The Era of Emerald

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"Oh! What a pity!" This is the number of times that Paul Futre, the guest commentator of this game, has expressed such regret. The Portuguese star feels that Pauleta wastes scoring opportunities so frequently Very speechless, "C Ronaldo's breakthrough on the left has attracted most of the Italians' defensive strength, Costa's transition and Figo's pass are also very well in place, Pauletta only needs to insert in time and lightly touch it It allowed Portugal to take the lead, but unfortunately, his follow-up was still a step too late, and the ball was directly confiscated by Buffon who was guarding in front of the goal."

"If Portugal doesn't have a more capable striker, it will be very difficult for them to win this game." At this time, another guest commentator sitting in the live broadcast room, former Italian coach Paolo Maldini He said, "From the performance of Portugal during the previous period, we can see that coach Scolari obviously intends to let Pauleta on the front line act as a cover to win more backs for the midfielders such as Ronaldo and Figo behind him." The opportunity to attack the goal is to let these midfielders with long-range shooting skills complete the final blow. It has to be said that in the absence of a first-class striker in Portugal, this is indeed a solution. The method of insufficient scoring ability... But what he didn't expect was that the Italian boys were not fooled by this trick. They didn't leave the opponent with a long-range shot in order to defend Pauleta, but resolutely blocked the goal In the first 30 meters area, especially the front of the penalty area, the defense against Pauletta is only the most common area defense, and there is no targeted arrangement for it. Such a defensive method makes it difficult for Portuguese players to move and Passing the opportunity to get a long shot forced them to pass the ball more to Pauleta in front, and the latter's ability and technical characteristics determined that he could defend under the defense of Nesta, Materazzi and Buffon. It's hard to get shots."

As expected of the champion coach who led the Italian national team to win the World Cup and the European Cup, Maldini saw through Scolari's tactical arrangement at a glance, and discovered the tricks hidden in it.

"..." For the old Maldini's words, Futre did not respond immediately.Because he knew very well in his heart that the old Maldini's evaluation was quite accurate, and Pauleta's performance in this game was really too weak.Therefore, although he, who is also a Portuguese, felt a little dissatisfied with the old Maldini's behavior of belittling Pauletta, he did not refute his remarks.

"Would you rather let Pauleta get a chance to shoot directly in the penalty area than relax the blockade of the midfield?" Think so.As the old Maldini inferred, Scolari did intend to let Pauleta attract the attention of the Italian players in front, and create shooting opportunities for Figo behind him.

However, what surprised Scolari was that Italian players with extremely rich defensive experience were not fooled by him at all.In other words, Pauletta's ability has not yet reached a level that they value so much.

You know, in Serie A, Materazzi and Nesta fought against top forwards with different styles such as Vieri, Shevchenko, Trezeguet and Crespo every day. Haven't seen the scene?A mere Pauletta doesn't deserve their treatment at all.

If even a striker of Pauleta's level needs them to defend closely all the way, it would be too cheap.What's more, compared to Pauletta, all Italian players think that Figo and Costa behind him are more threatening.

For this situation, Scolari is also quite helpless.After all, coaching a national team is different from a club. If the club lacks strength in any position, it can be solved by signing in. However, if the national team wants to deal with this problem, there is no other way than to hope that newcomers will emerge or someone will suddenly explode. the way...

And now Portugal obviously does not have the ability to solve the problem of frontal weakness that has plagued them for countless years.You know, since Eusebio retired, Portugal has never cultivated a top striker.

If not, Scolari, who has tasted the sweetness of the 3R combination, would not have specially developed this kind of tactics to strengthen the attacking power of the midfield, let alone make a move to give up the striker.

The most important thing is that Italy is not the Netherlands that played against Portugal in the previous life.Compared with the Oranje Corps whose defense relies more on the individual abilities of the players, the defense of the Apennines is obviously more systematic and stricter.This allows them to better defend Portugal's midfield offensive and avoid the chance of being pulled out of the shooting space by the opponent through running and passing.

Noting that Portugal is difficult to open up the situation on the offensive end, Trapattoni did not directly order the team to strengthen the counterattack because of this, but replaced Totti with Camoranesi.In this way, Cassano will move to the left, echoing with Camoranesi from the left to the right.

The saliva incident that broke out in the first match of the European Cup group stage seems to have had a very serious impact on the competitive state of the Roman Prince.Although Totti's passing and organization in this game are still remarkable, it is still far from the amazing state he showed in Rome this season.In particular, his desire to score dropped so badly in this game that it was almost difficult to see Totti taking the initiative to attack with the ball. Most of the time, he passed it to Milito and Cassano in front and let them complete it. attack.

Therefore, in this case, Camoranesi, who has a stronger assault ability and a more correct defensive attitude, is obviously more suitable to appear on the court than Totti.After all, for Italy now, Pirlo alone can do the organizational work on the field. What they lack is precisely Camoranesi, a player who can pull the opponent's defense line in a counterattack and create space for his teammates to complete the attack. .

Trapattoni's substitution quickly paid off: In the 709th minute of the game, Figo's pass to Pauleta was cut off by Materazzi, and Pirlo immediately went straight to Milito in front of him after receiving the ball. , the latter turned around in the second half of Andrade's marking and distributed the ball to Camoranesi who inserted from the right!

The Juventus flying wing dribbled the ball all the way into the penalty area after successfully countering offside. After attracting the attention of the Portuguese players and forcing Ricardo to attack, he suddenly knocked the ball across the middle. succeed!

One to zero!Italy leads the host Portugal by one goal in this semi-final!