Then on July 6th, the uncrowned king of the Netherlands will take on the 3-star Italy match, and the two sides will also play the main force:

Netherlands 4-4-2

Goalkeeper: Edwin van der Sar

Defenders: Newman, F. De Boer, Stam, Reziger

Defenders: Cocu, Davies

Left and right fronts: Zenden, Overmars

Forwards: Bergkamp, Kluivert

The Dutch left midfielder opted for the more attacking Zenden, who was clearly intent on using his and Overmars' speed to break through and shoot from distance to completely neutralize the Italian wing. The partnership of Reziger and Overmars on the right is somewhat similar to England's right side, and both are good at breaking down and crossing from the wing. Cocu's unlucky guy is doing dirty work on the field, after all, Davis must often step forward to assist, Bergkamp can say that it is a striker, and the retreat is an offensive striker, and the Ice Prince's passing and control are also world-class, the only drawback is that his pace is slightly slower. The Dutch will need to deal with this problem when they counter-attack, and they will have more chances to score. Needless to say, Kluivert is a header machine in the penalty area, if you talk about the most pure and typical big center in the 90s, the strongest are Kluivert and Bierhoff, you see these headers, the names are neat five words.

Let's take a look at Italy's starting line-up:

Italy 4-4-2

Goalkeeper: Pagliuca

Defenders: Maldini, Costacuta, Nesta, Pesoto

Defenders: Di Biagio, Albertini

Forwards: R. Baggio, Di Matteo

Forwards: Vieri, Chiesa

The midfielders of many teams in this cup are similar to this configuration, such as the Italian midfield position Di Biagio is the main defense, Albertini can go up or down, and the front position Baggio is considered a free man or a shadow striker in the front field, and the task of connecting the midfield and organizing the dispatch falls on Di Matteo's head. Italy's squad is clearly centre-centred, and of course the 4-4-2 square midfield can be rotated as needed. Make sure that when one person stabilizes the central axis, the other can choose to move in the middle or on the wing.

In addition, Chiesa in the forward line can drop back and play wingers, so that the Italian formation can also become 4-5-1 as needed.

Both teams played more carefully at the beginning, and the Dutch team, which took the lead in kick-off, did not rush to launch an offensive, but the Italian team was unexpectedly fierce, and after receiving the ball on the left side of the opening 4 and a half minutes, Cendon was directly put down by Pesoto after receiving the ball. Cendon stood up and started to fight the opponent, and the referee and Bergkamp ran over at the same time to persuade the two to break away. After the ice prince of the chicken thief saw the referee persuade him to walk away, he quickly passed the ball to Cen Deng, who came out of the same chicken nest as himself, and Pexoto suffered a dark loss, so he could only quickly grit his teeth and chase back.

Zenden sent a low cross, Nesta and Kluivert in front of the ball mixed up, the two didn't know who rubbed the ball and changed direction and bounced towards the back point, Overmars rushed to the goal, but unfortunately the 4 meters in front of the goal tackle hit the plane, and the Dutch team missed the opportunity to take the lead.

Pagliuca's goal kick was snatched up by Cocu before it landed, and by the way, it knocked over Albertini, and Davies picked up the ball and passed it to Ovimas on the right. The Dutch winger received the ball and faced the defense of the world's No. 1 left-back Maldini, cut inside with a feint, turned around and walked directly towards the baseline. The old horse's attention was very concentrated, at the beginning was to face the defense sideways, and followed Ovmars step by step, the Dutchman's dummy Maldini did not move, and when Ovimas slipped the ball out at his feet, Maldini also quickly turned around and leaned up.

A big defender of 1.87m wanted to ride on the opponent's 1.75m winger, and the two were entangled and stumbled forward for almost 10 meters, and finally Overmars kicked the ball back and was blocked by Maldini. One went to the corner flag to take a corner kick, the other was going to the penalty area to defend back, and when the two separated, they actually turned around together and shook their fingers at each other. Gotta have to play a sequel to these two later.

From the beginning of the game to now, in just 8 minutes, the two teams have started a fierce hand-to-hand fight, and this game is estimated to be difficult to come up with a big score.

Overmars's corner kick arc was not high, it was pushed out by Vieri at the front point, Davies of the Dutch team outside the box followed up with his feet to prepare a long shot, and the quick reaction Di Biagio made a sliding tackle on the side, the ball was blocked off the line, and the Dutch team continued the corner kick.

Overmars has not yet reached the corner flag area, fullback Reziger took advantage of the opponent's inattention to run over and quickly send the ball out, the receiving Ovimars sideways with his left foot aimed at the back point of the stam pass.1.91 meters of Stam of course can not let the 1.82 meter Costa Kuta to mark, the blue team 1.87 meters Nesta did not show weakness to meet up, after a loud "bang", the ball grazed the post and flew out of the bottom line, and then the main central defenders of the two teams fell on the field one after the other. Maldini saw that Nesta's blood was flowing from between Nesta's fingers, and the other party's Stam was also uncomfortable, and his eyebrow bone seemed to be broken, and the blood was also bleeding.

The team doctors of both sides rushed into the stadium with stretchers, but Nesta and Stam both cracked their eyebrow bones in the collision, and the most unlucky thing was that both players had different degrees of concussion and could not continue the game, so the Dutch team replaced Andre who played for Roda JC. Oyer, Italy replaced Nesta with Cannavaro.

The Dutch team's onslaught in the opening game finally eased after this injury, and Italy seized the opportunity to start causing problems on the pitch. In the 18th minute, Di Biagio tackled Zenden and crossed to Albertini in the middle, who sent a precise long ball towards Vieri. Oyer, who had just come on the pitch for the Dutch team, had not yet found the feeling of the game, Vieri chested the ball five or six meters outside the penalty area, then picked up the ball with his right foot to bypass the opponent, and volleyed with his left foot on the line of the penalty area, Van der Sar jumped sideways and punched the ball out of the sideline. It was Italy's first shot on goal after the opening kick-off, and the quality was not bad.

Seeing that the attack of the Azzurri team improved slightly, the team was forced to start fighting back with huge pressure in the 27th minute of the first half. The Dutch team Cocu steals Di Matteo in the backfield, and the long pass to Cenden on the left side, and Pesoto assists before he has time to return to the defense, seeing that Cendon bursts into a 4-on-3 situation, Di Biagio, who is chasing back to make up for the defense, shovels down the opponent on the side.

The referee decisively sent him off with a red card, and the Italian backline chased the referee for an explanation, but the Azzurri had to accept the unfavorable situation of one less player.