princely elegance

Chapter 161 After this game, I am number one
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It was Gilberto who took the seventh penalty for the Brazilian team. Facing the attention of tens of thousands of fans, he took a deep breath, and then made a run-up and scored the ball into the upper right corner of the goal.

"what!"

After the goal was scored, the Brazilian fans on the scene jumped up. They couldn't imagine that Uruguay would miss two chances.Some excited fans even cried, and the Brazilian players went up to hug Gilberto together.

Next, the pressure was all on Uruguay, and at the same time, there was Brazil's goalkeeper Doni.I'm afraid it's only at this time that the goalkeeper is the most eye-catching, and the hero or the bear is at their fingertips.

"This time, we must rush out!"

He said fiercely to himself, looking at Uruguay's captain Lugano in front of him, Doni's eyes were extremely focused.

"left!"

Never trusting his own feelings so much, Doni fell to the left at the moment of Lugano's kick, and then he succeeded, saving Uruguay's penalty.

"Doni... Sandoni... he was god in this moment, he saved Uruguay's penalty and helped the team reach the final."

"Congratulations to Brazil. They entered the final with a total score of 7:6. In the final, they will face the winner between Argentina and Mexico, but I think most people want to see the duel between the South American duo!"

The scene was full of bragging about Brazil. It was the first time that Doni felt so uncomfortable that the focus of the audience was on him. He was originally a low-key person.

After playing the first few games of this Copa America, Dhoni was criticized. The media criticized his performance, and some experts even said that he was "incompetent".After all, Brazil played poorly in the group stage. If Robinho hadn't exploded and sent the Selecao into the knockout round with four goals, I'm afraid Dhoni would be the "culprit" of this failure in the media after returning home. ".

Fortunately, in today's game, he used his outstanding performance to make the media start to praise him instead.

While the Brazilian team was ecstatic, the Uruguayan players were lying on the ground sadly. When the game reached the penalty shootout, it consumed more than just physical strength. collapsed.

Tabarez walked onto the court silently, came to every player, pulled them up, and whispered a few words in everyone's ear.Then, the entire Uruguayan team returned to the locker room in silence, without disturbing the celebrating Brazil.Although they are losers, Uruguay does not need sympathy. They will just silently lick their wounds in their lair, waiting for the next revenge.

"Sure enough, it was Brazil who won in the end."

In the conference room, Gago calmed down his mood. During the penalty shootout, no matter the players who kicked or the fans who watched, they would feel nervous after sinking in.

"Okay, go back and rest, and prepare for the match against Mexico tomorrow."

After each game, Basile will not comment on anything, he will let the players think for themselves.Before the game, he will explain the characteristics and tactics of the opponents in detail, and let them verify their ideas with his own.

Brazil's entry into the final did not affect Argentina at all, because the media reporters could not find the stars of the Nerazzurri.Under the request of Basile, all the players stopped contacting outsiders. In the last two games, they had to concentrate all their energy on defeating their opponents and finally winning the championship.

At noon the next day, after the dinner together, the entire Argentine national team boarded the bus under the leadership of Basile and drove to the venue of the match, Puerto Ordaz!

It's a beautiful city, but none of the players are in the mood to appreciate it.After coming to the stadium, they carefully familiarized themselves with the lawn. Mexico is an opponent that must go all out to beat.In the World Cup in Germany last year, Argentina played against Mexico. The game was very difficult, and it was difficult to defeat Mexico through overtime.

Although Gago was not selected for the national team at that time, most of the players were the main players in that game, and they clearly knew the strength of Mexico.In the last Copa America, the two teams also played against each other. They were both in Group B. In the only one match, Argentina lost 0:1.

There is no need to remind Basile in this game, the eleven main players are doing warm-up exercises very seriously.Since it was the first time for Argentina to compete on this stadium, Gago and the others walked all over the stadium very carefully, feeling the condition of the turf.

"How about it?"

Messi handed Gago a bottle of water after warming up and asked him how he felt.

"So-so, nothing compared to the Bernabéu!"

"It's also far behind Camp Nou."

After listening to the conversation between the two, Zanetti smiled directly.

"If you come to play in Serie A, you will know that the turf is not bad!"

Due to the overall recession of the Serie A team, the quality of the turf is still in the last century, but Gago has no understanding of this.He has only been to the San Siro Stadium, and the quality of the turf in that stadium is still acceptable.

Everyone didn't discuss this issue too much. After getting familiar with the venue, Argentina got on the bus and left.Half an hour later, the Mexican national team will also come. It is not a good thing for the two sides to meet at this time.

In a temporarily rented hotel in the local area, the Argentine players did not do any training. After changing their clothes, they began to relax and wait for the evening game.

Gago and Messi played a game in the room for a while, and then called Tevez and Mascherano to play cards together.In this way, the time unknowingly arrived at night, and the whole team assembled again and drove to the stadium.

"Friends from the audience, welcome to the semi-final of the Copa America, Argentina VS Mexico, the winner of the two teams will enter the final and compete with Brazil at the Maracaibo Stadium for the 42nd Copa America."

"The head coaches of both sides have already announced the starting lineup. As we expected, there is no difference from the previous game. Both teams have sent their strongest lineups."

"The highlight of this game is the duel between two geniuses. Before the game, the monster Castillo of Mexico said that Real Madrid's core Gago is nothing special. His words provoked Real Madrid's deputy Guti and Argentina Mascherano replied that he would not let him score a goal in the game. But Gago didn't say anything about it. Let's see when they play Case."

In the locker room, the head coaches of both sides began to make the final mobilization.

"My words are still the same, insist on playing our own style, as long as we show our strength, no team on this planet can stop us, Pampas is the strongest!"

Basile's words caused all the players in the locker room to respond loudly.

"Go out, beat Mexico, get to the final, beat Brazil for the title!"

Captain Ayala was the first to stand up and walk out, and then Gago and his gang followed, followed by the leading brother to attack people.

"Phil, do you know the best player voted by the fans?"

Messi asked softly in the aisle behind Gago.

"who is it?"

Gago just asked a question, the ones chosen by the fans will never be taken seriously, and only those officially recognized can win the trophy.

"Nerry Castillo!"

"That brat who doesn't know the sky and the earth."

After hearing this, Gago raised his eyebrows and said, a trace of surprise finally appeared in his tone.

"Four games and four goals, and the goal he scored against Brazil was indeed very beautiful, so he is very impressive in the hearts of the fans."

"Which place am I in?"

After listening to Messi's explanation, Gago suddenly asked, everyone cares about their own ranking, this is human nature, for example, Messi often refreshes the website several times, just to see his latest ranking.Up, happy and motivated, down, down and down!

"second."

Speaking of this, Messi suddenly felt a little reconciled. He felt that he was not inferior to Gago, but why was he not as good as him in the eyes of the fans.

"What about the third?"

"Roman."

As the core of Argentina's midfield, Riquelme has scored four goals and contributed four assists in four games so far in this competition.It is conceivable that the luxury data of one goal and one assist per game ranks third, but there are still other factors for Gago to be able to press him.

"What about you?"

Hearing Gago's question, Messi replied a little angrily.

"fourth."

"It's not bad, if you go up two more ranks, you'll be able to explode my ass, so work hard."

Although Messi didn't understand what "**" meant, it didn't prevent him from making contemptuous gestures. Anyway, the literal meaning is not a good thing.

"Messi, believe it or not, I am number one after this game!"

Gago said very seriously suddenly, causing Messi to shake his head directly. Even if he believed it, he was not willing to show weakness in front of Gago.

"Look at it carefully. Didn't that kid impress the fans because of the goal he scored against Brazil? Then I scored a more beautiful goal than him."

Gago looked extremely confident when he said this.

"I feel like I'm the only one who can hit that kind of shot."

Messi's level of speaking has been getting higher and higher recently, and he choked Gago all of a sudden.

"Do you want to bet again, I will give you a chance to take revenge."

After hearing Gago's words, Messi's expression changed, he snorted and turned his head away from him.This is an eternal pain in his heart. It is estimated that it will be mentioned repeatedly in his life. Recently, he and his Barcelona teammates have heard them vaguely express dissatisfaction with this matter.

At this time, the referee signaled that the players could enter the field, and Gago shut up and stopped teasing Messi.First of all, there is a very annoying opponent in front of him. It is rare that Gago finally regards Castillo as an opponent before the start of this game.You must know that before this, he had always thought that the boy was an unknown person, and it was not worth wasting his time.

After playing, Gago turned his head and glanced at the Mexican players, found Castillo, and looked at what he looked like.I have to say that this kid is not bad looking, in line with the aesthetic point of view of foreigners, with clear water chestnuts.

When hearing Messi say that Robinho can only be ranked fifth in the eyes of the fans, Gago thought that the fans should not judge people by their appearance.Gago, who has three goals and three assists, can rank on Riquelme, who has four goals and four assists, which has already made him realize something.

I have to sigh that the fans just don't have an official profession.

(End of this chapter)