The Era of Emerald

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The defending champion Italy successfully advanced, and the host Portugal hated the penalty shootout.The day after the game, all fans who followed the European Cup got the news through the media.

For this result, the Italian fans are naturally overjoyed.Although the team's road to qualify for this European Cup is a bit difficult, for Italian fans, they don't care how ugly the process is. A good result is always more important than the process.

However, although the game has ended with the referee's whistle, the turmoil caused by it will obviously not pass so easily.In other words, from the moment the game ended, the turmoil that swept the entire Portuguese football world had just begun.

After all, the Portuguese Football Association can be said to have quite high expectations for this European Cup held in the country.Or it can be said that from the very beginning, the Portuguese Football Association set its goal on the final championship trophy.In order to achieve this goal, from the selection of the national team's training location to the grouping of the top [-] to the schedule, they have set up countless convenient conditions for Portugal, in order to increase the chances of the national team winning the championship at home.

What surprised the Portuguese Football Association even more is that this European Cup has been unpopular from the very beginning.Although Portugal's unexpected defeat to Greece in the opening game made them very depressed, but then the team successfully qualified as the top of the group and they quickly forgot this. At the same time, Spain, England, France, the Netherlands, etc. The fall of favorites to win the championship has also increased the confidence of the Portuguese Football Association in the team's ability to win the championship at home.

However, it is such a Portuguese team that occupies the right time and place and also has a physical advantage, but was led by the opponent twice in the match against the defending champion Italy, but they can only rely on the teenager Cristiano Ronaldo's two endangered saviors to survive. And finally lost to the Azzurri two to four in the penalty shootout.Such a process has an ending, which really makes it difficult for Portuguese fans who aspire to win the championship.

I have to say that the Portuguese Football Association is really whimsical.Although hosting the European Cup in the local area does have a certain bonus for the host, it is obviously too whimsical to let Portugal, whose overall strength can only barely be regarded as top-notch in Europe, win the Delaunay Cup.

Even in Zhuang Mingge's previous life, Portugal's ability to reach the final was due to the surprise exit of the strong teams and luck factors, but in this way they still lost to Greece, the biggest dark horse in the European Cup in 04. It is enough to explain many problems.

Rui Costa can be said to be the player most affected by this defeat. Countless Portuguese fans and the media are accusing the midfielder, thinking that he should be responsible for the team's semi-finals in the European Cup after missing the key penalty. Main responsibility for being out in the final.

It has to be said that fans will always be the most forgetful group, and the media will always be the best at fanning the flames.At this time, these people seem to have selectively forgotten that Rui Costa has made great contributions to the Portuguese national team in the past ten years, and they do not remember that it was the existence of him and Figo that made Portugal From a team between the second and third ranks to a European powerhouse, and led the team to achieve good results second only to the Eusebio era.

In all fairness, the Portuguese midfielder played very well in this semi-final.Under his organization and scheduling, Portugal once controlled the entire midfield situation during the game, suppressing Italy within the half-court range and hardly being able to play their best defensive counterattack, and also created for Pauletta in front Countless chances to score.But it is a pity that Portugal lacks a top striker like Shevchenko or Rebrov who can turn these passes into goals. Only Pauleta, Gomez and Postiga Second-rates keep wasting opportunities.

However, Portugal's forwards, who have been squandering chances since the start of the European Cup, have been treated much better than the much-maligned Rui Costa.In other words, Portuguese fans didn't expect too much from their cheating striker from the very beginning, so they naturally blamed Pauletta a lot less.

Rui Costa's response to the overwhelming accusations from Portuguese fans and the media was also very direct.Shortly after the team was eliminated from the European Cup, the midfielder announced his retirement from the national team. The European Cup semi-final against Italy also became Rui Costa's curtain call performance in the Portuguese national team.This is a later story, so I won’t repeat it here.

After the host Portugal was eliminated and bid farewell to the Delaunay Cup, the duel between the Czech Republic and Greece was also decided at the Dragon Stadium in Porto.The biggest dark horse in this European Cup, Greece, under the leadership of Rehhagel, once again created a super upset. They relied on their tenacious overall defense and a silver goal in the last minute of the first half of overtime, and they will have Ned Wade, Rosicky, Poborski and other famous Czech players were eliminated, entering the European Cup final for the first time in history!

Eight years ago, at the last moment of the European Cup final, he died on the golden ball system implemented for the first time in an international competition. Eight years later, he fell on the last silver ball in the last minute of the game, which is likely to be the last silver ball in football history.I have to say that the Czechs are really unlucky.And this also allowed them to put on a layer of tragic hero's coat.

Although the Czech Republic's exit is extremely tragic, but always being killed by the opponent in the final stage also illustrates a problem from another perspective, that is, they are prone to lack of concentration when they have an advantage.Otherwise, just bad luck really can't explain this weird situation.

Of course, after the talented golden generation of Nedved retired from the national team one after another, the Czech Republic, whose overall strength has declined sharply, has no chance to fight until the last minute of the game. It is natural that the problem of lack of concentration in the final stage There is not much room to play.

In this way, with the tragic exit of the Czech Republic, the two teams that got the tickets to participate in the European Cup finals have finally been announced. The defending champion Italy will play against the super dark horse of Greece at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon on July 7th. Peak duel.The winner of this game will become the well-deserved king of Europe!