Boksic's goal left the fans of the Portuguese team silent. Although Portugal has a large number of fans www.biquge.info the cheering of the fans is not heavy, as long as the team on the field can play well, even if the number of fans is small, it can overwhelm the majority of fans with a small number of fans.

The most important thing is the performance on the pitch, as long as we can score, our fans will have a moment to raise their eyebrows!

After Boksic's goal, the score was 1-0. The coach once said that after we took a 1-0 lead, we began to focus on defensive counterattacks, not to score more goals, but to be more stable in defense, as long as we can attract the players of the Portuguese team to attack and press, we can play a quick counterattack!

Our forward line now has quite good must-kill shots, and in the counter-attack, if we can quickly face the Portuguese goalkeeper Baia, we will definitely be able to break the opponent's goal.

However, the biggest problem now is that we are also a team that is weak in attack and defense, and similar to Portugal, our stars are mostly concentrated in the midfield, especially in the forward line. The Portuguese attack, since it can be called first-class in Europe, must have its existential significance. How can our backline be guaranteed to withstand the Portuguese attack?

At this time, Portugal started to kick off. Rui Costa and Luis Figo continue to work together wonderfully. They just used a couple of beautiful one-twos to get past our midfielders Boban and Prosinetski and quickly hit our backline. The beautiful combination and the wonderful attack attracted the applause of the fans in the stadium, and the Portuguese team deserved to be a very good technical team, and their attack was smooth and smooth.

Rui Costa controlled the ball and got in front of Simic. Rui Costa is both a master of ball handling and a master of passing, but in general, he rarely attacks with a possession pass, but instead uses a lot of passing to attack. But now, he didn't force a pass in the face of Simic, but flicked the ball lightly and passed it to Luis Figo next to him, and Luis Figo received a pass from Rui Costa, and made a cushion pass directly forward without stopping the ball, and the ball was handed to the striker in front of goalkeeper Radici - Nuno Gomez!

Nuno Gomez ran up from the rear. Nuno Gomez was not offside at the moment of Luis Figo's pass, and behind him was our other centre-back Bilic! Nuno Gomez got past Bilic's defence in an offside position and rushed straight in front of Latić. Seeing that the situation was not good, Radici hurriedly rushed out and kicked the ball out with a falling tackle!

For some time now, our Croatian team has been in front of the goal, and the attack of the Portuguese team is really extraordinary, especially the ability of Rui Costa and Luis Figo to control the field is very strong, when the two of them control the field, we can hardly touch the ball, but their attack has made us determined to defend and counterattack again, because we will really not be able to free up our hands to counterattack for a while, so we must first ensure that we do not concede a goal, and then we can slowly launch a counterattack.

Luis Figo and Rui Costa were really in possession of the ball, we were never able to get the ball at their feet from the beginning to the end, but if they had to keep the ball, the ball would not always be at their feet, but would keep moving around the Portuguese players. They controlled the ball outside our penalty area and were ready to pull and move our line-up whenever and wherever they could.

Their possession from outside the box really put a lot of pressure on our backline, not just the four defenders, including all four of our midfielders, but I was the only one standing in the centre circle and Boksic was responsible for getting the ball at the feet of the Portuguese ball carrier. This division of labor has allowed us to compress the space in our penalty area, so that Portugal cannot break into our box very smoothly. But Portugal were very patient and when they realised that the attack would not work immediately, they continued to pass on the edge of our box under the leadership of Rui Costa and Luis Figo and were not in a hurry to shoot. Their tactics, in the words of the famous Japanese cartoon soccer players, are called birdcage tactics, they just want to turn us into caged birds, trap us, and prevent us from stealing the ball. With their possession, if we are in any position to rush forward, they will in turn break through to our position, so that they can gain a partial advantage of possession in a position like ours, and even cut in to get a shot on goal.

Such a birdcage tactic has made our backline squeezed out. In front of the Portuguese team, we really felt the power of other Latin teams in Europe, not only Croatia in Europe, but also Portugal, Spain, all the countries in Yugoslavia, and the Czech Republic - all of which belong to the Latin team in Europe. The European Latins are very good in terms of technique, their technique, their ball control, their passing, very artistic. Just like the Portuguese team in front of them, they can use possession to put so much pressure on our backline, which shows that they are quite mature in the European Latin team.

We have to find a way to break the birdcage tactics of the Portuguese team, and if we can't break their birdcage tactics, we can't play a decent counter-attack. If it's always been for them to pass around this place, they'll eventually find the moment when we're slacking off and score a goal...... So, we can't put our hopes on the fact that they will never be able to break our goal. Football is a game of goals after all, and as long as we can score one more goal than theirs, we can win. We've scored one more goal than them so far, so if we press forward, wouldn't the worst be a draw for them? However, we were able to tactically restrain Portugal and I think that was our chance!