The style of Italian football is to defend after scoring a goal

No. Your understanding is completely wrong. Italy is more defensive, but more balanced.

Football tactics are people-oriented, Italian players have strong individual defensive ability, and the Italian league is also known for tactical civilization, the so-called "Premier League looks at speed, La Liga looks at technology, and Italy naturally looks at tactics". Therefore, the Italian national team has always established an overall "concrete defense" on the basis of defenders with strong individual ability.

However, Italy, who have won the World Cup four times, need to score goals even more. Especially in 2006, they were the sharpest attacking team of almost any team, with many top strikers such as Toni, Gilardino, Inzaghi, Totti, Piero and so on, and midfield commander Andrea Pirlo was the best at the time.

What you said about scoring goals and defending is too one-sided. Football defense is a defense that is focused at all times.

You mean, Italy can only score one goal?

If you enter one, you will keep letting people in?

Needless to ask, did Italy win 1-0?

Basically, right? However, in the 08 European Cup, Italy seems to be using a 433 attack formation! Isn't Toney a single striker?

It was, and the so-called "1:0 doctrine" was quite popular at that time.

Now the style of play is much more open. After about 2000, Italian football has become more and more open and more attacking, and the "1:0" teams in the past two or three seasons have almost disappeared in Serie A.

However, many people are still very fond of the defensive football of Italian football, so many people think that Italian football is still a style of rigid winning. People's football style has long changed, in recent years, many teams from the Premier League and La Liga have used defensive football to make Serie A teams lose and embarrassment...

The back is solid, the midfield is brainless, and the striker takes the ball. Penalty kick!

First of all, Italy is the whole team defense, including the forwards must have defensive awareness, forwards, full-backs, and full-backs implement zone defense. One of the two midfielders implements zone defense, occupies a position to block the opponent's passing lane, provides protection for the backline, and the other generally adopts a man-to-man pressing defense to affect the opponent's possession of the ball.

The three centre-backs are in fact two man-to-man defenders and one free man. The man-to-man defenders are Cannavaro and Maldini. Cannavaro is more brave and implements close defense, but his positional sense is average.

Maldini, on the other hand, has a strong sense of position, so there is a complementarity between the two man-to-man defenders. Nesta is a free agent with strong defensive ability, good awareness, and is good at filling in positions. Such a defensive combination has almost no holes.

And the Italian team as a whole adopts defensive counterattack tactics, the gap between the middle and backfield is very small, try to compress the opponent's available space, if one person grabs, there are teammates to fill the position immediately, and the cooperation is very tacit, forming a complete defensive system, so it is called concrete defense.