The 2010 World Cup is a World Cup that has subverted many historical laws, and the first time the football event came to the African continent, it was destined to have a lot of unusual things happening. From the 1962 World Cup in Chile to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, this 44-year period has formed a situation in which Europe and the United States take turns to sit in power, and no team in the history of the World Cup can finally win the championship, these two iron laws have been broken in this World Cup. In addition to this, the scene of a new champion being born the moment the two finals were born against the team was 32 years ago. In the 10 World Cup in South Africa, the two best teams, Spain and the Netherlands, met in the final.
As the world's number one team recognized by many people at that time, Spain, which had the world's top league, was also extremely eager for the championship to reach the World Cup final for the first time. For the Netherlands, known as the uncrowned king, this is the third time to reach the World Cup final, the first two times lost to the hosts, this time the degree of desire is self-evident. The two sides played 0-0 in 90 minutes, and finally with Iniesta's killer goal in the 115th minute, Spain beat the Netherlands 1-0 to win the championship.
The following is an analysis of the process of the game, the performance of key players on both sides, and the wonderful picture of graphic analysis.
Although the score was still 0:0 until the 115th minute, it was not boring to watch closely. From the first half, Spain's strength is clearly above the Netherlands, Xavi, Iniesta, Alonso, Busquets and others firmly control the midfield, and Spain uses skilled passing to break the Dutch three lines out of touch. In the immediate opening of the second half, the Netherlands were able to compete, and Sneijder sent a delicate long pass, and Robben formed a one-handed chance, but was unfortunately saved by Casillas. After Spain replaced Navas, the attack on the right side has improved significantly, and it has also posed several threats to the Dutch goal. After entering extra time, looking closely at the performance of both sides in the first half of extra time, the Netherlands have shown defeat. Spain attacked several times to penetrate the Dutch defense, and the Dutch penalty area was full of wind. The penalty of Hettinga in the second half of extra time also made the situation in the Netherlands worse, and finally lost the championship.
This World Cup final has many similarities with the one 4 years later: 1. The two strongest teams enter the final, and the stronger teams win the championship. 2. The champion team plays pass control, and the runners play anti-rebound. 3. The runners have single-knife ball opportunities wasted. 4. The scores are all 1:0, and the kills all occur in the last 10 minutes of overtime, and they exchange white rolls within 90 minutes. Of course, there are some differences, I feel that the technical and tactical level of the 10 finals is higher, because most of the scoring opportunities of the two sides in the 10 finals are created through exquisite team cooperation or a clever pass, while most of the scoring opportunities of the two sides in the 14 finals are sent by the other side. However, the referee of the 10th final, Webber, is obviously not as good as the referee of the 14th round, Rizzoli, who has no obvious decision to pick out the problem from beginning to end, while Weber has made many controversial decisions in this game, of which 3 wrongful judgments have completely changed the direction of the game. (This is analyzed with graphics in the middle of this article)
Take a look at the lineups on both sides
Spain's starting line-up
Spain's squad is undoubtedly the number one team of the year, and in addition to the slightly weaker front, from the goalkeeper to the midfield, it is luxurious and coveted. In this game, Casinos once again became the patron saint of Spain, facing Robben's single knife, blocking the ball with his feet when his body was already thrown to the side, trying to keep the goal. Puyol played well as a defensive stalwart, breaking the siege many times. Right-back Ramos defended steadily and was also actively involved in passing control in the midfield, frequently interjecting assists on the right.
Some time ago, in the best team in history selected by French football, in addition to Messi and C Ronaldo, there is one of the active players who has been selected for the first team, that is, Xavi. Many people questioned Xavi's selection, and after I looked back at the 10 World Cup finals again, I found through careful observation that the reason why Spain in 08-12 was so strong, the first key player was Xavi! Xavi is not only the heart of this Spanish team, but also the brain of the team and the lungs of the team. Why? Because Spain's attack is Xavi as the core organization to pass combing, Xavi's ability to judge the situation, the clarity of the passing idea and the ability to control the timing of the pass and the rhythm of attack and defense, it can be said that in the entire history of football is the existence of the top three! Perhaps these few sentences can make the reader understand why Harvey is the heart and brain of the team, so why is Harvey the lung of the team? Because Harvey has the same advantage that is easy to be overlooked, this is a place that many fans who have watched the whole field are not easy to notice. Let me start with a statistic, a player's running record in 90 minutes is 16.1km set by Beckham, do you know who created the second place? It's 15.5km created by Harvey! A closer look at Harvey reveals that whether the team is offensively or defensively, he is running without the ball almost all the time. Defensively, he runs to the opponent's most threatening passing route to cut off the opponent's passing route. When attacking, he will keep running to ensure that he can always appear in the most reasonable position to meet his teammates. With such a core player who is both careful and brainy and can be a lung, can Spain not be strong?
And this Spanish team, in addition to Xavi, there is iniesta, who was selected for the second team of the all-time best team. Iniesta also has top reading ability and excellent passing and dribbling skills, and has a big heart in key moments, often able to step forward at the most critical moments to complete the fatal blow, this game is Iniesta's goal to help Spain kill the Netherlands. The relatively average performance in this game was Pedro and Villa, and with the ball in possession, Pedro failed to create enough threats to the Dutch defence on the right. Villa wasted several scoring opportunities, and even so, Villa still scored five goals in this World Cup. I can't help but sigh: with Ha Bai, as long as there is a level of forward in front, the team can take off. Like Brazil in the 1962 World Cup, garinscha and Wawa, with substitute striker Amareldo, is unstoppable.
Several substitutions in this game Bosque were a stroke of genius, and after Navas replaced Pedro, the right side attack immediately came into play. Navas constantly used his speed to storm the Dutch left flank, leaving veteran Van Bronckhorst overwhelmed. Later replaced by Fabregas and Torres, as well as Navas and Iniesta, they completed the final goal, whether it was Bosque's excellent ability to adjust on the field or the Spanish star reserves, in short, this is a victory for Spain.
Dutch starting line-up
From the perspective of the lineup, the Netherlands has a certain gap compared to Spain. First of all, let's talk about two serious problems in the Netherlands, the first is dirty, the whole game is played, the Dutch players are much more rough than Spain. The second is mental immaturity, the most typical examples: 1. Van Persie and Robben still shoot with the ball after the referee blew offside, according to the rules should show a yellow card, and they both had a yellow card on their bodies at the time, and another one was sent off, and the referee chose to open the net. 2. After being scored by Spain, the game was about to end with 5 minutes left, and he didn't hurry up to fight for the equalizer, but chattered with the referee. 3. Behind the score, when the midfield ball, Sneijder directly came to shoot, at this time Casillas stood very normal, direct shots are not at all possible to score, this action reflects the Dutch players' mentality has collapsed.
Speaking of the performance of the key players in the Netherlands, goalkeeper Stecklenburg played very well overall, conceding a goal because he was too close to do anything, and defused the other side's threatening shot several times. Centre-back Matteson played well, defusing Spain's threats on multiple occasions. Hettinga's performance can be described as a mixed reputation, if you don't mention the red card he received, in fact, the game is still quite good, but it is because of his red card that the Netherlands played one less person and eventually lost the game. Kuyt's threat on the offensive end is limited, but his contribution on the defensive end is really great, and his active scrambling greatly reduces the pressure on the defensive line. Robben lost a single knife ball that could have been won, but if you look at the whole game, you will find that one of the best of all the dutch offensive players is Robben. With the midfield completely killed by Spain, only Robben could create a threat to Spain with his dribbling and inside-cut shots. Previously, I had thought that year's World Cup Ballon d'Or and France football's Ballon d'Or should go to Sneijder, but looking back at the game again, I changed my previous view. Speaking of this game, Sneijder, in addition to the single knife ball sent to Robben is very exquisite, almost the whole game is doing nothing, compared to the quarter-final against Brazil and the semi-final against Uruguay, the two games are really too bad, so the 10 World Cup Golden Ball Award to Fran is completely reasonable. Although 4 years later, in the group stage against Spain, Van Persie scored a recorded goal, but in this game that is 10,000 times more important, Van Persie did not pose any threat to Spain as a forward killer.
In this game, Van Malwijk replaced Kuyt with Elia, which was a very big failure, Van Malwijk's original intention was to strengthen the attack on the left side, but he did not think that Elia had the dribbling technique under his feet, but he was extremely sticky and out of tune with the whole team. The left offensive end did not put much pressure on the Spanish defense, and the defensive end could not compete as actively as Kuyt, which made the pressure on the Dutch back line increase sharply. The goal scored by Spain began when Elia lost the ball when he attacked on the left. This substitution reflects that Van Malwijk has not adjusted his mentality and has not been able to put himself in the right position, the strength of the Netherlands itself is not above the opponent, in this case, it is necessary to be safe, and seek counter-attack opportunities before ensuring that he does not concede the goal. That year, the Netherlands played utilitarian football to the final, but still fell on the way to coronation.
Let's take a look at the several obvious misjudgments of the referee in this game.
In the 28th minute, De Jongfei kicked Alonso and received a yellow card.
The sole of the shoe is covered with steel nails, and this heart-piercing foot kicks Alonso to the ribs, which must be red card + suspension without any negotiable space!
In the 82nd minute, Robben used his speed to form a single knife, Puyol pulled Robben with his arm, blocking one of Robben's scoring opportunities, and the referee signaled for the game to continue.
Puyol was clearly fouled and should have been awarded a Dutch free kick and shown Puyol a yellow card. Because Puyol already had a yellow card at that time, he would receive a red card and be sent off.
In the 114th minute, Sneijder's free-kick bounced off Fabregas and the referee awarded the Spanish goal, no doubt a Dutch corner.
Listing these few misjudgments is also a demonstration of the imperfections of this game. It must be said that although two of the three misjudgments are Spain benefiting the Netherlands and one Netherlands benefiting Spain, the Netherlands has no right to cry out for its own defeat. Because it was De Jong who kicked Alonso first, if the referee sent De Jong a red card, everything would change in the future game, and the Netherlands would most likely lose a long time ago.
Take a look at a few more of the great images from this game.
In the 61st minute, Snyder received a long pass from his feet after midfielder.
This wonderful direct pass pierced the Spanish defence and Robben successfully formed a single knife ball against offside.
Robben's one-handed shot was blocked by Casillas with his foot.
It was the netherlands' best chance to score goals in the whole game, and one of the few.
In the 68th minute, Xavi received a pass from Ramos and observed the situation on the field.
Xavi passed the ball to Iniesta and ran forward.
Iniesta passed the ball to Xavi again.
Harvey took a few steps and saw Navas on the right in an empty position and passed the ball out.
Navas pushed forward on the right and crossed with his feet...
Villa got a close shot on goal, but couldn't get in...
Although the goal was not scored, it showed the essence of Spanish passing football to the fullest!
In the 4th minute of extra time, Iniesta sent a superb direct pass in front of him.
Fabregas successfully formed a one-handed ball against offside and a shot was blocked by Steclenburg with his foot.
In the 115th minute of the game, the deadlock was finally broken!
Puyol passed the ball out of the backfield...
Navas got the ball and faced van der Vaart's defence.
Navas accelerated from the outside to break through van der Vaart.
Navas frantically dribbled through the half, with Snyder and Elia desperately trying to chase back.
Four Dutch men came up together to bag Navas.
Bluff Hyde stepped out to clear the ball...
But the ball came to Iniesta's feet.
Iniesta heels passed the ball to Fabregas, who had inserted it.
Fabregas kicked the ball out, was blocked by Robben's outstretched foot, and the ball bounced off Navas's feet again.
Navas handed the ball to Torres, who was plugged in on the left.
Torres got up to cross his foot, was cleared by van der Vaart and bounced the ball off at the feet of Fabregas.
Fabregas took a step and sent out a subtle short pass.
Iniesta fired a powerful shot at goal, Spain 1-0 Netherlands.
The Spanish players collectively celebrated wildly...
Captain Casillas raised the Hercules Cup and the Spanish Dynasty was born.