Chapter 45 Is this the end of the world?

Trouble!

Bruno frowned.

The game has entered the fifteenth minute of the second half, and the score on the field is still 0:1.

In this game, Portugal drew the home team.

Facing the third favorite with overwhelming offensive power, the Ghanaians told everyone with their actions from the first minute of the game: In this game, they were going to score points.

Facing Ghana, which had set up an iron barrel formation, Portugal didn't have any good ideas for a while.

Especially for Bruno, the Ghana head coach arranged for two players to closely monitor him.

While setting up the iron barrel formation, the Ghana team's quick counterattack was also very sharp.

In the 19th minute of the game, Ghana launched an efficient and quick counterattack. Their midfielder No. 10 Clifford Agboguier and forward Kennedy Ashiya played a beautiful one-two, and finally Ashiya scored the Portuguese goal.

It was the only goal of the first half.

After taking the lead, Ghana once again resumed its defense as a team, looking like it would defend the 1:0 score until the end of time.

Portugal made two substitutions at the beginning of the second half. Ricardo Alves replaced Ricardo Pereira and Esgao replaced Agostino Cha. Portugal changed from 442 to 433. , continue to strengthen the offense.

Portugal's change of formation had some effect, and they suppressed Ghana even more on the court.

However, the Ghana team responded quickly, first replacing Moses Oji with the extremely fast midfielder Michael Anaba, and then replacing the playmaker 10 with the strong defensive Alfred Duncan. No. Clifford Aboguier.

Now, the Ghana team's attitude of wanting to hold on to the end is even more obvious.

If you dare to attack forcefully, I will defend to the end, and then I will hit you to counterattack when I get the chance.It doesn’t matter if you don’t succeed. If you succeed, you will earn it!

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"Portugal is in trouble. Facing Ghana, which is fully defensive, they don't have much to do." The Portuguese commentator said, "Not only that, Portugal's luck today is really bad."

Yes, Portugal's luck today is really not very good.

In the 33rd minute of the first half, Bruno's shot was blocked by the post.

Not long after the start of the second half, Bruno attracted the attention of the Ghanaian players with his skillful ball control skills, and then suddenly sent an overhead kick. Bruma successfully entered the penalty area against offside. Facing the attacking goalkeeper, Bruma drew. Shot into the far corner and the goal was denied by the post again.

Two must-goals for our side were denied by the goal frame. Bruno was so angry that he stamped his feet on the court.

This was the 65th minute of the game. Portugal got a corner kick opportunity. Bruno took the corner kick. Aladeji headed the goal, and the football hit the crossbar hard.

"This is the third time! Portugal's goal was blocked by the goal frame again. It seems that the goddess of luck is not on their side today." The Portuguese commentator said regretfully.

"We had such bad luck today." Joao Mario also said in annoyance. Then he saw Bruno's anxious look and said with relief, "Even a draw is acceptable. The coach arranged a penalty kick before the game. We are prepared for the war."

Bruno shook his head. Overtime was not what he wanted, and a penalty shootout was not what he wanted.

Although Bruno was once known for being good at taking penalty kicks, and he once scored 21 consecutive penalty kicks, he was absolutely unwilling to drag the game into a penalty shootout whenever possible.

Bruno gritted his teeth, bad luck, right? Then keep creating opportunities. He didn't believe that Portuguese players would be rejected by the goalpost today!

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Bruno continued to organize Portugal to attack Ghana's goal, and the game time quickly passed 70 minutes.

<divclass="contentadv">At this moment, Bruno sent a cross pass, and Esgao's long shot was blocked by the opponent's defender with his body.

The Portuguese center back Thiago Ferreira, who came in from behind, took the ball in the frontcourt. Just as he was about to look up to observe the situation in front, he saw two Ghanaian players coming to press. They planned to steal the ball and take advantage of Portugal's big move. Use the opportunity to counterattack.

Thiago Ferreira's foot skills are not his strong point. Faced with a double team, he became a little anxious. He quickly picked up his right foot before the two people surrounded him and kicked the ball forward hard.

The ball flew up from the heads of the two defenders, then drew a strange and elegant arc and flew towards the goal.

Ghana's goalkeeper Eric Antwi didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when he realized that the flight path of the football was a bit strange and it was flying towards the upper left corner of the goal, he immediately became anxious and jumped sideways. , a very standard saving action, but he only touched a piece of air. The football was like a guided missile, passing over his right hand, hitting the upper left corner of the goal, and rolling up the net high!

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The Portuguese commentator was stunned. He stood up and shouted at the top of his lungs: "golo!!!!!!!!"

"Portuguese center back Thiago Ferreira scored a shocking long-range shot! A long-range shot from 40 meters away from the goal! The football was like a visitor from outside, directly passing through Ghana's entire defense line and hitting an absolute blind spot! "

"Amazing world wave! Amazing Ferreira! 1:1! Portugal finally equalized the score after being rejected by the goal frame three times!"

"This goal... is incredible!"

"Wonderful! Perfect long shot!" Joao Mario jumped up, hugged Bruno directly, shook him, and shouted in his ear, "We scored! We scored! It's incredible! It's really It’s unimaginable that Thiago has such a unique skill!”

Bruno was shaken by his teammates like a beautiful olive tree swaying in the wind. His eyes widened, and his mouth opened so wide that he could stuff a goose egg: He didn't get in just now, and now he is so far away. Just entered?

The so-called success is nothing more than this, right?

Ferreira was running to celebrate the goal. He didn't even take two steps before he was pulled to the ground by his excited teammates, who then pushed him up.

In the stands of the Al-Qadir Stadium, the area where the Portuguese fans were was already a sea of cheers and excitement.

Bruno finally shook off the Joao Mario guy and rushed into the celebrating Portuguese players.

"A wonderful goal!" the Portuguese commentator exclaimed. "The goal frame of the Kadir Stadium rejected Portugal's goal three times, but they finally scored, and it was such a wonderful world wave! This is strength Compared to the conservative Ghana team, Portugal needs to be more proactive and they deserve such a wonderful goal!"

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The head coach of the Ghana team was completely dumbfounded. The goalpost had rejected Portugal's goals three times before. He was very lucky and happy. Goddess of luck seemed to be favoring them today.

However, the Portuguese center back's incredible goal made him dumbfounded.

The head coach of the Ghana team and his assistant looked at each other with big eyes.

"I bet that guy can't score such a beautiful goal even if he plays another hundred times!" the assistant coach of the Ghana team said with a frustrated expression.

The Ghana coach was so angry that he wanted to curse.

This goal was a huge blow to the morale of the Ghanaian team. Although Portugal only equalized the score, with the occurrence of this goal, the mentality of both sides was completely different.

With the offensive ability shown by Portugal in the group stage, when their morale is high, it is really difficult for Ghana to stop their offensive.

Sure enough, after the game restarted, the Ghana team was in some confusion. Some Ghanaian players wanted to attack in order to exceed the score again; some Ghanaian players wanted to continue to defend and stabilize their position first. The head coach of the Ghana team was hesitant and didn't know what to do.

This brief chaos was seized by Bruno. Two minutes later, Bruno assisted full-back Edgar Aye to score another goal, leading the score to 2:1!