[football] walk side by side

After a complete warm-up on the court, Cyril followed everyone back to the locker room.In the locker room, Wen Haisi and his coaching staff were already waiting there.

Before departure, Wen Haisi had already explained the basic tactics of the game to all the players. Just in case, he stood in front of the tactical board and explained his tactics in detail.

After making sure that the players had listened to his words, he clapped his palms with a solemn expression: "I don't want to emphasize how important this game is to you, because I believe you will understand this better than me. In Portugal In the Super League, no matter how brilliant results you achieve, there may not be any giants who will set their sights on you, but the European Youth Championship is different."

His eyes slowly swept across everyone, watching the expressions of excitement, inspiration or confidence on the faces of the young players: "This is the stage for selecting the best young generation in Europe, and all the media and scouts will put Focusing on you, every goal you score in the final of the European Youth Championship will be more meaningful than the three or ten goals you scored in the Portuguese Super League."

Adult players care about money and glory, while ambitious young players care more about the future.

After the former recognizes their abilities, they will choose to work hard to earn more money and gain material satisfaction.The latter, because they are still young, are more eager to go to a higher stage and show their abilities to the world.

Wen Haisi's speech captured this point in their hearts very well.

"I don't know if any of you have noticed—the number of fans who followed the team to the stadium to cheer this year is several times that of previous years." After talking about his personal honor, Wen Haisi turned to another topic, and he asked seriously: "Anyone know why?"

Cyril's heart moved slightly, and he vaguely understood what Wen Haisi wanted to say.

"Because in this year's World Cup, our national team stopped in the group stage and didn't even break into the knockout round." Wen Haisi's tone was heavy. For every Portuguese, this was a big blow: "Now someone Do you understand why so many Portuguese fans are willing to travel across the ocean to cheer for you in this ordinary European Youth Championship?"

The locker room was quiet, and no one answered this question, but Wen Haisi obviously noticed that the expressions of the players became more serious: "Don't disappoint the fans who came from afar, the disappointment of 2002, the disappointment of the World Cup Once is enough."

At least as far as the pep talk before the game is concerned, the head coach is quite comprehensive-personal interests and national honor, there is always one thing that young players pursue.

When Wen Haisi was speaking, Cyril had been listening quietly. He was not like those young and vigorous players who were easily infected by the words of encouragement from the head coach, and this time was no exception. When he was thinking about how to kill the opponent, Cyril would only calmly judge and think about ways to defeat the opponent.

This kind of tranquility made him particularly eye-catching among a group of youths surging with energy and blood, but Wen Haisi was neither annoyed nor annoyed, but nodded secretly in his heart.

For a midfielder, it is a very good quality to be able to keep a clear head at all times and be calm and calm. This will make them more accurate in judging the offensive and defensive situations on the field. Cyril's " Indifferent", on the contrary, he was very satisfied.

Wen Haisi didn't say anything more, he waved his hand and took the lead out of the locker room.

The players followed closely behind and walked slowly out along the player tunnel. As the crowd got closer to the lawn, the cheers and screams from the stadium instantly filled everyone's ears. Facing the scorching sun at noon, At a glance, Cyril saw the clear national flag makeup on the face of the Portuguese fans opposite, as well as various scarves of the same color and huge slogans.

"The finals of the European Youth Championship in 2002 is about to begin. After several eliminations, the Czech Republic and Portugal finally set foot on this grass. The former has only won the championship once in history, and the latter is the closest European Youth Championship. It's been a championship for many years - there's no doubt that both the Czech Republic and Portugal are going to win it."

While the commentator was busy explaining the lineups of the two sides, Cristiano poked Cyril who was standing beside him with great interest: "Tell me, if we win, is it possible for me to win the European Youth Championship?" Best player?"

Cyril glanced at his energetic friend: "Of course...impossible." Facing Cristiano's confused look, Cyril was "serious": "With me here, you still want to get vp? Wake up. "

"..." Cristiano just wanted to refute, but he thought about the statistics that Cyril was far ahead in the assist list. There is no such possibility... The good motivation suffered a blow for nothing, he muttered depressingly: "Who will take the golden boy and say for sure..."

Cyril just smiled and said nothing.

Deliberately teasing someone or something has almost become a habit before you know it.

At the same time, the voice of the commentator was still ringing in the sky above the stadium: "... Is the Czech Republic's dark horse journey coming to an end, or will the old strong team Portugal win the championship again? Let us wait and see."

The referee stood in the middle circle, and after making sure all the players were in position, he lowered his head to check the time, and then blew the whistle on his chest, announcing the official start of the game.

With that long whistle, Quares immediately kicked off in the middle circle.

His speed is extremely fast, it seems that he is going to break forward with the ball, but when the Czech left forward blocked him, he missed the football suddenly and calmly, and accelerated to run forward Go, before the Czech left midfielder could react for a while, Cristiano, who was plugged in behind, took the ball. He rubbed the inside of his foot lightly, and the ball completed the conversion between his feet.

Before the Czech defensive players could react, Cristiano directly passed the ball back to Cyril in the rear, and himself, like Quaresma, accelerated on the sidewalk and ran towards the opponent's frontcourt.

The Portuguese fans who knew Quaresma and Cristiano better were a little shocked at this time-these two well-known cyclists, this time they didn't stick to the ball or indulge in their own tricks. Pass the ball so lightly?

But at this moment, there is no room for them to be shocked, because Portugal's first opportunity has come——

Cyril, who received a pass back from Cristiano, calmly swept across the Czech half in front of him, aiming at the ball with a heavy long pass!

This pass was like a sharp scalpel, cleverly and sharply penetrating the Czech defense, the ball quickly passed over the heads of several Czech defenders, and fell straight behind the Czech penalty area. Cristiano and Quaresma, who accelerated to run forward after kick-off, were already standing there.

The Czech defender didn't raise his vigilance against these two men at the beginning. After all, both of them don't have the ball under their feet at the moment. long pass!In the last second, the ball could be seen obediently stopping at Cyril's feet, and in the next second, it flew through the air under heavy force, and landed accurately at Cristiano's feet.

At this time, the Czech defender had no time to block Cristiano, so he could only try to block Cristiano's shooting angle.After stopping the ball in the chest, Cristiano easily swayed past the defender, raised his foot and shot!

Wen Haisi stood up nervously, and the Czech head coach Hus also acted like him. The former was nervous about whether the goal could be scored smoothly, and whether the follow-up tactics could be carried out smoothly, while the latter was full of worries: the opening was not good. A goal was scored by the opponent in 1 minute, and it was a single-handed goal. This was a huge blow to the morale of one's own side!

Just when everyone was staring nervously at the field, some Portuguese fans were ready to jump up and cheer, and the Czech fans couldn't help but close their eyes and couldn't bear to watch anymore, the Czech goalkeeper firmly hugged the ball.

Wen Haisi sat back on the coach's bench in disappointment, and the Portuguese fans applauded regretfully, for this beautiful cooperation even though they didn't score.The Czech fans took a long breath and also expressed their encouragement to their goalkeeper with applause.

"Excellent save! Petr Cech saved the Czech Republic again! I have to say that Portugal played a beautiful long pass and fast break at the beginning, and the Czech defense was also torn apart by them. However, who let the Czech Republic have a What about good goalkeepers? There are very few goalkeepers in the European Youth Championship who can beat the strikers to get vp, but I think Peter Cech must be the exception. In this European Youth Championship, he has made several miracles. Thanks to the super saves, the Czech Republic was able to go to the finals smoothly, thanks to the Czech goalkeeper!"

Cristiano also showed a disappointed look, but soon he adjusted his mood and re-invested in the attack.

Unlike other Portuguese fans who regained their spirits after a short-term loss, Cyril has to consider more.

The long pass and fast break after the kick-off is a tactic that Wen Haisi arranged early in the morning. The focus is to catch the Czech Republic by surprise. The reason for this choice is very simple: how good a team’s goalkeeper is often means that their home team How unreliable the defense line is.

There is a saying: in front of every world-class goalkeeper, there is a frenzied line of defense.

If the Czech defense line is strong enough, then the goalkeeper Peter Cech will not be able to steal the limelight of all the forwards. It is precisely because of the poor defense line of the Czech Republic that Wen Hess dared to bet that the Czech defense is still weak at the beginning of the game. It was too late to form a complete defensive system, and Portugal was able to rely on fast breaks and sneak attacks.

It's a pity that the Czech Republic has a goalkeeper who is good enough to save this must-go goal abruptly.

Cyril took a deep look at the Czech player in the penalty area, turned around and quickly went to his own half to participate in the defense as the Czech changed from defense to offense. At the same time, he was still thinking about some other things:

——If there is a way to "cheat" the goalkeeper, it would be great.