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Chapter 652 A Different World Cup (VII)

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When I saw that the penalty kick was not Inzagi, the maker of the penalty kick, but Robert Baggio, everyone who watched the game had a lot of trouble. After all, in the US World Cup final four years ago, Baggio missed the penalty kick in front of Tafarrel and cried on his knees.

That penalty kick was a watershed in Baggio's career. Before that, he was the God and hero of Italian football. The undisputed offensive core 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 Pierro, and his core position in the national team also became a passing cloud under Sachi's prejudice. Although he has performed well in Fiorentina and Inter Milan in the past two years, his dominance on the court cannot be compared with 1994 years ago.

The most important thing is that after missing such a critical penalty, Robert Baggio still has the courage to continue to appear at 12 yards, which is worthy of everyone's heartfelt admiration!

Not every star has this courage and psychological quality. For example, two famous world-class stars, Mattus and Borgkamp, ​​have lost their penalties in key occasions. After losing one after another, they have already retreated from taking the penalty kick.

The referee observed the surroundings and noticed that the players except Baggio and Batz had retreated outside the penalty area line and blew the whistle in his mouth!

Looking at Badz standing in front of the goal, Baggio took a deep breath, calmed down for a while, and then gently picked the ball towards the center of the goal... a spoon penalty!

Badz had no idea 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 might to do anything about the spoon penalty kicked by Baggio, and could only watch the ball fly into the goal guarded by him!

One to zero, after nearly an hour of fierce battle, Italy finally took the lead with the penalty shot created by Inzagi!

"Spoon! It's actually a spoon penalty!" The narrator's passionate roar was really deafening. "Baggio's penalty is so beautiful! No one could have thought that in such a critical game, in the shadow of losing a penalty in the US World Cup four years ago, Baggio could even kick such a freehand spoon penalty!"

"After being the first to score by Italy, who is best at playing defensive counterattacks, the situation on the field of France has become very passive... Now there is still half an hour left in the game, and they must find a way to equalize the score in the next time!"

After the game restarted, under the organization and dispatch of Zidane, the French team created many good opportunities to score on the court, but their starting center Givas was too weak. Under the successive defense of Nesta and Matrazi, they were wasting the great opportunity created by Zidane and others. It was impossible to tell at all that this was a super shooter who scored more than 40 goals in the Ligue 1 in the past two seasons.

It is precisely thanks to Givash's "generous and selflessness" that although the French team has a strong offensive after re-telephone kickoff, they are always in the vicious circle of being in a position of being in a position of not scoring. At the same time, it is precisely because of the weakness of the forward players that the task of scoring fell on the shoulders of other French team members.

If the French team had unexpectedly effective results in the previous game when Djokav and Blank were facing the Italian chain defense, then when the Frenchman faced the Italians' chain defense, their attack tactics under the cover of the forward players were completely useless. Because under Italy's extremely strict defensive system, in addition to Zidane, who can also use his personal ability to get rid of defense and get some opportunities to pass or shoot, other French team players who were inserted did not get the opportunity to easily hit the goal, and could only use the opportunity of a set piece in the frontcourt to threaten the goal guarded by Palioca.

As the host of this World Cup, the French team hopes to win the final championship trophy on the land of their motherland and become one of the meritorious players representing France to win the Hercules Cup for the first time. Therefore, as the remaining time of the game decreases, the French players' emotions gradually become impatient, and their fighting moves in the game gradually become fierce.

I don’t know if I have any concerns about the emotions of French fans and the so-called "home court advantage" of the French team. The referee often did not make a foul call for fouls for these actions that were suspected of fouls, but instead signaled the players of both sides to continue the game.

The French players made good use of the indulgent attitude shown by the referee. The most direct manifestation is that their movements in the game are getting bigger and bigger.

A picture in the 75th minute of the game proved this very well: Italy once again took advantage of the French player's pass error and made a quick counterattack, but Deschamps and Karenbu, who quickly returned to defense, used hands and feet to knock Robert Baggio, who had broken through the ball, directly and roughly fell to the ground without any punishment from the referee.

"Damn! Is this referee OK? Do you dare to play such a home whistle in such a critical game?" Seeing that the referee still had no expression on this level of foul, Zhuang Mingge was naturally furious when watching the football in the box. What he most shamed was that the team he supported suffered losses in the referee or some off-court factors.

At the same time, Italian fans, who had long been extremely dissatisfied with the referee's indulgence towards the French, finally broke out because of the foul of Deschamps and Karenbu, and countless booings were heard in the stands.

Amid the booing of Italian fans, the referee finally realized that his previous whistle seemed to be too biased towards the French team. So the referee quickly adjusted the penalty standard, and the first one was the French players who knew nothing about it.

Without realizing that the harshness of the harshness suddenly became stricter, in just three minutes, the French team had three players, Deschamps, Pettit and Deselli, who received yellow cards because of their excessive movements!

With several defenders carrying yellow cards, the French team's defense began to become tight, and they did not dare to easily use foul tactics when dealing with Italy's counterattack, for fear that the two yellows would turn red and they would be directly expelled from the referee due to another foul.
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