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This team is definitely the most glorious team in World Cup history, having won four World Cups, two runners-up and one third-place finish. Italy is third in the overall ranking of the all-time World Cup record, behind Brazil and Germany.

Italy's traditional jersey is a blue shirt, white pants and blue socks, its nickname is azzurri (blue, Italian), and the Chinese nickname is "Blue Warrior".

The team did not participate in the first World Cup in 1930 due to historical wars, and then won back-to-back World Cups on home soil in 1934 and France in 1938 without losing a single match, becoming the first World Cup champions to defend the title.

However, the ensuing outbreak of the Second World War had a huge impact on Italian football, and after the Second World War, the Italian team failed to qualify from the group stage in four consecutive World Cups, especially in the 1966 World Cup, where they lost 0-1 to North Korea in the final game of the group stage, creating one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history, and the results of the two-time champions fell into a slump.

It wasn't until the 70s of the last century that Italian football re-emerged.

In the 1970 World Cup, Italy went all the way and beat Beckenbauer's Germany in the semi-finals to reach the final, but against the Brazilian team led by the football champion Pele, the Italian team looked fragmented defensively, and in the end they lost 1-4 to Brazil, only to finish as runners-up.

The 1982 World Cup was very strange for the Italians.

In the group stage, they played three draws in three games and managed to finish second in the group with only three points, and then the Italians were placed in a group with the two giants of South America, Argentina and Brazil, and there were hardly any fans who were optimistic about the prospects of the Italian team, but the Italians still performed miracles.

The main central defender Gentille successfully marked Maradona and Zico in two consecutive games, and the golden boy Rossi also broke the goal drought against Brazil, scoring all three goals and scoring a hat-trick.

After the most difficult two hurdles, the rest of the matches were easier for the Italians, who beat Poland 2-0 in the semi-finals (Rossi scored twice) and won the World Cup for the third time with a 3-1 win over West Germany (Rossi opened the scoring).

Italy have learned a lot from this world tournament, with the team's top scorer Rossi being the top scorer with six goals, and the 40-year-old goalkeeper captain Zoff becoming the oldest player to lift the World Cup.

In 1990, Italy failed to win the World Cup on home soil, falling to the Argentines in the semi-finals and finishing third. In 1994, Italy reached the final with five goals scored by superstar Baggio in the knockout round, but unfortunately they lost to Brazil on penalties in the final and were runners-up.

In 1998, Italy faced hosts France in the quarter-finals, and after 120 minutes of battle, Italy were eliminated on penalties. In the last World Cup, the Italian team was the saddest.

Perhaps the South Koreans paid private bribes to the referee, but in short, the referee was heavily biased towards the hosts and blew out Italy's goal in the game. As a result, they were dragged into extra time by South Korea, and finally Italy lost to South Korea with a golden goal.

It is worth mentioning that this match is also considered one of the darkest matches in the history of the World Cup.

And now, the favourites in recent decades are once again in the final.

Serie A has always been known as the "Little World Cup", even in recent years due to the rise of the Premier League and La Liga has had some impact on the influence of Serie A, but in FIFA's evaluation, Serie A still surpasses the Premier League as the most influential league in the world.

The Serie A league is definitely full of stars, and with some policy influence of the Italian Football Federation, the Italian stars that have emerged in the league can fully meet the requirements of the national team, and they can even switch to attacking football.

After the silver fox Lippi took over as the national team coach, he has repeatedly publicly stated that he wants to bring "fresh air" to the Italian national team, and he has done it, and Italy has qualified for the World Cup qualifiers.

But the biggest test for the "Silver Fox" has just arrived, and this final is a test of Italy's strength, and for Italy, who are full of masters, not winning the championship almost means failure.

However, their opponents were England, who were known as 'undefeated'.

This filled the Italian with a tense atmosphere, because they were not absolutely sure about beating the current England team, but the game was about to take place, and the manager Lippi could only try to prepare his players for the game, and whether they would succeed or fail could only be seen in the performance

For the media, everyone is still optimistic about the England team in this game, because the England team has a superstar who has surpassed the century-old history of football, and such a star has a great impact on the game.

No one can deny Wang Li's strength.

The reason why Italy's head coach Lippi is not sure to win is that the England team has such a super scorer as Wang Li.

If you look at the data, Wang Li can almost score 3 goals in one game in the previous World Cup.

It would be like Italy playing against a 10-man England team, but they were three goals behind at the start, and they must ensure that they can score four goals against such an England team to have any hope of winning.

Just hopefully.

What if this brunette kid bursts into 4 goals?

Lippi really has no guarantee of this, because he doesn't know Wang Li. Wang Li has never been to Serie A, and Lippi can only see Wang Li's performance from the video, and this performance is not as direct as watching it live.

All he knew was that this brunette kid was strong, really strong!

The dribbling is first-class, the physical confrontation is very strong, the long-range shooting ability is outstanding, the ability to grab points in front of the goal is very good, and the physical fitness is almost infinite or the shortcomings are only average consciousness and average heading ability.

This is not a disadvantage at all.

In the face of such a super player who is equivalent to at least two Maradona, Lippi Xiang broke his head and didn't know how to defend, he could only ask the players to pay more attention to Wang Li when playing.

Perhaps, with the Italian style of zone defense, how can you limit this kid.

Perhaps.

Anyway, during the European Champions Cup, AC Milan did not do a good job in this regard, and Lippi did not know how effective it was, but Lippi had confidence in the team, because Italy's all-star squad was very full, and the England all-star team was already full of injuries.

That's right, before the final, there was another bad news from the England team - Ashley. Cole was injured during a training match!!

This is great bad news for the England team, which is already poor in the back line.

Now in England's backline, the main player Rio Ferdinand is injured, the defender Frank Lampard is injured, and goalkeeper Thomas. Clark is also injured, and now it's Ashley's turn. Cole.

At this time, Campbell and Jamie. Carragher doesn't have to fight for the starting line-up at all.

In the absence of a major general in the England team, they will definitely be able to start at the same time, but this makes McLaren frustratedly pull his hair, and before the final, hearing such a news, no one will feel much better.

How else is this lineup arranged?

At least on the back line, McLaren has no choice at all, Terry, Campbell, Carragher, Neville, these four will definitely be the main force.

And on the midline, Joe. Kerr will definitely get a chance, and the others are only Gerrard, Wang Li, Beckham, Hargreaves and others, but Beckham's form has been very bad in recent training matches and games, and Hargreaves' form is not satisfactory.

The only thing that reassures McLaren is the forward line.

Rooney returned from suspension, and with the addition of Owen, Harrierson, Wang Li, Crouch and others, the England forward line even seemed very crowded compared to the two positions.

As for the goalkeepers, except for Paul, who often makes small mistakes. He had no choice but Robinson, and as for the third goalkeeper?

He couldn't even name him.

And the Italian side

At the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the capital of Germany, the on-site commentators have already begun to introduce the starting line-ups of the two teams.

"Here's the Italian team!"

"The Italian team is a 4312 formation, the starting forwards are Gilardino and Toni, the forward is the Roman prince Totti, the three midfielders are Gattuso, Pirlo and Camoranesi, the defenders Grosso, Cannavaro, Nesta and Zambrotta, and the goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon."

As soon as this lineup was unveiled, it caused cheers from the entire stadium.

The England team is still 442, goalkeeper Robinson, defenders Terry, Campbell, Carragher, Neville, midfielder Joe. Kerr, Wang Li, Gerrard and Jenas, the front line is still Rooney and Irving.

This time, David. David Beckham was on the bench and his form was really worrying, while McClaren opted for Jenas to take his place.

Jermaine. Jenas is only 23 years old and now plays for Aston Villa, he made a name for himself at Forest back in 2001, and at the age of 19 he was eyed by the giants Newcastle United Football Club (formerly known as the Magpies are also the top three teams in the league, and their prestige is better than Chelsea), and he bought him for 5 million pounds, and he helped the team to the top three that season and won the PFA Best Rookie of the Year.

In 2002, Eriksen promoted him to senior national team.

Although such a player seems to be a little immature in experience and skills, he can no longer be trusted than Beckham, who is not in good shape.

In this starting lineup of the England team, except for Gerrard, Wang Li, Rooney, and Owen, the reputation of the others is much worse, compared to the Italian team's Totti, Buffon, Cannavaro, Nesta, Zambrotta, Pirlo all-star lineup, obviously worse.

Therefore, many fans at the scene shouted the name of the Italian team.

England have already lost first in terms of star players before the start of the game, but that doesn't seem to have much impact on the game, and England's attack still looks strong.

The England team has the right to kick off, and the first attack played brilliantly, after a few brief cooperation, Wang Li shook off Zambrotta with his right foot in the penalty area and directly hit the goal!

It's a pity that the football flew out of the bottom line by grazing the post.

But this also made all the players of the Italian team break out in a cold sweat. Some of them are from AC Milan, and they have really faced Wang Li in the game, so they know Wang Li's strength. Some people come from other clubs and have never met Wang Li on the field at all.

After this attack, such a player immediately increased his vigilance index against Wang Li a lot. They found out that the coach's instructions before the game were definitely not untargeted, where is this black-haired kid two Maradona, even if it is not an exaggeration to say three Maradona.

It was too dangerous to almost score a goal with a shot from such a distance.

However, such thinking did not hinder the Italian offensive.

England's attack looked really powerful, but it was a big gap in defence, and when Italy pulled out the attack, with the aging Campbell, the in-form Carragher, and Manchester United's Gary. Neville, this backline is really difficult to stop the Italian attack.

Thankfully, there is also a Chelsea captain, John Brown. Terry, this time Italy's attack, was cut off by Terry directly on the line of the penalty area, and as a result, England played another wave of powerful attacks.

It's Wang Li!!

After receiving the pass in midfield, Wang Li shook three Italian players in a row, and then shook the opponent on the penalty line, and then kicked a very powerful and accurate shot, but unfortunately, the ball was saved by Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.

Don't forget the Italian door gods!

Buffon!

This name that will always be remembered as a goalkeeper, maybe Kahn has been defeated at the feet of Wang Li, but the younger Buffon has been born!!

Seeing this save, a smile appeared on the corner of Wang Li's mouth, and he felt that he had met his opponent again.

The feeling of rubbing the opponent is really refreshing......

Perhaps.

The Italians thought the same thing, at least their all-star offensive line was very strong in grinding England's back line, and in the 11th minute of the game, Italy opened the scoring with striker Alberto. Gilardino.

It was a very accurate shot.

But the goal seems to have become unimportant because of England's goalkeeper Paul. Robinson is injured!!

This guy may have been too excited just now, when he pounced on the ball, he fell directly on the grass, and then directly held his head in his hands and struggled in pain

This scene made England coach McClaren's heart sink directly into the bottom of the abyss.

The main reason is that in this game, he did not arrange the third goalkeeper Carson on the bench, which may be McClaren's mistake, but it is also a helpless move, because the England team's backline is really worrying, and he has only a few substitute places, he has placed two fronts in midfield and back.

And who would have thought that the last time Thomas was injured, Robinson would be injured in this game???

The awkward atmosphere has been spreading.

For this reason, the referee even stopped the game for 3 minutes and let the England team discuss countermeasures, which made the media who were optimistic about the England team before the game all start to be optimistic about the Italian team.

After only 10 minutes of the game, England lost their goalkeeper, who is undoubtedly more important than Wang Li.

Wang Li can only score, but the goalkeeper can concede.

After a sweaty discussion, McLaren finally came up with a decision, and he asked the self-recommended Phil . Neville put on a goalkeeper's suit and stood in front of the England goal.

At this time, the silver fox Lippi finally saw the hope of victory. The old man even laughed out loud right out loud in the coach's seat!!

In the eyes of ordinary people, the England team has no goalkeeper, how to play and win this goal!!

It can almost be said that as long as there is a chance, Italy will be able to score, the important surname of a goalkeeper is really much bigger than a striker, a professional goalkeeper can save all kinds of dangerous balls, and a non-professional defender as a temporary goalkeeper, maybe not to throw the ball into his own goal, it is already very lucky

Is this how Italy has won? Of course not, at least on the pitch Wang Li did not think that Italy would definitely win.

Just now, Wang Li wanted to recommend himself to be a goalkeeper.

Although he has almost never been a goalkeeper, this has never hindered Wang Li's goalkeeping level, and Wang Li's best position should be the goalkeeper position.

Tianshan Folding Plum Hand, Great Compassion Chiba Hand, even the most basic Arhat boxing, all are martial arts moves in the hand, when these internal martial arts that can even grasp bullets in their hands, what will be the situation when they are used on the football field?

What if you add the light martial arts of the Tianshan Coffin Palace?

Nobody knows.

However, Wang Li is very confident that if he stands in the goalkeeper position, the Italian team still wants to score???

Dream on!!!!!

Although Wang Li doesn't like the goalkeeper position, but this is the World Cup final, the England team and himself can almost touch the Hercules Cup, at this moment, how can he give up the victory because of his reluctance!!

It's a once-in-a-four opportunity.

However, England are now one goal behind.

Even if Wang Li is now going to be the goalkeeper and ensuring that he can keep a clean sheet throughout the game, this will not solve the problem at all, because he cannot guarantee that England will equalize.

Without him on the pitch, he didn't really believe in England's so-called 'luxury attacking line', these team-mates were already too dependent on themselves, they weren't there, and it was difficult, very difficult for them to break through Italy's defence and score goals.

(To be continued)