Why is Italy out?

In the first two games, Italy has changed six kinds of frontcourt combinations. Iaquinta, Gilardino, Dinatale, Paccini, Quagliarella and Lippi tried all the attackers, but couldn't even score a goal in sports. Marchisio, the central midfielder appointed by Lippi, proved to be a complete failure, and his carefully built 423 1 lineup became useless. Gattuso's last appearance overturned all previous theories.

Lippi's capriciousness is like the unpredictable weather in South Africa. Constantly changing the formation in training makes the players confused, and of course they can't play well at a loss. The first training was 423 1, then it became 4 123, and finally 433 attacked the strong array. Lippi's changeability not only confuses the player, but also makes him feel uncertain.

"Silver Fox" said that he liked the unexpected factors. "Maybe we can have a paul rossi in the competition." But in reality, Lippi not only didn't bring the golden boy Rossi, but also lacked the great left-back Grosso who saved the team four years ago.

Lippi's stubbornness

Italy's injury was a metaphor as early as a year ago in the Confederations Cup. At that time, Italy was beaten by Brazil 3-0 in the final round of the group stage, which not only missed the knockout stage, but also created the most shameful record of conceding goals in the first half in 52 years.

At that time, the Italian media had prophetic comments: "In Lippi's hands, Italy has no hope of the World Cup next year." But perhaps no one expected that the defending world cup champion would die in such a humbled way in the group stage.

Like all famous coaches, Lippi is a little "neat". He trusts his own judgment and doesn't listen to other people's advice. Lippi is superstitious about the strength and experience of veterans, but he doesn't choose players according to their status at all. Apennine media once called on him to call "bad boy" Cassano and find Rome "another spring" Tony, but Lippi was indifferent. Without the despicable Materazzi, Lippi's team is only stubborn and mediocre.

Domestic atmosphere

Italy fell into the whirlpool of "buying goals" before the life and death war with Slovakia. Bos, the leader of the right-wing Northern League and Italian Federal Reform Minister, stunned Italy. "I can assure you that they (Italy) have bought the game with Slovakia." Bos believes that "in the next few years, there may be more and more Slovak players in the Italian league, which is an exchange."

Although the latter later apologized that he was only joking. Facts also prove that this is not true. But this farce shows that at least a group of people in Italy are waiting to see the jokes of Lippi and his national team.

Lippi publicly appealed to all Italian fans to stand behind the Azzurri and support the national team before the game. He knows that there is an insurmountable gap between players and fans. "Italy is a high-quality country, but sometimes it seems that everyone lacks cooperation and everyone is doing their own thing." But now, after returning home, I'm afraid he is greeted by stormy saliva.

Optimism in the qualifiers

Before the World Cup finals, the defending champions were listed as one of the favourites to win the championship, because they remained unbeaten in the qualifiers with 7 wins and 3 draws, and conceded 7 goals in 18. Such a good result is popular in domestic and even world football. From this data alone, the Italian team's attack power is amazing, averaging 1.8 goals per game, but they lost their traditional superior defense, and lost 7 goals in 10 game, which is an embarrassing number for the Italian team who is good at defense. It seems that everyone only sees the progress of the team on the offensive end, but ignores the decline of the defensive quality. The Italian team has never achieved good results by attacking, and it is usually the defensive team that can go to the end of the game. Excessive optimism made them lose the opportunity to adjust their team. The performance of losing four goals in three games proved that "Italian concrete" was loose, and the pinned striker did not make up for the defensive loophole with more goals. Can Italy not lose?