Chapter 350: A Different Olympics (5)

Just as favourites Brazil were knocked out of the tournament by a hat-trick from Kanu at Zuihou and had to go to the bronze medal match, the semi-finals between Italy and Argentina were about to begin.

Zhuang Mingge appeared in the stands of this semi-final on time, and he wanted to see if the Italian Olympic team, which was many times stronger than history, could reach the final under his influence.

Needless to say, the Italian Olympic team can be regarded as changing the direction of history by qualifying from the group this time.

But then again, the Italian Olympic team in history is really a waste material, compared to the previous Italian youth team that won the European Youth Championship, the Italian Olympic team at that time was only missing a Panucci who retired due to injury on the field, and as a result, they only defeated South Korea in three Olympic group stage matches, and failed to win one of the two games against Ghana and Mexico.

"Antonio, do you think Italy can win this game?" Originally, Zhuang Mingge planned to take the people-friendly route and watch the game in the ordinary stands, but because Rebecca, Karin and Alyssa all objected to this, Zhuang Mingge Zuihou still chose to watch the game in the VIP box, "Haven't you always judged the results of this kind of knockout game very accurately, come and predict it for us!" โ€

Hearing Rebecca say this, Karin and Alyssa also stared at Zhuang Mingge expectantly, hoping that the man they fancied could bring them a surprise again.

"Well, that's hard to say." Zhuang Mingge's face was embarrassed when he heard this, he always pretended to be clever in a few beauties before, and this time he finally knew what it meant to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot, he guessed it accurately because it was the result of his own memory, and now this game has never happened in history, if he guesses wrong, isn't it smashing his own signboard?

In fact, what is more important is that guessing wrong will make Zhuang Mingge lose face in front of these beauties, of course, Zhuang Mingge will never admit this......

For this Argentine Olympic team, Zhuang Mingge still knows many of these players, such as Crespo, who has always been half-red in football, Ayala, the later double captain of Valencia and the Argentine national team, Zanetti, the greatest foreign captain in the history of Inter Milan, Claudio Lรณpez, "Little Donkey" Ortega, Almeida, three overage players San Sini, Chamote and Diego Simeone, etc......

In Zhuang Mingge's view, if it weren't for Kanu's god-like performance in this Olympic Games, Brazil and Argentina would be the most powerful contenders for the gold medal, and even Italy would still be a cut behind.

However, due to Zhuang Mingge's crossing, Fiorentina has trained a large number of newcomers while rising rapidly, and the brothers are stronger than Lindeli, Zambrotta, Di Biagio, Vieri and Inzaghi brothers are more capable than the same period in history, and Panucci, who should have retired due to injury, also came to the United States this time, and it is this change that has greatly increased the strength of the Italian Olympic team, becoming a popular team not inferior to Brazil and Argentina.

"That, I think Italy is better than Argentina in terms of individual ability, but the defense line composed of Sansini, Chamotte, and Zanetti is the level of the Argentine national team, and these people are more tacit than Italy in terms of cooperation......" Zhuang Mingge considered his words, trying to delay time with some ambiguous words to get through.

"Hey, Antonio, this doesn't look like your style, don't hide it, tell us your judgment, the game is about to start, if you don't say anything...... I'll sentence you to death! Rebecca's words pierced Zhuang Mingge's small abacus, and at the same time playfully gestured with her right hand to shoot a pistol.

Forget it, it's better to smash the signboard than to make them unhappy, Zhuang Mingge sighed in his heart, carefully pondered the comparison of the lineups of the two sides, and made a judgment: "I am more optimistic about the Italian Olympic team, after all, according to the data, Argentina's main goalkeeper Pablo Caballero has not got a few opportunities to play in the Sarsfield Club, and the game experience is not as good as Pagliuca on our side, so it is inevitable that there will be some mistakes due to lack of experience when making some saves, And Inzaghi on our side...... Ahem, it's better not to say it. โ€

Zhuang Mingge doesn't need to say it directly, after all, what Inzaghi's playing style is like, several people present know it, Rebecca and Karin nodded and agreed with Zhuang Mingge's words.

Regarding Caballero's judgment, Zhuang Mingge is still quite confident. Although this goalkeeper had played in the 98 French Shijie Cup in his previous life, he was also the backup goalkeeper of the Argentine national team at that time, and the main goalkeeper of Argentina at that time was Carlos Roa.

Later, although he became the No. 1 goalkeeper of the Argentine national team in the Bielsa era, I believe everyone knows that Argentina under Bielsa, although he performed very well in the Shijie Cup qualifiers, did not even qualify for the group stage in the Shijie Cup in Japan and South Korea, and Caballero's performance in the Shijie Cup was also quite average.

Caballero's club career was lackluster than his impressive international career, and he didn't do much in Argentina and then only played well for a few years in La Liga, before quickly sinking with Celta's relegation.

It can be seen that Caballero's strength is at best a second-rate level, he will not make any low-level mistakes in normal times, and he can defend the door if his teammates play well, but if his teammates do not give strength, it is unrealistic to expect him to step up and save the team.

"The other thing is that Passarella's midfield is far from their backline." Zhuang Mingge pointed out another goal in the Argentine lineup, "Although Bsetdes and Hugo Morales, who are in charge of the two wings of the team, are well-known in Argentina, their defensive ability can only be regarded as better than nothing, so the Argentine team's midfield is actually only Almeida full-time defense, and such protection measures are obviously not enough to resist Italy's counterattack." โ€

Of course, Zhuang Mingge will not say that he has never heard of the names of these two players in his previous life, and what he has not heard of is definitely not a good player, Zhuang Mingge, who has played from CM4 to the FM2012 version, has this confidence.

"That's it, it's going to be a big pain to underestimate our Italian counterattack!" Rebecca also chimed in that as an Italian, she naturally wants to support her country's team.

Just when several people were discussing hotly, the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, and the second semi-final of the Atlanta Olympics football tournament officially began!