Chapter 367: Dragon Fight

"Robert. Carlos crosses, but it's blocked. Adriano and Thuram fight for the ball, Adriano takes the header and Ricardo takes the ball! ”

"Got Gala!" The narrator's voice suddenly tensed, and his tone became high-pitched, "It's time to shoot!" Abiddale Slide, pretty! Ricardo deducted Abidal again! Shot! ”

“Goal!!!!!!!!!” This time, the commentator's voice dragged on for half a minute, "In the 48th minute of the game, Brazil equalized!" Ricardo returned to midfield, stole from Zidane's feet, instigated the attack, and after cooperation, it was up to him to score the ball himself! ”

"It was a brilliant goal! Adriano's header was in place, and after Ricardo stopped and dunked past Galla, he was very calm in the face of Abidal's sliding tackle, and once again flashed the ball out of the air, raising his leg and bursting! Butters doesn't react at all, just watches the ball go into the net! ”

"In first-half stoppage time, France opened the scoring; At the start of the second half, Brazil tied the score and the two sides returned to the same running line. I have a hunch that this game is going to be very exciting! ”

Ricardo ran all the way to the corner flag area, pulled it down and waved it. It's not that he's forgotten his unique way of celebrating, it's that he's too excited to do Tai Chi calmly.

Pereira in Robert. When Carlos crossed, he couldn't help but jump up and rush to the sidelines, and when the ball was scored, he jumped a few times with his hands raised high, excited like a child.

No one understood how much pressure he was on.

Leading such a powerful Brazil team to the World Cup is both fun and painful.

If you win, you will say that Brazil is so strong that it is a matter of course to win. Not only to win, but also to play beautifully, to win without any dispute.

And he can't fail. Once you fail, it's an abyss: if such a strong Brazilian team can lose in your hands, what kind of coach are you?

But football is not a simple game of addition and subtraction, and if it were, then Brazil in '78 and '82 should have won the championship.

Especially in Brazil, which is known as the 82 golden generation, Zico, Socrates, Falcao, Santana, as well as Cerezo, Júnior, Osca, Eder, Sergio and other national teams are considered by Brazilians to be more beautiful and gorgeous than Pele, Riverino, Jaizinho, and Garrincha, but they died in Italy with a reinforced concrete defense.

The strongest spear, folded in the strongest shield.

The big names in the round, the skills of the team, the Brazilian team firmly overpowered the Italian side at that time, but died in the opponent's defense.

In today's world, football is becoming more and more utilitarian and more and more defensive. Pereira is also heavily influenced by the defensive philosophy, believing that defense is the only way to win championships.

But his philosophy was not well received by the fans, so although he led the team to win the World Cup in '94, he quickly resigned from the position.

This time, he was appointed to lead a team that was hailed as the best Brazil in history, and despite his impressive record, he still heard a lot of criticism that his team was not playing well enough and was not as exciting as people imagined.

Only the 5-1 defeat of Argentina in the Confederations Cup final gave him a lot of praise, but he knew very well that it was the luck of the Brazilian team that the Argentine mentality collapsed. How difficult it is to replicate such a devastating victory.

Today, his team faced its toughest test.

Although he has not lost his confidence, he is also mentally prepared to understand that it is likely that the team will only be able to force an equaliser when they are cornered, and he is even mentally prepared to play extra time and take penalties.

But the team scored at the beginning of the second half, how could it not make him ecstatic! With the fighting power shown by the Brazilian team in these few minutes, the team can solve the game in 90 minutes!

France kicks off again.

France, whose score was equalized, had no choice but to change their style of play. Domenech's set-up at half-time was useless.

Seemingly stimulated by Ricardo, the French team played a wave of attacks.

In the 49th minute, Henry dribbled the ball on the left near the touchline and crossed past Cafu and Lucio, but Juan was calm this time and broke the ball away.

Soon, Sagnol crossed diagonally into the Brazilian penalty area, and Henry leaned on Lucio's heel to pass the ball, which was again broken by Juan.

In the 53rd minute, Gilberto fouled Zidane and France won a free kick.

Malouda took the penalty and drove the ball into the box, Patrick Vieira headed it wide and Thierry Henry chested the ball at the back post to shoot in one go.

He didn't celebrate, though. The linesman had already raised the flag and he was offside at the moment of Vieira's header.

Soon after, France won another free-kick on the left flank, this time with Zinedine Zidane coming in.

Ricardo couldn't remember when Thierry Henry's goal had taken place in another time and space, but his attention had been particularly focused since the second half, especially when Zinedine Zidane took the free-kick.

In another time and space, the only time Zidane assisted Thierry Henry to score in his career was in the second half of this game.

When the Brazilian team set up the defense, Ricardo was originally responsible for marking Ribery, but out of the corner of his eye, he found that Robert. Carlos was crouching to tie his shoes.

He screamed badly and immediately ran away from Ribery and towards the back of the goal.

Zidane's free-kick was taken squarely. The ball went straight to the back post with a clear arc, and the players in front and in the middle failed to touch the ball, and the ball had already begun to fall sharply.

In Ricardo's field of vision, Henry is plugging in at high speed!

No, it's too late! Ricardo didn't have time to think about it, leaned forward, kicked the ground with both feet, and didn't care whether he would be injured or not, the whole person flew out and crashed into the flight track of the football.

When the soccer ball hit the side of his cheek a little under his ear, he was overjoyed! Blocked!

He slammed to the ground, followed by a burning pain in his cheeks. This part is too fragile.

But as long as you don't get scored, it's a good thing. Teammates helped Ricardo to get up, and the commentator was still wistful: "Brazil's defense has leaked, Henry ran to the back post unmarked, if he gets the ball, the consequences for Brazil are unimaginable." Luckily, Licardo reacted quickly and broke the ball off the line. ”

The French team took a corner kick and was pushed out by the Brazilian team, but the ball was soft and only high but not far away. Ribery volleyed the ball but Juan blocked it and almost grazed the post and flew off the line.

"It's dangerous, France almost scored again. After Brazil scored an equaliser in the opening minutes of the second half, the French team's morale has risen again and they are gradually taking the initiative. ”

"This dragon battle is about to enter the highest tide - tide!"