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Defending champions Italy qualified for a penalty shoot-out. The day after the match, all the fans who were following the European Championship got the news through the media.

Italian fans were naturally overjoyed by this result. Although the team's road to qualification at this European Championship has been a bit tough, for Italian fans, they don't care how ugly the process is, a good result is always more important than the process.

However, although the game ended with the referee's whistle, it is clear that the turmoil caused by it will not pass so easily. In other words, from the moment the game ended, the turmoil that swept the entire Portuguese football scene had just begun.

After all, the Portuguese Football Federation can be said to have quite high expectations for this European Championship to be held on home soil. Or to put it this way, from the very beginning, the Portuguese Football Federation has set its sights on the final championship trophy. In order to achieve this goal, they have set up countless facilities for Portugal, from the selection of the national team's training location to the top 16 groups to the schedule, in order to increase the chances of the national team winning the championship on home soil.

What is even more surprising to the Portuguese Football Federation is that this European Championship has been a constant upset from the beginning. Although Portugal's surprise defeat to Greece in the opening game made them very frustrated, the team's subsequent success in qualifying as group winners quickly made them forget about it, and the loss of favourites such as Spain, England, France and the Netherlands has also increased the Portuguese Football Federation's confidence in the team's victory on home soil.

However, Portugal, who had the right time and physical advantage, were twice led by their opponents against defending champions Italy, and they could only survive on two critical saviors from teenager Cristiano Ronaldo, and eventually lost 2-4 to the Azzurri in a penalty shootout. There is an end to this process, which is really difficult for Portuguese fans who want to win the championship to accept.

I have to say that the Portuguese Football Federation is really whimsical enough. Although hosting the European Cup on home soil does have a certain bonus for the host, it is obviously too whimsical to let Portugal, whose overall strength can only be barely regarded as a first-class level in Europe, win the Delaunay Cup.

Even in Zhuang Mingge's previous life, Portugal was able to reach the final because of the upset of the strong teams and the luck factor, but in this way they finally lost to Greece, the biggest dark horse in the 04 Euro Cup, which is enough to explain a lot of problems.

Rui Costa was arguably the player most affected by the defeat, with countless Portuguese fans and media blaming the midfield maestro for missing the crucial penalty to blame for his side's exit in the semi-finals of the European Championships.

I have to say that fans will always be the most forgetful group, and the media will always be the best at seeing the wind and fanning the flames. At this time, these people seem to have selectively forgotten the great contribution of Rui Costa to the Portuguese national team in the past ten years, and they do not remember that it was the presence of him and Figo that catapulted Portugal from a second- and third-rate team to a European powerhouse, and led the team to a good result second only to Eusebio's time.

To be fair, the Portuguese midfielder's performance in this semi-final was very good. Under his organisation, Portugal controlled the entire midfield for a while, pinning Italy into the half-court and barely able to play their best defensive counter-attacks, and created countless scoring opportunities for Pauletta in front. Unfortunately, Portugal lack a top striker like Shevchenko or Rebrov to turn those passes into goals, with the likes of Pauleta, Gomez and Postiga constantly squandering chances.

However, compared to the much-reviled Rui Costa, the Portuguese strikers, who have been squandering opportunities since the start of the European Championships, are treated much better. In other words, the Portuguese fans didn't expect much from their cheating front line from the beginning, so they naturally blamed Pauletta a lot less.

Rui Costa's response to the overwhelming accusations from Portuguese fans and the media was also very direct. The midfielder's retirement from the national team shortly after his team's exit from the European Championship was announced, and the semi-final against Italy was the curtain call for Rui Costa for the Portuguese national team. This is a later story, so I won't repeat it here.

After the hosts Portugal were eliminated and said goodbye to the Delaunay Cup, the matchup between the Czech Republic and Greece was also decided at the Fire Dragon Stadium in Porto. Greece, the biggest dark horse in this European Championship, once again created a super upset under the leadership of Rehhagel, relying on their tenacious overall defense and a silver goal in the last minute of the first half of extra time to knock out the Czech Republic, which has a number of famous players such as Nedved, Rosicky and Poboski, and entered the European Championship final for the first time in history!

Eight years ago, he died at the last minute of the European Championship final in the Golden Ball, which was the first time he was introduced in an international tournament, and eight years later fell on what could be possibly the last silver ball in the history of football in the final minute of the game. I have to say that the Czechs are really unlucky to get home. And this also puts them on the coat of tragic heroes.

The Czechs' exit was a tragic outfall, but being beaten in the final stages by their opponents illustrates another problem: they are prone to lack of concentration when they are dominant. Otherwise, just bad luck really doesn't explain this strange situation.

Of course, after Nedved's talented golden generation withdrew from the national team one after another, the Czech Republic, whose overall strength had declined sharply, did not even have the opportunity to fight until the last minute of the game, and the problem of lack of concentration in the final stage naturally did not have much room to play.

With the Czech Republic's tragic exit, the two teams that have earned tickets to the European Championship final have finally been revealed, and the defending champions Italy will face off against Greece on July 4 at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon. The winner of this game will become the undisputed king of Europe!