Chapter 15: The First World War Materazzi
After the start of the game, the Italian team chose to give up the ball and defend the counterattack. Zidane was like a fish in water in midfield, frequently asking for the ball to organize and dispatch, and within five minutes each distributed the ball to Malouda on the left and Rovich on the right.
In the sixth minute, Malouda received another pass from Zidane. With little adjustment, Malouda turned on the left flank and cut into the box, where Cannavaro and Materazzi were caught at the same time.
Materazzi leaned on his long leg and reached out first to try to break the ball. Malouda was a full seventeen centimeters shorter than him, but his reaction was a full seventeenth century faster than him, and a chest stop made Materazzi save. To make matters worse, Materazzi was also unable to retract his leg because of this, and kicked Malouda hard in the calf.
There was no suspense for the foul, and the referee immediately blew a penalty.
It was only seven minutes into the game, and Luo Weixi had barely run a hundred meters.
Zinedine Zidane stood in front of the penalty spot and a perfect spoon of the penalty completely deceived Buffon to give France a 1-0 lead.
The Frenchmen at the scene suddenly fell into a frenzy, but Rovich was not happy at all. For him, the task was not to win the game, but to ensure that Zidane was not sent off. Under this premise, the lead of the French team may not be a good thing, especially since the goal conceded was caused by Materazzi's mistake.
With Materazzi's character, he could not remain indifferent to his own failures, and Rovich thought to himself that from now on he had to keep an eye on the old horse, and he was most likely going to attack Zidane.
After the French team scored, the situation on the field began to heat up, and the midfield meat grinders also took turns to fight with bayonets. As the core of the organization, Zidane did not relax because of the lead, and still watched the situation on the field with a grim face, and the ball distribution became more selfless.
Under a wave of strangulation by Vieira and Claude Makelele, France began to dominate, and the abundance of possession allowed Zidane to distribute the ball to Rovich on the right three times in a row in just ten minutes.
However, Rovig's attention was already highly focused on Zidane and Materazzi, and he was afraid that once he got distracted, the two would get together and scold. As a result, of the three excellent chances, two of them started slowly and couldn't be received, and the only one was a handball foul.
"Lift up your spirits, little man!" Zidane clenched his fists and yelled at him, looking a little unpleasant.
Luo Weixi gave him a thumbs up to show that he understood, but muttered in his heart: the game is 90 minutes, and if I continue to play like this, I will have to be replaced at half time, and I will have to change my strategy. Since I have Ribery's skills, it is better to simply force Materazzi and make him feel more defensive pressure, which will also reduce the time of contact between the two in disguise.
The decision was made, and after receiving Zidane's split for the fourth time, Rovich began to cut inside in the middle.
Speed up, change direction! It only took a pause to shake off the great left-back Grosso, and Lovich felt like he and Ribery were completely integrated.
Facing the future Evergrande coach Cannavaro who came to fill the position, Luo Weixi did not choose to cut into the penalty area, but once again made a sharp stop, Cannavaro misjudged, and immediately lost his center of gravity and almost fell to the ground. As soon as I looked up, there was only a tall and large Materazzi in front of me.
It's you, I'm going to shake you off, so you don't have the time to get Zidane in trouble, Rovich runs to Materazzi with the ball.
At this moment, a person suddenly appeared in the slash. The man ran to the right side of the penalty area at a gallop, his running route overlapped with Luo Weixi's dribbling route, and for a while the two could not dodge, and they both fell to the ground with a solid "bang".
Materazzi was already like a big enemy, and when he saw such an opportunity, he didn't have to think about it, picked up his long legs and kicked the ball vigorously to the front, and the danger in front of the Italian goal was lifted.
This collision made Luo Weixi's head heavy, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Henry the Great, who was full of literary and artistic style. Emperor Henry sat on the turf, clutching his reddened chin, but he didn't get angry, his expression was as calm as in the locker room: "Little man, the overlap between you and I are unhappy has extinguished the murderous aura in the forbidden area. ”
"I ......," Luo Weixi cried and laughed.
Zidane in the distance was already thunderous, pointing at Rovich and shouting: "What do you mean by carrying the ball like this? Before the game, they told you not to cut inside, you would take away Henry's space. ”
Rovich got up and was about to find an excuse to say a few words, but found that Materazzi had unconsciously crowded to Zidane's side, his mouth still open and closed as if he was saying something.
I went and started talking to each other. Luo Weixi couldn't argue, rushed to the two of them at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, stood on tiptoe and twisted his scar face and asked Materazzi: "Boy, what do you want to do?" ”
"What are you doing, are you here to quarrel or to play, get back to your place." It was Zinedine Zidane who spoke. Compared to Materazzi's provocation, Rovich's dislocation obviously made Zidane's opinion greater, and he pushed Rovich away fiercely.
Kindly confronted by the donkey's liver and lungs, Rovich slowly retreated to his position, looking at Materazzi hostilely as he ran. Materazzi shrugged his shoulders and looked dazed.
The game continued.
After a fierce battle, the French began to slow down their tempo and the Italians took the opportunity to organise some sporadic counter-attacks. In the nineteenth minute, they finally got a corner kick of the game.
Just as Pirlo was struggling towards the corner with the ball, Rovich noticed that Materazzi had stuck to Zidane again.
Materazzi gently grabbed Zidane's waist with both hands, and his mouth was still nagging something, as if he was pouring out the sweetest love words to his lover. His lips were less than five centimeters away from Zidane's ear, and the tip of his tongue almost licked onto Zidane's earlobe.
Luo Weixi's face turned white: Materazzi was too cheap, with Qi's bald temper, how could he stand such an ambiguous action. At that moment, he rushed to the two of them like a 100-meter sprint and pushed Materazzi away hard.
Materazzi was entangled with Zidane in a selfless way, and was unexpectedly pushed by this push and fell to the grass, and suddenly raised his hands and yelled at the referee in dissatisfaction.
Beep - The referee blew the whistle and rushed into the penalty area and showed a yellow card to Rovich without hesitation.
"What do you mean?" Zidane looked at Rovich with a fierce face.
Luo Weixi pointed at Materazzi and said, "I see this kid scolding you, and I can't get angry for a while......"
"Who scolded me, haven't you seen how to get stuck?" Zidane was a little puzzled by Rovich's overreaction and asked: "Do you know what you should do now?" ”
"Of course I know that I want to embody what you said in the dressing room – courage. ”
"You're big, you should be standing outside the penalty area and ready to fight back, what can you do when you squeeze into the penalty area at your height?"
Infighting during the Great War was a tradition of the French team, and seeing that this tradition was about to be repeated again, another leader-level figure, Henry the Great, hurriedly ran over to pull the fight. He pulled one apart with one hand and said affectionately: "Impulse is the devil who can devour you at any time, and calmness is the angel who spreads the gospel, we want angels, not devils!" ”
Luo Weixi almost laughed out loud.
Zidane didn't laugh, and it was obvious that he still respected Henry, but he was not so polite to Rovig. He smacked Rovich on the forehead with his head, which had less hair than his nose, and said, "Before I get angry, you'd better stand out of the penalty area for me." ”
While Zidane was still chattering, the Italian team took a corner.
Pirlo's precision in kicking a corner was unquestionable, and the ball flew straight above Materazzi's head as if it had an eye, while Zidane, who was in charge of playing with Materazzi, was still teaching Rovich a lesson. Without any difficulty, Materazzi jumped off easily at the back post and a lion flicked his head and the ball flew straight into the net.
At 1:1, Materazzi made up for it to help Italy equalize.
Materazzi was quite excited after the goal, and after running around the penalty area like crazy, he suddenly slipped in front of Zidane and Rovich on his knees, and shouted unbridled in English with an Italian accent: "Thank God!" Thanks Zinedine Zinedine! Thanks Ribery! ”
Zidane stood there and looked at Materazzi dumbfounded, clutching his head in disbelief.
If it were someone else, maybe they would blame Rovich for the goal, but Zidane was different.
He was the spiritual leader of the French team, and he felt that as a leader he should take responsibility rather than shirk responsibility, so he didn't blame Rovig, but stood still and kept banging his bald head. Everyone could see that he put the blame for the goal on himself.
His teammates didn't blame him either, for them, Zidane is all there is to this team, and they are willing to take on this responsibility with Zidane.
On the contrary, Luo Weixi began to blame himself: I am half responsible for the goal conceded, but Qi Bald does not throw the blame casually. Although this man has a bad temper, he is also a responsible person, so I have to do my best to protect him.
The center circle kicks off and the game continues.
Perhaps because of the equalizer or perhaps frightened by Rovig's "courage", Materazzi did not harass Zidane much in the following time, and the game went smoothly.
With the help of Ribery's technique, Rovich also threatened a couple of times down the flank, and even played a well-placed cross, but Thierry Henry the Great couldn't grasp it and the ball was easily confiscated by Buffon.
Before I knew it, the halftime was over, and the two sides entered the locker room with a score of 1:1.
Before Lovich could sit down, Henry brought him not-so-good news. Thierry Henry told Lothar that Materazzi said he would send Lothi off in the second half.
"You have to control the demons that lurk in your heart, and don't let it lead you into hell." Henry said sincerely.