Chapter 404: Defensive Battle
The Dragon Nation team has long known that after entering the knockout stage, the situation will be even more difficult!
The America's Cup is not the current Dragon Nation team, where they can go wild casually.
However, for the Dragon Country team, which came to participate in the competition with the mentality of playing soy sauce at the beginning, being able to advance to the quarterfinals is already a successful completion of the task, and it does not matter how far the knockout round can go.
The key is to get training and grow in the game.
In fact, in the group stage against Brazil, a number of new internationals had good performances, and the Dragons were able to score only one goal against the powerful Brazilian team, which was the result of the unity and cooperation of the players on the field.
In horizontal comparison, the Dragon Country team, which played in the full main lineup seventeen years ago, lost 0:4 to the Brazilian team at that time, and now, it can only be regarded as the Dragon Country team, which played in the semi-main lineup, and lost 0:1 to the Brazilian team.
Although this does not necessarily prove that the Dragons have now caught up with a three-goal gap, it can also explain some problems.
This match with Peru is the first test that the Dragons have encountered in this Copa America.
In the two games against Venezuela and Bolivia in the group stage, although the Dragons did not play very smoothly, it was because the Dragons did not give their best.
Shen Feng, in particular, didn't exert 100 percent of his strength in those two games, let alone 12 percent.
In this game with the Peruvian team, the Dragon Country team did its best, and Shen Feng also showed 100% of his state after the game started.
In addition, he is also ready to use the three "skills" obtained in the season just ended, because he won the top scorer in Serie A, the European Golden Boot Award, and the top scorer in the Champions League!
Winning the Champions League, Shen Feng was rewarded not only with free attribute values, but also with a "skill: championship glory", which allowed him to recover his costs.
The rewards of free attribute values will not be listed one by one, after Shen Feng obtained these free attribute values, he still left 10 points for backup as before, and the rest were added to each attribute.
The current Shen Feng, in terms of comprehensive attributes, is getting closer and closer to Messi and Ronaldo at his peak.
This is also one of the reasons why the Dragon Nation team led by him can achieve current results in this Copa America.
In the Dragon Country, Shen Feng is of course the number one superstar in football without a doubt, far exceeding the popularity of Messi, Ronaldo, and Neymar in the Dragon Country.
Of course, the Dragon Kingdom is Shen Feng's base camp after all.
Just like in Messi's home country Argentina, Ronaldo's home country Portugal, and Neymar's home country Brazil, there is no one among the active players who can compare with them in popularity.
After helping the Inter Milan team return to the top of Europe after nine years, Shen Feng's international popularity has also increased significantly, and has reached the world-class level, standing side by side with Bale, Suarez and others, only behind Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and a few others.
In this Copa America, Shen Feng is also one of the superstars in the rankings, and his avatar also appeared on the promotional poster of the Copa America, together with Messi, Neymar, Suarez, Vidal, James Rodriguez and others, although the ranking is relatively low.
However, as an away player, being able to obtain such glory is enough to show Shen Feng's status in today's international football.
Any opponent will pay attention to such a superstar who stands out in a team.
In the two games with the Venezuelan team and the Bolivian team, when Shen Feng was on the field, he was taken care of by the opponent throughout the whole process, and the opponent tried every means to keep Shen Feng away from their goal as much as possible.
Shen Feng had few opportunities to directly threaten the opponent's goal, so he could only choose to assist his teammates more.
However, in the game with the Venezuelan team, standing next to Shen Feng was Hu Jingheng, who made an official appearance for the first time on behalf of the Dragon Country team, although the two of them have partnered in the Jianye team for two years and have a tacit understanding, but Hu Jingheng was a little too nervous in that game, and he failed to grasp the many opportunities that Shen Feng created for him.
In the end, it was Shen Feng's goal that drew 1:1 with the Venezuelan team.
In the game with the Bolivian team, Shen Feng's side was replaced with stronger ability and more experience, after landing in Europe, in one season, he has also played the value of Wu Lei, although Shen Feng is still the focus of the opponent, but the pressure on his body is much less than the last game.
It also allowed him to score two goals in just 60 minutes, and finally helped the Dragons achieve a 3-0 victory.
The difference in Shen Feng's performance in these two games also proves the correctness of "football is a collective sport of eleven people, not a sport of one person".
No matter how strong Shen Feng's ability is, if he can't get support and help from his teammates, but is dragged back, then no matter how hard he tries, it will be in vain.
In this match with the Peruvian team, Shen Feng was partnered with Wu Lei - the combination of the two not only represents the strongest attack power of Dragon Country football at this stage, but also in the next few years!
Unless Hu Jingheng, Zhang Yuning and others can grow up quickly in a short period of time and have an impact on Wu Lei's position.
Shen Feng's position in the Dragon Country team is unshakable, unshakable, and irreplaceable!
The Dragon Country team sent the strongest squad in this game, but the game was still very difficult, because the Peruvian team is worthy of being ranked in the top 20 in the FIFA rankings all year round.
Moreover, this lineup of the Peruvian team has been honed for a long time, having experienced the previous two Copa America and last year's World Cup.
Because they are in South America, surrounded by absolutely strong teams such as Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, and with strong attacking power, the Peruvian team must have some unique skills if they want to gain a foothold here.
Their choice is the same as that of the Dragons in the World Cup - defense!
It is with its overall defense that the Peruvian team can gain a foothold in South America and become a team that is a headache for Brazil and Argentina.
Therefore, this match between the Dragon Country and the Peruvian team evolved into a duel of defensive intensity!
Under the tutelage of Lippi, the Dragon Country team inherited the defensive characteristics of Italian football, which is very different from the Peruvian team's defense with South American characteristics.
This collision of two different styles of overall defense is not very good-looking on the field, but the technical content embodied is very much and very large, and it has been regarded as a classic and has been repeatedly interpreted and studied.