Beast King Costa

Chapter 220 Who Can Enter the Finals

"Caesar! It's almost time, hurry up and stop today's training content!"

After scoring a header over two virtual Portuguese super-class defenders, Diego urged Caesar, who was sighing over red wine and barbecue.

Diego has entered the offseason, and it feels like Caesar has also entered the offseason. Every night during the training time, the "Liar King" is drinking wine and eating delicious barbecue, and then all kinds of dissatisfied Nag about what Diego didn't do well in practice.

"Okay, okay! That's all for today's training session."

With a big wave of Caesar's hand, all the virtual characters on the Real ball king field disappeared.

Diego hurried to the sidelines: "Quick, quick! Let the big virtual TV show up, I guess it's time for players from both sides to enter the field."

"Why are you in a hurry, it's not you who played the game."

After Caesar unhurriedly prepared a bunch of fresh orange juice for Diego, he waved his hand and transformed the virtual TV onto the Real Ball King Stadium.

"Look, look! It hasn't even started yet, and players from both sides are in the return channel."

"Wow! It's almost time to start! Great!"

Diego was so excited. After all, in tonight's World Cup semi-final, Ibrahimovic will fight a nuclear warhead. This can be described as Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong!Absolutely wonderful!

Diego excitedly asked Caesar about his views on the game: "Caesar, do you think Sweden can win? Or Ukraine?"

"This is..."

Caesar let out a "huh" and thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "It's really hard to say, I can only say that both have a chance! Oh... Let me tell the truth-the two teams can play against each other. At this stage, it all depends on luck. In terms of strength, the gap between the two sides is really not big, and neither is generally weak."

"cut!"

Diego was dissatisfied: "The strength is not generally weak, and they can still play to this stage? Ukraine is okay to say, after all, they played against Switzerland and Australia in the knockout round. But the Swedish team is amazing! They defeated the hosts Germany, And won the Argentine team to advance to the semi-finals, this gold content can be described as leverage."

"How can there be any gold content? In the final analysis, it is because Germany and Argentina are too contemptuous of their opponents..."

Kaiser still maintains the attitude of "washing the ground" for Germany and Argentina: "Germany and Argentina are the strength that the top four teams should have. If they can face up to the strength of the Swedish team's striker and consolidate their defense, then the Swedish team There's no way we're going to be in the Final Four."

Having said this, Caesar finally objectively recognized the Swedish team's striker strength.

"Well, Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson's striker partner is indeed quite good. This striker combination can be regarded as first-class in Europe. If you want to reach the top level, That would have to be Henrik Larsson ten years younger."

Looking at the screen, Ibrahimovic led his teammates into the field, and Diego was shocked: "Today is still Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson. !"

"...The Swedish team doesn't have any other strikers that can be used besides this pair of strikers, right?"

"Uh... that's true."

In fact, neither the Swedish team nor the Ukrainian team have any backup players on the bench. Backcourt, those are very ordinary players, most of them can't even touch the threshold of the five major leagues.

"Beep..."

After completing the tedious opening ceremony, with the whistle of the referee Archadio, the game officially began!
The attendance rate of the Westfalenstadion is not high tonight. The Westfalenstadion, which can accommodate 65000 spectators, is only half full tonight.

Obviously, the vast majority of fans are more interested in tomorrow's focus match between Spain and England. They are really not too interested in the match between Sweden and Ukraine, two second-tier European teams.

Of course, there were quite a few fans of the home team who came to the scene for this game.

After learning that their home team had entered the semi-finals of the World Cup, the Swedes and Ukrainians went all the way from home to Germany to support their home team in the semi-finals.

This makes the scalpers happy-and they are worried that because the finals of the upper half are Sweden and Ukraine, the tickets hoarded in their hands will not be sold. The fans helped them digest most of the tickets on hand, which can at least ensure that this wave of ticket hoarding will not lose money.

Amidst the cheers of the fans on both sides, the two teams played unconservatively at the beginning.

The Swedish team has a stronger striker combination, so they will play more proactively.

In this game, the Swedish coach Lagerbeck still kept the 4-4-2 formation unchanged, and the starting lineup was still exactly the same in the two games in the knockout stage.

Lagerback doesn't have any players on hand to rotate. Except for a few defensive players on the Swedish bench, they are fairly strong, and there is really no one on the offensive end.

As for the Ukrainian team, it is a 3-5-2 formation.

Of course, it may also be a 5-3-2 formation. This needs to be further judged as the game progresses.

However, judging from the first 10 minutes after the opening, the two Ukrainian full-backs were very high, and even once overwhelmed the midfielder and participated in the frontcourt attack. This is more like a 3-5-2 Configuration.

After all, the Swedish team does not have any killer moves on the wing. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson are more concentrated in the middle to play double cooperation. The Ukrainian team only needs to guard the middle. You can let go of your hands and feet, let the full-back directly press the position of the full-back, and participate more in the control of the midfield, and even the offense in the frontcourt.

With such an unconservative attitude from both sides, the two sides created 15 shot opportunities in just 7 minutes of the opening!

For the Swedish team, Zlatan Ibrahimovic even made a stunning barb in the penalty area in the 9th minute!

It's just that Ukrainian goalkeeper Shevkovsky blocked the blind spot, which prevented Ibrahimovic's overhead kick from succeeding - if the goal had been scored, Ibrahimovic would have There is a good chance to chase this year's Puskas Award.

It can be said that from the beginning to the present, the goalkeepers of both sides are the busiest people on the field.

In order to block Shevchenko's shot, the Swedish goalkeeper Ixarsen was even stepped on the face by shadow forward Voronin who was almost followed up.

This scene made the Westfalenstadion fans exclaim.

Fortunately, Voronin stopped his foot in time, thus avoiding a serious injury accident, but the two bloodstains on Ixason's face were enough to show the intensity of the match.

"call……"

When Ixason was receiving hemostasis treatment, Diego had time to chat with Caesar next to him—the pace of the game was so fast, Diego had been watching the game while holding his breath. I have no spare time to chat with Caesar.

"This game is really intense!"

Diego said with emotion on his face: "In the first 15 minutes, the frequency of offensive and defensive transitions between the two sides was too fast. One side could not attack, and the other side immediately set off a counterattack. This is a crazy attitude. Zlatan Ibrahimovic He and Shevchenko both created excellent chances to score goals, but unfortunately, the goalkeepers of both sides are in good condition today, otherwise the score would have been 1-1 or even 2-1."

"It's true that this competition is fierce, but the gold content is too low..."

Caesar shook his head helplessly and said, "If two strong teams meet in the semi-finals of the World Cup, they will definitely not play in the same way as Sweden and Ukraine."

"Uh……"

Diego asked suspiciously: "Then how should we play?"

"You should control the rhythm, stand on defense, and seek a fatal blow!"

Caesar explained to Diego very seriously; "Being able to enter the semi-finals means that it is one step away from the final and very close to winning the Hercules Cup. Then you have to play more cautiously. I think To get a ticket to the final, one should calm down and control the scene and rhythm—whoever can control the midfield will have a high probability of getting a place in the final.”

"Do you control the midfield?"

Well, Diego needs to admit that the attitudes of the Swedish and Ukrainian teams in this game are both eager to get the first goal of the game, and then take back the attitude of playing defensive counterattacks. The game is almost 20 now. Minutes to go, the participation of the midfielders of both sides in the game can be described as pitifully low.

The Swedish team is okay here. Ljungberg is responsible for the transition work in the midfield, constantly sending diagonal passes to Ibrahimovic.

On the Ukrainian side, it was Shevchenko who kicked the ball from the backcourt to find Shevchenko in the frontcourt. The midfielder followed the ball completely, and so far he hasn't touched the ball much.

This kind of open and close play did not make the first goal of the game born very early.

When the game came to the 25th minute, the players on both sides were obviously a little bit tight physically because of this wide-ranging style of play.

The rhythm of the game is also like riding a roller coaster, sliding down the slope directly.

However, the score was still 0-0 at this time.

It can be seen from this that the two sides have fought one after another since the beginning of the game, and apart from seriously depleting their respective physical fitness, they have not brought any gains.

"Look, the head coaches of both sides have already agreed that the way of playing from the beginning to the present is a serious stupid move, and now they have begun to let their respective players adjust their rhythm."

Caesar pouted towards the screen, and at this moment, the director happened to show the respective screens of the two head coaches.

The two head coaches were already standing on the sidelines, their brows were locked together.

Obviously, the coaches of both sides are very dissatisfied with the lack of a good start after such a loss of play after the opening.

However, this is also impossible.

In today's game, the leading players on both sides obviously had bad footwork.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic had an excellent chance to score in the penalty area, but it actually hit the heel of Henrik Larsson who followed up...

Shevchenko has more chances, but it is a pity that he has kicked flaws, and even the number of hits on the door frame is pitifully small.

Seeing that the players on both sides began to slow down the pace of possession of the ball, Diego also sighed regretfully: "Hey! It seems that there is a high probability that there is no ball in the first half of this game."

"There must have been no ball in the first half!"

Caesar said quite decisively: "This game is not only a matter of 90 minutes, but may even run for 120 minutes. The opening 25 minutes of open and close play is too serious for the physical consumption of both sides. At this moment, both sides need to take a break to recover their physical fitness. Otherwise, the game may collapse in the second half."

As Caesar said, the two sides almost finished the rest of the first half with their hands down.

Even, seeing that the players on both sides had no desire to attack, the fourth official only gave 1 minute of stoppage time-you know, the Swedish goalkeeper Ixarsen received more than 3 minutes of hemostasis treatment. It's time.

"I hope the second half of the game won't be as dull as the final stage of the first half..."

Diego stretched helplessly. After all, at this moment, as a fan sitting in front of the TV watching the game, he still wants to enjoy a goal battle rather than watching this hypnotic fall.

However, the progress of the second half of the game still disappointed Diego.

After returning from the intermission, the Swedish and Ukrainian teams changed their attitudes at the beginning of the first half, gave up the backcourt and directly looked for the frontcourt, and began to seize the midfield more.

Regarding this, Caesar smiled knowingly: "It seems that the head coaches of the two teams have figured it out. They all know who can control the midfield in this kind of game, and who can wait patiently until the opponent makes a mistake will have the last laugh."

However, the strength of the midfielders of the two teams is indeed average.

This kind of midfield scramble did not play out the continuous passing style of a strong team, but instead played out the roughness of a midfield hand-to-hand fight...

After the start of the second half, the number of fouls on both sides surged.

In just 15 minutes, both sides had already been shown 5 yellow cards by the referee Archadio. There was even a physical conflict between the two teams, and a group fight almost broke out.

It was not until the 78th minute of the game that the first goal of the game was long overdue.

"Living Fossil" Henrik Larsson advanced with the ball and single-handedly entered the penalty area of ​​the Ukrainian team. Ukrainian defender Husin made a mistake in his busy schedule and tackled Henrik Larsson.

"Beep..."

Without any hesitation, the referee Archadio blew a hasty whistle—yellow dot package!
Taking advantage of this penalty kick, the Swedish team god Tajbrahimovic calmly shot and helped the Swedish team break the deadlock!

And this goal is also the only goal in this game!

With this penalty, the Swedish team struggled to win the third victory in the knockout stage against Ukraine and advanced to the final of this World Cup!

As for the opponent of "Viking" who will be?

This depends on tomorrow night, the second half final at the World Cup Stadium in Munich!
Is the "Matador Legion" popular in the end?

Or is it the "Three Lions" going forward bravely?
Stay tuned!
(End of this chapter)