Chapter 54

Rui Costa quickly adjusted himself and by the time he started running again, his attention was already focused on the first move, and now Portugal were a goal behind and it was still at the start of the game, which was a big blow to morale.

Deco was also relieved to see that Rui was normal, he stood at the front to move the direction of attack, so he often needed to look back to see the situation, but this time he could only see two faces when he turned around.

Rui Costa's furious face and Juan Díaz's iceberg face.

Fortunately, Figo finally solved the situation first, otherwise the problem would have been big later.

Maniche ran wildly after receiving the ball, and his first instinct was to pass the ball to Figo or Juan in the face of the Greek team's usual solid defence, but he was dumbfounded when he turned around.

Juan was staying in his own half, and there was no one to see, and Figo was still near Rui, thanks to his lack of myopia, he could see the situation clearly at a glance, of course, if it was just that, forget it, but what was even worse was that the Greek players with awkward names and similar looks began to gather in his direction.

For a moment, Maniche, who felt that he was simply besieged by zombies, looked around hard, as a defensive midfielder, his offensive ability is really not good, although Juan has also trained them well in the past few days, but after all, Rome was not built in a day?

To his delight or relief, at least for now, he was not alone, and there was a man waving at him in front of him, and Maniche looked at him, Quaresma!

Before Maniche could rejoice, he realized that Quaresma was not undefended around him, and the captain who had just scored the goal was there watching the goal, and his heart tightened, and he made a turn on his foot and distributed the ball to Deco.

Deco was very helpless when he received the ball, and I don't know what these players thought, after winning by one goal, especially after Rui's crazy beating just now, almost everyone returned to their own half, so the situation now is that almost all of them have one or three people around them to guard -

Yes, there was one man surrounded by three, and that was Cristiano.

It is estimated that Cristiano is also the first game to give Greece a greater threat, although the people around him also take care of the people on the other side, but most of the people still revolve around him.

The Portuguese youngster looked aggrieved and anxious, but even if he was jumping over there, Deco didn't look at him, and he was about to give the ball to Valente on the other side.

Oh God, Valente is obviously a defender, how did he run to the front?!

Cristiano was still frustrated here, and in the next second, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a ball almost immediately in front of him, and he and the people around him were startled, and subconsciously raised his foot to intercept the ball.

"Ronaldo catches the ball! What a surprise, how could Deco send the ball in his direction? ”

Apart from Deco, Hu Anxin was the only one in the audience who knew what he was thinking, and now it was only up to him to do what he was going to do - and Cristiano was the only one who could break the deadlock at the moment when Juan had to keep the whole defensive barrier.

After talking about the football at his feet, Cristiano looked up, and sure enough, the three people around him had already surrounded him, and he didn't have to tell who was who at this time, but he only knew that if he didn't fight at this time, he was likely to be surrounded and suppressed.

――The last time Juan was also surrounded and suppressed by three people, and it was also a compression and encirclement in the sports war, he resisted it in a dashing manner, so why can't he?

Of course, now is not the time to resist.

Cristiano stared into the eyes of one of them, his feet moving quickly, and he relied on his proud footwork to get to United, arguably the only one in the entire Premier League.

But once it comes to the international stage, maybe he is not so special.

The opposite side was unmoved, the Portuguese youngster's heart tightened, and when he tried to accelerate and change direction, both sides were blocked, if he really wanted to accelerate and change direction, the only possibility was to bump into the other party.

Greece seem to be specifically restrained by the flow of skills, such as Zinedine Zidane, for example, the Czech national team, and now Cristiano may be next.

The Portuguese No. 17 was about to be surrounded to death, and Deco was anxious not far away and wanted to come up to help him, but when he looked back at Juan, he still stopped himself.

"What's the matter, Cristiano is going to be surrounded to death, why isn't there anyone around to help?" The live broadcast was very dazed, and the person who was even more confused was Scolari, who was not the type of coach who yelled on the field, after all, his voice couldn't roar that far...... But he really wanted to know what the Portuguese team was starting to do again.

Juan looked in that direction from a distance, the expression on his face was calm, Andrade was guarding the backcourt with him, and when he saw him like this, he couldn't help but ask: "Juan, is it really good for you to let everyone toss Cristiano so much on the field?" ”

"Take a gamble." Juan bowed, "If it succeeds, the Portuguese team will have one more blade from now on, if it fails......"

"What will happen?" Andrade swallowed nervously.

And at this moment, the fans of the entire stadium began to be in an uproar, one by one stood up, clapped and cheered, almost as elated as if he had scored a goal, Juan looked up and glanced at the big screen, hooking the corners of his mouth to reveal a faint smile.

"How could it fail? He has succeeded. ”

Andrade also looked up, and it happened that Cristiano's movements were being replayed on the big screen at this time, and with lightning speed and unpredictable footwork on his feet, he used all his strength to evade the round-up of the three people with his skills.

"Hey, when did you teach him this trick?" Andrade looked surprised, after all, they hadn't seen Juan teach anyone or any method for so long, but Cristiano's current trick has a clear Juan Díaz style, and no one would believe it if it wasn't for him.

"It's been taught a long time ago, and he hasn't learned it." Juan pursed his lips and smiled, on his first day at Manchester United, he used this trick to shake off Roy Keane and then establish himself in Manchester United, when Cristiano pestered him to learn this, but after studying it for a season, he never saw him use it.

"So you want to take this opportunity to force him and make him learn?" Andrade shook his head in disbelief: "You madman. ”

"At least for now, it's fine, isn't it?" Juan squinted and looked ahead, after Cristiano rushed into the penalty area with the ball, he wanted to give the ball to Figo, but Figo waved his hand at him, and there was no intention of letting him pass the ball over at all.

“Gooooal！ Ricardo Quaresma! It was his first goal of the tournament and his first goal of the year, congratulations! I've almost forgotten that he's a striker......" The commentator in the live broadcast room couldn't help but complain, after all, there is too little time to see Quaresma, and even if you can occasionally catch a glimpse, it's because there are important people left on the bench.

Quaresma was still a little confused, he hadn't experienced the taste of scoring goals for a long time. When the ball came from Cristiano's feet, he just subconsciously raised his leg, and the ball was sent into the goal, this pass was very comfortable, so comfortable that he watched the ball being thrown by the Greek goalkeeper before he realized that he had scored.

"Ricardo!" He was hugged by the man who pounced, and Cristiano smiled happily: "Why are you not happy when you score?" ”

Quaresma crooked his lips and smiled: "What a happy method?" ”

"Where's your celebration?" Portugal's No.17 was a little depressed, he delivered such a beautiful assist! Why don't the people who score goals celebrate on the contrary!

"I want to celebrate, too, but you came and tied me up, I can't ......move," before the words were finished, the teammates who were around had already rushed up, and then they all hugged him and rubbed him, giggling and saying "well done" and "well done", Quaresma put up with his hair being messed up and squinted his eyes at Cristiano.

"Hey...... the Portuguese youngster rubbed his head a little embarrassed and ran away as his teammates sped away. He wouldn't admit that he had tied people there so that everyone could rub them......

The game restarted, the center circle serves, and the Greeks slowly come with the ball in the direction of Portugal, and they also know that the opening blitzkrieg is effective, but in the previous game, no matter how much they tried again, their ball could not reach the feet of their own players.

Juan and Maniche formed a natural barrier between the central and backfield, and Andrade, Valente and Carvalho at the back were always on the lookout for the Greek players rushing in, no matter who they were, so it was difficult for the Greek offensive to play all at once.

Portugal seem to have changed a little bit from the first game. There is no major change in the staffing, or even just a slight change in position, they have changed from a team with gorgeous offensive and defensive transformations to a midfield meat grinder, not to mention the ball, people may not be passable.

Janakopolos was careful with the ball, and the man who ran with him on his left was Charlesteauas, their striker, and on the other side he was Carvalho, the Portuguese youngster dislocated the goal post against Spain and did not play in two games, but in the final, Scolari still chose him.

Not why, just because he had a gesture of no hesitation to stop Raul's shot despite his own injury.

Carvalho's persistence and tenacity, the Greek team has also experienced, Yannakopolos was surrounded by him in the opening game, there is no place to use at all, and the only way in the end is to let the ball not stay here, in disguise, it is also to block him.

But to be honest, Carvalho's appearance in front of him made him breathe a sigh of relief. After all, for the entire Portuguese team, the person they least want to meet is still the No. 23, and they don't know where it is, and the strangulation tactics have almost no effect on him, even if it curbs his chance to get the ball, this person can still seize the opportunity at once, and then carry out an all-round counterattack.

But soon, he knew that he was too happy too soon.

Although Carvalho is a newcomer, it doesn't mean that he is any worse than anyone else, his hard work can be said to be the best in the whole team, Yannakopolos didn't even have time to pass the ball to his teammates, in the blink of an eye he found that he had been forced to the sideline, he immediately realized what Carvalho wanted to do, but it was a little late at this time, Carvalho smiled at him maliciously, lowered his head and began to greet the ball at his feet.

He's going to kick the ball off the sideline and pick it up and serve it again!

Yannakopolos was in a hurry in an instant, and bent over and the whole person was about to form a shrimp, protecting the ball from the air and on the ground, which made Carvalho stunned, he had never seen such a desperate defense!

However, as a defender, he immediately posted it to steal, so under the gaze of the big screen, the two people were entangled, you have me, I have you......

Seeing that the two of them were about to get their feet entangled, everyone couldn't bear to look at them and covered their eyes.

What are these two people doing on the court?

The players of Greece and Portugal couldn't stand it anymore, and they were ready to step forward to help, but no one's speed could catch up with Juan, and on the big screen, I saw the legs of the two of them intertwined with each other, clearly meaning "I can't touch the ball, you don't want to touch the ball", but on the big screen, a silver-gray NIKE assassin series ghost gently hooked the ball away, and the two people didn't seem to react, still lingering there.

Carvalho and Yannacopolos did not react until there was a "bang" behind them, too close, and they both turned around at the same time, just in time to see Juan's fluttering hair.

The two of them looked at each other and looked down, and sure enough, the ball was no longer at their feet.

"Huh?"

Juan turned around and patted Carvalho on the shoulder, looked at him with an indescribable look for a while, and finally didn't say anything, turned his head and ran away, for a while the inexplicable Portuguese No. 4 and the Greeks next to him stared at each other, and it was so difficult that they couldn't help but scuffle with each other again.

And in the live broadcast room, the commentators were already laughing crookedly: "That ball protector of Yannakopolos is really ugly hahahaha!" ”

"Isn't it even funnier that Carvalho came up with the idea of being so close to the point? It's like the two of them are going to improvise an exchange of flesh and soul on the field'! ”

"I think the biggest highlight is Juan's expression, haha, have you seen the look on Juan's face when he patted Carvalho, 'I didn't expect you to be like this', 'My teammates used to like this'?"

"I think it's like, 'You're going to die and I'm going to see if I'm going to clean you up'?"

"Or 'Your broken ball is ugly to me'?"

"You guys have so big brains, I can only see two words."

"What two words?"

"Additional training."

“……”

Carvalho's reading comprehension questions were not as good as those on the sidelines, but he also knew that it was embarrassing to let his seniors sweep the tail for him, so he turned around and went to defend the Greek who made him ugly.

"Big brother, your teammates steal the ball, shouldn't you attack at this time? You're going to rush with your teammates?! However, what made the Greeks even more helpless was that the man in front of him obviously didn't understand what he was saying, and was still engrossed in defending him, and it was very meaningful to just look at him dead on the court.

Juan didn't care what happened to those two people in the back, the ball had been passed to the midfield again, Rui Costa is very calm now, and a calm midfield master is difficult to deal with, even if the Greek team once intercepted Zidane very smoothly and effectively contained the French attack, but the main reason is not them.

The core of France is Zidane, and the entire French team runs around him, so it can be said that without Zidane, the Gallic rooster can immediately become a Gallic roast chicken, and the difference is so big.

Portugal is different.

They actually have three cores!! One in the front, one in the middle and one in the backfield!!

Of course, this is not the most devastating, the most terrible thing is that all three of them can assume the role of each other, whether it is organizing the attack or switching between attack and defense, the three of them are very smooth and natural, and the well water does not interfere with the river water, if once they cooperate, the Portuguese team will become like a loach and can't catch the tail at all.

So when they saw that Juan had been staying in their own half, the Greek team breathed a sigh of relief, and Rehhagel directly relaxed his wrinkled forehead, knowing that they can still stop an offensive and defensive core, once the number increases, then the difficulty will also increase exponentially.

But now, Juan is running forward! After he gets the ball out!

"My God, what are the Portuguese team doing here?" Rehhagel muttered that he shared the same thoughts as the Sky Sports commentary.

"What kind of formation is the Portuguese team, why are the defenders starting to move forward?? Well, although this is not uncommon in the Portuguese team under Scolari...... But generally speaking, they are all feints, so this is the first time they have directly participated in the attack, right? ”

It was indeed the first time, and Andrade and Carvalho were left in Portugal's own half, and Valente and Miguel went directly to the wings on both sides, so when Deco was about to turn back and look for an attacking point, he couldn't wait to poke himself in the eye.

What's going on, is he in his own half?

However, before he could finish his stunned streak, he saw a dark blonde man waving at him, and the meaning was obvious: to ask for the ball. As soon as he saw that it was Juan, Deco was very relieved to pass the ball, but he didn't know that he was relieved too soon.

"Juan Dias, he led two defenders and a striker to attack the Greek goal!" The on-site commentator was silent for a while after shouting this sentence, "What is he trying to do......"

The on-site commentary hesitated, and the online live broadcast room exploded directly, after all, in the past thoughts, the defenders have never participated in the offensive appearance, especially when several Portuguese defenders are not highly aggressive, they are better at intercepting people.

"What is Juan trying to do?" The first person to ask this question got a lot of secondments.

"It's about taking the backline to the pinnacle of life!"

"I was dumbfounded......

"To be reasonable, don't you think Juan's activity in this game seems to be a bit low?"

"The Reasonable Man has appeared! Juan's activity is not low, he has always been diligent in defense, and the Portuguese Wall of Sighs is not called casually! ”

"No, I'm not saying that Juan didn't contribute enough on the field, I just want to say that none of you think it's strange that Juan didn't give any instructions to everyone in this game......"

"He did it, when Figo went to tackle Costa's ball, and Deco's pass to Ronaldo!"

"But I haven't been directing on the field like I used to, and I feel a little unaccustomed to it."

"Maybe it's because it's the three cores today, so he's only in charge of the latter part, right?"

"So what's going on with him rushing in front of the goal now......

Streamer: "Gooooal! Juan Dias!! ”

“？！！”

"What is this goal?!!"

"I don't have time to see it yet!!"

"The goal came too suddenly, and the heart of the Greek team was broken......"

It was indeed devastating enough, Greece scored a goal in the blitzkrieg at the beginning, and originally thought that they could take this opportunity to go straight to the top of their lives, or at least from now on, they could win the game by defending for 90 minutes, but Portugal obviously didn't think so.

They first broke the deadlock with a pass that no one expected, a goal put both teams on the same running line, and then the defenders who did not play cards according to common sense came out en masse, it can be said that the ball was passed into the goal by the defenders, and Juan was the last person with an easy kick, such an easy and freehand goal directly stunned a group of people.

――No one expected that those defenders were really serious about attacking, and even the strikers of their own team were waiting to receive the ball at any time.

In the first half, Greece scored a lightning goal and Portugal scored twice in a row, and the European Championship final was simply spectacular, and when the halftime whistle blew, the fans who were engrossed in front of the TV sighed dissatisfied, and then turned to discuss it with their relatives and friends.