Italian coach Maldini Sr. replaced his club team-mate Chiesa with Dino Baggio, who played for Parma, leaving only one heavy tank Vieri in the attack, and the Italian team, with one man less, soon fell into the indiscriminate bombardment of the opponent.

In the 31st minute of the first half, Ovimas held the ball on the side, Reziger quickly went down to attract Maldini's attention, and the Dutch winger quickly started to cut inside, and in front of the penalty area, he distributed the ball to Kluivert in the middle before Cannavaro blocked, and then burst into the box himself. Cannavaro's heart was cold, who knew that Kluivert didn't pass the ball back to Overmars, but went to the ball himself to cut into the penalty area from behind Cannavaro. Just in time for Cannavaro to turn around, coupled with Costacuta who was marking Kluivert in the middle, the two tackled at the same time to defuse a threatening attack of the Dutch team, and the angry Overmars chattered at Kluivert while retreating.

The tackled ball fell to Dino Baggio, who had just come on the pitch, and Parma's midfielder took a look and found Vieri, the lone arrow, in front of him. Last season's La Liga Golden Boot stretched out his long legs to hook the ball back before the ball flew to the feet of Dutch central defender Oyer, and then under the sandwich between the opponent and Cocu, who came from behind, he first pulled the ball back from Oyer, and at the same time used the weight of his body to block the opponent, mixed with a movement to pull out of his hand, and after solving Oyer's defense, he took the ball to the middle with his right foot, and his right half continued to block Cocu behind, and he also stretched out his right hand to frame the opponent's body. Just killed a way out of the two of them.

This ball made Zhang Lu, one of the commentators of the Yang 5 game, happy, opened his mouth wide and smiled, and said: "Vieri just two times, it is the same as the wild horse mane used by the old man playing Tai Chi downstairs!" Good guy, I didn't expect to be a practitioner, and it's no wonder that the old Maldini chose to replace Chiesa. These two defenders can't get close!"

If this ball is used by two defenders with their hands and feet, then the referee must blow the foul, but a striker faces the defense of the two, and a little more action on the hand is acceptable, not to mention that the action of the person is not very big, and the soft look has a different artistic conception, naturally Vieri was not blown foul after the Tai Chi play.

Vieri then passed the ball to Baggio on the right side of the middle, who picked up the ball in the penalty area, the ball flew over the head of F. de Boer, Vieri started half a step ahead of Oyer, and after adjusting the position of one step in the big penalty area, he struggled to lower his left foot and swept it. Vieri knows in his heart that every attack of the team is not easy to come by, in order to shoot the ball within the range of the goal, the ball was a little too low when shooting, and shot a rebound ball directly, thanks to Van der Sar predicted that Baggio's pass was attacked in advance, Vieri's shot bounced off the ground and flew high, thanks to the Dutch international's height and long arms, he jumped up and held the ball with his fingers in front of him, which gave Oyer the opportunity to return to the defense to clear the ball on the goal line. Otherwise, the Dutch team will be embarrassed, one more person will attack the half, and they will score a goal in two attacks, which is enough to slap the face.

Then the Dutch team failed to attack twice in a row, one of which was a cut through on the right side of the right to distribute the ball to Reziger on the wing, who stepped diagonally into the penalty area two steps diagonally, and a low flat cross before Maldini posted it, Bergkamp at the front point did not touch the ball under the interference of Cannavaro, and then Kluivert in the middle also missed a good opportunity, when the ball was about to roll out of the bottom line from the back post, Zenden on the left side of the Dutch team arrived in time, and the ball fell to the ground before the bottom line, and passed the ball back to the penalty spot. Davies, who was inserted in the back, followed up with a header, Pagliuca subconsciously flew to the side, but fortunately judged the direction correctly, blocked Davies's shot on the goal line, and then Costacuta in front of the goal made a quick shot, and the ball was cleared to the feet of Dino Baggio outside the box.

Dinobaggio saw Albertini who was quickly inserted on the side, and passed directly with a short straight stopper, and then Vieri retreated to respond, Albertini quickly set the side from the left side after passing to the opponent, Vieri turned the ball to face himself in front of the goal, pretending to distribute it to Albertini on the side, in fact, after pulling the ball, he turned around and made a long pass to find Pesoto on the right side quickly.

Pexoto stopped the ball steadily, and Baggio in the middle quickly started running towards the space behind the Dutch left-back Newman. De Boer followed Baggio to the bottom line, and suddenly Baggio changed direction and went around from behind the fast-running F. De Boer and went straight into the penalty area, and Pesoto's overhead ball was also passed in at the right time.

There is no one to defend in front of Baggio! Van der Sar struck a decisive move, and after Baggio bounced the ball once on the ground, the outside of his right foot bounced into the far corner, and the ball drew a wonderful arc around Van der Sar.

In the 42nd minute of the first half, the Italian team, which had one less man, seized a rare opportunity to score first, and the Azzurri led the Netherlands 1:0. Baggio was in a brave state in this World Cup, saving Italy from danger several times, looking at Baggio who was quietly praying silently with his hands folded and bowing his head after scoring a goal, people seemed to be back to the World Cup in the United States 4 years ago, and saw the omnipotent blue No. 10 again.

With injuries to Nesta and Stam, there were four minutes of stoppage time in the first half, with the Netherlands and Italy each completing a fruitless attack with just seven minutes remaining. In the 46th minute, Kluivert received a cross from Zenden on the left and pressed Cannavaro to head the goal, but Pagliuca couldn't reach it, but the ball hit the outside of the post and bounced off the bottom line.

On the stroke of half-time, Vieri lobbed a shot high just past midfield before the referee blew the whistle and the two teams were able to return to the dressing room for the second half.

At half-time, Dutch coach Guus Hiddink continued to deploy his troops. Bronckhorst replaced left-back Newman, so that the Netherlands gathered four attacking players on both flanks, which was also a bold adjustment made by the Dutchman to see that Italy could only defend passively.

In the second half, the pressure on the Italian team increased dramatically, and the two wings of the Netherlands kept attacking the Azzurri's defence. However, because of Nesta's injury and departure, the height of the Italian team's central defender has decreased a lot, and Hiddink insisted that the opponent's shortcomings should be grasped, so the four wide players of the Dutch team repeatedly crossed the ball, but ignored the opportunity to penetrate in the middle.

Bergkamp's role on the pitch was drastically curtailed, mostly playing a transitional role in the middle, eventually splitting the ball to the flanks and then standing outside the box and watching Kluivert squander valuable chances one after another.

Ivomas made a blistering in-cut break to complete a long-range shot, Hiddink just realized that the team should probably invest more troops in the middle attack, Cendon and Overmars have the ability to shoot and cut through after all, and Bergkamp can also help his teammates create more chances as a playmaker.

Before Hiddink could adjust his tactics, the elder Maldini took the lead in making adjustments, and Di Matteo, who had almost disappeared in this game, was replaced by Inter's old captain Bergomi, and the back of the two backs of the Azzurri team suddenly became an airtight defense line of five defenders. This weakened Hiddink's determination to switch to the middle.

It wasn't until the 31st minute of the second half that Italy counterattacked quickly in front of the field, and Vieri deducted Frank. De Boer was ready to shoot from a distance, but De Boer was dragged to the ground from behind, the "red arrow" Baggio stood in front of the ball, a tricky free kick helped Italy lead 2-0, Hiddink made up his mind, with last season's Premier League top 3 scorers, scored 16 goals in 33 games, replaced the mediocre Kluivert.

Hasselbaink is the most unlucky striker in the history of the Dutch national team, with outstanding personal ability, superb shooting skills, almost no shortcomings in height, weight and speed, 3 times the top scorer in the Premier League, 1 time the top scorer in La Liga, such a pure striker is precisely because he cannot meet the perverted requirements of Dutch football for strikers and has been repeatedly put on the bench by the head coach. There was Kluivert in front of him, but fortunately, Xiao Ke himself was not angry, and fell from the peak early, and as a result, the king of the small forbidden area, Vanney, was born again. After scoring 70 goals in 136 league appearances for Chelsea, Mourinho brought another generation of striker Drogba to the club. However, Hasselbaink was also angry, and he took the initiative to apply for a transfer when he saw that he didn't have his own place. Many people say that if Hasselbaink is born 10 years later to catch up with the era when the Netherlands began to play defensive counter-attacks, he will definitely be able to mix up a reputation that is not weaker than Drogba.

Speaking of the first touch of the ball on the field, Hasselbaink received the ball on the left side and turned to shake off Albertini and then started, and hit the post with a low shot in front of the penalty area, which shocked Pagliuca into a cold sweat, why don't you come up without a warm-up?

Unfortunately, Hiddink had too little time left for Hasselbaink, and his first shot at the post was already in the 36th minute of the second half, and the Premier League golden boot had only 10 minutes to complete. In other words, in the face of Italy's reinforced concrete defense, the person who can score two goals in 10 minutes is afraid that he was not born in the 90s of the last century.

Finally, with 5 minutes left in the game, Hasselbaink took advantage of Zenden and Overmars to cut inside at the same time, reflexively cut into the penalty area from behind his teammates, and the ice prince Bergkamp's through ball also happened to be sent in, facing Pagliuca, who made a great achievement in the game, Hasselbaink calmly pushed the far corner to score, and the Dutch team's 14 shots on goal finally broke through Pagliuca's ten fingers.

Then the elder Maldini simply replaced Vieri in the front field, and used the last substitution to fill the holehole that the team had just appeared, and the defender Koiz, who played for Fiorentina, came on, and Italy made an eight-man iron bucket formation with 5 defenders and 3 midfielders in the last 3 minutes, and even Baggio was guarding his own half.

In the end, Italy narrowly escaped 10-11 and became the second team to qualify for the semi-finals, against Germany, who also won three World Cups. At the moment, Italian fans all over the world are thanking that god-like man – Roberto. Baggio!