Chapter 407: Shocked
Lippi's tactics for the Dragon Nation team in this semi-final are to grab the start!
As long as the Dragon Country team can take the lead in scoring as soon as possible, in Lippi's calculations, the probability of winning this game will be directly increased from less than one percent to fifty percent!
Now this Argentine team has a big problem - it is not good at playing against the wind!
Moreover, the degree of dependence on Messi is too high!
Just like the Dragon Nation team once was.
In fact, the current Shen Feng dependence of the Dragon Country team has not been cured, Shen Feng is on the field and not on the field, and the Dragon Country team is still two different teams.
Led by Shen Feng, the Dragon Team and the world-class top teams such as Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina all have the strength to fight, and even if they lose, they will not lose too ugly.
When Shen Feng is not on the field, the Dragon Country team is still a second-rate team, and it can only play prestige in Asia, and it can't take much advantage of a team of the Venezuelan team's level.
However, with the improvement of their records, the self-confidence of the players of the Dragon Country team is gradually building, and the degree of dependence on Shen Feng is no longer as deep as it was a year ago.
Especially after reaching the top of Asia, the Dragons have shown the temperament of some strong teams.
Before this match with Argentina, the team was not confident enough, and it was understandable, after all, in the face of an opponent like Argentina, no team dared to say that it would win!
Even World Cup-winning teams like Brazil and France need to be careful every time they face Argentina, let alone the Dragons.
Before this game, the Dragon Country team showed no matter how cautious it was, it is impossible to overstate it!
The Argentine team is naturally full of confidence in themselves, and the strategy of this game is to play the control tactics they are best at.
However, this goal in the second minute of the game disrupted the Argentine team's arrangement and allowed the Dragons to seize the opportunity.
Of course, the Argentine team was not willing to fall behind in the score, and immediately after the restart, they launched a fierce attack on the defense of the Dragon Country team!
The Dragon Country team had been prepared for this for a long time, and the eleven players on the field, except for Shen Feng, who was standing in front of the middle line, all the others recovered to their own half and set up an iron bucket formation in front of the goal.
The Argentine team's possession style of play was originally the least afraid of encountering the iron bucket formation, because their fast short pass penetration can effectively toss and turn in a small space and create killing opportunities.
However, having the experience of the game against Brazil in the group stage, the Dragons also have some ways to deal with it when facing teams with excellent technique at their feet and smooth passing and receiving of the ball.
During the pre-match preparations, the Dragon Team specially practiced such tactics, and at the moment it appeared to be methodical in the face of the Argentine team's fierce attack.
Before the start of the game, the other players of the Dragon Country team, is not able to see the hope of winning, confidence will be insufficient, now the Dragon Country team is in the lead of the score, the players naturally refuse to let the lead lose in vain, although under the Argentine team's furious attack, it is very difficult to defend, but everyone is gritting their teeth to check.
With Shen Feng on the field, the Dragon Country team is not completely powerless to fight back.
Although there are too few contact points in the frontcourt, the long pass in the backfield of the Dragon Country team does not have many opportunities to establish contact with Shen Feng, and most of them can only be regarded as clearance, which is the initiation of the next attack of the Argentine team.
However, as long as Shen Feng can receive and control the ball, the Dragon Kingdom team will be able to get a chance to breathe.
This is crucial for the Dragon Nation team!
If the Argentine team's pressure continues, no matter how tenacious the defense of the Dragon team is, it will inevitably be a hundred secrets.
Just like in the group game against Brazil, the Dragons defended to the extreme, but still allowed Brazil to take a chance and score a goal to lose that game.
Now, after Shen Feng won the ball in the front court, he did not blindly launch a counterattack, but controlled the ball at his feet as much as possible, and he could control it for one more second.
Moreover, they will do everything they can to create set-pieces, boundary kicks, and corners in front of the court.
If the Argentine team only uses one defensive player, it can't prevent Shen Feng at all, and the effect of the two is not very good, if you want to effectively limit Shen Feng, you need at least three players to cooperate with each other.
When defending, only Shen Feng stood alone in front of the middle line in the Dragon Country team, and the other nine players all retreated in their own half; When Shen Feng receives a pass from his teammates and the Dragon Country team switches from defense to offense, one or two players will still be drawn to provide one or two contact points for Shen Feng.
The Argentine team cannot sit idly by either.
Therefore, when the Dragons counterattack, Argentina needs to withdraw at least five players to defend.
This greatly involved the energy of the Argentine team.
The frequent switchback runs have also greatly depleted the physical fitness of the Argentine team's defensive players, and their current starting lineup, the average age is already on the older side, and physical fitness is one of their disadvantages.
Although the number of counterattacks that the Dragon team really got was not very many, it also put a few straws on the backs of the Argentine team.
The Argentine team's offense has been slow to bear fruit, and although the defense has been very successful, it has not allowed the Dragons to continue to expand the score, but as the game time passed, the mood of the Argentine players was still greatly affected.
The unstable mentality is also one of the problems of this Argentine team.
The first half of the semi-finals of the Copa America, which attracted worldwide attention, ended with a score of 1:0, and the leading side was the Dragon Country!
I don't know how many people fell through the glasses of this result!
The fans of the Argentine team, at this moment, are the most nervous group.
The Dragons fans were just as nervous, but they were not as nervous as the Argentine fans, and they were nervous with anticipation.
In the same mood as the fans of the Dragon Country, there are also major bookmakers!
Before this game, in the major bookmakers in the win-loss betting, the proportion of betting on the Argentine team to win occupies an overwhelming advantage, although the major bookmakers for the Argentine team to win the handicap odds are very low, but if the Argentine team wins, these bookmakers still have to lose a lot!
If the Dragons can keep the current score until the end of the game, the result will be reversed, and the bookmakers will go crazy!
The Argentine team, which is bent on the glory of the tournament, and the Dragon team, which is upright, of course, cannot be the puppet of the bookmaker and play match-fixing for them.
However, the current situation of this Copa America semi-final is what the bookmaker wants to see the most!
Although the bookmaker cannot directly intervene in the outcome of this match, it can make this game independent of other factors!
There are many factors that can affect a game, in addition to the players and coaches on both sides of the game, as well as the referee team on duty, the tournament organizing committee, and of course, the bookmaker.