It’s a little abnormal to see yourself saved by the other side from this sure penalty kick. Frank De Boer’s hands rested on her hips and she looked at toldo at the penalty spot with a depressed face, thinking that the other side could save the ball so fast. Isn’t it too abnormal for the Italian goalkeeper’s reflex nerve?
If toldo knew what Delport was thinking at this moment, he would laugh at the other side and make a fuss. I have to face it when the team is training for penalty kicks, but Ronaldo, Shevchenko, Inzaghi, top shooters, Pirlo and effenberg, a bunch of penalty shooters, are you the only defender who tried to fool me? At least change to Bergkamp. Come on!
Oh, by the way, this Dutch softball is afraid to take a penalty (note that Bergkamp missed a key penalty in the FA Cup in 1999, which led to Manchester United’s triple crown. The ice king never stepped on the 12yard penalty kick again, which also led to a bad reputation for psychological quality)
Although all the Italian fans present cheered for their wonderful performance in toldo, what made everyone even more surprised was that this penalty was just one of toldo’s crazy performances in the game!
Delport’s missed penalty didn’t do much damage to the morale of Dutch players. After all, the Netherlands has never been a good player in penalty kicks since ancient times. Even a superstar like Van Basten has a record of negligent hands. It is natural for Delport to miss a penalty. Moreover, these Dutch international players are confident in their own abilities and believe that they will create more scoring opportunities in the coming years.
Then Bergkamp took a corner kick, and Starr made up for it. A beautiful hook cleared the ball out of the penalty area before Kluiwitt shot. Koku got the clearance ball outside the penalty area, and just wanted to reorganize the attack, he was thrown to the ground by Dibiagio, a quick eye and a quick foot. The Dutch team set the ball in the frontcourt.
Although Bergkamp tried to break the deadlock with this Italian ball opportunity, he hit the human wall with the ball, and Materazzi took the lead to clear the ball!
Vieri, who was cruising near the middle circle of the court, made a breakthrough by clearing the ball with this foot, but then he shot it in hot pursuit. Stam interfered and rubbed the tip of Van der Sar’s glove off the far post of the goal and failed to turn it into a goal.
Vieri’s counterattack scared the Dutch into a cold sweat. Only then did they realize that the Italian defensive counterattack was not for fun, even if they retreated to the front of the iron bucket array and put a vieri forward.
You know, in today’s international football, there are two strikers with the strongest oneonone ability: an alien Ronaldo and vieri!
Therefore, the Dutch players are more careful in the attack when they come, especially in the defense line. Several defenders even glance at vieri’s position from time to time for fear of being quickly countered by their opponents.
Of course, although the defensive attention has been strengthened, the Dutch offensive has not been relaxed. For them, it is worse than death to let them compete with Italy for defense.
In the 42nd minute, Marc overmars took a direct ball from Davis and broke into the restricted area. Unfortunately, in Maldini’s close defense, the Dutch winger shot and finally kicked it into toldo’s arms.
It’s not that Marc overmars is too independent to know that it’s the right thing to pass the ball to the middle to meet his teammates after attracting the attention of the opposing goalkeeper, but because the Italian defender did so well that he planned to follow up and meet Kluivitt and Bergkamp, both of whom deliberately blocked their way forward. Sta and Dibiagio were blocked outside the penalty area, and they had no chance to meet Marc overmars at all.
Although Marc overmars has scored many goals in his career, most of them rely on speed breakthrough and singlehandedly scored goals. He is not an excellent shooter, so it is also difficult to miss the ball if there are wolves (toldo) in front and tigers (Maldini) around.
Unwilling that the Dutch players launched two more offensives in the last few minutes before the halftime, these two offensives were destroyed by Cannavaro and Stafford without any need for toldo to go out in person, which did not pose a threat to the Italian gate.
In this way, when the whistle sounded at the end of the halfgame, the score was even than the two sides in these fortyfive minutes.
I didn’t expect toldo to perform so well, said toldo Karin, who was surrounded by Italian players and headed for the player tunnel. Tony seems that we can sell toldo for a good price before the end of the European Cup.
Zhuang Ge nodded his head and agreed with Karin’s words. toldo’s performance at halftime was really excellent. In addition to saving a penalty from Delport, he blocked the Dutch player’s shot many times in the game, which can be said to be the biggest contributor to Italy’s failure to concede a goal so far.
You’re welcome to say that even if Buffon were the Italian gatekeeper tonight, it would be impossible to do better than toldo.
It’s a pity that if toldo’s usual desire to win can be half as stable as it is today, then we won’t consider introducing Buffon from Parma to take over his class. Zhuang Ge said with a sigh that toldo was the first player he introduced after he entered Florence, saying that he was his own unit, but now that Florence has made great contributions to its rise, toldo has to choose to move away from Florence because of the fading fighting spirit and unstable competitive state.
Chapter 959 San toldo coming again (3)
After a short break, the players from both sides returned to the stadium to prepare for the halftime game.
Compared with the halfcourt, the Dutch team didn’t change its tactics in the halfcourt, and at the same time, it still maintained great offensive intensity. Koku and Bergkamp constantly launched an offensive in the middle, and four players on the wing made a breakthrough, or later they met their teammates or cut them to form a shot. Generally speaking, they wanted to attack like a flood and cut through the Italian tortoise shell a little!
Everyone who has played football knows that the pressure on the defensive side is always much greater than that on the offensive side in football matches. After all, you can wait for another chance if you miss a shot, but if you make a defensive mistake, it will often lead to the birth of a goal.
Even though Italy has the strongest defense line in the world, it seems that it will never stop attacking the Netherlands. It is impossible for the Staples to keep their spirits high all the time, and there will be times when they will relax. Therefore, it is not a problem for Dutch players to seize these opportunities once or twice to break the Italian goal and win the game.
Although the Dutch abacus is ringing, from the performance of the Italian players ten minutes before the halfgame, Stahl’s attention is still very middle. The Dutch attack is either stopped by them cleanly outside the penalty area or directly destroyed by a foul. Generally speaking, the Dutch want to send the ball into the Italian penalty area, but they have not found the right way to achieve this goal yet.
NeoMarc and others frequently fire guns outside the restricted area and try to penetrate the opponent’s defense line through longrange shots. However, in Italy, this extremely tight defense body oppresses this longrange shot and the effect is obviously not ideal.
Even if Starr occasionally slackened or neglected in defense and didn’t stop Zenden and Marc overmars from hitting the door, they were braver than toldo tonight, so they could keep all these shots out of the door without even giving their opponents a chance to make up the shot.
I have to say that the defenders of the Italian national team have done better than the Apennines coached by Zoff in the previous life. This can be seen from the fact that the main rightback Zambrotta was not punished by Merck for two fouls at halftime, and Italy had to face the unfavorable situation of one less player in the next game.
The reasons for this change in Italy mainly come from two aspects. One is that the rise of Florence has brought tactical changes to Italian football. Following Herrera’s chain defense theory and Sacchi’s regional defense theory, Viola has absorbed the characteristics of the first two, and further emphasized the importance of running in defense, forming a number advantage in a small range, thus increasing the success rate of defense, instead of taking care of the opponent’s ball route and not grabbing it like before. The second point is that Zambrotta, Stesta and toldo, the main players of the national team, are much more mature than the same period in history. They have been fighting with Florence for many years and have accumulated extremely rich competition experience, which they did not have in previous lives.
These Dutch players are not vegetarians. Facing Italy’s tough and tight defense system, they are aroused with pride. They are also trying their best to give full play to their football talents and are determined to attack and get a ticket to the European Cup finals!
So at half time, the spear and shield contest continued to be hot in front of the fans!
In the fortyninth minute, Bergkamp gave the ball to the forward insertion Kluivitta and Cannavaro in tandem, forcing the Dutch center to catch the Ice King ball smoothly. Finally, Cannavaro took advantage of the opportunity of Stu’s stuck Kluivitt to clear the ball out of the penalty area first!
Get the ball outside the penalty area. Zenden did not hesitate to put the ball into the penalty area again. This time, the clearance person turned into Starr, who was blocked by Cannavaro, and Kluivert still failed to receive the ball from his teammates.
Three minutes later, the Dutchman made a comeback to assist the former rightback Boswell, who gave the ball to the penalty area before the Italian player doubleteamed. Kluivert, who was still unable to receive the ball after Stahl’s interference, was cleared by Stahl.
Zenden still received the ball from outside the restricted area on the left, but this time the Dutch winger didn’t choose the ball for his own center, but directly volleyed at the front of the restricted area! Albertini had already retreated to the restricted area, trying to play a flyblocking and eyecatching drama. Unfortunately, he was slow for a beat, but he failed to touch the fast ball.
Fortunately, however, albertini’s failure to catch the eye did not seem to have any impact on toldo’s judgment, who put the ball in his arms with both hands firmly!
I depend! Albertini, this is cheat people! Fortunately, toldo, he was determined enough not to make any trouble. When he saw that the Milan vicecaptain failed to block, Zhuang Ge was surprised. Zendeng’s shooting angle is very positive, which will not cause trouble to toldo, who is already in a good position. However, if albertini touches it halfway, the consequences will be unpredictable.
After all, no matter how good toldo is, he is not superman. If the ball changes direction in the middle, he has already made a save. He will definitely come or not.
In the coming days, the Dutch team still occupied the absolute wind in possession of the ball and the number of shots, but Italy was not an easy generation. toldo, Starr and others completely resolved the Orange Army offensive and occasionally made several quick counterattacks, which also made the Dutch fans frightened.
However, in the 61st minute of the game, the stadium was reborn. After grabbing the ball, Ricardo Cannavaro left Zenden with a pick and handed the ball to Davis, who stopped the ball in the chest and turned to attack the restricted area. Materazzi saw that the situation was not good and quickly sent out a tackle, but he put the Dutch wild boar down in the restricted area with people and the ball!
Seeing that Davis’s breakthrough was successfully destroyed, Materazzi was relieved to form a wall with his teammates to resist the Dutch team’s frontcourt Italian ballhe thought that his foul was outside the penalty areabut when he looked around, he found that most of his teammates were talking around the referee, and his expression was very wrong.
Confused Materazzi quickly looked intently and found that the referee Merck was pointing at his own twelve yards!
The Dutch team’s second penalty kick was born!
Chapter 96 San toldo coming again (4)
Holy shit, what the hell is this! Seeing that the ball in my heart actually turned into a penalty, Materazzi immediately danced to Merck stupidly. Hey! Dude! Look carefully! I fouled outside the restricted area! You shouldn’t give them a penalty. It’s Italian!
There is no problem with my penalty if I don’t explain it. Listening to Materazzi’s pale face, Merck raised his eyebrows and said, Look up and watch the bigscreen slowmotion playback. I have to say that you are really unlucky. If I had been a little earlier, I would have awarded the Dutch a ball in the restricted area.
Materazzi quickly looked up at the big screen and found that the director of the belly black stadium was playing pictures of himself tripping over Davis from all angles over and over again on the big screennot to mention that this must be a penalty!
If in doubt, Dutch people dare not play like this on this occasion. If the referee finds something wrong and cancels the penalty, they will be dumbfounded.
But then again, as Merck said, Materazzi was really unlucky. When he tackled Davis with a tackle, the Dutch wild boar just stepped on the line of the restricted area! In this way, Materazzi expected a goal in the frontcourt of a big restricted area line to become a penalty!
After watching the replay of the game, it can be said that Materazzi accepted Merck’s penalty and followed captain Paolo Maldini and them out of the box. At the same time, Materazzi secretly prayed that toldo, his teammate when he played in Florence, would give another hand this time and save the Dutch penalty!
Hey Francisco! Because I had a good personal relationship with toldo when I was playing in Florence, I didn’t have to worry about anything. Materazzi shouted outside the penalty area, If you can save this penalty, I will invite you to the red light district in Amsterdam!
Hearing Materazzi’s propaganda, toldo leaned forward and almost fell directly in the heart of the turf and scolded himself for making such a bad friend. Isn’t this giving me trouble?
You know, in a big tournament like the European Cup, to ensure a good competitive state, all teams have strict restrictions on the private lives of players, not to mention going to the red light district, but going to nightclubs in general is not allowed. If Materazzi really wants to put this promise into action, then the first one to come out and clean him up will definitely be Old Maldini!
Just when toldo was so angry with Materazzi, the Dutch side finally decided on the candidate to take the penalty. Since Bergkamp had a psychological shadow after missing a key penalty, he was no longer in charge of the penalty industry, and team captain Frank De Boer also missed a penalty at halftime, so this time the Dutch side introduced the penalty player to be the first in the scorer list, tied with Inzaghi Milosevic!
Although I was a little scared when toldo bravely saved his captain’s penalty, Kluivert still had confidence in himself, and the most important thing was that once Kluivert finally helped the Netherlands to eliminate Italy with this penalty, he would score six goals in the European Cup without any accident, and he would enjoy the golden boots alone without sharing this honor with others!
Therefore, Kluivert is the best person to take this penalty in public and private!
Toldo clapped his hands in front of the goal and tried to calm down. Then he posed and yelled at the Dutchman, trying to put more psychological pressure on the other side and increase his success rate.
With a pensive face, Kluivert ignored toldo’s roar and saw him put the ball on the penalty spot and quietly withdrew for a distance, took a deep breath and then accelerated his runup to shoot!
The ball flew to the left side of the goal, and toldo, with his rich experience and intuition, accurately judged the opponent’s shooting route instead of faking, but he was slower than the Dutchman!