Chapter 944 Summer in the Netherlands (2)
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With the initiative of the game being fully controlled by our side and the opponent's offense has been unable to open the situation for a long time, Italy's offensive and the rapid counterattack after intercepting the opponent's attack have become more and more sharp as time goes by!
Although the Turkish players, who were at a disadvantage, tenaciously dealt with their opponents on the court with their passion, the huge gap in experience and ability between the players made the Star and Moon Legion unable to turn over on the court and could only struggle under the strong pressure of their opponents.
So, just six minutes after the opening whistle, Italian players won their first goal in this European Cup in an offense: Ocan's cross from the wing was pushed out by Cannavaro, Albertini got the ball and passed it straight to the middle, passing the ball to Toti in the middle circle!
Toti, who got the ball, took advantage of the opportunity of the Turkish players' unfair defense and staged a wonderful long-distance raid. On the way, he passed the Havutku and Akye who tried to stop him and then successfully drove the ball into the penalty area. Then, the Roman prince who was so excited that he passed the ball and Rustu, who had abandoned the goal, also scored the first record for the Italian team!
Facing the situation of falling behind with a goal shortly after the opening, the Turkish players who were already struggling under the strong pressure of Italy became even more panicked, and at the same time they exposed their weakness of insufficient experience in the competition. After being led by the opponent with a quick counterattack, the Turkish players did not learn from it, but instead rushed and suppressed the attack even more violently, as if this could break through the goal guarded by Peruzzi and thus regain the disadvantage of this goal.
Although a group of good players have emerged in the past two years, like England, most of these players are very distinctive players in charge. They can control the rhythm of the game on the court and command teammates to run their teammates! In fact, it was not until Emre emerged in the 2002 World Cup and firmly took the position of midfield commander that Turkey finally solved this problem.
Of course, the lack of commanders is only one of the reasons why Türkiye finds it difficult to make a breakthrough in international competitions, and another very important reason is that they do not have a qualified leader on the field!
Although he has an unshakable position in the Turkish national team and his goal rate is considerable, it has to be said that Hakan Suk is not suitable to be a team leader. Otherwise, in people's eyes, the biggest contributor to leading Galatasaray to win the UEFA Cup championship this season should not be the 35-year-old Romanian veteran Haji, but him.
Relatively speaking, Hakan Suk is more like a conventional weapon for abuse. He can easily score goals against defenders who are not as strong as him, making people feel that he is really a useful center; but if the players who defend him are replaced by Cannavaro and Maldini, it is best not to expect him to lead the team to turn the tide.
In this way, the Turkish player who had not found a commander and a leader on the field, although he performed very hard, he was pressing on the offense and was soon hit hard again in Italy's counterattack due to the void defense!
In the 18th minute, Jumit Davala, who tried to forcibly break through the Italian defense line in the middle, even the Italian defender Yingzai was completely intercepted by Antonio Conte! After completing a wonderful steal, the latter immediately handed the ball to Albertini not far away. The deputy captain of Milan kept making a long pass over the top!
Immediately afterwards, Vieri headed the ball in the middle, Philip Inzaggi successfully counterattacked and formed a one-on-one strike, breaking through Rustu, who was attacking, and then pushed the ball into the near corner, expanding Italy's lead to two goals!
Although Okan helped Turkey recover a point with a powerful shot outside the penalty area in the 62nd minute of the game, allowing Turkish fans to see some hope of equalizing the score, not long after, Havutku accidentally knocked down Inzaghi in the penalty area while defending, and the referee from Scotland Dallas made a quick decision and awarded Italy a penalty!
The next thing was very simple. Da Inzagi, who created this penalty kick, took the penalty and rewrited the score to 3-1, and completely locked in Italy's victory in this game!
In the end, with Toti's goal shortly after the opening and the second goal of Inzagi's grand ball, Italy scored three points from Turkey without any danger, and successfully defeated the host Belgium team in the group standings, occupying the top spot in Group B alone!
Although it was somewhat depressed by Italy's subsequent defeat in goal difference, Belgian fans were quite satisfied and did not feel any dissatisfaction.
It's no wonder that Belgian football's performance in international competitions has become worse and worse in recent years, which has broken the hearts of the fans who support them, and has also invisibly lowered their psychological expectations for Belgium's performance in this competition. Therefore, for Belgian fans, it is quite a celebration to see the teams they support win in the game. What are the issues of goal difference and group ranking?
However, when the second round of Group B group stage three days later, even Belgian fans, who were optimistic, could not laugh. Because in this game against Italy, Belgium did not show the momentum and style of the European Red Devils at all. They were led by their opponents in the whole game. After ninety minutes of regular game time, they finally lost to zero to three!
In Italy, after getting a good start against Turkey, Old Maldini did not continue to use the starting lineup in the first game as the outside world imagined, but chose to take the initiative to change in this game and start using more players from the Fiorentine: Tordo, Nesta, Zambrota, Vieri and Inzagi, five players from Fiorentine, who started in this game, are the best evidence!
Chapter completed!