However, after the second group match of Group B was held three days later, even if the Belgian fans were optimistic, they couldn’t laugh because Belgium didn’t show the momentum of the European Red Devils in this match against Italy, and the wind field competition was led by their opponents. After 90 minutes of regular competition, they finally lost by three!
After the Italian side won the goal against Turkey, the old Maldini did not continue to start in the first game as expected, but chose to take the initiative to change more in this game, which is the best evidence that Fiorentina players toldo, Starr, Zambrotta, vieri and Inzaghi made their debut in the game!
Look at the host side. Wilmotz, the core of the Belgian field, is not able to keep an eye on Ambrosini. Mpenza and Strupa can also attack the Italian reinforced concrete defense line. It is understandable that Belgium finally lost to the Apennines at the end of the game
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Although Italy neatly solved the host Belgium team in the second world war of the group stage, it was a lot of pressure for Italy’s national team coach Paolo Maldini to adjust his starting lineup in this match against Belgium.
You know, under normal circumstances, the head coach won’t make too many adjustments to the team that won a game, because doing so means breaking up the players who have just formed a certain tacit understanding and letting them run in again in the next game, which will not have a small impact on the team’s performance and what kind of chemical reaction can be produced is unknown.
If Italy doesn’t play well or win hard in this match with Belgium, then the choice of changing old Maldini is bound to become the focus of criticism by many media and fans!
Fortunately, toldo played well enough in this game to live up to the old Maldini’s lead, and the defense line did not give the Belgians a chance; The combination of vieri and Inzaghi contributed a goal and an assist in the game, which was the biggest contributor to the Italian victory; Didn’t get many performance opportunities. toldo also played a stable role. Several saves were very steady, and his performance was not inferior to that of a starting goalkeeper, peruzzi!
By the way, after finishing the first two rounds of the group stage, Inzaghi tied with Yugoslav striker Milosevic for the top scorer list. With his performance of scoring three goals in the first two group stages, Inzaghi became the most eyecatching striker in the European Cup!
It is precisely because of the controversial ruling performance in the game against Turkey that the media, who were noisy before the game, changed their tone and praised Old Maldini for recognizing his tactical level and judging people as firstclass and worthy of being the head coach of the World Cup champion team.
Old Maldini, who has long been accustomed to the media’s sway, naturally won’t take these flatteries and belittles to heart, and this attitude and the twogame winning streak in the group stage have also greatly affected his hands. The mentality of these international players has made the team not have any contradictions due to the change of starting position, but firmly strive for the final championship trophy around old Maldini!
For Old Maldini, the excellent performance of the Fiorentina players he supported in the second group match was certainly gratifying, but it was Stifano Aurelio from Houdusse Club who was the biggest discovery of Italy in the European Cup. This versatile midfielder who was selected into the national team at the last minute was originally regarded as a surprise soldier by Old Maldini, but unexpectedly he had a good chemical reaction with Totti. His threading and wideranging running in the midfield revitalized the Italian midfielder, enabling Totti to get rid of the heavy organizing work and devote more energy to the attack!
However, although Italy won two consecutive victories in the European Cup, the outside media did not give up picking and choosing the Apennines. This time, vieri, the winner of the French World Cup Golden Boot and the onetime Serie A Golden Boot, was unfortunately attracted by many media to criticize!
And the media chose to criticize vieri for very good reasons. After all, the main center of the Italian national team in the European Cup played for 100 minutes in two group matches. Even now, vieri has still scored! Such report card make these news media, who have alway made troubles, find a breakthrough to attack Italy, and unfortunately make vieri a sacrifice for media to increase newspaper sales and ratings!
Vieri, a player who has experienced many storms, will still feel a little depressed although he doesn’t take these criticisms too seriously. What do you think of this, Filippo? I just didn’t score in two games. How can I be said by these people to be so serious? It seems that if I don’t score, Italy will be out of the European Cup!
Ha ha Christian (vieri) Who made you the winner of the Golden Boot Award in the French World Cup? It’s natural for them to demand more from you than others. vieri friend Inzaghi gloated with the mentality of being a dead friend and not being original and hurting friends. Look at me, people don’t expect much from me, even if I don’t score goals, it’s no big deal. Now that I’ve only scored three goals, I’ve been blown into the Italian romario by them … Alas, I’m the real ace killer of the Italian striker by keeping a low profile!
… you give me death! Looking at an ostentatious expression, Inzaghi vieri flew up and kicked his bad friend in the past and said grumpily, Hum, one day I will make them regret saying these words today!
However, with such a gag by Inzaghi, vieri’s depressed feelings have long since disappeared, leaving him with poor fighting spirit and determination to clear his name!
Although unlucky vieri was caught by the media who insisted on finding fault in the egg, he was not criticized the most severely by the media and fans. As the first two rounds of the group stage have ended, it is suspected that the runnerup of the European Cup was defeated by the Czech Republic just because of a golden ball from Buel Hoff!
Who let the Czech Republic, the favorite of the golden generation to win the championship, lose to France and the Netherlands in the first two rounds of the group stage and lose the qualification in the first round? You can’t blame others for your disappointing grades.
In fact, strictly speaking, the miserable performance of the Czech Republic in this European Cup is mainly due to their bad luck in groupingthe tactics and tactics of being in line with the personnel are relatively mature, and it is not surprising that France and the Netherlands, the two strong teams, are in the same group, showing their advantages and disadvantages.
What’s more, the Czech Republic lost a goal to their opponents in these two games, and they were still there, which proved their strength!
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of the media and fans, they don’t care about the reasons for the Czech Republic’s defeat. They will think that this Eastern European iron horse has not met people’s expectations and is just a strong team.
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In addition to the Czech Republic, another team that has been criticized is the winner of the 2008 European Cup and the biggest pain of the Czechs. At present, in Group A, Germany has only one point with one draw and one loss!
Because the Czech national team (including the former Czechoslovakia) has reached the final of the European Cup twice, and both ended up in front of the Germans (West Germany in 1972), it is no exaggeration to say that Germany is the most hostile opponent of the Czech Republic in international competitions.
The poor performance of defending champion Germany in the European Cup curtain really exceeded many people’s expectations. After all, four years ago, the German chariot was full of wounded soldiers, but it was still able to fight to the last minute. It was so impressive. The famous saying defined by Gary Lineker, an English striker, made German football deeply rooted in people’s hearts!
(Note What is football? Football is a sport that was launched by the British and won by the Germans after a fierce struggle of 22 people for 9 minutes! This is after witnessing Germany’s elimination of England in the European Cup in 1996. At that time, TV commentator Reinkel expressed his feelings when he saw the national team fall behind the Germans again.
And now? In the first match of the group stage, Haji led Romania’s old Germany team to a bad start. The seemingly stable defense line was only present in five minutes, and it was only by Sauer’s world wave at the front of the restricted area that the score was equalized. I barely got a point in Romania!
If Germany didn’t play well in the first round of the group stage and the players were slowheated, it would be a little hard to accept the loss to the archenemy England in World War II. Even Portugal, which has always been a striker, can break through the gate of the Three Lions Corps for three times, and Germany, such as bierhoff, Iankel and Kirsten, has taken all the wind in England. If it weren’t for the state of being brave, Kahn won the game with high gear and low gear, I’m afraid the final score will never be just a onetoone when the game is over!
You know, although this England has always been touted as the strongest England in history by the British media who feel good about themselves, the coach Kevin Keegan’s coaching level is not very good, and the defense line is also full of loopholes. Otherwise, they would not have been defeated by Portugal without even a secondrate striker at one time.
However, even in the face of such an EnglandGermany team, it was possible to master the initiative of the game and finally suffered a defeat in the bombardment of opponents!
It can be seen that effenberg’s analysis of Zhuang Ge before the curtain of the European Cup was not a loose talk. ribbeck is now coaching this German team. It is indeed not the German chariot with iron will and team consciousness in beckenbauer. A series of problems, such as distracted people, aging teams and weak sense of honor, broke out in the current German team, dragging this old European powerhouse into the dark abyss!
With Germany and the Czech Republic, the champions and runnersup of the European Cup, both of them were eliminated from the European Cup before, and the final round of the group stage was also quietly coming. All the teams that are expected to win a promotion quota are gearing up at this time. Let’s say here that in order to prevent the two teams from deliberately playing the silent ball in the game for their own interests, which will affect the fairness and justice of the game, the final round of each group is arranged at the same time.
First of all, Italy is in Group B, but this game is of little significance to Italy, which has qualified before winning two games in the group stage, because even if the team finally lost to Sweden and Belgium is currently ranked second in the group, it will be the worst luck for Italy to win the goal difference behind Belgium.
What’s more, for Italy, which scored six goals and conceded only one goal in two group matches, even if they deliberately released water, the goal difference is still negative at present. It is extremely difficult for Belgium to complete the transcendence.
In this situation, there is not much psychological burden. Italian players have to pack lightly to meet the game with Sweden!
Since a qualifying quota has been locked up before, the top position of the group will not slip away. Therefore, the old Maldini decisively adopted a rotation tactic for the starting lineup in this game, putting all the main players such as vieri Inzaghi Toti on the bench and replacing them with Montera Pirlo Di Biagio and other players who didn’t get many appearances in the first two games.
Old Maldini’s move made him try his best to clear his name in this game. vieri was a little disappointed. The latter even begged the old Maldini in private, but he was fooled back by the coach’s mouth gun and foolishly prepared for the quarterfinals.
Look at Sweden, where last stand lagerback (head coach of Sweden) only scored one point in the first two wars. Don’t choose to make Ljungberg, Larsson and other main players all start and put on a strong offensive posture to fight for a victory in the World Cup champion!
If this goal can be achieved, even if Sweden doesn’t qualify for the qualifying round in the end, they will have something to console themselves after returning home.
But then again, when the opponent is Italian, he chooses to attack lagerback. The result is likely to be that the world Apennines are famous for their defensive counterattack tactics. After all, Sweden’s defense line can be compared with those strong teams, and they don’t have a firstclass goalkeeper who can do everything.
Therefore, there is no complete and rigorous defense body that still actively attacks Sweden in the game, and the Swedish team is properly miserable in this game …
In the tenth minute, Montera helped the team expand its lead with a direct goal of Italian first record Pirlo at the end of the halfgame. Sweden, on the other hand, got a fig leaf for this bad European Cup trip when henrik larsson pulled back a point from Grandoni in the 77th minute.
Finally, Italy retained its strength. In the final round of the group stage, with goals from Montera and Pirlo, it defeated Sweden 21 at the Philips Stadium in Eindhoven and advanced to the quarterfinals with its head held high!
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While Italy beat Sweden as the top group and advanced to the European Cup, at the same time, in another group B match at King’s Stadium in baudouin, the Belgians tasted the bitter fruit of carelessness. In the last group match against Turkey, the host lost to the Xingyue Army in the situation that it needed to be tied to qualify, and the threepoint result was lost by the Turks at the last minute.
In the face of Belgium, which can be regarded as the secondrate defense line in Europe, Hakan Suk showed his super ability to abuse vegetables in the first two games. The Turkish center kicked his head and led Turkey to win the key battle with a score of 20!