[Football] Crown of Thorns

哥本哈根当地时间10月11日20点15分，2012欧锦赛预选赛H组将上演榜首终极大战，由目前暂列小组第一的葡萄牙客场挑战小组第二的丹麦队。

Spanish media "Marca": "C Ronaldo may play with injuries"

Apart from various reports in various newspapers, the most notable content is the news about Ronaldo's injury in the Marca newspaper. Judging from the situation of the Portuguese team, the captain Ronaldo will definitely play with injuries.

"...it's the worst thing ever."

After reading the contents of the newspaper up to this point, Veloso sighed.

Gama, who told Veloso to read the newspaper to himself because of the pain in his eyes, rolled on the bed and sighed faintly.

Veloso: What hurts my eyes, Xiko can't read Spanish!

Gama responded with a middle finger.

It is noon on October 10th, and in two hours they will depart from the hotel to today's match venue, Copenhagen Parken Stadium, to prepare for the match. He and Veloso hid in the room and chatted casually, gossip.

"According to the coaches, Bendtner and Romedal should start."

Veloso stretched out his long legs and kicked Gama's big foot that had rolled to the side of the bed. When he was trying to withdraw his position in the national team, Veloso found that it was indeed what Gama said. In that way, he quickly got used to the retreat position and played quite smoothly. After doing this, he did start to occupy a position in the national team's defense line, and his starting qualifications also increased.

Only in this way, he needs to know more about the opposing players he faced before.

"Bentner?"

Gama tilted his head, "The center forward who played for Arsenal?"

"Yes! But this season he was rented out to Sunderland in the Premier League."

Veloso nodded.

"A technical center?"

Gama muttered a little hehehe and laughed again.

Veloso kicked him again, "You smile so weirdly, you must be thinking of something good."

"Tsk, bastard Miguel, if you do this again, I won't say anything."

"Oh, I'm sorry, please speak quickly."

Gama blinked, "I've said it before, a skilled center!"

"Uh, a technical center..." Veloso blinked and blinked again, and suddenly understood the meaning of Gama's words. He agreed, laughed a few times and then sighed, "He's tall, But the footwork is very delicate, not very easy to intercept."

"Stupid, no matter how tall or delicate his feet are, he is a skilled player." Gama sat up, "He has a good sense of grabbing points in front of the goal, and his dribbling skills are also good, but because of this, he rarely uses him. Another great advantage of…”

"strength!"

Veloso blurted out.

Gama snapped his fingers, "That's right!"

"Hey, I see what you mean."

Veloso laughed twice, and he fell down and lay on Gama's lap, "To deal with such a center forward, close defense is the best!"

Patting the golden brown hair on Veloso's head, Gama hehe, "There are also those hehehe~~~"

"You laugh so obscenely."

Veloso was speechless, "Your image is completely ruined, do you know that when you first joined the national youth team, everyone said you looked like a 'flower of the high mountain', if they saw your appearance, don't mention others, Ann is going to cry."

The 'An' he said in his mouth refers to their captain Andre Furtado (*) when they were in the U20 National Youth Team (*). He is currently playing for Benfica and has not yet been selected for the adult national team. Among the young players, his popularity is quite good.

"Destroy the fart!"

Gama is speechless - when they were vacationing by the sea in the summer, when the bastard Veloso went to pick up girls, he and Furtado had a volleyball date with a pair of sisters, let alone him and Furtado The reason for getting acquainted is that the two of them whispered to a certain hostess... well, this is a black history and cannot be said.

Furtado is much sexier than him, he was surprised.

But looking at the expression on Veloso's wholehearted belief that Furtado is an excellent, decent young man, Gama could only swallow his blood.

"Anyway, I'm more decent than most players."

After thinking about it, Gama said.

Veloso snorted twice, disagreeing with his self-confession.

Jia Ma rolled his eyes, "I remembered that this Bendtner has found a big girl. His girlfriend is 12 years older than him, and she is a rich woman with a relatively high income. Is he considered a bad boy?"

"...You are really... Xico, I feel now that you really don't look like a Portuguese."

Veloso was speechless—by the way, the girlfriend he was dating was also older than him.

"All Portuguese men love big girls?"

Gama complained, "Why do I feel that in Europe, most men love older women."

Veloso looked up at Gama, who rolled his eyes at him again, "Xiko."

"what?"

"Sister Lover."

"what?"

"I said that you, a sister lover, have the nerve to say that everyone else loves big girls."

"Miguel."

"What?"

"I'm going to beat you!"

"Hehe~~~"

…………

On October 10th, the time came to 11:19. The final round of Group H of the 00 Euro Cup was about to kick off at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark.In this game, the Danish team played at home against the powerful Portuguese team in this group. The two teams currently have 2012 points. Portugal has a goal difference of 16 and defeated its opponent 2-3 in the first round. It currently ranks first in Group H.

Judging from the previous confrontation records of the two teams, the two sides have played against each other 10 times in history, and the Portuguese team has a certain advantage with 6 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

They met in the official game 5 times, Portugal got 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, being the upper hand.

In the 2010 World Cup European qualifiers, the two teams were also divided into the same group. As a result, Denmark took the lead in the direct confrontation with 1 win and 1 draw, making them the first in the group with 2 points, while Portugal directly qualified. Had to play in the play-offs.

The last time the two sides played against each other was in the 2012 European Cup qualifiers. Portugal defeated Denmark 3-1 with goals from Nani and Ronaldo.

"Portugal can qualify directly as long as they keep a draw."

With a sound of cutting, Gama crumpled up the newspaper who didn't know who brought it into the lounge, threw it into a ball, kicked it, and kicked it directly into the trash can.

Hearing Gama's disdainful snort, Meirelles glanced at him.

"What's wrong, Shiko."

Jia Ma curled his lips, "If you keep a tie, you can qualify. No matter how I look at it, I feel that this is like cursing us to lose."

Nani on the side looked over strangely, "I think what they said is right, as long as we draw, we can qualify directly!"

Speaking of which, Nani got up and picked out the newspaper that Gama had thrown away from the trash can, and read aloud, "At present, Portugal and Denmark have 16 points, and Norway, the third place in the group, has 13 points. According to UEFA According to the rules of the league, if the two teams have the same points, first compare the relationship between each other and the goal difference, and then compare the total goal difference. Since Portugal defeated Denmark 3-1 in the first round, Portugal only needs to keep the tie That is to say, the first place in the group can directly qualify. It is worth mentioning that if the two sides draw, and at the same time, the No.2 score of the other group is not as high as Denmark, then Denmark can also directly qualify.”

After reading this paragraph, Nani spread his hands, "Isn't that right?"

Jia Ma snorted twice, "Why do you only think about a draw, why don't you say that you won't have any suspense to qualify!"

"But……"

Nani thought for a while, but didn't know what to say.

Gama pursed his lips. He actually thought of a certain team in the past. Every time he said, 'As long as you draw a draw, you can qualify', 'As long as you win one more goal, you can have hope', etc., so he waited every time. It was all disappointment, all despair, time and time again, painful to the heart and lungs, but he was helpless—the former genius boys fell one by one, but the only ones left were those who had been assimilated by the chaotic atmosphere...

He leaned over and pulled the socks, picked up the shin pads, looked at them and put them down again. This will be worn when he is ready to play.

Then Gama raised his head, "I don't want any uncertain factors in qualifying. As long as we win three points, we can guarantee qualifying. So I just want to win."

"Shiko is right, we just want to win."

At this time, their captain Ronaldo stood up.

"Don't think that we can draw if we want to draw and win if we want to. The Danish team is not an easy opponent. Although Denmark is currently behind us in the standings, their record at home is very strong. This European preliminaries They played against Norway, Iceland and Cyprus successively at the Parken Stadium, and the Danish team not only won all three games, but also did not concede a goal."

Ronaldo looked at his teammates sitting and standing here, "If we lose to Denmark and Norway wins against Cyprus, then the relationship between us will be even (Portugal wins Norway 2-0 at home, Norway 1-0 at home) [-] victory over Portugal), then we need to compare the goal difference. Of course, even if it is goal difference, we are ahead," Ronaldo showed a smile on his lips, "From this point of view, even if we lose, we can basically guarantee Participate in the play-offs, but," he looked at his teammates around again, "but, are we going to play the play-offs?"

"No!"

"no way!"

"Yes, we definitely want to win."

"To win!"

Bento, who was standing at the door of the lounge, stopped pushing the door. He stood quietly at the door and listened to the voice from inside, with a smile on his serious face.

…………

"... Now we are broadcasting live for you the final round of Group H of the 2012 European Championship preliminaries..."

"Judging from the current points, the Portuguese team has a slight upper hand, but the Portuguese team still worries many people in today's game..."

"Now we have got the starting list. Judging from the list, the defense problem of the Portuguese team has not been resolved. Eduardo, Pepe and Coentrao are still unable to play..."

"In previous interviews, Cristiano Ronaldo said we need to be solid at the back..."

"Speaking of which, we saw a lot of celebrities coming to the scene from the camera. Wow, Rui Costa, whom I haven't seen for a long time, also came to the scene. Who is sitting next to him? Director, please pull the camera into some... ...hey that's Paulo Souza, yes, that's him..."

"... We have said before that today's game is to fight for the right to qualify for the top spot in the group, but seriously, as long as the two sides draw, both sides can be guaranteed to qualify... Hey, I was wrong, yes yes A draw can only guarantee that the Portuguese team will qualify directly, while the Danish team is in danger..."

…………

The players of the two teams standing at the entrance of the passage shared the same wish at this time - to strangle the host who kept chattering in the live studio.

The game is about to begin.

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(*) To emphasize, Veloso's age is three years younger for the sake of the story.

(*) Andre Furtado, a fictional character I created in this article.