There is such a joke that the Chinese team learns from Germany's tenacious will, Brazil from technology and offense, Italy from defense, and the Netherlands from the Netherlands.

But the problem is that Germany can defeat China with all-out attack and defense, Brazil can defeat China with defense, Italy can defeat China with technology and attack, and the Netherlands can defeat China with tenacious will.

Although it is only a small joke for the Chinese to entertain themselves, it can also be seen from it that the defense of the Brazilian team is actually not bad.

In the 94 World Cup, the basis for Brazil's victory was not the offensive ability of Romario and Bebeto, but the defensive ability of the whole team under the guidance of Pereira.

After 12 years, Pereira is back in charge of Brazil, and with five oversized attacking players up front, he has had to sacrifice some of the team's defense in order to maximize his attacking ability.

But that's not to say Brazil's defense is bad.

In fact, Brazil did a pretty good job defending, definitely at championship level.

Despite the two full-backs, Robert. Carlos and Cafu are both older, but that has only made them less physical, less assisted, and their defense is even older than they were when they were younger.

And the central defender Lucio is also a world-class central defender, Juan is a little worse, but also at the continental level.

Although Brazil's defense is a little worse than that of Italy and France, if Brazil says that its defense is fourth in the world, who dares to call itself the third in the world?

France went on the attack and they were supposed to be looking to score first and then rebound on the counter-attack.

However, the Brazilian defence has been able to defuse their attacks again and again.

Although from the perspective of the field, the Brazilian team played relatively conservatively, the scene was a bit ugly, not like the usual Brazil, but there was still a long way to go to concede the goal, but their counter-attack was very threatening.

In the 14th minute, Zidane's corner kick was punched out by Dida, and Ribery grabbed a volley from the edge of the box and hit it high.

Dida soon played a short ball in goal and Brazil launched a counter-attack. Brazil were pushing forward very quickly, and before France could fully retreat, the football went to the front.

Ronaldinho ran to the middle to receive the ball and he tried to dribble Vieira, but Vieira and Ben did not eat his feints.

Ronaldinho didn't force it, shaking off the gap and distributing the ball to Ricardo on the right side.

After Ricardo took the ball, he first feinted to break through near the baseline, and then pulled the ball back to make an inward cut, and after cheating the vacancy, he gently pushed the ball, Kaka inserted it from behind, and volleyed directly into the far corner, slightly out of the goal.

A few minutes later, France failed again, and Brazil quickly counter-attacked, hitting the ball up front, and Ricardo distributed the ball to the right to find Cafu, who managed to break through Abiddale and was pulled down by Abidale by his clothes.

Referee Cantalejo showed the first yellow card of the game.

Domenech shook his head from the sidelines.

After thinking about it for a while, he waved his arms and motioned to the French players to recycle a little and stop storming.

The French team recovered, and the Brazilian team certainly had to take the opportunity to press a little attack.

However, Juninho and Kaka were a little weak against the double back line of Makelele and Vieira, and it was difficult to pass the ball well.

On the offensive line, Licardo and Ronaldinho faced the French team's impregnable defense, and it was difficult to make a difference.

Ronaldinho didn't show any aura in La Liga, and Ricardo didn't show the top killer style in Serie A.

Every time they got the ball, they were stopped by strong French defenders using their bodies and making all sorts of small moves.

Ronaldinho and Ricardo are the kind of players who often put on the good show of scoring the ball with several men in a row, they have superb footwork, top ball handling skills, but today the French team is very close in defense and they are useless heroes. Even if one passes, the other defender will immediately fill in and not give them a chance to pass in a row.

Ronaldinho is still stubbornly trying to get the ball on his own, and Ricardo has begun to give up on the idea of dribbling himself and he is actively running for cooperation.

In the 29th minute, Ronaldinho broke through Makelele with the ball, but Makelele persevered to catch up, and there was a gala block in the front. Ronaldinho had to pass the ball with his heel, but Ricardo had already retreated, took the ball and flicked it sideways to barely make a little space, and then got up to shoot.

The ball hit Vieira's leg and refracted the bottom line.

Vieira is 1.91 meters tall, tall and long-legged, and his frontal defense is like a wall, and Ricardo is also a little helpless.

When France recovered, Brazil played more passively, with Patrick Vieira blocking like a wall on the front and Claude Makelele sweeping around, with the whole team involved except Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry.

It was difficult for the ball to reach the 30-metre zone for the French team, and Brazil's attacks often ended up in vain.

Once France counterattacks, Ribery and Malouda on both wings will be inserted at high speed, and Zidane uses his foot skills to attract Brazilian defenders, swinging out of the air to pass good balls, which makes the Brazilian team very uncomfortable.

Pereira was frustrated by the situation.

In his expectation, Ricardo, Ronaldinho and Kaka should use their individual ability to score a goal in the first half.

But the reality is that Ronaldinho is not in good form and often crowds out Ricardo's space. Although Ricardo and Kaka work well together, appearing on the right side seems to make him very awkward.

Kaka was asked to take on too many defensive tasks and couldn't let go and play like he was in the league.

As a result, Brazil's attack failed to put too much pressure on the opponent, allowing France to have many counter-attacking opportunities.

How can this be changed? Pereira watched the situation carefully and planned to make adjustments in the second half. Now he is just signaling the Brazilian team to pay attention to the recovery and not give the opponent a chance to counterattack.

So the two sides fell into a tug-of-war. The game was raging. There is more than intense, but not enough. Both France and Brazil played too conservatively, which made neutral fans a little bored.

Before the game, Brazilian fans hoped to see the dream combination of the Brazilian team to destroy the aging midfielders and defenders of the French team and make big news; Fans of the French team hope that the French team will take advantage of Zidane's organizational movement, the smooth coordination of the whole team, and clean and tidy settlement of the Brazilian.

However, none of their expectations were met.

In such a high-level matchup, it is also beyond reproach that both sides have focused too much on defense.

Brazil, in particular, has chosen Pereira as the head coach, so they must be mentally prepared. In the '94 World Cup, everyone saw his conservatism and stubbornness. It is unrealistic to expect him to change now.