The Era of Emerald

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The news of the Netherlands saying goodbye to the European Cup after being beaten by Italy in the quarter-finals caused quite a stir among the supporters.After all, the passionate and gorgeous Oranje has a high popularity among fans, so their exit will naturally attract great attention.Of course, the Italian fans who are celebrating the team's success in the semi-finals must not be included.

As one of the favorites to win this European Cup, the Netherlands was eliminated early in the quarter-finals. Such a result is naturally unacceptable to the Dutch Football Association, which was still ambitious before the start of the European Cup.In their view, even if the team failed to win the cup due to an accident, they should reach the semi-finals for the last time, instead of being sent back to their hometown just after qualifying from the group stage.

Although the direct reason for the premature elimination of the Oranje was that they met the defending champion Italy, who was also the favorite to win the championship, in the quarter-finals, the root cause was the poor performance of the Netherlands in the group stage. In the two group matches, they tied Germany first and then lost to the Czech Republic. It was not until the last round of three goals that Latvia, the weakest in the group, finally escaped. As a result, they fell to the second position in the group, which made them meet Italy in advance. .

Poor record, being reversed by opponents one after another in the game, extremely conservative style of play... In general, the performance of the Netherlands in this European Cup is really hard to convince.

Therefore, after the game against Italy, the Dutch Football Association held an emergency meeting overnight and fired Advocaat on the grounds of poor team performance. Fans turned their anger to their heads.

Just as the impact of this head-to-head confrontation between the Netherlands and Italy was slowly fermenting under the influence of time, the last game of the quarter-finals of the European Cup also came to an end-Nedved’s Under the leadership, the Bohemian Iron Cavalry defeated the Viking Swedish team, which had already shown signs of failing, [-]-[-], and became the last team to advance to the semi-finals of the European Cup!

With two goals in this game, Czech striker Baros successfully overtook Diego Milito, who had already scored four goals in this European Cup, and rose to the scorer list with five goals. At the top of the list!

Barosch's outstanding performance in this European Cup has made his current club, the Premier League giants Liverpool, feel full of joy.Although after the end of the 03-04 season, the top management of the Red Army sent away the head coach Hollier who led the team for six years but never made any breakthroughs in the league. And invited the Spaniard Rafa Benitez, who led Valencia to win the La Liga championship, as the team's new coach. At the same time, he also planned to upgrade the team's lineup this summer. It puts a heavier financial burden on Liverpool, which is not in a good financial situation.

To this end, Liverpool has recently been peddling those players that Benitez marked as "available for sale", trying to reduce their financial pressure.And in their sale list, they even include Michael Owen, the striker ace of the England national team known as the golden boy!

To be honest, Liverpool had no intention of selling Irving at first, but Irving's refusal to renew his contract made Liverpool extremely passive.Because Irving's statement has been known to people all over the world, so even if they want to sell Irving to other teams, it will be difficult to sell it at a high price.After all, no club will pay a high transfer fee for a player with only one year left on his contract, and it is the most normal way to take the opportunity to lower the price.

But now, Baros, who has been mediocre after landing in the Premier League, suddenly broke out in this European Cup, making the Liverpool club, which has been in trouble for a long time, finally make up his mind to cash in on Owen.After all, for the current Liverpool, instead of forcing Owen to end up with no personal wealth at the end of the year, it is better to take advantage of the opportunity of one year left in the contract to sell him in exchange for a transfer fee to reduce the financial burden.

Therefore, as Barosh's performance in the European Cup is getting better and better, and there is even a faint sign of winning the European Cup Golden Boot, the Liverpool club is naturally extremely satisfied.Because in this way, they don't have to worry about the replacement problem after Owen left. Baros, who is also extremely fast and has a good dribbling technique, is the best candidate!

If Zhuang Minge knew that the Liverpool management thought about the problem in this way, he would definitely complain about these guys who always take it for granted - the reason why Baros scored goals in the Czech national team is because he has Nedvi behind him Germany and Rosicky are the top midfielders who feed him shells, and Jan Kohler, a high center forward with first-class support ability, plays him with the ball to attract firepower. Do you have such a strong capital in Liverpool?

That's a long way off, now let's get down to business.After the list of the semi-finals of the European Cup was announced under the eager anticipation of thousands of fans, on June 6, the first match of the semi-finals of the European Cup started on time at the Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon!

Here is a brief introduction to the opponents in this game.The two teams that appeared at the Alvalade Stadium today are the host of this European Cup, Portugal, and the defending champion Italy.These two teams will have a fierce competition in this stadium, and they will do their best for a ticket to the European Cup final!

It has to be said that, as the host of this European Cup, the Portuguese Football Association, which wants to win the Delaunay Cup at home, has maximized their home court advantage.Except that the first match of the group stage was played at the Fire Dragon Stadium in Porto, Portugal never left Lisbon at all in the next few games, that is, the venue was switched between the Alvalade Stadium and the Stadium of Light.This arrangement of the Portuguese Football Association allows the Portuguese national team to avoid the fatigue of the journey to the greatest extent during the extremely intensive European Cup, so that they can meet every game in the best condition!

On the other hand, in Italy, Guimaraes-Porto-Guimaraes-Faro/Rore-Lisbon, this big circle will come down, not to mention whether the players' competitive state will be affected, and their physical fitness will certainly be affected. Certain problems arise.

Therefore, although the game has not yet started, Portugal has actually taken the lead. It depends on whether Scolari can use these advantages and turn them into goals.