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Chapter 1131 Chapter 1124: Difficult and fierce decisive battle!

Van Persie's push helped the Netherlands equalize at the beginning of the second half, and the Italian players became serious.

The Dutch players howled around Van Persie excitedly.

No one thought of the lightning goal. Before the start of the game, Italian coach Prandelli once told his players to pay attention to the Dutch blitz.

However, they still couldn't hold off the Dutch blitz.

This made the Italian coach Prandelli, who was sitting on the bench, very frustrated. The two-to-two score brought the two sides back to the same starting line. Can Italy continue to defend and counterattack comfortably?
The Netherlands has repeatedly fallen in penalty shootouts, so why not Italy?
In the 94 World Cup final, Italy and Brazil were tied within 120 minutes, and the two sides had to enter a brutal penalty shootout.

In the penalty kick, Baresi and Baggio flew the penalty kick successively, allowing Italy to fall to the penalty shootout and lose the World Cup championship.

At the moment when the penalty kick was missed, Baggio's sad back hurt the whole world.

Many years later, Baggio recalled this period of time and strongly demanded to cancel the penalty shootout, which shows how traumatized he was at that moment.

The Netherlands and Italy have a record of penalty shootouts in major competitions. In the semi-finals of the European Cup in 2000, the Netherlands and Italy met unexpectedly. In that game, the Netherlands missed two penalty kicks within 120 minutes, and the two teams could only enter the penalty shootout.

In the penalty shoot-out, the Netherlands missed three penalties and directly handed over their qualification for the final.

In this cup, Italy and England met in the quarter-finals. The two teams scored a goalless draw within 120 minutes and entered the penalty shootout.

Italy beat England [-]-[-] to reach the semi-finals.

If Italy consign the game to a penalty shootout tonight... will the odds be better?
Italian coach Prandelli thought of this, his expression slowly recovered, and he came to the sidelines to direct his team to continue to implement the original tactics-defensive counterattack.

After the game restarted, the fans thought that the two teams returning to the same starting line would share a confrontation with everyone, but they were disappointed.

Italy did not invest a lot of troops in the offense, and the Netherlands also focused on defense, so the situation on the field became dull.

After Chen Fan took the ball, he kept attacking the Italian defense line, but the Italians were tenacious and tenacious. They fought one after another and did not give Chen Fan space to shoot at all.

Chen Fan got lost in the Italian reinforced concrete defense line...

In order to curb Italy's quick counterattack, on the one hand, the midfielders counterattacked immediately after losing the ball, and did not give them the opportunity to comfortably launch a long pass and counterattack quickly.

Van Bommel and De Jong, on the other hand, stayed at the back almost all the time, forming a solid line of defense with the defenders.

When only one step away from the final, the coaches of both sides chose to be conservative.

The scene stalemate.

The Dutch national TV commentator said: "The stalemate is not good for the Netherlands. If the game is dragged into a penalty kick, the pressure on the Netherlands will be greater than that of Italy! So the Netherlands will attack!"

The British Sky Sports commentator said: "If the penalty shoot-out is dragged on, Italy's hope of advancing to the final will be a little higher. They just defeated England in the quarter-finals on penalties."

In the stands, Gullit shook his head and said, "If we continue to play like this, even if there is Chen, the future of the Netherlands..."

Davis with pigtails nodded and said, "This is the least popular thing about Van Marwijk. He is too conservative..."

In the Dutch command area, the assistant coach came to Van Marwijk and whispered in his ear.

At this moment, the Dutch fans made a loud voice: "Attack!"

"attack!"

"attack!"

The philosophy of Dutch football is offense, and the Dutch team is a team that advocates offense.

Now the conservative Dutch team makes the fans dissatisfied. Damn Van Marwijk, do you want to have a penalty shootout?

In the command area, Van Marwijk took a deep breath, looked directly at the assistant beside him, and then nodded.

When receiving a dead ball, Van Marwijk called Sneijder to his side and taught him the opportunity.

The commentator of France [-] said loudly: "Could it be that Van Marwijk is going to change his tactics?"

After the game restarted, the number of people participating in the offense in the Netherlands increased, and the two full-backs frequently participated in the offense. As for Van Bommel and De Jong, they still stayed behind and filled the two full-backs.

With the participation of two full-backs in the offense, the Netherlands' offense slowly improved.

In the 207th minute of the second half, the teenager Williams put in an assist from the left. After receiving a diagonal pass from Chen Fan, he quickly made a cross with the football!
The football flew into the penalty area in Italy, and Van Persie leaped high to overwhelm Barzagli and shook his head to attack the goal!
Buffon bravely lifted the football off the crossbar.

Three minutes later, the Netherlands made a comeback and attacked from the right. Van der Veer crossed from the wing to find Van Persie in the center.

Van Persie, unable to turn around, kicked back directly, and Sneijder followed up with a long shot!
The football roared like a cannonball and flew towards the right side of the goal!

The National Stadium in Warsaw has become tense, is it going to score?

Standing on the goal line, Buffon showed his value as the world's number one goalkeeper. He jumped up and blocked the football from the bottom line with his left hand!

The Netherlands' attack has improved greatly, which makes the Dutch fans excited, and they let out a huge shout.

There is no worry on the faces of the Italian fans, they believe in their defense!
Before this semi-final, Italy allowed only one goal at most in this cup, conceding only two goals in total.Being scored twice by the Netherlands tonight is already a bit of a surprise.

They believed that Italy would not give the Netherlands another chance.

As for Holland's defense... that's terrible, they have conceded seven goals so far!
It is the worst defensive team in the semi-finals.

As long as you keep going, Italy will definitely seize the opportunity to defend and counterattack and complete the fatal blow!
Even if they can't beat the Netherlands in 120 minutes and enter the penalty shootout, Italy also has the upper hand.

In the No.30 second minute of the second half, the Netherlands failed to attack, and Italy immediately launched a quick counterattack!
This time they did not start with a long pass, but with a fast pass. After just two passes, the football came to Cassano's feet deep in the hinterland of the Netherlands.

Facing Van Bommel's sideways defense, Cassano suddenly accelerated, and then kicked straight into the penalty area!
Balotelli, who scored twice, slanted into the penalty area and forced a kick to shoot under the defense of Mattison!

The football flew towards the far corner like a cannonball!

Stekelenburg made a brave save, and the football went on after hitting the finger of his right hand!
The Dutch fans turned pale, and the Italian fans saw the hope of scoring a goal!

"Pong!..."

With a loud bang, the football hit the post and bounced back to the penalty area. Dutch central defender Heitinga took the first two steps to control the football under his feet.

"boom!……"

There was a huge exclamation in the stadium, followed by thunderous applause.

(End of this chapter)