Argentina ended up in the quarterfinals of the Copa America.
This was actually a pretty good game for Argentina, arguably their smoothest performance in this Copa America on the offensive end, except that the defense didn't manage to solve the problem, and the lack of individual players allowed Brazil to easily score a goal to end the game.
Starts for both teams
Match Highlights
Contents of the contest
Argentina's formation in the match still started 433, but attacked with Messi in the middle of the diamond 442, while Brazil went to 4231, with no changes in Argentina's personnel, and Brazil switching to Sandro at right back.
As soon as the game started it became clear why Brazil had to replace Felipe Luis with Sandro, a game that could have been rougher if Brazil hadn't scored first and made Argentina give up on the game with the winning goal. Sandro is not as tall as Felipe Luis, but he is younger and more explosive, and the game quickly turned into a foul fight, and Sandro was there to deal with that. Sandro was there to deal with the situation.
The Brazilian team was very afraid of Messi, Arthur and Casemiro stood still from the beginning to the end of the positioning, absolutely not let out the waist position, and they also tried to block the space of Messi's direct pass to the front, as far as possible to let Messi pass to the side. And as soon as Messi held the ball, Brazilian players immediately came over to foul him, and the scale was good, so that the referee could not award a yellow card, and it was also clear that the Brazilian team's fouls against Messi were deliberately set outside of the 23-yard box, so as to prevent him from taking a set-piece from inside the 23-yard box.
It's not often that Brazil is so conservative, they are very pragmatic and intend to block Argentina's most important means of attack and then try to score slowly, instead Argentina knows that they will lose if they defend for a long time, so they quickly press forward dramatically.
This time the Argentine players looked very aggressive, Acuna and Taglifico were moving a lot on the left side, and Martinez in the center was going straight out of the box to grab the ball, Acuna and Martinez up front had been in a physical confrontation with the Brazilian team.
Brazil is intended to let the two backs have been standing in front of Messi to influence him, this tactic is not bad, but Brazil did not completely stop Messi, it is because Argentina's players even Aguero see Messi is impossible to pass into the middle of the field, immediately moved out of the penalty area to support. Jesus came back to help steal the ball, the two flanks were completely recovered, Firmino also retreated to the center of the line, the Brazilian team is as soon as Argentina has the ball across the halfway line, the entire 11 men immediately retreated back to the halfway line, never go up to the pressure, they set to start the fierce clashes is about 25 yards and the edge of the road.
As a result, the two teams fouled each other endlessly in the first half, and although neither team wanted to get too violent and hurtful, they ended up clashing and both got a little injured.
The most threatening Argentine attack in the first half came in the 12th minute when Messi took the ball on the left side of the midfield, drew two or three Brazilian players and then turned to cross the ball. By then the midfield was already open, and Parades stepped forward to fire a superb 30-yard shot that went just over the crossbar.
Brazil actually uncharacteristically gave the ball to Argentina, intending to play a counterattack. Argentina took control of the offense, but the first half was a long time coming, and Brazil broke through first in the 19th minute, when Coutinho's long-distance shot was blocked by Otamendi, and Martinez, who was supposed to be the striker, was robbed by Alves, who then dodged Parades's shovels, and pretended to go into the penalty box before splitting the gap. Firmino came up and crossed the ball directly to Jesus in the center of the field, who had no difficulty in scoring.
Parades was too hasty on the first kick, and Alves' snapshot proved that he knew that Parades was coming up for the ball, so the young Parades fell for the old Alves' plan. Then when Firmino had the ball and was about to cross it, Otamendi tried to block it on his route, but Pezzella behind him had already run back to the penalty area line but failed to kick the ball and instead ran over the line, leaving Jesus unmarked.
The two Brazilian players who ran into the penalty area at that time, Jesus and Arthur, did not want to grab the front point, in fact, experienced defenders can tell just by looking at the action of Firmino running up to pass the ball that he must have passed across the 12-yard box, Pezzella's running looks like he wants to go over to seal the corner of the ball in front of the goal, but the problem is that Firmino has already been facing the 12-yard box instead of the side of 45 degrees to try to pass the ball or rush into the box. The problem is that Firmino was already facing the 12-yard box instead of the 12-yard box, and he turned 45 degrees and tried to pass the ball forward or rush into the penalty area. Firmino's action is very obvious, and I can only say that Pezzella was so anxious that he didn't look at the ball, and this is totally because he is not calm enough.
