Although the appearance of Greece, a dark horse, and the poor performance of all the strong teams in the European Cup have eclipsed the final, most fans obviously don’t care much about Greece’s appearance in the final, which is acceptable for them to see some unexpected situations occasionally and is very popular with them.
If international competitions such as the World Cup and the European Cup are always the stage for unifying strong teams and superstars, and those weak teams have no chance to show their faces and surprise, fans will feel aesthetic fatigue, and some unexpected situations and unexpected events will make fans watch each game more passionately.
According to Zhuang Ge’s words, it’s luxurious and luxurious for a long time, and occasionally I have to eat coarse grains to recall my bitter experience …
Now let’s talk about the starting lineup of the two teams. The Greek side Severiano Reija Geer continued to make him a great success in the European Cup. The 442 formation made some fine adjustments to the starting lineup according to the injury situation of the players. Obviously, Otto the Great planned to defend the counterattack tactics against the Italian team, which is one of the top players.
Due to the limitation of space, I won’t elaborate on the names of the starting players in various positions in the Greek game here. You should all have an impression after watching the Greek game. Most of the names of Greek players are as long as death, such as sokratis papastathopoulos and Papadopoulos. If you write them here, it will take up too many words …
After talking about the Greek tactical arrangement, let’s look at the Italian side. trapattoni didn’t let down its guard because the opponent in the final was average in strength and more famous. As mentioned earlier, in the eyes of this coach, there is absolutely no team that can play in the final. When mobilizing before the game, trapattoni emphatically instilled an idea in the players, that is, we should be more careful not to think that we have won the game just because the opponent’s reputation is not obvious.
Don’t worry, boss, replied Starr, the leader of Italy’s dressing room, who took over the armband of the national team after Paolo Maldini retired. We won’t make the mistake of underestimating our enemy. You know, we just suffered a big loss at Chelsea last season. If we fall in the same pit again, we will not be too useless.
Goalkeeper position Although toldo saved pauleta’s penalty in the penalty shootout against Portugal to help the team successfully advance to the European Cup final, trapattoni still chose Buffon in the competition for the starting goalkeeper. After all, Buffon is much better than toldo in stability and prediction of the ball path. The latter’s state is greatly influenced by emotions, but it is an ordinary firstclass goalkeeper.
Grosso, the defender, returned to the starting leftback position after a break. Zambrotta returned to the right. However, trapattoni did not make Cannavaro and Sta, who were praised by the media as the world’s first central defender combination, in the central defender position, but let Materazzi continue to start with Sta.
This arrangement is mainly due to the fact that the Greek attack mainly relies on the tactics of the center grabbing the ball in front of the door in the counterattack. If Cannavaro is allowed to play, then the twin towers of the Greek striker Frizas and Charles Andreas will occupy a considerable advantage in height. Even though Cannavaro’s strength and bounce are topnotch, it is really not safe to let him guard the striker who is half shot too high. Moreover, it is safer to let Materazzi play without losing his height.
In midfield, Deco and Pirlo form a dualcore Derossi with a single midfielder. Although the combination is slightly inferior in defensive hardness, the organization and ball delivery ability are obviously several grades higher than those in the semifinal. Moreover, Deco can share Pirlo’s pressure to a great extent to avoid the impact on the team’s counterattack efficiency after being trapped in the Greek power flow.
The striker did well in the European Cup. Cassano and Camoranesi got the first chance together, and they will shoulder the responsibility of suppressing the two Greek fullbacks with strong assists to deliver shells in front of Milito.
By this time, the players of both sides had stepped on the lawn of the stadium led by the famous German whistle Merck and completed a series of prematch ceremonies. They had been waiting for the whistle that they had been waiting for for for a long time in their respective half.
Coach trapattoni sent Derossi as a defensive midfielder today? This is really rare. Seeing the Italian game starting array sitting in the VIP box, Zhuang Ge picked his eyebrows and felt a little surprised by trapattoni’s arrangement. I didn’t expect trapp to be so active.
I think it’s probably because coach trapattoni is deliberately imitating our Fiorentina tactics, otherwise he wouldn’t have sent so many Fiorentina players in the starting list. Karin didn’t know that her analysis actually told the truth quite accurately. And even so, I don’t think Italy will take the initiative to attack in the final. After all, our opponents are good at playing defense, countering Greece, avoiding mistakes and compressing the backcourt is the most important thing.
Zhuang Gewen nodded his head, regardless of whether Severiano Reija Geer and trapattoni changed their tactics. When the Italian and Greek teams met in the final, the tone of the game was actually determined.
Chapter 127 Battle Reese (2)
Five minutes after the game, the Italian players are still kicking their feet in the backcourt, and it seems that they have no intention of taking the initiative to attack. The commentator on the TV station looked into Zhuang Ge’s ear through the box, and it seemed that he was also very depressed by this conservative move after the Italian game. This is really the most boring European Cup final I have ever seen. I think UEFA should introduce a regulation after this European Cup to prohibit both teams from playing defensive counterattacks at the same time, otherwise the game will really be impossible to watch.
After the game, Italy won the ball in the coin guessing session before the game. Italy did not rush to show its attack, but stabilized its defense. Pirlo and Deco commanded them to slowly reverse their feet in the backcourt and occasionally pass them forward to test the Greek defense strength and see if the opponent was paying attention.
After seeing the Italian players on the scene, they put on a defensive counterattack. The Greek players didn’t make a move, for example, they took the opportunity to rush to the Italian half to grab the ball. Instead, they carefully watched Cassano and other Italian players who stayed at their own half, and they were accidentally drilled by the other side, which led to the team falling behind their opponents in the game.
After all, in the field of defense and counterattack, Italian talents are real experts and masters. They have been trained by Severiano Reija Geer for nearly three years. Although Greece has made small achievements in this area, it is obviously worse than the Italian reinforced concrete defense line.
But even so, it is really a big deal for Severiano Reija Geer to build a defensive body in three years. Although there is no truly firstclass star team in the Greek team, the most famous one is playing for Caragons of Inter Milan and Charlestes of Werder Bremen, but Otto the Great has built the Greek team into a whole, with tight team defense and active midfield fighting, which has become the label of this Greek team, not only making them accustomed to playing soy sauce in international competitions, but also making them reach the European Cup final for the first time in history, and repeatedly making Italy attack the Trident in the frontcourt in this final before they can reach their range.
The European Cup final will only happen when both players are extremely careful. In the whole five minutes after the game, Italy controlled the ball, but it was only a scratch, and Greece naturally could not launch an offensive without getting the ball.
Of course, this is not to say that the game scene is not intense enough. In fact, whenever Italy tries to give the ball to Milito and others in front or tries to break through with the ball, they will be intercepted by Greek players in the middle. Even if the breakthrough with the ball is successful, it will be interrupted by the other side’s foul at the first time.
Because Greek players have a good grasp of the location and timing of fouls, they have not got a few yellow cards, and Italy’s chances of getting set pieces in the frontcourt are not very good. It is difficult to form a direct attack or assist teammates to shoot.
You know, there is not a Roberto Carlos in the Italian team who can directly blast an Italian ball 30 meters away into the goal.
Although the game made most fans feel a little sleepy in front of the TV, the original warm atmosphere of the stadium gradually cooled down with time, but this does not mean that the game was not fierce at all. In fact, there was no shortage of fierce physical confrontation between the two sides, and subtle tactical cooperation also appeared frequently. However, because both teams hoarded heavy troops in the backcourt, the game scene was not very good.
For this situation, trapattoni is not in a hurry. For him, it doesn’t matter what the process is. A good game result is the most important thing. Even if the team is against a weak team like Greece in the European Cup final this time, he doesn’t mind playing a defensive counterattack on the spot.
What’s the joke? How dare trapattoni take the initiative to attack in front of the Greeks? If Italy finally falls to the Greeks to defend and counterattack, then he and his players will be the laughing stock for a long time to come!
Although the players in Greece are very aggressive and targeted to defend Italy, it is difficult for Greece to play a game on the offensive end, but in turn, Greece is also facing the same serious offensive problem than Italy. Cassano and Camoranesi are making Siitari Dis and Fyssas afraid to intervene in the attack from the side, which makes it difficult for Greece to weaken Italy’s defensive power in the middle and make the front twin towers fully displayed.
When the game entered the last ten minutes of the halfcourt, the Italian attack finally got some improvement and adapted to the Greek defensive strength. Pirlo played oneonone with Deco in the middle to stir up the Greek middle defense, and then Pirlo gave the ball to the right and inserted Camorasi, who kicked the ball directly without waiting for Fyssas’s foul!
Diego milito, who was lurking in the restricted area, grabbed the ball before Drace and kapsis, but it was a pity that he headed the goal ten meters in front of the goal and just hit the left column of the goal. The bottom line popped up and it was a pity that he missed the goal!
The Greeks who escaped the attack were not to be outdone. Nico Polidis quickly went out of goal kick and Siitari Dis successfully broke through Grosso’s defense in response to teammates such as Bassenas and Cachulanis, and sent a lowlevel ball back to Cassano in the square half to block the ball from the bottom line.
Bassenas pushed Materazzi in the right corner penalty area, then jumped high and headed the goal six meters in front of the door!
Seeing that Charles actually got rid of Materazzi’s defense and headed the ball at this distance, tens of thousands of fans couldn’t help but feel tight at the same time. Some Greek fans’ faces showed a smile to celebrate the goal. After all, it is reasonable to say that most goalkeepers can sigh at such a close distance with a quick header.
However, Buffon obviously can’t be classified in this category. He appeared on the flight route of the ball when he didn’t know it. He held the flying ball tightly in his arms with both hands, which directly solved Charles Andreas’s inevitable attack!
In this way, with Buffon’s agility and accuracy, Italy narrowly escaped and did not fall behind by one goal after halftime.
Chapter 1279 Battle Reese (3)
Although Greece didn’t score a goal in this quick counterattack, it also scared the Italian players into a cold sweat. After all, the header attack by Charles Andreas just now was too dangerous. If Buffon hadn’t judged accurately and appeared on the ball flight route before relying on his own prediction, he would have saved the opponent’s shot, but waited until the opponent shot. I’m afraid Italy would have fallen behind at this time.
Oh, my God, it really scared me to death just now. It’s a good thing Buffon was here, or Italy really wouldn’t have escaped this time … At the same time, Zhuang Ge, who was watching in the box, and his party were also calming down. They were also scared by Charles’ header attack, especially Zhuang Ge himself, for a moment. This is even the historical inertia. Even if the finalist changed from Portugal to more powerful Italy, there is no way to prevent the birth of Greek mythology.
Fortunately, Buffon made a crucial save at this critical moment, which saved Italy. Otherwise, Severiano Reija Geer had no doubt that this product would definitely let Greek players put a bus at their own door after gaining the lead, and keep the advantage of this goal at the end of the game.
Just as Italian fans are thankful that the team was lucky to escape, Greek fans are lamenting that the team and the goal missed. At the same time, the players on both sides of the field don’t have the mood and leisure time to ponder these things. After all, the game is still going on now. If their thinking remains in the previous attack, maybe more flaws will be exposed.
The attack was almost succeeded by the Greeks, which made the Italian players somewhat embarrassed. After all, they were the real experts in defensive counterattack, but today they almost capsized in Greece, which made people feel a little embarrassed.
However, Greece’s counterattack also made Italian players aware of the hidden danger of this opponent’s appearance, which made them more cautious when they came, and their defense became more tight to avoid falling into the same pit for the second time.
In particular, Materazzi failed to defend Charles in front. Although he was forced to shoot in the penalty area by the opponent’s almost foul move, no one blamed him afterwards, but for Materazzi, getting rid of the defense and almost scoring by the opponent in this way is simply a stain on his career!
In addition to tough and fierce playing style, Materazzi’s biggest feature is his strong revenge. Once he has suffered a loss in his opponent’s body, he has to get the game back. This can be seen from the fact that Materazzi made up for it not long after giving France a penalty in the previous World Cup final, and it was even more rubbish to give the opponent an absolute core Zida.
So just in the game, Materazzi Charles had a good experience of what is called Serie A defensive strength in the later game!