On June 12, 2004, the European Cup in Portugal began. Before the game, the strong European teams usually brag about their national teams. Several traditional strong teams mobilized their own media to start bragging about how powerful their national teams are.
, is the favorite to win this European Cup.
Needless to say, Spain has had an explosion of talented players in recent years, and the overall strength of the Spanish national team is on the rise. Needless to say, people like Joaquin and Vicente, who started to become famous two or three years ago, and others like
Xabi Alonso, Torres, Villa and Reyes are all players who performed very well in the 2004 season. Xabi Alonso won the Champions League as the absolute main force in Liverpool, and Villa won the Champions League in Deportivo La Coruna.
He scored thirty goals, and Torres also scored nineteen goals in La Liga. These talented players gave the Spanish media endless confidence.
Spain has many talents, but other national teams are not envious of them. Not to mention other national teams, the Dutch national team will spit on you when it comes to talent. Genius, the Netherlands is most indispensable for talent. Van der Vaart, Robben, Sneijder and so on
Whoever pulls this out will not shock the European football world.
As for the French national team, they also have rising stars like Cisse, and the French national team is still dominated by the golden generation. Zidane, Makelele, and Thuram are getting stronger with age, while Henry and Vieira are still in their prime.
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Italy and England each have their own most talented players. Italy's Cassano, who is known as the next Baggio and the next Totti, was already worth 30 million euros when he was nineteen or twenty years old.
England even has their national treasure Wayne Rooney. Of course, there is also a team that is highly valued by the media, and that is the Portuguese national team. After all, this European Cup is held in Portugal. As the host, Portugal also has great hopes.
Therefore, they are not convinced by anyone, and they all have great confidence in their national team. Except for the German national team, which is currently in a low-key situation and is somewhat low-key, the other national teams are very low-key. At this time, the Czech Republic is not very happy.
Because the Czech Republic, Germany, and the Netherlands are grouped together, this is an absolute group of death.
This time the European Cup has such a damn group of death. Although Germany's players are out of schedule and they think they will not be able to catch up, no one will underestimate Germany. After all, Germany was underestimated in 2002, and they have not yet entered.
The semi-finals of the World Cup. Germany is a national team that cannot be judged by common sense. Needless to say, the Netherlands has a lot of world-class stars. Such as Stam, Seedorf, Davies, Cocu, Overmars
, Ruud Ruud, Kluivert, Mackay, a lot of them. Even talented players include Van der Vaart, Robben, Sneijder, and Van der Meyde.
Of course, the Czech Republic is not weak either. Although the Czech Republic is not as influential as these traditional strong teams, the Czech Republic is a World Cup champion. In terms of strength, it is not worse than these European strong teams. In such a group, there are the Czech Republic, Germany, and the Netherlands.
, this is a must-win group, and a strong team must be eliminated.
On June 15, 2004, four years after the start of the European Cup, the Group D match began. The Czech Republic's first game was against Latvia, the weakest team in the group. If they can't even beat Latvia, then they will definitely not be able to appear in this group.
The Czech Republic was fully armed. Moreover, it removed its full-time defensive midfielder like Gilberto Silva and played a double forward combination of Jankoler and Baros. During the game, the Czech Republic relied on Boboski and Baros.
, Jan Koler's three goals defeated the opponent 3-1. Germany and the Netherlands ended up in a 1-1 draw.
The first game was very normal, and even after the end of the first game, the media did not have any big surprises. The draw between Germany and the Netherlands showed that the strength of the strong teams in this group was similar. It was a real group of death. And the Czech Republic’s victory over Latvia also
It's not a big deal, because Latvia is being played in this group.
But after the second game, no one thought that way. Germany was indeed in a state of decline, and its strength had dropped too much. Facing a rubbish team like Latvia, they were tied 0-0. Germany worked very hard,
Because they know that this group must be defeated if Latvia wants to appear.
The match between the Netherlands and the Czech Republic was quite heated. Both sides played high-quality offense throughout the game, and even came out of the door three times. After the game started, the Netherlands had the advantage, especially Robben on the left, who made a crazy breakthrough.
Breakthrough after breakthrough. Grigra is experienced in many battles at Eindhoven, and he and Robben are still teammates.
But Robben didn't give him any face in this game. Just four minutes into the game, Robben's free kick helped Bouma score the first goal of the game. Ten minutes into the first half
At nine minutes, Robben received a direct pass from Davis and successfully countered offside, and then passed a comfortable ball to the unmarked Ruud van Nistelrooy, allowing Ruud van Nistelrooy to easily push the ball into the empty goal.
Nineteen minutes into the first half, the Netherlands led the Czech Republic 2-0. At that time, some commentators even thought that the Netherlands was going to beat the Czech Republic. But what happened next was unexpected. Just four minutes later, the Czech Republic
They took advantage of a passing error by Cocu and quickly counterattacked. In the end, Boboski's pass allowed Jankoler to get a goal back.
In the 70th minute of the second half, Nedvěd made a pass from the left, and Jankoler stopped the ball with his chest and passed it to Rosicky who came in from behind. Rosicky shot directly, helping the Czech Republic equalize the score.
Of course, the end was not over yet. When the game was about to enter stoppage time at the 88th minute, Rosicky was dribbling the ball in the frontcourt and suddenly passed it with his heel to Senna next to him. Senna's long shot was blocked by
Van der Sar made the save. The ball came right in front of Nedved who advanced from the left. Nedved was not polite and directly shot a long shot to score the go-ahead goal.
Three to two, the Czech Republic defeated the Netherlands three to two in this thrilling reversal. With this game, the Czech Republic has already scored six points, Germany has two points, the Netherlands has one point, and Latvia has zero points. Death
In the group, the Czech Republic only took two games and already emerged in first place, leaving the veteran teams Germany and the Netherlands in the worst possible situation.
"The golden generation of Czech football!"
“Czech Republic, a big hit!”
"Czech Republic, another France."
"Nedved, the best player of this century."
Before the start of the European Cup, although the Czech Republic was also a popular team, it was still lagging behind the traditional giants such as Spain, England, Italy, Portugal, and France. This is not due to strength. Many times the media just likes to classify it this way. But the two games
After that, the Czech Republic became a favorite team in the European Cup again.
But the favorites at this time pale in comparison to those a few days later. Because the third game a few days later was completely a formality for the Czech Republic. Because the Czech Republic scored six points, it has already guaranteed this group.
First place. The last game is completely dispensable for the Czech Republic.
Therefore, as soon as the Czech starting list came out, the entire media was in an uproar. Even the Dutch side was very dissatisfied. From the Dutch coach to the players, they thought it was unfair for the Czech Republic. They believed that because of the traditional relationship between the Czech Republic and Germany, the Czech Republic
Deliberately waterproof to Germany. Now Germany has two points and the Netherlands only has one point. A starting lineup like the Czech Republic is completely unfair.
Why did the Czech starting lineup cause an uproar in the media? Compared with the match against the Netherlands, the entire starting lineup did not even have the same player. Even the main goalkeepers like Petr Cech were thrown to the bench by Brückner.
From goalkeeper to forward, everything has been changed.
The German media were relieved and thought that the Czech Republic was indeed a good friend. But after the game, everyone was dumbfounded. The Netherlands was happy, and Germany cried. Because the Czech Republic used a full substitute lineup, but it beat Germany into confusion. Although during the game
Ballack scored a goal, but still could not stop the Czech cavalry.
Smicer and Lokwencz, they helped the Czech Republic score two goals. In fact, don't look at the fact that they only scored two goals. In the game, Smicer, a midfielder who was completely reduced to a substitute in the national team,
, but defeated the German national team midfielder in the game. And Lokwenz was already preparing to return to China to retire, but this game was still majestic.
A complete substitute lineup actually destroyed Germany, causing Germany to completely lose the opportunity to appear. The Germans are constantly criticizing the German national team, and they are embarrassed to think that the Czech Republic has destroyed them. Because the Czech Republic is very interesting, and with all the
He came on as a substitute. The only fault is that Germany itself was too poor. After this game, many people looked at the Czech Republic with admiration. The odds of the Czech Republic winning the championship also increased rapidly, and they have become the favorite team to win the championship.
The European Cup continued, and the Czech Republic came into first place and met Denmark in the quarterfinals of the European Cup. Although Denmark had a Danish fairy tale more than ten years ago, the Denmark now is not the Denmark it was back then. The Czech Republic is in
There was no pressure against Denmark in the quarter-finals, and the game ended easily with a score of 3-0.
Other matches in the quarter-finals were very difficult. The Netherlands and Sweden had a score of zero to zero and had to go to the penalty kick final. In the end, the Netherlands eliminated Sweden with penalty kicks. The match between Portugal and England also ended in a 2-2 draw.
In the end, there was a penalty shootout, and Portugal defeated England. Of course, the biggest upset was that Greece defeated France 1-0 and eliminated the powerful France.
The Czech Republic simply entered the European Cup semi-finals and met Greece, the biggest dark horse in the European Cup.
Many people think that the Czech Republic has good luck. First it met the weak Denmark, and now it has met a dark horse. Since it is a dark horse, it means that it is not as strong as the Czech Republic. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
