Beast King Costa

Chapter 198 Is the script wrong?

When the Swedish team returned to the locker room with a 2-0 advantage in the first half, Diego was still praying silently in his heart: Don't go back to the script in the second half!

However, back in the second half of the game, the German team was still in a state of depression.

Even after Klinsmann came back from the intermission, he made a show of maneuvering and replaced Frings, who had a disastrous performance in the first half of the game, with Wolfsburg's No. 9 Hanke. Played with Miroslav Klose and Podolski in a three-forward formation.

Is this posture just to attack the Swedish team?
However, it is too late to start attacking the opponent after falling behind by 2 goals.
The progress of the second half of the game taught the "Golden Bomber" Klinsmann a profound lesson - how futile his late recovery seemed!

Such an approach of ignoring the head and ignoring the back made the German team's defense directly sound a red warning.

Since there is no midfield barrier, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson even need a simple two-for-one cooperation to easily penetrate the German team's defense directly. Facing the goalkeeper Lehmann calmly in the penalty area, he adjusted for two or three seconds before kicking to complete the goal.

The score can be maintained at 2 to 0 for the time being, not only because of the performance of the second goalkeeper of the German team, Lehmann, but also because of the Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. At the end, when he returned to the court, he seemed to have left his shooting boots in the locker room?

Since the start of the second half of the game, Ibrahimovic has at least 4 chances to score in front of the goal!

Ran goose ...

In these opportunities to directly face the goalkeeper, Ibrahimovic would either kick them away or send them directly into the goalkeeper's arms.

This drove Ibrahimovic mad.

Seeing that his shots failed to expand the score again and again, Big Ibrahimovic scratched his head: Is it because his shots are not handsome enough, so he can't score?

When the game came to the 70th minute, Klinsmann knew that he couldn't wait any longer - he had no choice but to fight to the death.

Just do it!

Klinsmann directly removed the useless full-back Friedrich and replaced Schalke 04's dual-national forward, "Buffalo" Gerald Asamoah!
Four strikers!
3-2-1-4 formation!

In the last 20 minutes, Klinsmann went all out!
Seeing Klinsmann's menacing approach, Lagerbeck on the other end hastily made certain personnel adjustments.

Veteran Henrik Larsson, 35, had done his job and was taken off to the applause of the fans, replaced by defensive midfielder Anders Svensson.

As a result, the Swedish team changed its formation to 4-5-1, leaving Ibrahimovic alone in the frontcourt to wait for counterattack opportunities, and without adding more manpower in the backcourt, they directly started a hand-to-hand encirclement and suppression with the German team in the midfield.

The Nordics may not be as skilled as the Germans, but the physical fitness of the Nordics ranks first in European football.

After the rhythm of the game entered the midfield hand-to-hand battle, the German wanted to advance the ball to the front court, and it became difficult.

The four forwards are in the frontcourt, and more often they become decorations.

In the midfield, Ballack, Schneider, Schweinsteiger, and even Lahm, who moved forward, worked together. It was difficult for the Swedish team to easily pass the ball to the strikers under the siege of the five midfielders.

In desperation, Klose and Podolski even returned to the midfield to cooperate to get the ball and distribute the ball. The frontcourt left Hank and Graal who had just changed into the field and had plenty of energy and impact. De Asamoah.

Such a desperate adjustment has indeed brought a goal for the German team.

In the 83rd minute, the Swedish team made a mistake in the middle of the siege. When Linderoth and Karlstrom were pressing for Ballack, the two directly collided with each other, which gave Ballack a chance to get rid of the defense easily.

Ballack kicked the ball cleanly and sent it directly to Hank in the frontcourt.

Hanke shot directly without stopping the ball, and finally got a life-saving goal for the German team!

1 is better than 2!

This allowed German fans to see the dawn of advancing to the quarterfinals!
There are more than 6 minutes of regular time left for Germany, plus injury time, there are still 10 minutes left.

In the last 10 minutes, if the score can be equalized and the game dragged to overtime, then the German team still has great hopes of advancing.

At this moment, the Swedish midfielders have clearly reached a bottleneck in their physical fitness, and many players have cramps. Even Zlatan Ibrahimovic has retreated to the midfield to assist in the defense. Totally gave up on both.

"Come on, German team!"

David Luiz looked particularly nervous, like a die-hard German fan.

However, the latter sentence directly exposed the reason why David Luiz cheered for the German team...

"Drag the game into overtime! I don't want to go back to the hotel to sleep so soon! I want to watch the ball for another half an hour! Come on, German team!"

"Well……"

Diego didn't know how to argue with David Luiz either.

What needs to be admitted is that after the 80th minute of the game, the German team has already played against the Swedish team, and the Swedish team's midfield has become more and more chaotic. Can the current score of 2 to 1 be reversed? To maintain it until the end, this really needs a big question mark.

so!Diego suddenly felt that the German team had a chance to equalize the score in less than 10 minutes.

However, the Nordics proved with their actions that fans all over the world underestimated their resilience.

Even though they are only a second-tier team in Europe, they also have the determination to covet the Hercules Cup, and they also have the courage to fight to the end with the world's powerful players on the single-plank bridge!

In the last 10 minutes or so, the scene can be described as "tragic".

In order to prevent the German team from equalizing the score, the Swedes worked hard to press and intercept, and even used their own flesh and blood to block the German team's crazy shots in front of the goal.

Central defender Lucic even tried to push Ballack's long-range shot out of the penalty area, but was hit in the head by Ballack's heavy artillery long-range shot, and went into shock on the spot.

Carl Svensson, who replaced Lucic, lost 3 fouls in just 4 minutes in order to prevent Klose from shooting. The referee Simon also decisively showed him a yellow card.

However, in Karl Svensson's view, if the German team can be prevented from equalizing the score, it is worth getting a red card!

In the end, after chasing the score to 1 to 2, the German team broke a record with 10 shots in 12 minutes, but still failed to equalize the score.

"Beep, beep, beep..."

When the referee Simon blew the whistle for the end of the game, almost all the Swedes on the field collapsed to the ground-the last 10 minutes were like years for them!

however!
Hard work pays off!
The Vikings upset and overturned the Germanic chariot!Got a ticket to the World Cup quarterfinals at the Allianz Arena!
This is the fruit of bravery, tenacity, and determination!

After being relieved, the Swedish players hugged each other excitedly, and some players even couldn't control the excitement in their hearts, and they were already in tears at this moment.

This process and the result of the match made Diego in the VIP stand quite moved.

Diego murmured softly: "You can never predict who will have the last laugh...Ah! This is the charm that football should have!"

(End of this chapter)