61.chapter 61

Portugal goalkeeper Andreas Pereira set himself up and stood in front of the goal, waiting for the attack of the opposite Swedish team. Even if Figo guessed that Forlan would kick a penalty due to Ragerbeck's over-interest in Francisco Alvarez in preparation and told Pereira the news, the few people in the Portuguese squad who speculated about this development only thought that in the Swedish lineup, Fran was seen as a player with plenty of body and no stage fright. No one expected Fran to put □□ crisp in the first place.

In football, there is only a small penalty shootout in the league with the same score and the same win-loss rate and goal difference, and the two legs of the cup are usually rare, unless it is a final. But this is not the case with heavy events like the World Cup and the European Cup, the so-called 'big game is not a good game', the more important the significance of a game, the more cautious the players on both sides will be, and the final result of careful retreat is to boil the game to a penalty shootout.

Regardless of Sweden's attacking prowess, as long as their manager is Lagerbeck, the opposition will know that they will not abandon the defence and even focus more on it, especially if they find a defensive core that is gradually evolving into the defensive gate. Of course, the Portuguese team also trained for penalty kicks, and like every team, there are statistics on the direction, strength, arc and other angles of the opposing player's focus when taking the penalty. But no one told Pereira, and there would be one man in Sweden's penalty shoot-out roster!

Of course, Pereira knows that he is a defender and is one of the key players who will be raised to be wary of. But the key point is that this guy has had a clear label on his body in recent years, "without any offensive skills", which seems to be the product of being stimulated by Real Madrid's defenders who have always been attacking, and has become a diametrically opposed opposite. In the past, Casillas stayed alone in the penalty area and waved at his defenders "You come back" The scene is long gone, basically not out of his own half, so that the goalkeeper of the opposite family is sometimes making up for himself, do you want to wave at the opposite side in the penalty area, "Do you dare to come over?"

Of course, if someone really does this, it is estimated that the end will be more miserable, compared to Real Madrid's lineup, it is one thing for their own defenders to love to rush forward, and if you want the opponent to provoke the goalkeeper to come, isn't it obvious that you don't look down on the strikers?

The most Forlan can do is give enough support to the midfield, and these arrangements have nothing to do with a goalkeeper, in this case, it is understandable that Pereira does not care about Forlan's style of play, but who knows that the Swedish team directly let this one come up to play a penalty?

How can there be any information about his penalty kick? Or even, how can there be information about his shooting? Figo had been his teammate after all, but Figo was also confused when he learned the news, and Forlan took the penalty? The next second he naturally came up with an answer exactly the same as Casillas to Pereira.

"Kick it to the sky?" Where does he know where to go for this thing? When he was in Real Madrid, wasn't it normal for the club to play Forlan's offensive skills as a stalk, even if the position was moved back to the goalkeeper, it would never be possible to turn into a striker! The 12-yard penalty kick is a matter of minutes, but whenever Fran kicks a penalty, Igor doesn't bother to choose a direction to pounce sideways, just stand in place?" ”

Figo thinks it's a good idea, but Pereira thinks he's talking seriously and it's a joke, and when it's still a joke? Standing there and not even moving, where did he, a guy who has never scored a goal, go to play with a spoon so boldly, and when the time comes, maybe it will be more devastating to give his teammates the illusion that he won't have time to react?

The goalkeeper's reaction was seen by Figo, who regretted telling his teammates about his discovery. Thinking like this, Figo twitched the corners of his mouth and felt that the Swedish team might just throw this guy out to meet them, you think, otherwise why would Lagerbeck stand so blatantly next to this 'greatest impossible'? It must be to disrupt their Portugal's preparation rhythm, right? Or is it just to put pressure on the goalkeeper?

If Lagerbeck knew Figo's thoughts, he would probably hehe, smart people just love to think too much. How could they have imagined that Lagerbeck did this to hone Fran with actual combat?

But it is clear that Pereira has already made mental presuppositions, and will not think about him until he sees this defender who can talk about magic in some way, who knows that this guy is the leader of the Swedish team.

He looked confident as he walked towards the penalty spot with the ball in his arms, but it was so abrupt that it was easy to see it as a disguise of inadequacy. In Pereira's eyes, Forlan, who put the ball down, looked back at his teammates to find psychological support, and subconsciously looked to the right side of the goal. This choice seems too commonplace, could he be pretending to let me know, or is he so nervous that he has such a glaring flaw? There seems to be a trend in football lately that a quick free-kick can't be a quick penalty? Or is it like Cristiano, who fakes to shake off the goalkeeper before kicking the ball?

Pereira's mind was a mess, and a whole bunch of thoughts were gathering together to make him unable to think. He shouldn't have had such a terrible mess, but all sorts of coincidences were tied together to completely disrupt his thoughts. Standing in front of the football, at the referee's whistle, Fran didn't have any opportunistic tricks and didn't have time to think about any speculative options, picked up his leg and hit the expected point to kick the football out. In Fran's sight, the ball flew straight towards the middle of the goal.

The so-called spoon penalty kick is a kind of kicking method that rubs the ball up through guò and makes the ball fly out of a parabola similar to a spoon shape in the air, and kicking this kind of ball requires a certain amount of footwork and strength, and the use of footwork emphasizes more "rubbing" rather than "picking", and the goal is obviously the middle but gives the goalkeeper an illusion of splitting the ball to both sides, so the action is more concealed and more difficult.

This is also the way many high-level penalty takers like to shoot, i.e. feign shooting towards the side of the goal when in fact it is gently picked up in the middle. Since the spoon can play a psychological role in deceiving the opposing goalkeeper, the side that kicks the spoon penalty can improve the morale of its own players on a certain level.

This is true at first, but then sometimes the subtle movements are not visible from the perspective of the onlooker, and some people will refer to the goal of tricking the goalkeeper in other directions and going straight to the middle as a spoon penalty.

But Francisco Alvarez's penalty, which goes straight to the middle, is too obvious. Where is this spoon? What about the arc? What about the rub shot? This is clearly a big thorn and a pick, except that the ultimate goal is the same, what else is the commonality? Even Fran looked at the spoon he had decided to kick like this, and he didn't see it.

But before the commentators could report, 'This spoon is really TM, it's a spoon with no skills, no suspense, no suspense', Pereira pounced on the right side of the goal.

In the shot, Forlan stares blankly at the soccer ball he has just kicked into the goal, and Pereira looks confused and looks back at the net that has been hooked up with a ripple. The commentators, who were going to comment that 'this ball is 100% undisguised from the angle of touching the ball to the arc of flight', swallowed the words back, looking at the goalkeeper who seemed to have been hit by this so-called "spoon", and I don't know whether to say that the first batter of the Swedish team is a big heart (zàng) or too heart (zāng). But in any case, the scene of players on both sides stunned at the same time because of the result is still memorable.

What about saying that "if you are not thorough at all, the goalkeeper will see through the intention and pounce on you"?

Countless people manually began to take screenshots of GIFs, and some found that the expressions of the two people were synchronized after comparison. The goalkeeper lost the ball, stay - my god this is actually going to the middle, the defender scored, stay - my god why did he fall to the right.

The Swedes began to celebrate the leading goal, and Lagerbeck was so excited on the sidelines that he had already won the game, and his assistants were too embarrassed to tell him that the Portugal goalkeeper would have been able to save the ball if he played normally. But the result was good after all, the pressure shifted to Portugal after Sweden's goal, and it was clear that the Portuguese goalkeeper, who had been very steady throughout the game, was out of balance.

Fran pursed his lips and looked at the football that had been handed back to the referee, pursed his lips and walked over without holding back, "Sir, can you give me this football when the game is over?" this is the first ball I kicked into the opponent's goal, I" He said incoherently, and the referee didn't care what he said, just waved him away to get in the way of the game. Fran pursed his lips and began to run wildly towards the Swedes standing side by side, and Ljungberg put his arms around his neck to keep him from losing his temper to the sidelines for a penalty goal to celebrate with the manager who was currently dancing madly.

"Whoop my ball!This is the first goal I kicked into the opponent's goal!" Obviously it looked like he was going to be strangled by Ljungberg, but Fran was still full of energy, and Ljungberg slapped him vigorously to calm him down, "The game is not over yet, don't get carried away!" "It's okay if you don't pay attention to it at ordinary times, shouldn't this kid be very steady at the critical moment? Speaking of kicking the goal into the opponent's goal? That means he has scored several own goals? I feel sorry for Casillas.

Eevee was reluctant to put his shoulder on his shoulder because of his height, so he stood at the edge of the line, and Fran, who had been taught a lesson, leaned over to stand beside him. As the whole court watched with bated breath as Portugal's first goal was scored, he couldn't hold back his elbow and slapped Ibrahimovic and whispered, "I scored." Eevee glanced down at him, not wanting to talk to him, but gave him a thumbs up after thinking about it.

In the end, the penalty shootout, the Swedish team won the game with a score of 4:2. Perhaps it was the fact that such penalties were scored to give the Swedish team endless encouragement and confidence, or Pereira's mentality was completely unbalanced, and it was the Swedes who had the last laugh in this game.

Figo exhaled when he saw this result, if nothing else, this is the last game of his national team, and it must be false to say that he has no regrets. After all, penalty shoot-outs can mostly be seen as a form of luck, although Figo sees it as a success of Sweden's tactics for penalty shoot-outs.

Thinking like this, Fran, who was smiling very childishly with a soccer ball in his arms, passed by Figo and was stopped by Figo. Fran was stunned for a moment, gave Figo a hug, patted him on the back soothingly, and said nothing.

But Figo was still puzzled and asked, "So, why did you kick first?" Fran blinked innocently at the question, "Ahhhhhhh ”

Hehe, who the hell is this honing whom?