The last chance of the golden generation of Belgium – Sports Mail.Ru

Romeo Lukaku, Eden Azar, Kevin De Breyne, Dries Mertens against Neimar, Gabriel Jesus, Coutinho and Willian – this battle of the four strikers is worthy of the World Cup final. More than one team in the tournament does not have a creative unit, individually or in teams.

Belgium is the most efficient team of the tournament. She scored 12 goals and won in all four games. The same thing managed to make the Uruguay – South Americans, however, scored five goals less.

Defender of the Belgian team, Vincent Company, however, believes that the "red devils" can not rely solely on the individual skills of their players. "We are not kamikaze, if we do not play as a team, we have no chance of winning," said the 32-year-old.

The four strikers of Brazilians have long acted as a unique mechanism in which Neimar is most often characterized by individual actions. However, he does not abuse feints recently either, but plays in the team.

Regarding the defense, Belgium misses several goals for the best team, often giving the opportunity to create goal situations. Thus, in Russia, the Belgians scored four goals. Brazil, on the other hand, is the least likely to break the rules of the tournament and allows you to beat your goal. The Brazilian defense is a real wall. A few statistics: on the account of a group of central defenders Tiago Silva – Miranda only seven fouls. But Belgian defenders broke the rules 14 times

2 July. Rostov-on-Don. Belgium – Japan – 3: 2. Romela LUKAKU

THE SECRET IS NOT IN THE STRUCTURE, AND IN THE TACTICS

It seems that the closer the final will be, the more the teams will keep the secrets of the preparation rivals, and even more no indication of the composition in the field. the upcoming match. But that does not apply to Brazil Tita.

The coach has never hidden the starting lineup for the match. For him, the key point is the strategy for the game. He is sure that knowing the starting lineup does not help his opponents to better prepare themselves.

Although, with the match against Mexico, it was possible to notice that changes in the composition can still be surprised. But the coaching staff of the Brazilians quickly turned to a new arrangement of Mexicans and brilliantly adjusted their tactics.

Titus never closed training sessions for journalists. Even in the championship "Corinthians", the press could easily calculate the players of the starting training, when the coaching staff chose 11 people to participate in the tactical occupation. Since March 2017, access to the training has been slightly reduced, but the composition for each match was still known in advance. It even happened that Titus would open more than 15 minutes to journalists if the composition was not clear

In a certain degree of reluctance to confide was a symbol of the success of the coaches' work. 39 Brazilian team. Before the first match at the head of the national team against Ecuador, Tite even rejected the applause when he convened the press conference 11 people who will come out on the ground as early as first minutes. He was repeatedly asked why he was unveiling the cards well before the starting whistle. Titus always says that it is not who plays the most important, but tactical ideas, the strategy for each specific meeting – in which there are many secrets. For example, journalists are not shown how the team develops standard layouts.

Thus, in some degrees can calm down. The starting lineup of the opponent she will know one day before the match. And it will not get any surprises.

THE BEST CHANCE OF "GOLDEN GENERATION"

The chances of the best generation of Belgian football, long called "golden" for the victory of the World Cup seem quite high – given the clbad of players, and what kind of football the team has shown recently. Now, the national team of Belgium is united, as never before. But that was not always the case. It happened that the team players sat on different tables during meals and spoke different languages ​​- all because of the division of the country [in into two regions: Wallonia and Flanders. At this world championship, there were no problems – the official language of communication in the English team. And many starters play in the Premier League.

The Belgians have a great chance to avenge the Brazilians for the defeat of 16 years ago with a score of 0: 2 in the 1/8 finals of the World Cup. "The first thing I remember about this match is the name of the referee (Peter Prendergast of Jamaica – Note" SE "). It's unclear how the match would be developed if the Belgian goal was scored, "said the defender. – Maybe you do not know, but in Belgian culture, there is such a tradition: it seems that we lost before the game. But our team is 100% sure that it can defeat this Brazil. "

And how can the" golden generation "think otherwise?" We do not attach too much importance to this word. Although it is the match with Brazil that will determine what our generation represents. That's true, "admits the Company

For the next World Cup, most of the" Golden Generation "players will be over 30. For them, the tournament in Russia is probably the last chance to to win the title

BRAZIL – BELGIUM

July 6. Kazan, "Kazan Arena" Stadium, 21.00 (Russia 1 – 20.45).
Judges: MAZHICH, Ristić, Djurdjevic (all – Serbia)
Disqualifications: Kazemiru – No.
Nashi: Willian ("Anji", 2013) – Witsel ("Zenith", 2012 – 2016).