road to victory

Chapter 358 Finals
The final will be played between France and Italy. The French team eliminated Portugal by relying on the golden goal in overtime.

Italy also fought the host Netherlands for 120 minutes, and in the end there was no winner and entered a penalty shootout.In the past, Italy, which basically had no record of victory in penalty shootouts, appeared a patron saint, Santoldo. Due to his miraculous performance, the Netherlands only scored one penalty kick in four rounds of penalty shootouts, and Santordo also saved two penalty kicks from the Dutch team in regular time, six penalty kicks in a game, and it is really a miracle to only miss one.

Italy is undoubtedly lucky. Originally Toldo was only Buffon's substitute, but Buffon missed the European Cup due to injury before the European Cup. Italian coach Zoff had no choice but to use Toldo. Maybe even Zoff didn't Thinking of it, Toldo could fight for the canonization and send Italy to the final by himself.

The outside world predicts that the final will be a dull game. It is very likely that the two teams will enter overtime, and then follow the trend to enter the battle. At that time, Santoldo will once again become the focus of Europe.

Fan Shang is actually not afraid of Toldo, just kidding, just one bad performance is enough, it is impossible to perform supernormal in every game.According to Vincent's understanding of Toldo, the Italian goalkeeper is best at difficult saves, but he is obviously not as stable as his predecessors Peruzzi, Pagliuca and others in terms of stability. Buffon has no way to compare.

However, it was widely rumored that the two teams were going to play a dull game, which made Fan Shang frowned. Is it really necessary to compromise with Italy until the final penalty shootout as the outside world said?Obviously, this is not what Fan Shang wants to see. Italy does not attack because of weak risks, but France has something to do with Fan Shang's personal style. Fan Shang is now wondering if he should change it?
Italy must still be defending and counterattacking. This Zoff has no choice. Except for Totti in the frontcourt, the others are..., but Vincent is also surprised that Del Piero, who is in full swing in Juventus, can't play in the national team. on the ball.

The final was held at the Feynord Stadium in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This is the home stadium of the Feynord Club, which can accommodate 51000 people. Of course, there are no empty seats in such an important stadium.

Dear President Chirac has undoubtedly appeared in the stands again. He is absolutely true to French football. As long as it comes to key games, he will basically appear on the scene.

Before today, he actually talked to Fan Shang. Fan Shang was also surprised when he received a call from Chirac. He had only talked to Chirac at the award ceremony or some other event. This time the call was still first.

Chirac asked Fan Shang again if he had confidence, Fan Shang shook his head and smiled and told Chirac, "If you are not afraid of losing face, then you can go to the scene to see it."

This is the third time that Chirac heard Fan Shang say such a thing. After listening to it, Chirac laughed and said that he would wait for Fan Shang on the rostrum after the game.

Since it was the final, the atmosphere in the French locker room before the game was a little heavy. No matter who the opponent was, no one was weak to make it this far, so the players didn't have much confidence.

Seeing this, Fan Shang felt that he should say something, "Are you afraid of Italy?" Fan Shang asked in the locker room without thinking.

No one spoke, but a few people looked up at Fan Shang, "If you don't answer, it seems that you are acquiescing. Since you are afraid, let's abstain directly, Jacques, can we be sentenced to a 0:2 loss if we abstain now?"

"It's not 2:0, it's 3:0. Fan Shang, are you sure? If we abstain now, it will be an unprecedented big joke in international football." Santini's voice was loud when he said the big joke again.

"Guys, you are about to become a joke of football players who have never been seen before. Go ahead, I don't care if they are world champions who are my jokes, right?" Vincent smiled and looked at the French players .

"Boss, of course we are not afraid of Italy." It was Captain Didier Deschamps who spoke, and it was really time for him to speak on behalf of the players, "We just didn't react so fast just now, how could we be afraid, we are the world champions! "

"Very well said," Fan Shang nodded affirmatively at first, but then changed the subject, "But why are you reacting slowly? It's because you hesitated, and you weren't confident in your heart!"

It is indeed like this, it is already in the finals, no one can have absolute confidence, but even if it is like this, Fan Shang still needs to stimulate them, at least to arouse the blood of these people.

The French players listened to Fan Shang's words, and then thought about themselves. They really didn't have much confidence. Almost everyone looked at Fan Shang, and they were also looking at their Fan Shang.

"Italy can only defend and will not attack. Even if we have been pouring the ball from the backcourt today, I think they will be like a turtle, and you have to have the courage to break the shell. Look at you now, face You are so hesitant about a tortoise, are you even worse than a tortoise?" Fan Shang had almost belittled the players at this time.

"We are not afraid!" A voice sounded from the players, and then people continued to join in. Slowly, the voice became more and more orderly and louder, "We are not afraid!"

Fan Shang felt that this was almost done, and pushed down his hand, "Don't just shout, now take your ambitions, go to the field and show it to me, show it to the fans, show it to the whole of Europe and the world! Stand now Get up and go to the field!"

Vincent opened the door of the locker room, and then the French players walked in front of Vincent aggressively one by one, walked to the player tunnel, and waited for the entering ceremony.

"I hope this breath doesn't dissipate too quickly." Fan Shang prayed in his heart.

But after playing the national anthems of both sides, and then finishing the side selection, Fan Shang looked at the expressions of the players again. The ferocity just now had slowly begun to subside, "Let's start quickly, attack one and give Italy a bad start."

But things backfired. In this game, Italy kicked off first. Then when France gets the ball, then this tone is really out of ten.

"Press!" Fan Shang yelled from the sidelines at the very beginning.

Just one out of ten, Didier Deschamps successfully snatched the ball from Fiore's feet two minutes later, and then passed it straight to Zidane. The technology, continuous turning and changing direction and speed, dribbled the ball directly to the top of the penalty area in Italy.Then he calmly kicked the goal in front of the three central defenders.

(End of this chapter)