Chapter 71
Spain is lagging behind and Belgium again, but unlike in the past, people are not surprised this time, because no one will continue to think that Spanish football is beautiful and sexy, and their football has been labeled as utilitarian.
The concept of "utilitarianism" on the football field is also inseparable from Machiavelli, the author of Monarchism. In many cases, the "utilitarianism" of football is summarized by some of the Italian national team.
In the Spanish's humiliating football memory, at the 1994 World Cup in the United States, Louis. Enrique's bloody face is the evil result of "utilitarianism". Tasotti, who gave Enrique a fierce elbow, is the representative of "utilitarianism".
But now, this big hat has fallen on their heads. Of course, the Spanish team can't accept such a big hat. They don't do anything to limit their opponents. They don't keep kicking the ball out of the court during the game time. They don't punch their opponents or under their feet from time to time like Gentille. Stun.
However, in terms of viewing, Spaniards are now playing football, which is absolutely ashamed of those fans who still like them, but Spain does not do anything to achieve the goal of winning. They have been playing against each other in the football style they have adhered to for decades. They came here for victory, and they have no obligation to please the global audience and provide football viewing content.
However, the world no longer views Spain this way, because in the past four years, although the Spanish national team has not had a champion to pretend, their football style has pushed Spanish football to a supreme position in the world. All kinds of requirements and expectations have accumulated in them. On the other, they not only need to continue to maintain excellent records, but also need to constantly innovate and have more and more amazing tactical and technical characteristics, so that the world can continue to fall in love with them.
In fact, Spain is neither conservative nor utilitarian. They just put up too high a ruler. When people get used to Spain's style of perfectly integrating personal technology and overall tactics, they habitually look forward to Spain's further progress.
In a top competition such as the European Cup, Spain's first or only purpose is to win the championship. This is not an exhibition match, nor is it a big show aimed at pleasing the audience. The Spanish national team is different from Real Madrid Barcelona. The two noble clubs must have 15 minutes and 20 minutes for each home game. , use exquisite performance to satisfy the demanding fans of the whole audience.
Spain only comes for the championship. They must find the most suitable way to play and win against the enemy under the existing resources.
The frontless array and hypnotic ball control are the choices that can best maximize their advantages. Bosk is very low-key and pragmatic, but it has nothing to do with big hats such as conservative utilitarianism.
Unfortunately, most people don't think so. What they want to see is a wonderful game, not a hypnotic method.
The score is behind, and the Spanish team has to start to become more positive. Unfortunately, their slow passing and control tactics have penetrated into the blood of every player on the court. It is not easy to reverse this habit in a short time.
In the thirty-first minute, Alba dribbled the ball in the backcourt and broke through to Belgium's half, but suddenly habitually wanted to pass the ball to his teammates behind him. When he was about to pass the ball, he suddenly found that something was not right. As a result, the ball was Pocolinio stabbed away. After Digan got the ball, he ran all the way and shot hard at the edge of the penalty area to the right column.
Although the goal did not score, it still shocked the Spaniard in a cold sweat.
After a period of stalemate, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game. From the first half of the game, the Spanish team was completely held by the Belgians.
Unlike the previous games, Spain has much less advantage in ball control in this game. Due to the large increase in their own passing mistakes, the Belgians used the fast-falling method that originally belonged to the Spaniards, which made Spain's front-court grabs not play much role, so the matadors controlled in the midfield. The force has decreased significantly.
For this reason, the Spaniards also used more long passes to try to tear open the opponent's defense line, which is the helplessness of losing control.
However, long passes have high requirements for the accuracy of passing, the speed of the center and the ability to stand. Spaniards who are used to playing on the ground rarely have accurate long passes, and pseudo-forward Fabregas does not show obvious speed advantages and cannot stand near the penalty area.
It can be said that the Spaniards have been completely harmed by their own superstitious tactics!
At the beginning of the second half of the game, Bosco made a substitution adjustment to replace Fabregas and a real striker. However, unexpectedly, he did not choose Torres, who had always been very dependent, nor did he choose the real high school striker Lorente, but chose the unknown insider. Gredo!
What is this going to do?
Suicide?
When Negredo squeezed out Soldado's list for the European Cup, it caused great controversy. Bosc chose Negredo at this time, obviously because he fell in his position as a blessing. With the 11 national team games he participated in, Spain won all.
In the warm-up match before the European Cup, Negredo also scored and performed well, but these historical data are now useless. After Negredo came on the field, he seemed very strange to cooperate with his teammates, and there were few opportunities to get the ball, let alone pose a threat.
In the 49th minute, Iniesta sent a very beautiful pass, but unfortunately Negredo did not receive it, revealing his weakness that he did not get along well with his teammates.
Three minutes later, his teammate tried to cooperate with him in the front court, and as a result, Negredo passed the ball directly to his opponent on the outside of his foot.
In the 56th minute, Silva and Iniesta sent the ball directly into the penalty area after completing a clever cooperation. However, Negredo, who he expected to receive it, did not start at all and stood at the back and watched, and a good opportunity was was wasted.
After Bosk saw the unfavorable situation and replaced Pedro and Navas successively, the situation of the Spaniards improved slightly, but there was no essential change. Although the cooperation between the two of them and their teammates was more tacit than Negre.
However, at this time, Spain is already very tired and difficult to organize an effective attack. Before the semi-finals, Spain had two less breaks than Belgium. For teams that have reached the final stage of this kind of competition, two more days of rest is undoubtedly very huge. Advantages.
In the 78th minute, the Belgian's opportunity came again. Hazard passed the ball, and Degan pushed a shot to expand the lead to two goals.
At this time, it can basically be concluded that Spain is finished!
Originally, before the start of this game, the fans were even ready for the two teams to break the single-game goal record of this European Cup. Belgium played this rhythm, but it was helpless. The Spanish team was so poisoned that they were obsessed with passing the ball from No. 1 to No. 2 and No. 2 to No. 3. Let them forget the essence of football and score one by one.
A beautiful football disappeared in Spain's caution and Belgium's fierce robbery. The latter's "butcher-style" kicking is exalted. Everyone knows that this is the only effective way to deal with Spain in the world.
But Spain's caution reduced the game to chicken ribs. Compared with Italy and England, which also played 0-0 in 90 minutes, the game contained very little excitement.
In an invalable game, in the face of a long-standing old opponent, the Spaniard suddenly lost the courage to send the ball into the opponent's penalty area, and even chose a conservative way to betray the beautiful football.
Although the game is not over, I believe that no one will think that the Spaniards still have a chance. At the same time, because of this game, the number of people who hate their playing methods may increase geometrically. Spain's random back and forth is ruthlessly killing the final beauty of beautiful football.
Of course, Belgium does not need to let go of such opponents, and they have no reason to let Spain leave decently. Spain wants to breathe a sigh of relief when they are tired, but Belgium does not agree. Their speed is getting faster and faster.
When the game reached the 80th minute, Belgium once again attacked the Spanish half. After Digan took the ball, he gently shook Busquets' defense and then took the opportunity to move the ball forward.
Seeing this, Busquets immediately covered his face and fell to the ground and kept rolling on the ground. His miserable appearance made people couldn't help thinking that he was broken.
Unfortunately, the referee saw it too clearly. When Degan passed, he didn't even raise his arm just now. The final conclusion was that the air was on Busquets' face.
Seeing that the referee did not intend to suspend the game, Busquets quickly got up again. This miracle of resurrection full of blood in place made the Belgian fans at the scene suddenly boo.
Spanish fans also bowed their heads and covered their faces. They really have no face to stay here. Some fans have left early.
At this time, Degan suddenly shot and completely ignored Pike's defense. The football seemed to have eyes and flew past Pike's side. Casillas was blocked by Pike and had no time to react. He could only see the football fly into the net.
3:0!
At this time, the suspense has been completely ended!