Chapter 950: Summer in the Netherlands (8)
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With Italy's line-up out of the way, let's take a look at Romania's starting eleven.
Unlike a talent-rich Italy, Romania's starting line-up doesn't have much to guess about. Goalkeeper Stellea, the back four from left to right, Zivo, Filipescu, Garca and Sio Botariou, the midfield quartet of Montejanu, Patras, Beloddic and the "midfield schemer" Hadji, and the forward line a combination of Adrian Mutu and Moldovan Motordow.
Although Romania still have the likes of Petroscu and Iliye on the bench, the role they can play now after their form has slipped in the past season is only to scare people with their former reputation. If they really want to put on the battle and fight the real Italian guns, then I am afraid that the result will only be a fiasco.
In recent years, with the gradual aging of Hadji, Petroscu and others, only a few players such as Zivo and Mutu are up to the task, and the others have no strength to compete with the top European teams. And this means that Romanian football, which was once glorious in the eighties and nineties of the last century, has now become a thing of the past and is destined to be removed from the list of European football powers.
Like Yugoslav football, once known as the "Brazilian team of Europe", the decline of Romanian football was inevitable. After all, the drastic changes in Eastern Europe in the late 80s and early 90s destroyed not only the ideology of the Eastern European countries for decades, but also the economic systems and mechanisms that had already taken shape in each country.
There is a good saying that the economic base determines the superstructure. Now these European countries that are in the process of institutional transformation cannot even do a minimum of economic construction, and can only rely on cheap sales of state-owned assets and international aid to survive.
However, at this time, Yu Wei, a star cultivated under the national system such as Haji, is still there, and the Romanian national team, which has added fresh blood such as Mutu and Zivo, is still quite combative. Otherwise, the Three Lions led by Keegan would have lost too much.
I have to say that England's unexpected defeat to Romania in the group stage served as a good wake-up call for the Italians, allowing these Italian players, who were originally a little contemptuous of this opponent, to correct their attitudes and start preparing for the game seriously.
At the same time, it is precisely because of the importance attached to Romania that after the start of the game, Italy did not rush to attack by relying on its strength to be one level higher than its opponents. The players, under the command of Albertini, pressed the entire formation towards the Romanian half with great care!
Seeing that the opponent was so cautious and cautious, Haji, who knew the difference in strength between the two sides, couldn't help but feel anxious in his heart. Because he knows that Romania is no longer the top team that could compete with these Western European powers six years ago, and most people, including him, are already dying, and neither physical nor competitive condition can compare to their peak.
Therefore, for Romania nowadays, like an assassin, finding the opponent's flaws and delivering a fatal blow is the most suitable way for them to play. If you want to fight with your opponent throughout the match as you did before, and divide the winners and losers in a dignified manner, you will only waste the lack of physical strength of these veterans led by Haji, and increase the winning chips for your opponents.
However, despite his anxiety about the situation on the pitch, Hagee did not let this disappoint him, and against a steady Italy side, the midfield conspirator led his team-mates to lay a heavy defensive line to stop the opposition's attack, while looking for opportunities to deliver the fatal blow to their opponents.
Seeing that the opponent took the initiative to shrink the defense line to lure them to press the attack, the Italian players were not fooled, and they became more careful in the subsequent attack with an understanding of the Romanian's strategic intentions, so as not to be counterattacked by the opponent and then lead the gate to be lost.
If Italy, as a top defensive counter-attacking expert, were successfully stolen by Romania and eventually died under their own signature skill, then Italy will become the talk of the fans for many years to come?
"Remember the Euro 2000 match between Italy and Romania? That's right, the game in which Italy were killed by Romania with their best defensive counter-attack! "If you lose, then people will probably say that about this game and the Italian national team in the future......
Perhaps God's favor, Romania seized an opportunity from Italy in the first half and played a brilliant quick counter-attack - Zivo, who had cut off the ball at Fiore's feet, kicked the ball forward with a precise long pass, and Hadji, who shook off Antonio Conte's mark, unloaded the flying ball with his left foot without slowing down, and deftly deceived the snatching Cannavaro before dribbling into the box!
Nesta, who was on the other side of the penalty area, didn't expect that this old Haji still had the combat power to break through the defense of two teammates in a row at this age, although he had the heart to go over to make up for the defense, but looking at Mutu and Moldovan who were eyeing not far away, Nesta still hesitated after all. If he had pounced so rashly, Haji would have chosen to pass the ball, and whoever got the ball would have a chance to hit the empty net.
While Nesta hesitated, Toldo had already left the door and pounced in the direction of Haji! Knowing Nesta's embarrassing situation at this time, he did not pin his hopes on this club teammate at all, but chose to take the initiative to reduce Haji's space and shooting route in this way, so as to increase the success rate of his own saves!
However, Toldo's tricks did not have much effect on the well-informed Haji, who pounced on him with teeth and claws, and Haji directly used his right foot to make an imaginative lob shot!
The ball went past Toldo's outstretched arm and made a graceful arc towards the goal behind him, but it was a pity......
"Oh! What a shame! Lineker shouted regretfully in the live broadcast room, "Ha Guitar broke through the Italians' defense, and his lob shot successfully passed through Toldo's defense, but in the end it was lost to luck!" The ball actually hit the far post of the goal and bounced off the bottom line! The Romanians will be punished for squandering their best chance of scoring in the game! ”
Lineker was right, Hadji's lob shot was the closest Romania had come to scoring in the game!