On June 27, the final round of Group F of the 2018 World Cup officially kicked off.

The last two were naturally played at the same time, Germany vs Mexico and Italy vs Dragons, and both were at 22:00 BJ.

The World Cup has its own national team in such a prime time, coupled with the element of Pan Yi, and the ratings of the Italy VS Dragon Country in the Dragon Country exploded directly.

Almost every household is watching the game live!

Before the final round of Group F, the previous groups had already completed their group stage schedules.

With Uruguay and Russia qualifying in Group A, Portugal and Spain in Group B, France and Denmark in Group C, and Croatia and Argentina in Group D, it can be said that there are basically no major upsets.

In Group E, where Pan Yi is most concerned, Brazil defeated Serbia 2-0 in the final round, while Switzerland drew 2-2 with Costa Rica.

As a result, Brazil finished top of the group with seven points, while Switzerland finished second with five points, and the two teams qualified together.

In today's game, Italy will have to win to secure top of the group in order to avoid a premature encounter with favourites like Brazil.

After all, the Germans are now on three points, and if they can beat Mexico, the Germans will have six points.

Of course, the fate of the Mexicans is also in their own hands, and they can also secure a place if they beat Germany.

The worst situation in Group F is the Longguo, who only have 1 point, and the final round opponent is Pan Yi's Italy, and the goal difference is minus three......

Even if they do get away with it, it will be difficult to even overtake Italy in the rankings, and it will be up to Germany to see if they will qualify for Mexico.

However, for the fans in the Dragon Country, the performance of the Dragon Country in the World Cup this time has made them very satisfied!

After all, when they first appeared in the World Cup in 2002, they lost all three games and did not score a goal.

And this time, not only did they score, but they also got points, and even before the end of the final round, there was a theoretical hope of qualifying, and they were not out of the tournament early!

Therefore, before the start of the match against Italy, the main thing in the country is to encourage, and only hope that the team can play their own style in the final game.

However, Pan Yi still reminded his players in the locker room not to underestimate the enemy!

"Although we can qualify for this game with a draw...... But we must not have such thoughts, otherwise, most of the unlucky ones will be us. ”

Pan Yi said: "I am from the Dragon Country, and the Dragon Country team has often encountered such situations in the past history, but the final results are mostly bad, let's not learn this." ”

"Also, a draw is not what I want, I want to win to make sure I finish top of the group!"

"Our first potential opponent in the knockout rounds is either Brazil or Switzerland, and between the two I would choose Switzerland."

"It's not that we're scared of Brazil, it's because in a tournament like this, the less consumption there is in the front of the game, the better it is for the team that wants to win the title."

"If we want to win the title, we have to play seven games in a month, which is a very intensive schedule even if it is the Premier League and the Championship. And to complete such a schedule, it is often necessary to rotate. ”

"But if every game is a tough battle, it will be too much consumption for the team, and it may be boring in the semi-finals and finals."

"Do you understand it now? Whatever the angle, I need to get the better of the opponent! ”

Compared with the previous two opponents, Germany and Mexico, the strength of the Dragon team is undoubtedly much weaker.

In their team, there are only three players in the front court of Wu Lei, Zhang Yuning and Lin Liangming who can gain a foothold in the European League.

This also shows that the Dragon Country team only has a forward line that can compete with the world's strong teams a little, but the strength of the midfield and backfield is really average.

For example, the guard line, composed of Zhang Linpeng, Feng Xiaoting, Mei Fang, and Jiang Zhipeng, can barely be taken out in Asia, but it is vulnerable in front of the attacking line of the German team.

Like Zhang Linpeng, he is already the best defender in the national football team, his body is indeed very strong, but his defensive awareness is average, and the passing accuracy when assisting is even more spicy.

It's no wonder that Pan Yi was stopped when he wanted to bring him to Europe, and he missed the best opportunity to improve.

Therefore, in this game, of course, Pan Yi will not play any defensive counterattack with the Dragon Kingdom, he just wants to use the offense to tear through the not very good defense line of the Dragon Kingdom.

Although the forward combination of the Dragon Kingdom is still very good, especially Wu Lei and Lin Liangming are both Pan Yi's personal disciples, but Pan Yi believes that before his offensive line tears through the flawed back line of the Dragon Kingdom, his solid back line will definitely be able to withstand the opponent's attack!

In the lineup of this game, Pan Yi, who is aiming for the championship, still rotated some players, starting with Parolo, Barella and Tonali in the midfield, while the central defender is a combination of Bastoni + Barzagli, and the wingback is Dimarco + Candreva.

On the front line, Chiesa Jr., who is faster and in better shape, plus Balotelli and Insigne, is playing the tactic of pressing the attack and using speed to break down the defense line of the Dragon Kingdom!

And for this Dragon Country team, there may really be no one who knows better than Pan Yi - even the current head coach of the Dragon Country national team, Lippi, may not be as good as him.

Therefore, after Pan Yi explained in detail the flaws in the opponent's backline, every Italian player was also full of confidence in winning at this moment.

The strength of his own team is stronger than the opponent, and now everything is in the hands of his own manager, how can he not win? ——

Today's weather is not very good, and it is raining a lot in the sky.

It won't make the game difficult, but it will have an impact.

This is one of the reasons why Pan Yi will attack aggressively in this game.

The slippery field certainly has an impact on Italy's attack, but it is also a big impact on the Dragons who want to slow down the Italian tempo with defense.

The players in the Dragon Country defensive line have certain deficiencies in ability, and coupled with the impact of the field, it is even more difficult to keep up with the rhythm of the opponent.

Relative to the weather, the biggest focus of this game is, of course, Pan Yi.

Before the start of the game, fans all over the world saw in front of their TV sets what it meant to be "all watched" and what it meant to be "harmonious".

First, the head coach of the Dragons, Lippi, appeared on the field, and then the fans of the entire stadium cheered and applauded him, whether it was Italian fans or Dragons fans.

After all, for the fans of these two countries, Lippi will always be a meritorious manager!

Leading the Italian team to win the World Cup championship and leading the Dragon Team to the World Cup main match may be similar in difficulty and merit for the people of the two countries.

And when Pan Yi, the head coach of the Italian team, also appeared on the field and began to greet Lippi with a smile, the cheering decibels in the stadium rose a notch!

For fans of Italy and the Dragons, this man is also his favorite, and he has made outstanding contributions to the football of his country!

And Pan Yi's magical resume in professional football, coupled with his handsome appearance, made him surpass the old coach Lippi in popularity, and the voices of the fans were simply about to overturn the roof of the entire stadium!

Then, there is a more harmonious scene.

Pan Yi walked to the side of the Dragon Country team, shook hands, chatted, and hugged every coach and player......

And every member of the Dragon Country Team talked to Pan Yi cordially like an old friend.

This is really a rare harmony scene in the World Cup!

Of course, there were also exchanges between the players of the two teams, especially Lin Liangming and his teammates in York City, such as Tonali, Barella, Bastoni, etc., who chatted even more.

Where is this a related World Cup group qualifying game, it's a class reunion!

When the national anthem of the Dragon Kingdom began to be played in the venue, the camera footage of the live broadcast also captured that Pan Yi was also singing the national anthem solemnly along with him......

Yes, he is a football coach by profession and he needs to lead his team to beat opponents, but he is also a dragon countryman!

It's just that when the game really started, Pan Yi quickly returned to his role and began to command the Italian players to attack the Dragon Kingdom!

But the Dragons who kicked off first created a chance first.

Wu Lei broke through the obstruction with the ball, and then immediately distributed the ball to Lin Liangming, who received the ball and forced a crosscut, and then immediately shot from outside the penalty area, Candreva flew and blocked the ball with his body, a corner kick.

It's just that this one is the attack.

After the corner was easily cleared by the Italian defenders, the Dragons' attack began to run into trouble.

Several of their players up front have excellent speed and individual skills, but they are also the kind of players who need to keep the ball at their feet, and the slippery field seriously affects their technical performance, coupled with the ferocious close pressing of the Italian players, making it difficult for them to play the attack.

Especially after the connection between Wu Lei, Lin Liangming and Zhang Yuning was cut by the Italian defenders, there was no cooperation between several people, and they could often only fight alone.

Immediately after the opening few attacks, the advance of the Dragon Kingdom began to reach a stalemate, which was suppressed by Italy in turn, and then began a fierce attack.

As for why the dragon kingdom is attacking, instead of defending it?

Although the public opinion environment of the media and fans in the Dragon Country is very relaxed, Lippi does not come to the game with the mentality of defeat.

He also wanted to lead the team to attack the chance of qualifying that seemed a little empty!

And to do this, the dragon kingdom must first defeat Italy, even if it is very difficult.

But this is Lippi, a stubborn old man who does not admit defeat.

Even when he led Changzhou Hengtai to meet Bayern Munich, the then Cosmos team, in the Club World Cup, he even thought that he could win against his opponent......

Now, the hope of scoring the Italian goal is all pinned on the most powerful forward line of the Dragon Kingdom, especially the two wingers Wu Lei and Lin Liangming.

Their speed is their greatest weapon!

Today, Wu Lei played on the left side, and when he dribbled forward on the left side, he happened to touch Candreva.

Wu Lei has always been quite confident in his speed, and once before his breakthrough Candreva seemed to have not kept up, which made Wu Lei feel that his opponent was nothing more than that.

The current Candreva is playing for Inter Milan in Serie A, Wu Lei basically has no record of playing against him, and Candreva is mainly used as a substitute for Desiglio in the Italian team, so he doesn't know much about him.

In addition, Candreva is actually a player whose winger attributes are stronger than full-backs, and fans sometimes call him a "machete", so his defensive ability is indeed overlooked many times.

So now, when Wu Lei broke through along the wing and saw Candreva coming up, he didn't plan to cooperate with his teammates, but was ready to force out of the opponent alone, and then send crosses to his teammates in the penalty area.

Well, if you can get rid of him completely, and cut from the wing to the middle to disrupt their defense, the chances of scoring will be better......

Wu Lei thought so, and then first made a cross-cutting feint, and then suddenly slammed the ball near the bottom line, and began to forcibly accelerate the breakthrough!

The slippery pitch made the ball roll forward a little faster.

Wu Lei has taken this into account, the long spikes have not affected him too much when he is running, and he believes that in such a pure competition of speed, there are really few defenders who can catch up with him.

However, what he didn't know was that although Candreva didn't give the impression of being super fast on the pitch and didn't often force his way when playing as a winger, he was actually very fast in his sprint.

That is, his absolute speed is not too fast, but the acceleration is high.

If the numbers are presented, his sprint speed is about 33.64 km/h.

What is the concept, that is, the fastest full-back in the world today should be Achraf, who can reach 36.49 km/h.

Candreva is not as strong as Achraf, but he is already very strong.

When facing Wu Lei, Candreva's excellent explosiveness can also keep him from being left too far behind.

This time, Candreva was not fooled by Wu Lei's cross-cutting feint.

The wind was whistling in his ears, and the rain was hitting Wu Lei's face, Wu Lei enjoyed this feeling very much, often when he was galloping on the side, those fullbacks were always struggling to catch up behind him, but they couldn't catch up.

When he was in Hamburg, he often relied on this trick to make a bloody way and then pass a good ball to his teammates in the middle.

When Candreva turned, Wu Lei was roaring past him, and then Candreva instantly raised his speed to the highest level, and then, a blue figure and a red figure launched a speed competition on the right side of the Italian half.

At first, Wu Lei was a little unconcerned, feeling that the other party could not catch up with him.

However, after sprinting more than ten meters, Wu Lei was shocked to find that the other party was not only not thrown off by his sprint, but also faintly surpassed him by half a position!

Wu Lei unbelievably accelerated and wanted to get rid of the other party, but he still couldn't do it.

At this time, Wu Lei realized that he seemed to underestimate this opponent, but he was not worried, Candreva did not seem to be faster than him in the follow-up, and the one-on-one on the side may not necessarily be the upper hand of the fast speed.

As long as he can get the ball first, whether it is a sudden stop or acceleration again, the opponent will be in a passive state, and he can still ravage the opponent when the time comes.

Just when Wu Lei was about to catch up with the ball, Candreva next to him suddenly disappeared.

After he reacted, it became clear that Candreva suddenly fell to the ground in the process of rushing forward, and then reached out to hook the ball that had already stayed on the turf, and then took advantage of the situation to retract it......

Tackle! Standard Italian tackle grabs!

Wu Lei, who couldn't hold his feet, was directly tackled to the ground by Candreva with the ball, and although he stood up immediately after a fight, his clothes were already covered with mud and grass clippings.

And Candreva was very clean in this tackle, not only did he not foul him, but he also hooked the ball into his control after the tackle, and then stood up and took the ball in the opposite direction.

Wu Lei ran up unconvinced and planned to interfere with Candreva's dribbling, but Candreva had already passed the ball directly to Chiesa in front of him, and then ran over to catch it.

Chiesa Jr. did not intend to force a breakthrough through Zhang Linpeng's defense after receiving the ball, and immediately raised his foot to pass the ball to the front after seeing that Insigne and Balotelli had rushed towards the opponent's penalty area.

The ball flew to the front of the penalty area of the Dragon Country team, Feng Xiaoting planned to jump and push the ball out, but when he jumped, he slipped and failed to jump!

Bad blundered top!

Another mistake! - Hey, why do you say again?

However, it seems that luck is still on the side of the Dragon team, and after the ball flew over Feng Xiaoting's head, it landed at the feet of Balotelli, who was sprinting towards the opponent's penalty area.

Balotelli didn't seem to expect such a one-on-one opportunity to appear in front of him, unloading the ball and sprinting into the box he did well, but the next shot was ridiculously wide.

He was twenty meters away from the goal and immediately volleyed and there was no one defending him at the time!

The ball hit the billboard hard, and the Italian fans in the stands sighed.

Balotelli glanced down at his feet, and it seemed that the turf under his feet had made his supporting foot slip and allowed him to shoot such an outrageous shot.

Pan Yi and the assistant coaches glanced at each other, and the coaches all smiled wryly.

"You won't be lucky today and you're not on our side, will you?" Evani was even a little nervous, remembering the fear of being dominated by Ochoa in the last game against Mexico.

"They had Ochoa at the time, but not in the Dragon Kingdom." Pan Yi smiled, reassuring the assistant coaches, "After the venue is adapted, our forwards should know how to shoot." ”

The main goalkeeper standing in front of the gate of the Dragon Kingdom today is Zeng Cheng.

It's not that Zeng Cheng's level is not good, in fact, he is already the best goalkeeper in the Dragon Kingdom.

But......

If compared with world-class goalkeepers, Zeng Cheng does still have a relatively large gap.

It can even be said that if you compare each position in the Dragon Kingdom with the corresponding position in the world, the goalkeeper may be the biggest difference.

In terms of the current countries, the closest to the European level is actually Wang Dalei when he was young.

However, he was also politely rejected from the club after the trial in Serie A, although Da Lei's physical fitness was acceptable, but it was believed that he had not even crossed the threshold of an ordinary goalkeeper.

The gap is reflected in many ways.

First, physical fitness.

World-class goalkeepers such as Manuel Neuer, Buffon and Petr Cech are generally more than 190cm tall and have both speed and skill.

But for a yellow person to reach the same level, the physical height may have to be around 170-180 to achieve, unless gifted, but so far no such person has appeared.

Second, the ability to read the competition.

Mature goalkeepers will have a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of their own and opponent's performance on and off the field in each game, so that they can fully respond and judge whether they are in the upper hand or against the wind.

Third, the ability to work under pressure.

When the team is in a headwind, the team's door may be attacked by the opponent frantically, and the goalkeeper is required to have a higher level of game concentration, a better game mentality, and just the ability to resist pressure.

Fourth, stable technical performance.

Reasonable attacks, clearances and anti-sky saves, whether the game is downwind or against the wind, require the goalkeeper to have a more stable and better technical performance.

World-class goalkeepers generally have the above factors, and the goalkeepers of the national football team are a little clumsy in comparison, which is one of the reasons why the national football team has not been able to produce world-class goalkeepers so far.

Of course, there is another corroborative evidence that can also prove this.

That is, in the Chinese Super League, the position of foreign aid is basically unlimited, but only the goalkeeper is not allowed to have foreign aid.

One of the big reasons for this is that when he was still in the A-A era, Sasha Petrovic, the substitute goalkeeper of the Yugoslav national team in 99, joined Shandong Luneng and created a league record of only 13 goals conceded in 26 games.

And among them, five goals were conceded because of the team's run-in problems in the first three games, so in fact, only 8 goals were conceded in the remaining 23 games, and only one goal was conceded in three games on average!

He also helped Shandong Luneng win the league championship and the FA Cup, becoming the first double champion of the Dragon Kingdom.

Sasha's outstanding performance led many clubs in the First Division to find foreign goalkeepers in 2000, and local goalkeepers were so shocked that they couldn't play at all - in fact, except for a few international clubs, other clubs basically used foreign goalkeepers.

As a result, the Dragon Football Association immediately issued a "ban on foreign goalkeepers", which was officially implemented in the 2001 season, and foreign goalkeepers disappeared in the Chinese Super League.

If it weren't for the particularity of the goalkeeper position, if it wasn't for the huge gap between the goalkeepers of the Dragon Kingdom and the world-class goalkeepers, how could it lead to such a situation?

"A good goalkeeper tops half a team", this is not nonsense, and Ochoa's performance at the World Cup also proved it.

So now, although Pan Yi saw that his team members had missed a good opportunity, he was not very anxious.

The super-god Ochoa is not something that can be seen every time, and the Italian team will not really be so weak!

Moreover, although the goal was not scored, Feng Xiaoting's equally inexplicable mistake also boosted the confidence of the Italian attacking players.

Most of the Italian players have never dealt with the Dragons, especially the defenders.

But looking at it today, it seems that their stability is not high, and the error rate is high.

This means that as long as the coach arranges and desperately presses on both sides and the middle of the Dragon Kingdom, the back line of the Dragon Kingdom will definitely leak flaws.

At that time, Italy's goal will come very quickly, and victory will come naturally!

(End of chapter)