Chapter 409: Alternation of the Old and the New

Lippi's tactical adjustment has once again reaped miraculous results.

The name of "Silver Fox" once again shows its might!

With a two-goal lead, there are only twenty minutes left in the game, and the Dragon Country team has already entered the final with one foot!

The mood of the players of the Argentine team is even more depressed!

At the moment when Wu Lei scored, the live director switched not to Wu Lei's ecstatic celebration picture, but to point the camera at Messi!

Fans all over the world once again saw Messi with a blank expression in front of the camera!

In the past ten years, he has been recognized as a superstar in international football and the closest to the title of "King of the Ball", and he has won club honors, but in the national team, he has achieved nothing!

This Copa America is the last time Messi will hit the championship honor of the international competition, and now it seems that it will fail again!

At this moment, people really realized that Messi is just a human being, not an omnipotent god!

Even if he is a god, at this moment, he has already stepped down from the altar!

The Argentine team has now become a complete mourning team!

This game has been played so far, and it has presented this situation, which exceeded everyone's expectations!

Who would have thought that the star-studded Argentine team would be forced into such a desperate situation by the Dragon Nation team!

The Argentine team did not give up yet, and in the rest of the game, they continued to work hard, launching wave after wave of attacks, and even the defenders began to try to shoot.

However, in the face of the Great Wall of Steel laid out by the Dragons unitedly, the Argentine team's attack was still slow to bear fruit.

It wasn't until the 88th minute of the game that Icardi, who was substituted in the second half, scored a goal for Argentina and made the score difficult to 1:2.

However, the goal came too late.

The game quickly went into stoppage time.

The organizing committee of the tournament gave Argentina a full four minutes of stoppage time, and Lippi was so unhappy that he rushed to the fourth official and yelled at him to express his anger, but was reluctantly pulled back by the staff of the Dragon Nation team, without causing more serious consequences.

All the players, coaches, and staff on the bench of the Dragon Country team were already so nervous that they could not sit down on the bench in the last few minutes of the game, and they all came to the sidelines, anxiously waiting for the final whistle to sound.

During this period, Lippi repeatedly gestured to the referee on duty to look at his watch to remind him of the passage of time.

Especially after the four-minute stoppage time was exhausted, Lippi raised his hands in the air and expressed his incomprehension with a look of surprise that the referee on duty did not blow the whistle on time for the end of the game.

Fortunately, the referee on duty did not delay for long, and ten seconds later, the whole game was stopped.

The score of this Copa America semi-final was fixed at 2:1, and the Dragon Country team won!

This result was unexpected and shocked the world.

The effect is no less than last year's World Cup, when South Korea defeated Germany 2-0, and even better.

Because, this game, it is almost certain that it will be Messi's curtain call performance in the Argentine national team!

In the third and fourth place finals a few days later, Messi will definitely not play, because whether the Argentine team wins the third or fourth place in this Copa America, it doesn't matter to Messi.

At the end of the 2016 Centennial Copa America, after the Argentine team lost in the final of the continental competition for three consecutive years and missed the championship, Messi announced his retirement from the Argentine national team.

In last year's World Cup, the Argentine team stopped in the round of 16, and Messi once again announced his withdrawal from the Argentine national team.

This Copa America is the last time Messi has worked hard for the national team to win the championship in international competitions, but he only got such a result.

Messi's inner loss is unimaginable to outsiders!

Along with Cristiano Ronaldo, known as the "twin stars" of international football in the past decade, Messi's club achievements are impeccable, and he is not inferior to Ronaldo, who has lifted the Champions League trophy a total of five times!

However, in terms of the national team, Cristiano Ronaldo, who led Portugal to the 2016 European Championship, is a head ahead of Messi.

Messi, therefore, in a great degree, is one line behind Ronaldo!

And this line, it seems, can no longer be equaled.

At the end of the game, the Argentine team was once again reduced to the background, although this game was not the final, but the sense of loss of the defeated Argentine team was no worse than the previous two finals!

In the first two Copa America finals, the Argentine team was indistinguishable from the opponent in 120 minutes of playtime, but it was inferior in the penalty shootout.

The penalty shoot-out was more about mental quality and luck, and Argentina could find some excuses to lose.

In this game, he was defeated by his opponent within 90 minutes!

What made the Argentine team even more frustrating was that the opponent this time was the Dragon Country team that they didn't pay attention to before the game!

The Chilean team that defeated them in the previous two Copa America finals is also a perennial top 10 team in the FIFA rankings, but the Dragons have never been among the top 30 in the FIFA rankings - compared to the Argentine team!

Such a defeat embarrassed the Argentine team even more!

Shen Feng wanted to comfort Messi and his teammate Icardi in the Inter Milan team after the game, but the players of the Argentine team left the field as soon as the game ended.

This game has a far-reaching impact!

In the long run, it represents the end of an era – the era that belongs to Messi!

It also represents the birth of an era - this era that belongs to Shen Feng!

Messi's achievements in the past decade go without saying.

Shen Feng, who is not yet twenty-two years old, how can it be said that he has already opened an era that belongs to him?

With his brilliant achievements in the past two years!

In the national team, Shen Feng led the team to the World Cup finals for the second time, and advanced to the round of 16 in history, won the Asian Cup, and now enters the final of the Copa America as an away team!

In the club, Shen Feng led the team to achieve an unprecedented "treble" in the history of Asian football, and landed in Europe for less than half a season, helping the Inter Milan team return to the top of Europe after nine years!

Such an achievement, only Ronaldo and Messi, at the same age, have achieved it!

From this aspect, it is not an exaggeration to say that Shen Feng inherited Ronaldo and Messi and started his own era!

Among players of similar age, only Mbappe can be compared with Shen Feng.

However, Shen Feng's growth speed and maturity are far better than Mbappe!

Shen Feng is now able to take charge of himself, whether he is in the national team or in the club.

Mbappe is only the younger brother of Griezmann and Pogba in the French team, and in the Paris Saint-Germain team, there is still a Neymar on his head.