However, it is not surprising that Seedorf and others reacted to the whole goal process without revealing a strange smell.
Of course, this goal was not so much a trick by vieri as a goal by the Italians, who made a big fuss about the biggest defect of the Dutch defender on the defensive end, that is, the defense speed and physical fitness of the veteran in the middle and back court became slower and slower with time, and then broke the Dutch goal.
Otherwise, Delport’s experience and ability can’t be easily blocked by Milito, let alone let his opponent catch the ball and shoot in such a dangerous position.
Seeing that it was hard to gain the lead because of a defensive mistake made by our opponent, Edward Carter intends to continue to wait and see and act again and again. The conservative mood in his heart spreads again, fearing that the team’s fragile defense line will be quickly countered by the Italians. He hurriedly changed Baoma to Van der Med and strengthened the team’s defensive strength by adding a defender.
At this time, no one thought that Edward Carter’s seemingly ordinary substitution would become a turning point in the game!
Chapter 1266 faint recruit
A defender is replaced by an offensive player, which is the most common way for most coaches to strengthen their defense. Therefore, when Eduardo Carter did this, few people realized what a lowlevel mistake the Dutch coach had made!
This fool! Sitting in front of the TV to watch the game, michels couldn’t help but fly into a rage when he saw Eduardo Katbauma change for Van der Med. Does he know what scares his opponent the most about this Dutch team now?
That’s right. As michels said, what is the strongest link for the current Dutch national team?
Is it the defense line where the main players such as Delport and Stam are getting old and it is difficult for newcomers such as Baoma and Heitinga to take the lead? Or a midfield with that same hidden danger? Obviously, these are not the correct answers.
In fact, the strongest link of the Orange Legion now is that their forward line has four centers, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Kluiwitt, Ma Kai and Van Hoytonk, as well as a number of top wingers, such as Ronaldinho, Marc Overmars and Van der Mede. The Orange Legion has the ability to play an offensive storm that scares all teams!
However, in this game, Eduardo Carter didn’t let the Netherlands play the expected offensive football. Instead, he took the initiative to abandon their strongest link and put together a defense with the Italians. Do you think that Eduardo Carter is not sawing a light bulb and welding a detonatoris it dead?
You know, although the Dutch defense seems to be quite stable, the actual situation is not so good. Koku, Frank De Boer and reiziger are not as good as the former Van Bronckhorst. Although they are stable enough, they can’t be limited. He has high expectations. Although Stam and Davis still have top standards in the past season, they are not as tight defenders in the Netherlands as they were when they played in Florence and Juventus … It is precisely because of this that the Dutch team’s starstudded defense is not as stable as the fans imagined.
Compared with Italy’s worldclass defense line, it can throw the Netherlands out of several streets in its ability. Therefore, when Eduardo Carter took the initiative to change Van der Med to strengthen defense, the offensive power was greatly weakened, and the fate of the Netherlands was naturally conceivable.
After all, without Van der Mede to contain Italian players on the right, they can relax their defense on the left and devote more energy to the doubleteam side, which makes the Dutch attack difficult and gives them more opportunities to fight back quickly
In the 73rd minute of the game, when Ronaldo broke through the left dribble, he was doubleteamed by three Italian players, and the ball was stolen. Italy launched a counterattack. Pirlo and Deco continued to hit the wall in the middle of the road, stirring up the Dutch midfield defense, pushing the attack line forward to the top of the Dutch restricted area almost without any obstacles, and after attracting the attention of most defensive players, they crossed into Derossi!
Although Derossi volleyed vigorously by Van der Sar, the height arm was long, but it also caused the latter to follow diego milito when he got rid of it. He got rid of Delport’s defense and made up the shot five meters in front of the door! Two to one!
Milito’s goal made the Dutch players a little confused. They didn’t expect that they had just changed a defender to strengthen their defense. In a few minutes, the Italians overtook the score. This situation made all the Dutch players feel flustered and more entangled. After all, the situation has completely reversed, and their side has changed from the leading side to the lagging side. Do they still need to continue to invest in the defensive end?
Although the Dutch players had paid attention to the tactical arrangement of Edwardokat before the game, they still couldn’t stop it when the head coach made a substitution. At this time, all the Dutch players turned their attention to Edwardokat, hoping that the head coach would realize that this Dutch football is not suitable for playing the defensive counterattack and returning to the offensive in his mind, which is the most correct choice.
However, what disappointed the Dutch players was that the oncourt commander Edward Carter was indifferent to their hints, but instead urged them to return to their respective positions as soon as possible to continue the game, asking them to pay more attention to the defensive end and not to give their opponents a chance to kick the door easily
Now it can be confirmed that it is an extremely wrong move to replace Edouard before the game. At this time, all the commentators who are broadcasting the game live also criticized Edouard’s formation. When Van der Med was present, the Qi Fei tactics of the Dutch two wings brought great defensive pressure to the Italian defense, making it difficult for them to invest enough energy in the offensive end to stabilize their own defense. When Edouard changed Baoma, the former Dutch offensive and defensive play was short of manpower. The situation is naturally difficult to continue, and the Italian can also devote more energy to the palace, while the fragile Dutch defense line is difficult to cope with this rapid counterattack, which leads to the present situation.
Generally speaking, these commentators are instilling a view in the audience that it is Eduardo Carter’s fault that Holland will be overtaken by Italy!
In fact, this can’t be blamed on Edward Carter for saying that the conservative coaching style of the head coach is not suitable for the Netherlands now, and these stars in the team are really big enough. If you don’t get an ironfisted head coach, you can’t really suppress the contradiction and conflict between players and coaches like them, which is the reason why the Netherlands was badly reversed by Italy.
It rained all night, and the Italian scored again when the Dutch player Edouard Carter was conservative and inflexible. This time, the Azzurri made great achievements. diego milito, the shooter, cleverly stabbed Camoranesi’s middle ball into Van der Sar’s goal in the penalty area and finished his first hat trick for the Italian national team!
In this way, with Milito’s hat trick and Eduardo Carter’s magical assist, Italy scored a goal in the first place and sent the Netherlands back to their hometown with a score of three to one!
Chapter 1267 Before the semifinal
The news that Holland was defeated by Italy in the quarterfinals and bid farewell to the European Cup has caused quite a shock among the fans. After all, the game is full of passion and gorgeous play, and the Orange Legion has a high popularity among the fans, so their exit will naturally attract great attention. Of course, Italian fans who are celebrating the team’s successful semifinals are definitely not among them.
Holland, one of the favourites to win the European Cup, went out early in the quarterfinals, so the result was naturally that it was ambitious before the European Cup. The Dutch Football Association accepted that even if the team failed to win the cup for the last time due to an accident, it should reach the semifinals instead of being sent back to their hometown just after qualifying from the group stage.
Although the direct cause of the premature elimination of the Orange Legion was that they met the defending champion Italy in the quarterfinals, the root cause was that the Netherlands did not perform well in the group stage. In the first two group matches, it drew Germany first and then lost to the Czech Republic. It was not until the final round of three goals that Latvia, the weakest in the group, finally escaped from the world and fell to the second place in the group, which made them meet Italy before.
Poor record, being reversed by opponents one after another in the competition, extremely conservative play … Generally speaking, the performance of the Netherlands in the European Cup is really hard to believe.
Therefore, after the match with Italy, the Dutch Football Association called an emergency meeting overnight to lead the team’s poor performance, and dismissed Edouacat as a scapegoat for the team’s bad Portuguese trip. The fans burned their anger to their heads
Just as the impact of the headon confrontation between the Netherlands and Italy was slowly fermenting, the final game of the quarterfinals of the European Cup also came to an endthe Viking Swedish team became the last team to advance to the semifinals of the European Cup after Devid led Bohemian fighters to a threewin victory.
Baroche, a Czech striker who scored twice in this game, successfully overtook the scorer list. He has scored four goals in the European Cup and diego milito scored five goals to rise to the top of the scorer list!
Baroche’s outstanding performance in the European Cup made his current club, the Premier League giant Liverpool Club, full of joy. Although the top management of the Red Army sent him away to lead the team for six years after the end of the 34year season, he did not make a breakthrough in the league battlefield. He was able to show off his strength in the League Cup and the FA Cup, and invited a new coach of the Spanish rafa benitez team who led Valencia to win the La Liga championship. At the same time, he planned to upgrade the team this summer. However, this series of actions made Liverpool’s financial situation not good and carried a heavier financial burden.
Recently, Liverpool have been peddling players marked as saleable by Benitez in an attempt to alleviate their financial pressure, and their sale list even includes michael owen, who is known as the golden boy and the ace of the English national team!
To be honest, Liverpool have no intention of selling Owen, but Owen’s refusal to renew his contract has made Liverpool extremely passive. Because Owen’s statement has made it known to the world, it is difficult to sell Owen to other teams at a high price. After all, it is the most normal thing for no club to offer a player a high transfer price with one year left on his contract.
Now, after landing in the Premier League, he has been mediocre. The sudden outbreak of Baroche in the European Cup has made it difficult. Liverpool Football Club has finally made up its mind to cash in Owen. After all, for Liverpool now, it is better to keep Owen for one year and end up with personal wealth. It is better to sell him in exchange for a transfer to reduce the financial burden.
Therefore, with Baroche’s performance in the European Cup getting better and better, there is a faint sign of winning the golden boot in the European Cup. Liverpool Football Club is naturally extremely satisfied, because then they don’t have to worry about body double after Owen’s departure. Baroche is the best candidate with the same speed and good dribbling skills!
If Zhuang Ge knew that Liverpool’s management was thinking this way, then he would be sure to spit out these guys who always take it for grantedBaroche’s high goal efficiency in the Czech national team is due to the fact that there are top midfielders like Devid and Rosicky behind him to deliver artillery shells to him, and Jan Koller, a highlevel center with firstclass coping ability, to make balls for him to attract firepower. Do you have such abundant money in Liverpool?
Now it’s time to get back to the point that the first semifinal match of the European Cup started on time on June 3rd at the Riis Alvarado Stadium, after thousands of fans were eagerly looking forward to it!
Here, I would like to introduce a game to be played against both sides. Today, two teams will appear at Alvarad Stadium, the host of the European Cup, Portugal, and the defending champion, Italy. These two teams will have a fierce competition in this stadium and try their best to get a ticket to the European Cup final!
I have to say that the host of the European Cup is bent on winning the Drou Cup in the soil, and the Portuguese Football Association has brought their home advantage to the extreme, except that the first match of the group stage was held at the Porto Fire Dragon Stadium, and the last few games in Portugal have never been away from Liss, that is, the venue has been changed between Alvarad Stadium and the stadium. This arrangement has made the Portuguese national team suffer from travel fatigue to the maximum extent in the extremely tight European Cup, so that they can meet every game in the best condition!
On the other hand, guimaraesPortoguimaraesFaroe/LoreReese, not to mention whether the competitive state of the players will be affected, will definitely have some physical problems.
Although the game has not yet been played, Portugal has actually achieved the first hand. It depends on whether Scolari can bring these advantages into play and turn them into goals.
Chapter 126 Fengli Portugal
Boys, I know you are all very tired now. After all, our schedule has been very difficult these days, especially a game against the Netherlands, which has consumed us a lot of energy, while our opponents have been able to recharge their batteries in this place of Reese for six days by virtue of their advantage at home. trapattoni is making the final mobilization before the game in the visiting locker room of Alvarad Stadium. However, I still hope that everyone can overcome these difficulties and get tickets for the European Cup finals. We must let the Portuguese realize that the only difficulty in the schedule is that we can’t stop defending the Delau Cup!
As trapattoni said, although it should be relatively easy to win by beating Holland and Italy 31 in the quarterfinal, the actual situation is not so. Despite the serious aging of the players in the center and backcourt of the Orange Legion and the dragging of Edvarkat, a teammate, Italy’s consumption in this game is still very serious, including vieri and Grosso. Many players were diagnosed by the team doctor after the game and needed a truce before they could continue to participate in the game. Otherwise, even if they were forced to play, it would be difficult for these players to show their best.
Generally speaking, before the game, the number of Italian workers was quite serious.
Now here is an introduction to the starting lineup of an Italian game. Buffon undoubtedly appeared in the position of the starting goalkeeper. Even if those Portuguese secondrate strikers want to break the Italian goal, it will not be easy. In front of Buffon, Zambrotta, Starr, Materazzi and panucci form a line of defense that is enough to make a team headache than steel!
In midfield, Totti was suspended for three games because of the saliva incident. Finally, he returned to Pirlo and continued to take the role of a commander in the back. Ambrosini and perrotta played the role of bodyguards to clear the obstacles for Totti and Pirlo. At the same time, the Italian defense in midfield was necessary, while the striker was a combination of antonio cassano and diego milito. Obviously, trapattoni was determined to fight the Portuguese back in this game.
In fact, all the coaches who studied Portugal’s first game against Greece did the same, but Portugal was really lucky and met several opponents. Russia didn’t have the strength, and Spain destroyed the Great Wall because of Seth’s fatuity. England persisted for 120 minutes, but finally fell to 12 yards, which made the host break into the semifinals as soon as he passed by.
Now, faced with the stubborn disease that Italy has a worldclass defense line, it is definitely more difficult for Portugal to score goals. Otherwise, trapattoni would not dare to give up easily and compete with opponents for midfield control defense and hand over the frontcourt to Totti, Cassano and Milito.
We should know that Italy’s national team was formed by Florence’s team, and it is similar to Florence in many tactics. Therefore, when trapattoni arranges tactics, he often takes more care of Florence’s players’ habits, and it is such a detail change that makes Italy’s defensive counterattack more threatening!
Look at the Portuguese side and don’t worry about the physical fitness of the players. In this game, Scolari naturally tried his best to send the main goalkeeper Ricardo. The four defenders from left to right were valente, Carvalho, andrade and Miguel Ma Niqie and costinha. The back waist was not shot dead by Deco. Rui Costa continued to play the role of midfield commander. Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo separated from each other, and together with Costa, they took the lead in pauleta to deliver artillery shells.
By the way, I would like to add here that after losing to Greece in the first round of the group stage, Scolari had planned to look down on Cristiano Ronaldo, but before the realistic pressure gave up, he turned to Simao. As the European Cup deepened, Cristiano Ronaldo played better and better. At this stage, many people have regarded him as the new leader of Portuguese football after the golden generation was old, not just a young player with great potential.
After the game, both teams were more cautious. In the attack, they tried more and dared not invest too much troops. They were afraid that one of them would be caught by the opponent and put them in a passive situation when they received it.
With the deepening of the game in Italy, the physical disadvantage has become obvious, which has affected the players’ running and defense on the field, and they are no longer as active as they were at the beginning of the game, giving people a feeling of being unable to exert their strength
However, despite this, Portugal has gradually mastered the initiative of midfield, but still failed to turn the scene advantage into a lead in the score. The Italian goal is still stable in the siege of the host country. Most of Portugal’s attacks are either destroyed by the Staples or directly blocked by Buffon, which does not pose much threat to the goal.
Pauleta is indeed a good striker, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to get along well in Ligue 1. However, in the absence of an excellent striker, Portugal is good at playing the second striker, and he is forced to play a single arrow in the front line, which greatly reduces his scoring efficiency. That’s why pauleta’s scoring ability will become terrible every international competition, because Portugal simply doesn’t have a teammate to cover for him!
So it made all Portuguese fans feel extremely depressed. On the lawn of Alvarado Stadium, a super midfielder composed of Figo, Rui Costa and Cristiano Ronaldo kept pauleta delivering a lot of shells, but the latter finally managed to turn these wonderful goals into goals, and the fans sighed again and again.
In this way, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the halfgame, Portugal failed to break the Italian goal and ended the halfgame with a score.
Chapter 1269 deadlock
Yeah, Scolari’s coaching style hasn’t changed at all. Small moves and fouls disrupt the opponent’s offensive rhythm, strengthen defense, and then rely on several stars in the frontcourt to play freely and have an epiphany to complete the attack … After the players from both sides left the game one after another and entered the intermission, they watched Zhuangge in the VIP box and commented on Portugal’s halfcourt tactics. Although Scolari’s play has greatly damaged the ornamental and fluency of the game, we have to say that this tactic is true. It is quite suitable for Portugal now. If Portugal still pursues gorgeous scenes as before, then they may have been beaten by Italy’s rapid counterattack. Where can they be deadlocked with us like this?