Chapter 952: Summer in the Netherlands (10)

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"As the flag of Romanian football for the last fifteen years, to end his national team career with a red card. Such an ending is a bit too cruel for a superstar like Haji, right? Looking at Haji, who walked off the field with a lonely face, Little Groz, who was infected by this atmosphere, said with some sadness, "I have worked hard for the national team for more than ten years, but I didn't even get an important honor, and it ended up with a red card, which is really a regrettable." ”

"Rebecca, I don't think so." Zhuang Mingge shook his head and said his opinion, "Superstars like Haji have their own pride and persistence, and their ideas are not something that we outsiders can speculate about. So, although Hadji's international career is not perfect in our eyes, I think for Haji himself, who has done his best for the national team, should not regret his experience. ”

After all, Hagi is the greatest star of Romanian football history, having played under two rivals, Real Madrid and Barcelona, leading Bucharest to beat Barcelona to the top of Europe, and was able to lift the UEFA Cup trophy in the twilight of Turkey, Galatasaray, who could only dominate Turkey, to win the UEFA Cup without anyone fanciing...... Such a wonderful and ups and downs career has exercised Haji's extraordinary willpower.

It is precisely because of this that Zhuang Mingge thinks that Haji will not regret his lack of honor in the national team. Because for the midfield superstar who did everything he could to boost the morale of his teammates at the World Cup in France two years ago, winning the title was never his first priority, and getting Romanian football to occupy a place in international football was the most important thing he wanted to achieve. And now it seems that in the more than ten years that Haji has played for the national team, the Romanian has achieved this goal!

Looking at Haji's departing back, Zhuang Mingge sighed slightly in his heart. Because he knows that Haji's departure is only the beginning of the end of the superstar era.

In his previous life, some fans said that the 2000 European Cup was the last European Cup that belonged to superstars, and Zhuang Mingge felt that this sentence was still very reasonable. Because since then, European football has increasingly emphasized the team and the collective, even the best individual star must put down his body to serve the team, it is never like now, the rest of the team is around one or a few people in the team, and the victory or defeat of the game is pinned on the individual performance of the superstar!

Even the most beautiful Ronaldo and Messi in the previous life are the same, the former needs his teammates to make the ball for him and pull out the space to shoot, otherwise he will not be able to play well on all fronts; And the success of the latter is greatly dependent on Barcelona's tactical system, without this set of passing and control system, Messi's combat effectiveness and threat coefficient will be reduced by at least one grade!

However, Zhuang Mingge did not tell others what he thought, after all, in this era, there are still the vast majority of people who believe in the personal play of superstars. If Zhuang Mingge's remarks are known by some people with ulterior motives and take advantage of the topic, it is likely to cause an uproar among the star group and have a negative impact on him and the reputation of Fiorentina FC.

To get back to the point, with Hadji sent off, the Romanian players who had lost their backbone completely lost their fighting spirit to continue resisting. The Italian players took advantage of this opportunity and launched several attacks in the following time!

In the 65th minute, Vieri finally broke his goal drought at this European Championship when he received a cross from the right from Fiore in the box and scored with a left-footed volley, finally giving vent to the frustration of not scoring for a long time.

After that, Vieri also showed in front of the fans that he had almost no ability to play the ball in his previous life. In the 78th minute, Vieri lured the attention of two Romanian centre-backs and tapped his backheel to set up his best friend Filipe Inzaghi for his second goal of the game to extend the score to 4-0!

After Inzaghi's brace, Maldini Sr. began to deploy on the sidelines, with the attacking trident of Totti, Vieri and Inzaghi all gone, replaced by Gattuso, Del Vecchio and Montella. As for the organisation that Totti left behind after his departure, Fiore, who moved to the middle, was solely responsible.

The elder Maldini knows that Eastern European football in this era is still very bloody, and if Italy continues to chase and kill, it is difficult to guarantee that the opponent will not jump over the wall in a hurry to make any intriguing or lethal moves. Therefore, if the other party had such a determination to hurt Vieri or Totti, the old Maldini would have no tears.

After all, with Italy's current family background and staffing, it is not very easy to find a qualified stand-in for Vieri. Although Totti is injured and Pirlo and Fiore can be on top, Inzaghi also has Montella to rotate, but a stand-in for a top center forward like Vieri is hard to find!

Neither Inzaghi nor Vieri expressed any displeasure with being substituted and scoring in the game. In particular, the former, who scored twice in the game, scored five goals at this tournament and temporarily topped the scorers' charts was enough for Pippo to get a good night's sleep when he returned to his home turf.

Although he is extremely obsessed with scoring goals, Inzaghi is not stupid, of course, he knows that while he is eating meat, he also has to give his teammates a mouthful of soup to drink, and he can't let himself take advantage of all good things. If you are too greedy and don't know what to do, it will only make Inzaghi the target of public criticism, not the goal guarantee of Italy in the eyes of people now.

After Maldini Sr. made substitutions, Italy and Romania had some good scoring opportunities in the last ten minutes, but neither player was able to take advantage of them.

In the end, when referee Pereira blew the whistle for the end of the game, Italy defeated Romania by four goals in this quarter-final, becoming the second team to reach the semi-finals of this European Championship!