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Southampton's opponent in the final, without any surprise this time, is the South American champion, Brazil's traditional strong team Flamengo.

They defeated the Riyadh Crescent [-]-[-] and entered the final of the Club World Cup. The confrontation between Europe and South America reappeared after a season of interruption.

However, there are no outstanding players in the Flamengo team. It is still the same sentence. The outstanding players in South America are all in Europe, and even the players who are slightly inferior are living in Europe. After all, in recent years Brazil's economy is going from bad to worse. It's not the time when the economy was good at the time. Brazilian clubs were qualified to retain outstanding players. Their economy is not good. Naturally, players have gone abroad to play football. After all, playing football in Europe is relatively expensive. It's safer, even if you can't go to Europe, going to Asia is a very cool thing.

As a result, the league standards of South American countries, including Brazil, have actually begun to decline, mainly due to the support of their deep background.

In the past, South American clubs mainly relied on rookies and those who were outstanding, but had some flaws and could not maintain a good performance in Europe. However, it is not so easy for newcomers to make their debut. Some outstanding players with some flaws are more willing to go to Asia. Panning for gold, there are a lot of money there, stupid, and you are a fool if you don't go.

So now the overall strength of the South American clubs is indeed very weak.

In terms of newcomers, just look at Vinicius. He was booked by Southampton at the age of 16. This kind of typical genius European clubs will not let it go. This year Real Madrid also dug from Santos. Drigo, again, with the financial resources of European teams and the ability of scouts, as long as they are good players, they will be poached early.

This is actually beneficial to the players themselves. The way and procedures for training players in Europe have been raised to a limit, which can better train young players. It is not like before, digging a young man and throwing him in South America. Fend for themselves, but after being brought to Europe, there are a series of training procedures and protection measures, so that they can grow up with peace of mind - this is also normal, after all, the value of young players has also been rolled up now, and it is always a 2000 million, such money is thrown down, what is the expenditure of patient cultivation?

Now South America's training ability is much worse than that of Europe. At least Messi was trained in Europe. Neymar didn't come to Europe early, and I'm afraid he is not so good. Valverde, Vinicius... These are typical example of.

Southampton has also found a lot of information about Flamengo. In this era of information explosion, even ordinary fans can find quite detailed information, let alone the club. The advantages of South American clubs have further shrunk—after all, in the early years, it was very easy for South American clubs to know the details of European clubs. After all, European media is well-developed, while South American clubs are relatively mysterious. Firstly, the South American media is not so developed. Secondly, the personnel of South American clubs often change quite frequently. If you don’t pay attention to a South American giant for two or three years, when you pay attention again after two or three years, you may be surprised to find that all the players of this giant don’t know each other. ...

So at that time, the European teams were at a disadvantage, and they were not familiar with the South American teams, which was also a factor.

Now that these factors have been stripped away one by one, South American teams are indeed at an inherently extremely disadvantaged position if they want to fight against European teams.

Although Southampton's recent five consecutive championships may not be used as an example, even before Southampton, the South American team only won one of the seven Club World Cup matches by chance, and the rest were European teams won, and there was basically no suspense in the process, which can be regarded as devastating.

In 12, it was mainly because of Chelsea's own problems, otherwise they were unlikely to lose.

With such a precedent, Southampton's self-confidence is naturally quite sufficient, but for Flamengo, they will feel tremendous pressure.

After all, facing such a strong team, any team would be at a psychological disadvantage.

Although Southampton seems to be unstable in the past two seasons, and they often have some problems in the league, but their overall winning percentage is still quite strong. Let’s look at the performance of those teams that have suppressed them. It should be clear that it's not that they are dying, but that there are strong teams with more exaggerated performances in the league.

What's more, Southampton's results in the Champions League are still so exaggerated.

December 21st is fast approaching.

Doha, Qatar, Khalifa International Stadium, the final of the Club World Cup is about to kick off here.

"Players from both sides have already played! Southampton and Flamengo's main players are all out! Obviously, everyone values ​​​​this Club World Cup final! Southampton has won five consecutive World Cups before. If you win the Club Cup again, you will win six consecutive championships. The Club World Cup is simply the Southampton Cup... But there is no need to have any other ideas about the Club World Cup. After all, Southampton has already changed the European Champions Cup. It's the Southampton Cup..."

"Southampton started all the main players in this game, goalkeeper Mendy, defender Cancelo, De Ligt, Araujo, Chilwell, midfielder Soucek, captain De Bruyne, Greeley What, Ernesto Valverde, striker B Fei, Du Yue! Flamengo sent a lineup of [-], which is similar to Southampton in theory, but in fact they must be mainly defensive and counterattack. , without a doubt."

The commentators commented one after another. The simple thing is that with Southampton's momentum and their characteristics, they will definitely play offensively in such a final, and under their pressure, Fernando All Lamengo can do is to be more steady, focus on defense, and then look for opportunities to score.

This is a very conservative and passive approach, and it may not have any effect. However, the fact is that most teams, when faced with pressure from Southampton, can only choose to do this. You can choose to use this conservative approach to look for possible chances of victory.

Of course, they can also go all out to fight Southampton, but the end of doing so is generally very miserable. It is almost impossible to fight Southampton through the confrontation without tragedy.

This is a sad reality for many small teams. They can only use conservative tactics to see if they can get a point from Southampton.

Flamengo is not a small team, but in front of Southampton, they are no different from the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, or even weaker.