Golden Greenery

I don’t know whether it was a coincidence or everyone recognized the weakness of the Chinese team. Paraguay and Cameroon coincidentally played 4-3-3 in the first two games, and the same was true for the Italian team today.

Peach Gilardino, who Lippi had high hopes for in the first two rounds, finally made the coach lose confidence. He disappeared from the starting lineup against the Chinese team, along with Iaquinta, Serie A's new top scorer Di Natale, and Udy. Ness winger Simone Pepe forms the front three.

The second brother Meng in the midfield partnered with De Rossi, and Gattuso, who did not play in the first two games, also played. Ba Ye didn't play many games last season. The main reason was the decline in form, and the conflict with Leonardo was also on the one hand. But Ba Ye is a special type of player, unique in Apennines, and Ba Ye never loses focus when sleeping. The two of them can form a perfect midfield attack and defense.

Pirlo has not recovered from his calf injury and has been sidelined for the first two games. Lippi brought him to South Africa for the knockout rounds. Originally, Gattuso wouldn't have had anything to do without Sleepy, but today, in order to contain Zhuo Yang who was "resurrected from the dead", Lippi thought about it and found that there really was no more suitable candidate than Master Ba.

On the defense line, Buffon, the world's No. 1 goalkeeper, broke his waist in the first half of the first game. After the game, he was diagnosed with a herniated disc. It is initially estimated that he will need to rest for about 20 days. Whether he can catch up with the subsequent games of the World Cup depends on Italy. He has good character, but he will definitely not be able to keep up with the match against the Chinese team. Goalkeeper Marchetti from Cagliari replaced him.

Center backs Cannavaro and Chiellini are the conscience of Italy's defense. The right back is Gianluca Zambrotta, who started all three games in the group stage. From this, we can also see the decline of the Italian defender.

In the season when Zhuo Yang and Kaká led AC Milan to win the Triple Crown, Zambrotta, who returned from Barcelona, ​​was not the main force of the team. Ancelotti preferred to use Pompon as the right back and Maldini as the left back. Played more with Antonini. Zambrotta was still a substitute last season. At the age of 33, apart from his experience, his other abilities are far different from those in 2006.

But even so, Zambrotta can still occupy the absolute main force of the defending champion, and it is really difficult for old Lippi to make a meal without rice.

The left back is Criscito from Genoa. Zhuoyang now thinks about it carefully. Indeed, most of the good full-backs who impressed him in Serie A in those years were foreign players, and there was no Criscito among them.

The Italian media is still immersed in the aura of the defending champions. The disastrous defeat in the 2008 European Cup did not wake them up. In the following two seasons, the Milan duo dominated Europe and won the treble, which made the Italians float in the midst of greatness. . Before the start of the World Cup, the mainstream voices in Apennines were all speculating on the opponents in the final or semi-finals.

But Lippi is a sensible person. He is now sure that it was a serious mistake for him to return to the national team coach. His reputation reached its peak four years ago.

Maybe it will be returned.

AC Milan won the Triple Crown in the 08-09 season. The core of the team is Zhuo Yang and Kaká. The only Italian players who can be regarded as the main players are Inzaghi, Pirlo and Nesta, but these three will compete in this World Cup. None of them work.

Inter Milan won the Triple Crown last season. Among the main lineup, there was only one Italian, Montolivo, and even the head coach was Portuguese. Lippi can't understand how much money two such triple crown winners have to do with the Italian national team? And those media are just singing about the emperor's new clothes. They deceive themselves and others and are unwilling to face the true cruelty.

During the preparations for the World Cup, Lippi finalized the team's central axis of Buffon, Cannavaro, Montolivo, and Gilardino. However, after two games, only Montolivo was of great use. If it were not for the second brother , Italy will not have two consecutive draws, but another scandal after the French team.

Lippi was very moved when he saw Zhuo Yang and Cannavaro hugging each other after exchanging team flags. This young man once rejected invitations from himself and Donadoni and finally chose his homeland. Now he leads his team to stop Italy.

Lippi is one of the top 20 coaches today, so he can certainly see clearly. The Chinese team scored 9 goals in the first two games with one win and one loss, and Zhuo Yang shot 6 times and passed 3 passes. In fact, you don’t need to have a lot of insight into football. You can know what kind of team this is just by looking at the data. Without Zhuo Yang, the Chinese team is a joke. Even with Rijkaard, it is at best a joke with a tulip flavor. Let alone 3 points, they are not qualified to appear in the World Cup.

But Zhuo Yang made this joke stand tall in front of the defending champion. This is the strength of the number one player in football today.

During the warm-up just now, Zhuo Yang came to the Italian bench to greet the coach in order to express his gratitude for Lippi's love for him in the past. The 62-year-old coach was in a daze at that moment: If Zhuo Yang had chosen Italy two years ago, what a perfect match with Meng Er would be like now!

Brother Meng is the most famous artistic young man in football today. You always have to be a little moved and a little sad to be qualified to be called a literary youth, which is the standard in temperament.

The second brother felt a little bit sad today. He felt that this was very suitable for the team's current predicament, and it was also very appropriate to compete with his brothers, so he deliberately let this sadness spread freely. The annoying vuvuzela did not dispel the sadness, just like the chirping of cicadas in summer did not make love thin. The sea breeze from the Indian Ocean did not let the sadness disappear with the wind, just like lovers who broke up under the moonlight and forgot their vows of eternal love.

But Zhuo Yang let the second brother's sadness that had finally been condensed go away.

The two teams are about to fight to the death, so the atmosphere is naturally a bit solemn. Everyone's expressions are very solemn before the game until the warm-up. The tragic and sad feeling of who will win continues to permeate the tunnel, and the queues are waiting for the official entrance.

Gattuso, who was standing behind Cannavaro, viciously bullied every Chinese team player except Zhuo Yang with his eyes. Then he turned around with his lips curled up, perhaps feeling that he was treating Zhuo Yang like this. His teammates were a bit over the top, so they had nothing to say and started a relationship with Zhuoyang.

"Zhuoyang, I want to ask you a question."

Zhuo Yang looked at Master Ba who had finished arranging the score with great interest: "Tell me and listen."

"I want to learn some music. Can you recommend an easy-to-learn and solemn instrument in classical music?"

This is the right person to ask! Zhuo Yang looked thoughtful, and the Italians also paid attention.

"Wooden fish!"

‘Poof! ’ Chiellini leaned directly to the ground, holding his stomach and laughing until he was out of breath. Some of the other Italians understood and were laughing, while others were confused and confused.

Gattuso also smiled: "Grandma, you know how to entertain me. I am sincerely asking you for advice. Hurry up and recommend one."

Zhuo Yang, however, remained serious: "Then you learn to blow the urine whistle. If you want to be solemn, put on an evening dress and blow it again."

"Hahaha..." The Italians all laughed now, even the melancholy second brother Meng was beaming with laughter. The eighth master laughed and cursed and rushed over to join Zhuo Yang, laughing and playing together.

Although the Chinese team players didn't understand what was said, they laughed along with them when they saw them swaying with laughter.

There is no trace of sadness, the passage is full of joy.