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Although the goal of the team was first broken by the opponent, the Italian players were not discouraged. After the game started again, the players still played the ball step by step on the court according to Trapatoni's arrangement. Pirlo and Deco controlled the team's rhythm well. The extremely calm playing style made it impossible to tell that they were now behind in the score.

Although Italian football has always been famous for its sharp defensive counterattack and reinforced concrete defense line, this does not mean that when the opponent takes the lead, they will become helpless. After all, the football field has always been changing, and no one can guarantee that everything can develop according to their expectations. Therefore, even if the defense is as strong as the Italian, they will make an estimate of the possibility of an unfavorable situation such as a score behind and formulate corresponding countermeasures. They will never lose their composure just because of a little accident in the game.

The calm performance of Italian players made Dutch players feel very disappointed. They planned to strike while the iron was hot during this period and further expand their lead. However, judging from the current situation, the Italians did not seem to have been hit by the goal conceding at all, and they did not change their strategy or counterattack in the next game just because they were one goal behind.

This situation really makes Dutch players very depressed. After all, in their vision, Italy, who is one goal behind, will definitely take the initiative to attack after re-telephone kickoff. In this way, they can use Robben and Van der Mede, the pair of wings, to get more shooting opportunities.

I'll take a break, this is different from what I've said! Isn't it to deal with a team that focuses on defensive counterattack tactics, as long as we score first, the opponent has to take the initiative to attack in order to win the score, so that we can get more scoring opportunities and further expand the score? Why are these Italians' reactions completely different? They are just like before conceding the ball, and they are slowly turning their feet on the court, looking indifferent to the score...

Unlike the depressed Dutch players, Edvocart was secretly happy about the performance of Italian players. In his opinion, since the team has taken the lead, there is no need to continue attacking at the risk of being hit by the opponent. The most important thing is to defend the existing advantages.

However, Edvocart also knew in his heart that now that he had lost control of the team, no matter what arrangement he made on the sidelines, the players would not obey his adjustments and arrangements.

"Hmph, what a bunch of guys who took it for granted... Do you think this would be able to undermine me?" Edvorkat's cold eyes kept spinning around Koku, Debor and others. He had long seen these veterans who had great prestige in the national team but had long been in a state of no longer good. Although due to various relationships, Edvorkat had no ability to move them at all, this does not mean that the head coach who had studied with Michels for five years would not be able to let the team play according to his ideas: "If it weren't for the prestige of Mr. Michels, I would have driven you guys who always sang against me out of the national team!"

Hiddink, the former head coach of the Netherlands national team, said one thing well: "If Clement (the Spanish coach at the time) asked his players to stand under a tree, they would do it immediately; but if I ordered my players like this, he would immediately ask me: 'Why?' Who knows why? The Dutch are never defeated by others, they just defeat themselves!"

Hiddink's remarks are very representative of how strong the self-ism of these Dutch players is. In the eyes of these players, they will not unconditionally execute the head coach's arrangements that are not in line with their wishes, and will have to worry about them before they can do it.

The current situation of Dutch football is that from the Football Association to the fans, they all favored this group of players too much, which greatly weakened the authority of the head coach and could not suppress the players under their command. The team won the game and lost it means that the head coach was poorly commanded and used improperly. This situation has made the position of the head coach of the Dutch national team a hot potato, and almost few well-known coaches are willing to take over.

So, Edvocart, who made up his mind, began to plan in his mind how to make the team play according to his ideas. The Dutch players on the court saw the head coach sitting in the coach's seat and remained silent. They thought Edvocart had accepted the fact that they had been undermined by them and did not expect that the other party was planning a counterattack.

In this way, when Frisk blew the whistle to the end of the first half, the score on the field was still 1-0, and the Netherlands temporarily led by relying on the wonderful performance of Pan Robben.

After the fifteen-minute halftime break, the players from both sides who returned to the court immediately started fighting again. The intensity of the game was significantly improved compared to the first half. Now there are only 45 minutes left before the end of the game. A ticket to the European Cup semi-finals made them dare not be careless at all, and they could only do their best to play football with all their might.

It has to be said that Totti's suspension has a considerable impact on Italy. Although Pirlo and Deco can carry the team's organizational work well, they are both more suitable to be a commander who hides behind the scenes to command the overall situation, rather than charging forward like the Prince of Rome, or giving teammates the last final pass with a fatal pass. Although Casano has this potential and talent, the Barry boy who has not yet converted its potential into strength is obviously not as threatening as Totti. Under the old defense of Davis and Coku, Casano's performance can only be said to be unsatisfactory.

Therefore, although Italy, which lacks Totti, was not able to break the goal again by the Netherlands after strengthening its defense against Robben, on the offensive end, the Apennines were also unable to break through the Dutch defense line. In other words, it was difficult for them to form enough threatening scoring opportunities. The offensive trident of Vieri, Milito and Casano were completely divided by Dutch players, and there was almost no effective connection in the frontcourt!

Stam, who knew Vieri and Diego Milito, played a very important role in it. Without his guidance, Debor and Koku alone would have almost never been able to defend Italy's counterattack so perfectly.

Of course, the decline in Vieri's own ability is the most important reason why Italy finds it difficult to break the deadlock, so I will not go into details here.
Chapter completed!