In the dressing room of the Brazilian team.

'We're going to change our tactics and in the second half we stopped pressing high posts. Leaving them out of midfield, we set up in front of the box. Dunga set the tone as soon as he spoke.

He did not comment on the performance of his players or even praise Ricardo's goal. There was no time, the break was very short, and the whole tactics of the team had to change, and he had to hurry up for a minute.

The tactical board is full of lines, the layers of defense, the route of supplemental defense, the route of attack, and the route of counterattack, all marked out.

By the time he finished, halftime was almost over.

At this time, Dunga took the time to comment a few words.

'Everyone did a good job in the first half. I'm happy with the score so far. But I'm not happy with the process of the game. Our positional warfare did not come out. ”

"A lot of you played in the final of the World Cup four years ago, and some of you played in the final of the World Cup eight years ago. I thought you would be more experienced. ”

'It's the final and we have to be more efficient and we have to keep the ball at our feet for longer. You've done well in the last while, but you didn't do that in today's game. In the second half, the opponent's fitness dropped, and their pressing was not as fierce as in the first half, so I hope you can improve the possession for me. When fighting back, be resolute. When attacking, you have to be slow and play with our Brazilian characteristics. ”

'Possession is Spain's biggest weapon, but you saw it in the first half, they can pass the ball around, but it's hard to pose a direct threat to our defence. And our counter-attack, as long as the quality is a little bit higher, is enough to determine the outcome of the game. Gentlemen, the Hercules Cup is just around the corner and I am sure we can bring it back to Brazil once again. I believed it at the start of the game, I believed it when we were down by a goal and I still believe it. ”

"So, go to the pitch now, use all your strength, give me the team that is dancing in front of us, and together we will bring the Hercules Cup back to Brazil!"

The players roared and walked out of the dressing room with their heads held high.

Dunga stopped Ricardo and they stayed at the end.

"How's your fitness?" There was a hint of worry in the corners of Dunga's eyes.

"I don't think there's going to be any problem." Ricardo replied easily. In fact, he was very tired today, and he felt like he couldn't even run after the half-time kick. In the frantic and futile frontcourt pressing, he wasted too much energy.

"It's my fault," the proud Dunga said with a rare bow, "I was wrong in the first half. I should thank you for pulling us back from the edge of the cliff. But I'm still going to rely on you in the second half, you and Kaka will be our sharpest weapons. In the second half you don't get involved in the defense, I want you to put all your energy into the attack and break through their defences for me! ”

"It's my duty on the field, and I always do my job," Ricardo said with a smile and a low voice, "Ronnie seems to have a little bit of a problem with his stamina. His muscles were also a little bit out of condition today. ”

"I know." Dunga said helplessly. Ronaldo's physical condition is not optimistic, and it is likely that Brazil will have to use up a substitution shortly after the start of the second half.

In the tunnel of the players, they met the Spanish players unexpectedly.

Ramos leaned in towards Ricardo, "Are your legs okay?" ”

"It's no big deal," Licardo shook his head, "thank you for your concern." ”

'In the second half we were going to be more aggressive defensively, so you have to be mentally prepared. I don't want you to get hurt, but it's a World Cup final, you know. We're going to gamble everything for it. ”

"To each his own, I won't blame you, it's a war," Licardo laughed, "and we're going to win it." Even if I'm injured it doesn't change that. Anyway, thank you for waking up, I'll be careful. ”

It looked like Spain would be going to kill themselves in the second half.

But in fact, both sides were burdened with a lot of yellow cards in the first half, and on the Spanish side, Ramos, Puyol, Pique and Busquets all had yellow cards. Is Spain mentally prepared for 10 men to fight?

In fact, when Dunga was setting up his tactics, Bosque said in the dressing room in Spain: "As long as Ricardo is gone, we can win with 10 men." No, I'm not saying that you guys deliberately hurt him, that's a massacre and not football. What I want you to do is don't worry about whether he gets hurt when you need to defend. He's the epitome of beautiful football, but we're going to win the World Cup. This is a war, and we cannot be merciful and hesitant at the center of war. ”

Ricardo didn't know what Bosque was saying, but he could guess a little.

He has nothing to say about this, he is Brazil's sharpest weapon, and it is easy to understand that the opponent naturally has to find a way to seal this weapon.

It's just that you really have the consciousness of 10 people to fight?

I'm not that vulnerable...... If you want to hurt me, you have to be mentally prepared to get a red card or two......

At the start of the second half, Spain created a dangerous situation through a corner, Xavi's corner kick was snatched back by Puyol, but Capdevilla at the back post did not kick the football.

And Ricardo was eager to try it.

Brazil slowly controlled the ball, played to the front, distributed the ball to the left, and Ricardo took the ball and deftly cut in. Alonso and Sergio Busquets burst out of the box and fired a powerful shot that was cleared away by Casillas.

Heading into the second half, it could be seen that the tempo of both sides had slowed down a lot. Brazil pursued possession more, abandoning high pressing and defending at the edge of the penalty area. Although Spain still counter-attacked on the spot after conceding the goal, once it didn't grab it, it would quickly retreat and basically give up pressing high.

It is often the Brazilian team that slowly controls the ball, hits in front of Spain's penalty area, loses the ball and fails to counterattack, and then Spain slowly falls to the Brazilian penalty area and plays another attack.

Each round takes a few minutes.

As the players on both sides kept holding the ball backwards, the time passed slowly.

In the 55th minute, Brazil made their first substitution. Ronaldo comes off and Fabiano comes on.

Fabiano has proven his threat in front of goal in this World Cup and he is a qualified substitute for Ronaldo.

The substitution signalled to Dunga that Dunga had no intention of taking the game into extra time and that he was going to settle the fight within 90 minutes.

Spain were quick to make a substitution, with Keylor Navas replacing goal scorer Pedro.

These two substitutions made the tempo on the field suddenly increase.