Chapter 61 Uncover the Mystery

The final battle of the death group only existed in the theoretical Dutch team, and finally failed to create miracles. After the 90-minute game, Portuguese coach Bento summarized the Dutch-Portuguese war with the words "context and reasonable".

"Considering the self-confidence shown by our players on the court and the pressure they have faced in recent times, the 2:1 result makes the opponent speechless and very fair."

In this game, the Netherlands took the lead in scoring, but in the end Portugal made a perfect response under the backward situation.

After successfully breaking out of the death group, Bento was not happy and didn't forget to tell his players and fans that they should not be complacent about being out of the death group: "Belgium with Degan is the most horrible team in the world. In the last confrontation between the two teams, we left a very painful memory. If we want to defeat them, we must concentrate and get the best.

The last time Belgium and Portugal played against each other was in the 2008 European Cup qualifiers. At that time, Belgium finally defeated Portugal away from home, which directly led Portugal's absence from the European Cup four years ago.

Although the next step is Belgium, which ranks first in Group A, the Portuguese team does not seem to have a good chance of breaking through, but at this time, let them celebrate the group's qualifying first.

For Dutch fans, this European Cup left only painful memories. After the announcement of the starting lineup before the game, the fans were happy and worried. What is that Van Malvik finally took down his son-in-law Van Bomel. Worry is that the Orange Army sacrificed 4132 adventure formations and removed Fan Bo Mel changed to the offensive front midfielder Van der Fat at the same time, so that there was a big problem with the balance of the whole lineup.

At the World Cup in South Africa two years ago, Van Bomel's excellent performance in the back position was the key to the tulips blooming to the final.

Van Malvik gathered talents and did not avoid his relatives, and his son-in-law became the hub of the Dutch offensive and defensive transformation, making the three lines of the team closely connected.

Two years later, the situation has changed a lot. Van Malvik still trusts his son-in-law, but the 35-year-old Van Bomel is quite old.

The former midfielder of Barcelona, Bayern and AC Milan was already a little powerless last season, so he chose to return to Eindhoven next season. He knows very well that the peak of his career is no longer there.

In this case, Van Malvik still trusts Van Bommel, which is nepotism. In particular, the defense problem of this Dutch team has been relatively serious. After the retirement of veteran left-back Van Bronsk and the injury of Pedes, Van Malvik had no choice but to use the 17-year-old young player William, who was inexperienced. S, while central defender Mattison was in poor condition due to injury, De Jong lost his main position in Manchester City, and Kuite's state declined seriously. The team needed a better back to make up for the decline in overall defensive ability.

Van Bomel continued to serve as the backer and continue to serve as the team's offensive and defensive hub. The team's game rhythm was not only slowed down, but also full of loopholes in defense. Therefore, after the two group matches, the most criticized by the Dutch domestic media was captain Van Bomel, and the other was to insist on using his Van Malvik.

The success of the World Cup in South Africa cannot hide Van Malvik's incompetence in this European Cup. There are many controversies about Van Bomel, full-back Williams, and the use of Huntelaar and Van Persie. Today, in the key life-and-death battle with Portugal, the adventurous attack formation regardless of defense and the final replacement of Afele seem to be a manifestation of suicide after the end of the road.

In the case of losing both group matches, the Netherlands does have to win the game against Portugal and get more than two goal difference in order to qualify in the group.

But it needs to attack and is equivalent to giving up defense, especially the fact that five offensive players are sent to the starting lineup is very rare, which means that the Netherlands only relies on De Jong and four defenders to defend, and it is also a problematic and unreliable back line.

When the score was tied at 1:1 and the Netherlands only had a chance to score two more goals, Van Malvik needed to adjust the attack line, but his adjustment was a little too risky. The winger Afele replaced Williams, using three defenders and a defensive lineup with a midfielder, and two side portals were opened. No one is watching. You should know that the most dangerous thing in Portugal is the two wingers, Kimuro and Nani.

Only four minutes after Van Malvik's substitution, Portugal launched a counterattack. Kim Mauro's unmarked entry into the penalty area on the left side. His pass helped Nani, who was also unguarded on the right, get a chance to face the goalkeeper directly in the small penalty area.

Unfortunately, the Manchester United winger's goal was saved by Dutch goalkeeper Stgremberg. The Netherlands escaped the disaster. Three minutes later, almost the same defensive problem appeared. Portugal launched a counterattack again. This time, Golden Maello also advanced at high speed on the left side. It was not until he met the defensive player in the penalty area, in an easy dunk. After Vanderville, he shot hard in the lower left corner of the goal, 2:1!

This goal completely declared the Netherlands' death sentence.

Although the Netherlands did need to suppress the attack at the last moment, it was obvious that Van Malvik's choice to give up the side defense was too radical, causing the Orange Army to be stabbed to death by Golden Retriever immediately.

If you adjust the offensive player, or even replace De Jong to keep the two side defenses, it may not make the game lose suspense immediately after Van Malvik's substitution, and the Orange Army may still have a chance to create miracles.

Of course, everything can only be if.

Van Malvik once made the Orange Legion so close to the world champion, but who would have thought that he had the Orange Legion suffered the most painful defeat in history. In this ups and downs, it may be just a trick of fate, and there is no need to deliberately investigate who is the sinner.

Another game was played at the same time. Before the start of the game, the Danish media praised the game as another proof 20 years later.

Twenty years ago, it was the Danes who defeated Germany and won the coldest European Cup in history. Twenty years ago, their hopes were placed on Nelson's team. Twenty years later, for Denmark, it was no less important to qualify from the group with Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal.

In the face of the powerful German chariot, the first thing the Danish had to do was to defend and lose to Portugal. The first was the central defender combination. Although Agel and Keyar made many fatal tackles, they still did not block the goal.

However, when facing the Germans, the Danish team still has the same defensive lineup as Portugal. After all, although the combination of Ag and Kyaar turns slowly, it has always been an indispensable partner of the Danes.

In the game, the Danes did their best. They also scored a goal in the game, but the Germans finally laughed. After defeating Denmark 2:1, the German national team won three consecutive victories in the group stage. In the group of death, the German chariot showed amazing strength. However, what is more frightening is that their starting lineup set the youngest record in German history to play in the European Cup, only 25 years old.

In fact, in the first two games of this European Cup, the German starting lineup was very young, and today's match against Denmark, 1988-born right-back Boateng was suspended with a yellow card, replacing him with Lars born in 1989. Bender, which reduced the average start of the German national team by another gear.

At present, 29-year-old Ram, 27-year-old Schweinsteg and Podolski can be said to be absolute veterans, and Podolski completed his 100th appearance of the national team at the age of 27.

It should be said that the current age structure of the German national team is very reasonable. Although the average age of starting is the youngest of the 16 teams in the European Cup, this does not mean that the German national team lacks experience. Ram, Schweinstein and Podolski are all experienced veterans. Since the 2006 World Cup, it has been the absolute main force of the national team, and among the younger generation, Neuer, Gomez, Ozil, Khedira and others have also participated in the competition and have rich experience in the competition.

At the pre-match press conference, German captain Ram said: "At present, the overall strength of the German team is very strong and the bench is very deep."

Indeed, not only is the starting lineup young enough, but if you pay attention to the substitute lineup of the German team, you will also find that it is also super young.

Gerze, Hüller, Cross and others on the bench are all post-90s, also talented, young and promising.

The 20-year-old Götze has been the core player of the Dortmund team and helped the team win the Bundesliga for two consecutive years, becoming the hottest star in European football. Even so, it is difficult for him to find a starting position in the German national team.

22-year-old Tony. Cross is also an indispensable midfielder in Bayern Munich, but he also needs to start as a substitute in the national team, including the soaring "Rocket" Royce this season, and of course Hüller, who are all rare talented players and can't play the main force, entirely because the German team is too strong. .

If you look at Europe, I'm afraid that only Belgium and Spain can match the German team, but the overall age structure of the Matador Legion is obviously older than that of the German team. Harvey, Alonso, Abeloa, Casillas and others are already about 30, and Torres, Iniesta and others are no longer old. Light.

Belgium is also very young, but suffers from severe Degan dependence, which is not difficult to see from the three games in the group stage.

The current German team is more perfect, super young and skilled, and has super strength overall strength. Judging from the reserve of young players, the German team seems to be better than Spain and Belgium.

Of course, all the youngness of the German national team is inseparable from the team's policy for nearly ten years. After Klinsmann took office, the German national team gave up many veterans and decided to take a younger route. It was also under this policy that Ram, Schweinstein and Podolski also got it. There are enough opportunities. At present, they have become the backbone of the team, and after Lough took office, this fine tradition has been well continued, and more young people appeared in the starting lineup of the German national team.

It is foreseeable that Boaten, Bender, Cross, Götze and others will shoulder the burden of the national team in the future like Ram, which obviously forms a virtuous circle. Therefore, the future of the German team is more promising. This group of players may dominate the world football in the next decade.

When the European Cup group draw was announced, Group B was the much-anticipated group of death. Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Denmark were the strongest "group of death" on paper. Now, the final answer of this group has been revealed. Germany and Portugal are qualified and Holland is out, which is both reasonable and unexpected.

The most surprising thing is the withering of tulips, which are among the three favorites to win the championship before the European Cup. The Netherlands is the top team of the pyramid tied with Spain and Germany, but after three rounds, the Orange Army was out at the bottom of the group with a complete defeat.

The whole group battle in the Netherlands was destroyed in the first game. In the face of Denmark, which is the weakest in the group, a ball was stolen by the opponent when the whole team had an absolute advantage. Is this careless or bad luck?

This goal directly affected the overall situation. It was not an accident to lose to Germany. The key is that in the last round against Portugal, the Netherlands did not hold three points as expected. Van Malvik could only give up the balance of attack and defense. As a result, the single waist and the three-backs at the last moment killed himself. It can be said that the Dutch one step difference in this European Cup led to the next step difference. After the fall at the beginning, it has been desperately looking for compensation, but it has always been a breather.

Denmark is recognized as the weakest team in this group. It won the Netherlands in the first game, but it also stopped. For the Vikings, the biggest regret is the goal that Portugal lost at the last moment. If the 2:2 score is held to the end, the Danes' confidence and probability of qualifying in the last round will be significantly different.

Portugal may have been favored by God. The tone of the group stage was "lose first and then cheap". It lost to Germany in the first game, but in theory, the Netherlands, the direct competitor of the qualifying quota, did not win either. Denmark was 2-0 ahead and scored two goals in a row, but at the last moment, it was defeated again ** and lost a goal against the Netherlands and was sent to hanged. Cliff, in the end, surpassed the two laughs to the end.

As the absolute core player of the Portuguese team, Kim Mauro was also the first to suppress and then promoted. He was scolded for losing a single knife to Denmark, and turned his head and hit the Netherlands two times in a row.

The most impressive is the German team, which won the first time in the history of the team's European Cup. In the three games, Germany did not show panic for a moment. Portugal suffocated in the first game and the Netherlands won the second game. Stability is like a precision. A running machine.