Chapter 634 Even God is helping him! Lin Quan killed the game!

Beep!

The referee stopped the game and immediately stepped forward to check on the injured.

Lorenv had a painful expression and lay on the ground holding his stomach, his body bent into the shape of a shrimp.

It could be seen from the cold sweat on his forehead that he was in quite a lot of pain at this time.

The referee took one look, and while rushing to the field, beckoning for a stretcher to come up to carry the person, he glanced at Lin Quan with some fear.

This guy's kick just now was so powerful that Lorenv hit the muzzle of the gun.

Seeing that the opponent's penalty kick was missed, Modric breathed a sigh of relief.

But seeing Lorenf's miserable expression, he felt a little worried.

Although the team doctor is treating Lorenv, the effect does not seem to be good. Judging from the frown of the team doctor, they may be forced to make substitutions.

Lorenv is Croatia's main central defender. If he unexpectedly leaves the game so early, it will be a huge loss for the Croatian team's defense.

Thinking of this, Modric took a deep look at Lin Quan.

Although there was no direct evidence that his kick just now was aimed at someone, he suspected that Lin Quan did it on purpose.

After all, how could someone who had never missed a penalty make such a low-level mistake?

Modric had to suspect that Lin Quan was going for Luolenfu. The reason why he didn't score the penalty was because the penalty kick just now was a misjudgment by the referee. Lin Quan didn't want to take advantage of others, so he didn't take it.

As for why he targeted Lorenv, it was probably to avenge the tackle and the rude words to him just now!

That makes sense.

After understanding this, Modric looked at Lin Quan with more complicated eyes.

Should I praise this guy for showing mercy and not taking advantage of others' danger?

Or should we blame this guy for hurting his teammate out of spite?

In short, it is very confusing. It is neither easy to express gratitude to the other party nor to blame the other party.

There are not a few people in Croatia who have this idea.

Many people were peeking at Lin Quan with complicated eyes, but Lin Quan, who was being closely watched by the opposing players, looked calm.

The reaction from Croatia was what he expected, or in other words, this was the effect he wanted.

I don't have to take the penalty kick given to me by the referee, but you have to pay the price for your behavior.

As for why he didn't want the penalty kick, firstly, it was because he had his own bottom line, and secondly, he was fully confident that he could still defeat his opponent even without resorting to penalty kicks.

"Oops, Lin made a low-level mistake when taking the penalty kick, and he didn't score!"

"If this goal were scored, the suspense of the outcome of this game would probably be killed."

"Huh? Wait a minute, the defender who was injured just now seems to be unable to hold on. Sure enough, he was replaced!"

In the Spanish channel's commentary box, the commentators all looked in disbelief when they saw Lin Quan miss the penalty kick.

But then, they all became happy again when they saw the opponent's central defender was injured and went off the field.

From the first half to the current situation on the field, the game has completely fallen into the control of the Spanish team. The opponent can only be beaten and has no power to fight back.

Originally, the Croatian team's defense line was already crumbling under the fierce attack of the Spanish team. At this time, if another main center back is injured, their defense line will be even more fragile, and the Spanish team's opportunity will come.

The entire Spanish team is aware of this, so after the opponent's substitute central defender comes on, Spain focuses on this point and repeatedly attacks him.

Because it was a passive substitution and very sudden, Joel Luka, who came on the bench, had almost no time to warm up and came on the field in a hurry.

Players who have not fully warmed up will definitely be very uncomfortable when they first appear on the court, and they will not even dare to make more strenuous movements.

At this time, he is the weakest point in Croatia's entire defense. It is definitely right to seize him at this point.

The whole Spanish team wanted to go together, so soon everyone came to check in together.

As soon as Giorluka appeared on the stage, he felt the other party's malice.

Not only was Diego Costa, a forward, rubbing shoulders with him, but even breakthrough players such as Lin Quan, Iniesta, and Isco also took the ball from time to time to attack from the area he was defending. , try to get past him.

For a moment, Qiaoluka felt so busy that he didn't even have time to take a breath.

Although his teammates around him are trying their best to support him, this can only help him share a small part of the pressure. Most of the pressure is shouldered by himself.

And what's worse is that when other teammates are forced to focus some of their defensive energy on Joel Luka in order to support him, other positions begin to become empty, which creates opportunities for the Spanish team.

In the 40th minute of the first half, Lin Quan, who took the ball in the middle as usual, did not choose to continue to attack from the middle. Instead, he feinted a shot and left the ball in place while suddenly speeding up and sprinting towards the middle.

His fake moves were so real that Rakitic, who was following him closely, didn't even realize that the person he was following didn't have the ball at his feet.

Taking advantage of the space created by Lin Quan taking away the defensive players, Busquets, who followed up, calmly moved the ball to the right wing.

This side is already empty, with a large amount of space for activities.

After the Croatian players realized that this was an attempt by the opponent, they immediately began to move to the right, trying to fill the space on the right.

But it was obviously too late to go back to defense at this time.

David Silva received the ball smoothly on the right side. He did not dribble the ball down, but cut inside into the penalty area.

At this time, the Croatian team's full-back belatedly appeared in front of him, but David Silva immediately moved the ball laterally, cleared the space and swung his leg to prepare for a shot.

Upon seeing this, the opponent's left back and center back all rushed to block, but this was just a fake move.

David Silva changed the shot to a pass and distributed the ball to the wing near the baseline. Spain's right back Carvajal had already assisted, and after receiving the ball, he immediately knocked in front of the goal.

Diego Costa defeated the newly debuted Joel Luca in a one-on-one, fought his way out of the opponent's two central defenders, and sent the ball into the goal with a sliding tackle.

The score became 2:0, and the Spanish team further expanded its lead!

The ball was played very suddenly. Before the Croatian team could react, the opponent scored.

Conceding another goal was a huge blow to their morale, and the Croatian players on the field were visibly frustrated.

The number of goals conceded in the first half was more than they expected, and this was despite the opponent missing a penalty kick.

It would take at least 20 more minutes of play in the second half to exhaust the opponent's energy, but within these 20 minutes, they had no way to guarantee that they would not let the opponent continue to score.

Once the opponent really scores another goal, even if the Spanish team has no physical fitness, it will be too difficult to pull three goals in a row at the last moment.

Let alone pulling three goals in a row, even pulling two goals in a row is very difficult for the Croatian team.

This Croatian team has a high fighting spirit and a lot of hard work, which greatly improves their defense and makes it difficult for opponents to break their goal.

But offense is different from defense. Offense tests the players' creativity and talent more. Fighting spirit and hard work are helpful for offense, but if they can't do it, they will definitely score goals.

This can be seen from Croatia's last game against Russia. The opponent's defensive intensity was very high and did not leave many opportunities for Croatia.

In this game, the Spanish team's defensive intensity is stronger than that of the Russian team. It is really difficult to score two goals against such an opponent.

Joel Luca, who failed to guard Diego Costa, blames himself very much. He has a lot of responsibility for conceding the ball.

Another central defender, Domagoi, also blamed himself. If he hadn't run to block David Silva, Diego Costa might not have had a chance to shoot under the joint suppression of him and his partner.

Diego Costa, who scored the goal, didn't care about this. He was extremely happy to score again in the World Cup.

Since leaving Chelsea and returning to Atletico Madrid, his performance has not been as good as before.

Nowadays, it is difficult for him to compete with top forwards such as Suarez and Lewandowski.

Many people even doubted that he still had some of his original strength after the serious injury.

So this World Cup is a battle for his reputation.

If he performs well, then all doubts from the outside world will naturally disappear.

But if he fails to perform to everyone's satisfaction in the World Cup, then those doubts will get out of control and eventually drown him out.

By then, I'm afraid even Atletico Madrid won't be able to accommodate him.

The fans in the stands applauded Diego Costa very respectfully, and the applause was quite warm.

Of course, if it was Lin Quan who scored the goal, it might be more exciting.

After all, even fans have preferences for different players!

If 20 minutes ago, the team was unable to score a goal, Del Bosque would still be worried.

So now, with the two goals scored, his mood suddenly relaxed a lot.

"The opponent's morale is already on the verge of collapse. If we can score another goal at this time, I'm afraid we can directly defeat the opponent. In that case, the second half will be much easier!"

Bosque observed the opponent's state and thought firmly in his heart.

"It's a pity that there isn't much time left in the first half."

The main referee on the side came over to pour cold water. Del Bosque glanced at the time. When the Spanish team ended their goal celebration, the game time had reached the 43rd minute of the first half.

Counting the injury time in the first half, I'm afraid it won't be more than 4 minutes until the end of the half.

It is really difficult to use these four minutes to continue scoring goals.

"It doesn't matter if you can't score, there's still time in the second half!"

Although he said that, the coach had already begun to think about the defensive issues in the second half.

There is no doubt that the opponent planned to take advantage of the weakness of the Spanish team, which has many old players and their physical fitness cannot last too long, and launched a counterattack after the Spanish team's physical fitness declined in the second half.

Their calculation was pretty good, but they failed to realize that the Spanish team scored two goals in the first half.

In this way, Spain will have sufficient guarantees in the second half.

If that doesn't work, he still has three substitutions in his hand, and he can completely replace the veteran who is not physically fit, and then delay the opponent's counterattack time and disrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm.

As an experienced coach, this method comes easily to him.

Del Bosque was thinking about how to defend in the second half, but the Croatian coach not far away was thinking about how to use the end of the first half to launch an attack.

He didn't want to go into the second half with a 0:2 deficit. That would be too difficult and the players would doubt whether they could achieve their goals.

But if they can win back a victory and reduce the opponent's lead, then there will be no such doubts in the players' minds.

Therefore, after the restart, the Croatian team went against the norm and no longer retreated to defend, but boldly pressed forward and launched a fierce attack on the Spanish team.

This is actually a bit risky, because at this time the Spanish team's physical fitness does not have any problems, and they can easily be counterattacked by Spain when they press hard.

But opportunities and dangers coexist, and high risks naturally lead to high rewards.

In addition, there is not much time left in the first half. As long as Croatia is careful, the opponent will not have time and opportunity to launch a threatening counterattack.

The Croatian's uncharacteristically aggressive press was indeed somewhat beyond the Spanish team's expectations, and they were caught off guard.

In the 45th minute, Modric sent a crucial through ball in the frontcourt.

Mandzukic carried Ramos on the penalty area line and passed the ball back to the attacking midfielder Kramaric who followed up in the middle.

The latter took a shot without stopping the ball. The shot was sudden and tricky.

De Gea failed to react in time and made the save half a beat too late.

Seeing that the ball was about to fly into the Spanish goal, Kramaric who shot the shot and the Croatian fans in the stands had raised their hands and were preparing to cheer and celebrate.

As a result, a loud bang was heard, and the football hit the inside of the post and bounced out.

Pique had quick eyesight and quick hands, and he used his big foot to clear the ball!

Leaving the Croat disheveled in the wind!

This goal... actually... didn't go in! !

Is even God on Spain's side?

If it hits the outside of the pillar, it will pop out, but if it hits the inside of the pillar, it will also pop out. This is really unacceptable.

Suffering this blow, the morale of the Croatian team, which was already low, really collapsed at this time.

"Attack, attack quickly, the game is not over yet!"

On the sidelines, Del Bosque jumped up from the coaching bench and shouted after seeing the trajectory of Pique's big-footed clearance in the air.

It’s no wonder he was so excited, it was Pique’s ‘rescue’ that was really good!

I don’t know whether Pique did it intentionally or accidentally, but in short, this clearance turned into a wonderful pass.

The opponent's half was wide open for a run, and except for a goalkeeper who was very high up, there was no one else!

On the Spanish side, a figure is sprinting rapidly, competing against the opponent's goalkeeper in a life-or-death race!

In the end, the player in red clothes defeated the goalkeeper in green clothes, and before the goalkeeper could destroy the ball, he lobbed the ball towards the goal with his big foot.

Subasic looked up desperately at the flying football, as if paying attention to it.

This is a super long lob from a distance of more than 40 meters!

The football drew a beautiful parabola in the air, and accurately fell into the net under the desperate gazes of the opponent's goalkeeper and tens of thousands of Croatian fans!

The ball went in!

The score became 3:0!

Lin Quan killed the game with a super long-range lob! (End of chapter)