The Era of Emerald

Just when Brazil, the favorite to win the championship, was knocked out by Kanu's hat-trick at the last moment, and could only participate in the bronze medal battle in desperation, the semi-finals between Italy and Argentina were about to start.

Zhuang Mingge appeared in the stands of the semi-final on time. He wanted to see, under his influence, whether the Italian Olympic team, which was many times stronger than in history, could make it to the final.

Needless to say, changing history or something, the Italian Olympic team's ability to qualify from the group this time has already changed the direction of history.

But having said that, the Italian Olympic team in history is really useless. Compared with the Italian youth team that won the European Youth Championship before, the Italian Olympic team at that time only lacked one player who retired due to injury. It turned out that they only defeated South Korea in the three Olympic group matches, and they did not win the two games against Ghana and Mexico.

"Antonio, do you think Italy can win this game?" Originally, Zhuang Mingge planned to take the route of being friendly to the people and watch the game from the stands of ordinary seats, but because Rebecca, Karin and Alyssa all disagreed He expressed his objection, so Zhuang Mingge finally chose to watch the match in the VIP box, "Aren't you always very accurate in judging the results of this kind of knockout match? Come and give us a prediction!"

Hearing what Rebecca said, Karin and Alyssa also stared at Zhuang Mingge expectantly, hoping that the man they fancy could bring them another surprise.

"Uh, that's hard to say." Zhuang Mingge's face turned awkward when he heard the words. Before, he always pretended to be clever with a few beauties. This time, he finally knew what it meant to shoot himself in the foot. He guessed it before. It is the result that exists in my own memory. This game has never happened in history. If I guess wrong, won't I smash my signboard?

In fact, what's more important is that making a wrong guess will make Zhuang Mingge lose face in front of these beauties. Of course, Zhuang Mingge will never admit this...

For this Argentine Olympic team, Zhuang Mingge still knows many players, such as Crespo, who has always been half-red in football, Ayala, who was the double captain of Valencia and the Argentine national team, and Inter Milan history. The greatest foreign captain Zanetti, "Bug" Claudio Lopez, "Little Donkey" Ortega, the undead Almeida, three overage players Sansini, Chamot and Diego Simeone and more...

In Zhuang Mingge's view, if it weren't for Kanu's god-like performance in this Olympic Games in history, Brazil and Argentina would be the most powerful contenders for the gold medal, and even Italy would still fall short.

However, due to Zhuang Mingge's crossing, Florence has trained a large number of newcomers while rising rapidly. Bilindley, Zambrotta, Di Biagio, Vieri and Inzaghi brothers are all better than the same period in history. Strong ability, and Panucci, who should have retired due to injury, also came to the United States this time. It is this change that has greatly improved the strength of the Italian Olympic team and has become a popular team not inferior to Brazil and Argentina.

"Well, I think Italy is better than Argentina in terms of individual ability, but the defense line composed of Sancini, Chamotte, and Zanetti is at the level of the Argentine national team. The cooperation of these people is more tacit than that of Italy... ..." Zhuang Mingge considered his choice of words, trying to use some ambiguous words to delay time and get away with it.

"Hey, Antonio, this is not like your style. Don't hide it. Tell us your judgment. The game is about to start. If you don't say anything...you will be sentenced to death!" Libei Ka's words exposed Zhuang Mingge's little calculations, and at the same time playfully drew a pistol shot with his right hand.

Forget it, smashing the signboard is worse than making them unhappy, Zhuang Mingge sighed inwardly, carefully considered the lineup comparison between the two sides, and made a judgment: "I am more optimistic about the Italian Olympic team, after all, according to the data From the point of view, Argentina's main goalkeeper Pablo Caballero didn't get a few chances to play at the Sarsfield Club, and his game experience is not as good as Pagliuca on our side. It is inevitable that there will be some mistakes due to lack of experience, and Inzaghi on our side...cough, it is better not to say."

Zhuang Mingge didn't need to speak directly about the next words. After all, everyone here knew what Inzaghi's playing style was like. Rebecca and Karin even nodded, expressing their agreement with Zhuang Mingge's words.

Zhuang Mingge is quite confident in Caballero's judgment.Although this goalkeeper participated in the 98 World Cup in France in his previous life, he was still the substitute goalkeeper of the Argentine national team at that time. At that time, Argentina's main goalkeeper was Carlos Roa.

Later, although he became the No. [-] goalkeeper of the Argentine national team in the Bielsa era, I believe everyone knows that although Argentina under Bielsa performed very well in the World Cup qualifiers, they did not even have a group match in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. After qualifying, Caballero's performance in the World Cup is also quite average.

Compared with his fairly exciting national team career, Caballero's club career seemed lackluster. He didn't have much performance in Argentina, and he went to La Liga for only a few years. Celta's relegation sank together.

It can be seen that Caballero's strength is at best a second-rate level, and he will not make any low-level mistakes in normal times. He can guard the gate if his teammates perform well, but if his teammates are not strong, it is unrealistic to expect him to come forward to save the team. .

"Another point is that the midfield of the Argentine Olympic team under Passarella is far worse than their defense." Zhuang Mingge pointed out another vital goal in the Argentine lineup, "Splitting the team Although the two wingers, Barçades and Hugo Morales, are well-known in Argentina, their defensive ability can only be regarded as better than nothing. Therefore, the Argentine team's midfielder is actually only Almeida. Defensively, such protective measures are obviously not enough to withstand the Italian counterattack."

Of course, Zhuang Mingge would not say that he had never heard the names of these two players in his previous life. Those who he had not heard of were definitely not good players. Zhuang Mingge, who played from cm4 to fm2012 version, had this confidence.

"That's right, underestimating our Italy's counterattack will suffer a lot!" Rebecca also echoed. As an Italian, it is natural for her to support her country's team.

Just as several people were discussing in full swing, the referee blew the whistle to start the game, and the second semi-final of the Atlanta Olympic Football Tournament officially started!