Chapter 576 Simple Revenge 1

Aren's strange 'praise' and 'criticism' from the media, the whole England team began to prepare to take over the quarterfinals, this time against Portugal.

Portugal just beat the Netherlands 1-0, eliminating its opponents and making it to the quarter-finals. The media praised this Portugal for being able to catch up with the 'golden generation' led by Figo in 1996.

Under the influence of geographical location, historical and political factors, Portugal and Spain have very similar football styles. In addition, because Brazil in South America was once a Portuguese colony, there is an inextricable connection between Portuguese football and Brazilian football: the current national team coach Scola Both the core of the midfielder are from Brazil, and the Portuguese national team is also known as the "European Brazilian team" because of its delicate technical style.

Under the leadership of the most famous star "Black Panther" Eusebio in Portuguese football history, Portugal won the third place in the 1966 England World Cup, which is also the highest honor for the country's football - although in 1996 with Figo and Rui. The golden generation led by Costa is infinite, but Portugal still fails to stand on the shoulders of its predecessors and make a breakthrough. According to Portuguese media, Portugal's goal in this World Cup is also the top four, but only one of England and Portugal can enter the top four, which is a real and cruel reality.

However, the current Portuguese team can't be underestimated. Eriksson also did a lot of work before the game. Understanding the opponent is the most important link. Only by understanding the opponent can he make arrangements for the game.

Since the taking office of champion coach Scolari, Portugal has been using single striker tactics, and ironically, the Portuguese national team has the most scarce center line resources.

Before the game, there were many media analyzing the selection of Portuguese strikers.

Pauletta can be described as the "eways green tree" of the Portuguese national team. He has been "occupying" the starting position of the front line for a long time, but he can't copy his brave performance in the club to the national team, which is a difficult task. Although Gomez has been recognized by everyone with his amazing performance in Euro 2000. However, his performance is always unstable. No one knows whether the handsome young man is in good or bad condition in the 2006 World Cup. As for the young Postega, who has lived a life of success in advance, it is still unknown whether he can appear on the stage in Germany.

Media analysis naturally comes from its source. In fact, this is similar to Portugal's performance in the World Cup group stage and the last 16. Although Gomez scored a goal in the group stage, Portugal's victory over their opponents mostly relies on strong midfield ability, Deco, Manicce, Figo, C. Ronaldo, a gorgeous midfield combination, makes it extremely difficult for the opponent to gain an advantage in the midfield space, which is the magic weapon of Portugal's victory.

In Scolari's single forward tactics, perhaps the center position only plays a tactical role.

Now Portugal has two major concerns. One is Figo, the representative of the 'Golden Generation'. As the saying goes, a team seems to have a treasure. The veteran's experience can indeed help young players grow up as soon as possible, but this seems to be more applicable to the long league, such as the World Cup, which is a great test of the veteran's physical fitness and state.

Therefore, although Figo tells the world that "although Lian Po is old, he can still eat" with the righteousness of returning to the national team, the natural law of years is very likely to make his original intention to hope to be old and stronger has come to nothing.

Many people pay attention to Figo's performance. On the World Cup stage, Figo touched the hearts of many fans. In the previous games, Figo's performance was not as good as ever, but occasionally wonderful works also brought a lot of help to Portugal's victory.

And Portugal's tomorrow superstar is nothing more than C. Ronaldo, no matter from which aspect, C. Ronaldo is recognized as the superstar of tomorrow.

He is the most important pawn in Scolari's offensive system.

C. Ronaldo's dribbling, poor passing and impatient temper are his obvious hard injuries, but his gorgeous personal skills even make many Portuguese fans compare him with Don Jack. Although there is a gap in performance, it can also be seen that C. Ronaldo's personal skills are gorgeous, and media analysis believes that C. Ronaldo's performance is enough to be linked to Portugal's final World Cup results.

In this game, his direct meeting with Don Jack is also what the fans are most looking forward to.

However, for England, Portugal's opponent is indeed a soft persimmon. Without Don Jack's England, it is a headache to meet Portugal, a team similar to the South American style but full of stars, but with Don Jack, the opponent will become weak.

It is true that many fans take C. Ronaldo and Don Jack made a comparison, but what was the result of the comparison?

Don Jack won with an absolute advantage!

Especially in the World Cup, C. When Ronaldo was constantly defended by his opponent, his performance was only far-fetched, while Don Jack scored ten goals by himself. The performance of the two is not to mention comparable, even if it is already C. Ronaldo has a great honor.

C. Ronaldo is the future superstar, but Don Jack is already a superstar!

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While England is preparing for the next game, the World Cup top eight has been fully released. Unsurprisingly, the host Germany beat Sweden by two goals, and Argentina also beat Munich. These two teams were evaluated as likely to become dark horses in the early stage. However, it is a dark horse to break through until now, and their road to the World Cup has come to an end.

In addition, the Italian team led by 'Silver Fox' Lippi beat Australia 1-0; the powerful Brazil from South America defeated Ghana with three goals and entered the quarterfinals; Spain unexpectedly lost to the 'old' French team, which is also the most concerned focus of the World Cup's top 16 battle. .

The only game in the top 16 knockout match that can be called unpopular was produced in Switzerland and Ukraine. Compared with the two teams, Switzerland is naturally stronger than Ukraine, but since it is unpopular, it is the Ukrainian team that entered the quarterfinals for the first time in the World Cup.

In the 90-minute game, Sweden, which hit three goals from Ukraine, did not even have a chance to equalize in the end.

This one-person team of Shevchenko directly reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup for the first time, setting a World Cup record - the best result for the team that participated for the first time!

However, in the view of the England team, these news is irrelevant. They are concerned about the next opponent, Portugal. Although England is not afraid of Portugal as a whole, from the perspective of strength, the probability of England winning is the same, but this is just an analysis. In fact, England What I care about up and down is history.

In the European Cup two years ago, England was eliminated by Portugal with a penalty...

On the official website of the German newspaper Kicker, the war between England and Portugal is called a 'fateful duel'. There will always be endless topics between England and Portugal, whether it is history or now.

As early as 40 years ago, at the London World Cup in 1966, England reached the final on Portugal's shoulders and won the only World Cup championship in England's history in one fell swoop. This semi-final match was regarded as the team's humiliating history by the Portuguese.

In Portuguese football, the player who enjoys the highest honor is Eusebius, who is known as the "Black Pearl". In the hearts of the Portuguese, Eusebius is like the status of Maradona in the hearts of Argentines. Like Maradona, Eusibio has always inspired his national team to move forward bravely.

In the 1966 World Cup semi-finals, England defeated Portugal 2-1 to reach the final and finally won the championship.

Although this was a great shame for the Portuguese, Eusibio was still the most dazzling star in that World Cup. He was the best scorer in that World Cup and scored nine goals alone. In Portugal's 5-3 victory over North Korea, he scored four goals alone.

Soon after, Madame Tussauds in London also quickly made a wax statue for it.

degree. Ironically, this is the first World Cup final for most of our golden generation players.

Now that Eusibio is old, all he can do is cheer for his team in the stands.

In the group stage, the 64-year-old Yusibio shed tears excitedly after watching Portugal's 2-0 victory over Iran. He said, "I have a strong hunch that Portugal can do better than what we achieved in 1966. This is not a boast at all. I can fully feel the self-confidence shown by the team. I am optimistic about them reaching the finals.

In an interview with the Kicker, Eusibio hoped that the Brazilian team in Europe (Portugal) could achieve unprecedented success and reach the highest podium.

The first thing for Portugal to do is to beat England at Gelsenkirxing this Saturday.

Compared with Portugal's momentum, if you want to defeat England, which has completed the 'shame' revenge of 40 years ago, England wants to win more.

In the European Cup two years ago, the pain that Portugal brought to England was deeply imprinted in the hearts of all England players. That game was the pain for England to watch the players. Portugal's pain is still 40 years ago. For today's Portuguese players, the pain is not obvious. Most of them are brought to them by their predecessors. However, most of the players in England have experienced the game two years ago, which is relatively more painful than that of natural England.

But in fact, that's also for other English players.

Recall that two years ago, Don Jack was busy thinking about his transfer to the Premier League. The European Cup had nothing to do with him. Two seasons passed and he came to England. His first hope was to get the Hercules Cup and show his strength to everyone.

Those are his pursuits.

As for the honor of the England team, it has nothing to do with him. He is a Chinese, and his body also has the blood of the dragon. He is a descendant of Yan and Huang. Playing football in England is just his profession. In a nutshell, he can get more honor and more salary here. This is very Reality, but it is the pursuit of normal people.

As for the next opponent, Portugal, he feels very light.

The Portuguese team is very strange to him. If you are familiar with him, he only knows one C. Ronaldo, they are still opponents of the Premier League.

It is also because of the good relationship in private that Jack Don knows C. Ronaldo is not bad to be a friend, but for his own dream, he is a very cunning person, especially on the court, when he sees C. Ronaldo pretends to fall and do small movements, which are very normal things.

such an opponent...

"Be careful, don't let him have a chance, and we can win!" Don Jack is worried that Portugal is not an opponent, C. Ronaldo will do some small moves, such as asking the referee to send a penalty, so he reminds his teammates to be careful, especially try not to argue with the Portuguese players.

Anyway, you can definitely win the game normally, so there is no need to care about what the opponent does.

It's not that Don Jack is too careful. After all, the game depends on the referee to decide the winner. Although the football field is very fair, many referees can't make a conclusion, so as long as there is no argument with the other party and no physical conflict, then there is no accident. England can win normally, and victory is the most important. Yes!

C. Ronaldo's personal behavior and style... really can't be careless.

However, Don Jack thinks that the other party will definitely target him, because his performance is so good that many teams and players will not have self-confidence. Portugal has no hope of victory and will definitely consider letting himself go down.

As for how to end, it's probably to provoke yourself to do some small actions.

Don Jack considered these things clearly before the game. He thought that he should break out at the beginning. Only after quickly determining the score advantage, all the small moves are useless. If he leads Portugal 10 to 0, even if England is sent off two or three players, the victory will still belong to England.

Of course, more will not work. I'm afraid this game will be rematched.