[Football] Crown of Thorns

Lisbon October 10 Stadium of Light

Tonight will be staged the third group match of Group H of the Portuguese national team's European Cup qualifiers, the home game against Denmark.

Since the Portuguese national team has only one point in the first two games of Group H and is currently ranked bottom in the group, today's game has become a very critical game. If this game loses or draws again, Portugal will lose It is very likely that the group will be eliminated and miss the European Cup.

Because of this, although everyone was still smiling easily during the previous recovery training, the players who came to the Stadium of Light four hours earlier today were quickly infected by the atmosphere here, and their expressions gradually became serious.

Facing the strong Denmark, Portugal is worried about the team, and domestic views on Bento are also divided into two polarizations. Some people think that Bento's performance in the World Cup is based on Guiros' old roots and nothing new. .Others believed that Bento was young and capable, and fully mobilized the strength of the Portuguese national team, especially the unity of the team-at this time, everyone ignored the conflict between the two veterans of the team and Bento.

The national team captain C Ronaldo, who was interviewed by the media before the game, spoke highly of Bento when he talked about the coach, "Mr. Bento is an excellent coach. I met him in Lisbon. He has a very good personality. Quality and character, it was a pleasure working with him.”

Of course, the media, who are used to black C Ronaldo and black habits, started to mock C Ronaldo again: Looking at C Ronaldo, don’t look at Guerros being called Chris Ronaldo’s godfather (Fou Nistelrooy laughed at C Ronaldo like this when he was at Manchester United. Luo, which led to a dispute between the two), but the fact that he "assassinated" Queiroz cannot be disputed... Bento can get his praise as long as he praises Ronaldo...

Gama felt very strange when he saw these black Ronaldo articles in domestic newspapers.

It is now the most critical match of the Portuguese national team. These domestic newspapers are completely disregarding the mentality of the players in order to win attention. What do they think? There are contradictions, and no one outside knows the truth.

Fortunately, according to Gama's observation, Ronaldo doesn't seem to care at all about the content of these reports that black him.

Although the opinions of the outside world before the game were messy, and many people also expressed that they were not very optimistic about the national team's game. The players who gathered before the game got along relatively happily. There were only two unfamiliar faces on the Portuguese training list for this period.

The previous civil strife in the Portuguese national team reminded Bento. During the training camp, Bento reorganized the team's offensive system and completely established an offensive system with Ronaldo as the core. Several public speeches mentioned the core value of Ronaldo. .In private, he also had a face-to-face public conversation with Ronaldo, telling Ronaldo that he was put on the wing out of decompression and in consideration of Ronaldo's own technical characteristics, thus reaching a mutual understanding with Ronaldo. Understand the principles of working together.

As a midfielder, Gama was also called for an interview. Regarding his role in the midfield in the game and the need for him to further centralize the offense, he was asked to be bolder and more powerful in command.

"You have to unleash your strength, as an organizational midfielder, especially in terms of offensive ability..."

Gama: Hehe, what if the defense loses its position when it releases its offensive ability?

"Don't be afraid of losing your defense. It is also your responsibility to retreat and organize defense in time under the situation of large-scale control."

Jia Ma: ┳＿┳... The requirements are so high, the concubine can't do it!

"...do you understand?"

"I see."

In the next training game, Gama will control the rhythm while observing the situation of his teammates, and also pay attention to the gestures of the coach on the sidelines, wishing to have eight eyes and three heads and six arms.

Of course, this effect does work, that is, he consumes a lot of mental and physical energy, and after a training game, both sides of his temples twitched.

"Poor baby!"

The cheap golden retriever even patted his head to express sympathy.

Gritting his teeth, Gama finally pulled Veloso into the wallet of the golden-haired classmate again.

Back to the present, today, the game against Denmark is about to begin. After the warm-up, Gama immediately lay down on the bench in the lounge and squinted to rest.

Judging from the starting lineup, the tactics that the Portuguese team will adopt today are Nani and Ronaldo flying on both wings, Almeida rushing forward, Gama, Meireles and Moutinho in the midfield are all technical players , the backcourt is the Real Madrid combination, Pepe, Coentrao and Alves, have skills, skills and strength. It seems that coach Bento still follows the style of Guiros in tactical arrangements, but the specific effect remains to be seen. Depends on today's game.

With the cheers getting louder at the Stadium of Light, the game is about to start.

Portugal's starting lineup:

Goalkeeper: Beto

Defenders: Pepe, Lopez, Alves, Coentrao;

Midfielders: Gama, Moutinho, Meireles

Forwards: Almeida, Nani, Ronaldo

Denmark's starting lineup:

Goalkeeper: Hansen

Defenders: Agger, Boylesen, Ankersen, Kjaer

Midfielders: Sloter, Eriksson, Zimling

Forwards: Helenius, Fisher, Bendtner

In view of the lack of acquaintances of the players of both sides, the players of the two sides did not communicate with each other when they lined up in the player tunnel, especially the players of the home team were under too much pressure, and all of them looked serious, which made it difficult to approach.

Today's Stadium of Light is full of Portuguese fans. As for the tickets reserved for the visiting team, yes they gave them, but you can't blame us for the lack of people coming, right? The stadium can seat 4000 people and come with the visiting team The [-] fans are like pebbles thrown into the ocean, it's really hard to find.

In the broadcasting room inside the stadium, sat the familiar Uncle Ruy and the famous football commentator Paul Perez.

Everyone is old acquaintances. After talking about the starting list of both sides at the beginning, they are not polite and directly entered the comment stage.

"What do you think of Portugal's starting lineup today, Ruy?"

Perez asked.

After hearing his question, Rui looked at the list of players constantly scrolling on the big screen at the scene again, "What should I say about this?" Rui smiled softly, "If only from the Portuguese team From the perspective of tactical equipment, the first feeling is that this starting list does not have much new ideas."

Rui, who said this first, glanced at Perez, "Don't betray me to Paul!"

Perez laughed happily, "No, no."

Rui continued with a smile, "Let's take a look at Almeida, Nani and Ronaldo forming an offensive trident. From this point of view, our Portuguese team has not had many forward talents in recent years. I hope there will be more. What a capable striker, because we can't always expect Ronaldo to carry the attack on the forward line alone..."

Players were still chatting in the lecture room, and the players in the player tunnel had already seen the referee team preparing to play.

The players on both sides, holding the caddy in their hands, followed the referee team into the court with music.

After the routine pre-requisite work such as exchanging team flags and taking pictures, the players soon stood in various areas on the court, waiting for the referee's whistle.

Gama in the middle circle glanced at Meirelles on the opposite side, and got the kick-off right because of coin guessing, so Gama was ready to kick-off. '

According to general practice, the kick-off player will gently push the football to the teammate beside or behind him, and then start to attack.

It's not that you can't attack as soon as the ball is kicked off, but it is often easy to be offside or cause the opponent to concede a counterattack, so if you can't guarantee the ball, it is not recommended to do so in most cases.

Meirelles blinked, Gama raised an eyebrow.

The teammates who had partnered many times understood Gama's hint, Meirelles licked his teeth, then shook his head.

Gama blinked again.

Meirelles looked up at the sky, then threw up his hands.

At this time, the referee's whistle sounded.

Gama lightly kicked the ball to Meirelles, who withdrew his body and lifted his feet, and the football flew towards the opponent's frontcourt.

At this time, Jia Ma quickly ran in the direction where the football was flying.

The originally orderly court suddenly became a mess like a messed up soup pot.

Raising his legs high, he picked up the falling football. Gama, who was swaying from side to side, made two moves in a row, passed the opponent, then kicked sideways and made a long pass. The frontcourt teammates who had already reacted made three arrows. Qi Fei ran forward.

The football in the air fell straight to the right side of the penalty area. C Ronaldo, who was as fast as lightning, took a long leg and hit the falling football with his feet. Ronaldo has squeezed away the opponent and rushed towards the football rolling on the ground.

"Portugal's opening raid."

The stands of the stadium, which were still full of voices just now, fell silent as if the pause button was pressed, and there was only the shouting of the home commentator in the sky.

On the field, C Ronaldo's foot has collided with the football again.

However, the goalkeeper of the Danish team saw that the situation was not good. He attacked from the front of the goal and fell to the ground, hugged the football and then pressed his whole body on the ball.

At this time, C Ronaldo could not receive his feet. His feet collided with the goalkeeper, took a staggered step forward, and then fell down.

Fortunately, Ronaldo took a big step over the goalkeeper before falling down. If he had a bad heart, he would fall directly on the goalkeeper. With Ronaldo's weight and inertia, the opponent's goalkeeper would probably have to end the game.

There was an exclamation in the stadium, followed by a relieved exhalation.

In any case, it is best to avoid player injuries on the court.

Denmark's defender Agger ran over to look at their goalkeeper Hansen, and then smiled at Ronaldo who had already got up.

Everyone knows how difficult it is for Ronaldo to control the strength and angle to avoid the goalkeeper in that situation.

Ronaldo smiled and walked away on his own.

The referee also ran over and saw that there was no problem with the players on both sides. He said that there was no foul on both sides and the game continued.

Gama took a breath with some fear, Ronaldo's reaction speed was really fast, luckily.

However, Ronaldo still made a good gesture to Gama.

Gama nodded.

The goalkeeper takes a goal kick.

It was a straight throw, and the football flew straight to the middle circle.

Denmark's Zimling paused and then kicked the ball the other way, and Denmark's Bendtner sprinted into Portugal's half with considerable speed.

Coentrao on the wing ran over to intercept, but his speed was a little slower, and Bendtner broke into the penalty area from in front of him.

At this point Pepe has rushed over.

Bendtner controlled the football and seemed to make a fake move, but Pepe ignored his movement and leaned over to squeeze hard.

Then Bendtner fell to the ground.

Uh this, Pepe spread her hands to show that she didn't foul.

The football that flew out was directly kicked by Lopez to goalkeeper Beto.

There was a deafening roar of 'flopping' and 'flopping' from the stands of the stadium.

The referee who ran over spoke a few words to the line referee in the microphone, and decided that it was a reasonable collision and no foul.

Pepe raised his head and stared at Bendtner fiercely.

Bendtner, who was sitting on the ground, pulled his socks and rolled his eyes at Pepe.

Pepe's eyes widened suddenly, with an expression of wanting to beat someone up.

The referee has already looked over.

Fortunately, Alves quickly pulled Pepe away.

Gama, who saw all this from a distance, made a 'good job' gesture to Alves, and Alves grinned.

And what about their captain?

Jia Ma looked back, and saw that the captain of his family was pouting and mumbling something.

Well, no matter what you are thinking about, as long as you have not participated in the past.