In the third quarter-final of the European Championship, the Netherlands and Sweden played 0-0 in 120 minutes, and the final penalty shootout relied on a crucial save from Edwin van der Sar, and the Dutch team won the penalty shoot-out for the first time in 12 years.

After the game, Yan Yi asked Jiang Qi to talk about his views on the Dutch team in this European Cup, and Lao Jiang pinched his chin and seemed to answer the question, "Rijkaard's life is not good!" ”

"How?"

"If Rijkaard were in charge of the Netherlands at this European Championship, the Dutch team should be able to reach the final comfortably and have a much higher chance of winning the title than they did four years ago. Four years ago, they met Toldo, who was blessed by God, and took 10,000 steps back, even if the Dutch team scored a penalty and won Italy, the French team in the final was more like a protagonist halo, and the Italians were about to cheer, Wiltord scored, and then ...... Trezeguet said that there was no then, the French team had a big foot at the back, seemingly harmless but let the Italians clear the mistake by themselves, and the goal process of equalizing was really weird. ”

Yan Yi smiled, "There is also Piero's one-shot goal, you must know that now the Italian media has turned over the old account from four years ago, because four years later, Piero missed another one-shot goal in the first two games of the group stage, and what's worse is that Italy was eliminated because of the draw in the first two games." ”

The rookie head went to Millican, and he had long forgotten about the war that he had provoked by changing his identity, and then he remembered, "Is Italy very lively?" ”

"Hey! It's all boiling! The Italian national team has been sprayed with blood from the coach to the main players on the field, Trapattoni has resigned under the pressure of public opinion, and the Italian Football Federation said that the new head coach will be announced within a week. ”

Jiang Qi nodded, I'm afraid that in addition to electing a new head coach, the Italian Football Association is still holding back what new restrictions have been introduced, but with his comment, the restriction order issued should be more beneficial to youth training.

Overall, this European Championship is a disappointing European Cup, and the traditional strong teams have not performed well, and the manager is a big reason for this. Trapattoni is conservative, and the Dutch team's Advocaat is not far behind, can put two midfielders in the midfield of the Dutch team, only Ruud van Nistelrooy is in front of the front, and the two wingers are the immature Robben on one side, and the unstable Van der Meyde on the other, no wonder even the Swedish team's defense can't be torn apart, and a super goalscorer like Mackay can only sit on the cold bench...... It's a terrible thing.

In this case, the fans' eyes will be more attracted by some off-the-field factors, such as Lao Jiang's god-level prophecy.

Therefore, before the last quarter-finals, the forum of Mingdeng was already full of posts hoping that Jiang Qi would predict the result of the game again, and Yan Yi also asked this question before the live broadcast on the second day.

"The Czech team will satisfy everyone." Someone's answer is very meaningful.

Two hours later, everyone understood what Jiang Qi meant, the Czech team beat the Danish team by three goals neatly, and the second half of the game was still exciting, which was one of the few games in this cup that could be rated "good-looking".

"The Czech players are very practical!" , Yan Yi sighed after the game: "There should be a lot of chasers after the European Championship, the two players Jankulovski and Ujfarusi, and Rosicky will also have a lot of people targeting, as for Cech...... You've made a good deal! ”

"As I said, the players that Milan brought in last summer will definitely be the envy of everyone in a few years." , the rookie head didn't seem to want to be modest, "But what about Barosh? What do you think? ”

Yan Yi shook his head, "He is a striker who benefits from the combination of the system and his own characteristics, no team will adjust the team's tactics for such a player, and a cup game cannot hide his weakness in the league." ”

After two days of rest, the top four began to fight each other, and the final suspense was getting closer and closer.

On 1 July, Portugal took the lead in welcoming the Netherlands, and Scolari was extremely cautious in starting the game with the duo of Costinha and Maniche, but after playing in the first half, he realized that the Dutch team's attacking efficiency was far lower than he expected, so he boldly replaced Costinha with Rui Costa in the 63rd minute, and this substitution worked wonders. The retreating Rui Costa's dispatch pass was more aggressive, a shift to the side to assist Cristiano Ronaldo's header to score, and a straight Cedco long-range shot into the net, and the score of 2:0 also allowed the hosts to successfully break through to the final.

Advocaat's transformation of the Dutch team is actually a bit contrary to the system of full attack and defense, he strives to make the team's back line more stable, and at the same time can better grasp the rhythm of the game, so he arranged two back midfielders to make Seedorf the organizer, but it broke off the continuity of the most feared attack under the full attack and defense system, so that the efficiency of the attack was greatly reduced, not to mention sticking to the position of the winger, the defeat of this game is not so much the bitter fruit of tactical regression, compared to Scolari's transformation, Putting the midfield more aggressive and moving faster, Advocaat looked clichéd and nondescript. This is Jiang Qi's final summary.

Another point that disappointed him was that Van der Vaart and Van Persie, two young people, did not get too many opportunities under Advocaat, just like Trapattoni did with Pirlo, but Robben rose to the top in one fell swoop, although many balls were handled badly, but it still did not prevent the precocious Peter Pan from becoming the prey of the giants.

"That's not bad, maybe, no one will come to harass Van Persie......", the rookie head thought so, and his heart was instantly balanced, and he even had a little bad idea of "do you want to fish in troubled waters and raise the price of Luo himself".

On July 2nd, the most surprising game appeared, the Czech team, which was optimistic about the prospect of winning the championship, was eliminated by the dark horse Greek team and fell one step before the finish line.

Nedved's injury in the first half cast a shadow on the Czech team's prospects of qualifying, and the Greeks' defensive system limited the Czech team's offense in place.

"If Greece really wins the European championship in the end, it will be another European Championship miracle after Denmark!" , Yan Yi said with emotion.

"It's ...... for sure," Jiang Qi replied noncommittally, because now that Portugal has more tactical changes, the outcome has become unpredictable.