our euro cup

Chapter 321 Fight against Portugal, start!
We finally played, and the fans cheered. In Europe, Croatian football is still not comparable to Portuguese football. Portugal's European Latin football has been famous for a long time, but Croatia, as a newly split country , Our football is not well known, even those who know our Yugoslav football, they have concerns about Croatian football, because teams from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia and other countries have already occupied our former Yugoslavia squad half of it, and we in Croatia just occupy the other half.In the eyes of the world, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia established by the Serbs is the orthodox successor of the lineup representing our former Yugoslavia, but we, who have inherited the most great players from the former Yugoslavia, have not been recognized by people.Therefore, compared to Portugal playing as a country from the beginning to the end, we in Croatia are indeed far from being attractive to fans.In this stadium, Portuguese fans may account for more than 80%, while Croatian fans may only have 10%. The other fans may just be neutral fans who came to see the excitement.The number of Croatian fans is very small, and most of them are fans from Croatia.Croatia has just become independent, because it has just experienced war, so our country is not rich yet.There are very few fans who can afford to go to the European Cup.Even if the European Cup Organizing Committee will give us more tickets, very few people can afford such tickets.

Although there are few fans in Croatia, this does not mean that our Croatian team should not work hard.In the first two games, we have already attracted some fans. For example, in the first 4:1 victory over the Turkish team, we have already shocked the world.Many media used the headlines to describe our performance, but unfortunately, in the second game, we failed to beat the Danish team.If we can beat the European champions, maybe we will have more fans in Croatia.But even a draw against Denmark would be a good result for us.Although our team is not yet so attractive to fans, the match against Denmark at least shows that our Croatian team is not a mermaid-willed underdog. Give and take.

I know that during this period of time, more and more sports media have paid attention to Croatia's performance.Due to our unbeaten performance in the first two games with 1 win and 1 tie, and our current dominant position in the group, the match between us and Portugal has become the most important focus of the final round of the group stage.The Danish team, the champion of the last European Cup, still has the possibility of qualifying, and our battle with Portugal will determine which two teams can qualify for the group stage.The real master is our Croatian team, because this involves the European champion Denmark team's fate, so the media's observation and evaluation of our Croatian team has become more and more.

However, one thing that makes us very uncomfortable is that most of the media's views on our Croatian team are not purely sports. They are always guessing whether our Croatian team will compete with us in order to seek a safe qualifying spot. The Portuguese team tacitly drew. If we draw with Portugal tacitly, then the Danish team, which is currently behind in goal difference, will not be able to qualify even if they beat the Turkish team by a small score.Only if we lose to Portugal, or if Portugal loses to us, then Denmark will qualify.But under the current circumstances, the possibility of us drawing with Portugal is actually very high. Even if we go all out, we may not be able to beat the European powerhouse Portugal. How can those media speculate that we are against Portugal? What about match-fixing?

What those media said made me very angry. The only way to slap them in the face is if we beat Portugal and give Denmark a chance to qualify.This is both my commitment to Schmeichel and the best way for our Croatian team to get rid of this unfavorable rhetoric.Therefore, now that I have come to this battlefield, I have made up my mind to defeat Portugal and qualify with my head held high!

Portuguese fans in the audience, after nine or ten minutes, you will be slapped in the face.Shout out to your heart's content, my teammates and I will hit you in the face with one goal after another!

Croatian fans, true Croatian fans, as long as you always support our Croatian team, we will definitely repay you with a perfect performance.We are a war-torn country and as long as we can use football to reassure people, I will be content!

With this in mind, we set up our formation, just waiting for the referee's whistle, and our game is about to start!

The referee's whistle blew and the game officially began. Portugal kicked off first. Rui Costa passed the ball to Luis Figo. After Luis Figo got the ball, he passed it to Nunogo on the forward line. Max.Nuno Gomez got the ball and immediately ran forward. He was very fast and quickly passed our midfield defense and came to our defense line.

Now, after playing the European Cup for so long, everyone knows that our Croatian team lacks a midfielder.Because our midfield is very controlling, our coach put up a lineup without a midfielder, leaving two midfielders to control the midfield.This lineup has a fatal flaw in defense, but as long as we score one more goal than the opponent in the offense, then we can win. In the first two games, we did exactly that, scoring seven goals in two games Goals, but also conceded four goals in two games.Due to our huge flaws in our lineup without a defensive midfielder, every team that is playing against us now knows how to grasp such a weakness of ours.That was the case with Portugal, who quickly sent Nuno Gomes sprinting near our back line, single-handedly looking for a shot.At the same time, they were midfielders running non-stop, and quickly followed up. After Nuno Gomez shot, they were always ready to compete for the opportunity to make up shots.

However, will such tactics really work?I smile slightly...

(End of this chapter)