After fending off several waves of sharp counter-attacks from Colombia, Argentina's defence also had problems.

In the 25th minute, Milito made a low-level mistake when returning the pass, and the pass that was too light was easily intercepted by Colombian striker Ramos to form a single knife. Ramos was then tackled in the penalty area by a frustrated Burdisso, but Moreno was just metres away from goal and faced a huge empty net with Romero already on the move.

But his shot hit the side-netting.

When Moreno stood on the bottom line with his head in his hands and was very devastated, the Argentines who had escaped death felt that their hearts that had just been stopped had regained their beating, and before coming, no one expected that the performance of the Argentine team would still be so sluggish, not only the offense was weak, but even the defense was unreliable! Could it be that this time the home Copa America, they are specially here to contract the underdog?

In the stands, there were more and more voices calling for Maradona.

In such an unfavorable environment, Messi gradually could no longer maintain his usual heart, and in the 32nd minute, he and Ravic ended their own attack with an obvious offside.

However, in the next minute, Messi, who had been facing heavy encirclement and suppression, finally found an excellent opportunity to plug it with a straight kick and escort a single knife on the right side of Ravich's forbidden area. It was Argentina's best chance of the entire first half. As soon as the fans' anticipation was raised, Ravitch's push hit the leg of goalkeeper Martinez.

The familiar feeling of powerlessness has re-attacked Messi.

is not only the powerlessness of missing this opportunity, but the powerlessness accumulated from repeated defeats, they have been 2 to 6, 3 to 7 in this game, without support and without cooperation, and even Messi sometimes has such doubts, is Colombia really only 11 people on the field?

Can you really win by playing like this?

In the 41st minute, Carlos Sanchez shot wide from distance. One minute later, Falcao blasted a cold shot forward from the penalty area, and the powerful shot was finally saved by the brave Romero. In the 44th minute, Moreno's powerful shot from 25 yards was saved by Romero.

The last few threats from both sides in the first half came from Colombia.

Such a scene is hard to believe before the game, and it will be Argentina who is being pressed and beaten.

45 minutes have passed, the two sides exchanged blanks, which is really hard not to remind people of the shocking upset a few days ago, and the current situation is obviously worse than then, at least they can still say that their luck is not good in the last game, the referee, but now, the score can remain 0:0, but can only thank Colombia for its bad luck, thanks to the referee for not giving a penalty.

The fans watched as their stars left the pitch one by one with their heads bowed, no applause and encouragement, only silence.

The neutral commentator felt sorry for Argentina: "Messi was still Argentina's best player in the first half, but Batista still stubbornly chose his wrong lineup, Argentina's three striker types are too close, the forward line is only fast, but the ability to grab points is too poor." Now Colombia is very strict with Messi, and needs other companions to pick up and share the pressure on Messi. But in the first half, they didn't play well. Ravic and Tevez are no different from the last game, their battle guide is only one direction, that is, the opponent's goal, so the first time they get the ball is to break through, break through and break again. ”

"Argentina lacked a centre-forward who could stand up, which led to the fact that when a winger or wing-back came in, the attack often ended up in failure. Their counter-attacks were not as effective as Colombia's, and Colombia seemed much more fluid in terms of coordination. ”

"In fact, Argentina lacks a real midfield core, Colombia attaches great importance to Messi, Sanchez is like an appendage sticking to him, so when Messi retreats to the midfield, Sanchez will follow, which leaves a huge space for Colombia's front of the penalty zone. If Cambiasso and Banega can get in at this point, they should have a pretty good chance. But they didn't do it. ”

'It's not Messi's problem, it's not Tevez's problem, it's not Ravich's problem, it doesn't seem to be anyone's problem on the pitch, but it's a combination of these people...... It's a big problem. ”

Commentators from all walks of life began to analyze the reasons why Argentina could not score from various angles, and under the rich pathos of the star-studded Argentina, Colombia became an absolute supporting role.

Either way, the first half is over and now they can only hope that Batista will make a change accordingly and expect Argentina to perform better in the second half.

As soon as Rafael entered the locker room, he was pulled to the back row by Rojo, and he found that the atmosphere in the locker room was even worse than the one in Bolivia, and there was even a faint smell of gunpowder in the unquiet air, it turned out that Tevez had kicked over a chair after coming in, although no one blamed anything, but the beast's behavior still managed to provoke the irritability of his teammates.

Everyone's movements are full of fire.

Only Messi is still quiet and silent.

Rojo pulled Rafael aside for fear that the national team bigwigs would fire on the spot as soon as their temper came up, and Rafael was accidentally involved in the center of the typhoon.

So Raphael had no choice but to poke his head out of Messi's back seat, look at his right foot and ask, "Are you okay with your foot?"

Messi was stunned for a moment, as if he had just broken free from his thoughts, and he shook his head: "It's nothing." ”

His injury occurred in stoppage time, he passed Banega, but he didn't think Banega chose to pass the ball back, and he had to stop and turn to catch the ball after he had already accelerated, resulting in a sprained right foot.

Although the injury was not too big to affect his playing in the second half, this kind of thing added to his frustration.

Raphael was about to say something, but Batista had already come in with an assistant coach, so he had to return to his seat.

Batista's face was solemn, and as soon as he came in, he first looked at Messi. He remembered what Messi suddenly said when he was receiving treatment before, he said: "Coach, we may not win by playing like this." ”

He never thought Messi would say such a thing, and it was to him.

In his eyes, Messi has always been an introverted, obedient, taciturn player, if not for his achievements and current position, a reassuring but easily overlooked player.

But when the silent person ceases to be silent, others will know the weight of his words.

Even Batista's first emotion was not the displeasure of being challenged to authority, but panic, and perhaps what he feared more than the disadvantage of the tournament was the centrifugation of such a core player.

However, Batista still wanted to maintain the harmony and decency on the surface, and did not plan to adjust the lineup at the beginning, but changed the tactics and strengthened the attack.

Rafael was very depressed, the coach was unwilling to make substitutions, and he had no chance at all. Seriously, Batista's head coach is really unpalatable, the opponent is too conservative and too bold, his so-called strengthening of the attack is to let Banega support more forwards like the last game against Bolivia, but the last result is not enough to show that this does not have much effect?

At the beginning of the second half, Colombia's defense was still solid and desperate, almost no one was out of position, even if Bane added forward support, Argentina only changed from 3 to 6 to 4 to 6, which did not help the situation.

Ten minutes later, Argentina's most dangerous shot came in the 52nd minute, when Banega passed the ball and Mascherano's powerful shot from the right was saved by Martinez.

Seeing that the deadlock on the field could not be broken, Battista finally made up his mind and thought of substitutions, this time he changed two people in one go, Gago for Cambiaso, and Aguero for Lavic.

When Aguero came on the pitch, there was a round of applause in the cold stands, the savior of the last game still has a lot of weight in the hearts of the fans, and most importantly, Ravic was finally replaced again!

If there is one player who the fans have the most opinion about on the field, it is undoubtedly Ravitch.

It's easy to shine as a striker, just one goal is enough for the fans to remember you, but if you don't score goals and waste chances, then sorry, don't blame the fans for pointing the finger at you.

After all, Ravic does not have the status of Messi, nor the popularity of Tevez, and it is really easy to become a punching bag for fans.

Ravich, who was substituted for the second time, was much more disappointed than Cambiasso, who was also not fully trusted by the manager, and when he returned to the bench, he sat in the seat of Rafael, who had been pulled to warm up.

Raphael, who came back, didn't care, but naturally picked up the thermos cup he put on the edge of the seat, poured a cup of hot water and handed it to Ravitch.

Only then did Ravitch realize that he was sitting in the wrong position, and he thanked him a little awkwardly and took the hot water. I don't know if the stalemate of the scene stuck to the eyes of the staff, and no one even remembered to bring him a cup of hot water after he got off the field.

After the substitutions, fans were full of expectations that the introduction of Sergio Aguero and Gago would quickly help the team break the deadlock, but that was not the case.

Argentina is still a mess.

In the 56th minute, Gago passed the ball, and Tevez's shot from the left side of the forbidden area was blocked by teammate Aguero.

And when Gago stepped forward, Argentina's weak defense was exposed at a glance, and there was danger in front of the goal.

In the 59th minute, Guarin crossed diagonally, and Amelo's diagonal shot from the left side of the forbidden area grazed the far corner post. Just two minutes later, Guarin passed the ball again, and Falcao's powerful shot from the edge of the penalty area on the right was saved by Romero.

The England commentator complained: "Because the defense is unreliable, the two Argentine wingbacks don't dare to step forward too much, and most of the time they hover near the halfway line." Although it is basically unsupervised, it is difficult to help the attack, and at most it does some vertical cooperation with the wingers, and the effect is not ideal. And Mascherano is basically not forward, so Argentina is often 3 people to mark 1 person in the case of Colombia only 1 person in front of the front, which is a great waste of resources, but even so, it is the goalkeeper and the goal that play a decisive role. I think Mascherano must have been very depressed because he didn't dare to act rashly because he couldn't guarantee that the centre-backs behind him would suddenly 'have a flash of inspiration' and pass the ball to the opponent. ”

Gago's appearance did not have a good chemistry with Messi, although the coach's intention to put him on the field was to strengthen the midfield scheduling and liberate Messi. But Messi has obviously lost confidence in his teammates in the blows again and again, and he doesn't want to wait for his teammates to pass the ball when they don't know when it will come, but once again chooses to retreat deep to get the ball himself.

And Gago and Banega, who could not be trusted by Messi, were also very nervous, and gradually gave up the right to control the ball, and the Argentine midfield began to be ineffective, and the play was even more chaotic than in the first half.

In such a situation, Batista still has a substitution, which is really ironic and speechless.

'Maybe Checho thinks that a draw is also an acceptable result, as long as we can get three points from Costa Rica, five points are really enough for us to qualify. Oh, of course, maybe Costa Rica can also try to expose a shocking upset, but in that case, I would suggest that the national team should be disbanded directly. "The Argentine commentator has risen a kind of life and death bearishness, no matter how bad it is.

He didn't know how entangled Battista really was in his heart.

In the stands, the Argentine fans were already singing Maradona, and occasionally different voices were also scolding: "Bring your testicles! Don't be embarrassed on the field! Look what you are playing!"

In the case that it was difficult to break into the Colombian penalty zone, in the 71st minute, Yepes fouled Aguero outside the edge of the penalty zone, and the direct free kick awarded by the referee was precious for the Argentine team, but the quality of the free kick taken by Messi was ridiculously bad, not only in the wrong direction, but also two goals higher in height. The ball flew straight into the stands, causing an uproar.

The Argentines could not take it anymore and the first boos of the fans of this match, dedicated to ...... Messi.

The TV camera was focused on Messi's father in the stands at this time, and the old Messi put his fingertips together and made a downward movement, his expression was incredulous, and it seemed that he couldn't imagine that this was a free kick kicked by his son.

The free-kick was the last straw that crushed Messi, and the frustration in his heart was so strong that he almost drowned him, and he walked back with his head down, just wanting to leave the boos far away.

Maybe the national team game is a hurdle for him that he can't overcome, and he will never be able to conquer it.

Subsequently, Mascherano put down a high ball and passed it to Messi in the middle circle, and Messi took the ball to break through the Colombian player who was forced to steal closely. It was Messi's last touch of the ball, and for seven minutes after that, no Argentine player took the initiative to pass the ball to Messi, who repeatedly raised his hand to ask for the ball in his own half, but did not get a single response from his teammates.

One of the most impressive scenes is when Messi came to the gap in the middle circle, Mascherano pointed at Messi and asked Gago, who was holding the ball, to pass the ball to Messi, at this time Gago and Messi were less than 20 meters apart and unblocked, but Gago chose to make a long pass, and finally he sent the ball out of the opposite sideline.

When Messi was disappointed with the performance of his teammates, Messi, who was unable to open the situation despite various privileges, also broke the trust of his teammates with an outrageous free kick......

Messi once again has a deep understanding of the word "seconds", and at this moment, he even thought to himself, the game is over like this, a draw is a draw, no matter how hard you try, the result will be the same.

Then, he saw the fourth official on the sidelines play the Argentine substitution sign, No. 19, No. 23?

Raphael?!