Chapter 145
Chapter 145
In the semi-final between the Netherlands and Argentina, when the 90-minute game is over, I believe that fans who had expected this battle before will be surprised.
3:0!
The Dutch won without pressure, while the Argentines could only bid farewell to South Africa in tears!
Sneijder, Robben and Van Bronckhorst scored one goal each. Sneijder and Robben are both super attackers. There is nothing surprising about their goals. What is surprising is Van Bronckhorst This thousand-year-old tree actually blossomed in the game against Argentina.
And he also scored a super long shot that was no less exciting than Ali Han's lore against the Italian team in 1978, allowing Van Bronckhorst to be included in the Holland World Cup goal honor roll. The goal opened the door for the Dutch team to enter the World Cup final for the third time in history. The achievement is enough to be praised by future generations for a long time.
In the 1998 World Cup in France, Van Bronckhorst was selected in the No. 19 shirt, but Hiddink did not give him a second chance from the beginning to the end. Van Bronckhorst became a standard spectator. To be able to watch as my team, once so close to the final, lost to Brazil on penalties.
In the 2006 World Cup, Van Bronckhorst became the absolute main force. Although he played well in the group stage, he completely "fell" in the "Battle of Nuremberg". After the red and yellow cards flying all over the sky, the Dutch team went home. , and he himself was carrying a red card.
All kinds of past events are unbearable to look back on. Now the Dutch soldiers have washed away all the shame with a victory, but they have lingered in the hearts of the Dutch for many years.
Yes, reaching the final may be just a passing standard for the Brazilian team, but for the Dutch team, for the 35-year-old Van Bronckhorst, is it not a historic victory!
Even fans who are familiar with La Liga and the Premier League rarely see Van Bronckhorst scoring a goal. Even if he happens to see it, he has never seen such a world-class performance. This is a left back with an assist and a long shot It is a high-quality scene that was not seen even in the heyday of Roberto Carlos' career.
From 30 meters away, the left-footed heavy shot directly, without any arc angle, came towards the right goalpost like a straight line. The Argentine goalkeeper couldn't help tearing himself in half to save, but the ball went directly. Dead corners, smashing into goalposts, and precise strikes from high-tech weapons are nothing more than that.
Van Bronckhorst's goal, speaking from a spiritual level, made all the Dutch players who were playing very depressed immediately return to their spirits, and felt greatly inspired. Speaking from a tactical point of view, his pressing attack greatly surpassed Van Marwijk's basic tactical concept, perhaps the coach himself did not expect that Van Bronckhorst was originally allowed to cut into the overall offense, but it was just a pass and an assist, but it paid off with a classic long-range shot. The coach's tactical arrangement usually does not show the mountains and dews in the offense, and occasionally shows the majesty, which makes the whole world tremble.
In today's game, Van Bronckhorst's contribution to the team was more than a goal. In the 51st minute, Messi's long-distance lobbed an empty goal. The ball is pushed out, and this game may be a lot more tangled.
And his long-distance and long-distance pass transfer, which he is relatively good at, also played awe-inspiring performance in this game. In the 68th minute, it was his 50-meter long pass that allowed Van der Vaart and Robben to attack continuously, and finally Robben knocked on the door of Argentina. !
Throughout the game, the veteran showed no sign of being unable to support himself. His 105 national team appearances ended with a perfect ending.
No matter who the last game is against, this will definitely be Van Bronckhorst's 106th international match. Don't think too much about the two regrets of the predecessors. The old demon-level captain has opened the Dutch team with his golden left foot A door, why can't you lead the team to open the last door that symbolizes entering the hall of highest honor? !
A 3:0 victory made the Dutch team enter the World Cup final for the third time in history. At the same time, it also gave Argentina, a country with a long football history, another record of disastrous defeat in the history of the World Cup. There are many disastrous defeats in the history of the World Cup. They lost 2:4 to Uruguay in 1930, 1:6 to the Czech Republic in 1958, and 0:4 to the Netherlands in 1974. Now they are facing the Netherlands again. The Argentines lost 0:3. The shorts were ripped off by the Dutchman. With poor defense and still inefficient offense, Maradona's team was not as a whole, as individuals, and in the end even the spirit was broken by the Dutchman. This team What's left of the team? nothing!
Before the start of the game, Maradona encouraged the players, but his personal exaggeration could not save the team, let alone change the fact that Argentina had no ideas, the offense was messy, and the defense was shoddy after the start of the game.
Argentina couldn't fully control the ball and could only test the Dutch defense personally, Messi was locked in a cage. After 0:2, Argentina is like a drowning person who can only flop around. Putting on Pastore and Aguero, but not changing to Veron, once again proves that Maradona is only suitable for being a player. Shouldn't be a coach at all.
In the last cup match, Argentina beat Serbia and Montenegro 6-1. Argentina felt invincible at the moment. This year it was not the same. The group match went smoothly and they qualified easily. Afterwards, they defeated Uruguay and Ghana, which made them full of confidence. Maradona even said: "Argentina can defeat all opponents now!"
But soon, the cruel reality poured cold water on the Argentines.
0:3 loss to the Netherlands!
From beginning to end, it has proved one point—Argentina is a pseudo-strong team.
After the start of the World Cup, Maradona has been paralyzing the players with Ah Q, the mental victory method. His lack of skills and tactics and insufficient command ability were fully exposed on the field.
The German football emperor Franz Beckenbauer is right, this Argentina is a mess, only relying on individuals, not the whole, Messi, Higuain, Tevez, Di Maria, Milito or Aguero on the bench It's not a wrist, but without reasonable planning, such an Argentine combat power is not bad against South Korea and Nigeria, and it is still far behind against the Netherlands.
Argentina lacks stability and lacks ideas. It was not until the World Cup that the main lineup was hastily determined. The formation also abandoned the 442 formation that had been used before. Maradona personally brought Argentina the World Cup, and now he has buckled Argentina. Shame on the label, really sad.
After Argentina was eliminated by the Dutch team 0:3, the Argentine national team coach Maradona revealed his intention to resign with the people around him.
According to Maradona's own statement, he needs to discuss with his family before making a decision, and insiders of the Football Association revealed that the senior management of the Football Association is waiting for Maradona to take this step aside.
Although the Football Association has been publicly supporting Maradona's work during this period, it is inevitable that Maradona will leave the position of Argentina's head coach.
After the game, everyone in the locker room of the Argentine team couldn't help but shed tears of disappointment. The players were sobbing. The old horse specially comforted Messi for this. However, in the sad atmosphere of the whole team, Maradona himself He couldn't help crying, he and his players were crying in the locker room. Obviously, the big loss and the broken dreams made the whole Argentine team feel unacceptable.
Messi is the most disappointed person. He is very close to the final, and then such a defeat ended his World Cup journey, how could he be reconciled.
Now Messi can only watch his old opponent Digan fight for the final place, but he can only wait for a new opponent, and then fight for the third place.
When Messi was also being interviewed after the game, he said with a choked voice: "This is a disaster. I still can't believe that this game will become what it is now. We were beaten by the Dutch in the game." No chance, I can't accept this ending, it's all too painful, one game, let us lose everything."
The 0:3 result was obviously too big a blow to Messi.
Maradona was also having a hard time. In the locker room, he cried like a child. After finally controlling his emotions, Maradona did not say much to the players except to thank the players for their efforts. What, then he attended the press conference. At the conference, Maradona expressed his intention to withdraw several times. Although he also said later whether he would stay or not, it still needs to be seen, but at this point, a conclusion can basically be drawn.
At the scene of the press conference, the world seemed to see a weak and even pitiful Maradona for the first time. At that moment, he dissipated his aggressiveness, and seemed to be 10 years old suddenly, with sadness on his brows And helpless emotions: "I can resign tomorrow, but today's Argentina is moving forward on the right path."
Recalling that since Maradona took charge of Argentina, he has always been the same publicity and arrogance as Mourinho. Now the old horse is like a swordsman who is sad after a defeat. The softest place in the heart.
And behind this weakened version of Maradona, which is active for the first time in history, is that the old horse has experienced undoubtedly the most painful game in his life.
During the game, after Van Bronckhorst scored for the Dutch team, the old horse kept getting up and directing Argentina's offense, anxiously agitating loudly to cheer for the players.
He once waved his arms at Heinze, shouted at Carlos Tevez to arrange running tactics, and when Higuain's shot was rejected by the goal post, Maradona even covered his eyes, unable to believe what happened in front of him everything.
At the end of the first half, after Messi's last kick was high, Maradona could only look up to the sky, lamenting his bad luck.
At the beginning of the second half, when Argentina came up to attack like a wave, the Dutch team could only be pressed in their own penalty area to defend, and the old horse on the sidelines encouraged the whole team with high spirits.
It's just that Argentina has nothing to do with the Netherlands' defense, and the situation of only gaining momentum and not scoring is still continued. Then, when Robben scored the second goal for the Netherlands team, Argentina's situation is over, and the roaring Marado Na was immediately defeated. He sat on the coach's bench in a daze, his eyes were dull, and his expression was full of helplessness and confusion.
Subsequently, Sneijder's goal sprinkled salt on Argentina's wounds, and the Dutch team's passion completely extinguished Maradona's passion and anger.
In Maradona's legendary life, he was knocked down but never broken, even when he was disqualified from the World Cup for a drug test in 1994, even when he cried in front of his Italian illegitimate son. After taking over the coach of Argentina, Maradona has been criticized by domestic public opinion due to his poor performance in the qualifiers, but he confronted the pressure angrily. Regardless of whether Maradona coached Argentina's tactical opponents or not, Maradona, whether as a player or as a coach, is always like a fighter, fighting constantly and never giving in.
Maybe Argentina's current tragedy is related to Maradona's tactical mistakes and his inappropriate drafting of the 23-man roster, but after this sad departure, Maradona really makes people feel He is old.
When he lowered his unruly eyebrows and his eyes showed helplessness at the press conference, the gray beard made people feel for the first time that the years had left indelible marks on him at the age of 50.
Perhaps, because of Maradona's high-spirited look and aggressive momentum, people ignored his old state, but after Argentina lost 0:3, the old horse was completely defeated. After admitting that he may resign, Maradona's trip to coach Argentina in the World Cup came to a sad end in a weak and sad tone.
Maradona originally thought that the 2010 World Cup would be a replica of the 1986 World Cup, but in the end he found that the glory of 1986 could not be replicated.
But when it comes to results, the Argentine team has done very well. After the Italian summer in 1990, the Argentine team reached the semi-finals for the first time. However, after analyzing the process of Argentina's promotion, it is not difficult to find that they The luck is really good.
In the group stage, they easily defeated South Korea and Nigeria. In the last game, Belgium, which played half of the main team, played in a panic. Then, in the two knockout matches, they faced Uruguay and Ghana respectively. Neither of them was a strong opponent.
Until they met the Netherlands, which was attacking with all their strength, the disguise of the Argentine strong team was torn up all at once.
There is one game left in Maradona's World Cup, and that is the battle for the third place. Maradona still has a chance to prove himself in front of people and prove that Argentina is not a fake strong team.
But whether it is Belgium or Spain, it is obviously not easy to deal with.