The crazy attack of the Netherlands made Portugal blinded for a while, and it could only passively counterattack and could not control the situation. At this time, Lao Lei could only helplessly focus all his energy on defense temporarily, and this game time belonged to the Netherlands. In the 35th minute of the first half, Lao Ray fell to the ground again and tackled, ruining a long-range shot by Seedorf. He patted his ass and stood up, his jersey covered in mud. This is still this World Cup, and Lao Lei rarely looks so wolf.

During this period, Lao Lei also tried to limit the Dutch frenzied offensive with counterattacks. However, several counterattacks did not achieve any good results. The Dutch defence has so far failed to lay down any mistakes and leave Portugal with chances. And Lao Lei is busy defending, so there is no way to solve such a situation for a while. The lack of strength in the counterattack made the Dutch attack even more unscrupulous.

However, fortunately, such an offensive by the Netherlands requires a lot of physical consumption and cannot last for a long time. In the 39th minute of the first half, the Dutch offensive finally waned, and the Portuguese players and fans could relax their hearts for a while. Lao Lei also breathed a sigh of relief and began to organize Portugal to control the ball again. In this game, Portugal originally wanted to use Guò's pressing in front to limit the Dutch attacking organization, thereby weakening their firepower. However, Robben's impact exceeded their expectations, and Ferreira was almost blown up by him in this first half.

The activity of Robben at this point, Portugal's high pressing, was also officially broken. At this time, Lao Lei didn't have a good way for a while. to restrain the Netherlands. He can only try to attack with attack, attack after attack. Come to the Netherlands and don't dare to press it so unscrupulously and let it throw a rat trap. Thankfully. When the ball is back at Portugal's feet, Portugal can still keep the ball firmly at their feet and can always do something in attack.

In the 43rd minute of the first half, Lao Lei organized an effective offensive. Old Ray took the football and faced Davis at the edge of the penalty area. The two of them were entangled together, and Lao Lei kept smashing and plucking the ball skillfully, trying to shake his center of gravity. However, Davis was not fooled, and at this time, Deco ran past Old Ray's side. Old Ray immediately made a plucking motion. Make a gesture to pass the football to Deco, make a diagonal pass.

Davis had to move, trying to reach for his feet. And this is what Lao Lei was waiting for, the action of plucking the ball, immediately turned into a left-footed smash, and the football passed between Davis's feet, turning the pass into a human ball. Subsequently, Davis reacted quickly and wanted to use his body to separate Lao Lei from the football. Destroy this breakthrough of Lao Lei. And the advantage of Lao Lei's long legs was once again reflected, and it did not let Davis's intention succeed, and he was stuck in front of him first, controlling the football.

With. Old Ray faced directly against the Dutch back line. The defensive attention of the entire Dutch back line was focused on Lao Lei on the right. Dutch right-back Retzger pressed and Figo took advantage of the opportunity. I also began to prepare for the bottom. At this time, everyone thought. Old Ray will hand over the football to Figo, and come to Figo to complete the bottom cross. When the authorities are at a stalemate. Surprise is often the best way to break the deadlock, and this has always been the belief of old Lei.

Lao Lei suddenly stopped suddenly, and hit the football with the back heel of his right foot, so that the football came from behind him to the other side. Davis and Retzger were clearly unprepared for this time, and at this moment old Ray was not in a state of restraint. At this time, Lao Lei's left heel was directly a pass, although he did not observe the situation on the field clearly.

It wasn't handed over to Figo, he made the pass himself. It didn't go to the middle, but to the bottom line of the back point. Sometimes, Lao Lei has to admit that Ronaldo, a not very likable boy, seems to understand his thoughts better. In the Portuguese team, in addition to the Porto department, it is his tacit understanding with Lao Lei that is better. And this is one of the reasons why it only took him two games to snatch the main position from Simao.

Ronaldo's pass to Lao Lei was obviously more prepared than Van Bronckhorst, and he started one step ahead of Van Bronckhorst to control Lao Lei's pass. Then directly along the bottom line, two big strides into the penalty area. Immediately afterwards, he pushed the ball sideways in front of the goal, trying to flank Gomez in front of the goal. Since Ronaldo attracted Bouma, Gomez only had to face Stam's individual defense at this time. He leaned on Stamm, facing Ronaldo's pass, and wanted to push it directly into the bottom right corner of the goal.

However, the veteran Stam did not give him this opportunity and fell to the ground in time to block Gomez's shot. This allowed Van der Sar to bown the football effortlessly and did not allow Portugal to extend the scoreline and missed a golden opportunity. Just when the Portuguese fans hugged their heads and regretted it, the Dutch counterattack came quickly. A very simple counterattack, the goalkeeper directly kicked a long pass into the front.

Ruud van Nistelrooy faced Andrade up front and grabbed the first spot with a header, while at the same time using a header to get the ball comfortably behind Ferreira. Then came the familiar scene, with Robben starting to pick up and Ferreira being wolfless. At this time, Portugal's defense line has not been formed, as long as Robben can take the lead in getting the football and successfully enter the Portuguese penalty area, then the Netherlands is likely to break the door of Portugal.

Faced with such a situation, Ferreira should have made a decisive tactical foul to disrupt the attack, but he already had a yellow card on him, which was dangerous. I don't know if he was annoyed by Robben's successive breakthroughs, and his mind was not clear, or if he was very confident in his tackle, in short, he was very decisive in sacrificing his big sliding tackle. As a result, instead of tackling the football, he touched Robben's right foot. Let Robben, who was in a high-speed state, directly fall a dog to eat, and there were several rolls on the grass, just like the scene of a drag racing car accident.

Seeing such a situation, Lao Lei chuckled in his heart at that time, and had a bad feeling. As the referee's whistle blew, players from both sides immediately gathered at the place of the foul. At the Alvalad Stadium, there was a bit of chaos for a while, in the stands, Portuguese fans were shouting fake falls, while Dutch fans were shouting red cards, shouting and cursing. At the same time, Robben, who fell to the ground and looked very painful, made the Dutch players on the field very angry, and a grumpy man like Davies rushed directly to Ferreira to find him trouble.

The Portuguese players naturally don't want to watch their teammates suffer, and when Figo and others tried their best to intercede with the referee at the last possible time, Lao Lei protected Ferreira behind him and separated him from Davies and others. "What do you want to do, bastard, do you want to abolish him? Bastard. The hot-tempered Davis cursed angrily and tried to push Ferreira.

Lao Lei naturally refused, he directly pushed the menacing Davis away, and scolded without showing weakness: "Get out, stinky boy." Do you have a part in your talk? "If you are a young person, you may be suppressed by Davis's rise, but this does not include Old Ray. After playing against Keane, one of the biggest brothers in world football, Lao Lei now has the confidence on the field and is not afraid of anyone at all. Lao Lei's push made Davis's anger rush to a higher level. Leaving the protagonist Ferreira aside, Lao Lei and Ferreira have a posture of pinching up.

This made the referee have to immediately throw Figo and others over, rush over to separate Lao Lei and Davis, and prevent them from making trouble. In the end, Ferreira still did not escape the second yellow card of the game, and the red card was punished. In this case, whether Portugal advances or not, he has no chance of participating in the final of this European Championship. At the same time, Portugal will also have to fall into the embarrassing situation of 10 men in the next game. Against a fierce Dutch attack, Portugal are starting to look bad, even though they are still in the lead.

Ferreira was devastated, keeping her head down and not knowing what she was thinking. Missing such a heavy scene as the European Championship final is difficult for any ambitious professional player to accept. Watching him slowly walk off the court, Lao Lei hugged his head and said softly: "Paul, I want you to guarantee that in 08, 08, you can still play in the final." Now, go cheer us on. No one, will blame you. ”

Ferreira nodded, patted Old Ray on the shoulder, and left. Scolari, who was on the sidelines, was not annoyed, but still gave Ferreira a hug to show comfort. When Ferreira walked into the tunnel, Scolari had to frown. He now has to think about how to make adjustments. If you play with 10 men, you should defend first anyway, after all, there is still a full half of the game.

"Miguel, go warm up. At the start of the second half, I need you to be able to play at all times. At halftime, you're warming up outside. Scolari called up a right wing-back from Benfica on the bench. Then, start pondering how exactly you can make adjustments.

On the field, the chaos has subsided, and Robben is fine, just injured. The game restarted and Seedorf sent in a free-kick. At the back post, Overmars headed just over the crossbar. The referee then gave two minutes of stoppage time, but neither side was able to change the score. The score of 1:0 was maintained until the end of halftime.

At the end of the game, as the lagging side, the Dutch players did not show much frustration. They knew that they would undoubtedly be in the ascendancy in the second half. One goal down doesn't mean anything, and they have plenty of quality to change that.

The next conundrum, on the Portuguese side?

Is it conservative, or is it offensive?

At this time, Lao Lei felt the pressure and also felt the motivation.

He let out a long breath and walked into the players' tunnel.

But the heart remained on the field.

"Now, it's interesting!" (To be continued......)