The Montenegro national team is a fairly young national team, and this has to start with the complex political situation in Montenegro.

Montenegro has been part of the Yugoslav Federation since the beginning of the 20th century, but in the early 1990s, four of the six Yugoslav member states were released, leaving only Serbia and Montenegro in the league, which was often referred to as Serbia and Montenegro, or Serbia and Montenegro for short.

This region is one of the most frequent armed conflicts in the world, and the armed forces of Serbia and Montenegro are well-known all over the world.

Montenegro's first division football league was only officially launched in 2003, when they only had 12 professional teams, no second division, and there were only 12 professional football clubs in the entire country.

It was not until 2006 that Montenegro took advantage of this bill, which stipulated that any republic could seek reading power through a referendum after 2006, and it was by the reading faction that won the referendum by a narrow margin, officially announcing the reading power of Montenegro and the complete disintegration of the Yugoslav Union.

Yugoslav football, once mighty, has disintegrated, but six younger national football teams have risen from the ashes.

The Montenegrin national team is certainly part of it.

The young Montenegrin national team is not unknown, and there are still a number of famous stars who have played abroad, such as Fiorentina's Jovetic, Roma's Vucinić, and later Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic, which are the pride of Montenegrin fans, and Montenegrin football still has a firm place in world football.

Even Manchester United's future captain, Nemanja Vidic, played for Montenegro, but at that time they were still known as Serbia and Montenegro, and it was only after Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia parted ways that Vidic chose to continue the campaign for the Republic of Serbia.

This team may not have a glorious record, but they are still a force to be reckoned with in European football.

However, Serbia and Montenegro did not perform well in this World Cup qualifier, they drew 2:2 and 0:0 with Bulgaria and Ireland respectively, and lost 1:2 in Italy, and they are currently ranked second from the bottom of the group with a record of 3 games, 2 draws and 1 loss, and the road to qualification is a thorn.

If you can't get at least one point from Italy, they will be more difficult in the next game, and it is even very likely that the World Cup dream will come to an end in advance, you know, there are a total of 9 groups in Europe, but there are only 13 World Cup places, in addition to the best 9 group winners directly qualified, the remaining 8 best group winners will also fight each other to compete for the remaining 4 qualifying places.

With Montenegro's current record, their race for top of the group is almost hopeless, and their goal is to never finish second in the worst group, at least to qualify for the play-offs.

In this game, the Montenegro team can be said to be the main force, goalkeeper Poleksic, left back Batak, right back Ivanovic, two central defenders Tanasievic, Pejovic, midfielders Novakovic, Pekovic, Vucinic, Boskovic, forwards Jovetic, Dalovic, looking around, people can't help but think of a once very popular packaged food brand in China, "Cheetos".

In fact, European countries do not like to play against teams in southern Europe, because their names are all "strange" or "husband" at a glance, and these national teams are often difficult to distinguish their players, plus their players do not often appear on the international stage, which makes people very unfamiliar with them, so they are often easy to capsize in the gutter.

This is the case for France in Group 7, who were upset at home by the Serbs and are currently two points behind Serbia and only second in the group, and their path to qualification is fraught with concern.

Originally, it was reasonable to say that there should be no major problems in the Italian game against Montenegro, but the starting list released by Lippi before the game caused great controversy, and the biggest focus was, of course, their starting line with an average age of less than 20 years old.

Such an important game, such a young striker, is it reliable?

As soon as the game began, the Montenegro team made this doubt even more suspicious.

Cheered on by more than 40,000 fans at home, Montenegro launched an onslaught on Italy's goal from the start. In this Montenegro national team, players such as Jovetic and Vucinic are playing in Serie A, and they are very familiar with the Italian players, so they didn't need to adjust their form at the beginning, and went straight into game mode.

Relatively speaking, the Italian players are very unfamiliar with many Montenegrin players, although the two sides have already had a meeting, but Italy only won 2:1 in that game, and it was not so easy to win, mainly because many Montenegrin players they can't even name them, and they don't know what technical characteristics they have.

Taking advantage of the asymmetry between the two sides in terms of intelligence, the tactical idea of the Montenegro team in this game is to try to take the lead at the beginning, while Italy is not familiar with their players and technical and tactical characteristics, play fast and fierce at the beginning, if you can take the lead with the fastest speed, then the game will be easy to play.

However, Italy is not vegetarian, although they are temporarily at a disadvantage after the opening, but the Italians will never worry about their defense, under the leadership of Cannavaro, Chiellini and others, this "weakest backline in Italy's century-old history" is still not easy for Montenegrins to break.

In the 11th minute, Jovetic broke through with the ball, as a newly rising star in Serie A, the Italian players are not familiar with other Montenegrin players, but they absolutely know Jovetic, Chiellini stood on his breakthrough route early in the morning, Jovetic plunged into Chiellini's arms, and the ball was easily poked out by the Juventus defender.

In the 15th minute, Montenegro crossed from the side, and the 1.88-meter-tall center Dalovic competed for the header, but Cannavaro, who was only 1.75 meters tall, grabbed the ball in front of him and pushed the ball out.

Montenegro stormed around the Italian goal for more than 20 minutes, and although the field was continuous, they were never able to break through the Italians' steel defense, and at this time, the holes in their own back line were slowly exposed.

The right side of the Montenegro team Ivanovic has good offense and defense, and the strength is nothing to say, but their left side has always been the weakness of the team, the left back Batak plays for the domestic Andreasburg team, has not seen much of the world, is 1.84 meters tall, but the turn is very slow, the card position is not accurate, and there are often leaks, but even so, he is already the best left back that Montenegro can choose in China, in a group of "odd", he is the only one with "odd" behind the name, which is really an outlier.

However, it was this player who did not end with the word "strange" that became the Achilles heel of the Montenegrin backline.

This game and Batak is opposite Descartes, as the most popular top student in the Premier League, Descartes's strength is obviously above Batak, although taken in the prestige of Descartes, the coach of the Montenegro team made a special deployment for him before the game, the team's defender Kovanovic has been leaning towards Batak's side, assisting him in defending Descartes, but the Montenegro team is currently on the offensive, Kovanovic cannot always stay in the backfield, so most of the time, Batak can only face Descartes alone.

For a star of Descartes' calibre, such a defense is simply looking for death.

The first half of the game lasted until 29 minutes, Italy finally ushered in their chance, Zambrotta broke the ball at the back, he handed the ball to Pirlo, Pirlo tore apart the Montenegrin team's back line with a guided missile-like accurate pass, in the race with Descartes for speed, Batak quickly lost, Descartes never thought that he could have this kind of galloping pleasure with his own speed, so he enjoyed this feeling, and after throwing Batak four or five meters away, he passed the ball to the middle.

Descartes' pass is also very accurate, he has been practicing free kicks recently, he has already learned to control the landing point of the ball very well, at least 30 meters of the ball, he can already do where to play, such a comfortable pass appeared on the route of Balotelli's sprint, Ba Shen saw the opportunity falling from the sky, he smiled at the time, and without hesitation, a fish jumped to the top, and the ball smashed hard to the door of the Montenegrin team.

But Ba Shen wanted to score the ball too much, and used too much force, and the ball hit the goal post of the Montenegro team with a thud after flying for a distance, and then was kicked out of the bottom line by the Montenegrin defenders who returned to the defense in shock.

Seeing the boiled duck fly like this, Ba Shen was so remorseful that he hammered the ground in hatred, and then there was a whistle from the side, and Balotelli looked up and saw that Descartes was laughing at him heartlessly, and raised an index finger as he laughed, indicating that Balotelli had wasted an opportunity.

Balotelli's face was slightly hot, this ball Descartes did not care about the gambling matter, and passed the ball to him in a very timely manner, but he was eager to make a meritorious contribution and missed the opportunity, which made him regret it a little, and a little embarrassed, originally he wanted to give Descartes a middle finger, but considering that the ball was his own mistake, he could only hang his head helplessly.

However, this counterattack still surprised Montenegro, and at the same time made the Italian media on the scene and in front of the TV dazzle, the Italian forward line composed of these two young players who are not yet 20 years old, it seems, it seems, there is still a little bit of strength.

After this attack, the Montenegro team quickly shrunk the formation, after all, it has been attacking for nearly 30 minutes, the players need to take a breath and rest, and secondly, the speed of Italy's counterattack also makes them very afraid, especially in the face of the turtle flow Batak, the Montenegrin team had to withdraw the midfielder to assist him in defense, the midfielders were withdrawn, and the forwards could not but retreat, so on the whole, the Montenegrin team was retracting the defense.

However, they probably did not expect that this would be the last time they had the upper hand in this game, and when the Italian attack started, the Montenegrin players were only tired of parrying and could no longer fight back.

Balotelli was able to score with a long-range shot from outside the box at the age of ten, his strength and physicality are undoubted, and the impact he brought to the Montenegrin backline is definitely not comparable to players like Di Natale and Rossi, even Gilardino, who is now at his peak, cannot be compared with the future Ba Shen: and Descartes is a typical technical flow player, he wanders around the front court, where there is an opportunity, there is him, the combination of the two of them is simply a natural pair, Facing such a physical and technical striker, the Montenegro team soon felt the huge pressure.

The first goal of the game came in the 37th minute of the first half, and after Montenegro pressed for 30 minutes, Italy began to gradually take control of the game, especially as their defender Andrea Pirlo quickly showed his excellent playmaking talent after getting rid of the entanglement of the opposition.

Pirlo distributed the ball to Camoranesi on the wing, Camoranesi broke through to no avail, and passed the ball back, just when people thought Pirlo would stabilize the situation, he suddenly kicked a long pass beyond 45 meters, left-back Grosso appeared accurately at the ball landing point, using his height of 1.90 meters, Grosso scrambled to the first landing point, and the header gave the ball to Balotelli.

Balotelli broke through the bottom line along the line of the big penalty area, and Tanasievic, who defended him, did not dare to kick easily, so he could only follow him and retreat, but close to the bottom line, Balotelli suddenly dunked the ball back and swept the ball to the middle at the moment when Tanassievic flew to block.

In Balotelli's mind, there is no specific goal for this ball, he just has a hunch that Italy should have players near the middle, and this kind of close to the ground is very difficult to handle, and if you are not careful, it will cause the defenders' own goals, so the defenders do not dare to kick easily.

Balotelli's abacus was not in vain, a blue figure really appeared on the track of the ball, before all the Montenegrin defenders fell to the ground to block, the blue figure struggled to shovel, the ball jumped into the door of the Montenegro team after a refraction close to the ground, at this time the Montenegro team was in chaos in front of the goal, and the players who fell to the ground, including the goalkeeper, reached as many as four or five.

And so the ball went in.

The Italian players who reacted cheered excitedly, and even the thousands of Italian fans who came with the team to watch the game set off a wave in the stands, although their numbers were small, but the explosion of noise resounded throughout the Podgorica stadium, and there was a great tendency to be anti-guest.

The Italian players in the field rushed to the player who scored the goal, and Balotelli was originally very happy, but when he saw the opponent's face clearly, he couldn't help but punch the turf, and his mouth made an unwilling voice: "ciao!"

Because it was Descartes who scored the goal.

Descartes also noticed Balotelli's changing face, and after celebrating with his teammates, he walked up to Balotelli with a smile on his face, and asked, "How is it, did you take it this time?" ”

Balotelli pursed his lips hatefully, and wanted to turn his head away, but no matter how much he said it, he was still a man of words, and even if he was unwilling in his heart, he had to stubbornly answer to Descartes: "Well, you win, from now on, you are the eldest and I am the second!" ”

Descartes laughed, it's really getting more and more interesting, he, a junior in the national team, actually has a little brother, Balotelli, you are still my defeat! (To be continued.) )