Chapter Thirty-Three: The Game Begins
The attention of the crowd was immediately drawn to the court.
Although Amalia had little interest in football, she was quickly attracted to the atmosphere of the scene.
According to the historical record, Portugal has maintained an unbeaten record against Greece at home, and Greece has not won against Portugal since 1991, so all the media before the game were unanimously optimistic about Portugal.
But the situation after the opening game, but not as people were optimistic about before the game, Portugal's situation is not optimistic, facing the tall and strong Greek players, it is difficult for the Portuguese players to break through the opponent's defense.
As soon as the game began, Portugal's Figo committed a foul in a tackle in the midfield. In the seventh minute, Greece took advantage of a counter-attack opportunity when Karagunis fired a powerful shot into the Portuguese goal from about 25 meters in the edge of the penalty area. It was the first shot of the game and the first goal of the tournament.
"Yay!" Amalia exclaimed excitedly.
George glanced at Li Jun with a strange expression, while Daniel and David looked dejected.
Li Jun said: "Luckily, the game is not over yet, maybe it will be overtaken in a while." β
Li Jun's words gave hope to several other people. As he said, with less than ten minutes to play, Portugal still have chances.
Things didn't go the way they had hoped, though, and from the opening kick-off the Greek players looked very excited on the pitch, while the Portuguese players looked a little nervous.
In the thirteenth minute, Greece's Frizas crossed the ball into the box from the right, and Fisas fired a powerful left-footed shot at the back post, but unfortunately the shot was missed. The ball sent George in a cold sweat.
In the 21st minute, Portugal and Costinha committed a foul near the midfield, and Italy's famous bald referee gave the first yellow card of the tournament.
The game was going on in an orderly manner, everything was as Li Jun knew, watching the game in the field, he comfortably tasted the wine in the glass.
The others were not as easy as him, and the Greek team attacked one after another, which made them very nervous.
By halftime, the score remained 0-1, and although there was a lot of excitement on the field, neither side could seize the opportunity to rewrite the score.
"Did you already know this was going to happen?" George's trademark smile was long gone, replaced by a grim expression.
Li Jun shook his head, spread his hands, and said very innocently: "How is it possible! I really heard you say that I want to pay five for one." β
As Li Jun spoke, George kept staring into Li Jun's eyes, trying to find a flaw in his eyes.
But the final result was only disappointment, no matter from the eyes, expressions, movements or tone, Li Jun behaved very normally, without any pretentiousness.
George had no choice but to say helplessly, "Your luck is so good. β
"Where. Li Jun smiled slightly: "This is just the first half, as long as the Portuguese team scores a goal to equalize the score in the second half, you are the biggest winner among us." β
"That's right. David echoed: "Mr. Li is right, no matter how you say Portugal, it is much stronger than Greece, and you can draw at the worst, you don't have to worry about it at all." However, whether Greece wins or the two sides draw, Daniel's money and I are destined to go down the drain. β
With that, he smiled wryly and glanced at Daniel.
After watching the first half of the game, he had no hope that the Portuguese team would be able to win the game.
At this time, the second half of the game began, and the Portuguese team made two changes in a row, Deco and 19-year-old Ronaldo replaced SimΓ£o and Rui Costa.
On the Greek side, the goal-scorer Karagunis was also substituted.
Looking at Ronaldo on the field, Li Jun was very emotional, this future superstar is still so young at the moment.
Shortly after the start of the second half. In the fiftieth minute, there was a dramatic scene on the field.
Greece's Sitaridis was brought down in the box and the referee did not hesitate to blow for a penalty.
There was no suspense in the ball, and the ball broke the net and the Greek team rewrote the score to 0-2.
βShitοΌβ
As the ball went in, George scolded angrily, and there was no smile on his face for a long time. The goal foreshadowed a loss of three million, which was a lot of money for him personally.
David gave Li Jun a thumbs up: "Awesome!"
"Luck! I'm just lucky. Li Jun responded with a smile as he raised his glass to David.
"I knew I would have bought more. Amalia muttered, looking at Zizi who was a little upset that he had only bought 100,000 just now.
Daniel said angrily: "You can be content, David and I each lost 500,000." β
He paused, then said, "But compared to George, we're nothing. β
This was true, but at this time, George listened to it very harshly, he glared at Daniel viciously, and then looked at Li Jun, his eyes were full of anger.
Seeing George like this, several people stopped making a sound, and no one wanted to touch this mold at this time.
"It's okay, George's family has money, it's nothing. "Amalia doesn't care about that, and she's the only one who dares to do that.
George suppressed his anger and squeezed out a smile, but it was not much better than crying, and said in a trembling voice: "That's right, I can afford to lose this money." β
Towards the end of the game, Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal finally seized the opportunity, received a corner kick from his teammate Figo, and rewrote the score to 1-2 with a header, but this could not change the final outcome......