road to victory

Chapter 353 Group Second
In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. Just about 5 minutes into the game, Dutch captain Frank De Boer broke the deadlock for the Netherlands and gave the Netherlands the lead.

However, in the 67th minute, Vincent's direct descendant, Sanuno, who was the most attacked by the media this time in the French team, took a long shot from outside the penalty area and brought the two sides back to the same starting line.

After this goal, Sanuno felt a big stone in his heart suddenly fall to the ground, and he was extremely happy.Fan Shang was also happy for him. In fact, Fan Shang blamed himself a little when the media attacked Sanuno, and repeatedly questioned himself whether it was true that the seedlings were encouraged, but this goal can completely prove that Fan Shang's decision was right. And Sanuno's performance is also worthy of this honor.

In the 86th minute, France was still in danger in the late quarter, allowing Cenden to make a sneak attack.

The final score was fixed at 3:2. The Netherlands ended the group stage with three consecutive victories as they wished, and won the first place in the group, while France was second in the group.

The biggest upset in the group stage of this competition is Group A. The previously recognized two strong teams, Germany and England, were both eliminated, and Portugal and Romania appeared.

Groups B and C were calm, they all qualified, and those who should go home did not escape this fate.

The two teams that qualified in Group B are Italy and Turkey. Turkey is very good this time, beating Sweden and the host Belgium to win the group No.2.

Spain and Yugoslavia qualify from Group C. This is completely a reflection of the strength of the two teams. Compared with the eliminated Slovenia and Norway, the two qualified teams are superior.

France's opponent in the quarter-finals will be Spain. Spain's Vincent is really not afraid now. Although it looks good on the paper, he has never proved himself in the competition, and the current Spanish style is a bit soft. This is Vincent. A favorite of head coaches who like a strong style of play.

This time Vincent asked the French team to face Spain head-to-head. No matter how good Spain's skills are, your skills are useless if I knock you to the ground.

Sure enough, Spain still couldn't adapt to France's violent style of play. Except for Mendieta who played normally, everyone else was a little abnormal, including the current leader of Spain, Prince Raul, who was almost invisible in the game.

Even in this way, an accident happened, and it was Spain who scored the first goal.

Mendieta took the lead for Spain in the 31st minute with his own personal ability.The most ridiculous thing is that after Mendieta scored a goal and hugged his teammates, he ran to the French coach's bench to celebrate with Vincent.

Seeing this situation, Fan Shang was taken aback, and quickly waved his hands, "Just kidding, if there really was a scene of celebrating with the opponent's coach after scoring a goal, it would be really explosive news."

Mendieta may have also realized that something was wrong, so he stopped decisively. In order to relieve the embarrassment, he knelt on the ground and kissed the field, and then went into the game again.

"The reaction is quite fast," Fan Shang thought.

But afterward, this matter was forgotten by Fan Shang, what the hell, why do you think so much now that you are behind.

So Vincent waved his hand, and France launched a more ferocious offensive.

The hard work paid off, and in the 44th minute of the game, Zidane rewritten the score to a 1:1 tie for France before the intermission.

In the second half, France's offensive was stronger, but the shooting was not satisfactory. Henry was a little out of shape and was replaced by Vincent in the middle.

It was not until the 78th minute of the game that France scored again from Djorkaeff, fixing the score at 2:1. In the end, France relied on this score to advance to the semi-finals of this European Cup.

The other top three are Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal. The easiest for these three teams to advance is the Netherlands. They seem to have opened up a cheat. They defeated Yugoslavia 8:6 in the top 1. This is obviously not a normal situation. It is said that it was because of civil strife in the Yugoslavia team due to ethnic issues that led to such a big score that can only be seen in the qualifiers.

Neither Italy nor Portugal had much trouble, with Italy beating Romania 2-0 and Portugal beating Turkey by the same scoreline.

The matchups in the semi-finals are France against Portugal and the Netherlands against Italy.

France is stuck with its teeth. It has just finished pulling out Spain and is about to pull out Portugal.

But Portugal is really strong now, this is their golden generation, the group of players who have won the European Youth Championship, Baia, Cotto, Paulo Sosa, Figo, Rui Costa, Paulo Letta and other stars are active in various leagues in Europe. Vincent is most familiar with Pauletta. He made a big splash in Paris Saint-Germain. Last season in Ligue [-], he held Bordeaux in his arms for three consecutive years. The honor of the shooter was taken away.

The semi-final was held at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. This stadium is similar to the Stade de France in France. It is not used by clubs. It is used for large-scale events such as international competitions or concerts. of.

Since Belgium borders France, and Brussels is still the French-speaking part of Belgium, many French fans came to Brussels for this game. Of course, the "No.12" who has always supported Vincent cannot be left behind.

They are now the leaders of fans in France, not only in Bordeaux, but now they have branches in many places. Even the two fan leaders Pascal and Brahimi have resigned from their original jobs to concentrate on this matter.Moreover, they have become a website, or even a company, to operate these things, including some souvenirs, some tours for the purpose of watching football, etc. Fan Shang also has a certain amount of investment in it.

This time under the leadership of "No.12", the back of a goal has been rendered into the sky blue color of France early before the opening. This time there is no huge jersey, but a huge French shirt. The national flag moves back and forth on the stands.

Not to mention, when the national anthem was being played, the flag was still shaking, which was quite eye-catching.

Vincent was a lot more cautious in this game. Portugal's cup match is really overwhelming. Like the Netherlands and Italy, they are all victorious teams from the beginning of the game to the present. Especially when they faced England and Germany, they broke out. The powerful combat power is really amazing.

Therefore, in order to deal with Portugal's aggressive offensive, Vincent decided to adopt a steady strategy of defensive counterattack, focusing on stability and making sure not to lose.

(End of this chapter)