Bolivia was pressed by Argentina for more than ten minutes, and not only was it not crushed, but it showed its fangs. In other words, from the very beginning, Bolivia was not willing to follow the script made up for them by the outside world, and they gave a starting formation of 451, but in fact they played 442, which ensured defense while also having a certain offensive ability.

Bolivia's first attempt came in the 11th minute when Martins' free-kick was confiscated by Romero after a foul on Burdisso at the back. The opening attack didn't work, and Argentina began to control the tempo, passing the ball through their own midfield. In the 13th minute, Mascherano made a long pass from the backfield, Zanetti made a mistake in stopping the ball on the side, and Bolivia failed to take the ball past the center circle.

Because Argentina took the initiative to retreat, Bolivia, which did not dare to take it lightly, had to advance the defensive line.

When the ball had circled the Argentine backfield again, Burdisso passed the ball to Messi, who had retreated to the halfway point. Messi and Banega hit the wall to tear up a bit of a gap, and after he got rid of two Bolivian midfielders, he was faced with a four-man defence that was also in parallel positions, with a large gap behind it.

Opportunity!

Messi made a decisive kick, and the fast-rolling ball easily crossed the Bolivian defence and sprinted straight into the gap in front of the left of the penalty zone.

There will be no offside now, right? Mei Xiaoxi, who had specially observed, secretly breathed a sigh of relief. However, it is not known if his pass was too sudden, and when Bolivian full-back Gutiérrez turned and chased back a few steps, Ravic on the right reacted and cut inside to chase the ball. But his spurt eventually lost the lead, and Gutierrez got one step ahead of him and kicked the ball wide of the line.

Ravitch tried to make amends, reaching for the ball with his feet, but the ball couldn't be stopped, but Gutierrez tripped him and rolled twice on the ground. Ravitch hurriedly raised his hands to show his innocence, but the linesman did not accept this and waved the flag to signal to the referee, which made Ravitch, who felt that he was an accident, very unhappy, and opened his hand to the linesman to roar in protest to vent his dissatisfaction. The linesman didn't want to deal with him and told him to get out.

"What is Ravitch doing? Does he want to play cards?" the commentator of Argentine TV complained dissatisfiedly, "If you have time to trouble the referee, you might as well reflect on it." Argentina haven't scored so far, and he needs to take some responsibility, you know, he's already wasted two great chances!" The commentator, who is very eager to see the goal, is like an ordinary fan at this time, and he has become extremely picky without the heart to protect his shortcomings.

Fortunately, the referee did not card Ravitch for this, but only gave a verbal warning. Bolivia throw-in.

In the 15th minute, Mascherano hooked the ball from behind, Campos fell to the ground, the referee ruled that he had committed a foul, and Bolivia was awarded another free kick. Brother Pony explained to the referee that he did not foul, Campos fell because he was caught between him and Banega, his physical confrontation ability was too poor, and after falling to the ground, he also pulled his calf, causing him to pull his leg for a long time, which is too much.

But Hilbella prefers to trust her own judgment. Campos' free-kick cross is headed wide by Martins.

In the 20th minute, Messi crossed to the back post from the left side, and Burdisso's header was not powerful enough to be easily collected by Arias.

Two minutes later, Martins passed the ball and Bolivia's No.10 Vaca's shot from the right side of the penalty zone was blocked, and Rojas' low shot from the edge of the penalty zone arc was saved by Romero. Because the grass was slippery, Rojas slipped on the sole of his foot while shooting, and he fell to the ground and appeared to have injured his knee, and he asked the referee to ask the team doctor to come in.

The scene made Bolivia's usually calm coach Gustavo Quinteros look a little nervous, and he looked out from the sidelines with his hands in his hands. Battista, who is not far from him, is also very concerned about this matter, and the performance of the Argentine team has disappointed him a little, and at the same time, it has also hit his confidence in his chosen strategy, which has made him unconsciously pin his hopes on the opponent's self-destruction.

However, Rojas returned to the pitch after being treated by the team doctor and seemed to have no problems. Bolivia made another killing attempt, and the newly returned Rojas forced a shot from the right side of the forbidden area, which was blocked by Milito with his face from the sideline.

Seeing this, Raphael couldn't help but touch his face and felt a little pain. Mi Lito doesn't seem to have anything, maybe for the defenders, it's all commonplace, as long as you don't hit the "vital point", everything is easy to say.

The game continued, the Argentine national anthem was never broken in the stands, and the fans supported the team in this way. On the bench of Argentina, it was too quiet, the team was not in a good situation, and no one was in the mood to chat.

Although Bolivia's attack improved slightly, they could only play counter-attacks, and the tempo was still in the hands of Argentina. It didn't take long for Argentina to attack again. After Cambiaso got the ball in the middle, he calmly gave it to Messi who bypassed from behind, and the cooperation of the two confused the opponent, Messi took the ball and accelerated to break through the middle, and soon, there was only the last parallel line of defense left in front of him.

This time Ravitch kept up with his rhythm, but because there was no one in front of the forbidden area, he received the ball and burst into the right side of the forbidden area, and under the pursuit and blocking of the opponent's central defender, he chose to force a shot, but because the angle was too small, the ball finally slid in front of the goal, and it looked a bit like a pass in the center of the cross, and no one received the ball and rolled out of the bottom line.

Messi stopped and walked back, his expression hard to hide his disappointment.

"Ravitch, Ravitch, what a 'finisher', it's just a pity that it's your own offense that ends. When the ball landed at his feet, we could basically wait for the Bolivian goalkeeper to kick off again. ”

"Ravic was in too much of a hurry, he was desperate to help Argentina open up the situation, but it backfired. ”

"Argentina's attack has only blossomed and has not borne fruit, and it can be seen that there are some problems with their front-court coordination, often not in the same rhythm, and Ravic will take Messi and see what Tevez is doing? I almost forgot that this man existed, but it was expected. When I saw the starting line-up, I guessed what was going to happen. ”

The commentators everywhere frowned and shook their heads, to be honest, although it was only 20 minutes, Argentina's performance today did not satisfy them.

I don't know if Tevez guessed that someone was saying bad things about him, when Cambiaso's long pass across the half court found him exactly on the left wing, he performed a solo show with the ball, all the way from the wing to the penalty area, but his overly sticky performance also made the gap around him disappear quickly, and under the siege of the Bolivian defenders, he hastily picked the ball and shot into the arms of Arias.

'Tevez was like a bull who went on a rampage down the wings, he worked hard and he was brave but in the end he took the ball to his death. ”

Some fans said: "What is this to learn from Barcelona? I don't watch much La Liga games, don't donkey me." ”

"The two lone wolves on the side, they haven't passed the ball since they received it, as long as they can shoot, they will shoot, and if they can't shoot, they will wave until they have no chance to pass. ”

"It's only Messi who is passing, he's not playing as a center forward this time, it's Xavi, right?"

"Is this 433? ”

After that, Messi was fouled with the ball in the middle, the referee did not give a penalty, and Ravitch was knocked down by Gutierrez on the right side of the penalty area after receiving a long pass, and the referee still refused to give a penalty. Ravitch was unhappy with the referee's inaction, but didn't say anything, except that when Bolivia raced across the half-court with the ball, he suddenly caught up and then raised his hands and knocked Campos to the ground with an identical dash.

The referee only gave the ball to Bolivia and did not say anything about it.

'Ravic looks a little hot, which is not good, he is a bit impatient and if you want to play well, you have to have a good mentality. Fang Shen was a little worried.

"Yes, for a team like Bolivia, not only him, Argentina is in a hurry. shouted before the game that he wanted to win the championship, but now the goal has not come for a long time, and his face is not good-looking. ”

"Actually, it's not necessary at all, there is still plenty of time, they have time to adjust. However, Batista's deployment is still a bit problematic, and the biggest advantage of him is that he can listen to opinions, not the kind of iron-fisted coach who says everything. But the biggest problem is that he is too easily influenced by opinions, and when there are many opinions, it is difficult for him to make trade-offs, and he is a little indecisive. Originally, it was okay not to have Tevez, not to Tevez, and he worked hard to rehearse tactics for more than half a year, but the Copa America was about to start, and he was called in again, and he was still a starter. I think he should prefer the configuration of the 08 Olympics in his heart, like Di Maria, Lavic, Messi. ”

'I don't know if he will make adjustments in the second half, this Copa America is about his future, and Batista will definitely be very cautious. ”

Because the head coach was lenient on the penalties of both sides, although the Argentine team was a little dissatisfied, there was no trouble.

At this time, everyone on the field probably knew that if there was no substantial breakthrough for Bolivia by this time, something had to change. After a small conversation, they made adjustments accordingly. The most obvious thing is that Banega, who had been defending in his own half and waiting for Messi to retreat to get the ball, finally stepped out of the boudoir and learned to support the frontcourt.

This gives Messi a little more options, he can not have to dribble himself against the markers of several people, but can cut to the penalty area and wait for Banega's pass. Sure enough, in the 31st minute, Banega took the ball in the midfield, turned and chose to plug straight after passing, and his timely distribution made Messi, who was inserted from the back at high speed, face an extremely favorable situation. This time he was closer to the Bolivian four-man defence than he had on previous occasions, and he cleverly stopped the ball and shook off a defender before distributing the ball to Tevez on the left.

The attention of the other defenders was still on him, and Tevez could be said to be single-handedly facing the goalkeeper, but his near-corner effort from 15 yards on the left side of the penalty zone was saved by Arias brilliantly.

The Argentine fans, who had just become excited, were languishing again - was Argentina cursed by Lady Luck today?

Two minutes later, Argentina made a comeback, Messi won the ball again in midfield, and Cambiaso took the initiative to drop back to make room for him.

Messi passed to Ravitch, who was empty on the right side, and Ravic finally learned to be obedient, and after winning the ball, he did not choose to waste time on the outside, but cut the ball inside. At this time, Messi was already unguarded at the top of the arc, receiving a pass and shooting easily.

However, he didn't have the power to shoot this shot, he thought that the attack would end in the goalkeeper again, and who knew that Arias, who had always been steady, actually got rid of it! There was also a forward Cambiaso in front of the goal! But his hurried follow-up shot was saved by the quicker Arias to the bottom line.

The mood was like a roller coaster, and there was a wail on the bench.

Carrizo found that Raphael, who had been startled by the attack before, was now sitting in his chair like an old monk and not moving. He also thought that the kid had been hit: "Raphael, why aren't you excited? Don't worry too much, we're going to win, trust them." ”

Rafael held his chin and looked at the court: "No, it's just that I found that every time I jumped, the ball wouldn't go in, maybe because the air flow formed by the wind brought up by my action blew away the team's fortune, do you see that it has some effect now? ”

Carriso was silent for a while and said, "Then you will have a turbulence when you speak." ”

Raphael suddenly realized, and did not answer, and hurriedly made a gesture to indicate that he would shut up from now on.

Pastore, who was next to him, glanced at the two of them in surprise, the situation in Argentina is really not good now, but it is not to the point of driving people crazy, right?

But after this, his tense mood involuntarily relaxed a little.

As the time of the first half passed, the referee's loose penalty scale made both teams move more and more. Hilbella realizes he can't go on like this, he likes to play fluidly, but it has to be within his control. So, when Banega dribbled the ball in midfield and Bolivian defender Flores hooked him down from behind, he showed the first yellow card of the game.

Later, when Messi and Laldes were chasing the ball in the front court, there was an argument, and the two looked like they were bullstoon with their heads on their heads. This made the atmosphere at the scene tense suddenly, and the referee hurriedly ran over to mediate, asking them to calm each other down, if they didn't want to take a shower in advance.

But in fact, Messi, one of the parties involved, is still a little dazed, and he has a feeling that he is walking well but is being teddy. The cause of this dispute was that in order to get rid of the other party's harassment, he accidentally swept his arm in the other party's face, but he swore that the force was very light, who knew that the Bolivian captain saw the opportunity, not only pushed him with his backhand, but also took the initiative to put his head on his head, and his mouth was still talking trash talk.

This is simply a porcelain scene!

Messi, who was already in a bad mood, was a little irritated, but he knew that this was a means of the opponent, and if he counterattacked, he would be in the opponent's arms, so he covered his lips and greeted the other party's family cordially with his innocent expression on his face.

In the 37th minute, Tevez was given a yellow card for being fouled by a handball in front of the penalty zone. Two minutes later, Gutierrez was also booked for dissatisfaction with the penalty after a foul.

Hilbella told everyone with practical actions that he must not force the referee to play the first card, otherwise he will fall in love with the thrill of playing cards as if he had been unlocked by some seal.

Argentina didn't get too many chances after that, Bolivia defended very toughly, harassed when they couldn't make tackles, broke out of bounds if they couldn't do anything, and wasted time on throw-ins and corners.

Argentina's last shot on goal in the first half came in the 45th minute, when Banega burst into the left flank, but the accuracy was a bit off.

In the next minute of stoppage time, except for the linesman who was roared by Ravic for raising the flag, the first half ended after two throw-ins, and Argentina and Bolivia exchanged scores.