Chapter 212: Victory under the Iron Defense
In this game, our players were injured and bleeding more than once. For no other reason, we had to do everything we could to get out of the way in the face www.biquge.info of the Norwegians' furious attack, and many of the balls were fended off by the Norwegians' shots with their faces, foreheads or even their eyes. Their attacks were like a storm, wave after wave. Because they are already two goals down, even if they want to equalize, they will need to score two goals in a row with less than 45 minutes remaining. In order to counter these stormy attacks of the Norwegians, we in Bosnia and Herzegovina had to use an extraordinary iron defence, but it also cost us a lot of injuries. Salihovic went off with a sprained ankle kick from a Norwegian player in defence, while Dzeko was injured in a battle with Vjotoft. His eyebrow was pierced by Fjotoft, and he bled out, but he didn't flinch, bandaged off the field, and continued to fight. It was a really shocking game, and the Norwegian's continuous attack and our iron-clad defence were important footnotes to this stalemate game. Our players have already injured several people in a row, and Coach Susic has made two substitutions in a row, and he didn't dare to use the last substitution easily. Because he was worried that he didn't know when another of our players would be kicked off the pitch.
By the 80th minute, the Norwegian's tactics had changed again. They no longer only play long-range shots, they start a combination of long-pass rushing and long-range shots at this time. They switched to a striker and played the tactics of three high forwards. And instead of removing their midfielder, they replaced a centre-back. This is the situation of giving up defense and attacking with all their might.
Against such a Norwegian team, we have to keep defending hard. The player who replaced Salihovic ran to Dzeko's side and re-said what Coach Susic asked of him: Coach Susic asked him not to go back to the forward line, but to continue to defend at the back. Coach Susic is the equivalent of removing a striker and adding a defender. In fact, this is the rhythm of rigidity!
The Norwegian's long pass was a little more powerful in the forward line. Fjotoft's header had an extra catch, causing Norway to shoot twice as often in the box as before. If Norway had been a little bit better, I think Bosnia-Herzegovina would have scored a lot of goals. Thankfully, they weren't very good on goal, and our goalkeeper today, Piplika, was superb, saving a lot of the Norwegian must-have goals.
With our iron-clad defence, Norway still couldn't score in the 85th minute. At this time, the Norwegian team changed to the last player, and he is still a striker! It was another centre-back who was replaced! In the case of falling behind by a large score, the Norwegian team also fought hard, and they even played the long-lost 244 formation - a strong offensive formation of two backs, four midfielders and four forwards, which is simply a kind of deadly play. But now in desperate need of goals, the Norwegian has no choice.
Long pass punch hanging, long pass punch hanging, long pass punch hanging! The Norwegians are now left with this last resort. Their midfield was frequent, their flanks were from a 45-degree angle, and their defenders kicked the ball out with big feet...... Either way, all they want is to get the ball into our box as soon as possible. They can only hope to score if they get the ball into our box, especially with a tall centre-forward like Fjotoft, and the Norwegian has to do that with long balls.
Fjotoft snatched another ball, and his header headed towards Quinn. After Quinn received the ball, a **** stopped the ball and shot directly, but the angle of the ball was relatively positive, and it was saved by Piplika. But this is when the Norwegian's four-forward advantage is evident - after Piplika saved the ball, the Norwegian team had just changed to the striker, ghostly ran to the position of the ball, he gently used his head to put the ball a little, Piplika fell to the ground and could not save, and the ball swayed into our goal......
In the last minute, we conceded a goal! The Norwegian saw an opportunity to win...... As soon as we served in midfield, the Norwegian came up with several men to block and even defended us in the form of a deadly tackle! They're not defending at all! They're just using their lives to steal the ball at our feet! Pjanic's possession of the ball was still very good, but he couldn't stand the interception of the two Norwegians, and he hurriedly passed the ball in the direction of Misimovic, but before the ball could reach Misimovic's feet, it was cut off by the Norwegian player. The Norwegian is already starting to play an all-out rhythm of attack and defense. The Norwegian fans in the stadium saw the hope of winning and began to cheer wave after wave. In this wave of cheering, the Norwegian players were greatly encouraged! They grabbed the ball and attacked our goal again! They didn't have a good possession of the ball, but they did a very good job of controlling the ball in the air, and after their long balls were sent to the front of the pitch, the Norwegian strikers, led by Vjotoft, were always able to snatch the ball and then head it to the midfielders. Then the midfielder's long-range shot can always threaten Piplika's goal! This time Piplika was in the thick of the net again, making one save after another, with five saves in the final five minutes alone. I can't count how many shots the Norwegian had in the whole game, maybe more than forty of them! But they've had just over 40 shots and only two goals so far, while we've had just under 10 shots in total and scored three. In terms of efficiency, we are obviously stronger than the Norwegians, but in terms of momentum on the pitch, the Norwegians are obviously much stronger than us!
Last Moments! Will our iron-clad defence be able to completely destroy the Norwegians' hopes of scoring the last goal and allow us to win this game?!
Fjotoft was clearly reluctant to agree! Once again, he received a long ball from the Norwegian midfielder, and this time he chose to put the ball in the air, and instead of making another pass, he made a difficult move - he jumped high and shot with a barb!
duang!
Piplika didn't save the ball! However, alas, the ball hit the goalpost and popped off the bottom line! It was at this point that the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game and we won! (To be continued.) )