Argentina, like its arch-rival Brazil, is a country that loves music and dance. If Brazil is known for its free-spirited samba, then Argentine tango is known for its fiery openness. And this style has also been slowly integrated into their respective football styles from dance. For example, it is clear that the Brazilian style of football, which is also a staunch fan of attacking football, is more free-spirited and often plays with imagination, while Argentine football is less imaginative than Brazilian football, but it is more relaxed and elegant.

This is a tradition that Argentine football is proud of, and it can be said that Maradona is in the midst of thousands of troops, and a large part of it comes from this. This style has also been continued in the Argentine team coached by Pekerman, and under the guidance of Riquelme, the soul of the midfield, this Argentine football team is like a slow three-beat dance, calm and elegant.

This is their strength, but at the same time, it is also their fatal weakness, at least in the eyes of Lao Lei. With the development of modern football, the slow-moving classical style of football has begun to be slowly phased out. Maybe at some point in the future, this style of football will see the light of day again, but definitely not now, not in this World Cup.

Regarding Riquelme, the elder Lei admired, and what he did in Villarreal showed the world the power of the typical forward midfield. However, in this big era, it is more like the last reluctant farewell and nostalgia of the classical front midfielder to the world football, which can be regarded as the last period of return.

Riquelme's football is a bare hand climb to a dangerous peak. After a lot of hardships, read all the beautiful scenery that ordinary people don't know along the way. Wait for the style to go up to the top of the mountain. It's wonderful, but with the highway. Who wants to walk a rugged mountain road that takes time and effort. There is no superiority between the two styles per se, but in a winner-takes-all world, the outcome is often the thing that people care more about.

At this time, this is what Portugal and Lao Lei are trying to do, since whoever gets to the top of the mountain first wins, then why accompany Argentina to climb the mountain rock, instead of driving a car to the top of the mountain. Although there is no wonderful scenery on the way, it also seems somewhat utilitarian. But the harsh reality is the real reality. Old Ray likes art and beautiful things, but if he can succeed faster, he doesn't mind burning Picasso's paintings to ashes.

Therefore, after the start of the game, people saw a scene of great disappointment for them, Portugal, who had put on a 4-3-2-1 formation, really retreated and put on a defensive counter-attack. There is no offensive posture with Argentina. Seeing that a battle that was supposed to remain in the world forever has turned into a boring offensive and defensive duel, people can't hide the disappointment and loneliness in the hearts of themselves and others.

But soon, they realized that they were wrong again. Although Portugal is still in a defensive counterattack formation, the situation is not boring, but quite intense. The fiery atmosphere brought a different feeling to the spectators, who felt that this Portugal team had suddenly become the iron-blooded blue army of invincible European football in the past two years.

All right. It's a bit of an exaggeration, but it can't be helped. At this time, Portugal is really too far behind the previous Portugal, and people's impression is inevitably exaggerated. On the pitch, Portugal, which put on a defensive posture, is not passive defensive, but actively presses out, although the action is not large, but it is quite aggressive in momentum.

As long as Argentina advances past the center circle, Portugal's players in various defensive areas will bite the Argentine players with the ball like mad dogs, constantly pressing them back, and do not deliberately pursue the ball, but take the lead in cutting off Argentina's forward line. In such a situation, although Argentina collectively pressed through the half soon after the opening, the effective possession time in the heart of Portugal was quite small.

In particular, with Lao Lei as the arrow, Maniche and Costinha's three-man partnership on the left and right has become a reinforced concrete wall in the middle. Rao is no matter how talented the Argentine frontcourt attackers are, they have no choice but to scratch their heads in distress for a while. Among them, especially Lao Lei is the most, the interception area covers almost the entire half, and he brings endless troubles to the Argentine players with his never-ending running and tough and powerful interceptions.

Among them, Riquelme, the core of the Argentine organization, suffered the most from the old thunder. With a soft style of play, what he is most afraid of is encountering a robber-like and unreasonable defensive player like Lao Lei. In addition, Lao Lei is not the kind of beast waist with only a body, and Riquelme's life is naturally even more sad. Although the skills of Argentina's forward midfielder are good, in front of Lao Lei, not to mention that it is difficult to get rid of Lao Lei with the ball, even if he successfully gets rid of it, he will be quickly caught up by Lao Lei and will not give him a chance. The slow and methodical style of football became his fatal weakness at this time.

It has been said that Riquelme's wonderful handling of the ball is directly proportional to the time you give him to handle the ball, and this description is quite accurate. And the Argentina coached by Pekerman is also using this to serve Riquelme's core, with frontcourt strikers constantly interspersed to cover Riquelme and provide him with enough time to handle the ball. Argentina's six-goal sweep against Serbia and Montenegro, in which the Serbian and Black fell too far back and gave Riquelme too much space to handle the ball was the main reason.

And Lao Lei will never give Riquelme such a chance, the absolute advantage of the body, so that he has enough advantages to face Riquelme's superman skills and imagination. From the very beginning of the game, he became a wall in front of Riquelme, making every step he took become a self-inflicted act akin to finding a wall to hit himself.

Of course, Riquelme is Riquelme after all, and as the most orthodox classical striker in football today, he is not without opportunities when facing Lao Lei. When Argentina's full-backs stepped in to attack, so that the back three such as Lao Lei had to spread out to support the wings, this was Riquelme's opportunity, and it was also a common backup tactic for Argentina in the face of dense defense. At this point, just a midfielder behind Riquelme has to step in one more. The players who were marking Riquelme had to be distracted because of Riquelme's surprising way of passing. The most unguardable is the most unguardable.

In the 13th minute of the first half, Riquelme, who had been dull for more than 10 minutes, had such an opportunity. Left wing-back Sorin in front and Maxey in the back. Just give Riquelme such a time. When Sorrin, who won the ball on the wing, returned the ball to Riquelme in the middle, Maxi intervened at the right time.

At this time, at the moment when Riquelme was handling the ball, Lao Lei had to separate part of his attention from Maxi at this moment, after all, the Argentine midfielder still has a certain ability to insert the attack, at least to the point where he can't let it go. At this moment, Riquelmena was supposed to take the ball sideways to Maxi's foot. In an instant, the ankle was skimmed inward, and by the way, the heel was lifted.

It was this instantaneous change, the course of action after the football hit Riquelme's foot, there was a very big change. The soccer ball suddenly leaped high and flew straight past the right side of Old Ray, to his rear. At the same time, Riquelme also suddenly turned back, trying to speed up to get around Lao Lei.

It's a very beautiful streak too. And because of the line of sight, Lao Lei was also defenseless. Fortunately, he had been prepared for such moments for a long time. With the advantage of his body, Lao Lei always has reservations when marking Riquelme. In order to deal with this sudden situation.

Lao Lei, who immediately sensed that something was wrong, also turned around immediately, not to mention breaking the ball. Rather, it stuck Riquelme straight forward on the route first. But this time Riquelme's handling of the ball was so beautiful that he turned behind him. The football was right in front of him, and he didn't even have to make any adjustments. So. Lao Lei's blocking has an effect, but it is better than nothing.

At this time, Lao Lei was also very decisive and came up with a low profile that a defensive player should have. One force, first with a slight foul action, hit Riquelme's body one by one. Immediately pretending that nothing had been done, and following up was like a sliding tackle on the ground, breaking the ball out of the touchline before Riquelme could regain control of the ball. As for whether the referee's eyes are bright or not, whether he blows for fouls or not, then leave it to fate, after all, it is the most important thing to disrupt and stop Riquelme's advance.

"Toot!" Lao Lei's small action did not escape the eyes of the referee. However, this small advantage was not taken, and he did not care, anyway, Argentina got an extremely poorly placed free kick, and his defensive actions did not deserve a yellow card at all. From the ground, after getting up, he patted his ass and walked back with a nonchalant expression. I have to say that my heart is still a little cool.

He prefers to destroy them with his own hands than to complete the peerless and beautiful technical actions by himself, which is like smashing exquisite works of art at will, which makes Lao Lei feel like a local tyrant and spends money to buy Picasso's paintings to burn them for warmth.

Well, it is precisely because of this weird fetish that Lao Lei is even more annoying on the football field.

Because when he burned Picasso's paintings for warmth, he preferred to do it himself in Picasso, and then show him his pleasure and joy in it without reservation.

As now, after retreating a few steps, his playful gaze was fixed on Riquelme's rather bitter face like a vampire, trying to get some pleasure from his expression.

But it's a pity that Lao Lei was disappointed this time, just as he heard before the game, Riquelme's face is a standard clay face, and he has been a loyal expression of a poor people's artist all his life.

He saw Lao Lei's gaze, and even stared at it deliberately, but then he didn't have any expression.

This made Lao Lei disappointed at the same time, but also curious.

What can be done to bring this face to life?

Well, let's say, smash the whole Argentina

Thinking of this, the signature cold and evil smile climbed up the corner of Lao Lei's mouth again.

This makes him just like the typical villains in the movie, although he laughs, but it makes people chill and hairy (to be continued......