The Day I Played with Ronaldo

The next opponent of the Brazilian team has already been determined, and it is the South American powerhouse Uruguay.

As one of the traditional top three in South America, although Uruguay has not had a good record in recent years, they are always particularly active when playing against Brazil.

However, the last time the two teams met in the Copa America was in the final in 1999. At that time, under the leadership of Ronaldinho, Brazil defeated their opponents 3-0. Therefore, the Brazilian team still has a psychological advantage when facing Uruguay.

Brazil and Uruguay have an unresolved grievance.

In the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, the Brazilian team was extremely eager to win the Hercules Cup for the first time at their doorstep. And they did perform well at that time. Under the leadership of Admiral and others, they killed the Quartet all the way with an excellent record. In the first two rounds of the knockout round, Brazil swept Sweden 7:1, Spain 6:1, and faced Uruguay in the final round. They only needed to draw to win the championship.

In the "final" in Maracana, amidst the cheers of 174,000 fans, the Brazilian team once took the lead with the goal of Friasa. Just when the Brazilian fans thought they were sure of winning and the team was about to win the World Cup for the first time, the situation on the court changed suddenly.

Schiaffino and Ghisia scored two goals in a row, shattering the Brazilian's championship dream.

However, since then, Uruguay has never entered the final of the World Cup. Instead, Brazil has entered the 6 finals and won the cup 5 times, becoming the banner of South American football.

The gap between Uruguayan and Brazilian football is also widening step by step.

Although Uruguayan Penarol is still the team with the most Copa Libertadores titles, Uruguayan football as a whole has been left far behind by Brazil and Argentina.

On the evening of July 21, in Lima, the capital of Peru, the match between Brazil and Uruguay will start. The winner among them will have a peak duel with Argentina. Argentina eliminated Colombia in the previous match.

Before the game, the major media were generally optimistic about the Brazilian team. Although Brazil lost to Paraguay in the group stage, and Paraguay was eliminated by Uruguay, this does not mean that Uruguay is sure of Brazil.

On the contrary, no matter from which level, this Uruguay team is weaker than Brazil.

Pereira completely copied the lineup when he swept Mexico 5-0 in the last game. Mancini Jr. from Serie A continued to be squeezed on the bench by Maicon, while Ricardo continued to partner with Adriano as a striker.

Compared with Brazil's lineup, Uruguay's composition is much poorer, without a real big name.

Although the Brazilian team did not have any world-class stars,

But anyway, there are still so many intercontinental stars to support the scene.

Uruguay has only one intercontinental team, and the rest are all national and regional players.

If you only look at the strength on paper, Uruguay really don't need to play, just admit defeat, the difference in strength is too great.

But after the start of the game, the Uruguayan used active running and fierce fighting to compete with the powerful opponent. They formed a 352 formation today. The double midfielders are in charge of intercepting in the midfield, and the three midfielders deliver shells to the two forwards Bueno and Dario Silva. The style of play is very simple and direct.

Just in the 3rd minute of the game, Uruguay got a golden opportunity. They hit the wall with a two-for-one cooperation, allowing the leading striker Dario Silva to get a shot in the small penalty area. However, Cesar played superbly , blocked the close shot with his legs, and Louisson chased the ball back and destroyed it with his big foot.

The shocking Brazilian team immediately launched a counterattack. Edu stabbed the ball to Alex, and Alex found Ricardo with a diagonal pass.

Riccardo faced the incoming ball with his back, flicked the ball behind him, passed Javier Delgado, and drove straight in with the ball. He ran all the way to the front of the penalty area before distributing the ball to Adriano who ran to the position. Adriano didn't stop the ball well, it was a little bigger, and after catching up, he found that the angle was already very small.

He glanced at the center and saw that Ricardo was surrounded by the Uruguayan defenders, so he simply took a shot himself, which bounced off the body of Uruguayan goalkeeper Vieira. At this time, Ricardo suddenly started, leaving several Uruguayan players behind, rushed to the ball, jumped up and ejected with the back of his feet.

However, this time, after all, he didn't grasp it well, he didn't use his force, and the angle was not tricky enough. Vieira made a second save and shot the ball out of the baseline.

The counterattack of the Brazilian team did not make the Uruguayans flinch. They continued to attack bravely, even getting more courageous as they fought, and even suppressed the Brazilian team for a while.

In the 13th minute, Uruguay got the best chance of the game. Juan made a mistake when he tried to clear the ball with a header in the penalty area, and the ball was sent to Uruguayan striker Bueno. Dario Silva. Cesar was already out of position at this time, he thought that Bueno would shoot directly and had already moved ahead of time.

Facing the empty goal, Dario Silva hit the crossbar with a powerful shot, wasting a precious diamond-like opportunity.

Although the goal was not scored, it sounded the alarm for the Brazilian team. Pereira was also very angry. He stood on the sidelines and yelled to direct. He didn't understand why the team played so well in the last game, but turned into a bear in this game.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that he played like a bear in the last game, and he played well in the 4:1 win over Costa Rica in the last game, and he played like a bear in the last game against Chile...

This kind of law came out, one game was good, and one game was bad. In other words, if the Brazilian team can pass this test tonight, they can play well against Argentina next time...no problem, old iron.

But is this pass so easy?

In the 22nd minute, Uruguay got a free kick on the left side of the front court, and Javier Delgado took the penalty.

He glanced at the penalty area, started a run-up, and slammed his right foot on the lower right part of the football. The football drew a strong arc and flew straight to the Brazilian team's penalty area. The Uruguayan midfielder Sousa jumped out of the crowd and jumped to the top. The Brazilian goalkeeper Cesar immediately fell to the ground and threw himself sideways. However, the football suddenly rebounded after touching the ground, over his shoulder, and flew into the goal.

Uruguay leads 1:0!

The fans at the scene were not surprised that Brazil conceded the ball first, nor were the commentators surprised.

The commentator of the Brazilian TV station hated iron and steel and said: "Brazil's midfielder is restricted today. Uruguay's two defensive midfielders, Bizera and Sosa, are aggressive in defense, active in running, and cover a large area. The players in front of them Perez, Delgado and Rodriguez also spared no effort to run. This Uruguayan team has no big-name stars, but they used the overall tactics to suppress the Brazilian team, and the Brazilian team conceded the ball as expected. Now Let's see what Pereira can do, he must make adjustments quickly, if this continues, the Brazilian team will fall out of the final."