Chapter 60: Pull brothers

"Hey, Stephen, Maria played really well! Although I don't know much about tennis, I can also see that her strength is definitely one of the strongest people in the world today!"

Watching Sharapova on TV beat her opponent, Ukrainian Begzinmer, without any power to fight back, Larson smacked his lips and sighed. Since Li Yun's girlfriend played tennis, even the Swedish players followed suit and followed tennis.

Just as the European Cup was in full swing, the 2004 Wimbledon Open kicked off on June 21. As the defending champion, Sharapova showed a very strong momentum as soon as she debuted. She used her almost perfect performance to completely collapse her opponent, which made the Swedish players applaud.

"There is no way, the opponent is too weak! In this way, you can't even see Maria's true level."

Ibrahimovic shook his head. He knew quite well about tennis. He could see at a glance that Begzinmer was not strong enough to slap Sharava's teeth, so he said this.

"This was just right in the first few rounds, which helped Maria adjust her condition. If she met a strong opponent at the beginning, that would be bad."

Li Yun turned around and sermoned to Ip that for tennis players, especially high-ranking seed players, they encountered such easy-to-deal opponents in the first few rounds, which everyone hoped, so that they would gradually adjust their condition and not have the possibility of an upset, just treat these weaker opponents to practice.

It has been several days since the game against Italy. Since the last group opponent Denmark is also in Porto, it is just a different stadium, so the Swedish team does not need to travel long distances, just stay in Porto and continue preparing for the game.

The group advanced early and then waited for work, which made Sweden very relaxed. The players got more rest time, so they had such free time to relax. This relaxation also played a role in alleviating the physical and psychological fatigue of the players to a certain extent, and the players had a different rest.

In the end, Sharaba easily defeated her first-round opponent with two 6:1 and advanced to the second round. Such a strong performance can be regarded as officially opening her journey to defend her title.

"According to this momentum, Maria should have great hope to win this Wimbledon! If we can also win the European Cup championship, then this is what Stephen calls a 'double happiness'!"

After watching Sharaba's game, Larson sighed and realized that it would be a very interesting thing if Sweden and Sharaba won the championship at the same time.

"Don't worry, Henrik, we will definitely win the final victory, and Maria will definitely defend the Wimbledon championship!"

Li Yun said with confidence that when he mentioned this wish, he was excited. He was very much looking forward to winning the championship with Sharapova and creating this classic handed down.

"Yes, I will definitely win!"

Swedish players also have this belief at this time, and they firmly believe that their team will definitely win the final championship.

The big score defeat of Italy gave Sweden a feeling of transformation. Although they were still in their original state in terms of overall strength, they were more confident, more domineering, or more kingly! With such a mental state, the combat power that Sweden can exert is different.

"The next opponent is Denmark, which is our old opponent and our nemesis! Although we have already qualified now, we must not be careless about this game! Even if we draw, we can securely win the first place in the group, but what we want is of course not just a draw, and victory is the inevitable result!"

Ragbek asked the players this way before the game. In fact, even if he didn't say it, the Swedish players would not show mercy to Denmark. They now have absolute arrogance and do not allow themselves to be stumped by such an opponent. They will definitely strive to defeat Denmark, leaving nothing to say.

Moreover, although Denmark and Sweden are both Nordic countries, they have a feud. Even if they raise their heights to the heights of nations and countries, Swedish players should do their best to defeat their opponents.

In original history, since both teams had previously tied with Italy, in this game, as long as they scored a draw of more than 2:2, they could steadily defeat Italy and then qualify. The final result of that game was 2:2, and the two teams from Nordics used this method to force Italy to get out of the group stage.

In the 89th minute of the game, Sweden scored a goal that tied and changed the score to 2:2, a fan in the stands immediately posted a slogan: "2:2, the victory of the Nordic brothers!" In the eyes of people at that time, such a slogan was very completely pointing out the tacit understanding of the game, and it also caused great controversy at that time and later.

Now, when Li Yun came here and became a member of the Swedish team, although he didn't know whether the magical 2:2 in the original history was deliberately made by both sides, and he didn't know that the game was not a fake goal, but he knew one thing, that is, this time, there would never be such a result. Sweden must win!

Not only win, but also a big victory! The reason for this is that Li Yun also shoulders this important task in this game, which is to use another way to help Italy qualify. Since at present, Italy has only accumulated one point in two stops, and has three goals, while Denmark has won one win and one draw, with two goals.

According to the original history, Italy defeated Bulgaria 2:1 in the last game. If this score is still the same, Italy's final goal difference will be two. If Italy wants to ensure Italy's qualifying, Sweden will beat Denmark more than five.

This is a very difficult task, but it is not impossible for Li Yun and Sweden, it is just difficult to complete. Moreover, the entire Sweden team may not be as strong as Li Yun, in the last game, and when the victory is decided, the players are more likely to retain their strength rather than continue to attack wildly.

"Anyway, I will do my best. As for the outcome, it depends on your luck!"

Li Yun, who knew that this time was quite difficult, could only comfort himself like this. As for Italy, as long as he could do his best, even if he was worthy of his friends, whether Italy could qualify for the first time depends on whether Italy could compete or not.

The last time Italy played with a desperate mentality, because the players probably realized that Sweden and Denmark would have a great chance of playing scores that could guarantee their elimination. Under this mentality, Italian players naturally could not concentrate all their energy and then fight Bulgaria with all their might.

Such a situation made Italy win in the end with just one goal. And this time, all Italian players knew that Li Yun would definitely help them. As long as they could work hard to win Bulgaria for a few more goals, they would have a great chance to qualify, so the combat power they could show was definitely different from the original history.

Regardless of whether it is different, the game must be held. On June 23, the game that determined the fate of the two teams in Group C was staged on two courts respectively.

Before this, the competitions between the two groups a and b have all ended, and the top names of the two groups have also been confirmed.

The team that qualifies for Group A is surprising. Portugal's qualifying was really expected, but it is really incredible that Greece, not Spain, the second in the group, is really incredible. People don't realize now that this team is about to play a very important role in this European Cup.

There is no suspense in Group B, France and England qualify side by side. Although they lost to France in the first game regretfully, England performed at their own level in the next two games, defeating Switzerland and Croatia one after another, ranking behind France, and qualifying for the second in the group.

Next is the final decision day for Group C and Group D. Group C had previously qualified Sweden, while Group D and Czech Republic locked in the first place in the group ahead of schedule. The two major powerhouses, Germany and the Netherlands, will compete for the last qualifying place.

At 20:45 pm on June 23, two matches of Group C were started at the Enrique Stadium and Besa Stadium.

The match between Sweden and Denmark was arranged to be played at Porto's Besa Stadium. In this game, through the starting lineup of both sides, it can be seen that the attitude of both sides towards this game.

Denmark, it can be said that it has all the main players and is preparing to fight Sweden to a decisive battle (4-2-3-1): goalkeeper No. 1 Sorensen, right back No. 6 Helveg, left back No. 5 Nicklas Jensen, centre-back No. 4 Raulson, No. 3 Henriksen, midfielder No. 7 Graveson, No. 15 Daniel Jensen, attacking midfielder No. 8 Glenshare is on the right, No. 9 Thomason is in the center, No. 10 Jensen is on the left, and center No. 11 Sand.

On Sweden, there were many main players rotating, among which Nelson, who retreated from the midfield, was used in the right back position; Miarby, rested in the center, Jacobson appeared; the midfield position was replaced by Carlstrom, Andres Anderson in the left forward, and Albec in the center.

Goalkeeper Isaxon, left-back Edman, defender Melbery, and the three major killers Li Yun, Ibrahimovic and Yongbery on the attack line are players that Sweden cannot replace, so they all stayed on the court. However, even so, Sweden's changes are still very large, and its overall strength is definitely not comparable to the original one.

"As expected, Sweden will retain its strength in this game. Half of their main players did not play, so we will have a chance!"

Denmark's head coach Olsen told his assistant coach. Before the game, the Denmark's coaching staff unanimously believed that Sweden would not fight Denmark with all his strength in this game, because as long as he tied, Sweden could secure the first place in the group. There was no need to do his best because of an unimportant game.

Whether it is from the perspectives of players' physical strength, injuries, and red and yellow cards, Sweden should not fight against Denmark in this game. In that case, it will easily lead to a big loss and it will not be worth the loss.

On the surface, Sweden also did this, and they had hidden many main players. When people saw it, they would feel that Sweden would give Denmark a lot of money in this game.

Especially Italian fans, when they saw Sweden's lineup, they couldn't help but sigh - it seems that Italy is in danger!

But those who think so obviously ignore one thing. Even if Sweden uses a substitute and a half-main lineup, the key is that Li Yun is still on the court! As long as Li Yun is on the court, Sweden will still be the crazy Sweden. Even if Li Yun is around him, they are not the powerful arm helps in the past.

"Stephen, he will help us!"

Because Cannavaro was suspended, Matrazi got the chance to play in this game. Before the game started, he was quietly praying that Li Yun would do his best to help Italy.

And Li Yun did the same.

"Goal direction, or ball right?"

"Ball rights!"

After betting against Denmark's captain Henriksen, Li Yun chose to kick off the ball. However, Henriksen, who was happy that Sweden replaced many substitutes, did not notice the undetectable smile on Li Yun's face.

"Zlatan!"

Putting the ball down and opening the ball in the middle circle, Li Yun handed a look to Ibrahimovic.

Ibrahimovic didn't say anything, just nodded, indicating that he understood what Li Yun meant.

"With the referee's whistle, the game began! Court TV, Court TV! Hello everyone, everyone, now we are broadcasting the 2004 European Cup for you live... Let's watch this ball first! Ibrahimovic picked up the ball! Stephen! Stephen jumped up! What? Is this? Is it an inverted hook? Stephen actually used the inverted hook directly in the middle circle?!"

Seeing the scene in front of him, Wong Tai Sin almost jumped up from her seat quietly, because at the beginning of the competition, the two people in the middle circle did something shocking!

Li Yun pushed the ball to Ibrahimovic, and then Ibrahimovic picked the ball and picked it into the air. Then Li Yun jumped up and directly put on an inverted hook in the middle circle, shooting the ball out with great force.

"Although it's a bit far, there should be no problem!"

Shooting in the middle circle is already very amazing, and using an inverted hook to shoot in the middle circle is a completely crazy move. It is simply a joke, and it feels like treating the opponent's goalkeeper as a wooden man.

However, if you have seen the extremely long-distance inverted hook that Li Yun used during his second Milan derby last season, you would not be surprised or surprised by such a shot, because this ball was exactly the same trick as that time!

After being shot out by Li Yun, the ball flew high. The flight trajectory was very similar to the gliding impulse shooting. It first jumped to the highest point, and then suddenly took a sharp turn and rushed towards the goal.

"The ball is so far away and has such obvious plans. I want to attack my goal. Even if you are the number one player in the world, I really look down on people too much!"

Denmark goalkeeper Sorensen snorted coldly. He felt that Li Yun had really looked down on him this time and dared to shoot in this way. However, he was a little proud because he could break the almost unsolvable shot of the world's chief player, which was very honorable to him.

If Dida could know what Sorensen was thinking at this time, she would feel sad for the young man, because he knew the power of this shot very well. Only when the goalkeeper truly felt the taste in it, he would know how ignorant he had thought before.

"It's mine!"

Sorenson, who stood firmly on the goal line, jumped up immediately after the ball rushed down, trying to catch or destroy the ball. But before he could be happy for a long time, he found that the ball had changed direction!

"What?!"

The baby that was about to be obtained flew away like this, which surprised Sorenson very much, but he did not give up. He hurriedly stretched out his left hand and tried hard to reach the ball that suddenly changed direction.

Unexpectedly, the ball, which was supposed to be within Sorensen's control, suddenly turned around again, and directly bypassed Sorensen's left hand and continued to fly towards the Danish goal.

“fu-ck!”

Sorenson couldn't help but swear, because the ball was really weird, completely beyond his expectations, and he could make a second turn after rushing down, and then completely powerless.

When Sorensen fell to the ground and looked back, the ball was already spinning in the net, and the constantly spinning seemed to be mocking the young Danish goalkeeper, which made Sorensen feel a little ashamed.

In fact, Sorensen doesn't have to be ashamed of this ball, because this is another very famous kill by Li Yun - a second-level gliding impulse shot! The characteristic of this ball is that it can cause a second turn, which is more difficult to deal with than an ordinary gliding impulse shot. If you don't understand the characteristics of this ball, you will have no way to prevent it. You can only watch the ball change direction continuously in front of you and then fly into the goal.

This time, although the distance is a bit far, since the second-section gliding impulse shot performed by Li Yun is not exactly the same as the one used by Nadoni in the original work. It flew high first and then fell down like a impulse shot. There is no need to worry about the lack of power, so it played a corresponding role.
Chapter completed!