After the game, except for Di Maria, who scored twice to help the team equalize the score, and Di Maria who created many murderous opportunities and provided assists for Velarde, Argentina's other players and overall performance were criticized by the Argentine and international media.
The players' careless and solitary playing style on the court has also been criticized by everyone.
Without Messi's connection, the factional conflicts within the Argentine team have become more prominent. Gerardo Martino, who has just won the America's Cup, has also been questioned a lot.
Although there are many contradictions in the Argentine team, as the head coach, if you cannot reconcile these contradictions and combine the strengths of the players to win, then you will fail.
Fortunately, Willard was not included in these criticisms. As a defensive midfielder, although he failed to help the team keep a clean sheet, he still scored two goals and helped the team equalize the score. Moreover, the two goals conceded had little to do with him. They were not goals conceded through holes in his defense zone.
It can be said that this World Cup preliminaries got off to a bad start. Velarde's two goals became one of the few highlights for Argentina in this game.
Gerardo Martino also severely criticized the team's overall performance and demanded a win in the second round of the World Cup preliminaries. Otherwise, a large number of players will be replaced in the next training camp.
This is indeed useful. After all, national football status still has a great impact on each player's worth and evaluation by the media and fans.
On Monday, October 12, Willard spent another three skill points to improve "Inverse Foot" a little bit more. Including the upgrade on October 5, "Inverse Foot" was raised to 75, leaving 281 skill points remaining.
On October 13, in the second round of the World Cup preliminaries, Argentina challenged Paraguay away from home.
In this game, Paraguay will definitely fight Argentina to the death. Because in the past Copa America, Paraguay lost 1-2 to Argentina in the group stage.
Fortunately, Paraguay losing a goal to Argentina is definitely not embarrassing.
But in the semi-finals, the two sides met again. As a result, in that semi-final, Paraguay was beaten 7-1 by Argentina. Velarde also scored his first career hat-trick, beating Paraguay to shame.
Regardless of whether the two sides have any grudges before, this Copa America semi-final will make Paraguay hold a grudge for decades. Now that they meet again, Paraguay will definitely fight to the death and fight to the death for revenge.
But Paraguay also knew that their strength was not as good as Argentina's, so they did not rush to use their home court advantage to attack aggressively. Instead, they relied on defense and fought Argentina's defensive counterattack.
On the contrary, Argentina is playing away from home. As a world-class giant and the new Copa America champion, coupled with the psychological pressure of being tied with Ecuador in the first round and having to win this game, this game must be won, so it can only The formation presses forward and takes the initiative to launch a positional attack.
Paraguay relied on its strong defense to continuously destroy Argentina's offense, and then waited for opportunities to counterattack.
In the 7th minute, when Di Maria wanted to break through from the right and cut in to shoot, he was knocked down by Paraguayan midfielder Victor Caceres, but he was only called for a foul and did not get a card.
This action seemed to make Paraguay see that the referee's standards were relatively loose, and they began to increase their defensive actions.
In the 12th minute, Tevez took the ball and tried to pass center back Pablo Aguilar with a fried ball and broke into the penalty area. Aguilar turned around and grabbed him and dragged him to the ground.
Tevez was not as good-tempered as Di Maria. He fell to the ground and kicked Aguilar in the stomach in retaliation. In the end, the referee scored 50 points each and gave each a yellow card.
In the 17th minute, when midfielder Pastore was grabbing the ball from the opponent's full-back Samudio on the wing, he was tackled out of the boundary by Samudio with a flying tackle. In fact, the ball was a 50-50 chance. As a result, Samudio boldly made a tackle and hit the ball first, and then brought down Pastore.
But the problem is that after Samudio scooped the ball out, not only did he not close his feet, but he deliberately raised his feet and flashed his spikes, knocking down Pastore who was avoiding him.
Even so, Samudio was not given a card, but was only given a verbal warning by the referee.
This made the Argentine players quite dissatisfied and protested, but they also saw clearly that the referee's standards for this game were indeed a bit loose.
Argentina's players are all superstars who play in Europe. Traveling back to South America to play games is inherently tiring and tiring, and if they may get injured, everyone is naturally worried. In time, I knew in my heart that I had to win this game, and it was inevitable that I would be a little restrained in my movements.
The state is not good to begin with, and Paraguay's foul tactics have inhibited their technical performance. How can Argentina play a decent offense?
However, Willard is not afraid and will not coddle him. Although he will not avenge Tevez, he will not retaliate politely when he has the opportunity for the violations suffered by Pastore and Di Maria.
In the 28th minute, Willard really caught the opportunity. After his teammate in the backcourt grabbed the ball, he kicked a big kick to the frontcourt. Velarde and Paraguay midfielder Victor Caceres rushed towards the landing point at the same time.
Velarde was faster and occupied the landing spot first. He saw the opportunity and jumped up. While passing the header to Mascherano, he raised his elbow and hit Kasse, who also jumped up and wanted to compete for the top. Les face.
Caceres screamed on the spot and fell down, covering his face. After examination by the team doctor, he found that his nose was broken and he had to be replaced early.
The referee's loose enforcement standards are not only for Paraguay, but also for the entire game. Willard's elbow hit this time may have been given a red card if met by a stricter referee. After all, the opponent had suffered a broken bone and was off the field.
As a result, Willard was only shown a yellow card and a warning by the referee.
Paraguay was naturally very dissatisfied and seemed to want to deliberately cause trouble for Velarde after the game restarted. After all, Villard himself was carrying a yellow card, so they thought they would not dare to foul again intentionally.
However, Willard did not coddle them.
In the 26th minute, midfielder Delris Gonzalez tried to dribble the ball through Verard, but Verard made a fierce interception and took the ball away. Gonzalez was directly knocked down by Verard. He couldn't get up for a long time.
As a result, the referee ignored it and signaled Willard to continue playing. This was a good steal. There was no way, Delris Gonzalez had no choice but to get up on his own and continue the game.
In the 34th minute, winger Richard Ortiz kicked Velarde hard in order to grab the ball and rolled on the ground holding his feet for a long time.
But the referee still did not deal cards to Willard. Instead, he warned each other, asking both of them to restrain their movements and not to blame others if they were injured.
Before the end of the first half, Velarde used another tackle to cleanly remove the ball from the feet of forward Lescano. After the tackle, he brought Lescano down, but he also did not commit a foul.
Villard is not only physically strong and resistant to injuries, but is not easily injured in confrontations. The key is that he has the awareness, reaction, and agility to keep up. He often hides his foul actions under the ball. Even if he retaliates or injures the opponent, the referee will not be able to give Willard a card.
This is what makes people most afraid of Willard.
Everyone knew what was going on, but the problem was that they couldn't catch Willard. When Willard is enough to receive a yellow card from the referee, someone is usually injured.
Who is not afraid of this?
If Willard gets injured and misses ten or eight weeks, it will be a big loss.
