As the coach of the World Cup champion, Lippi has a very clear understanding of the strength of the Dragon team, and has also had a detailed understanding of the three opponents of the Dragon team in the group stage of the World Cup in Russia.

The defensive counterattack tactic was originally Lippi's forte as an Italian!

In the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the reason why Lippi was able to lead the Italian team, which was not favored before the game, went all the way and won the final championship was because of the tactics of defensive counterattack.

In that World Cup, the Italian team was a typical team that was not strong when it was strong and not weak, and was able to draw by the United States in the group stage, and the quarter-finals and Australia also played until the end of 90 minutes of regular time, and only in injury time did they get away with a penalty.

Then in the semi-finals and finals, he played the host German team and the French team with Zidane in a row until extra time.

In the match against Germany, Italy did not score two goals in a row until the second half of extra time to eliminate their opponents and advance to the final.

In the final against the French team, there was no winner or loser in 120 minutes of game time, and it was necessary to use a brutal penalty shootout to determine the final champion.

In the end, the Italian team, which had the world's No. 1 goalkeeper at the time, Gianluigi Buffon, had the last laugh and won the World Cup for the fourth time in history!

Although, the Italian team in that World Cup was criticized by many fans, thinking that their tactical play was too utilitarian, regardless of the strength of the opponent, the game was very dull and not good at all.

However, football nowadays, especially cup-format competitions like the World Cup, has always been results-oriented!

No matter how good the game is played, no matter how beautiful the tactical play is, if you can't win the ball or win the championship, everything will be empty!

No matter how ugly the game is, no matter how conservative and utilitarian the tactical play is, as long as you can win the game and win the final championship trophy, it will be the biggest victory!

Therefore, there is a saying in the World Cup, called "offense wins the audience, defense wins the World Cup"!

In such an important competition as the World Cup, all the participating teams did not try their best not to say, under the common attention of fans all over the world, no matter how weak the strength is, they will never take the initiative to admit it in the game!

Everyone fights, that is, in the game, who can make fewer mistakes!

In other words, whoever can do better in defense will be able to go further in the World Cup!

As a newcomer to the World Cup, there is a certain gap between the team's strength, game experience, and opponents, how can they break through themselves and achieve satisfactory results in the World Cup?

There's only one thing you can rely on - defense!

Although there is a striker with good attacking power like Shen Feng in the current Dragon Country team, if he can give him enough support in the attack, he has the ability to help the team score.

However, with Shen Feng's current level, he can run rampant in Asia, but on the stage of the World Cup, it is not enough!

Of the 32 participating teams in the Russian World Cup, not to mention that each team has top strikers who are far superior to Shen Feng, at least half of the teams have, and among the strikers of the other half of the teams, there are also many people whose strength is not inferior to the current Shen Feng.

Among the three opponents of the Dragon team in the group stage, there are Suarez and Cavani of the Uruguayan team; Salah of the Egyptian team, both in terms of popularity and comprehensive strength, is above the current Shen Feng!

Therefore, although the Dragon Country team has Shen Feng, but if they want to fight with the Uruguayan team and the Egyptian team, their strength is still not enough, and they want to take advantage of them, and the most important thing is to defend!

Lippi, the head coach of the Dragon Country team, and all the members of the Dragon Country team have reached a consensus on this point, so the Dragon Country team has no objection to Lippi's new tactics tailored for the Dragon Country team, and resolutely implements obedience.

It's just that some leaders of the Dragon Football Association, because they are not from a professional background and don't understand the way of football games, are a little worried that if the tactical play of the Dragon Country team is too conservative, the game will be more ugly, and the fans will not be happy.

However, no one cares about this layman's opinion.

Even if it is to be liquidated, it will only be done after the World Cup is over and everything is settled!

At that time, as long as Lippi and the players of the Dragon Country team can prove with the results of the game that this new tactical style of play is indeed effective, then all doubts about the Dragon Country team will be rootless.

Even if the final result proves that the new tactics of the Dragon Nation team are not effective, it will not have much impact on the future and fate of Lippi and this Dragon Nation team.

The Dragon Football Association, on the issue of the Dragon Country team, can no longer cover the sky with one hand as it did more than ten years ago!

This is not only because Lippi, as a World Cup-winning coach, has proved his ability with undoubted facts, but also the good record of the Dragon Country team is first of all due to his good command and proper scheduling; The poor record of the Dragon Country team is first of all attributed to the fact that the players of the Dragon Country team did not implement his tactical ideas and did not play their true level!

Lippi is not like Milu sixteen years ago, who will be manipulated by those laymen in the Dragon Football Association!

In addition, the players of the Dragon Country team, although they are still in a weak position in front of the Dragon Country Football Association, have a much greater right to speak than they did more than ten years ago!

The current prevalent online social platform provides a public platform for the players of the Dragon Country team to speak out on their own, and they can communicate directly with the outside world, and they will no longer be like more than ten years ago, they can only speak for themselves through newspapers and television, and the official media such as newspapers and television, the influence of the Football Association is far above the players, and the Football Association wants to ban which player, and the players have no power to fight back.

Moreover, the degree of attention paid to Dragon Football in the country's senior leaders is far greater than more than ten years ago, which also makes those lay bureaucrats of the Dragon Football Association, for the sake of their official hats, make irresponsible decisions in the management of the Dragon Country team, because once such a decision is made, they will be held accountable in the end!

Therefore, although the new tactics formulated by Lippi for the Dragon Nation team did not meet the expectations of the Football Association officials and were somewhat misaligned with the expectations of the fans, it was still implemented with Lippi's persistence and the support of the Dragon Nation players.

Judging from the process of the first 20 minutes of the game against Wales, this new tactic of the Dragon Country team has been considered a success at the football level!

The Dragon Country team, which contracted the defense and the formation was compressed to the limit, although the scene was extremely passive, but under the fierce offensive of the Welsh team, they survived and tried not to lose the goal!