Chapter 242 Battle in Italy

The group easily qualified. Next, the first knockout opponent Belgium encountered was the second place in Group A. This is basically a branch. The Swiss team has played well in the recent World Series, but only in the group stage. Just like this time, they won two wins and one draw in the group stage, just because In order to win the ball, it ranked second.

But every time, after entering the knockout stage, the Swiss team will inexplicably have a low state. In the first knockout round of the Qatar World Cup two years ago, they lost to Honduras and lost to their opponents 0:3, an absolutely considerate little nurse.

This time, it hit Belgium in the first round of knockout, which is basically more and less auspicious. Although the Swiss team is not convinced and said that they will fight until the last minute, the question is, have you ever fought in human history?

Every time they fight hotly, you hide aside and pretend to be a permanently neutral country. You haven't even touched the gun for hundreds of years, and you still fight!

All media elites launched mocking magic skills, which made the Swiss team easily accumulate a little momentum and glide in an instant.

After the start of the game, the Belgian team did not disappoint the fans who supported them and established the lead early. In the tenth minute of the game, Degan received a side pass in the penalty area and headed the Swiss city gate.

After conceded the first goal, the Swiss team still wanted to struggle. Although the overall strength was not strong, the Swiss team's tactics were still very distinctive. Both counterattacks formed a shot, but unfortunately failed to score a goal.

After resisting the Swiss team's three-board axe, Belgium made a long shot outside the penalty area in the 27th minute of the game, expanding the score to 2:0!

The strength is properly crushing the opponent. At this moment, there are two balls in hand, and the suspense of the game is almost over, but the Swiss team is unwilling to catch it like this. After all, the game has only started for less than half an hour. If you raise your hand and surrender at this time, it will be too faceless.

However, when Degan took the ball** directly into the Swiss penalty area before the end of the first half of the game and won the single-handed goalkeeper, the Swiss team completely gave up.

"Hatrick, Degan completed another hat-trick. The Swiss team has no chance at all. If they are just two goals behind, they can still think of a way at halftime, but now, three goals behind, so far, there is no team against the team led by Degan. Wait, you can still move the score back when you fall behind three goals!"

After the half-time break, the Swiss team obviously intends to give up. Generally speaking, if there is still an idea at this time, it should be enough to suppress the attack, but the Swiss team is still in a defensive counterattack, and obviously has no idea about this game.

The Swiss team chose to give up, and the Belgian team did not beat the water dog. After all, it is not easy for everyone. They are all on the road. Can they not give some face?

In the 65th minute of the second half of the game, Degan was replaced. Recently, he has been fighting continuously, and his physical fitness has also had problems. Next, he has to face the host France. At this time, it is better to give Degan a full break.

After Degan left the field, the Swiss team still had no idea. The two sides played peace, and the Swiss fans left the field collectively after Degan left the field.

In the end, the game was fixed at 4:0, and the Belgian team easily advanced to the semi-finals. The opponents they will face are the host France, and the other semi-final match is Italy and Spain.

So many years have passed since Zidane retired, but there is still no tendency to rise. It is always tem. It is always lukewarm in every world competition, but it has never been able to achieve satisfactory results. In short, its strength is basically stuck between first-class and second-class.

At present, the captain of this French team is Varane, who plays for Real Madrid, and is also a veteran. This is probably the last time he represents the national team in international competitions.

In other positions, there are no players with outstanding strength, especially on the attack line. At the beginning, in the heyday of the French team, the team included the best scorers in the three major leagues of Ligue 1, Serie A and the Premier League, but now, the French team can't find a stable output point, which has to be said to be called the French football team. The sadness of the ball.

Although it is the host, Belgium, which has been in a hot state since the start of this European Cup, is definitely more or less auspicious.

However, French fans should be satisfied with reaching the semi-finals. After all, this is the best result of the French team in recent European Cups.

At the beginning of the game, the French team put on an iron barrel formation as soon as it came up, making it clear that they wanted to drag it to the penalty shootout. This promising style also caused a burst of boos from the fans on the scene. Isn't it that they want the team to advance to the final in this way, and can the defense really hold it?

I have to say that in the first half of the game, the French team's defense was really good, so that Degan did not get a few opportunities. Every time, as long as Degan took the ball, he would be immediately surrounded by the swarming French players, and when defending Degan, there were almost all kinds of means, endlessly. Extremely.

If another country holds the European Cup, at least two of the French team will be sent off with red cards at the end of the first half, but as the host, the referee will naturally have to take care of it. However, at the end of the first half, four French players also have yellow cards and rise up. It was obtained because of a foul on Degan.

At the end of the first half of the game, when the referee left the court, Antienis couldn't help walking over and protesting loudly. What can the referee say about this? The home advantage is a very mysterious thing.

However, if the home advantage is really endless, the referee will not be able to stand it. In the 63rd minute of the second half, the French defender once again put down Degan who broke through with the ball from behind. This time, the referee was not soft and directly put a red card on the perpetrator's face.

The French fans at the scene suddenly booed. Their team played ugly, but no matter how they didn't like it, they were also their own children. How could it be disciplined by others?

And the football match is the final victory. Now it's good. It's already weak. Now there is one less person on the court. How can we play this game?

No one paid attention to how dissatisfied the Frenchman was. After Degan got up, he took a free kick, which immediately made the Frenchman's goal miss a hole.

One person was missing on the court, which was enough to embarrass the French team. As a result, the purpose of the foul was not achieved, and Digan scored a goal, which was even more difficult.

The score is leading, and Belgium's next game will be much easier. Don't the French like defense? Then let them show well enough, and I will fall in the midfield to see if you can't come out.

The French can't do anything about it now. They can't die so chronically!

Attack!

But when it comes to attack, it's really not what the French team is good at now. If it hadn't been for the game with Serbia and inexplicably played a big score of 5:0, they could have crashed into Belgium's arms and received the comfort of love in the first round of knockout.

The match with England still won with a penalty kick, 1-0, and the match with Switzerland was 0-0. In the first round of knockout match, against Germany, the two sides won the winner through a penalty shootout. Now facing Belgium, which is obviously stronger than the previous opponents, they are completely After all, he can only play the ball on the sidelines to let the striker compete for the top, or simply threaten Belgium's goal through the personal performance of several players in the midfield.

The midfielder of the French team is still very creative, but the midfielder can't save his life!

In the 78th minute of the second half, Belgium scored another goal. This time it was Lukaku Jr., who received a cross pass from Degan in the penalty area and pushed the ball into the empty goal.

Although the French team scored a goal with a controversial penalty opportunity in the 88th minute, it did nothing. In the end, Belgium defeated the host France 2:1 and advanced to the final.

In another semi-final, after 90 minutes of fierce battle between Italy and Spain, the two sides became 2:2. Just at the beginning of overtime, a cooperation between the Maldini brothers, brother Christian. Maldini assisted to the front of the penalty area and received his brother Daniel. Maldini's pass won the ball in the far corner of the goal.

With this goal, Italy defeated Spain 3-2 and successfully advanced to the final. If they can beat Belgium in the final, they will become the third team to win the World Cup and the European Cup in a row after France and Belgium.

The final against Italy, the final opponent of the 2012 European Cup met again. This is the third time that Italy and Belgium have met in the final of the world competition.

In the previous two confrontations, Italy and Belgium won one game each. Italy won the 2006 World Cup, and Belgium won the 2012 European Cup.

The two teams have also played several times in the years when they withdrew from the national team in Degan. The latest was the 2022 Qatar World Cup. At that time, the two teams met in the semi-finals. Belgium, without Degan, was finally defeated by Italy and missed the final. This meeting was also a revenge battle.

In terms of strength analysis, the two teams are comparable. If it is not Degan, Italy will obviously have the upper hand, but because of Degan, Belgium has also won back a city in its overall hard power.

Italian football has also made significant progress after years of development, especially in the past few years, especially German football has been extremely popular in the world, which has also given a lot of stimulation to conservative Italian football. After reform, they have also achieved remarkable results.

At present, most of the Italian national team are young players, and the oldest one is Degan's teammate Decilio in Florence.

After the start of the game, neither side was conservative. As soon as it came up, the Italian team has obviously changed a lot. Although the defense is still stable, their offensive ability and way are obviously much stronger than before, and their attitude is much more positive.

In the 28th minute of the game, after the Italian team cut off the ball in the backcourt, they fought back. If it had been before, it must have been a big foot on the front field, allowing the two sideline players to compete with each other, but now Italian football is obviously much more delicate.

After repeated transmission of football, it came to Daniel. At Maldini's feet, after taking the ball, he made a momentum to break through. After cheating the Belgian defender, he suddenly passed the ball to the right side, where his brother Christian. Maldini is already running.

Just now, the Belgian formation was a little forward, if the ball was hit by Christian. Maldini received the words, he only needed one pass to let the Italian striker find a chance to shoot.

It's in Christian. The moment Maldini was about to receive the ball, Degan suddenly rushed over, stopped the ball halfway, then turned around and rushed to the half of Italy along the side road.

Even the commentators on the commentary table were shocked by this scene. Degan was still in the front court just now, but in a blink of an eye, he returned to the defense and broke the Italian team's pass.

At this speed, who can say that he is an old man!

Digan's speed is so fast, the frequency under his feet is also dazzling, and those wonderful moves make people can't help but be amazing.

"Digan's speed is really too fast, Christian. Although Maldini tried his best to catch him back, the distance between him and Degan was still getting farther and farther, and the other players of the Italian team could not stop Degan from moving forward. Opportunity! Belgian team's opportunity, Degan has taken the ball into the penalty area, tackle! Degan picked the ball and dodged it. Beautiful! Now he faces the goalkeeper directly! Shoot!"

Digan shot. Although the Italian team's goalkeeper reacted very quickly and his center of gravity was down, he wanted to block Degan's shot with his legs, but Degan's shot was really too powerful.

The football drilled directly between the legs of the Italian goalkeeper!

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!"

After scoring the goal, Degan opened his arms and rushed to the sidelines, where Park Ji-yeon and the children were hugging each other tightly and cheering for Degan's goal.