Amid the heated discussion around the world about Willard breaking through the 100-goal mark for the year, time has entered the FIFA match day, and international players from various countries have returned to their national teams to prepare for the World Cup qualifiers.
After reporting for the national team, Velarde naturally received congratulations from his teammates, including Messi.
Then it’s time to seriously prepare for the world preliminaries.
On November 10, 2016, the Mineiro Arena in Brazil was overcrowded, and the 11th round of the Russian World Cup South American Qualifiers between Brazil and Argentina officially started.
In the first half of the contest, Argentina defeated Brazil 2-1 at home. The Brazilian team naturally wanted revenge in this game.
In addition, because of the issue of qualifying for the qualifying rounds, Brazil must go all out to win.
Coupled with factors such as the South American derby and the possibility that Willard will continue to score goals to refresh the annual total goal record, this game has attracted very high attention around the world.
There are also two of Velarde's club teammates in the Brazilian team, Coutinho and Firmino, but Coutinho got the start while Firmino sat on the bench waiting for his chance.
After the game started, the Brazilian team playing at home was not deterred by the presence of Velarde, but took the initiative to attack Argentina.
As for Argentina, I don't know if it was due to playing away from home. They were in poor condition and failed to withstand the Brazilian team's opening attack. Although Velarde checked and filled the gaps in the backcourt and directed, the Brazilian team still relied on its strong overall strength to avoid Velarde's defense zone and attack into the penalty area. Then in the 12th minute, Neymar scored from the left After Lu broke through, he passed the ball to the right rib of the penalty area. Coutinho rushed into the penalty area and made a diving dive to head the ball into the goal.
The Brazilian team opened the scoring and led Argentina, ranked first in the world, 1-0. Brazilian fans at the scene and in front of the TV suddenly celebrated enthusiastically.
You know, Argentina now has Messi, the goal-scoring machine, and Velarde, the goal-scoring machine. However, the Brazilian team still scored first, which shows how difficult it is.
However, if the first goal is the first goal, whether the lead can be maintained will have to be fought hard.
As time went by, Argentina's players gradually entered the game state. Especially when Argentina had two dribbling masters, Velarde and Messi, the Brazilian team's defense was under great pressure.
Although they tried their best to intercept and defend, the problem is that Argentina is a dual-core operation. You can defend one but not the other.
In the 27th minute, Villard dribbled the ball past two people in the midfield, attracting three Brazilian players to double-team before passing the ball to Banega in the gap.
Banega then found an opportunity to pass the ball to Messi who ran out of space, although Messi was surrounded by two players as soon as he got the ball. But Messi was not afraid of this. With his dexterous skills, he simply moved left and right to dribble the ball out of the double-team of two people, and then inserted diagonally into the penalty area, causing chaos in the Brazilian team's penalty area.
In the end, Messi did not shoot by himself, but transferred the ball across the field and sent it to the left corner of the penalty area. Angel Di Maria rushed into the penalty area and volleyed the ball without stopping, successfully kicking the ball into Brazil. team door.
Argentina equalized the score and the score between the two sides was rewritten to 1-1.
Then the two sides entered into a tug-of-war of constant offense and defense.
The Brazilian team could not stop the dual-core breakthroughs of Messi and Velarde, and Argentina's defense could not stop the breakthroughs of Neymar and Coutinho.
Although Neymar and Coutinho are not as good as Messi and Velarde in terms of personal abilities, Neymar and Coutinho played at home in this game and were in good condition. Even if Velarde frequently dropped back to join the defense, he could not Block their attack.
For example, in the 34th minute, when Coutinho broke through with the ball from the right, Velarde was about to step forward to intercept, but Coutinho, who knew Velarde's ability, did not stick to the ball at all and decisively passed the ball to the center. Fernandinho responded and then bypassed Velarde, preparing to go down along the wing and hit the wall with Fernandinho to break through Velarde's defense.
Willard reacted quickly and immediately turned around to follow Coutinho. Then Fernandinho did not pass the ball back to Coutinho, but turned and passed it diagonally to the other side and ran out of space. With Neymar behind him, Velarde's efforts to follow Coutinho were in vain.
If it weren't for goalkeeper Romero's outstanding performance in the end and saved Neymar's powerful shot from the penalty area assisted by Jesus, Argentina might have fallen behind again.
Although Velarde's personal defensive ability is good, he lacks the skills to split the game. The Brazilian team also has many players with excellent skills. Everyone deliberately avoids Velarde's defense zone, but they can still play many wonderful offenses.
Because the Brazilian team's offense was very fierce, Velard spent too much time on defense, which resulted in him participating in fewer offenses in this game. Coupled with bad luck, he failed to score in the first half.
In the 41st minute, Velarde had a chance to take a long shot from outside the penalty area. He played with good quality, but he failed to score and was saved by Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson.
Neither side could change the score in the first half, and the 1-1 score was maintained until the end of the first half.
At halftime, the Brazilian team replaced center Jesus, who was in average form, and replaced him with Firmino.
This time, both Firmino and Coutinho came on the court. The two cooperated very well in Liverpool. Coupled with their understanding of Velarde and Neymar's technical advantages, the Brazilian team's frontcourt offense became It became sharper and threatened more attacks than Argentina at this time.
If it weren't for the shooting skills of Velarde and Messi at the last minute, maybe the Brazilian team would have defeated Argentina by a huge score.
Even so, the Brazilian team took the lead in scoring in the 64th minute of the second half. After Firmino caught the ball in the middle and attracted Velarde's interception attention, he passed the ball to Neymar.
Neymar dribbled the ball from the left through Argentinian full-back Zabaleta and entered the penalty area. He made a cross pass to Firmino who advanced in the center or Coutinho who followed up from the right, attracting Velarde back to the penalty area. After inside, he made an inverted triangle pass and passed the ball back to the top of the arc in the penalty area.
Wing midfielder Paulinho stepped in from the back row and fired a high-quality long-range shot from the top of the penalty area without stopping.
Velarde flew to block the hole of the gun and failed to touch the ball. Goalkeeper Romero's save was also beyond his reach. In the end, he could only watch the ball fly into the Argentina gate against the right post.
The Brazilian team changed the score again and regained the lead 2-1.
In this game, the Brazilian team playing at home was in really good shape, and even Messi and the versatile offensive and defensive Velarde were a little unable to handle it.
Fortunately, Argentina also has Messi and Velarde after all.
In the 67th minute, Argentina also made substitution adjustments, also replacing center Higuain with average performance with Aguero to strengthen the offense.
This substitution later proved to be effective.
In the 78th minute, Velarde pressed Neymar in the backcourt, causing Neymar to make a passing error. The ball he tried to pass to Firmino was intercepted halfway by Mascherano. Argentina launched a quick counterattack, and finally Di Maria A ground ball was passed from the left. Aguero broke out from between the two central defenders and shot with a flying tackle. He touched the ball first before the two central defenders of the Brazilian team and the goalkeeper, and tackled the ball at the line of the small penalty area. Sent into the goal.
In the last ten minutes or so, neither Brazil nor Argentina gave up their attack. They both stepped up their offensive and tried to score goals to kill their opponents.
It's a pity that both sides were in similar condition, and neither one could score in the last ten minutes.
After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. After falling behind twice, Argentina tied the score twice and retreated from the away game.
Although he failed to score all three points, and Velarde failed to score a goal to continue to refresh his world record, but with Brazil's ferocious state today, Argentina was able to escape unscathed and get 1 point, which is already considered good.
Anyway, Argentina has enough points, and it is not a loss to get a draw from the away game.
