The Era of Emerald

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Seeing that the person standing on the penalty spot was not Inzaghi, the maker of the penalty, but Robert Baggio, all the people who watched the game felt a wave of excitement in their hearts. After all, four years ago In the U.S. World Cup final, the scene where Baggio missed a penalty kick and knelt and cried in front of Taffarel was really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

That penalty kick was a watershed moment in Baggio's career. Before that, he was the god and hero of Italian football, the undisputed core of attack in Juventus and the national team, and his personal reputation reached the peak of his career; After this penalty shootout, Baggio first lost his main position in the competition with Pierrot, and the core position of the national team also became a passing cloud under Sacchi's prejudice. All had good performances, but his dominance on the court can no longer be compared with that before 94.

Most importantly, after missing such a crucial penalty kick, Roberto Baggio still has the courage to continue to appear at twelve yards, which in itself is worthy of everyone's heartfelt admiration!

Not every star has this courage and psychological quality. For example, Matthaus and Bergkamp, ​​two famous world-class stars, missed penalty kicks in key situations. Work is already backed away.

The referee looked around and noticed that all the players except Baggio and Barthez had retreated outside the penalty area line, and then blew his whistle!

Looking at Barthez standing in front of the goal, Baggio took a deep breath and calmed down. After a mid-range run-up, he gently picked the ball towards the center of the goal...a penalty kick with a spoon!

Barthez did not expect that the opponent would dare to play so freely at this time. He had already rushed to the right side of the goal with all his strength, and he was powerless against the scoop penalty kicked by Baggio. He could only watch the ball fly into it. The gate guarded by him!

One to zero, after nearly an hour of fierce fighting, Italy finally took the lead with the penalty made by Inzaghi!

"Spoon! It's actually a penalty kick from Spoon!" The commentator's passionate roar was really deafening, "Baggio's penalty kick is so beautiful! No one would have thought that in such a crucial game, Under the shadow of missed penalties in the World Cup in the United States four years ago, Baggio can still kick such a freehand penalty kick!"

"After being scored first by Italy, which is best at defensive counterattacks, the situation on the field of the French team has become very passive... There is still half an hour in the game, and they must find a way to equalize in the next time score!"

After the game restarted, under the organization and scheduling of Zidane, the French team created a lot of scoring opportunities on the field, but their starting center Givash was really not good enough. Nesta and Matt Lacy and the two defended in vain, wasting a great opportunity created by Zidane's painstaking efforts. It is impossible to see that this is a team that has scored more than 40 goals in the Ligue [-] in the past two seasons. super shooter.

It was thanks to Givache's "generosity and selflessness" that although the French team was very aggressive after the re-kick-off, they were always in a vicious circle of gaining power and not scoring.At the same time, it is precisely because of the weakness of the strikers that the burden of scoring falls on the shoulders of other players in the French team.

If it is said that in the previous game, the French team's attack from the back of Djorkaeff and Blanc can still receive unexpected miraculous effects, then this time when the French faced the chain defense of the Italians, they This kind of offensive tactic played under the cover of strikers is completely useless.Because under Italy's extremely tight defensive system, apart from Zidane who can rely on his personal ability to get rid of the defense and get some chances or pass or shoot, the other French team players who plug in can't get easy kicks at the goal. If there is no chance, he can only use the opportunity of the frontcourt set kick to threaten the goal guarded by Pagliuca.

As the host of this World Cup, the French team hopes to win the final championship trophy on the land of the motherland and become one of the meritorious players representing France to win the Hercules Cup for the first time.Therefore, as the time remaining in the game dwindled, the French players gradually became irritable, and their fighting actions in the game gradually became fiercer.

I don’t know if it’s because of concerns about the emotions of the French fans and the French team’s so-called "home field advantage". The referee often did not call for fouls for these suspected foul actions, but signaled the players on both sides to continue the game. conduct.

The players of the French team made good use of the conniving attitude shown by the referee. The most direct manifestation is that their movements in the game have become bigger and bigger.

A picture in the 705th minute of the game No. [-] is a good proof of this point: At that time, Italy once again took advantage of the opportunity of the French player to make a quick counterattack, but Didier Deschamps and Karembu, who quickly returned to the defense, had hands and feet. In combination, Roberto Baggio, who was breaking through with the ball, was directly and roughly brought down to the ground without any form of punishment from the referee.

"Damn it! Is this referee good? How dare he play this kind of home whistle in such a critical game?" Seeing that the referee still showed no sign of this level of foul, Zhuang Mingge, who was watching the ball in the box, was naturally furious. , What he can't see the most is that the team he supports suffers from referees or some off-court factors.

At the same time, the Italian fans, who had long been extremely dissatisfied with the referee's conniving attitude towards the French, finally broke out because of Didier Deschamps and Karenbu's foul. For a while, there were countless boos specially given to the referee in the stands. .

Amidst the wild boos of the Italian fans, the referee finally realized that his previous whistle seemed to be too biased towards the French team.Therefore, the referee quickly adjusted the penalty scale, and the first unlucky ones were naturally the French players who knew nothing about it.

Without realizing that the whistleblowing intensity suddenly became stricter, in just 3 minutes, three players from the French team, Deschamps, Petit and Desailly, received yellow cards for excessive actions!

With several defensive backbones all carrying a yellow card, the French team's defense began to become tighter, and they did not dare to resort to foul tactics easily when dealing with Italy's counterattack, for fear of causing two yellow cards due to another foul. Turned red and was directly expelled by the referee.

Although the score is now behind, the two sides are still equal in number.In case of being behind in the score and facing the situation of one less man fighting, then France really has no hope of winning at all.