Soon, after a 15-minute break, the second half of the game officially began.
After clear instructions from the head coach during the halftime break, the Argentina team became more clear about how to play the game in the second half. Argentina had an extra ball-shooting point in the midfield and an organizing midfielder, and that was Alan Velarde.
In fact, after scoring that goal in the first half, Uruguay has tightened its marking on Velarde. However, although Velarde's skills have not reached the level of Messi, he is not inferior to Di Maria, Aguero, and Pastore. It is not something that the Uruguayan can mark if he wants to.
Most of the time, one person's marking and interception pose no threat to Velarde with the ball, because he not only has good skills, but also has good speed, physique, and awareness. It is difficult for Uruguay to steal the ball directly from his feet.
Once Uruguay invests heavily in attacking Velarde, it is destined to reduce the number of troops defending Messi, Di Maria, Pastore and Aguero.
Velard's 90% awareness has determined that he will not stick to the ball at all and will distribute the ball to Messi and others in the gap in time according to the situation.
The birth of an organizational midfielder or central midfielder suddenly made the Argentine team's midfield attack completely different.
After creating several threatening attacks but failing to seize the opportunity, in the 63rd minute, Velarde took the ball on the right side of the midfield and attracted two Uruguayan double-teams. He protected the ball and waited for Messi to get close to respond, making a gesture. Prepare to pass the ball to Messi.
The intention of this kind of coordination is too obvious. Messi is also accompanied by two Uruguayan defensive players. Even if Velard hands the ball to Messi, it will be difficult for Messi to take it out.
As a result, just when several Uruguay players were gearing up to take advantage of this rare siege opportunity to directly steal the ball from Velarde or Messi, or force Velarde to make a passing error, Velarde suddenly made a Picked the ball out of the crowd and passed it to Javier Pastore in the middle of the frontcourt.
Velarde, who seemed to be under siege, did not pass the ball to Messi when Messi was also being closely guarded. Instead, he used his extraordinary skills and awareness to see through the holes in the opponent's defense. An unexpected move. The pass was sent to the feet of midfielder Javier Pastore.
With Velarde's pass, Uruguay's defense was instantly broken. Diego Godin, the center back who was marking Aguero in the penalty area, had to shake off Aguero and step forward to block Javier who was rushing towards the penalty area with the ball. Pastore.
The full-back Maxi Pereira, who was originally guarding Di Maria, had to give up Di Maria and return to the center to cover Aguero.
Then, under the desperate gaze of the Uruguayan, Javier Pastore passed the ball to Di Maria on the left.
Di Maria dribbled the ball diagonally into the penalty area. Maxi Pereira, who had just returned to the middle to fill in, hurriedly moved over to block him. Di Maria easily made a fake move and swayed him to the side. Then Di Maria dribbled the ball from The other side entered the penalty area.
After Di Maria dribbled the ball into the penalty area, the Uruguayan had lost the opportunity for a tactical foul and could not commit any more fouls. Another foul here will be a penalty kick.
Therefore, Diego Godin, who was returning to defense, did not dare to put a tackle behind him. Di Maria seized the opportunity and volleyed from the left side of the penalty area to the near corner.
Although goalkeeper Muslera was already standing at the near corner, trying his best to block the ball path, the distance was too close, and Di Maria's shot just missed his body, and the ball flew under his arm and went in. With the goal behind him, Muslera had no time to make any saves.
In the 63rd minute, Pastore assisted Di Maria to score, and Argentina expanded the score to 2-0.
The reason why Pastore was able to get such an easy assist opportunity was because Velarde, Messi and Aguero had attracted most of Uruguay's defensive attention, and then Velarde discovered his position in time through consciousness. , using technology to pick the ball out.
The vision, overall situation, awareness, and technical ability shown by Velarde in this attack are exciting to all Argentines who know the ball.
Because this means that someone can share Messi's organizational pressure in the midfield, making it more difficult for the opponent to defend.
The Argentine fans at the scene and in front of the TV were in a state of revelry. The 2-0 score basically declared Argentina's victory.
Uruguay won the first round and already had three points, so there was no need to fight Argentina. What's more, even if we fight to the death, whether we can win or not remains to be seen!
Anyway, Paraguay also has 3 points. Uruguay and Paraguay can play a tacit match in the third round and qualify together without taking any risks. Therefore, even if they lose to Argentina in this game, it is not the end of the world for Uruguay.
This is also true. After Di María and his teammates finished celebrating and the game restarted, although Uruguay slightly strengthened its attack when trailing by two goals, the intensity was still not enough to go all out and break the boat. The Argentine defense line was swept away by Velarde and Mascherano, and there was basically no danger.
In the 77th minute, Uruguay had a good opportunity to threaten the attack. Unfortunately, forward Cavani grabbed the first header from a teammate's cross in the penalty area. The angle of the shot was not tricky enough and was missed by goalkeeper Sergio Luo. Melo pounced and failed to score.
On the contrary, Argentina, before the end of the game, took advantage of the Uruguayan's relaxed vigilance. Messi caused a foul at the front of the opponent's penalty area when he broke through with the ball, and created a penalty area with this direct free kick opportunity. Danger within.
Although goalkeeper Muslera saved Messi's direct free kick, he let it go. He failed to control the ball and failed to save it from the bottom line. Instead, it landed in the small penalty area.
Aguero, who happened to be near the ball, had quick eyes and quick feet. He rushed forward and kicked the ball into the goal before the Uruguayan defender tried to clear the ball.
Argentina expanded the score to 3-0 and completely sealed the victory.
Seeing this score, even die-hard Uruguay fans knew that they had no hope in this game.
Next, both sides began to make substitutions, tacitly consuming the remaining game time.
After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. Argentina won two consecutive group matches, accumulated 6 points, successfully qualified early and advanced to the knockout rounds.
Paraguay and Uruguay are tied with 3 points. Although they have to fight against each other in the final round of the group stage, everyone can imagine what will happen in the last game between these two teams.
But it can't be stopped.
Of course, the Argentines will not care how these two opponents will play the final game. Anyway, they have already qualified early and advanced to the knockout rounds.
Everyone just celebrates to the fullest.
Willard also received an experience reward of 10 million starting points + 10 million for 1 goal + 30 million winning bonus + 50 million for A-level performance = 100 million. The total experience increased to level 34, 166.39 million/80 million, and he was automatically upgraded to Level 35 is 86.39 million/90 million, and an upgrade reward of 40 skill points was obtained, and the balance of skill points became 64.
After the next game, Willard will definitely be promoted to another level. At that time, you can also get upgraded skill point rewards. The skill points are quite abundant. Not only can shooting and passing be increased to 90, but there are many more. Keep them for adding inverse feet.
When his inverse foot is increased to 90, or even 100, and his left and right feet are exactly the same, the most terrifying all-around superstar in football will appear.
