, Zambrotta, Dibiagio, vieri and Inzaghi, all of whom have stronger abilities than the same period in history and should retire due to injury. panucci also came to the United States this time. It is this change that has greatly improved the strength of the Italian Olympic team to a popular team not inferior to Brazil and Argentina.
"Well, I think Italy is better than Argentina in personal ability, but sansini, Cha Mote and Sati form a defense line, but the level of Argentina’s national team is more tacit than Italy …" Zhuang Ge pondered his own words and tried to get away with some ambiguous words.
"Hey, Antonio, it’s not like your wind. Don’t hide it. Tell us your judgment quickly. If you don’t talk, you will be sentenced to death!" Rebecca debunked Zhuang Ge’s abacus in one word, and at the same time she wittily drew a pistol shooting sample with her right hand.
Forget it, it’s better to smash the signboard than to make them unhappy. Zhuang Ge sighed in his heart and carefully pondered the comparison between the two arrays and made a judgment. "I am more optimistic about the Italian Olympic team. After all, according to the data, the Argentine main goalkeeper Pablo Caballero didn’t get a few chances at the sarsfield Club, and the experience of the game is not as good as that of pagliuca on our side. Therefore, it is difficult to make some mistakes due to inexperience when making some saves, and Inzaghi on our side .. Cough or not."
After all, what is inzaghi’s style of playing football? Several people here know all about it. Rebecca and Karin nodded their heads and agreed with Zhuang’s words.
I still have great confidence in Caballero’s judgment of Zhuang Ge. Although this goalkeeper participated in the French World Cup for 9 years in his previous life, he was still the backup goalkeeper of the Argentine national team. At that time, the main goalkeeper of Argentina was Carlos Roa.
Later, although he became the No.1 goalkeeper of the Argentine national team in the Belsa era, I believe everyone knows that Belsa’s Argentina did very well in the World Cup qualifiers, but it didn’t even qualify for the group stage in Japan and South Korea. Caballero’s performance in the World Cup was also quite average.
Compared with the wonderful national team career, Caballero’s club career is not very good. He didn’t do much in Argentina. He later went to La Liga and played well for a few years, and then soon sank with Certa’s demotion.
This shows that Caballero’s strength is at best a second-rate level, and his teammates will not make any low-level mistakes at ordinary times. He can keep the door open, but it is unrealistic to expect him to come forward and save the team if his teammates don’t give him strength.
"Another point is that the midfielder of Passareira’s Argentine Olympic team is far from their defense line." Zhuang Ge pointed out another fate in the Argentine team. "Bassedes and Hugo Morales are divided into two wings. Although they are famous in Argentina, their defensive ability can be regarded as better than that. Therefore, the Argentine team actually has Almeida’s full-time defense, so the protection measures are obviously insufficient to resist the Italian counterattack."
Zhuang Ge, of course, won’t say that he hasn’t heard the names of these two players in his previous life. If he hasn’t heard of them, he is definitely not a good player. Zhuang Ge has the confidence to play from CM4 to FM212.
"It’s such a underestimate that we will suffer a lot if we fight back in Italy!" Rebecca also echoed the Italian, and she naturally supported her national team.
Just as several people were discussing it in full swing, the referee blew a game whistle, and the second semi-final of the Atlanta Olympic football match was official!
Chapter 351 Different Olympic Games (6)
In this game, the old Maldini continued to discharge a set of 4-4-2 formation goalkeepers. pagliuca is still under 10 years old. Buffon is more suitable to sit on the bench to see the world in the eyes of the old coach. After all, he is not very safe in the eyes of the steady old Maldini, but Buffon is much happier than Cudicini, who has been sitting in the stands as a spectator since the Olympic Games.
From left to right, the defense lines are Coco, Starr, Cannavaro and panucci. In the opinion of Old Maldini, except Coco, who is the youngest, the other three people in the defense line are bound to become members of the defense line of Italy’s national team in the World Cup two years later. Coco is not favored more because Italy’s left-backs are full of talents in this period, whether it is paolo maldini or Di livio, or Pesoto or Lana and fortunato Coco.
In midfield, Tacchinardi dragged out a single midfielder. He was responsible for building a reliable barrier in front of the team’s defense line. In front of him, tommasi and crippa were two people. They attacked from the side and assisted Koko and panucci to defend their opponents. When Argentina attacks, they will rush to interfere with the opponent’s attack in the first place, and they will also choose the opportunity to insert long-range shots. It can be said that these three people have a heavy burden.
I have to say that the old Maldini coached this Italian Olympic team with a strong Florentine color, and the avant-garde was abolished, and two full-backs on the left and right were responsible for the attack and defense on the side; Tacchinardi, tommasi and crippa, while protecting the defense line, should seize the opportunity to attack the long-range shot and threaten the opponent’s goal, and also attack by their teammates.
That’s why old Maldini chose three players who have played in Florence in midfield. After all, he adopted a tactic, which can be said to be Florence’s turn. Of course, it is for those who have played in Florence to play, so as to give full play to the best effect.
If it were anyone else, even the tacit understanding of the players would not be able to break in with the Italian Olympic team in less than a month’s training, let alone such complicated tactical cooperation
The lack of tactical execution of these players is more due to their familiarity with a set of tactics and their tacit understanding with each other. Think about it. Let a player get familiar with a group of strange teammates in less than a month and at the same time adapt to a new set of tactics. If everyone can do this, all teams will not be so energetic when upgrading.
On the front line, considering that the four defenders of the Argentine Olympic team all play in Serie A, the old Maldini chose to send pierrot and filippo inzaghi, both of whom are not strikers who are easily stared at by defenders and have played in Serie A for several years. They are very familiar with the defensive styles of Ayala and Cha Mote and know their weaknesses.
Knowing ourselves and knowing ourselves can win every battle.
It is precisely because of this that after the game, when Cha Mote and sansini led the Argentine defense line and saw Inzaghi and pierrot appearing in front of them, they immediately had a headache. The former could suddenly break out and score goals in the "stealth" situation of 20 minutes, and the latter often kicked out some strange arcs in the so-called "pierrot area". It was really a desperate thing for them to partner together, because no one knew whether they would seize the opportunity to score goals because of their little distraction.
But it can be said that no one can stop this group from scoring goals except the lucky goddess and themselves
Zhuang Ge was lucky, and the game was similar to his prediction from the beginning. The Italian team tightened the fence and launched a defensive counterattack, while the Argentine made a position attack with the combination of Crespo and Lopez, trying to break the Italian defense bit by bit.
Passareira obviously overestimated the ability of his two strikers to attack, and Lopez was stared at by Cannavaro. For the time being, although Crespo had a certain reputation in South American football, he was not honed by top competitions. It was obvious that he was not the first-class center who scored 6 goals in 21 appearances for Riverbed last season. He still lacked in grasping opportunities.
In Argentina, two wingers, Bassedes and Morales, are in trouble no less than Crespo. The former has met panucci, who can completely abuse him in all aspects, and the latter is constantly squeezing in Koko, barely carrying the ball, let alone supporting others.
Although Ortega, the acclaimed successor of Diego Maradona, keeps breaking through and trying to break the deadlock in Argentina, even Diego Maradona people are not afraid. How can Italians be bound by a so-called "successor"? When Tachinadi and others joined hands to strangle Ortega, they were surprised to find that it was extremely difficult to even break through.
Because most of the troops in the center and frontcourt have been put into the attack, Almeida, who is in charge of midfield defense, dare not act rashly. Everyone knows that the Italian defense counterattack is the first day, and it is purely suicidal to rush to the attack.
Since Almeida can’t attack, Argentina can rely on its two full-backs if it wants to increase its offensive firepower.
Although Cha Mote was born as a full-back, he has changed to a central defender for many years. It is obvious that he has not adapted to the position of left-back. Now he pays more attention to defense than attack, so he can insert assists. The full-back is actually Sadie.
In crippa and tommasi, Sadie can’t afford much wind and waves alone.
In this way, Ortega became impatient after failing to attack Argentina for a long time, showing his "independence" side, reducing the ball and pursuing personal breakthrough, trying to emulate his predecessor Diego Maradona and turn the war around by himself.
But Ortega is not Diego Maradona, Italian or English.
In the end, Ortega paid the price for going his own way.
In the 22nd minute, Ortega broke the ball with Tachinadi’s foot during a forced breakthrough in the middle of the road, and then immediately kicked it to tommasi, who pulled the ball and turned around and passed Almeida’s tackle, then gave it to Totti in front!
Now the Italian team is fighting back!