Chapter 217 Peak Showdown, Spain VS Brazil
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Luo Yi 36 Chao
Chapter 217 Peak Showdown, Spain VS Brazil
Chen Lei looked at the players from both sides who were warming up and said, "Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides first!"
"The lineup of the Spanish team has not changed much. The goalkeeper position is still No. 1 De Gea, who played well. On the defense line, Barcelona's twin stars Eric Garcia and Alba played together. Chelsea captain Azpilicueta is the first start of this World Cup. Manchester City's Laporte also appeared in the starting lineup unexpectedly."
Huang Jianxiang said from the side, "Azpilicueta's appearance shows that the Spanish team hopes to consolidate the defense of the defense in today's game. Although the Spanish team won the previous games, the problems in the defense have been exposed. Facing a strong team like Brazil, Enrique dare not use the previous problematic defense."
Chen Lei nodded and said, "That's right, but Spain's midfield hasn't changed much. The double midfielders of Busquets and Rodri are still very stable, and the offensive midfielder of Pedri and Li Mingyu is also a perfect match!"
Huang Jianxiang agreed very much and said, "Spain's four-man midfielder is excellent in offense and defense. The combination of Busquets and Rodri, the old and the young, is very harmonious in terms of experience and physical strength. When attacking, Rodri can dribble up the ball. Busquets defends firmly in the midfield. When defending, Rodri's sweeping in the middle can also make Busquets very relaxed."
Chen Lei continued, "The frontcourt partners are Morata and Fati. In the last game, Fati's amazing performance in the frontcourt conquered Enrique. In this game, Enrique continued to let Fati start and gave him enough trust. Morata, as one of the few centers of the Spanish team, still has no one to replace in the frontcourt."
Huang Jianxiang nodded and said seriously, "That's true. The two strikers of the Spanish team have already performed very well in this World Cup. They can turn Li Mingyu's assists into goals. When they need to pull, they can also complete their tasks very conscientiously."
Chen Lei looked to the other side of the court and said, "Brazil's lineup is still 4-3-3 today. It seems that Brazil's head coach Tite hopes to have a spear-to-spear match with Spain!"
Huang Jianxiang said, "The goalkeeper of the Brazilian team is Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson. This is a very agile goalkeeper with solid basic skills and is particularly good at single-handed shots. Last season, Alisson was the goalkeeper who saved the most single-handed goals in the Premier League."
"The four defenders are Alex Sandro from Juventus, Eder Militao from Real Madrid, Marquinhos from Paris Saint-Germain and Danilo Luiz, also from Juventus."
"The three midfielders are Fred from Manchester United, Casemiro from Real Madrid and Lucas Paqueta from Lyon."
"The three forwards are Gabriel Jesus from Manchester City, Richarlison from Everton and their captain Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain."
Chen Lei said, "The lineups of both sides are extremely aggressive lineups, and both have players with strong control and interception abilities in the midfield. The focus of this game should be in the midfield. Mr. Huang, please analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the lineups of both sides for everyone!"
Huang Jianxiang pondered for a while, and said, "Spain's offensive and defensive lineup is balanced, and the answer has been given in the previous game. Enrique replaced Azpilicueta this time to strengthen the slightly unbalanced defense line before. With Azpilicueta, I believe that Spain's defense line will be very strong. It will be very difficult for the Brazilian team to enter the Spanish team's penalty area!"
"In contrast to the Brazilian team, Neymar has undoubtedly been the core of the team along the way. The only variable this time is striker Richarlison."
"Richarlison's performance at Everton was quite satisfactory, but in the talented Brazil team, he didn't seem so conspicuous. Due to the suspension of Firmino from Liverpool in the last game, coach Tite had to use this striker. In the previous five games, Richarlison was replaced by Tite in the last few minutes to feel the atmosphere of the World Cup. In such an important semi-final, Tite actually let Richarlison start. This is also a huge risk!"
Chen Lei also nodded approvingly. When he saw the list just now, he thought he had read it wrong.
The 25-year-old Richarlison landed in the Premier League in 2018. From Watford to Everton, he can only be said to be a well-regulated player. From him, he cannot see the shadow of Samba football.
This is also the problem of Brazilian football over the years. Now most of the Brazilian players have slowly begun to Europeanize, losing the soul of Samba football.
Neymar may be the last successor of Samba football.
After warming up, Li Mingyu returned to the locker room and changed into his jersey.
Enrique used the last time to chat with everyone for a while, and didn't talk too much about tactics, because at this time, it was already difficult for everyone to listen to these things.
"Li, if you can score another goal in this game, you will become No.1 in the history of scoring goals in a single World Cup!"
Enrique looked at Li Mingyu with a smile on his face.
There was a glimmer of hope in Li Mingyu's eyes. Such a name sounds very impressive.
The other Spanish players looked at Li Mingyu enviously.
Everyone knew that Li Mingyu was very strong before. He broke Messi's monopoly in the league and won the La Liga Golden Boot for two consecutive years. He also scored a lot of goals in the Champions League. Even if he did not participate in the next game due to injury, he still won the Champions League Golden Boot with his previous goals.
Unexpectedly, Li Mingyu brought his fiery feet to the stage of the World Cup.
Scoring 5 goals in 13 games, this frightening scoring efficiency makes all players feel ashamed.
The terrifying Li Mingyu has already engraved his name in the history of the World Cup.
However, with such a strong teammate, the Spanish players have an inexplicable confidence in their hearts.
As long as Li Mingyu can keep scoring goals, it will not be difficult for Spain to win the World Cup!
The most comfortable thing for Li Mingyu, or the Spanish team, is that this semi-final is still at the Landmark Stadium in Lusail. This is the third time for the Spanish team to play at this venue. This venue is the final venue of this World Cup.
After the semi-finals came out, seeing Spain come to the Lusail Landmark Stadium again, many fans felt that this was metaphysics.
If Spain can beat Brazil to reach the final, then Spain will have a huge advantage.
Three games in a row on the same field, it feels like being at home.
This is also the first time in the history of the World Cup that the group stage, quarter-finals, semi-finals and even the final are played on one pitch.
Spanish fans feel that this is God's favor, and this time Spain will definitely win the cup in this stadium.
Another advantage is that the Spanish team does not need to travel to the same hotel, and they do not need to familiarize themselves with the stadium or the surrounding environment. This is really no different from playing at home.
Moreover, the popularity of Spain is already very high. Many local neutral fans in Qatar have become fans of Spain, the most important being Li Mingyu's fans.
The Spanish team's No. 10 jersey was sold out all over the world for a while.
Players from both sides came out of the player channel together, and the fans in the audience burst into the warmest applause and cheers.
Spain's players wore burgundy and burgundy tops with yellow stripes as an abstraction on the national flag.
Paired with blue shorts, it is very clear that people can tell at a glance that this is the "Matador" team uniform.
The Brazil team uniform is still their most traditional yellow jersey and blue shorts, very simple form.
But the most eye-catching thing is the five green five-pointed stars shining on the national team badge on their chests.
It is because of these five stars that this simple jersey becomes noble.
The only team in World Cup history to win the World Cup five times.
Five Star Brazil.
1958年瑞典世界杯、1962年智利世界杯、1970年墨西哥世界杯、1994年美国世界杯、2002年韩日世界杯。
However, since 2002, the Brazilian team has never entered the final, and the best result is the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, which all Brazilians hope for.
A 1:7 that broke the hearts of all Brazilians completely shattered the football soul of the Samba Kingdom.
This year, the Brazilian team made a comeback and entered the World Cup with the second place in the qualifiers.
In the group stage, the Brazilian team was unstoppable, with three consecutive victories, the quarter-finals, and the quarter-finals. Brazil finally came to the top four again.
Facing the thriving Spanish team, the Brazilian team did not have any timidity.
This game will determine whether Spain has reached the final again since 2010, or Brazil has reached the final again since 2002!
The referee blew the whistle to start the game amidst the cheers of the fans.
[Congratulations to the host for signing in at the Landmark Stadium in Lussel, and receiving the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from the legendary Brazilian football king Pele. 】
Pele, as the greatest star in the history of the Brazilian team and the world-recognized football champion, his football skills do not need to be described too much. Now the extraordinary skills of these players are all left by Pele.
Bailey's strongest point is that he was good at Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu since he was a child, which made his body flexible beyond ordinary people, so he was able to make a lot of difficult and exciting moves in many competitions.
Li Mingyu suddenly felt that his body had become much more flexible, and he really wanted to do the splits to celebrate!
After receiving the kick-off, Neymar took the ball and rushed towards the Spanish half.
Li Mingyu stood in front of him directly.
The fans in the audience couldn't help but let out a burst of excited cheers.
Some fans with good memories immediately thought of the scene when Li Mingyu and Neymar met for the first time.
In the first round of the Champions League quarterfinals between Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, Li Mingyu dribbled the ball and Neymar defended.
Today, it's turned upside down.
Back then, Li Mingyu used two sharp turns that hurt his knees and got rid of Neymar's defense.
Today, when Neymar faced Li Mingyu's defense, would he directly choose to break through?
When everyone was very excited and hoped to see the peak match between the two stars, Neymar chose to pass the ball.
Neymar did not choose one-on-one with Li Mingyu, but passed the ball to the wing.
This caused a burst of dissatisfied boos from the fans.
However, Neymar doesn't care about these voices at all. For him, he has only one goal in this game, which is to beat Spain.
Regarding Li Mingyu, Neymar has no idea.
Last season, Neymar still had an indifferent mentality towards Li Mingyu, but after seeing Li Mingyu's performance in this World Cup, Neymar chose the team very wisely.
As long as the Brazilian team defeats the Spanish team, enters the finals, and wins the World Cup, even if Li Mingyu gets the most goals scored in a single World Cup, it won't be as important as the World Cup champion!
Li Mingyu didn't have any other thoughts about Neymar passing the ball. For Neymar, Li Mingyu didn't regard him as his opponent.
After all, Neymar was ten years older than Li Mingyu, and the two were not players of the same age group. After two or three years, when Li Mingyu's physical condition had reached its peak, Neymar had already passed his peak.
The Brazilian team's pass control is definitely not inferior to the Spanish team, and the offensiveness of the midfield is even stronger than that of the Spanish team.
Neymar's desire to attack is very strong, and he was very active in the Spanish half.
In less than 10 minutes of the opening, Neymar had already tried two threatening breakthroughs, one breakthrough was successful, but the shot after breaking into the penalty area seemed a bit sloppy and was directly confiscated by De Gea.
There was another breakthrough, which was intercepted by two Spanish defenders. A quick counterattack almost threatened Brazil's goal.
After all, it is the semi-finals, and neither side will play as much as they did in the previous games. First of all, the most important thing is to stabilize their defense.
In the No.30 minute of the first half, the balance between the two sides was broken.
Neymar is very smart. He found the weak point of the Spanish team's backcourt, which is the 35-year-old Busquets.
Neymar, who used to be teammates with Busquets, knows some of his defensive habits and body language.
The continuous fighting made Busquets' body a little bit too much.
In the more intense semi-finals, Busquets felt that his body had reached its limit after running for 10 minutes.
Busquets, who was a little slow on his feet, was caught by Neymar.
With an easy pass, Neymar waded past Busquets, and Busquets fell to the ground with a slap in the face, and he felt his thigh muscles begin to twitch violently.
Thigh cramps!
Neymar didn't notice Busquets' condition and rushed forward with the ball.
The Spanish players raised their hands one after another, trying to get the referee to stop the game.
However, the referee did not immediately stop the game.
(End of this chapter)
Chen Lei looked at the players from both sides who were warming up and said, "Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides first!"
"The lineup of the Spanish team has not changed much. The goalkeeper position is still No. 1 De Gea, who played well. On the defense line, Barcelona's twin stars Eric Garcia and Alba played together. Chelsea captain Azpilicueta is the first start of this World Cup. Manchester City's Laporte also appeared in the starting lineup unexpectedly."
Huang Jianxiang said from the side, "Azpilicueta's appearance shows that the Spanish team hopes to consolidate the defense of the defense in today's game. Although the Spanish team won the previous games, the problems in the defense have been exposed. Facing a strong team like Brazil, Enrique dare not use the previous problematic defense."
Chen Lei nodded and said, "That's right, but Spain's midfield hasn't changed much. The double midfielders of Busquets and Rodri are still very stable, and the offensive midfielder of Pedri and Li Mingyu is also a perfect match!"
Huang Jianxiang agreed very much and said, "Spain's four-man midfielder is excellent in offense and defense. The combination of Busquets and Rodri, the old and the young, is very harmonious in terms of experience and physical strength. When attacking, Rodri can dribble up the ball. Busquets defends firmly in the midfield. When defending, Rodri's sweeping in the middle can also make Busquets very relaxed."
Chen Lei continued, "The frontcourt partners are Morata and Fati. In the last game, Fati's amazing performance in the frontcourt conquered Enrique. In this game, Enrique continued to let Fati start and gave him enough trust. Morata, as one of the few centers of the Spanish team, still has no one to replace in the frontcourt."
Huang Jianxiang nodded and said seriously, "That's true. The two strikers of the Spanish team have already performed very well in this World Cup. They can turn Li Mingyu's assists into goals. When they need to pull, they can also complete their tasks very conscientiously."
Chen Lei looked to the other side of the court and said, "Brazil's lineup is still 4-3-3 today. It seems that Brazil's head coach Tite hopes to have a spear-to-spear match with Spain!"
Huang Jianxiang said, "The goalkeeper of the Brazilian team is Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson. This is a very agile goalkeeper with solid basic skills and is particularly good at single-handed shots. Last season, Alisson was the goalkeeper who saved the most single-handed goals in the Premier League."
"The four defenders are Alex Sandro from Juventus, Eder Militao from Real Madrid, Marquinhos from Paris Saint-Germain and Danilo Luiz, also from Juventus."
"The three midfielders are Fred from Manchester United, Casemiro from Real Madrid and Lucas Paqueta from Lyon."
"The three forwards are Gabriel Jesus from Manchester City, Richarlison from Everton and their captain Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain."
Chen Lei said, "The lineups of both sides are extremely aggressive lineups, and both have players with strong control and interception abilities in the midfield. The focus of this game should be in the midfield. Mr. Huang, please analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the lineups of both sides for everyone!"
Huang Jianxiang pondered for a while, and said, "Spain's offensive and defensive lineup is balanced, and the answer has been given in the previous game. Enrique replaced Azpilicueta this time to strengthen the slightly unbalanced defense line before. With Azpilicueta, I believe that Spain's defense line will be very strong. It will be very difficult for the Brazilian team to enter the Spanish team's penalty area!"
"In contrast to the Brazilian team, Neymar has undoubtedly been the core of the team along the way. The only variable this time is striker Richarlison."
"Richarlison's performance at Everton was quite satisfactory, but in the talented Brazil team, he didn't seem so conspicuous. Due to the suspension of Firmino from Liverpool in the last game, coach Tite had to use this striker. In the previous five games, Richarlison was replaced by Tite in the last few minutes to feel the atmosphere of the World Cup. In such an important semi-final, Tite actually let Richarlison start. This is also a huge risk!"
Chen Lei also nodded approvingly. When he saw the list just now, he thought he had read it wrong.
The 25-year-old Richarlison landed in the Premier League in 2018. From Watford to Everton, he can only be said to be a well-regulated player. From him, he cannot see the shadow of Samba football.
This is also the problem of Brazilian football over the years. Now most of the Brazilian players have slowly begun to Europeanize, losing the soul of Samba football.
Neymar may be the last successor of Samba football.
After warming up, Li Mingyu returned to the locker room and changed into his jersey.
Enrique used the last time to chat with everyone for a while, and didn't talk too much about tactics, because at this time, it was already difficult for everyone to listen to these things.
"Li, if you can score another goal in this game, you will become No.1 in the history of scoring goals in a single World Cup!"
Enrique looked at Li Mingyu with a smile on his face.
There was a glimmer of hope in Li Mingyu's eyes. Such a name sounds very impressive.
The other Spanish players looked at Li Mingyu enviously.
Everyone knew that Li Mingyu was very strong before. He broke Messi's monopoly in the league and won the La Liga Golden Boot for two consecutive years. He also scored a lot of goals in the Champions League. Even if he did not participate in the next game due to injury, he still won the Champions League Golden Boot with his previous goals.
Unexpectedly, Li Mingyu brought his fiery feet to the stage of the World Cup.
Scoring 5 goals in 13 games, this frightening scoring efficiency makes all players feel ashamed.
The terrifying Li Mingyu has already engraved his name in the history of the World Cup.
However, with such a strong teammate, the Spanish players have an inexplicable confidence in their hearts.
As long as Li Mingyu can keep scoring goals, it will not be difficult for Spain to win the World Cup!
The most comfortable thing for Li Mingyu, or the Spanish team, is that this semi-final is still at the Landmark Stadium in Lusail. This is the third time for the Spanish team to play at this venue. This venue is the final venue of this World Cup.
After the semi-finals came out, seeing Spain come to the Lusail Landmark Stadium again, many fans felt that this was metaphysics.
If Spain can beat Brazil to reach the final, then Spain will have a huge advantage.
Three games in a row on the same field, it feels like being at home.
This is also the first time in the history of the World Cup that the group stage, quarter-finals, semi-finals and even the final are played on one pitch.
Spanish fans feel that this is God's favor, and this time Spain will definitely win the cup in this stadium.
Another advantage is that the Spanish team does not need to travel to the same hotel, and they do not need to familiarize themselves with the stadium or the surrounding environment. This is really no different from playing at home.
Moreover, the popularity of Spain is already very high. Many local neutral fans in Qatar have become fans of Spain, the most important being Li Mingyu's fans.
The Spanish team's No. 10 jersey was sold out all over the world for a while.
Players from both sides came out of the player channel together, and the fans in the audience burst into the warmest applause and cheers.
Spain's players wore burgundy and burgundy tops with yellow stripes as an abstraction on the national flag.
Paired with blue shorts, it is very clear that people can tell at a glance that this is the "Matador" team uniform.
The Brazil team uniform is still their most traditional yellow jersey and blue shorts, very simple form.
But the most eye-catching thing is the five green five-pointed stars shining on the national team badge on their chests.
It is because of these five stars that this simple jersey becomes noble.
The only team in World Cup history to win the World Cup five times.
Five Star Brazil.
1958年瑞典世界杯、1962年智利世界杯、1970年墨西哥世界杯、1994年美国世界杯、2002年韩日世界杯。
However, since 2002, the Brazilian team has never entered the final, and the best result is the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, which all Brazilians hope for.
A 1:7 that broke the hearts of all Brazilians completely shattered the football soul of the Samba Kingdom.
This year, the Brazilian team made a comeback and entered the World Cup with the second place in the qualifiers.
In the group stage, the Brazilian team was unstoppable, with three consecutive victories, the quarter-finals, and the quarter-finals. Brazil finally came to the top four again.
Facing the thriving Spanish team, the Brazilian team did not have any timidity.
This game will determine whether Spain has reached the final again since 2010, or Brazil has reached the final again since 2002!
The referee blew the whistle to start the game amidst the cheers of the fans.
[Congratulations to the host for signing in at the Landmark Stadium in Lussel, and receiving the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from the legendary Brazilian football king Pele. 】
Pele, as the greatest star in the history of the Brazilian team and the world-recognized football champion, his football skills do not need to be described too much. Now the extraordinary skills of these players are all left by Pele.
Bailey's strongest point is that he was good at Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu since he was a child, which made his body flexible beyond ordinary people, so he was able to make a lot of difficult and exciting moves in many competitions.
Li Mingyu suddenly felt that his body had become much more flexible, and he really wanted to do the splits to celebrate!
After receiving the kick-off, Neymar took the ball and rushed towards the Spanish half.
Li Mingyu stood in front of him directly.
The fans in the audience couldn't help but let out a burst of excited cheers.
Some fans with good memories immediately thought of the scene when Li Mingyu and Neymar met for the first time.
In the first round of the Champions League quarterfinals between Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, Li Mingyu dribbled the ball and Neymar defended.
Today, it's turned upside down.
Back then, Li Mingyu used two sharp turns that hurt his knees and got rid of Neymar's defense.
Today, when Neymar faced Li Mingyu's defense, would he directly choose to break through?
When everyone was very excited and hoped to see the peak match between the two stars, Neymar chose to pass the ball.
Neymar did not choose one-on-one with Li Mingyu, but passed the ball to the wing.
This caused a burst of dissatisfied boos from the fans.
However, Neymar doesn't care about these voices at all. For him, he has only one goal in this game, which is to beat Spain.
Regarding Li Mingyu, Neymar has no idea.
Last season, Neymar still had an indifferent mentality towards Li Mingyu, but after seeing Li Mingyu's performance in this World Cup, Neymar chose the team very wisely.
As long as the Brazilian team defeats the Spanish team, enters the finals, and wins the World Cup, even if Li Mingyu gets the most goals scored in a single World Cup, it won't be as important as the World Cup champion!
Li Mingyu didn't have any other thoughts about Neymar passing the ball. For Neymar, Li Mingyu didn't regard him as his opponent.
After all, Neymar was ten years older than Li Mingyu, and the two were not players of the same age group. After two or three years, when Li Mingyu's physical condition had reached its peak, Neymar had already passed his peak.
The Brazilian team's pass control is definitely not inferior to the Spanish team, and the offensiveness of the midfield is even stronger than that of the Spanish team.
Neymar's desire to attack is very strong, and he was very active in the Spanish half.
In less than 10 minutes of the opening, Neymar had already tried two threatening breakthroughs, one breakthrough was successful, but the shot after breaking into the penalty area seemed a bit sloppy and was directly confiscated by De Gea.
There was another breakthrough, which was intercepted by two Spanish defenders. A quick counterattack almost threatened Brazil's goal.
After all, it is the semi-finals, and neither side will play as much as they did in the previous games. First of all, the most important thing is to stabilize their defense.
In the No.30 minute of the first half, the balance between the two sides was broken.
Neymar is very smart. He found the weak point of the Spanish team's backcourt, which is the 35-year-old Busquets.
Neymar, who used to be teammates with Busquets, knows some of his defensive habits and body language.
The continuous fighting made Busquets' body a little bit too much.
In the more intense semi-finals, Busquets felt that his body had reached its limit after running for 10 minutes.
Busquets, who was a little slow on his feet, was caught by Neymar.
With an easy pass, Neymar waded past Busquets, and Busquets fell to the ground with a slap in the face, and he felt his thigh muscles begin to twitch violently.
Thigh cramps!
Neymar didn't notice Busquets' condition and rushed forward with the ball.
The Spanish players raised their hands one after another, trying to get the referee to stop the game.
However, the referee did not immediately stop the game.
(End of this chapter)
