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Chapter 43 Pirlo's Blow to the Head

I was drinking water when I saw Pletikosa take the goal kick.

The one who fights for the header in the midfield is... Rakitic, his height is 1.8 meters four, and he can still be used when fighting for the top.

However, Motta's height is as high as 1.8 meters seven!And as a Brazilian-Italian player, he has a strong body and excellent flexibility!His jumping ability and his ability to stay in the air are quite powerful. Compared with Rakitic, who is used as a technical player, Motta's advantage is to compete for the header!

Sure enough, Rakitic did not compete with Motta, and the ball was pushed back from the Italian half to the Croatian half!

Pirlo got the ball again!He took advantage of his good possession of the ball, got rid of Perisic's entanglement, and then used a cross pass to the striker who came to meet him-bad boy Cassano!
Cassano's temper is famous all over the world, and his skills are also well known in the world.His speed and dizzying feints are the tricks he lives by.However, he is not the kind of striker who only knows how to use punches and embroidered legs, especially after playing for the Roma team and gradually maturing, he pays more and more attention to the efficiency of attack.Such a striker who can break through, surpass others, not stick to the ball, and has a shot is what all teams dream of!
Cassano accelerated, he wanted to get rid of our captain Srna!However, the captain is also a player known for his speed, and his speed is not inferior to Cassano!At the same time, Srna's physical fitness was better than Cassano's, and he slowly pushed Cassano to the bottom line on the left!
However, who is Cassano? He was once known as Italy's genius boy, and his foot skills are also outstanding among the Italian stars!While advancing at a high speed, he was able to stop and brake suddenly, and swung the ball back with his feet. Srna was stunned and almost fell. Turn around and catch up with Cassano!The duel between the two sides this time was shocking and weeping ghosts and gods. Although Cassano's wave was already considered a world-class wave, Srna's turn around was even more wonderful!The two continued to fight, one-on-one, body to body, Cassano leaned against Srna, Srna couldn't grab the ball, but he didn't let Cassano make another move.Under Srna's tough defense, Croatia's midfielders, who had not yet defended in place, were in place one after another, and Italy's good counterattack opportunity came to an end.

"Cassano, give me the ball!"

No one expected that the one who yelled these words was the mysterious black boy Balotelli!

He swam from the right to the left!Cassano saw that Balotelli's position was unguarded, so he made a horizontal call and gave the ball to Balotelli.What a Balotelli, dribbling the ball directly into the penalty area!His speed, his body, make every defender in our team helpless!Joel Luka just stuck to his side, and was directly hit by Balotelli's strong body!

"Balotelli, eat the ball!"

Captain Srna, get out from the slanting stab!He used a fierce tackle to cleanly break the ball at Balotelli's feet!No foul!A tackle in the penalty area, if it deviates a little bit, it is a penalty!But Srna has such strength, his tackles are steady, accurate and ruthless!He scooped the ball from Balotelli's feet, stood up quickly and drove it with a big foot!
The Croatian team's defense has once again withstood the test!

However, the midfielder of the Italian team once again controlled the first point!Motta won again in the competition with Rakitic, his header went directly to Pirlo!

Pirlo didn't stop the ball, he just flicked his right foot in the air, and the ball passed to Balotelli's feet again!

Balotelli didn't have a chance to break into the penalty area this time, he passed the ball back to Pirlo, Pirlo quickly passed to Motta's feet on the right, and Perisic quickly posted it!Two tall men with a height of 1.8 meters [-] were fighting on the wing. Mota's body was stronger than Perisic, and finally squeezed Perisic away and moved forward with the ball!

At this time, Rakitic felt the danger and returned to the midfielder to assist Modric in defense!And Modric moved slightly to the left to grab the ball at Mota's feet!
However, Modric was one step too late...

Motta made a cross, Balotelli received the ball in front of the penalty area, and when he was about to turn around and shoot, Rakitic fouled with a tackle from behind!

Free kick!Top of the arc!

This location, this location!
Pirlo... This is Pirlo's golden position!
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I remembered the scene where Bilic and Pletikosa practiced free kick shots and saves on the court this morning...

Pletikosa, he was very afraid of Pirlo's free kick, so he asked Bilic to train him hard at the last moment, so that he could adapt to Pirlo's full moon scimitar...

However, what a master of free kicks Pirlo is, even midfield masters like Boban and Boksic back then, and midfield stars like Modric, our number one star, can't play such beautiful kicks stably. The full moon scimitar...

What's more, Bilic is just a defender after all.

When facing Pirlo, it is impossible for any goalkeeper to take it lightly...

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Pirlo stood in front of the ball.

His approach distance is not very long.One step, two steps, three steps, four steps, five steps—

shoot!

really!This is a typical Pirlo-style full moon scimitar!

Pletikosa dives into the near corner!Can he save the ball!

Ah!
Dead end, dead end!
Pirlo's ball went directly to the upper left corner of the goal!It's really not bad at all!If the ball goes one centimeter up or to the left, it will hit the post!If you go down or to the right by one centimeter, you will be thrown by Preticosa!However, this was the case, and it hit the dead corner that Pletikosa couldn't reach!

Only the size of a football, a dead end!
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Pirlo, gave us a blow to the head!In the first three 10 minutes, although we had an advantage in ball possession rate and offensive threat, we were advanced by the Italians!The group stage of this group really looks like a group of death...

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"Coach Bilic, I want to play, I want to contribute to Croatia, use the tactics you taught me and Mandzukic..."

I can't stand it anymore, I want to fight, I want to play, I want to use my sweat and blood to win honor and dignity for the Croatian team!
(End of this chapter)