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To be honest, Cameroon is a very strange team. Since it shined in the 1990 Italian summer, their books are stronger than that of Cameroon in any World Cup, but their results in the World Cup have become more and more deceptive, giving people the feeling that they are just coming to play a bottle of soy sauce.

This time is naturally no exception. Old Maldini, who still insists on the 433 style of play, finally became proud this time, because his team only took about half an hour to shoot the opponent's goal into a sieve!

Having already scored three points, Old Maldini made a certain rotation in this game based on the players' physical fitness. Inzagi's starting lineup was replaced by Di Matteo, Panucci and Tomasi replaced Zambrota and Dino Baggio respectively, ushering in their first World Cup match.

In addition, Toldo became the starting goalkeeper in this game, while Paliuca sat on the bench and was waiting for the call of Old Maldini at any time.

With the assistance of DiMateo, Baggio and Toti, Vieri, who was in the front, rushed into the penalty area in Cameroon. It took only 25 minutes to kick three games on his head and finish his first hat trick in the World Cup!

By the way, Vieri's hat trick is also the first hat trick that appeared in this World Cup!

Less than 30 minutes into the game, the Cameroonians were in a mess, so Italian players took this opportunity to continue to attack and further expand their score advantage!

Toti scored his first goal in the World Cup. Robert Baggio increased his total goal in the World Cup to nine. Pirlo and Inzaghi, who came on the bench, scored one goal each, locking the score on the field to 7-0!

This game made all Italian fans feel refreshed. They have long been used to defensive counterattacks and never thought that Italy could play such a pleasing game and win a total of seven goals beautifully!

The media, who have always been unruly, also changed their minds at this time and vigorously praised the wise and powerful force of the old Maldini. The 433 formation, which was originally criticized, has also become the most suitable tactical style for Italy under their propaganda. The stinginess of words made everyone in the Italian national team ashamed.

In another group match in Group B, Chile and Austria tied one-to-one after a full ninety minutes of fierce battle. Salas, who scored twice in the first game, scored another goal in this game. Three World Cup goals put the Chilean killer temporarily ranked second in the World Cup scorer list, and it was only one goal behind Vieri, who ranked first.

Since Cameroon and Austria tied in the first round of the Group B group stage, the current points of each team in Group B are Italy 6 points, Austria 2 points, and Cameroon and Chile 1 point.

This means that Italy, which had a full bottle of seven joys, won the Cameroonians for two rounds of the group stage and won six points in two games in advance, and also secured the title of the top group!

The result of locking the top spot in the group in advance gave Old Maldini more confidence in the last group match to adopt rotation tactics, allowing the players on his side to get more rest time to adjust their state, so as to better cope with the next knockout round.

Therefore, in the game against Austria six days later, in the first two games, he had to insist on using the 433 formation, and suddenly changed the formation without any warning. He played for several days and had been carefully studying how to deal with the 4333 style of Italy, who was caught off guard.

Paliuca, Panucci, Bergomi, Matrazi, Dilivio, Tomasi, Dino Baggio, Pirlo, Dimatio, Vieri and Grand Inzagi, this is the starting lineup between Italy and Austria.

Although Old Maldini rotated most of the main players in this game, the strength of the starting eleven players is still a little higher than that of the Austrians. He firmly controlled the situation on the field from the beginning of the game. Pirlo and others kept shifting the ball, making Austrian players who were eager to compete for another group qualifying place to run away.

"Andre (Pirlo) is really an incredible player. Logically, in Italy where stars are gathered, young players like him should be honest in helping those veteran stars, but he can command these stars who are much more famous on the court, so that these people can surround him closely and play according to his own ideas." This is the comment from Dino Zoff, a famous celebrity who appeared in the live broadcast room as a special guest, gave Pirlo a comment in the game. "Before the age of a young champion, you can have such a strong influence and control on the game and the team. If this kid is in his life, he will become a great man!"

Under the organization and dispatch of Pirlo, Italy firmly controlled the rhythm of the game, thus creating more scoring opportunities. The biggest beneficiary of this is Italy's starting front team combination in this game, and he is also Pirlo's teammates in Fiorentina, Vieri and Inzagi.

In the 42nd minute, Pirlo passed two Austrian players in the middle and sent a straight pass. Inzaghi, who successfully offside, shot and won the first goal for Italy, 1-0!

Since then, Vieri and Baggio, who came on as a substitute, also contributed to their assists, Pirlo, who was only nineteen years old!

Although the Austrians tried their best to resist under the leadership of captain Andres Herzog, the huge gap in strength between the two teams made Austrian players feel powerless.

In the end, when the game ended, Italy won with a score of 3-1, thus qualifying with a record of three wins and advancing to the top 16 of the World Cup!

With his strong performance in the group stage, the value of the Italian internationals has also increased: Vieri, who scored five goals in three group stages, was the leader in the scorer list and became one of the most popular stars in this World Cup; Pirlo, who was praised by Zov as a must-have talent, attracted attention from giants such as Lazio and Real Madrid, and the wealthy Cranioti even offered him a high offer of $20 million. Thomassi also made a remarkable performance in the game, which made Florence have the confidence to raise the offer when negotiating transfers with other clubs...

Austria, as the loser, had to face the bitter consequences of being eliminated. In another Group B match at the same time, veteran Zamorano showed his might and used a goal-in-the-goal point to win Cameroon before the final whistle, winning a valuable three-pointer for Chile!
Chapter completed!