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Chapter 181 Seeing Own Goal Again

As for whether Victor will follow what C-Ronaldo said, he will serve as the center forward of the starting team in this crucial game against the Ghana national team that determines the "survival" of the Portuguese national team.

There is no need to say much about this.Because the day of the start of this game is coming soon.The venue for this game is the Brasilia National Stadium in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.Players from both sides lined up in the player channel, and then walked into the field under the leadership of the referee.

Audiences watching this game in front of the TV or computer.From their TVs, speakers or headphones, the voices of the commentators speaking different languages ​​came immediately.And fans who watched FIFA's official soundtrack, from their TVs, or speakers or headphones, through previous games, the already familiar voice sounded again:

"Hello, audience friends, I'm Silvio Louis. This game is one of the four games on the last match day of the World Cup group stage. It is played by Portugal, who is wearing the traditional Portuguese red. The national team played against the Ghana national team wearing a white jersey. At the same time, the German national team in Group G played against the Ghana national team, and the South Korean national team in Group H played against the Belgian national team. There is a match between the Algerian national team and the Russian national team.

And this game was played at the Brasilia National Stadium in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.Judging from the rosters of the two sides we got before the game, although the two sides have adjusted personnel in the starting rosters in this game, there have been changes in personnel.Now let me introduce the starting situation of the players from both sides.

For the Portuguese national team, head coach Paulo Bento still adopts a 4-3-3 tactical formation. The goalkeeper is No. 22 Beto. In terms of defense, there are No. 21 Pereira, No. 2 Alves, and No. 3 Alves. No. Pepe, who returned from suspension with a red card, and left back, Paul Bento chose No. 4 Veloso as the starter.In midfield, No. 8 Moutinho, No. 6 William Carvalho and No. 20 Amorim.As for the frontcourt, in addition to the unshakable No. 17 Nani and No. 7, who is also the captain of the field, Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Bento made Juventus No. 10 and Victor Lee the center position.

As for the Ghana national team, they adopt a 4-2-3-1 tactical formation. The goalkeeper is No. 16 Dauda, ​​and the defense line has No. 23 Aful, No. 19 Mensah, No. 21 Boyer, and No. 20. Asamoah.In the midfield, No. 17 Rabiou and No. 8 Badu act as double midfielders.The front midfielder has No. 10 Andre Ayew, No. 18 Varys and No. 7 Atsu.The top forward is their captain, No. 3 Ji'an. "

After introducing the starting rosters of both players, after all, only Silvio-Louis commented alone, and there was no other commentator around him.Therefore, after Silvio Louis finished talking about the numbers and names of the starting 22 players from both sides, he could only speak directly:
"Okay, now the players from both sides have lined up and started to play the national anthems of both sides."

At this time, the general commentator would not say anything, after all, he also expressed his respect for the countries where the teams of the two teams belonged.And wait until the national anthems of Portugal and Ghana are played, and then wait until the captains of the two sides guess the coins and decide who has the right to kick-off.After the two sides took a group photo with their respective starting 11 players.Victor and C-Ronaldo of the Portuguese national team stood in front of the football in the middle circle.

At this time, C-Ronaldo smiled at Victor.After Victor heard the referee blow the whistle to start the game, he directly kicked the football to C-Ronaldo.Then ran towards the opposite half of the Ghana national team.And Silvio Louis also said at the same time:
"Okay, the game has begun. And the fate of these two teams will be revealed after the 90 minutes of the game."

And this game, it seems that from the very beginning of the game, the Portuguese national team has been "dismissed."

When the Portuguese national team participated in the second game of the group stage of this World Cup in Brazil, that is, the game against the US national team, the last problem that the Portuguese national team wanted to face was the "non-tactical substitution" of players. People." Simply put, it was because of some unexpected situations on the court that they were forced to make substitutions.Like player injuries.

Yeah, look at the first two games of the Portuguese national team, isn't that the case.If it is said that Almeida was injured in the first game and Postiga was injured in the second game, the Portuguese national team still has enough players to replace them.During the match, Paulo Bento, head coach of the Portuguese national team, replaced the injured two with Eder.And now in this game, Victor is simply going to be the starting striker.However, for Coentrao who was injured in the first game, the Portuguese national team has no good players to replace him after the injury.As for this game, Veloso was actually arranged to play in this position.This is different from Mourinho arranging Essien to play right back. At least Essien played right back because Chelsea had too many midfielders, and Mourinho liked Essien very much. , just want to arrange him to play.But now Veloso is going to play left back, what is this?
However, in the first 4 or 5 minutes of the game, the players on and off the field of the Portuguese national team, as well as the coaches, and even the fans in front of the TV and computer, when they saw Moutinho playing When the midfielder was fighting for a header from the right, his head collided with the head of a player from the Ghana national team.The "rough-skinned and thick-skinned" player of the Ghana national team touched the bumped head, smiled and said to the referee and teammates, "It's okay."

But looking at Moutinho, who fell on the lawn, no matter how you look at it, all the players, coaches, and fans of the Portuguese national team feel anxious.But don't be forced to change again.Although it was just a false alarm in the end, the referee temporarily stopped the game, and after the team doctor hurriedly came to treat him, Moutinho was able to "live and breathe" into the game again.However, in the hearts of the players, coaches and fans of the Portuguese national team, they must have experienced a "roller coaster transformation" of "great sadness and joy".

In the subsequent games, both the Portuguese national team and the Ghana national team had their own offense and defense. It seems that the chances of the Ghana national team scoring a goal seem to be higher.After all, Asamoah's header hit the goal, but Beto stood on the goal line and held the ball in his hands.This could not help but startled the fans of the Portuguese national team into a cold sweat.

But it was the Portuguese who scored first.In fact, it is not wrong to say that they are Ghanaians.Because it was the "own goal" scored by the players of the Ghanaian team.

As I said before, in this game, the left back of the Portuguese national team is Veloso, who played in midfield and made a temporary cameo.Therefore, although Veloso is not very unfamiliar with the position of left back, sometimes some handling is also subconsciously considered according to the way of thinking of a midfielder.

In this attack, the Portuguese national team still attacked from the left. After all, the number one star in the team, C-Ronaldo, is clearly a left forward on the court.Veloso, as a full-back, naturally has to participate in the offense, which is the basic requirement of a modern football full-back.No matter how clinging to defense and not attacking full-backs, they will gradually be eliminated by modern football.

And Veloso, who was at the bottom, looked up at the penalty area of ​​the Ghana national team after receiving the pass.Well, Victor has done what a center player should do very well, although Victor cannot be regarded as a center in the traditional sense.But look at the two centre-forwards who started Portugal's first and last game.Whether it is Almeida or Postiga, they are actually not that traditional type of center.

Not to mention these two people, even Pauleta and Gomez, who were in the "golden generation" of Portuguese football before, are actually not the kind of players who can compete with the opponent's defenders, play the ball, and have the ability to shoot. Center in the traditional sense.Therefore, there is no problem for Victor to actually play the center forward of the Portuguese national team.

Therefore, Veloso made a cross immediately.However, he will not directly hoist the football into the penalty area of ​​the Ghana national team, just like the general situation, let his team's center forward compete with the opposing player's central defender for the chance of a header.Instead, it's a half-high ball directly, and it's not sticking to the ground, it's almost at the height of the players' calves.

I have to say that Veloso's pass is a very "thief." After all, this high pass is the height that most scares defensive players.Because of this height, if the defensive player does not control the clearance well, it is easy to make an own goal by himself.For offensive players, although they cannot shoot comfortably, they can only look at the direction of the ball at most and try to "bump" the football into the opponent's goal.

However, in a football game, for a striker, as long as he can shoot the football into the opponent's goal, it is enough.Who cares how you use it, which foot you use, or if you head the ball into the goal?After all, the goals are all the same, it's just an extra goal.It's not that beautiful shooting postures can add two.

Therefore, after Victor spotted Veloso's pass, he immediately made preparations to run forward to receive the pass.And Victor's running immediately frightened the Ghana national team players guarding him.After all, among the Ghana national team, there are also teammates of Victor's club team. 20 Asamoah.

Therefore, Boyer, the defender of the Ghana national team, also immediately ran towards the direction of the ball, trying to clear the ball before Victor touched it.However, this kind of half-high ball is the most difficult for defensive players to clear.

Therefore, Boyer of the Ghana national team is in a tragedy.He touched the football and kicked it with his own feet.However, the direction of the football kicked by Boyer was not outside the penalty area of ​​the Ghana national team, but inside the goal of the Ghana national team.

"Goal in! GOAL! Ghana national team defender made a mistake. Boyer, his clearance went wrong, he knocked the ball into his own goal, own goal! Portugal national team 1 to 0! Temporary took the lead."

(End of this chapter)