At the start of the second half, Germany began to attack violently.

Italy, on the other hand, continued to intercept in the midfield as they did in the first half, even if they were physically exhausted with each other, so that Germany could not advance smoothly.

And when the opponent occasionally created opportunities through personal breakthroughs, the Italian complied with Pan Yi's instructions and did not hesitate to use fouls to block the opponent's attack.

Since the entanglement between the two sides is more in the midfield, even if a free kick is given to Germany, they can only drive it out and continue to attack, and cannot use the free kick to create too good scoring opportunities.

"Hell!" Seeing that the German team's attack was repeatedly blocked, the anxious Loew on the sidelines cursed in a muffled voice, and then slapped the bench seat hard.

Now they are still two goals behind, who is in a hurry if he is not in a hurry?

Soon, Brandt, Reus, and the forward players, including Gomez, were sent out by Loew to warm up.

At present, the biggest problem of the German team is that the attack cannot be scored, and the score is behind, and Loew must of course strengthen the forward line.

After a few more minutes of observation, Loew finally decided to make a substitution, and it was a direct substitution.

Draxler and Muller were both substituted with Brandt and Reuss.

Germany are now lacking in wide breakers, and Loew hopes that Brandt and Reus can help open up the game when they go up.

However, the Italian team was really prepared.

As soon as the two men came up, they were immediately targeted by Desiglio and Spinazzola, and then quickly fell into various physical confrontations.

"Now it seems that there are really a lot of problems in Germany." Evani said next to him.

Although Italy uses the tactics of dense defense, a strong team like Germany will inevitably face the opponent's dense defense, and it is normal to have experience.

For example, in the qualifying stage, almost every team has to play defense against Germany, but Germany has not averaged more than four goals per game?

Whether or not it can break through the opponent's iron bucket formation can show the strength of this team from the side.

But today, Germany has not even attacked more effectively, and most of the time they just pass the ball back and forth, but there is not much threat.

On the one hand, the Italian team's defense is really difficult to break under Pan Yi's construction, and on the other hand, it is also because of the Germans' own problems, they are too persistent in controlling the ball at their feet, and the tempo has become extremely slow, which is easy to defend.

The Germans sometimes tried to change the pace and push forward with individual breakthroughs, but they were heavily defended by Italy in the middle, which prevented them from advancing a single inch.

As for grabbing points in front of goal, with Werner's body, it is really harder to grab points on the heads of Bonucci and Chiellini when Italy recovers the defense!

At this time, Vialli also smiled and said: "We were lucky today, and we seized three or four good opportunities." After two goals down, their mentality has changed, otherwise if they had been patient and attacked, I am afraid we would not have been able to defend so easily. ”

Pan Yi nodded, expressing his agreement with the remarks of the two assistants, but his eyes kept staring at the field: "Steady, stabilize for a while, they won't be able to." ”

Sure enough, when the Germans were unable to break into the Italian penalty area after successive attacks, their attacks began to appear more impatient.

Kroos clearly increased his long-range shots, and his accuracy was really good and he was a threat to the Italian goal, but Donnarumma was solid enough not to let the ball get into his own home.

Seeing that almost half an hour had passed in the second half, but there was still no way to take the opponent's strict defense, Loew finally used up the third substitution.

This time, he replaced the defender Goretzka with center Gomez to let go and strengthen the attack!

At this time, the formation of the German team also became a strong 4-2-4, with Reuss, Brandt, Werner, and Gomez all four arrows!

And Pan Yi only changed the first person at this time.

He replaced Scamacca with Balotelli.

After the substitution, the Italian players dropped back further, leaving only one Balotelli in front, with the likes of Insigne and Chiesa Jr. moving back to the wing-back position.

With the addition of a back three, a back four and a goalkeeper, the spectacle of 10 men on the pitch involved in the defense made the Germans hate it, but they still had nothing to do with Italy, which could not be retracted.

That's why Scamacca was replaced, as Balotelli's pace would obviously come in handy with just one striker.

And once there is an opportunity to play a long ball high, Balotelli, although he is not as advantageous as Scamacca in the aerial competition, is still much better than those who usually play as wingers, such as Shaarawy and Raspadori.

Now, Italy is really driving a bus in front of the door!

Seeing this, the German fans at the scene let out a sea of boos.

In response, Italian fans responded with disdain:

"We're ahead, we're two goals ahead, we're ...... blah"

Yes, defence is in the Italians and they don't have any complaints about their own team playing defensive football.

This kind of support also allows the Italian internationals on the field to defend more comfortably.

The understanding and support of the fans is also very important.

In some teams, especially big club teams, if the team's style of play is too defensive, the fans will have an opinion, and may even boo their players and coaches.

Under such pressure, there are teams that are sometimes forced to attack, even if the attack may not be suitable for the situation on the field.

Although Pan Yi is not very affected by external factors, he still likes this kind of support.

In the next ten minutes, Pan Yi also made substitutions one after another, but they were all in the opposite position.

El Shaarawy and Raspadori came on to replace Insigne and Chiesa Jr.

This is mainly due to the fact that after a full-blown defence, the two wingers actually play in the wing-back position, running more distance on the wings and exerting more energy.

Replace them and you can use the more physical new forces to continue to support the defense on both sides.

In the 85th minute, on the contrary, Italy, which seemed to have been passively defending, scored again!

First, a German attack was disrupted, and Germany won a direct free-kick close to 30 meters from goal.

But Kroos's free-kick was blocked by Donnarumma sideways with one hand, Desiglio took the ball on the side and handed it to Verratti, Verratti took the ball forward and passed straight to the left side of the penalty area, Spinazzo, who was inserted, crossed with his feet, and Raspadori at the back point received the ball and shot less than 20 meters from the goal was blocked by Neuer!

However, the ball flew back to Raspadori and the youngster immediately crossed again, and El Shaarawy, who followed up in the middle, flicked his head home from close range!

“3：0！ Italy sealed the win once and for all! There won't be any more suspense in this game, maybe what Germany has to do is try to score a goal in the next game to save some face......"

Lineker teased the German national team, while Loew on the pitch sighed in disappointment and sat back in his place.

Twelve years ago, at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Loew was still an assistant coach of the German team when he watched his team be beaten 2-0 at home by Italy and failed to reach the final.

Then in 2012, this time in the semi-finals of the European Championships, Germany were already in charge of Loew, but Balotelli's genius once again helped Italy beat Germany 2-0, leaving Germany unable to attack the final again.

And this time, the Germans were again taught a hard lesson by the Italians!

What if Germany can score a goal? Losing is already inevitable......

Loew lost confidence, as did the German players on the pitch.

What does it mean to be three goals behind against Pan Yi's team? Everyone knows this, especially the players who have a record with Pan Yi.

In the remaining minutes, the two sides entered a melee, Germany's offensive efficiency became worse and worse, and their shots were either deflected or blocked by defenders with their bodies in the remaining minutes, and finally when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score was fixed at 3:0!

Three-goal win over Germany! Italy left a brilliant victory in the first game of the group stage of this World Cup!

Loew didn't stand up until the end of the game and went to shake Pan Yi's hand.

He didn't have much to say about the loss in this game, Italy played quite well and had good luck, while his team was always unable to play its true strength......

Now Loew also understands why the German team can't play? is because of the tactical constraints on Pan Yi everywhere.

Compared with Pan Yi, he is still too tender......

After a few words of greeting with Loew, Pan Yi began to high-five the Italian players one by one with a smile on his face to celebrate this nice victory.

Having won this game, at least in the group stage, the Italian team will become more comfortable.

What's more, in the face of a strong team like Germany, the Italian players performed very well, which also gave everyone a strong confidence that under the leadership of Pan Yi, this Italy team may really be able to make a difference in this World Cup!

Of course, the outside world was quite shocked by the result of this game.

After all, this is a strong conversation, but it turned out to be a score that seems to be strong and weak.

In contrast, the strong teams that have played in the past few days have actually taken advantage of nothing.

For example, the French team only relied on an own goal in the last minute of the game to beat Australia 2:1.

Another example is Argentina, who were also held to a 1-1 draw against Iceland.

And the five-star Brazil, which also played 1:1 with the Swiss team, did not taste victory.

But the Italian team, which stumbled in the qualifying stage, directly won a 3:0 victory in the clash with the previous champion Germany!

The state of the Italian team is astonishing, and more people have seen the overall improvement of Italy at the tactical level under the leadership of Pan Yi.

Of course, if you're a neutral fan, the fans watching the game on TV probably don't think it's a good game – even though there were three goals in the game.

Germany's attack was messy, and Italy basically defended with a tight attack except for the opening press, and two counter-attacks extended the lead to 3-0.

Most fans will probably be first intrigued by Italy's onslaught in the opening game, and then immediately drowsy by the dull game.

Just when they thought they were going to go into half-time, Italy's counter-attacking goal lifted them up again, followed by a long period of drowsiness.

The third Italian counter-attack then prepared them to see the end, but unfortunately there were no exciting shots to motivate them......

However, in the eyes of professionals, including experienced football coaches, the game is a classic.

No one can say that Italy's strength is stronger than Germany's, in fact, on the whole, the real strength of Italian players is actually inferior to Germany's.

However, Germany's head coach Loew was almost led by Pan Yi throughout the game, and his solid defense coupled with sharp counterattacks forced a seemingly impossible score of 3:0.

Of course, for Italian fans, it doesn't matter what kind of spectacle or professionalism, the important thing is that their team defeated the Germans with three goals and achieved an advantage in the group!

In the other match of the first round of the group stage, the Dragon Kingdom and Mexico fought for 90 minutes without success, and the two sides played a 0:0 match!

In this game, Lippi obviously knew that there was a gap between his team and Mexico in strength, so he also learned from Pan Yi and put up a big bus formation to defend, and as a result, all the players of the Dragon Country team united and really defended to the end!

This is not a good result for Mexico, but it is epoch-making in the history of Dragon Country football.

Because this is the first point scored by the Dragon Country team in the World Cup!

"A goal, a point, a win."

This advanced goal of the year, I didn't expect it to be achieved first by "scoring one point".

The draw also means that Italy will be able to qualify from this group one round earlier if they beat Mexico in the second round.

Although Mexico have never been easy to pinch, they have been guaranteed to qualify at least from the group stage in every tournament since the 1986 World Cup on home soil!

But now Pan Yi's team is full of morale, can beat Germany 3-0, and can't win a small Mexico?

After celebrating the big win in the first game, the media and fans in Italy basically agreed that they would take advantage of the victory and use the second victory to qualify for the group and prepare for the knockout stage in advance!

Even within Italy, the players think the same.

They don't necessarily know why the game against Germany was so easy, but it was a fact that the victory was a complete morale boost for all the players.

However, in the face of such a high demand in Italy, Pan Yi maintained cautious optimism.

"Win Mexico and qualify early? But let's not forget that our record against Mexico is worse than against Germany in our history......"

Pan Yi's "poor" does not mean that Italy often loses to Mexico, but at least it does not win.

As early as the 1994 World Cup group stage, Italy were placed in a group with Mexico, and as a result, their group also created a deuce in world football.

They played Norway and Ireland with one win, one draw and one defeat for each team, and then all four teams were evenly scored, and after calculating the goal difference and goal difference, the hapless Norway were eliminated from the tournament, while Italy were lucky to finish third in the group.

In direct dialogue with Mexico, Italy drew 1:1 with their opponents.

Then there was the more famous game in the 2002 World Cup, when Italy also played 1:1 with Mexico, and Mexican striker Borgetti scored a goal guarded by Buffon with a retrospective look, which can also be regarded as a classic moment in the history of the World Cup.

In short, Pan Yi thinks that a team like Mexico may not even be able to win the Dragon Country team when it doesn't go well, but once it goes crazy, no team in the world dares to say that it won them.

Or it can be said that in Pan Yi's mind, Mexico is actually more difficult to deal with than Germany, because at least they are a whole, and Germany is fighting separately.

A team like Mexico, which does not have top superstars, but does not lack quality players and is united at the same time, is the real hard bone to gnaw! ——

Soon, the first round of the World Cup group stage was over.

In addition to this match between Germany and Italy, there is also a strong match in the first round, which is the Iberian Derby between Portugal and Spain.

In the end, with Ronaldo's hat-trick, Portugal drew 3:3 with Spain.

Of course, there are many famous scenes in this game, such as Ramos almost went to celebrate after Ronaldo scored, Nacho's flying immortals, etc., but the most famous is to dedicate a "swimming dragon" position.

The other matches were "Poland is not surprised", Poland lost 1:2 to Senegal, and Japan beat Colombia 2:1, which cannot be regarded as an upset.

Including Belgium and England both wins, it is also reasonable.

So in the first round of the game, the most impressive was the Italian team led by Pan Yi.

After the big win over Germany, the Italian team, which was only ranked ninth in the odds to win the championship, suddenly jumped to second place, second only to Brazil, which is the favorite to win the championship every time.

The last champion Germany, who was originally ranked second, dropped to seventh place, which is the same as England.

Judging from the odds offered by the bookmaker, those who have hopes of winning this World Cup are, of course, those traditional strong teams.

Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Argentina, Belgium, England, Portugal, Italy, these nine teams are the most favorites.

Teams like Croatia, Uruguay, Colombia, and Russia, including the host country, have some strength, but at most they can act as spoilers, and it is difficult to challenge for the championship.

However, more people also believe that the World Cup has just begun, and one game will not prove too much.

Just like in the group stage of the 2010 World Cup, the Spanish team lost to the Swiss team, but in the end, didn't they win all the way to the championship?

Therefore, even if the German team suffered a heavy defeat in the first round, it is possible for them to counterattack after regrouping.

As for the Italian team, it remains to be seen, after all, in the history of the World Cup, there are many teams that have won big but failed in the end.

In such a tournament-based world competition, consistent performance is the biggest factor that determines the results!

In Group F, the gap between the first and second rounds is five days, and those five days go by quickly.

Soon, the second round of the competition was in full swing!

Sick, late update today, sorry

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