Chapter Twenty-Three: The Assassin Draws His Sword
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Conceding a goal at this time is definitely not good news for Italy, if the previous Italian attack was frustrated, Trapattoni can still sit still, then now one goal behind, he can not sit still. Italy is not a team that needs to be on the offensive continuously, it relies on its ability to seize opportunities to win the game. So although Oliveira's arrangement had an effect on restraining Piero and Vieri, Trapattoni was not nervous at all, and when time passed, Portugal would always make mistakes.
Unfortunately, things have changed now and Italy have to come out and score at least one goal in the last 20 minutes to keep their hopes of winning alive. Under such circumstances, Italy had to give up playing their most skillful routines and press out to attack. Portugal, which is good at ball control, will definitely try to control the ball at his feet, and then seize the gap behind Italy, and the opportunity for Figo, Conceição and others to play has come.
The veteran coach Trapattoni was very decisive, and came to the sidelines to make a big tactical gesture of pressing on his disciples. One called out the players on the bench, including AC Milan's top scorer Super Pippo and Roma striker Montella. Oliveira, after the excitement passed, also reacted quickly to the sidelines, signaling his disciples to control the pace of the field, and now Portugal has the initiative.
In fact, there are not many attacking players in this Italian team, and it is mainly the Italian tactics that limit the performance of these players. Now this situation just gives such players room to play. At this point, the Italian players were pushing frantically all over the field, and now it was time for the last to fight. Gattuso no longer stared at Old Ray. He launched the same pressing in the midfield as Lao Lei, tirelessly. Like a dog skin plaster can not be shaken off.
In the 73rd minute, Gattuso relied on his strong body. Squeezed away his teammate Rui Costa at the club and took the lead in football. He immediately passed the ball to Totti beside him, and with his current skills, taking the ball is equivalent to consuming time. The Roman prince finally showed his style in this game, changing direction in succession and quickly, shaking off Bento's entanglement, pulling to the right flank, and dribbling the ball forward at high speed.
With the on-demand Ruore on the side, a speed duel was launched. Both of them stepped on the gas pedal to the bottom. Waiting near the penalty area, Totti suddenly changed direction with a heel knock, and Totti was thrown away if he couldn't react too quickly. After a few cross-cuts, Costa had to press up and hoisted the ball high into the box. This ball is looking for Vieri, this is Lao Lei has returned to the penalty area and defended Vieri with Cuto.
Both men almost wrapped Vieri in dumplings that looked like sandwiches. The first goal conceded had a lot to do with Vieri, and Lao Lei was directly involved. This time after turning on the Devil's Flesh Man. Lao Lei gritted his teeth, he didn't want to make the same mistake twice and fall to his death in the same place, especially if there was a helper this time.
Wait until the ball comes to the top of everyone's heads. A huge force suddenly erupted from Vieri's body, squeezing away Lao Lei and the two and jumping up. That's the sheer amount of power. Lao Lei thought to himself. Although the Devil Flesh Man helped Lao Lei raise the strength to 90, the strength of 90 did not seem to be enough in front of Vieri. But while Vieri jumped. However, he no longer had the extra strength to head the goal, so he chose to head back. Prince Piero of Zebras. Ghostly in the second drop of the ball, Andrade was completely deceived by his movement and was thrown two positions away by Piero.
Piero was a one-on-one goal at this time, with only one goalkeeper in front of him. Piero lifted his right foot and fired with the inside of his foot, and the ball slid past Baia's feet. Just as the Italian supporters were about to shout, a head appeared and blocked the goal on the goal line. Bea was so frightened that he scrambled to squeeze the ball under him, not giving Vieri a chance to shoot.
Holding his head and looking up to the sky and sighing, at this time he became the most frequent action made by supporters of Italy. Piero was probably the most regrettable of them all, and in the final of the 2000 European Championship, it was also because of his two one-on-one failures against France that he became the sinner of the whole of Italy. Today is another single knife, and it is not in, and Piero looks at Portugal's No. 13 who has climbed up on the goal line, and a feeling of unease suddenly rises in his heart. He shook his head vigorously, not wanting to be affected by this emotion, and focused all his energy on the game.
At this time, Lao Lei was receiving the old goalkeeper Baia's excited gratitude, and waited until he broke free from Baiya's arms. He had time to take a few sips and spit out the grass clippings in his mouth, which was filled with the smell of grass. By the way, I also wiped my face with my right hand that was a little hot and sore because I was sliding on the ground. It turned out that when Vieri's header was rubbed back, the anticipation defense worked luckily. Lao Lei leaned forward and made a slippery movement of a baseball baseball, and he was afraid that he would not be able to reach the football, and his face was not raised, and his face was directly wiped in front of the grass.
In this regard, the Portuguese commentator did not hesitate to praise Lao Lei and said: "Lei Ma, it was Lei Ma who saved Portugal." We should sell a million euros of insurance for Reimaa's face, which is worth a million. After the game, Lao Lei's face worth one million also became the focus and anecdote of some media ridicule.
Oliveira, who was on the sidelines, covered his heart that was about to jump out, and said again in his heart that it was right to bring him, this is a lucky general, a lucky general!! Under pressure from Italy, Portugal's formation had to retreat and adopt this more conservative style of play after the game restarted. Trapattoni also made a substitution at this point, with Zambrotta coming on and Inzaghi coming on as a substitute. In addition, Panucci was also replaced by Materazzi, who had a hand in the header, and it seems that this is an additional attack point for Italy from Trapattoni's corner.
After Inzaghi came on, the pressure on Portugal's defence increased. Easy to dodge and hard to defend against dark arrows, this is the type of striker like Inzaghi, the world's best first-touch feel, excellent awareness, ghostly movement and an amazing shot. The difficulty in defending him is that you need to keep an eye on him at all times, but it is impossible to concentrate all of them, and an oversight may be when the Assassin gives you a sword to seal your throat.
In the world of football, the general strikers can be divided into two categories, one is Vieri, Ronaldo and other famous and decent people, open and close, invincible. There are many examples of this type of representative assignment. The other type is the sideways, the sword goes sideways, and this type of striker Inzaghi is one of the representative figures. He can score goals with one touch of the ball, almost to the point where picking flowers and flying leaves can hurt people. The arrival of such a dangerous figure will naturally greatly pull the energy of the Portuguese defense line as soon as he enters the field, resulting in a larger gap in the defensive line.
On 76 minutes, Vieri's powerful volley was blocked by Costa's back, and Lao Lei got ahead of Totti, controlled the ball, and then found Conceição on the right with a big foot, at which point there was plenty of space in the Italian backfield. Lao Lei's ball gives a lot of advance, which allows him to give full play to his speed. When he stops the ball and wants to cut inside, he only needs to take a few more steps and shoot straight at home. That's when Nesta reappeared, his precise positioning separating Conceição from the football, and a clean tackle to defuse a Portuguese counter-attack.
In the 80th minute, Oliveira also started to make substitutions. Bringing Andrade off for Fresaut was a counterpoint. In this game, in order to limit Piero, who was in good form, Andrade's fitness problems had already appeared by this time. There are 10 minutes left in the regular season and it will be the worst 10 minutes.
Superstars such as Rui Costa and Figo have begun to put down their superstar shelves and go all out to join the defense to fend off the desperate counterattack launched by Italy. When the time came to the 86th minute, the fans in the stands were already at their most nervous, no matter which side of the fans, their palms were already full of sweat. Feeling the tense atmosphere of the whole court, Mi Ji covered her big eyes with her snow-white little hands, and just watched the game through her fingers, as if this would reduce her nervousness. Kayla also bit her lower lip tightly. His face was covered in sweat.
At this time, Gattuso and Totti combined to counter-attack Couto in the front court, and Couto made a mistake in a somewhat scrambled situation. Totti cut off the ball, took a few lateral steps, and shot straight away. This shot played at a very high level, and went straight to the dead corner, which was a shot of the world's first wave. And Baia also made a world-class save, he was like a spring man, from one side of the goal, to the other side in an instant, and the shot was denied. At this time, Lao Rei, who was helping to defend Vieri and Piero, breathed a sigh of relief, and all the Portuguese fans breathed a sigh of relief. And all the Italian fans are looking up to the sky and sighing, sighing that this is the sky is going to kill me?!
The Italian narrator said, "Oh God. Baia saved Totti's long-range shot, could it be... Inzaghi! Inzaghi!! Shoot! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!! Inzaghi appeared where he should have been, he was like an assassin, a ghost, and no one knew how he appeared in that position. A sword seals the throat! A sword seals the throat!! Italy is alive! Still alive!! “
Lao Lei's eyes widened at this time and looked at the blue No. 9 who had already run to the sidelines, and he still couldn't believe it was true. How did he get to that position, he obviously started earlier than anyone. Inzaghi used his natural talent as a shooter to open the eyes of Lao Lei, and also let Portugal win the victory, once again out of his hands, and the cooked duck flew.
At this time, after running 100 meters, Inzaghi was on the sidelines with both knees, hands clenched into fists, and raised his head to the sky and roared. Behind him were countless teammates chasing his back.
Number 9, a number for a shooter, is undoubtedly well-deserved by Inzaghi.
It was an Inzaghi-esque goal, an Inzaghi-esque celebration. (To be continued......)