our euro cup

Chapter 326 Middle Finger
At halftime, we all went back to the locker room.

We are all very upset about getting a goal before halftime, although I am still leading Portugal 2:1, but this lead is not solid, especially scoring Portugal It is still Rui Costa, who is known as the must-win of the iron tree blooming in Portugal, which makes us feel very depressed.

Our coach said to everyone in the locker room: "Everyone, don't worry. Although the Portuguese team scored a goal, we are still ahead after all. We need to continue to defend well in the second half. Judging from the situation in the first half, Portugal's offense is not very sharp, they lack a good striker. Nuno Gomez is just an average good striker, not excellent, and his scoring ability is not very strong. Portugal really Relying on the twin constellations of Rui Costa and Luis Figo, the two midfielders, the defense of these two players will be left to all of us here. In the second half, against Rui Costa and Luis Figo The defense must be tighter, and if necessary, use the body to collide. Everyone has strengthened a lot of physical fitness in the gravity training room for a period of time, and their physical fitness and muscles have also been greatly improved. Enhanced, your confrontation ability has been greatly improved. In this case, you should face Portugal's offense with stronger confrontation. Whether you are facing Rui Costa or Luis Figo, your bodies He has an absolute advantage. There is also Nuno Gomez, he is very thin, in defense, as long as he avoids being seized by him to rush out of the crowd to attack the goal, he should not be able to score. So the focus of the second half is to use your body reasonably, to defend Rui Costa and Luis Figo through reasonable collisions. Of course, at the same time, you must also avoid fouls. After you become stronger, you will have the ability to face other players. Absolute advantage, it is easy to be fouled by the referee, you must pay attention to this."

"As for our offense, in the second half we still need to play defensive counterattacks. Because the Portuguese team is a technical team, their offense does not consume more energy. Since their main offensive method is to attack by passing the ball, It doesn't take a lot of energy, so for Portugal, their players won't become very tired in the second half like Turkey or Denmark. We can't expect this game against Portugal, it will be like we played against Turkey or Denmark In the same way, wait for the opponent's physical fitness to decline in the second half before launching a general attack, we can only continue to play defensive counterattacks, as long as we can seize the opportunity to score another goal, the following games will be easy to play."

"As for how to shoot after the counterattack hits? I think it's better to give it to our three players who have the skills of killing shots. Judging from the previous games and the first half of this game, the killing shots It is indeed quite effective. Through the special practice of shooting, we let Boksic and Prosinecki practice the killer shot. As a result, Boksic and Prosinecki scored a goal each today, and they performed very well. Excellent, I think, this kind of shooting practice is still useful. As a counterattack, we don't have to expect to pass the ball in front of the goal and then shoot. As long as we can get an unguarded shot from outside the penalty area, then it is bold beat."

The coach's point of view has been recognized by most of our players.Under the coach's unification of our thoughts, we have a clear goal in the second half.Although Rui Costa's goal cast a shadow over our second half, we are the leading team after all. As a technical team with physical fitness, we have no reason to be afraid of Portugal. A pure technical team!

Soon, 15 minutes passed.At the end of the intermission, the referee led the players of our two teams out of the player channel and onto the green field.The long-awaited fans cheered again. Most of the fans on the field were Portuguese fans. They were calling the names of Rui Costa and Luis Figo. There were even some extreme fans who shouted: "Luis Figo Icosta, Luis Figo, use your goals to break that divided country even more! We look forward to your victory!"

When I heard this sentence, I became angry. I turned my head and searched for the source of this sentence in the stands—it turned out that this was in the South Stand, and an extreme fan was shouting desperately. Although he only came here to support the Portuguese team, what he said "to break the divided country into pieces" really hurt the hearts of our Croatian players——

"You bastard, what are you talking about?!"

Frustrated, I stretched out my middle finger toward the stand——

At this moment, the referee saw my abnormal gesture, he blew his whistle quickly, ran up to me, and took out a red card to me!
"Red card?!" I was furious, and said to the referee: "Did you hear that guy over there, he said that we are a divided country in Croatia, and he also said that we will break our country into pieces! This What do you want?!"

The referee was also stunned after hearing my words: "What did you say? Did he really say that?"

"That's right, he really said that!"

"If it is true, then I will record this matter in today's game supervision book. However, it is also true that you raised your middle finger at the fans' stands. In any case, you must be sent off with a red card." The referee road.

I knew in my heart that such a gesture of mine would indeed inevitably be punished by a red card.But I really can't imagine that there will be such extreme people who will take pleasure in the pain of our country and nation in football matches!If history allows me to choose again, I will still put up this middle finger. Even if I am sent off with a red card or even banned for multiple games, I don't care!

Croatia, which was originally part of Yugoslavia, was a war that made us displaced people in a divided country.Such pain has been unbearable for our Croatian people from beginning to end.If we say that we play football to let the Croatian people heal from their pain, then how can we endure such insults to us in the football field!
I never regret the middle finger I extended, but the only regret I have is that I will be sent off for this game, the Croatian team will fight with ten men, and, in the next few games, I will be sent off. I'm afraid they won't be able to play.In this case, how will our Croatian team move forward...

(End of this chapter)