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The fifteen-minute half-time break quickly passed before the players from both sides returned to the pitch after a short break, ready for the second half of the game.

Compared to the first half, the Dutch team did not change their tactics in the second half, while still maintaining a great attacking intensity. Cocu and Bergkamp are constantly instigating attacks in the middle, with four players on the flanks forming a breakthrough or a cross to a receiving teammate or cutting inside to form a shot, in short, it is to chisel through the Italian's tortoise shell little by little with a tidal wave of attack!

Anyone who has ever played football knows that in football, the pressure on the defending side is always much greater than that on the attacking side. After all, if you don't score a shot, you can wait for the next opportunity, but if you make a defensive mistake, it will often lead to the birth of a lost goal.

Even if Italy have one of the strongest backlines in the world, in the face of the seemingly never-ending attack of the Netherlands, it is impossible for the Nestas to maintain a high level of concentration all the time, and there will be times when they slacken. Therefore, for the Dutch players, as long as they can take one or two of those chances, it will not be a problem to break down the Italian goal and win this game.

Although the Dutchman's calculations were jingling, the attention of Nesta was very focused in the first ten minutes of the second half. The Dutch attack was either cleanly blocked outside the box or disrupted by a more crisp foul, and all in all, the Dutchman had yet to find the right way to get the ball into the Italian box.

In desperation, Overmars and others had to frequently fire cannons from outside the penalty area, trying to penetrate the opponent's defense with long-range shots. However, under the pressure of Italy's extremely tight defensive system, the effect of such a long-range shot was clearly not ideal.

Even if Nesta and others occasionally slacken or negligible in their defence and didn't stop the cold shots of Cendon and Overmars, Toldo, who was in great form tonight, could keep all these shots out of the goal, leaving no chance for the opponent to make up the shots.

I have to say that the defensive work of the Italian national team in this world is even better than the Apennine army coached by Zoff in the previous life. In this regard, it can be seen from the fact that the main right-back Zambrotta was not sent off by Merck for two fouls in the first half of the game, as in the history, and the director Zì Italy had to face the disadvantage of playing with one less man in the next game.

There are two main reasons for this change in Italy. One is the tactical change brought by the rise of Fiorentina to Italian football, following the chain defense theory proposed by Herrera and the zone defense theory launched by Sacchi, the purple lily, which absorbed the characteristics of the first two, went further, and emphasized the importance of running in defense, forming a numerical advantage in a small area, so as to improve the success rate of defense, instead of except for the opposing defenders as before, others only care about the passing route of the opponent and do not encircle; And the second point is that Zambrotta, Nesta, and Toldo, the main players of the national team, are much more mature than the same period in history, and they have accumulated extremely rich game experience with Fiorentina for many years, which they simply did not have in their previous lives.

These players in the Netherlands are not vegetarians, and in the face of Italy's strong and tight defensive system, they are also going all out to give full play to their football talents, and they are obsessed with attacking to get a ticket to the European Cup final!

So, in the second half, this spear and shield contest continued to be hot in front of the fans!

In the 49th minute, Bergkamp played an imaginative long-range cross to Kluivert, and Nesta and Cannavaro sandwiched the Dutch centre-forward in the middle, forcing him to miss the Ice Prince's pass. In the end, taking advantage of Nesta's opportunity to jam Kluivert, Cannavaro took the lead to clear the ball out of the penalty area!

Zenden, who had picked up the ball from outside the box, did not hesitate to pass the ball into the box again, this time it was Nesta who cleared the ball, and Kluivert, who was blocked by Cannavaro, still failed to receive a pass from his teammate.

Three minutes later, the Dutch made a comeback. Right-back Bosvelt, who had set up the assist, didn't wait for the Italian to get up and get the ball to Kluivert in the box, who couldn't get the pass on despite Nesta's interference, and the ball was cleared out of the box by Nesta.

It was still Zenden, who still received the ball outside the penalty area on the left side, but this time the Dutch winger did not choose to pass the ball to his center forward, but volleyed directly at the front of the big penalty area! Albertini, who had already retreated into the box, tried to play a flying block, but unfortunately he couldn't touch the fast ball when he was a beat slower.

Thankfully, Albertini's failed block didn't seem to have had much of an impact on Toldo's judgment, as he put his hands together and snuggled the ball into his arms!

"Holy! Albertini, this is a trick! Fortunately, Toldo was resolute enough and didn't make any trouble. When he saw the failure of the Milan team's deputy flying body blocking, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but be shocked. Cenden's shot was from a good angle and would not have bothered Toldo, who was already in position, but if Albertini was touched in the middle of the way, the consequences would have been unpredictable.

After all, no matter how good Toldo's condition is, he is not superhuman, and if the ball changes direction in the middle of the game, he will definitely not have time to react if he is ready to make a save.

In the following period, the Dutch team still had the absolute upper hand in terms of possession and shots on goal, but Italy were not easy to match, with the likes of Toldo and Nesta dissuspending the Orange's attack, while occasionally playing a few quick counter-attacks also spooked Dutch fans.

However, in the 61st minute, there was another wave on the pitch: taking advantage of the space left by Cannavaro's scramble, Cendon made a pick-up pass and handed the ball to Davies, who chested the ball and turned towards the penalty area. Materazzi, who came over to make up for the defense, saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly sent a tackle, but he didn't want to put the Dutch wild boar down on the line of the big penalty area with the ball!

Materazzi breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that he had successfully disrupted Davies' breakthrough and prepared to form a wall with his team-mates to fend off the next Dutch free-kick in front of the Netherlands - he thought his foul was on the outside of the box - only to look around and find that most of his teammates were talking to the referee with very different expressions.

Confused, Materazzi quickly took a closer look and found that one of the referee Merck's hands was pointing at his own twelve yard point!

The second penalty of the game for the Dutch team was born!