Chapter 389: How difficult it is to catch up again
Although the defense of the Czech team is as solid as an iron wall, our Croatian team's attack is not covered. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Since we formed a combination of double forward and single midfielder, gradually the advantage of possession has returned to our Croatian side. The first half was 40 minutes long and although Croatia were still 1-2 down, we had possession back to 48 per cent to 52 per cent with one man less. You know, in the first 20 minutes, our Croatian team only had a pitiful 38% of the possession, and in the last 20 minutes, we chased 10 percentage points in a row, which means that in the last 20 minutes, we have been in an advantageous position to face the Czech team.
"How is this going on? Croatia were sent off by one man, so why did they increase their possession instead? Their offensive seems to have gradually begun to suppress the Czech offensive, why is that? The fans on the field are probably thinking about such a question, and even a few fans have begun to scold: "Czech team, can you not be so conservative!" The Croatian team is obviously one less, but their attack is slowly overpowering your attack! ”
The players of the Czech team played unhurriedly according to their tactics. Despite the loud cursing of the English fans in the stands, they remained unmoved. These England fans, they don't really support the Czech team at all, they just want to see the Czech team beat us by a bigger score, to vent their breath of being beaten by our Croatian team. After all, this is the final of the European Championship, and the Czech team, after taking the lead, played conservatively, which is completely expected, and the England fans have the idea that if they want the Czech team to press out and play, if they play well, they will be worth the ticket price, and if the Czech team can beat us by a big score, they will have a bad breath. However, if the Czechs were to score the winner instead of a goal from us due to a frenzied attack on us, it would not be the end of the world for their England fans.
I've got a pretty good idea of what the English fans think. The only thing we can do is that it doesn't matter to us, whether they're cheering for the Czechs or encouraging them to attack desperately. The most important thing for us is to better control the situation on the field, and to strengthen the midfield as an opportunity to force the strongest point of the Czech team. When we can beat the Czechs at their best, we can really beat the Czechs and win the European Championship. So far, our tactics have been very targeted, and the combination of Nedved and Nemecek in the Czech team has been comfortable against our two midfielders, but when I returned to the midfield position, we played against both of them with three people, and the combination of Nedved and Nemecek slowly weakened.
This time, I took the ball past Nedved, although Nedved was overcome, but he was very unwilling, he turned around and squeezed me, not letting my whole body pass easily, so I flicked the ball with my right foot and passed it to Boban's feet. Nemechek rushed to Boban's side and tried to cut off the ball at Boban's feet, but Boban immediately made a direct pass, and the ball was passed to Prosinetski's feet!
In the end, the ball was passed to Prosinetski's feet, and Nedved was caught by me, and Nemechek was caught by Boban, and Prosinetski became an unguarded point at this moment!
"Here's your chance! Prosinetssky, hurry up and shoot! ”
I saw Prosinetski, posing for a shot! With his right foot, he fired a beautiful boomerang shot, and the Czech goalkeeper Kuba, who is also a strong goalkeeper, flew to save and touched Prosinetski's boomerang shot! If it hadn't been for this save, the Czechs would have lost the goal, but fortunately, Kuba's fingers touched the ball on the post, and the ball bounced back after touching the post!
This time, again, it ended in failure, and I saw Prosinetski's shot fail and wanted to rush forward and hit it again. But my body was stuck in Nedved and I couldn't run in the direction of the goal, and Boban was also in a state of being stuck and couldn't get up to the shot.
However, we still have one man in the Croatian team, who is in an empty position! He is, Boksic!
Boksic appeared ghostly in front of goal, he received the ball that bounced back and pushed it away! The ball flew to the bottom right corner of the goal, can this ball hit the middle of the goal?
Kuba actually made a god-level save again! He used his calf to block Boksic's shot! The ball was blocked out of the baseline and the referee awarded a corner!
The goal was clearly a dribble, and Boksic's shot was supposed to be a must-have, but Kuba was in the only right position. His calf, after blocking Boksic's shot, even twisted himself with a painful look. At this time, the referee let the Czech team's ambulance stretcher into the field, and when the stretcher came to the Czech team's goal, Kuba slowly stood up again. The fans applauded Kuba, but in fact, the Czech team wasted a few minutes of their time!
Soon, the referee blew the whistle for halftime! We trailed the Czechs 1-2 at half-time. Although we were 2-1 down and 11-10 we had an advantage in midfield, but that advantage didn't help us equalise in the first half. The Czechs relied on their exceptional luck to escape in the final moments of the first half. A succession of saves from Kuba kept our Croatian shot out of the net, and our shot went wide. It was just a little bit of luck that we couldn't equalise in the first half.
Why is it so difficult to tie the score? We've worked so hard, whether it's in the gravity room or any other kind of training, we've worked very hard, we've been very tired, and we've been playing very hard in the game. However, in the end, we still couldn't get back on the scoresheet......
I swore in my heart that in the second half, no matter what, I would score, I would definitely help Croatia equalize......