"Dear viewers, what you are watching is the 2004 European Cup finals between Portugal and France. The two sides entered overtime with a score of 2 to 2."
"The French team has used up its substitution quota before, and now, Portugal has also used up its substitution quota. Quaresma replaced Figo and Rui Costa replaced Viana."
"The French team attacked very hard."
"The French team continued to fight in the midfield."
"Zidane was in great form. He controlled the ball continuously and helped the French team secure the ball."
In the first ten minutes of overtime, the name mentioned most often by the commentators was Zidane.
His performance was so eye-catching.
Even more brilliant than his regular time performance.
On the sidelines, Triguera looked at Zidane's real-time data and was a little excited: "Sure enough, Zidane has started! Hold on, hurry up, it's really fast now!"
As the world's No. 1 player in a position that requires the highest football intelligence, Zidane's brain is very easy to use.
This kind of player can even control the entire field, let alone himself?
He clearly knows how many minutes he can contribute to the team.
Know clearly how many minutes you can maintain your peak condition.
In most overtime games, there are two situations, either no one scores a goal, or one side scores a lot of goals.
The former is that the core midfielders of both sides are "out of power".
The latter is when one of the cores is out of power.
What?
Always have power?
During the 120-minute game, the core midfielders all maintained a high level of performance?
Even Zidane, who is ten years younger, and Deng Kai today cannot do this.
After all, the European Cup final is not just one game. There are six games before it, one every two or three days on average. The game load is quite heavy.
And this comes on the heels of last season.
League, Champions League, domestic cup competitions, etc., less than a month has to be divided into preparations for the European Cup... I don’t know if I can really rest for half a month.
In theory, a core player can play a full 120 minutes.
But in reality, they can't.
Zidane's current explosion only proves one thing.
He knew he couldn't hold on any longer.
He's going to start gambling.
To completely release his energy in a short period of time and then hand the game over to his teammates.
He should have emphasized this with other teammates.
Therefore, the French team was more active overall in the first ten minutes of overtime.
Everyone is cooperating with Zidane.
The ninety-ninth minute was also the ninth minute when the French team was running at high speed.
Zidane made a spin from Marseille behind midfield and passed Deng Kai who rushed from the side and tried to steal.
Zidane started to push forward.
Deng Kai chased behind Zidane.
Seeing that he was about to catch up, Zidane suddenly sent a pass.
Ribery, who cut inside without the ball on the right, successfully received the ball. After a few dribbling movements, he passed the football to Vieira, who was running down the right.
Even though Vieira is a midfielder and tall, he looks like a pure defensive player.
But in fact, Vieira is a standard B2B with strong offensive attributes.
The abilities of plugging in, long shots, and crosses are all very good, it just depends on whether he wants to use them.
After releasing the ball, Ribery continued to advance forward, trying to gain the upper hand and hit the ball with a header.
However, Costiani directly blocked Ribery's path and knocked Ribery over.
The referee kept the whistle in his mouth, but made an offensive movement with his hands.
Vieira on the wing saw everything and temporarily changed the passing point.
boom!
Vieira made a pass.
Wiltord went too far.
Henry was some lateral distance away from where the football landed.
But it doesn't matter.
A bald head penetrates the bottom of the frame.
Then he dived towards the top of the football!
Uh-huh!
Football breaks through Baia's ten fingers.
"GOAL!"
"Winning! France leads Portugal three to two!"
"Zidane scored twice!"
"Zidane! The invincible Zidane! The greatest star in the history of the French team!"
"Deng Kai took away the title of the world's number one and the world's number one midfielder from him, but now, he wants to take away the Delaunay Cup from Deng Kai!"
"The Gallic Rooster pierced the Pentateuch!"
"Zidane gave Portugal a fatal blow!"
After the goal, the French players celebrated wildly.
But as the hero of the goal, Zidane is quite calm. In the eyes of the outside world, this is the domineering king.
Even though half of his hands had touched the European Cup championship trophy, even though Zidane was the biggest contributor to the French team's victory, even though he ended the game with his own hands, he didn't even bother to celebrate!
Just because he has owned every trophy.
I am used to winning championships!
But the real situation is... Zidane can't waste any physical energy.
After nine minutes of intense attack, this goal was of great significance to Zidane.
Because once ten minutes pass and the French team cannot score, they will completely shrink their defense, completely give up their offense, and then drag the game into a penalty shootout and resign themselves to fate.
Once it exceeds ten minutes, Zidane's physical fitness is not only insufficient to support the French team's offensive, he can't even help the team survive.
Every bit of his physical fitness was planned, and there was really no extra space left for celebration.
"Next, we just need to defend well. We must defend well." Zidane took advantage of everyone's presence and quickly confirmed with everyone that the French team will switch from offense to defense.
As for the Portuguese team, Deng Kai also made a gesture to his teammates and Triguera.
All teammates on the team nodded.
…
In the 100th minute, the Portuguese team kicked off.
Just thirty seconds later, Deco made a through pass and passed a huge advance pass to the left wing.
Deng Kai ran 100 meters on the wing.
Although he ultimately failed to catch up with the football due to Thuram's interference, Thuram had obvious retching after running.
He was almost vomited.
One hundred and three minutes.
Deng Kai once again brought the ball to Thuram from the wing.
Thuram parried repeatedly, but his pace became more and more chaotic, and he was finally knocked down by Deng Kai.
Deng Kai dialed the ball and cut inside.
boom!
Franck Ribery, who participated in the return defense, destroyed the ball with a flying tackle.
Ribery then stayed directly in the French team's half and no longer went to the Portuguese team's half.
One hundred and four minutes.
Costinha passed the ball and found Deng Kai who was asking for the ball at the midfield line.
Ribery hurried over to harass.
However, Deng Kai pushed the football backward with the outside instep of his left foot, turned around and drilled through from the right side.
The ball passed behind the back!
Ribery immediately pulled Deng Kai.
But Deng Kai was nearly two laps bigger than him, and Ribery couldn't hold him back at all.
When Ribery completed his turn, he was already half a body behind Deng Kai.
In the next distance, Deng Kai accelerated the ball, and the distance between him and Ribery became larger and larger.
(End of chapter)
