The result of this match is known to all, as landlord France thrashed Brazil 3-0 to win the Gold Cup, and the match was the biggest in the history of the World Cup
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It's been more than 20 years now, and it's still one of the great mysteries of World Cup history - what happened to Ronaldo?
There have been many accounts of this result. The most popular ones are the embarrassing ones, that Brazil faked the game, and that Ronaldo had a seizure, and that Ronaldo was drugged to cause a total loss of form during the game.
I made a point of rewatching the game in its entirety to analyze it purely on the basis of the content of the game and to see if the Brazilian loss was justified.
(Full game video)
First of all, I would like to mention a conclusion, that is, this game is actually a "quasi-modern soccer versus modern soccer" battle, the Brazilian team's performance and formation at that time were known as the perfect embodiment of modern soccer, a kind of attacking soccer, because the classical soccer is a total defense only rely on the ace to score the game, so at that time, everyone thought that Brazil's attacking soccer plus diamond 442 formation is the future of modern soccer. But 20 years later, we look back. However, 20 years later, when we look back, we will find that Brazil's kind of soccer is actually just a "transitional period" in the evolutionary process of soccer.
And it's France's soccer that is closer to modern post-21st century soccer.
There is a key difference between the two teams, that is, although Brazil's soccer looks like a full attack and control soccer, in reality the players' positions are almost fixed, except for the two wingbacks Cafu and Carlos who will participate in the attack, the other players are only doing their own positional work, or even not so good at the other positional work.
In France, on the contrary, almost the entire starting team did two jobs in this game, and almost everyone in the team worked in two zones all the time, in other words, there was always a high degree of participation in the work zones of their teammates, and it was entirely a team effort. This constant running and switching of working positions made certain areas very dense in order to counter the Brazilian team's superior individual ability, and the result was a victory!
And Big Lo, in what was the biggest Brazilian historical
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Scapegoating in a loss.
Even if the French team in the tactics and all aspects of the implementation of the perfect, but with the then Brazilian team against the still close to impossible, in fact, is the strength of the gap, some people say that Ronaldo at that time was drugged to lead to the whole body weakness of the argument, in fact, there is a lack of fairness. Big Luo in that game performance is really bad, some people say is big Luo body can not but insist to play, some people say is the coach insisted on him to play, I can only say, no matter what the reason, big Luo have to go.
And just because the big Luo is too good, so that the world's attention is focused on him, after the final loss everyone is discussing what happened to Ronaldo, but did not take a closer look at the game, the Brazilian kicks rotten to the dregs!
If there is such a thing as Bigelow being drugged, I think it would be the entire Brazilian team being drugged.
From the beginning of the game, France played a strikerless formation, with striker Guivarc`h pulling to the side to hold R. Carlos, Zidane and Djorkaeff as attacking midfielders constantly dropping back to make tackles, Leboeuf and Desailly at the back forming a deep front and back pack around Dairo, and on the other side, Karembu and Deschamps even adding On the other side, Karembu, Deschamps and even Guivarc`h surrounded Rivaldo, the centerpiece of the Brazilian transmission.
This destructive tactic should be borrowed from Holland's performance against Brazil, the main purpose is to destroy Rivaldo, so that the number of passes that Big Luo can receive is greatly reduced, and then all of them are crowded into the center of the field. This distance is the most important space for Big Luo to accelerate, which makes him unable to raise his speed at all. In the situation that the support passes are greatly reduced and there is no space after getting the ball, Big Luo's own condition is also extremely poor, and his role has disappeared.
Originally, the Brazilian midfielders were supposed to help out in this situation, but although Leonardo and Sampaio were controlling the area behind Rivaldo together with Dunga, they were more passers than tacklers. This was due to the fact that the Brazilian team was more attacking in nature, and didn't have any defensive engineers. Dunga, the only workhorse, is getting on in age, and Leonardo and Sampaio's function is to free Rivaldo up with passes, but with France running into the center of the field with almost seven men, there are almost no routes left in this area.
In this case, you can only use a hard grab and then hard to split the sides from both sides of the rush in or pass the ground ball to grab the point, but the bias of the Brazil did not bring enough workers in the midfield (94 years Brazil is a double defensive back, robbing is very strong), in the center of the midfield into a very difficult to steal the ball back, and there is no way to pass the ball.
France gave up all positional work just to disrupt the Brazilian organization in the midfield, which of course left them with little to attack with, but they couldn't stop the Brazilian attack if they didn't do that. France were determined to play a stalemate game, and it wasn't until France scored from a corner kick that you realized that France's only hope was in the set piece, for which they had designed so much.
