The Era of Emerald

The match between England and Italy will take place the night after the opener at the Stade Velodrome in the French coastal city of Marseille.

For this Four Nations Invitational Tournament, the old Maldini's attitude is mainly to train troops, and by the way, let's observe the key targets in his eyes.Therefore, in this game against England, Lao Ma naturally sent the strongest starting lineup in his mind.

The battle for the No. [-] goalkeeper of the national team between Pagliuca and Toldo started from the day Maldini took office. The technical characteristics of the two are similar. There are two brushes on the penalty kick.

But in general, Pagliuca is better than Toldo in terms of stability and competition experience. When Toldo is in good shape, he can save no matter what kind of shot he faces (the European Cup in 2000 is proof ), but if the state is poor, they dare to concede any ball.

Therefore, after a year of inspection, the old Maldini designated Pagliuca as the No. [-] goalkeeper and Toldo as the substitute.

On the defense line, Panucci and Paolo Maldini undisputedly hold the positions of the two starting full-backs on the left and right, while Ferrara and Nesta have a more tacit cooperation, so the old Maldini Had to reluctantly put Cannavaro on the bench.

In midfield, under the influence of Florence, the old Maldini was not as stubborn as in history. He insisted on sending two full-backs on the field. Instead, he learned Florence's tactics and changed to a diamond midfielder.He chose Albertini to take on Redondo's role in Fiorentina; Di Biagio was in charge of deep protection, the last line of defense in the midfield; another iron-blooded midfielder, Dino Baggio, was in charge of sweeping the entire midfield, When attacking, you must seize the opportunity to plug in and participate in the attack, threatening the opponent's goal with a long shot.

The front midfielder made the old Maldini quite troubled. Since Piero and Roberto Baggio are both No. [-] and a half players, deadly passes and scoring are their best areas. Let them control the rhythm of the game Chances are it will backfire.Therefore, the old Maldini took a fancy to the Roman teenager Francisco Totti, thinking that he is the best choice for Italy in the midfielder position.

Of course, in response to the current dilemma of the lack of available midfielders in Italy, the old Maldini still has two sets of backup plans: one is naturally to return to the traditional [-] parallel position, but he has seen many games in Florence. After watching the game video, Lao Ma felt that if Italy really adopts this plan, next year's World Cup may become a disaster; the other is to learn from Capello's approach in this year's Champions League final and let Italy play three forwards.

Anyway, Piero and Baggio are not unable to move to the side. Maldini and Panucci both have the ability to open up the entire side. If Italy plays a three-forward, except that the defense may be weakened, in other respects it is absolutely There will be no small improvement.

On the front line, the elder Maldini chose Inzaghi and Vieri as partners.Different from history, because of Baggio's excellent performance in Inter Milan this season, the old horse did not exclude him from the national team squad; In terms of championship honors, it is much worse than in history. In this case, Vieri and Inzaghi, who performed better, naturally won the favor of the old horse, while Piero and Baggio had to face it. The reality of the national team as a substitute.

As for England, Hoddle, the big-mouthed coach, put up a four-four-two parallel formation according to the tradition: the goalkeeper is Fowlers from Blackburn, and the four defenders are Stuart Pierce from left to right , Southgate, Keown and Phil Neville, Beckham, Paul Ince, Scholes and Le Saux form the midfield, and Sheringham and Ian Wright are two veteran partners in the striker.

Facing a completely different Italian team under the influence of Zhuang Mingge, the trajectory of this game also quietly changed.

The England national team is not Manchester United. No matter how well Ince and Beckham can run, without the complete off-ball running system of Manchester United, they are completely unable to control the rhythm of the game. As a result, they are repeatedly beaten by the Italians. The quick counterattack was beaten into a mess.

Although Vieri seemed a bit struggling under the defense of Keown and Southgate's two central defenders, he created enough scoring opportunities for Inzaghi, and the England defenders faced Inzaghi like this. Linghu in the penalty area seemed a little at a loss, after all, they rarely encountered this type of striker in the Premier League.

No.20 In the second minute, Beckham's cross was first cleared by Nesta, and the ball was passed by Di Biagio to Albertini, who sent a long pass over the top near the middle circle of the court. , Inzaghi, who succeeded in anti-offside, did not wait for the ball to land, and directly volleyed in the penalty area!

Forrest tried his best but failed to prevent the ball from flying into the gate behind him, one to zero, Italy leading!

Although Scholes used a long shot to help Ingra equalize the score at the beginning of the second half, but then the game was completely under the control of Italy. Totti, who gradually found his sense, joined hands with Albertini behind him to control The rhythm of the game, the scalpel-like passes again and again made England's defense in a mess.

No.606 minutes, Totti sent a through ball after passing Ince, Inzaghi got rid of Keown's defense and shot the ball, rewriting the score to [-]-[-], which was also the final score of the game.

After watching this game, Zhuang Mingge is preparing to pack his bags and plans to fly to Paris tomorrow to watch the highlight of the second round of matches, that is, the match between Italy and Brazil (although he usually pays attention to the Premier League, Zhuang Mingge has nothing to do with the England national team. A good impression, so the war between Britain and France is not attractive in Zhuang Mingge's eyes), a phone call made his originally good mood fall to the bottom.

"Giancarlo (Antonioni), what's going on? Didn't I hand over the transfer to you and Hercule? Why did that bald Galliani come to France to find me?" After receiving the call from Antonioni, Zhuang Mingge was a little depressed. He finally found a reason to throw all these trivial matters to the people below. He didn't expect that the bald man Galliani would be so ignorant, so he rushed over France wants to discuss important matters with Zhuang Mingge face to face, "What important matters can he have? Thinking about it, I know that this guy must have taken a fancy to a player from our team, and then came to France to fool me, the boss."

"Boss, I guessed the purpose of Galliani's trip, but what can I do? Can I also contact the customs to ban him from leaving the country?" Antonioni, who had known for a long time that his boss wanted to be a shopkeeper, was on the other side of the phone. He sniggered, thinking that you have today, boss, "Anyway, Antonio, you are so wise and powerful, you will definitely not be fooled by that bald man."

After listening to Antonioni's words, Zhuang Mingge was silent for a while, and uttered a word: "Damn!"