Today's starters for both teams are, France, goalkeeper Barthez, back four Lizarazu, Desailly, Blanco and Thuram, four midfielders, Didier Deschamps, Patrick Vieira, Zinedine Zidane and Petit, and forwards Thierry Henry and Wiltord. A most standard French 442, with defense as the main complement to counterattacks.

Portugal is a 4231 formation, goalkeeper Beya, four defenders, Di Maas, Joao Costa, Cuto, Xavier, two midfielders, Vidigal and Costinha, three midfielders, Figo, Rui Costa and Conceição, single striker Nuno. Gomez.

This is actually somewhat similar to Bordeaux's formation, except that their striker Gomes is a master who has been in the national team for a long time, but has returned to the club without doing anything.

After the national anthems of the two teams were played, the captain went to the middle to ask for the venue.

At this time, Santini next to him leaned into Vincent's ear and said, "President Chirac is in the stands today. ”

"Uh..." Fan Shang was stunned for a moment, then nodded. I thought to myself, "This president is really interesting, as long as the game is a little important, he will come to watch it, I guess he really likes to watch the game." ”

Portugal, as the representative of the Latin school in Europe, was technically excellent and advocated attack.

Today is not the beginning, Portugal continued their style, pressing heavily in the hope of finding the French goal as soon as possible.

Rui Costa was in the middle of the middle, with Figo and Conceição on both flanks, attacking the French penalty area in waves.

Although Portugal is also two midfielders, these two are not purely defensive, Costinha and Vidigal will be involved in the attack, and the two fullbacks are also unwilling to be lonely, and they are playing on the side again and again.

In the face of this kind of attack, the French back line is still very solid, with the assistance of two central midfielders, the back line is methodical and defensive.

Portugal's lone striker Gomes is a flexible striker, making it a bit difficult for him to stay in the middle, so Portugal's attack is a bit thunderous.

Breaking, shifting, breaking through, crossing, and then being disrupted, that's the opening Portugal attack.

Portugal's head coach Coelho frowned and watched on the sidelines for more than ten minutes, and felt that he needed to change, so he kept shouting on the sidelines, and kept gesticulating, although Fan Shang couldn't hear him clearly, but from the gestures, Fan Shang also saw that he asked Portugal to retreat appropriately and slow down the pace.

In this way, the two teams began a tug-of-war back and forth, but mainly Portugal was attacking and France was defending.

In the 13th minute, Portugal Rui Costa distributed the ball through the middle to Conceição on the left, who did not break through Thuram's defense, so he passed back to Rui Costa again, this time Rui Costa feinted to shoot and let Vieira fall to the ground early, and then Rui Costa went around Vieira for a real long-range shot, but Rui Costa was too focused on the angle and did not hit the ball in the woodwork.

However, Vieira's recklessness made Fan Shang frown a little, if such a situation occurs again, then the French goal may be really dangerous.

Fan Shang pulled Lizarazu on the side of the field and asked him to tell Vieira not to mess around, just follow. Vieira's biggest problem when he was young was frizz, and now he is gradually entering his peak, and this problem even occasionally recurs.

In the 20th minute, after Portugal kicked the goal, Conceição and Figo ran a cross to change positions, Figo ran to the right side of France to receive the ball, and then passed back to Rui Costa, who crossed the ball to Conceição on the left side of France.

Conceição did not stop receiving the ball with his back, but brushed the ball towards the middle with his right foot, and quickly turned to chase the ball, so that he gave Petit who stepped forward to defend him closely, and then dodged Deschamps to tackle and continue to dribble the ball in the middle.

At this time, Vieira was guarding in the middle, and after seeing Conceição pass the ball, he let the ball pass and stuck Conceição behind him with his body, and this series of actions was no problem.

But the big question is, do you leak the ball and someone catches it? The answer was, but it was a Portuguese player, Nuno. Gomez has been moving inside and outside the box, and this time he saw that Vieira was only stuck and didn't care about the ball, so he decisively came to the outside of the box, and when Vieira was concentrating on Conceição's foot strength, Blanco had not yet reacted.

Nuno Gomez suddenly appeared in front of the ball, because he ran out of the penalty area, so he was facing the goal with his back, but as a striker's sense of smell, he thought it was an opportunity, so he began to turn around when he was two steps away from the ball, and when he came to the ball, he just adjusted to the position of his left foot shot, Nuno Gomez also did not stop the ball, and did not hesitate to volley.

Barthez habitually stood outside the small penalty area, and the ball was fast and angled, and it flew into the top right corner of the French goal after Barthez deflected his head.

"pxxxxx, mxxxx" Fan Shang couldn't help but scold two French national curses.

However, from the heart of the Nunogomez goal, the ball is really beautiful, from the search for opportunities, to the running, turning and adjustment before the shot, there is no sense of pause in one go, and the final shot is also to have power and strength, to have an angle, this goal is definitely a favorable contender for the most exciting goal in this European Cup. Of course, there is also the fact that Nuno Gomez himself is also handsome, which adds a lot to the excitement of this goal.

Just when the Portuguese team was celebrating the goal, Vincent finally called Vieira to his side, and there was no soft voice at this time, "Will you kick, twice, one long-range shot and one goal, if you can't come down!" "Fan Shang said quite bluntly, how can there be time to detour in the game.

"I'm sorry, boss" The French player is also called Vincent Tou, Vieira knows that his mistake caused the goal, and there is nothing to defend.

"Remember, don't mess around, and then destroy the ball first if you can destroy it, they ran a lot today, you can't drag it out like this!" Fan Shang couldn't really replace Vieira directly, so he gave a few key instructions, "I'll give you another 10 minutes, give me normal, or today will be your last game of this European Cup." ”

"I know, sir, I'll take notice." Vieira nodded firmly.

"Okay, don't worry, be steady!" Vincent patted Vieira on the back and let him get back into the game.

Nuno Gomez's goal changed the score to 1-0.