"We're looking forward to a classic head-to-head battle!" Such a slogan was shouted by the mainstream media after Portugal and Argentina confirmed that they would meet in the round of 16. These two teams, both good at attacking football and with delicate tactical coordination, can indeed afford this expectation from the outside world, but whether the game can still be played like this depends on whether the head coaches of both sides have this mind.

Although I don't know what Argentina coach Pekerman thinks, Scolari has no intention of playing against Argentina anyway. Compared to competing with Argentina in attack, he is more willing to compete in defense. In his opinion, using his own strengths and attacking his weaknesses is what a head coach should do. After a long period of deliberation, he finally decided to let Portugal play defensive and counter-tactics in this game.

Compared to the attack, Scolari felt it was a tactical option that would give Portugal a higher chance of winning. It's not that he's afraid of Argentina's frenzied attacking waves, but because he sees the crux of this Argentina team. Possession, coordination, technique, this Argentina team has what a strong team needs, but it lacks the whole. He came to this point of view after watching the footage of Argentina's first few games.

After deciding on it, Scolari announced his decision within the Portuguese team. Although the team members were a little surprised by this, they did not express any objections and accepted it. Scolari was actually a little surprised that his tactical decision could be so easily understood, after all, although this choice was wise, it seemed to be a bit of an active retreat.

He originally thought that Lao Lei would stand up and raise objections. Take this time Lao Lei in the team's table xiàn. Scolari thought it was very likely. But in fact, he also misunderstood Lao Lei. Although due to the way Mourinho was raised. But Lao Lei has a strong independence in the team's tactical choice. But if he takes the initiative to protest the manager's set-up. Unless Scolari's tactics are worthless to old ray, he won't do that.

Besides, Lao Lei actually agrees with Scolari's point of view in his heart, although Argentina is strong, it is like a castle in the air and a beach bunker, but with the right method, he can't withstand any impact at all. After carefully watching a lot of footage of Argentina's matches. Lao Lei saw the figure of Real Madrid in the 03-04 season in this Argentina team, all of which are strong enough in attack, but they all have fatal weaknesses. The only difference is that Real Madrid is weak in the thickness of the defensive line, while Argentina is weak in the slow pace.

Although he is still a player so far, Lao Lei is now familiar with 300 Tang poems, and he can't write them and chant them. Influenced by Mourinho's tactics, he himself has a good understanding of the future of football. In his opinion. It was going to be an era of more speed, and the speed we were talking about wasn't attacking or defending, but the speed at which the team's offense and defence could change.

From this point of view, Argentina is now in this traditional slow rhythm of attack and defense. Although elegant and good-looking, it is anti-football. In view of this, Lao Lei even came up with a concept. That's why this Argentina team had a smooth ride before the tournament for only one reason. That's the attacking power of their frontcourt, or the name that scares the opponent. Otherwise. Even if you can still achieve such a result, it shouldn't be so smooth.

After thinking of this, Lao Lei suddenly felt in his heart that this game with Argentina might be easier than he imagined, and this gap did not come from the gap in strength, but from the advanced or backward tactical play. If other teams may still be afraid of Argentina's attack, Lao Lei doesn't care, because when he was at Chelsea, he used this trick to quickly defend and counterattack, I don't know how many attacking teams he had. The shock and pressure of Argentina's attacking power has had little effect on the old Ray, who has mastered the rapid counter-attack after two seasons at Chelsea.

After determining the tactics, Portugal began to close the training ground and practiced rapid anti-counterattack tactics in full swing, in order to give Argentina a nirvana. This time, in order to make the best of this tactic, Scolari even made huge changes to the starting line-up and formation he had been sticking to.

4-2-3-1 was changed to 4-3-2-1 by him, in addition to Maniche and Kostiani will play together in this game, relieving the old ray of defensive tasks and allowing him to put more energy into the counter-attack, Deco and Figo were also withdrawn from the starting lineup, allowing the younger Simão and Ronaldo to act as counter-arrows in front. If the 4-2-3-1 Portugal is the sword of the king, then the 4-3-2-1 they are sharp arrows, killing the opponent in an instant between the strings, without mercy.

With Argentina, and the outside world unbeknownst to them, Portugal are concentrating on building a sword for the round of 16. However, although the choice and approach were right, Scolari and Portugal were also lucky. Because if it weren't for Deco's well-behaved childish personality and the old Figo who was only bent on winning the World Cup, the core of these two teams would have fallen out long ago. If this had to be left on the Netherlands and France, which have always had a conflict in the dressing room, it would have detonated the entire locker room and put the team on the verge of collapse.

At this juncture of hard training, Lao Lei also took the time to observe the situation in Italy. After arriving in Germany with the phonegate scandal on their back, the Italians did not have an easy time. Although they managed to qualify as top of Group E, it did not quell the doubts about them. The reason is very simple, the most strange thing is that you can't get out of this group. Therefore, people are more concerned about Italy's weak forward line than to qualify first in the group.

The forwards are collectively out of form and rely on midfielders and defenders to score goals, so Italy will naturally not be favored by the outside world. But Lao Lei has a different view from the outside world, and he pays more attention to Italy's defense than attack. After watching a few videos of the game in Italy, Lao Lei was simply amazed by Lippi's ability to adjust the defense.

Unlike Mourinho's pressing and attacking defence, Lippi's defence is like a silent mountain, unassuming. It's not glamorous, but it's terrifyingly strong and powerful. If you don't make it to the knockout round, that's it. A team with such a hand-off will be in for a tiebreaker once they enter a tiebreaker knockout round. Old Ray knows very well how terrible such a team can be.

Quietly, the threat of the Blue Coats in Lao Lei's heart is already higher than that of Brazil, which has five attacking superstars, and Ronaldinho's poor slump has made Lao Lei, who was originally determined to be disgraced, a little bored. Kaka's table made Lao Lei's eyes shine, but unfortunately the timing was not right, and the overall strength of the Brazilian team made Lao Lei regretful. At this moment, Brazil coach Andreas Pereira said. The rhetoric of "Brazilian football will be 50 years ahead of the world football level" still became a joke in Lao Lei's heart.

In the days when he was preparing for Argentina and watching out for the rest of his opponents, the time quickly came to June 24, the day when the knockout round officially began. Before Portugal and Argentina began, the likes of Germany, the Netherlands and England had already beaten their opponents to secure a place in the quarter-finals. Among them, England, who beat Ecuador 1-0, will be Portugal's opponent in the quarter-finals.

Of course. This requires Portugal to cross the threshold of Argentina first, otherwise, the world will once again stage the reunion of the two rivals of Britain and Argentina. However, here in Lao Lei. This is already a matter of course. To win! I can win!! You can definitely win!! After this period of training and research, Lao Lei had this idea very firmly in his heart.

Today's match with Portugal will also be played by Italy and Australia. But there is hardly any doubt about the possibility of a comparison between the two. The vast majority of sports journalists, including the media and fans, are focused on the game. The game in Italy is for any tactical manager. It may be a feast, but for any non-Italian fan, it's a blast of visual exhaustion.

However, when Portugal's starting lineup came out, these people who were expecting a wonderful offensive battle felt that they had been poured a bucket of ice water on their heads, and they were instantly disappointed. Seeing that a classic dragon fight has a tendency to evolve towards a turtle and snake war, Scolari's female relatives began to receive collective "intimate" greetings.

Thankfully, the game's appeal didn't go away. Although there was no wonderful battle against each other, the medicine sold by Scolari and Portugal in the gourd aroused great interest among everyone, whether it was a stroke of genius or a useless pretense. According to past examples, the sudden change of formation before the tournament is either an infamous defeat or a classic battle that can go down in history.

Thinking of Lao Lei's strong character, people suddenly couldn't help but look forward to it a little more, because they already knew very well that Lao Lei's temperament could not tolerate that kind of failure. Of course, there is also some unscrupulous people who secretly expect Scolari to become a failure, and then stage a public fight between him and Lao Lei.

By this time, the fans had finished like this, with Argentina's blue and white and Portugal's red lining the north and south stands of the stadium in a shocking confrontation. Before the game began, there was already a tense momentum between the fans of both sides, and the pungent smell of gunpowder and gunpowder began to slowly diffuse, stimulating everyone's enthusiasm!

Meanwhile, Scolari's final pre-war speech has come to an end, and the atmosphere of the game fills the Portuguese dressing room.

Since Figo was on the bench, Lao Lei, as the second captain of Portugal, naturally wore the captain's armband and also took on the task of boosting the morale of the players.

"Guys, I only have one thing to say, that's what we're aiming for today. Keep an eye on them! Bite them!! Tear them apart!! ”

"Tear them apart !!!"

As Lao Lei raised his arms and shouted, the Portuguese players all responded.

For a while, Sen Han's murderous aura was boiling! The blood of the battle is burning!!

Lao Lei couldn't help but tremble slightly with excitement, come on!

Come on!!

Come on!!!

His butcher's knife is already on the shelf, Argentina's neck (to be continued......