PS1: This is Thursday's update, a little late, I hope you don't care too much about the update time, and I promise not to stop the update......

PS2: Let's talk about the book friend group here, the group number is three, seven, zero, five, four, nine, nine, one, nine, nine, verifies that the answer is NTR knight, well, that's it.

"Tsk, Yaap (Stam) you're really ruthless, and you don't show mercy at all." After an unsuccessful attack, Vieri rubbed his stomach, which had been hit by a dark elbow from Stam, and said with a feigned dissatisfaction, "Anyway, we play for the same club, so you can't let go of the water while defending me?" At least don't use this kind of small action when defending, it hurts. ”

"Christian, you're a little unreasonable." In response to Vieri's complaints, Stam replied speechlessly, "We're not playing a friendly match right now, and if we don't keep an eye on you, something will happen...... If you can promise me not to go all out in the next game, I'll agree to your offer, how about this deal? ”

"Uh, I'm just kidding, don't take it seriously." Hearing Stam say this, Vieri suddenly froze, and changed the subject with a dry smile. Like Stam, he didn't dare to let go in a crucial battle to decide who would get a ticket to the semi-finals of the European Championship.

While Stam and Vieri were briefly exchanging ideas on the pitch, the Orange's attack was also frustrated. Robben's flank attack failed to break through the Italian defence, as De Rossi and Zambrotta combined to keep the ball out. Immediately afterwards, the ball was handed to Pirlo's feet by De Rossi at the first time, and the latter, who had been observing the situation in the front court, did not wait for Seedorf to come up to interfere, and directly sent a long pass over the top to kick the ball to the half of the Dutch team!

It has to be said that Pirlo's long ball landed very well and his ball managed to get past the midfield defence of Cocu and Davies and fly straight in the direction of Stam. And it looks like if Stam hadn't moved his position earlier, the ball would have fallen behind the Dutchman.

"Let's not talk about it now, when the European Cup is over, our brother will find a place to have a drink and have a good relationship." Noticing that the ball was flying towards him, Vieri glanced at Stam covertly, distracting the latter with words as he shifted his position without moving, "So, I'll go first!" ”

Before he could finish speaking, Vieri slammed into an acceleration and left Stam behind, and the position he ran to was the first landing point of the ball!

"I'll you, Christian, you kid actually played with me!" Because he didn't notice the movement on the field when chatting with Vieri before, Stam, who was a beat slower to react, scolded Vieri, who had opened a distance from him, and immediately turned around and chased after him, he was confident that he could block the opponent before Vieri completed his shooting action, and successfully defused Italy's offensive this time!

With his fitness declining over the past year, affecting his explosiveness and speed, Vieri was unable to shake Stam off too far, only to keep the ball at his feet before he caught up with him and tangled up in the box, leaving no room to shoot.

However, the lack of angle and space to shoot doesn't mean Vieri is out of options. While circling with Stam and paying attention to the movements around him, he immediately blocked Stam with his back and passed the ball with his left foot after he noticed that a teammate had caught up to pick him up!

"Oops!" Seeing that Diego Milito was already in the box with a shot on goal and Frank de Boer firmly stuck behind him, Stam suddenly chuckled in his heart, and secretly said that something was wrong. After all, the current De Boer is no longer the reassuring presence in the backline due to his age. Therefore, even if De Boer is now responsible for defending Diego Milito, who is not very good at confrontation, it will be difficult to cause enough interference to the opponent when he is stuck in position.

Although De Boer still has the big move to put a tackle on the ground, it is in the sensitive area of the penalty area, and the opponent has a great opportunity to face the goalkeeper directly. Therefore, the result of the Dutch captain's move on Milito is likely to be a ruby card and a penalty from Friske.

In this way, in the 65th minute of the game, Vieri took advantage of Stam's distraction to receive a long pass from Pirlo and assisted Diego Milito to score, helping Italy equalize the score and bring the two teams back on the same page!

After holding on to a nearly forty-minute lead that was wiped out by a defensive leak at the back, Seedorf and Cocu stared at Stam and Frank de Boer rather unkindly, thinking to themselves that you two should not be bought by the Italians, right?

Seedorf would be forgiven for thinking so, after all, the goal just conceded was too weird. First of all, Stam was a slow reaction when he was talking to Vieri, which made it easy for the opponent to receive Pirlo's long ball, and then De Boer was in full swing in the direct confrontation with Milito, allowing the latter to face Van der Sar directly and easily equalize the score.

Suffice it to say, there was an eerie aura to the whole goalscoring process, and it was no surprise that Seedorf had such a reaction.

Of course, the goal was not so much a goal as Vieri's trick as it was the Italian's ability to capitalise on the biggest defensive flaw of the Netherlands at the moment, which was the fact that there were too many veterans in the midfield and that their speed and fitness were getting slower and slower over time, and then broke down the Dutch goal.

Otherwise, with De Boer's experience and ability, it is basically impossible for him to be easily blocked by Milito, let alone let the opponent receive the ball and shoot in such a dangerous position.

Seeing that the lead that was finally achieved was tied by the opponent because of a defensive mistake on his side, Advocaat, who had planned to continue to wait and see before acting, the conservative mood in his heart spread again. Fearing that the Italians would be penetrated again with a quick counter-attack, he rushed to replace Van der Meyde with Bouma to strengthen the team's defence by adding a defender.

At this time, no one thought that Advocaat's seemingly ordinary substitution would actually become a turning point in the game!