Chapter 188 Group C

In a way, this life-and-death match between Italy and France can also be a make-up match for the World Cup final in Germany in the past.

Because of the emergence of Degan's variable, the protagonist of the German World Cup final turned into Italy and Belgium. Zidane's golden head did not turn over Materazzi, which left a feud between the two, but buried Degan's left leg and made Belgium lose the final.

Now in the group stage of the European Cup, the two teams that were supposed to play the peak match in the World Cup in Germany have shifted the battlefield to the European Cup.

Before the game, the heavy rain suddenly came and poured down, which was the best prelude to this tragic life-and-death battle. It was more magical than the heavy rain. Two rainbows accidentally appeared across the sky of the Zurich Stadium, attracting countless clicks.

When night fell, the rainbow faded, and the two fallen nobles had become looking at other people's faces in a blink of an eye. Albertini appeared on the rostrum to cheer for his brother Donadoni. With a straight suit, he looked more like a diplomat, shuttling among the senior officials of FIFA and UEFA.

In this game, Cannavaro and Materazzi, the golden iron gates, can only sit on the bench and worry. After the start of the life-and-death battle, every time the ball is out of bounds, they are always the first to rush out to "pick up the ball". Cannavaro doesn't even hesitate to limping. He seems to want to encourage his teammates not to release it in this way. Abandoned.

After the start of the life-and-death duel, the scene seemed wonderful and insufficient, but it was more than fierce. The ballless confrontation between the players on both sides appeared frequently and wanted to overwhelm the opponent in momentum. Abidal walked through the Italian bench after being sent off and cursed the Italians fiercely. Materazzi took the lead to fight back. I was pulled by my teammates.

It may be the Dutch Hunter who decided the game. His goal was passed to the Italian bench early. One pass, ten passes and ten passes became a secret known to Italian fans, and the cheerful song immediately replaced the harsh boos.

Everyone knows that this is not an aristocratic performance that pursues the scene, but a battle for survival. Then Van Persie's goal on another court was once mistaken for a Romanian goal. The stands ** until the big screen of the stadium hit the Dutch 2:0, and the French completely lost interest. Disjo out.

Finally, Gattuso, who was replaced, roared excitedly, opened all the mineral water bottles and poured them on the heads of every teammate on the bench. At the final whistle, he was the first to run to run to Donadoni, tightly grasp the head coach's curly hair and pulled it, completely ignoring the way of teachers and students.

The rainbow in 2006 seems to be back. Italians celebrate like winning the world championship, but at this moment, everyone has more expressions for the rest of their lives.

Finally, on this night of life and death, the light of miracle shone on Italy, and the Blue Army returned to the world from the border of death. This is thanks to the great spirit of fair play of the Dutch team, but of course, Italians should also be proud of their perseverance.

What makes the Italians happier is that Pirlo, the core of the midfield, was also "resurrected" in this game. It was his excellent performance in the first half that opened the door to victory for Italy.

In fact, since the World Cup in Germany, Pirlo has not been able to regain his best form for a long time. Although he is still indispensable to his team, he has never been the high-speed midfield brain.

After the start of this European Cup, Pirlo continued the recent downturn, and Pirlo's performance in the first two group games can only be said to be mediocre.

Although Pirlo was rated as the best on the spot in the last match against Romania, in fact, many experts were dissatisfied with Pirlo's performance and believed that he was one of Italy's two vincinners. Before the life-and-death battle against France, there was even a saying that Donadoni would abandon Pirlo.

Pirlo himself is not worried about this statement: "The coach decides who can play, but I believe he will choose me."

Pirlo is very confident. It turns out that Donadoni does not dare to give up Pirlo. In the most critical game, Pirlo finally rewarded the coach and all the Italian fans.

In this game, Pirlo's accurate and effective command and scheduling reappeared in the game, which was not seen in the past two games. Before Pirlo was replaced, he created many opportunities for his teammates. Soon after the opening, Panucci received Pirlo's corner kick and almost broke the net.

The best scene took place in the 20 millionth minute of the game. Pirlo sent a precise long pass near the middle circle. Tony was tripped behind by Abidal after stopping the ball in the penalty area. The referee blew a penalty and sent Abidal a red card, which was definitely a fatal blow. Italy took the lead and also occupied it. The advantage in terms of the number of people.

And it was also Pirlo who scored a penalty for Italy. AC Milan's midfield calmly kicked the ball to the upper left corner of the goal. French goalkeeper Cooper could only sigh at the ball despite his efforts to save.

Three minutes later, Pirlo sent another header, creating an opportunity for Tony to face the goalkeeper directly and almost locked the victory for Italy in advance. Unfortunately, Tony's goal was a little worse.

There is no doubt that Pirlo understood the loophole in the cooperation that existed after the French team changed its central defender partner, resolutely attacked the gap in the middle of France, and quickly laid the foundation for Italy's victory.

If it hadn't been for Tony's bad luck today, Italy could have scored at least two or three goals in the first half. Although Pirlo has not fully recovered to his peak, a "bad" Pirlo is enough to cheer Italy.

But Pirlo also had regrets in today's game. Before the end of the first half, the French team insisted on fighting back when Perota was injured, instead of kicking the ball out of the sideline. Pirlo, who returned to defense, took up for his teammates and shoveled Benzema from behind.

Although Pirlo's move shows the unity of Italy, Pirlo, who has already carried a yellow card, will miss the quarter-finals again because of this move and will miss the quarter-finals because of accumulating two yellow cards.

This is a very big blow to the Italians. As the Milan Sport said, Pirlo is the only irreplaceable person in Italy, and today's victory over France proves this again.

But Pirlo did not regret this. Speaking of the next game, Pirlo is very confident with his teammates: "We have many excellent players, such as De Rossi, Ambrosini, Montolivo and Perota, and I firmly believe that we can go further."

In the face of life and death, this time the Italian team was finally favored by the goddess of luck. Rather than the Italians, it was given by the French. In this game, the French team had too many problems. First, Ribérie was injured, and then Abidal gave another penalty to Italy and was sent off with a red card. Most of the time, they could only fight with ten people. All the Italians had to do was seize the opportunity and win.

Donadoni admitted after the game that Italy was lucky today. At the same time, he did not forget to thank his old friend Basten. The Netherlands beat Romania 2-0, which made Italy stay in the European Cup.

Italy's three group matches, 1 loss, 1 draw and 1 win, in terms of results, one step up, donadoni especially praised the players: "Today, for a long time, we have been 1110. The players are still a little nervous at the critical moment, but in general, their performance today is wonderful, and I am also satisfied with the score.

Before the Italian-French war, the Italian media were complaining about the team's bad luck. In the face of France, Italy finally failed. Donadoni also admitted that the team's luck today: "Italy's luck is not so bad. After a1-0 lead, we got a lot of opportunities. When De Rossi took a free kick, good Luck has finally come.

Italy was able to advance, and the Netherlands made great contributions. The second Dutch team defeated Romania 2-0. Donadoni naturally remembered to thank Basten: "Before the game, many people asked me if I had called Basten. This is ridiculous. I understand Basten's character. I have never doubted that the players from the Netherlands will I did my best in the last game.

However, while the Italian players are celebrating the victory crazily, there is one person who seems very frustrated. This person is Tony. Although the penalty he created has become a key to the Italian team's qualifying, personally, his performance with the French team is undoubtedly a failure.

Create a penalty but wasted a lot of opportunities. This is Tony.

If you can't score a goal, the responsibility is not entirely on Tony. His current situation on the court can be said to be isolated and helpless. On the front line, there is no other player to share the pressure for him except Tony.

When attacking, he repeatedly hit Tony. In addition to passing Tony, he also passed Tony. Imagine which team Italy will play against, and the other side will not send a few defenders to defend Tony?

No matter how strong Tony is, he only has two legs and one head. How can he shoot comfortably between his opponent's seven or eight thick thighs and three or four jumping heads?

But is Italy really embarrassed to the point where no one can use it?

Of course not!

For example, Pacini, who retained the hope of promotion for Italy in the second game, but unfortunately, after becoming a hero of the team, he was once again forgotten on the bench by Donadoni in this game.

Sit for 90 minutes and then celebrate the promotion with your teammates.

In this European Cup, Fiorentina is the team that has contributed the most players to the Italian team. Marjo, Antonini, Abat, Montolivo, Ledesma, Mota, Pacini, a total of seven players, accounting for almost one-third of the Italian team.

But at the end of the three games of the group stage, only Montolivo, Pachini and Mota, Montolivo and Pachini were reused, but Mota could only show a photo in garbage time when playing against the Netherlands, and only met once. The ball, and then you have to taste the bitter fruit of the defeat with your teammates.

Even Fiorentina's head coach Prandelli was very dissatisfied with this: "I don't understand why Mr. Donadoni brought my players to the European Cup just to make them spectators? My players are the best. Last season's Triple Crown can tell, but in Mr. Donadoni's eyes, they have become defective products.

Prandelli couldn't help complaining. Fiorentina's other players were selected for the national team. Frey was the main force in the first two games of the group, but only in the last life-and-death battle with Italy was replaced by Cooper.

Uifarusi is also the absolute core of the Czech team's defense. Although the Czech team was eliminated, his performance has been recognized by people.

Not to mention Compani, Belgium is the absolute main force, and no one can replace him.

Although Macena is a substitute, he also got a chance to play as a substitute in the game against Russia and played the main force in the game against Greece.

Modric is the absolute core in Croatia, starting all three group matches and scoring goals.

Mutu is also Romania's number one star.

But Donadoni turned a blind eye to the members of the Triple Crown, which is really a strange thing.

But in the end, the goddess of victory still favored the handsome men in Italy and allowed them to qualify in the group, while losing 02 to Italy, the French team after being out of the European Cup could only leave sadly.

Just after losing the game, French midfielder Macclelet immediately announced that he would withdraw from the national team. In addition, Thuram also expressed his desire to retire.

"This is my last time to play for the French team," Chelsea, 35 years old, told reporters that this year's match against Italy was his 71st appearance for France, and this number will stop updating in the future.

In his last game for the French team, as he did most of the time, he played the whole game and tried his best, but unfortunately failed to save the French team.

Macrelei is regarded as the best defensive midfielder in the world. He has strong running ability, covers a large area, fierce one-on-one defense but reasonable technology, and strong transmission control ability. He can launch an attack after stealing in the midfield, which can be regarded as a textbook for the back position.

However, when he was old, his physical fitness inevitably declined, and it became more and more difficult to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the back in the international arena, so he had no choice but to withdraw.

Unfortunately, he has represented the French team for many years, but has never won a major championship, which will become his lifelong regret.

After losing 0:2 to Italy in the European Cup, in response to questions from reporters, Makelele said, "I didn't get a trophy for France, but it's my greatest honor to be able to wear a blue jersey and play for France."

Shortly after Macclere announced his withdrawal, he played 142 games for the French team. Turam, who played the most international for the country, also said that this would be his last game for the French team.

Thuram can be described as a meritorious player of the French team. He once won the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Cup on behalf of France, which is a brilliant witness of the French team. His withdrawal is more sad than that of Makelele, and an era of the Gallic Legion has come to an end.

In fact, after the defeat of the French team, there may be more than two people who have withdrawn from the national team. Long before the start of the game, Henry expressed his intention to withdraw from the national team after the European Cup.

Maybe soon, Henry will follow in the footsteps of Macclere and Thuram, and the back Vieira and goalkeeper Cooper have also been designated by the French media as candidates to withdraw from the national team.

The retirement of many veterans is ultimately their disappointment with the team's performance, which can be said to have reached the point of frustration and the contradiction with the head coach.

In fact, not only players, but also most of the French media and fans believe that the French team's performance in three games without any highlights in the European Cup is completely due to Domenech's erratic tactics. Therefore, the players are also complaining that in the game with Italy, the main defender Tulam is not in the starting lineup. , internal sources from the French national team revealed that it was Thuram who took the initiative to propose to Domenek before the game. He, who was extremely disappointed with the performance of the French team, took the initiative to withdraw from the life-and-death battle on the grounds that his mind could not fully concentrate on the game.

The rear defense suddenly lost its main force, causing Abidal to play in a haste in the battle with Italy. What happened in the game proved Domenek's fatal move. You know, Abidal never played as a centre-back, in a new position, and facing the strong rival Italy, Abidal seemed to be unconfidence. The red card inevitably happens under this *.

The indisputable fact is that the French team does not have a stand-in for Thuram. Bumson is a traditional central defender, but Domenek turned a blind eye to it, thus paying a heavy price for being out.

Although the contract between Domenek and the French Football Association will not end until 2010, it is certain that with the humiliating end of the French team in this European Cup, the fate of Domenek's leaving is clear, and the French team, which has played countless championships in world football, will also set off In the new revolution, Maclele, Thuram, and even Henry will definitely leave the national team. Because of Domenek's low-level tactical mistakes, the golden generation of the Gallic Roosters bid farewell to international football with such an ending, which is unsourning.

The escape battle of the death group has ended, but it has also given people a very exciting game. People need to admire Basten's professionalism, not only because of 9 points and 9 goals, but also because he has found a way to revive Dutch football.

At the same time, we should also admire the perseverance of Donadoni and the Italian team, although they played unsatisfactoryly, and although they relied on Mutu's mistakes, the Romanian team's downturn was able to qualify. However, please note that most of the Italian team in history began to enter the form from the second stage of the game.

This game, which is defined as a life-and-death battle, can be said to have no competitive reference value. The only thing that can be defined is that the French team is far away from the world's top standards, and they need a new Zidane, a new concept.