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Hosts Portugal were beaten by Greece in their opening game at the European Championships, a result that surprised many. After all, although Portugal is not a top team in European football, and the lack of center forwards has always plagued this team with a top midfield, no one can deny that they can still stabilize the Greek team in terms of strength with the golden generation and the new generation of players such as Carvalho and Ronaldo.

However, in this game, despite Portugal's dominance in a number of metrics such as shots on goal and time of possession, a low-level mistake by Ferreira in the sixth minute forced the hosts to fight from the start of the game, and the penalty scored by Basinas in the second half made the situation even worse!

It should be added here that due to Zhuang Mingge's previous actions, Scolari, who was secretly dissatisfied with Ronaldo, did not let the hopeful star come off the bench in this game, so the person who was forced to foul in the penalty area became Simao, not Ronaldo in his previous life.

In this way, Greece managed to end their embarrassing history of never winning in the finals of the tournament and managed to pick up three points that were extremely important to them; Portugal, on the other hand, suffered a defeat and became the first host team to lose in the opening game since the introduction of the group stage at Euro 1980!

"Portugal actually lost to Greece in the opening game, which is really unexpected news." Looking at the newspaper report about this game, Zhuang Mingge felt that Portugal lost this game really unjustly, "If Ferreira didn't give the opponent that goal package at the beginning of the game, then it would not be easy for Greece to win this game." After all, Coach Rehhagel's policy from the beginning was to play defensive counter-attacks. In the absence of a lead in the score, Portugal, which has the advantage of technical ability, has no problem getting Greece, which has not yet played with confidence. ”

Regarding Portugal's defeat to Greece in the opening game, Zhuang Mingge still regrets it in his heart. After all, this European Championship can be said to be the last chance to win the championship for Portugal's golden generation led by Figo. If we wait until the World Cup in Germany two years later, these stars will enter the twilight of their careers, and the hope of winning the championship will only be smaller.

Despite Portugal's shocking defeat in the opener, no one was taking Greece seriously at this time as they had just picked up their first group stage win. In the eyes of most people, the reason why Greece was able to defeat the powerful Portugal was mainly because of the host's idea of underestimating the enemy, and at the same time, with the help of defensive counter-attack tactics and iron-like tactical discipline, as well as Ferreira's initiative to send a mistake gift package, which narrowly stole three points from Portugal. By the time they play Spain in their next game, the lucky guys will surely be in full swing and their Group A qualification will be back on track.

However, four days later, when Spain, another strong team in Group A, was also deflated by Greece, people were stunned to find that Greece, which had won one win and one draw after two rounds of the group stage, had quietly taken the initiative of qualifying from the group in their own hands!

Because at this moment, among the other three teams in the same group as Greece, although Spain is also tied with Greece in the Group A standings with one win and one draw, the Matadors' opponent in the final battle is their neighbor, the host of this European Cup, Portugal!

With Portugal having one win and one defeat in their previous matches, while Greece faced a waning group in the final round of the group stage, losing both games to Russia, who had already been confirmed to be out of the group early, both Spain and Portugal will have to beat their opponents in the final game to get all three points if they want to qualify for the group. Otherwise, if the two teams deliberately play tacit goals in the final round, and Greece beat a warless Russia, then Portugal will have a cup of the cup. On the other hand, if Portugal wins, then Spain will be the unlucky one.

In the face of such a critical qualifying situation, Spain and Portugal, who had been putting on a good posture before the start of the European Cup, could no longer care about pretending, and the football associations of both sides all gave an ultimatum to the team, demanding that this life-and-death battle must be won!

With the hosts in jeopardy, let's take a look at the defending champions, Italy. Unlike the Iberian duo, who are steadfastly following the ruts of history, Trapattoni's Italy's performance at this European Championship can only be described as very different from previous ones.

Due to the two strong fresh blood of Deco and Diego Milito, and Vieri's form has declined from his peak but is still at the international level, Inzaghi has not been plagued by serious injuries in his previous life and missed this tournament, coupled with the collective selection of young players such as De Rossi and Cassano for the national team, this Italian team under Trapattoni is not as dull and old as in the previous life. Therefore, in this European Cup, Italy, which has always had a slow start to the competition, rarely had a very good performance in the group stage.

In the opening game of the group stage, Italy relied on goals from Andrea Pirlo, Milito and Inzaghi to beat Denmark, who were planning to hold on to a draw, with a 3-0 victory, to make the opponent realize that they are experts at playing defensive counter-attacks. Then, facing the Swedish team with well-known stars such as Ibrahimovic, Larsson, Ljungberg, etc., Italy firmly controlled the initiative on the field under the command of the midfield duo of Pirlo and Deco (sorry, Totti still caused the famous "mouth spat" incident in the first game of the group stage), and scored a goal each in the 27th and 46th minutes of the game by Vieri and Cassano.

Therefore, although Ibrahimovic still scored the scorpion tail swing in this game, Italy, who had already established a two-goal advantage, finally beat the Viking pirates and won the game.

In this way, after the first two rounds of the group stage, Italy qualified ahead of schedule with six points from winning all two games! As for Denmark and Sweden, who are tied on three points, they will need to decide the other team that qualifies for the quarter-finals in a head-to-head final round.