We finally got on the field, the fans cheered, in Europe, Croatian football is not at all comparable to Portuguese football, Portugal's European Latin football has been famous in the world for a long time, but Croatia as a country that has just split up, our football is not yet known, even people who know our Yugoslav football, they also have concerns about Croatian football, because Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Countries such as Macedonia already make up half of our former Yugoslav squad, while Croatia only make up the other half. www.biquge.info In the eyes of the world, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, established by the Serbs, is the legitimate successor of our former Yugoslavia, and we who inherited the most great stars of the former Yugoslavia are not recognized. So, compared to Portugal, who have always played as a country, we in Croatia are really far from enough in terms of fan attraction. In this stadium, the Portuguese fans may make up more than 80%, while the Croatian fans may only make up 10%, and the rest of the fans may be just neutral fans who come to see the excitement. The number of Croatian fans is very small, and most of them are fans from within Croatia. Croatia has just become independent, and because it has just experienced war, our country is not rich at the moment. There are very few fans who can afford to go to the European Championship. Even if the European Championship Organising Committee will give us more tickets, few people can afford such tickets.

Although there are few fans in Croatia, this does not mean that our Croatian team should not work hard. In the first two games, we have already attracted some fans, such as the first 4-1 win over Turkey, we have already shocked the world. A lot of the media made headlines about our performance, but unfortunately we couldn't beat Denmark in the second game. If we can beat the European champions, then maybe we will have more fans in Croatia. But even if it was just a draw against Denmark, it was a good result for us. Although our team is not as attractive to the fans, the match against Denmark at least shows that our Croatian team is not a weak-willed team, even against the European champions, it is not for the other side to take what they want.

I know that during this period of time, there has been more and more sports media focusing on Croatia's performance. Due to our unbeaten run of one win and one draw in our first two games, as well as our current dominance at the top of the group, our match against Portugal has become the focus of the final group stage. Denmark, the champions of last year's European Championships, still have a chance of qualifying, and our battle with Portugal will determine which two teams will make it out of the group. The real dominator is our Croatian team, because it involves the question of whether to leave or leave the European champion Denmark team, so the media is observing and evaluating our Croatian team more and more.

However, one thing that makes us very unhappy is that most of the media's opinion of our Croatian team is not purely sports, they are always speculating whether our Croatian team will draw with Portugal in order to seek a safe qualifying place, and if we draw with Portugal tacitly, then the Danish team, which is currently behind on goal difference, will not be able to qualify even if it defeats the Turkish team by a small score. Only if we lose to Portugal, or if Portugal loses to us, then Denmark can qualify. But in today's situation, the possibility of a draw with Portugal is actually very high, even if we go all out, we may not be able to beat the European powerhouse Portugal, how can those media arbitrarily speculate that we are playing match-fixing with Portugal?

I was already very angry at the words of the media, and the only way to slap them in the face was for us to beat Portugal and give Denmark a chance to qualify. This is both my commitment to Schmeichel and the best way to get our Croatian team out of this unfavourable rhetoric. Therefore, now, when I have come to this battlefield, I have made up my mind to defeat Portugal and qualify with my head held high!

The Portuguese fans, after 90 minutes, you're going to be slapped in the face. Shout out, my teammates and I will slap you in the face with one goal after another!

Croatia fans, Croatian fans, as long as you always support our Croatian team, we will definitely repay you with a perfect performance. We are a war-torn country, and as long as we can use football to reassure our people, I am satisfied!

With this in mind, we set up our formation and just waited for the referee's whistle to blow and our game was about to start!

The referee's whistle blew and the game officially began, with Portugal kicking off first, Rui Costa passed the ball to Luis Figo, who got the ball and passed it to Nuno Gomez in the forward line. Nuno Gomez got the ball and immediately ran forward, he was quick and quickly made his way through our midfield and into our backline.

Now, after playing the European Championship for so long, everyone knows that our Croatian team lacks a midfielder. Because our midfield is very controlling, our coach has put up a line-up without a back, leaving two midfielders to control the midfield. It's a fatal flaw defensively, but if you score one more goal in attack than your opponent, then we can win, and in the first two games we did just that, scoring seven goals in two games and conceding four goals in two games. Because of our no-back line-up, there are huge flaws, so every team we play against now knows how to catch such a weakness in us. That was the case with Portugal, who quickly sent Nuno Gomes to sprint to our back line and single-handedly look for a shot on target. At the same time, they were midfielders who were on the run and quickly followed, ready to scramble for a follow-up shot after Nuno Gomes' shot.

However, will such tactics really work? I smiled slightly......