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Trailing by two goals, chasing five goals in a row!

England staged the craziest comeback in the history of the European Championship at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon!

Although he played almost as a full substitute, although he was once questioned that he would not contribute to this game, the Englishman gave a counterattack with his actual actions!

After the French team won the second place in the group after winning Switzerland, the French team praised the professional performance of the England team from top to bottom!

'England had a great win. The greatness of the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info is not only because of their crazy reversal, but also because of the spirit of fair play shown in this game! France coach Santini said in an interview after the game.

'I think England are playing very well in the spirit of fair play, they've always been that team. A couple of my club team-mates were also in the England squad, so I always believed they would take the game seriously and they didn't let us down! Thierry Henry also praised England's performance.

'Some say we need to be thankful to England. But I don't think so, because England just showed their quality and won the game they deserved. I'm sure they don't need us to thank them either, because they must have thought it was what they should have done! Vieira's statement is also very consistent with his surname.

"This is the European Cup, the highest level of competition in the world, and there shouldn't be any unfairness in the game here!" Zidane said succinctly in an interview.

…… After the game, major European media also praised the England team's game.

"Send a strong opponent to advance with victory, and the fair play award belongs to the Three Lions!"

The Guardian, a representative of the British homegrown media, openly praised England's performance in the final inconsequential game on the front page. Although most of the substitutes were fielded and at one point two goals down, England withstood the pressure and did not give up to win the match against Croatia. The result was a strong French team that qualified for the quarter-finals, a spirit of fair play that deserves to be recognized by this year's UEFA Fair Play Award!

"With all the substitutes still playing a crazy comeback, the Three Lions are unstoppable!"

The German magazine Kicker was also unsparing in its praise for England's performance. In this game, the England team still won the Croatian team with an almost all substitute lineup, which shows the strength of the England team, and at the same time they also remind people that the Three Lions are very brave, and the European powers should be careful!

"The little ghost is still showing extraordinary strength, and the matador may need internal reform!"

Spain's "As" newspaper paid attention to the performance of several young players in the England team, especially Chen Xi and Rooney, two young players under the age of 20, whose performance in this European Championship was perfect. The newspaper also pointed out that in fact, there are many potential new stars in the Spanish national team, such as the new golden boy Torres, and Liverpool won the Champions League Xavi Alonso, etc., all of whom are in their early twenties, and the Spanish team may need to boldly use newcomers in order to get rid of the fate of the pseudo-strong team like the England team!

"The promotion is all up to the opponent to help, and the French team still needs to improve its own strength!"

While thanking the England team for their "selfless help", the French newspaper also criticized its own team, the French team. It is a shame to be the defending champion to only rely on the help of their opponents to qualify from a dangerous group. After qualifying for the knockout rounds, the French team will have to solve their internal problems in order to go further!

"The Three Lions are a model of fair play and the Nordic powers need to learn from it!"

Italy's "Milan Sport" praised the performance of the England team, and also urged the Nordic two powerhouses, Denmark and Sweden, to learn from the England team, uphold the principle of fair play in the last game, and give up the idea of playing tacit ball!

In addition to the game itself, the performance of the new twin stars of the England team, Chen Xi and Rooney, was also praised by major European mainstream media.

Major media also said that after the end of this year's European Cup, these two new stars will inevitably set off a huge storm in the transfer market!

Especially Chen Xi, although the Liverpool team won an unprecedented quadruple last season, it will be a big test whether they can resist the temptation of cheques and retain their star in the midst of a debt crisis!

Of course, the media has also paid some attention to Feng Lantang, a young player in the Swiss team who has been eliminated. That goal against France made him the youngest player to score in a European Championship final, ahead of Wayne Rooney.

The Swiss youngster is also considered to have a promising future.

After the Group B match, everyone turned their attention to Group C!

Like Group B, there is a lot of focus on the spirit of fair play in Group C......

Nine days ago, the Italians started the European Championship with pride and confidence, but nine days later, the Italians could not have imagined that their fate would now be entrusted to two teams from Scandinavia.

Italy was forced to draw 0:0 by the Danes, 1:1 was blocked by the Swedes, and now Sweden and Denmark meet, as long as the two sides fight with a high score of 2:2 or above, then the Italians can basically roll up and go home in advance. Everyone is concerned about whether Sweden and Denmark will play a tacit match to send the Italians out of the European Championships.

Although the Nordic countries denied that such a "conspiracy" could have been made, the Italians certainly refused to give up on their claims. This is where Italian journalists' journalistic prowess finally showed its power: using the media to hype up the "draw conspiracy" narrative and put pressure on the two Nordic teams. If the Nordic teams really play tacit ball, then the saliva of the Europeans, especially the Italians, is enough to drown them, and can the competition morality withstand the temptation of profit?

Sweden head coach Lagbeck said he doesn't think the game will end 2-2, which is obviously very unlikely. Of course, he also has room for it: "However, nothing is impossible, 2-2 is one of the results, but we just want to win, we don't design a draw. ”

The cunning Swede is extremely eloquent, and his words are not only meaningful, but also leave a way back for himself. Swedish player Ibrahimovic, who shared the same sentiment as the coach, first criticised the behaviour and believed that the Swedes would give it their all, and then similarly said that anything is possible on the pitch.

Despite being in the same Nordics, Denmark head coach Olsen said he would not show mercy to his neighbours, saying: "In a tournament like this, you have to give it your all to win every game. We have to win to qualify. Olsen believes that a 0-0 score is possible, but 2-2 is clearly unlikely.

Under pressure from the Italians, UEFA President Johnson reacted in a timely manner, and spokesman Gaillard also said, "For the Nordics, they don't play this so-called tacit ball." It's a place where everyone's concept of football is always so clear and pure, they play with the fans in mind, and their only goal is to win. ”

Whether such a guarantee will work or not, probably even UEFA itself will not be able to guarantee the ticket, and it will only be revealed after the game.

However, if the Swedes and the Danes want to play tacit ball, the Danes should be under the most pressure from public opinion, because there are many players in the Danish national team such as Tomasson, Jorgensen, Hellwig and other players who play for Serie A clubs, and they should not want to be "An Zhenhuan second" and be fired by the club, and be ruthlessly attacked and abused by the Italians.

But Sweden is different, with none of the current internationals from the Italian club, so their rhetoric is unprecedentedly unanimous, not playing tacit balls, but accidents are not ruled out.

Of course, the attitude of the Italians is also very firm. Some Italian media said, "Take three points first, and then look at the faces of the Nordics!" ”

…… June 22 at 8:45 p.m.!

Italy and Bulgaria, Denmark and Sweden will play two Euro Group C matches at the same time!

Among them, the match between Denmark and Sweden at the Porto Besa Stadium was played almost under a microscope.

Not only the Italians, but the whole of Europe and even the whole world are focused on this match, wanting to see if the most coincidental "2-2" will happen!

In the match between Italy and Bulgaria at the Alfonso Stadium, perhaps the Italians were too distracted by the match between Denmark and Sweden, and they barely played any threatening attacks in the first half!

However, when the match between Denmark and Sweden was half an hour on, the deadlock was broken by Milan striker Tomasson!

At this time, Italian fans must hope that the Milan goalscorer can use his own goals to help Denmark win as a Serie A person!

However, the Italians capsized just before half-time.

A foul in the Materazzi box gave the Bulgarian a penalty kick, and Bulgarian star Petrov deceived Buffon with a feint to score the penalty!

1 to 0! The Bulgarian team vented its dissatisfaction with being ignored by various media before the game with a goal!

Yes, people are thinking about whether Denmark and Sweden will play 2-2, but they don't seem to be thinking about whether Bulgaria will give the Italians an easy win!

Three minutes into the second half, news of goals came from both stadiums at the same time.

Goals from Italy and Sweden made it 1-1 in both games!

Less than 20 minutes later, "Serie A" Tomason scored his second goal of the game to give Denmark the lead again!

The Italians were happy, but also a little worried, because the match was only one goal away from the legendary "2-2"!

Of course, the Italian fans are more worried about their own matches!

Because after pulling a goal back in the second half, the Italian team's attack suddenly lost its crosshairs and could not threaten the Bulgarian team's door at all.

The current situation is that even if Denmark and Sweden win the match, if Italy can't win, it's still in vain!

On the other side, Denmark and Sweden seem to be waiting to see what happens.

If Italy can't win, they won't have to risk the world's condemnation to play a 2-2 game!

As for the first or second place in the group, anyway, the Nordic brothers have a good relationship, so it doesn't matter. What's more, the form of Group D is also very complicated, whether the first group is better or the second best group, no one knows!

As the game wore on, the Italian team became more ferocious, as if they could break through the Bulgarian team at any time.

The Swedish team saw that the situation was not right, and they also stepped up their attack, they didn't dare to wait until the end, what if the Italian team scored a goal in stoppage time? It's better to go ashore in advance, and it's a little more reliable!

So, in the last minute of the 90-minute regular game, Sweden scored the equalizing goal, and the legendary "2-2" appeared, and it looks like it will remain for the whole game!

The Italian fans in the other stadium were silent, they did not sigh to affect the performance of the players, after all, the team is not leading yet, they can only hope that the team will overtake the score at the last moment, and the news of the goal can also come from the other stadium!

Finally, in stoppage time, the bad boy Cassalo helped the Italian team overtake the score with a header!

The bad boy excitedly took off his shirt at the risk of eating a yellow card, and celebrated wildly, of course, in addition to the excitement, he did not forget to rush to the coach's seat to ask about the situation at another venue!

When he learned from his coach that the score on the other field was exactly 2-2, his excitement immediately turned to frustration!

Having managed to catch Totti's suspension, get a starting spot, and score a crucial goal in such a crucial game, it seemed like they were going to be the team's heroes, but the last thing they wanted to see happened on the other field!

This bad boy also shed tears of sadness like Gascoigne in the World Cup that year.

Soon after this goal, the game ended directly, Cassano directly lay on the court to hide his face and cry, and some veterans of the Italian team could only comfort this little brother.

On the other pitch, the Swedes and Danes were each celebrating their qualification. Sweden, in particular, topped the group with a low score of five points, the third time in the history of the European Championship, the previous two being Belgium in '80 and Spain in '84!

As for the Danish team, it is the first time since their Danish myth 92 that they have qualified from the group!

There is no doubt that this match will be hyped by public opinion after the game! ――

"Is the soccer ball round or fake?"

For the first time in the European Championship, the Italians did everything they could to create pressure and the Nordics spent four days refuting conspiracy theories, but in the end, the two sides could not escape the two very different thrills of the classic 2-2 scoreline.

"We won the game but we left with our heads held high," Trapattoni said after the match: "We deserved to win like we deserved to beat Sweden." ”

Although Trapattoni graciously said that he would not question UEFA about this game, no one dared to say that the old man would not have scolded "his grandmother's" in his heart after 95 minutes of anxiety and learning of this extremely demonic score.

Carraro, the president of the Italian Football Federation, almost blurted out the phrase "his grandmother's", but his identity and reason made him change his mouth in a much more tactful way: "There is no doubt that the way Denmark and Sweden play is to go for a draw." ”

The Italians used all means to "fight fakes": setting up cameras on the side of the field to capture "suspicious points", listing that only one of the 30 meetings between the two teams played 2-2 25 years ago, and even using player friendship diplomacy to encourage Tomasson and other Serie A players to beat hard...... In the final minute of the game, of course, there was material for the Italians to dig into, and after the 2-2 draw, the Swedes controlled the ball at the back and the Danes gave up pressing until the final whistle blew, a scene that must have excited the Italian photographers on the sidelines, who thought they had finally captured the "doubt" that had been waiting for 90 minutes.

But all this does not stop the Nordic from asking: why do you Italians ban football matches with a 2-2 scoreline?

Before the game, Danish coach Olsen responded to Carraro's conspiracy theory with "ridiculous", and after the game, he said that everyone who watched the game knew that this score was by no means the result deliberately pursued by the two teams. Even the goal that led to a 2-2 draw, Olsen could point out that two Danish defenders went crazy to block when the Swede sent in a low cross.

Sweden coach Radbeck defended the "tacit understanding" in stoppage time. 'In this case, every team does that, and I think we can leave the stadium with our heads held high.

Indeed, any team, including the Italians, would do the same, and the Italians did. In the final game of the 2002 World Cup group, Italy drew 1-1 and Mexico had such a "tacit understanding", Trapattoni watched his team spend the last three minutes with inverted feet, at this moment, one point is enough, and risky attacking is not the Italian's style, so Trapattoni was still able to feel at ease in the boos of the whole stadium, because all he wanted was the result, just like the Nordics today.

The Italians and the Nordic debate may continue, but it has no real meaning, and there will never be a single answer to the question of whether football is round or fake in the classic moment of 2-2, just as the Swedish equaliser will only see Sorensen's fatal takeaway, while the rebutter will emphasize that Hellwig is desperately tackling at the same moment, and in the final analysis, all accusations and justifications are actually dictated by position.

A media battle that revolved around that magical "2-2" game vanished with the start of the Group D match!

In Group D, there were the same problems as in Group B.

The Czech Republic has six points from winning the first two games, Germany has two points from two games and two draws, the Netherlands has one point from one draw and one loss, and Latvia has one point.

In this way, the Czech team has already secured the top spot in the group, and if they let the water go in the final game and let Germany win, the Netherlands and Latvia will say goodbye to the European Championship together, no matter what the score is.

The cry for "fair play" was shouted by the Dutch this time!

The Dutch media even brought up the grudge against the Czechs in the Euro 96 final, when the Czechs were beaten by Germany's Golden Ball, to remind the Czechs that this was a good opportunity for revenge!

At this time, the Latvians are also involved, having completed the task of "scoring a goal, scoring a point" in the previous two games, and this game they want to go one step closer, that is, "win".

If they do win and Germany fail to beat the Czech Republic, they will make it to the quarter-finals of the European Championship!

Of course, the words of the Latvians were directly ignored by the majority of the media.

In the first two group games, England adhered to the spirit of a fair ban and pulled France into the quarter-finals. However, Sweden and Denmark teamed up to kick Italy out of the quarterfinals!

People are starting to look forward to this group, will the Czechs pull the Dutch team, or will they settle their old rivalry with the Germans?

23 At 8:45 p.m.!

The two matches in Group D started with such doubts!

The Czech team, like the England team two days ago, also played as a substitute, Nedved, Rosicky, Jan Kohler, Barosh, Poboski, Jankulovski, Cech and other absolute main players did not appear in this game!

This also apparently caused discontent among the Dutch!

The course of the match was also strikingly similar to the match between England and Croatia!

Less than 20 minutes into the game, Germany took the lead thanks to Ballack's goal!

There has only been one time in the history of the European Championship when Germany have taken the lead and then lost, against the Netherlands in 1988.

This is undoubtedly a loss of soul for the Dutchman at the other stadium!

Even if Ruud van Nistelrooy then scored a penalty, the Dutch fans couldn't be happy!

However, it was only a few minutes before there was good news from the side of the match between Germany and the Czech Republic.

Czech Republic substitute striker Heinz equalised with a brilliant direct free-kick!

The Dutch fans at the Municipal Stadium in Braga immediately erupted in cheers!

The players of the Dutch team were also demoralized, and the king of the small penalty area, Ruud van Nistelrooy, scored twice to extend the score to 2-0!

The score lasted until half-time, in which case Germany would be eliminated!

In the second half, because of the injury of striker Lokwenc, Czech goalscorer Baros came into play!

It was Barosz who came on as a substitute to become the finisher for the Germans, and he scored the goal in the 72nd minute to help the Czech team overtake the score, which made him a player who scored in three group stage games like Chen Xi, Zidane and Ruud van Nistelrooy, and also allowed the Czech team to complete the reversal in three consecutive group stage games!

On the other field, the Dutch team extended the score to 3-0, and the Dutch fans rejoiced, singing and dancing as they waited for the end of the game!

The Germans failed to pull off another miracle, they lost this game and had to accept that they would be eliminated from the group!

There is no doubt that after this match, the Czechs were also praised as well as the English!

At this point, the group stage of the four groups has ended, and the results of the quarterfinals have also been announced...... Host Portugal vs defending champion France!

Three Lions, England vs Super Dark Horse Greece!

Viking Sweden vs Netherlands, the uncrowned king!

Eastern European Iron Horse Czech Republic vs Fairytale Country Denmark!

In this way, the four matches will be played in the next four days to determine the top four teams of the European Championship!

(To be continued)