Cover News Reporter Zhou Yi
In the early morning of July 2, the "Five Shields" led by Ronaldo Portugal faced the Slovenian team guarding the goal in Oblak Town.
Neither side could break through the door in 90 minutes of regulation time and 30 minutes of extra time, and the game was eventually dragged into a penalty shoot-out, which was also the first penalty shoot-out of this European Cup. In the end, with goalkeeper Costa's brave save, Portugal saved three penalties in a row, and Portugal won 3-0 against Slovenia.
Costa becomes a hero in Portugal Screenshot of the webcast
In the group stage, Portugal won two consecutive victories against the Czech Republic and Turkey to secure an early qualifying place. Cristiano Ronaldo, the spiritual leader of the team, has selflessly provided assists to his teammates in previous games, but has not been able to score.
Before the game, Ronaldo posted on social media, "Let's go well, come on!" "Playing in his sixth European Championship, he has made no secret of his desire to win.
It is worth mentioning that three months ago, Portugal played a warm-up match with Slovenia away, and Portugal lost 0:2, and in that game, Ronaldo and Pepe were both veterans.
Entering the game, Portugal still used their familiar attacking methods, slowly advanced to the front, and then looked for cross opportunities to find Ronaldo, but unfortunately Ronaldo, whether it is the height of the jump or the impact, is no longer the courage of the year, and when he competes for the header many times, it is not the same as the ball.
Slovenia, on the other hand, used a change of pace to deal with Portugal's turns, and several quick counter-attacks were quite threatening, but unfortunately the last kick was almost unlucky.
In the 90th regular minute, the two sides played back and forth, but neither could find the opponent's goal. The climax of the game began with extra time, first of all, in the first half of extra time, Portugal got a great chance to take a penalty, Ronaldo stood at the penalty spot early, Oblak wanted to get close to him, and the Portuguese players immediately stepped forward to stop it.
Cristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty in extra time Screenshot of the webcast
Ronaldo hid his face and cried after missing the penalty screenshot of the live webcast
Before the penalty kick, Ronaldo kissed the ball affectionately, hoping for good luck. Run, hit the goal, but Oblak is too familiar with Ronaldo, successfully saved the ball off the bottom line, missed the great opportunity to take a penalty, Ronaldo hid his face and cried, and fell into deep self-blame.
Towards the end of the game, the 41-year-old Pepe made a serious mistake in stopping the ball, and Sesque, who is 20 years younger than him, seized the opportunity to form a one-on-one knife, but was blocked by Portuguese goalkeeper Costa's outstretched foot.
In the penalty shootout, Ronaldo scored a penalty screenshot of the live webcast
The game was dragged into a penalty shootout. Everyone didn't expect that Costa stood up at this time and replaced Ronaldo to become a hero of Portugal, bravely saving Slovenia's penalty kicks 3 times in a row, sending the opponent home, and saving the 41-year-old Pepe and 39-year-old Ronaldo.
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