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After the England team arrived in Portugal early, the other top 15 of the European Championship also arrived in Portugal one after another, and found their respective locations!

In the eyes of many football experts, in terms of the excitement of the game, the European Cup is even more exciting than the World Cup!

Europe accounted for most of the strong teams in world football, and compared to the top 32 of the World Cup, which had some uneven strength, there were almost no real weak teams in the top 16 of the European Cup!

Even European powerhouses such as England, France, Italy and Germany have to give 100 per cent of their strength in every European Championship, otherwise they risk capsizing in the gutter!

Almost every one of the four groups at the European Championship has one or two of the world's top teams. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Group A has hosts Portugal and Matador Spain, and even the other two teams, Russia and Greece, are not to be underestimated.

Group B is also the group of England, and England and France are the favourites, but Croatia and Switzerland will also be fighting for a place in the quarter-finals!

In Group C, only Italy is a true traditional powerhouse, but the Nordic giants Denmark and Sweden are not easy to play against, and the other team, Bulgaria, was once a world-class powerhouse!

Group D is a true group of death, with the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Germany battling it out for two places, and Latvia, who are not really fancied...... The hosts' Group A will kick off in the first match, with Portugal taking on Greece in their opening match at the Boleros Stadium in Porto!

Although the tournament has not officially started yet, the media and fans in various European countries are already busy.

As one of the highest levels of world football, the European Championship is no less concerned than the World Cup. As a result, Portugal, the host of the European Championships, has welcomed journalists and fans from more than 100 countries.

Before the start of the competition, topics such as "Tour of the Tournament Venues", "Top 16 Lineup Revealed", "Match Analysis and Prediction" and other topics appeared in the media of various countries!

Fans are also starting to prepare for the European Championships!

Fans who can afford to go live and watch the game are undoubtedly happy, and they will be able to witness the wonderful game. But at the same time, they are also very hard. Because the hotels in the cities where the major venues of the European Cup are located are basically booked.

Some fans who arrived late could only look for hotels that were further away from the stadium. Fortunately, the transportation in Portugal is very developed, and it will not have much impact on the travel and football of fans!

As for the fans who can't go to Portugal to watch the game, they have to prepare for the broadcast.

Especially for Chinese fans in Asia, the time difference with Portugal will be the biggest obstacle for fans to watch the game.

Since most of the European Championship matches are played in the evening, it is early in the morning when we get to China. The European Championship is not played on weekends like the league, but mostly at work.

For Chinese fans who have to go to work and school, this month will also be a happy and hard month!

The joy is to be able to watch so many high-level games, but the hard part is that they have to get up late at night to watch the game, and then have to get up early in the morning to go to work.

There is no doubt that this month, in China, people's average learning efficiency and work efficiency will be lowered a lot...... and the time will soon be June 12th!

The opening ceremony will take place at the Porto Dragons Stadium, the main venue of this European Championship.

After a grand ceremony, the main event of people's attention arrives!

The host Portugal team will play in the opening game, which will undoubtedly make the whole Portugal heat up a lot!

In the eyes of the Portuguese media, this tournament will be the best chance for the Portuguese team to make a difference!

Several veterans of Portugal's golden generation, such as Figo, Rui Costa and Couto, are still active on the pitch, while the Portuguese Mesozoic with Porto as the team is already on the rise, and young players like Ronaldo are already showing their talents.

By the time of the next World Cup, the veterans of the golden generation will probably have to say goodbye one by one. Therefore, this will be the last contest for them to fight collectively!

Today's opponents, Greece, can't cause much trouble for their team in the eyes of Portuguese fans!

However, the game was not as easy as the Portuguese fans thought!

The constant cheers of more than 40,000 fans at the Dragon Stadium brought motivation to the Portuguese players, but also brought a lot of pressure!

The opening game is not easy to play!

This is a conclusion that has been agreed upon by the hosts of previous tournaments!

The pressure on the Portuguese players made them make a mistake in the sixth minute of the game!

Paulo Ferreira, the best right-back in this year's European Cup, was a little light on his pass to Figo and was cut off by Greece's Karagunis.

After the Inter general broke the ball, he took two steps in a row and shot directly from 25 meters away from the goal!

Portugal international Ricardo obviously didn't expect the opponent to have such an opportunity as soon as he started, and in the face of Calagounis's powerful foot sticking to the ground, his reaction was obviously slow!

The ball goes straight to the bottom of the net!

The Portuguese fans in the Dragon Stadium fell silent in an instant, and only a few thousand Greek fans celebrated wildly!

After conceding the goal, Portugal clearly stepped up their attack.

And Otto the Great Rehhagel's team is obviously ready to be pressed by the opponent for a long time, and the players of the Greek team showed no less tenacity than the German players, and tenaciously played a defensive counterattack!

In the first half, Greece held on to Portugal's surge.

In the second half, Scolari made a personnel change, but the Portuguese team suffered another heavy blow in the opening stages!

Sitaridis who burst into the penalty area was brought down by Xiao Xiaoluo, who actively defended the defense, and the referee awarded a penalty!

Brazil Nas hits the penalty!

Greece is 2-0 ahead!

This result is probably not expected by all those who follow this match.

Chen Xi, who only watched the game in front of the TV, felt a sense of déjà vu on the field.

He remembers that in this match, the Portuguese team ended up losing the game 1-2, and in the final final, the Portuguese team lost 0-1 again to Greece, creating a Greek myth.

It seems that although his own crossing has changed a lot of history, some details that have nothing to do with him have not changed much.

Sure enough, Portugal eventually pulled a goal back in stoppage time.

Ronaldo received a corner kick from Figo and sent it into the back of the net.

The goal made Ronaldo the second-youngest player to score at the European Championships and ended Greece's six-game run without conceding in competitive matches, his first goal for his country, but it came too late and Collina blew the final whistle. Greece rewrote the record of never winning a major tournament final. This is the first time the hosts have lost in their opening game since the group stage was introduced in 1980.

When Corina blew the whistle for the end of the match, the entire Dragon Stadium became an occasion for the Greeks to celebrate wildly.

The Portuguese, on the other hand, were in a nightmare, with some Portuguese fans leaving the match disappointed at the end of the game.

There was such a big upset at the opening ceremony, and this season's Champions League game was also a succession of upsets, and dark horses were rampant.

People suddenly realized that this year's European Championship may no longer be the stage for those traditional powerhouses!

This also made Chen Xi and his teammates feel a hint of danger.

After the race, Otto the Great Rehhagel, who was the winner, was excited but also retained his rigor as a German.

"This is the biggest victory in the history of the Greek national team," said the German, "and the strategy and tactics we have chosen in the past week have been very successful, and tomorrow is Sunday and I want the Greeks to hang their flag outside their house." We'll be a little happy tonight, but tomorrow we'll be looking at the next game in four days' time. ”

Portugal's Brazil coach Scolari apologized after the game, arguing that the next match against Russia will be a "life or death".

'I want to apologise for the result and for the way we played, because we didn't have the support we had,' said Scolari, 'I'm upset and the players are frustrated. You can only lose one game in three games like this in a big tournament and we have been beaten today and the next game is crucial for us, it is the final test of life and death and it will be up to us how we face this game. ”

The European media were happy to see the host's jokes.

Coverage of this upset has almost dominated the front pages of major European mainstream media.

In addition to this defeat, after the game, there were also many unfavorable news such as the discord within the Portuguese team and the Porto's midfielder Deco, a Portuguese Brazilian, who was ostracized by the golden generation in the team.

All in all, everyone is rubbing salt in the wounds of the Portuguese team, wishing that the hosts would be out of the tournament sooner, so that their own team will have one less strong opponent!

As a close neighbor of Portugal, the Spanish media also seized the opportunity to fall into the ground, after all, their team is in the same group as the Portuguese team!

The Spanish newspaper "Marca" broke the news. Figo, Cuto and Rui Costa were unhappy with Scolari's recruitment of Deco to the team, with the rest of the players, while supporting the Brazilian but not daring to go against the trio. In the second half of the game, Scolari replaced Rui Costa with Deco, which obviously exacerbated the conflict between the team again...... Such a scene also reminds the England team that if they can't play well in the European Championship, what awaits them will also be the result of the wall falling and everyone pushing them!

(To be continued)