After the restart, France still did not change the strategy of defensive counterattack, but the pressing in the midfield accelerated at this time, after all, the goal was conceded, and something had to be changed.

In the 27th minute, Patrick Vieira received a yellow card for tackling Figo.

In the 32nd minute, Figo forced a breakthrough on the right side of Bordeaux to Thuram, but he has not been able to get rid of it, and finally forced a cross when he was close to the bottom line, Barthez attacked and grabbed the ball in front of Nunogomez's head.

In the 34th minute, Wiltord also forced a shot in front of the penalty area and was firmly held in his arms by Portugal's goalkeeper captain Baia. It was what appeared to be France's first shot inside the woodwork.

In the 39th minute, as if to fight back, Figo cut inside from the right and then shot from outside the box against a double strike from Deschamps and Desailly, which was the same as Wiltord's, which was held by Barthez.

Then Barthez threw the ball to launch a counterattack, Deschamps accurately found Zidane who ran into the penalty area with a long pass in the middle circle, Zidane elegantly unloaded the ball and gently made it inward to Lizarazu who was inserted into the penalty area, but due to physical disadvantage, Lizarazu did not win the confrontation with Joao Costa and fell to the ground in the penalty area.

The referee awarded Bordeaux a corner.

Petit's ball went to the back post, Henry ran to the corner of the box to receive the ball, and then passed back to Deschamps, Deschamps once again to the penalty area, this time to find Blanco standing on the line of the penalty area, Blanco header a little, to the penalty spot, at this time the ball is the unguarded Wiltord.

But just as Wiltord stopped the ball on his chest and was about to shoot, the referee's whistle blew, and Wiltord was in an offside position at this time.

There was no problem with the penalty of this ball, and Fan Shang could only show pity and blame the referee at all.

In the 41st minute, Zidane took the ball in the middle line, and then the two bikes changed direction and easily passed Kostina, facing Vidigal and Henry to make a 2-over-1 clever combination, although there was a pass from the crotch of Portuguese fullback Dimas to Thuram who assisted on the wing, Thuram also kept passing back to Henry, Henry shot in the upper right corner of the penalty area, this time still did not hit the goal frame.

However, this ball fully demonstrates Zidane's skills, the combination of man and ball is quite perfect, and the ball is also just right.

In the 43rd minute, Rui Costa and Figo grabbed the ball at Vieira's feet in the middle of the field, although there was a suspicion of fouling, but the referee did not say that Rui Costa just caught up with the ball, and felt a black shadow in front of him, so he quickly jumped to avoid. This black shadow is Desailly who stepped forward to make up for the defense, but although Desailly grabbed the ball first, the referee thought he was a dangerous move, so he showed Desailly a yellow card.

In the ensuing game, the two teams fought in midfield for most of the time, and Zinedine Zidane had a more threatening long-range shot before the end of the half-time, but other than that, the two teams were lackluster.

As the halftime whistle blew and the score was still 1:0, Fan Shang first walked into the players' tunnel with his head down.

When the players were seated, Fan Shang habitually clapped his hands first, so that the players' attention was focused on him, "The goal in the first half was an accident, although there were some mistakes in it, but I don't blame you, but your shooting efficiency is not high in the past few days, and only once in the entire first half was within the goal frame." Fan Shangyi shook his head, "This is the world champion?" Won't you be flexible? If you can't get into the positional battle, you won't create corners, free kicks! ”

At this time, some players suddenly raised their heads, "Also, you two go forward to assist!" Vincent then pointed to Thuram and Lizarazu, "Their wide crosses are mediocre, as long as you prevent the in-cut, then you two should boldly go forward, and keep Didier and Patrick behind to fill in for you!" And the two of you, they take the side, you cut inside, look at the first half, you two became wingers! Vincent pointed to the two strikers, Thierry Henry and Wiltord.

"In the second half, go to both sides, pay attention to making fouls and corners, remember no!" Fan Shang's request was simple.

Of course, the players nodded violently, "Zizou, pay attention to the two wings to score more balls, and Didier is the same, less high balls sent directly into the penalty area, let them cross." ”

Zinedine Zidane and Didier Deschamps also nodded.

The layout of Fan Shang's midfield is very simple, these are veterans who have been through a hundred battles, and pouring chicken soup is a deaf ear to them, tell them about countermeasures, and they will implement them on the field.

"One more thing," Fan Shang suddenly remembered something, "save some stamina, we are likely to go to overtime." ”

The players nodded again, they still agreed on this point, after all, they were one goal behind.

In the second half, both teams did not make personnel changes.

The French side once again accelerated the pace of the game, Vieira and Deschamps were even more forward in the tackle position, directly pressing Portugal in the midfield.

In the 49th minute, Zidane made a steal in midfield and then passed to Thierry Henry, who stumbled all the way and then barely shot from distance in the penalty area, which was a bit off. But seeing Zidane often retreat to participate in the defense, Vincent was very pleased.

In the 51st minute, Vieira grabbed in front of Figo to block the pass, and then Figo pulled it from behind. France sent in a quick free-kick and Vieira got up and passed the ball to Thuram, who took it forward about five metres before shoehorning a pass straight into the box.

Wiltord started quickly, stopped the ball when it was almost off the line, and then turned to face the goal to find that he had no angle to shoot, but his eyes were out of the corner to see Henry running into the box.

Wiltord didn't hesitate to pass the ball back to Henry, who turned sideways a bit and turned over after stopping the ball on his chest and then raised his left foot to shoot.

The ball passed between Xavier and Couto, two Portuguese players defending him, and flew into the bottom left corner of the goal, although the ball was not fast, but because the defender blocked Baia's view, it was too late for Baia to see the ball.

At the moment of the goal, Fan Shang jumped up from the ground, and a big stone in his heart fell to the ground, and finally equalized the score.