Fortunately, Zoff is not Sacchi. He is not a hopeless man. After being turned over by Croatia in the first round, Zoff realized that he had made a mistake. Although he was tough in the interview, he took the initiative to review the team meeting. At the same time, according to the loopholes and shortcomings exposed by the team in a game, he made an improvement to the starting lineup and prepared to try the effect in a game against Ecuador.
Maybe someone will ask Zoff how he didn’t even build a complete squad for preparing for the World Cup in Korea and Japan when the old Maldini took over the Italian national team two years after the European Cup.
Although this is reasonable, please don’t forget that the defending champion Italy doesn’t need to participate in the World Cup qualifiers, which means that in the past two years, Rizov can play against each other through friendly matches and choose the players who want it.
In terms of effectiveness … I believe you should all know what kind of competition intensity a friendly match is. How can it be possible to test out Zoff’s lack of tactical arrangement and loopholes in such a game?
Chapter 113 Unpopular World Cup (a)
Since Rizov has been able to adjust his squad and tactics through friendly matches for two years after taking over the Italian national team, it is naturally difficult to expose such shortcomings in the first game of the World Cup.
But fortunately, although he lost the first group match against Croatia, Zoff still has a chance to save himself and Italy’s fate. If he can lead the team to kill Ecuador and Mexico in the last two group matches, there is no problem for Italy to qualify for the top 16.
So before the game against Ecuador, Rizov led the players to prepare for a victory, washed away the bad luck of losing in the first round and let the team find the feeling of winning as soon as possible.
However, before the second round of Group G, let’s take a look at the first round of other groups.
With Italy’s victory reversed by Croatia in the opening match of the World Cup, the first super upset of the World Cup broke out, and other powerful teams seemed to be dyed by Italy, and they generally suffered hard in their first match of the World Cup. Many teams even joined Italy to contribute to the hard work of he is my brother.
On the second day of the World Cup curtain, in the first round of Group A, the French team, the winner of the 1999 World Cup and the runnerup of the 2year European Cup, proved that Italy was not the only unlucky one who was defeated by the opponent in the first round of the group stage. They also suffered a defeat in the first round of the World Cup tour!
France became the second unlucky man. Three super shooters, Trezeguet, thierry henry and Cisse, such as Pires, Vieira, desailly, Thuram and fabien barthez, were beheaded by this African team, which is known as the second team of France, in the first match of the group stage against Segal!
As Segal became a French colony in 164, it was not until 42 years ago, that is, in 1996, that it regained its status as the main country. Therefore, like many African countries, Segal is very close to France, the former sovereign state. It is precisely for this reason that Segal players often choose to speak the same language with them when landing in European football, and it is easier to adapt to France than other countries’ leagues.
Among the 23 players who participated in the Segal World Cup in Korea and Japan and entered the World Cup roster, there are two backup goalkeepers and one backup striker from the French foreign league, and the head coach of Gasegar, Metsu, is also French. From these two points, Segal’s title of French Second Team is really worthy of the name.
Although there are a large number of players playing for France in Segal, compared with France, which has a lot of firstclass stars in the competition, it is very experienced. This is the first time that France has entered the World Cup finals. Therefore, no one is optimistic that this cottage France II can defeat the French team which is much stronger than Segal before the game, even if the French team lost Zida, a general, in a warmup match with South Korea before the World Cup.
However, the reality gave a loud slap to all those who were optimistic about France’s victory before the game. Segal players who participated in the World Cup for the first time in this extremely disparity competition actually beat France in this World Cup without stage fright!
Like the former Croatian player who beat the defending champion Italy unexpectedly, he killed the French team. As a result, a large number of Segal players enjoyed the fame of World War I, especially in the game, which made the French team’s defense line tired and assisted teammate Diop to score the winning goal. Diouf attracted the attention of many clubs including Inter Milan and Liverpool!
It is conceivable that if Diouf can continue to play well in the next World Cup, it will be a problem for the Segal striker with outstanding speed to join a big club after the World Cup.
In this game, the French team made a fool of itself, and the actual actions proved to the fans all over the world that without Zida, the commander in charge of the bureau, no matter how Starlight Glimmer the French array is, it is just a slag with less than five fighting capacities …
It’s not that France doesn’t have the ability to organize the team’s offensive heavy players, such as veteran djorkaeff, johan micoud, who was called Qi Zu II by fans because of his outstanding performance in Sampdoria, and Vieira, who is the offensive and defensive hub in Arsenal, all have the ability to stir up this beam. Therefore, the offensive confusion in France’s match with Segal is not due to the inability to replace Zida as the core of the organization, djorkaeff and Vieira, but to the romanticism of the French!
After all, as early as years ago, Zida won the absolute words with Yakai’s support. Compared with the current French coach lemerre, he didn’t have the courage to support Vieira and djorkaeff in the team. They asked other players to command from these two players. After all, Lizarazu, desailly and others have much higher status and qualifications in the French team than these two. They will never be angry with djorkaeff, a veteran in this state, and Vieira, a younger generation, for commanding and dispatching!
It can be said that in terms of personal ability, perhaps these French international players are all good players, but there is no one who can get them all together. The possibility of making a mess when they are in charge is much higher than that of Qi Xin’s cooperation. This can be seen from the huge gap in the performance of the French team in international competitions after Copa, Platini and Zida, three absolute superstars in French football history, withdrew from the national team in their previous lives.
Thus, it can be seen that these three people can occupy that top position in the French football with a large numb of famous players not because of their extraordinary ability (otherwise, their contemporaries such as Fontaine, giresse and djorkaeff would have robbed the class), but because they have the temperament that makes national team teammates pay more attention to personal values than team interests!
Losing Zida’s French team is like losing Joan of Arc and Napoleon on the battlefield. No matter how good the cards are, the French army can’t form enough fighting capacity and can end up in chaos until a leading figure appears.
Chapter 114 Unpopular World Cup (2)
Having said that, the Italian and French teams won the European Cup championship and runnerup two years ago, but now they have lost together. he is my brother, let’s take a look at the performance of other powerful teams in the first world cup.
After the French team lost to Segal, England was beaten in front of their old enemy Viking Sweden. Although Beckham had a corner kick to assist Campbell to score, Mills made a superlow mistake at halftime and sent the ball directly to the Swedish midfielder alexanderson’s foot to assist the opponent to equalize the score, which made it possible for England to win a goal. They had to continue their history of being embarrassed by Sweden since 1996.
Although he didn’t get a good start in the first round of the group stage, Eriksson was much luckier than lemerre. He led the Three Lions to a draw with Sweden instead of losing to a famous teacher like Segal like France. Therefore, after the game, many English media came out to express their appreciation for Eriksson’s World Cup premiere and thought that it was a very good result to draw with Sweden.
Perhaps the British media claimed that Eriksson was suspected of shirking his duties, but it has to be said that for more than 30 years, there has been no way to make a big question mark about the strength of Sweden, the socalled strongest England in history, after the fall of brolin.
Of course, not all the strong teams were upset by their opponents in the first game of the World Cup. For example, the Argentine Pampas eagle, which is in the same death group as England, captured the African eagle with a header from the 33yearold batistuta, saying that a victory in Nigeria proved their strength in winning the championship.
Well, although judging from the course of the game, the Argentine’s victory seems a little too hard.
In addition, Brazil in Group C and Spain in Group B also won in the first match of the World Cup. The Samba Corps led by the 3R group defeated the unexpectedly difficult Turkey with a wonderful performance by rivaldo, and ranked second in the group because of the disadvantage in goal difference. Camacho, on the other hand, led the matador army to easily solve the problem that the European Cup brought them a lot of trouble two years ago. The old rival Slovenia topped the group B with three points.
If the victory of a unified team is the most surprising, it is naturally not Germany’s victory over Saudi Arabia. In the face of this desert fox from West Asia, which was evaluated by the media as old before the World Cup, the German chariot played an amazing fighting capacity and finally unexpectedly scored a big score, creating the biggest difference since the KoreaJapan World Cup!
Miroslav Klose, who was only 24 years old, became the focus after the game. The young striker who played for Kaiserslautern Club scored a hat trick in the game, and all three goals were headed! Klose’s header hat trick made many German fans seem to see a new generation of tyrants rising in Ran Ran.
After all, the German striker really needs a striker who can score goals like Klose in the big situation that Golden Bomber Klinsmann and Golden Head bierhoff and others are either retired or old and the rising star Iankel is embarrassed.