Composer创建项目yiisoft / yii2-app-basic基本到特定的yii2版本?

I am trying to create yii2 demo application using https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/start-installation and I would like to have application with high performance. I failed to do this with the latest Yii2 version i.e. Impossible to get PHP Yii waiting TTFB time under 2s (with profiling results) and that is why I would like to create Yii2 basic application using older Yii2 version. Does composer create-project command have some options that allow to specify previous release of Yii2.