The England and Italy matches were held the night after the opening match, and the match was set at the Verodrome Stadium in Marseille, the coastal city of France.

Regarding this Four Country Invitational Tournament, Lao Maldini's attitude was mainly to train troops, and he could observe the key goals in his eyes. Therefore, in this match with England, Lao Ma naturally sent out the strongest starting lineup in his mind.

The battle for the national team No. 1 goalkeeper between Paliuca and Toldo began on the day when Maldini took office. The two have similar technical characteristics, both of which are very fast and have high and long arms. They have two brushes when saving penalty kicks.

But in general, Paliuca is better than Tordo in terms of stability and competition experience. When Tordo is in good shape, he can save whatever shot he faces (proves the 2000 European Cup), but if he is in poor condition, he dares to lose any ball.

Therefore, after a year of inspection, Maldini, the old man named Paliuca as the No. 1 goalkeeper and Toldo served as the substitute.

On the defense line, Panucci and Paul Maldini control the positions of the two starting full-backs without any dispute. Ferrara and Nesta have a more tacit understanding in cooperation, so Maldini has to reluctantly put Cannavaro on the bench.

In terms of midfield, influenced by Fiorentina, Old Martini was not as stubborn as in history. He insisted on sending two wing forwards on the court, but learned Fiorentina's tactics to play the diamond midfielder. He chose Albertini as Redondo's role in Fiorentina; Diviagio was responsible for dragging and protecting him, and was the last line of defense in the midfield; another iron-blooded midfielder Dino Baggio was responsible for sweeping the entire midfielder, and he also had to seize the opportunity to participate in the offense and threaten the opponent's goal with long shots.

The front midfielder made Maldini quite troublesome. Since Pierro and Robert Baggio are both No. 9 players, deadly first pass and scoring are their best areas, allowing them to control the rhythm of the game is likely to backfire. Therefore, Maldini took a fancy to Rome young player Francesco Toti and believed that he was Italy's best choice in the front midfielder position.

Of course, in view of the current dilemma of Italy's lack of front-middle positions, Old Maldini also has two sets of backup plans: one is naturally to return to the traditional four-four-two parallel position, but after watching many games in Fiorentina, Old Ma felt that if this plan was really adopted, Italy might become a cup next year; the other is to learn Capello's approach in this year's Champions League final, allowing Italy to play three strikers.

Anyway, Pierro and Baggio are not unable to pull to the sidelines. Martini and Panucci both have the ability to open up the entire sidelines. If Italy plays as a three-forward striker, in addition to the defense, it will definitely improve significantly in other aspects.

On the front line, Maldini, the old man chose Inzaghi and Vieri to partner. Unlike in history, since Baggio performed very well in Inter Milan this season, Maggio did not exclude him from the national team roster; although Pierro has been nicknamed "Zebra Prince", he is much worse in championship honor than in history. In this case, Vieri and Inzaghi, who performed better, naturally got the favor of Maggio, and Pierro and Baggio had to face the reality of serving as substitutes in the national team.

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Faced with a completely different Italy under the influence of Zhuang Mingge, the trajectory of this game has also quietly changed.

The English national team is not Manchester United. No matter how much Ince and Beckham can run, they are completely unable to control the rhythm of the game without Manchester United's complete unball running system. As a result, they are beaten in a mess by the Italians' quick counterattacks.

Although Vieri seems a little difficult to defend against the two central defenders of Keon and Southgate, he has created enough scoring opportunities for Inzaghi, while the English defenders seem at a loss when facing a penalty area fox like Inzaghi. After all, they rarely encounter this type of striker in the Premier League.

In the 22nd minute, Beckham's cross was cleared by Nesta first. The ball was transferred to Albertini through Dibiagio. The latter made a long pass over the top near the middle circle of the court. Inzag, who successfully counterattacked, did not wait for the ball to land, and directly volleyed in the penalty area!

Forres tried his best but failed to stop the ball from flying into the goal behind him. One to zero, Italy led!

Although Scholes used a long shot to help Ingra equalize the score at the beginning of the second half, the game was completely under Italy's control. Totti, who gradually found the feeling, joined forces to control the rhythm of the game, and passed the ball like a scalpel again and again, making England's defense line in a mess.

In the 66th minute, Totti sent a straight pass after passing Ince. Inzaghi broke away from Keon's defense and shot, rewrite the score to two-to-one, which is also the final score of this game.

After watching this game, Zhuang Mingge was about to pack his luggage and planned to fly to Paris tomorrow to watch the highlight of the second round of the game, that is, when Italy was playing against Brazil (although he was usually very concerned about the Premier League, Zhuang Mingge had no good impression of the English national team, so the British-French battle was not attractive in Zhuang Mingge's eyes). A phone call made his originally good mood fall to the bottom.

"Giancarlo (Antonioni), what's going on? Haven't I handed over the transfer matter to you and Hercule? How could that bald man in Galliani come to France to find me?" After receiving the call from Antonioni, Zhuang Mingge was a little depressed. He finally found a reason to throw all these trivial matters to the people below. Unexpectedly, the bald man in Galliani was so ignorant and rushed to France to discuss important matters with Zhuang Mingge in person. "What can he have? Think about it, I know that this guy must have a fondness. He then ran to France to fool me, the boss."

"Boss, I have guessed the purpose of Galliani's trip, but what can I do? Can I contact the customs department to prohibit him from leaving the country?" Antonioni, who had known for his long time, sneered on the other side of the phone, thinking to himself, the boss, you have the same today as you are, "Anyway, Antonioni is so wise and powerful, you will definitely not be fooled by that bald man."
Chapter completed!