25 June 2004, Estadio José Alballad, Lisbon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

France vs Greece, judging from the record of the historical battle, the Greek team can pack up and go home. But judging from the results of this European Cup, the Greek team has won all three games, and the balance of attack and defense has made some professionals start to be optimistic about Greece's performance.

As Hu Li analyzed before the game, the current French team can be said to be suffering from internal and external troubles. Lizarazu's injury has left him in an unstable position at the right rear. The attack on the right flank was largely paralyzed.

With Patrick Vieira out injured, Santini sent on Claude Makelele in a central midfield position, which was said to be a good line-up.

But Santini did misestimate Makelle's abilities. Makelele's inability to coordinate the backline was a key factor in France's defeat

Hu Li sent the strongest squad of the Greek team: goalkeeper: Nicopolidis, defenders: Ebel, Dellas, Kapsis, Hebrew, forwards: Richard, Giana Kopoulos Calagones, Chatas, Zagorakis, forward: Charlistias.

Santini also fielded the strongest squad available, goalkeeper: Butters; defenders Galassi, Desailly, Silvestre, Thuramsa; Midfielders: Claude Makelele, Pire, Zidane, Roten, Pedreti; Forwards: Thierry Henry, Trezeguet.

At the beginning of the game, many people thought that it was destined to be a relatively one-sided game. The French team attacked Greece on the ground, and in the end the French team beat the Greek team by a big score, and that was it.

However, there is always a deviation in what is expected, and the French team continues their slow heat as always.

The Greek team is coming into the rhythm very fast, and Richard is now more and more capable of attacking and defending metronomes. In the face of a master like Zidane, Richard is calm, not impatient, calm and calm, even if he is broken through by Zidane, the two fullbacks next to Richard will make up for it in time.

Patrick Vieira's absence has led to a significant drop in midfielder's ability to intercept and play the ball, with Makelele alone at the back and putting pressure on him. Under the guidance of Santini's single tactic, the French team frequently found strikers with long passes directly from the backfield, while Trezeguet and Henry's double strikers did not run enough and did not connect enough, resulting in the inability to open up space, and Pire's position was unable to open up his fists in the crowding of Zidane and Henry. Zidane alone is difficult to support on the attacking side of the midfield, and the number of mistakes is increasing.

From this point, it can be seen that the strength of the Greek team's midfield is incomparable to the French team in terms of physical fitness and teamwork alone.

What made the French team even more demoralized was the Greek man-to-man defense throughout the game, solid and solid, and the help defense was in place, Kapousis stared at Trezeguet, Abel and Hebrew broke through Henry's side defense, Zagorakis and Richard took turns against Zidane, and Delas dragged back to put out the fire. This configuration has caused the French midfield to basically lose their attacking system.

On the other hand, the Greek team played well in the offense, with Abel and Hebrew's assists but not detached from the defensive position, Richard's offensive transition, and ball distribution; Calagonés' creativity in the midfield position shows that Greece's ability to work as a team bridges the gap with France's stars. They insist on ground cooperation, accurate passing, and never easy long passes, Zagorakis, Giana Kopoulos, Caragones and Charlesteauas cooperate tacitly, pass and cut when they have the opportunity, and knock back to reorganize the attack when they don't have the opportunity, but they have formed a-for-tat situation for the French team on the field.

With 30 minutes to go, France didn't have a decent shot on goal, which was unthinkable for French fans.

Seeing such a situation on the sidelines, Santini anxiously stood up from the dugout.

After the dead ball, Santini replaced Trezeguet on 35 minutes and replaced Wiltord, the French team strengthened the attack, but still lacked discipline and played a more chaotic game, Wiltord did play the role of a tandem midfielder after coming on the field, but the Greek team's man-to-man defensive system is not so easy to break.

In the 42nd minute of the game, Zidane broke through Richard in the middle, and his volley was too small and was easily received by Nicopolidis.

In 46 minutes of stoppage time, Pire broke free of Giannakopoulos' defensive position and crossed from the right flank, a 45-degree diagonal pass that was perfectly accurate, but Thierry Henry's header was unflattering.

At the end of the first half, Greece had 0 shots on goal and France had twice, but in the whole game, Greece had the advantage, and the possession rate was 5 percentage points higher than that of France.

Greece burst into laughter in the dressing room as Santini painstakingly instructed the superstars on what to do in the second half. In Hu Li's words: "In the second half, we will take over the game, strengthen the physical confrontation, and knock down a few of these superstars, naturally their skills will be deformed." ”

At the beginning of the second half, the captain of the Greek team, Zagorakis, picked up the ball on the side to break through Galla's defense, and accurately crossed to the unmarked Charlisteas, and after a header, the French team fell behind the Greek team 0:1.

The stunned bald goalkeeper of the French team could not accept the result and cursed the incompetence of the back line at the goal.

Desailly took full responsibility for the goal, with the defensive misalignment and slow turn-around have constrained the fitness and performance of the world-class centre-backs.

Desailly's feeling at this point was: "Yes, I'm old, it's time to retire." ”