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"Srna's goal helped Croatia establish an advantage, and also put Uruguay into a greater crisis."

"Uruguay's situation was not good, and now after falling behind, their situation will become even more difficult!"

The Brazilian commentator shook his head and said.

If Uruguay fails to win this game, they will become the third team eliminated from the World Cup.

As an old opponent, the Brazilian commentator did not expect that Uruguay would perform so badly in this World Cup.

No!

It can't be said to be bad, it can only be said that their tactical choices, luck, state, etc. are worse than other teams.

Especially in this game against Croatia, the early loss of the ball has gradually changed their mentality.

The whole world knows that Croatia is a strong team and a World Cup champion seed.

In addition, Croatia is particularly good at using the opening point to make a fuss and kick some routine goals.

This goal is a classic counterattack goal!

In this process, although Uruguay made some preparations, this preparation was far from enough to prevent Croatia from scoring.

During the corner kick, they didn't even catch Suker. How could this be considered a successful defense?

Godin put his hands on his waist and shook his head. There was a depression in his chest, and he wanted to vomit but couldn't, like a fishbone stuck in his throat.

The other Uruguayan players saw the ball was lost, and their situation was similar.

"The game has just started, let's take it slow!"

Cavani comforted his teammates.

However, he clearly saw the anxious expressions of his teammates.

Suarez was even more anxious and kept urging Croatia to end the celebration quickly, and even had some conflicts for this, which further prolonged the time.

After both sides returned to their respective half, Uruguay immediately kicked off.

"Uruguay has begun to worry, they can't help but worry. In the current situation, if the offensive can't get up again, Croatia will gradually erode their midfield rhythm. We all know what will happen once Croatia gets control of the midfield!"

After Croatia scored a goal, their maneuvering space became much larger, and the players were also mentally relaxed, so the overall rhythm began to slow down.

But Uruguay can't slow down the pace, they want to attack, they want to attack Croatia's defense.

"Pass it to me!"

Suarez actively ran forward and asked for the pass.

Cavani saw Suarez's position and immediately passed the ball to him.

Suarez was going to rush forward directly after receiving the ball, but just as he was about to receive the ball, a figure suddenly appeared beside him. Both of them lost their balance in the confrontation, but the opponent took this opportunity to take the lead in poking the ball out of the sideline.

"Srna! This ball was handled so well!"

Klausevich said with emotion.

The situation just now was one of the few favorable opportunities for Uruguay to attack. Modric, Rakitic and Vukojevic were not at the receiving point. The ball was broken forward and could only be controlled by Uruguay again.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to break the sideline directly and wait for teammates to retreat.

It can only be said that Srna is still very calm.

"Come on, don't lose your position! Don't go too far forward in the midfield, Vukojevic, stay in your position!"

Srna rarely reprimanded Vukojevic.

At this time, Vukojevic must appear in front of Srna, but he was not there, which is why Srna was a little angry.

However, Srna was not too angry because he knew that Vukojevic would adjust himself.

Vukojevic was also a little embarrassed, and he immediately returned to his position.

In fact, after scoring the goal, he did slack off a little.

Srna's reprimand also made him sober up a lot.

Uruguay served again, Suarez went forward to receive the ball, and after his teammate threw the ball, he intended to stop the ball with his chest, but at the moment when he was slightly in the air, a thrust came from behind.

This caused his center of gravity to shift, and he failed to unload the ball, and the ball fell about two meters in front of him.

At this distance, Vukojevic quickly followed up, hooked the ball away, and blocked Suarez behind him.

"Damn it!"

After Suarez stabilized his body, he turned his head and looked at Srna and cursed.

He understood that it was Srna who pushed him just now, causing him to fail to control the ball.

In his already anxious state of mind, this interference made Suarez even more impatient.

Srna was calm.

He knew very well how to limit Suarez, and his mind was very clear.

It can even be said that his thinking has never been so clear, all of which show that Srna's state is very hot.

Suker also saw this scene in front, and he also agreed with Srna's performance.

However, he still made a gritting gesture towards Srna, reminding Srna to "be careful of being bitten".

Srna was a little puzzled.

Who plays football and bites people for no reason!

But after all, he was a little concerned.

The game continued, but as Croatia controlled the ball, the rhythm was gradually controlled by Croatia.

Uruguay was very anxious, but they could only worry.

Uruguay was unable to launch threatening attacks, let alone threatening shots, and was in overall disarray.

Everyone of them is very anxious!

This eagerness can be fully felt in the game.

At the same time, Uruguay's small movements and confrontations have become more frequent.

This also caused them to receive two yellow cards in a row within 10 minutes!

Rodriguez and Gonzalez received a yellow card respectively.

And these two yellow cards were caused by Rakitic.

Suk felt that Rakitic's play was more and more like Grealish. This guy likes to dribble horizontally and stretch the front line, so he will dribble more time.

And Uruguay can only foul when facing this kind of dribbling without effective restriction.

Of course, there is also the possibility of venting.

But these are all Rakitic who feels pressure and fears, and dare not continue to dribble like this.

But they still underestimated Rakitic. The more this guy encounters this kind of thing, the more excited he is.

Bang!

Rakitic even got rid of two people horizontally and stuffed the ball to Suk.

"Go!"

He shouted excitedly at Suk.

But Suker simply passed the ball back and kicked it directly to the midfielder.

"Ah?" Rakitic looked puzzled.

Suker stared.

What?

Too fucking open your hands?

Is this an effective breakthrough?

From the right to the left, there was no vertical breakthrough at all, and at the same time, the defensive force was drawn over. Suker was not stupid enough to force a breakthrough on the side heavily guarded by Uruguay.

What's more, Croatia needed to stabilize the situation at this time.

"Haha! Rakitic was puzzled by Suker's decision, but I support Suker's approach. In fact, Rakitic's dribbling was more of a control behavior rather than a push. The offensive environment did not change much. For this reason, Suker's pass back was a safer choice, and it could also further consume Uruguay!"

Facts have proved that Suker's choice was correct!

Looking at the ball being passed back to the heart of Croatia again, the Uruguayan players frowned one by one.

They were very frustrated.

The ball was played from the right to the left, and they passed it back before it even touched the ball.

Isn't this playing tricks?

Croatia was playing tricks on them, and they wished that Uruguay would be led by the nose for the whole game.

"The situation is under control!"

Looking at the trajectory of the ball and the effective control of the team in the midfield, Besic nodded and said.

Time was constantly running out, and Uruguay was getting more and more anxious.

The overall movement became bigger.

Even the head coach on the sidelines was anxious, constantly communicating with the assistant coach, thinking about how to reverse the current disadvantage.

And on the field, the Uruguayan players were even more so.

"Grab it! Run!"

Suarez urged anxiously.

He was impatient because Croatia played tricks on him. No matter how hard he ran, he couldn't grab the ball.

He didn't remember how long Croatia had controlled the ball. Anyway, he had been running for a long time. Even if they grabbed the ball, they would lose the ball quickly if it didn't exceed the four-foot pass, and then repeat the previous process.

In this case, it's no wonder that Suarez is anxious.

He ran aimlessly, without any rhythm or tactical pressing, just running continuously.

Suarez didn't know what he should do, nor did he know whether his teammates could cooperate with him.

But he knew that as long as he stopped, he would be finished.

As long as he kept running, he could create opportunities.

The ball was passed to Strinic's feet, and he stepped on the ball habitually.

Suarez saw this scene, his eyes lit up, and he could press in this position.

Thinking of this, Suarez rushed up immediately.

Just as he was about to get close to Strinic, the opponent suddenly stepped on the ball to pull away, and at the same time, he pulled the ball in a V shape to break through from the side.

Sensing this scene, Suarez suddenly became agitated. He didn't want to miss this opportunity. It was also under the interference of this mood that he rushed over with force and shoveled directly.

Strinic was also shocked. He didn't expect Suarez to make a tackle even though there was no space.

He jumped up lightly in a protective gesture.

But he still couldn't avoid Suarez's violent sliding tackle, and he was shoveled to the ground with the ball.

Beep! !

The whistle sounded almost immediately.

But it still couldn't stop the furious Croatian players.

Lovren was the first to rush up and pushed Suarez down.

Then the others also gathered around, forming a blockade, and the Uruguayan players also ran over. They surrounded Suarez and protected him, while trying to calm the Croatian players.

"Asshole! Look at what you did!"

"Are you playing football? You bastard, wait for me to do this next time!"

"Red card! This is a red card action!"

The Croatian players were angry, and they did so because Strinic couldn't get up.

He was holding his ankle, showing a look of pain.

The referee immediately asked the team doctor to come up and check.

"Something seems to be wrong. Strinic's ankle seems to have been injured by a tackle!"

The team doctor came up to check, his expression became more and more solemn, and finally shook his head at the referee.

The referee immediately said that he could make a substitution, and at the same time he showed a yellow card to Suarez!

"Yellow card? Are you sure it's a yellow card?"

The Croatian players were not happy.

The player was injured by the tackle, but it was just a yellow card?

They began to besiege the referee, who retreated again and again, and finally the excited Croatian players were pushed back by Srna.

After pushing his teammates away, he negotiated with the referee again.

"We respect your judgment because you are the referee, but if this action is reasonable, we will also make this action."

Listening to Srna's words, the referee was obviously hesitant.

"Srna, don't do this, play smarter, I am just maintaining the stability of the game, and his action will not result in a red card!"

"Yes, we understand!"

Srna nodded and left immediately.

The referee frowned, what do you understand!

He knew that Srna was putting pressure on him, which is also a common trick used by players, but it must be said that he really fell for it.

There is no way!

Croatia has too many big-name players, and they are very popular.

Once there is a problem with the penalty, his refereeing career will also be greatly affected.

At this time, the referee was already thinking about how to find a balance.

"Pressure?" Suker asked as he looked at Srna coming over.

Srna nodded; "We should strive for what we should strive for. I think he will be relatively relaxed in the next whistle!"

Suker: "Find a balance!"

Srna nodded again, and then looked at Strinic who was carried away on a stretcher.

"But he"

Suker shook his head: "There is no way, we have already thought about this kind of problem in the World Cup before."

Srna also sighed slightly.

In the last World Cup, he was injured in the group stage and missed the knockout stage.

Strinic was injured and left the field, and Joel Luka came on as a substitute to fill the position.

At this time, the time has reached 43 minutes, and there is not much time left before the end of the first half.

In the last two minutes, both sides obviously slowed down the pace and waited for the second half to continue fighting.

The referee was also somewhat concerned, so he quickly blew the halftime whistle, and then immediately discussed the refereeing issues for the second half with his referee team and technical team.

In fact, the referee was also afraid!

In previous World Cups, there were more than one or two referees who were threatened with personal safety or even in danger due to penalty issues.

If it was other events with less attention, it would be fine!

But for refereeing a heavyweight game like Croatia, he must also weigh the pros and cons.

If the captain of another team spoke to him like Srna, he might pull out a card and warn him.

But Srna is the captain of Croatia, and he must think about the consequences he will face after pulling out this card.

After 45 minutes of the game.

Croatia led by one goal, but Strinic's injury also changed their mentality.

"The diagnosis report is out, the problem is not big, just recuperate for a while, but you may not be able to participate in subsequent events!"

Besic took the lead in telling Strinic's situation to reassure his teammates.

Hearing this news, many people were relieved.

However, the emotions of people like Joel Luka are somewhat complicated.

It's sad that Strinic is injured.

But the happy thing is that he can get more opportunities to play.

They know that they shouldn't have such thoughts, but facing a big stage like the World Cup, who doesn't have some selfishness?

"In the second half of the game, we won't have too many changes in tactics. We will just continue to play at the current rhythm, but on the offensive end, you can exert appropriate strength."

Besic understands that the current Croatian players are holding back a lot of anger, which needs to be vented.

Moreover, he also understands that the referee will make some more favorable penalties for them in the second half, and the opponent will definitely find a balance.

He doesn't want to miss this time node, so he can further increase the offensive strength.

At least, they can continue to attack for the first 15-20 minutes of the second half, and then it's the end stage.

Van Styak also supports Besic's arrangement.

If it were the old him, he would probably shout that he wanted to slaughter Uruguay.

But now Van Styak is also much calmer. Although he is still an attacking faction in his bones, he will also arrange some control and defense according to different situations.

Otherwise, he and Besic, one is stable and the other is radical, and the two cooperate very well.

"One more thing!"

Van Styak suddenly spoke, and everyone looked up, even Besic remained silent.

Van Styak looked at his notebook and said: "Based on the performance in the first half, it is obvious that their energy was involved in the left and right wings by us, especially when Rakitic got rid of horizontally, they also quickly turned to the side. At this time, the Uruguayan defense line will transfer from one end to the other, and in this transfer process, the defense line is the weakest. At this time, some vertical breakthroughs can be appropriately made!"

Van Styak looked at Rakitic and said; "For example, a sudden 90-degree vertical advance!"

Rakitic's eyes lit up, he liked this suggestion.

This means that his performance will be greatly improved!

"No problem! Just wait and see!"

Rakitic said confidently.

Besic also nodded. Not every game requires Suker to exert force. Other points also need to show some results. This is the way a team should play.

During Rakitic's breakthrough, Suker will continue to follow up.

Although he will not be the main attacker, he may play the role of an offensive initiator or terminator.

There are also Mandzukic and Perisic. They can all get the opportunity to advance in this vertical breakthrough.

At that time, it depends on who has a better position, and Rakitic will pass to whom.

Besic looked down at his watch, and then clapped his hands and said, "Okay, gentlemen, the second half of the game is about to start, let's win this game! Come on!"