The Era of Emerald

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Due to a series of changes and the butterfly effect caused by Zhuang Mingge's crossing, the opponents of the opening game of the World Cup in Korea and Japan have changed from France and Senegal in the previous life to the current defending champion of the World Cup in Italy, who is also from Europe and also Italy. The Croatian team was one of the deadliest men in the World Cup in France.

Arranging the defending champion of Italy to play this opening game is what Zhuang Mingge most wanted to complain about the World Cup organizer. But being placed in Group G... Has anyone seen an example of being placed in such a low group, but the team still has to participate in the opening game?

Let’s stop here for the time being to complain about the organizers of the World Cup. Now let’s talk about the two teams, Italy and Croatia, who are inextricably fighting on the court.

There is no need to repeat the strength of the Italian national team, which has first-class stars such as Vieri, Inzaghi, Totti, and Buffon. Although the selection of Piero and Koko has caused some controversy, the players' personal Ability and the overall strength of the team, Zoff's Azzurri can still firmly suppress their opponents in the opening game, the bronze medalist Croatia in the last World Cup.

After all, unlike Italy, which has an endless stream of excellent players, Croatia, which has experienced two wars in the past ten years, has been completely exhausted by the endless wars, and has been dizzy by the reduction of its domestic population and economic weakness. The rising Tudjman and Mesi have no extra financial resources and energy to develop football that brings a great sense of honor to the Croatians.Such a status quo led to Croatia's feat of winning the third place in the World Cup in 1998 as dazzling and short-lived as a flash in the pan.In the following four years, as the main players of the World Cup team aged one after another, there were very few young talents who could take over. The status quo of lack of succession made Croatia quickly withdraw from the ranks of the first-class teams and fell to the bottom. To the point of second-rate in Europe.

Therefore, before the start of the opening game, except for a few die-hard Croatian fans, the vast majority of fans are optimistic that the defending champion can break the curse of the World Cup opening game, defeat Croatia that is standing in front of them, and win a good start in this World Cup .

At the beginning, the trend of this game was indeed as these fans hoped. The dominant Italy quickly took the initiative in the game by virtue of its hard power that was more than a chip higher than its opponents, and in the No. 204 minute of the game. Their ace center Vieri scored the first goal.After receiving Totti's through ball in the penalty area, the world's most powerful center directly squeezed away Robert Kovac, who was marking him, with his unstoppable strength, and then used a powerful turn around to pump out The shot broke through the ten fingers of the Croatian national goal Pletikosa, scored the first goal after the opening of this World Cup, and it was also the first goal of the Italian national team in this World Cup!

However, as the game progressed, the situation on the court was not as expected. Italy, which had taken the lead, would pursue the victory in the following time and completely deal with the opponent of Croatia. Eye-popping development!

Facing the unfavorable situation of falling behind by one goal and being at a disadvantage on the scene, the Croatians did not disarm and surrender in advance, nor did they adopt a shrinking defense out of fear of the great power of Vieri and others on the offensive end. In the following time, a fierce counterattack was launched!

Although Dave Suker, who claims to be able to play the violin with his left foot, and Prosineski, the only remaining member of the "Three Musketeers", are now very old, and Boban, the former midfield engine, has become a thing of the past , but for Croatian football, which once nurtured many famous stars, no matter how many talents wither, there are still some capable players who are in their prime.

Although in the current Croatian team, including the captain Sordo, no one player can reach the first-class level in terms of personal ability, but the team has players such as the Kovac brothers, Sordo These are capable players with rich experience in the game and at the same time maintaining a good state, as well as rising stars who are not famous, such as Simic, Olić, and Simic, who are not talented enough but are practical and willing to work.Therefore, in response to this situation, Mirko Jokic (the current head coach of Croatia) boldly changed the technical control flow style of play that he insisted on from the golden generation of Croatia after the score fell behind, and replaced Davao with Olic Su Ke, a veteran player, strengthened his physical confrontation and counter-attack ability in the midfield, forcing Italian players to make mistakes in the game, thus giving them a chance to comeback.

Facts have proved that Jokic's change is quite correct.Facing the frenzied siege of Croatian players, Albertini, who was in charge of controlling the rhythm of the game, performed disappointingly. Not only did he not exhaust the Croatians with his sharp pass, but he made frequent mistakes under the siege of the opponent, making the Croatian striker They got a lot of shooting opportunities, and Olić helped the Grid Army tie the score to one to one in the No. 703 minute of the game!

In fact, this can’t be blamed on Albertini. Although the Milan team vice-president and Guardiola, Redondo and Paulo Sosa are collectively referred to by the fans as the four talents of the 90s defensive midfielder, his advantage lies in being able to cover the entire midfield. It is not like Ronaldo and Vieri, who can kill a bloody path among thousands of troops by themselves.

Therefore, Zoff made a mistake from the very beginning. He should not have pushed Totti up the forward line and let Albertini control the rhythm of the game alone. Italy's field control has dropped several notches.

Just three minutes after Olić equalized for Croatia, Italy, which hadn't recovered from the conceded goal, was hit hard again: Albertini's through ball to Totti was halfway by Niko Kovac After the interception, Kovac then put the ball straight to Olic who had withdrawn from the penalty area. The latter used the space left by Cannavaro to assist Lapac to score and rewrite the score to two. one!

In this way, after nearly an hour of unremitting efforts, Croatia, which was behind for more than half the time, finally completed the overtake of Italy before the end of the game and became the leading side!

In the end, with the goals of Olic and Lapac, Croatia completed a staggering reversal under the circumstances that no one was optimistic about, beheading the defending champion Italy in the World Cup opener!