Let me tell you about my schedule during the European Championships.
Go to bed at 8 p.m., wake up at 0:00 a.m., and then suffer for five hours, and then spend another three hours rethinking what you have just suffered...... Really, living in the Souls game every day, Hidetaka Miyazaki is more kind to me than these broken teams in the European Cup.
Eventually, Germany and Spain had a barely watchable technical fight, and France and Portugal immediately put up the hypnotic signs of this tournament again.
On the French side, knowing that the biggest threat to the opponent was Leao, they cut off Kounde's assist button and added a Kante barrier in front of Kounde. Three of the four midfielders were purely defensive, leaving one Griezmann to tease Vitiani.
On the Portuguese side, Mbappe was also set up in a no-fly zone, with Cancelo squatting down the bottom and Palhinha cutting inside in the corner of the penalty area, and then letting the B seat drop back to complete all the ball tasks on the left side.
In short, Martinez and Deschamps studied the "Sunflower Treasure Book" and the "Sword Spectrum to Ward Off Evil Spirits" before the game, and then both came to the conclusion that the best way to deal with the enemy is to partially castrate themselves.
As the saying goes, on paper, I finally feel shallow, and I never know that this matter will be punished. After such a toss, the opponent's attack died down, and there was not much left of his own attack. Throughout the first half, the highlight tactics of both sides can be summarized as follows:
- Portugal is the main Leao strong attack, but after passing the pass, there is no next step, only a smile is welded on the face.
- France focuses on fishing law enforcement, gives Leao a corner, waits for B Fei to lose the ball, and then looks for Mbappe to counterattack.
In comparison, France have a slightly better attacking threat as they have Muani and Antoine Griezmann to charge in addition to Mbappe, but Portugal only have Fernandes and Cristiano Ronaldo......
We all know that B Fei likes this kind of teammate the most: if he pushes a counterattack in the midfield, then the teammate in front must not only have speed, but also run without the ball without regrets; If he is at the top of the arc of the penalty area, someone needs to carry him to build a turret and let him shoot from a distance or insert into the penalty area; If he is on the wing, he has to be on the weak side of the defense, then someone needs to attract the defender on the strong side.
However, speed, fulcrum ability, side breakthroughs, and coordinated pressing are all things that are difficult for Ronaldo to do now, which is the real reason why B Fei and Ronaldo are incompatible.
It is even difficult to decide which of the two will take a free kick, although the action of B Fei's free throw is very coherent, but Luo Ge's forward swing at the stepping point and the surprised expression later are really not like acting.
In this way, in the first half, the two teams tried their best to pinch the opponent's goal, but they couldn't move. The tactical level can indeed be written about, but when it comes to the scene, it is ...... Anyway, even the referee felt that there was nothing in this game, and there was not even a second of injury time at the end of the first half.
Fortunately, both sides remember that this is a knockout round. In the second half, France took the lead in attacking, as evidenced by the fact that both Te'o and Jules Kounde improved their assist depth. But Pepe in the middle has locked Muani to death, and Mbappe is more of a pure wing-back than a striker, so most of the two full-backs will end directly after crossing.
Moreover, as soon as France took the lead in dismantling the fortifications, the Portuguese offensive became lively. Vitinha, in particular, had a 94 per cent pass success rate in this game, delivering two threatening passes, one tackle, two clearances, four successful aerial duels and ...... A yellow card was shown to the referee.
From 55 to 65 minutes, the two sides played the best 10 minutes of the game, with shots that began to come in ferocious manners and then ended in various abstract ways.
For example, in the 58th minute, Leao broke through on the side and successfully hit the side netting.
For example, in the 60th minute, B Fei received a through shot and was saved - fans who have watched the Spaniards play Barcelona know that this goal is available for Wu Lei.
For example, in the 62nd minute, Tchouameni fired a long-range shot, and the ball drew a trajectory that was almost parallel to the bottom line, and finally failed to even touch the corner flagstick.
For example, in the 63rd minute, Muani burst into the penalty area and shot a tribute to himself in the World Cup final......
After a few rounds of back and forth, although there was no goal, the two teams found that letting go of the opponent's attack was so scary, so they quickly pushed back. Deschamps replaced Antoine Griezmann with Dembele, ostensibly adding a right attacking point, but in fact he used N'Golo Kante to fill in the midfield position and continue to improve the defensive coefficient in midfield.
In this way, it is more difficult for Portugal to pass through the midfield, so their attack and defense in the middle are simplified to "let Ronaldo rush in the front, let Pepe chase in the back", this is not a serious way of playing, this is a strategic old man.
After 70 minutes, Martinez brought on a defender and a midfielder, and Didier Deschamps changed a striker and a midfielder, and the two sides went to extra-time without tacitly, with N'Golo Kante's two long-range shots in the 87th and 88th minutes of their last insane in regulation time.
So the fans looked forward to it, looked forward to it, and there should have been a move in extra time, but it was not until the 105th minute that Deschamps replaced Mbappe, and Martinez immediately reciprocated and replaced Leao.
As for Gonzalo Ramos, Jota, Giroud on the bench or whatever...... The center is a heavy weapon, and taking it out is not conducive to creating a harmonious and beautiful atmosphere in the arena.
What does it mean to seem to have tried your best but not seem to have it? What does it mean to "stay in the green mountains, or no firewood"? Just look at the two teams in this game. In the space of 120 minutes, both sides had a total of 35 shots on goal, but most of them ended in three ways: lack of strength, right in the middle, and straight for the corner flag. The game could only be dragged into a penalty shoot-out, with Felix conceding the penalty with a visible cowardice, and Diogo Costa did not repeat the magic as France won 5-3 on penalties.
In the end, five games, 0 sports goals, Deschamps used his ultimate "Gou" trick to lead the French team to 1 penalty and 2 own goals. Martinez, on the other hand, from Belgium to Portugal, retrained with a new name, but also lost to Didier Deschamps.
After this game, Ronaldo, who came out of Madeira, wrote his final chapter in the European Championship. After the game, he stood in the middle of the field and watched the time pass, as if it had just happened, and as if it had been a long, long time.
Yes, this is no longer the era of Cristiano Ronaldo. When he knocked the ball close at hand, when he hugged his crying old comrade-in-arms Pepe, we didn't want to admit it but had to admit it: everything in the world will have a time when he should leave.
Time enters the painting, the years become poems, the sky is easy to thank, and it is difficult to stay in the summer. The passage of time is always like quicksand sliding down on the fingertips, which catches people off guard. Cristiano Ronaldo has played countless games and experienced some controversial moments, but at the end of the day, all his goals are nothing more than to prove himself on the football field.
As Mr. Yang Jiang said:
"We used to look forward to the recognition of the outside world, until in the end we realized that the world is our own and has nothing to do with others."