The Day I Played with Ronaldo

In response to Deco's retreat, Pereira quickly made adjustments. He asked Kaka and Ronaldinho to press Deco.

When Deco advances, let Emerson go to mark.

This adjustment quickly took effect, and Deco could no longer play the ball as he wanted, making Portugal's offense even more difficult.

In the 15th minute, Kaka and Ronaldinho went up together. Deco was not prepared enough, and when he wanted to pull the ball away from the spot, Kaka successfully pulled out the ball.

Kaka immediately passed the ball to the left. Roberto Carlos cut in at high speed, passed the ball to overtake Miguel, and made a low pass to the goal. Ricardo took the lead, but Mela and Maniche entangled him tightly, preventing him from having the space to stop the ball comfortably and shoot.

When the football was in front of her, Ricardo made a gesture to shoot, Meera immediately fell to the ground with a shovel, but instead of aiming at Ricardo's legs, she planned to block Ricardo's shot.

But Ricardo's foot did not touch the ball. Instead, the football rolled between his legs.

Mela and Maniche turned pale with fright, but Adriano in the middle was refreshed, kept up with pushing Carvalho away with his body, and pushed the far corner with his left foot.

Ricciardo reacted but couldn't save the team, his fingertips were still a clear distance from the ball, the ball was so close to goal, it would have been remarkable for him to react.

"Adriano's goal!!! Simple cooperation from the Brazilian team! Roberto Carlos made a cross, Ricardo made a clever miss, Adriano kept up with the push and scored the first goal for the Brazilian team!"

"This goal seemed so easy, the Brazilian team hadn't exerted any strength at all, and took the lead with ease!"

After scoring the goal, Adriano looked very excited. He jumped on Ricardo's back and waved his fists, as if proudly announcing: "I am Ronaldo's successor! I can score goals!"

On the sidelines, the expression on Pereira's face relaxed. It's stable now. He has studied Portugal's games and is very familiar with Portugal's style of play. He does not believe that Portugal can win this game.

It is well known that Portugal's ability to grasp opportunities in front of the goal is not strong.

In the ensuing game, Portugal significantly strengthened its offense, while Brazil recovered appropriately.

There were some chances on both sides, but neither was particularly good.

In the 18th minute, Miguel passed back from the right. Figo took the ball and cut in and shot from a long distance, but Dida hugged the ball.

Two minutes later, Ricardo kicked the ball horizontally and made a tricky shot at the top of the arc. Ricardo failed to catch the ball, but the football deviated a little bit and flew out of the baseline by rubbing against the post.

Scolari jumped anxiously on the sidelines, yelling, so that the Portuguese defender could not give Ricardo such an easy kick in front of the goal.

In the 28th minute, Riccardo passed Valente with continuous fake moves on the right side of the penalty area, and made an inverted triangle pass to the edge of the penalty area. Insufficient strength, the Portuguese goalkeeper Ricardo held the ball under his body.

After 1 minute, Portugal played a very high-quality attack. Ronaldo and Figo switched positions. He pulled to the right to break through at high speed, leading Roberto Carlos by one position and then volleyed vigorously at the near post, but his shot slightly off.

In the 35th minute, Brazil played again. After a series of passes, Ronaldinho passed the ball to the front of the penalty area. Ricardo caught up with the football.

Carvalho's reaction was half a beat slow. When he stretched his legs, the ball had already passed him, and he only had time to trip over Riccardo's feet. Ricardo fell to the ground.

The referee Larionda immediately ran over and pointed to the penalty spot!

"Penalty kick! In the 35th minute of the game,

The referee gave Brazil a penalty! "The commentator shouted, "The Portuguese players looked very angry. They thought Carvalho's ball was fouled outside the penalty area, and they were protesting to the referee. The referee exchanged a few words with the line referee, and he upheld the original verdict! "

"Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay. Ricardo took the ball, stepped on the stop and then suddenly dialed the ball to start. Carvalho stretched his leg to intercept...It did trip over Ricardo's foot. The foul was in the penalty area, and the ball did not dispute!"

Ricardo looked calm. It seems that he didn't realize at all that as long as Brazil scored this penalty, it could almost be said that they won the game and entered the final.

For him, reaching the final is just the starting point. If he cannot win the championship, it is meaningless.

In competitive sports, the focus is on competition, not on sports.

If you don't want to win the championship, then go play beach football.

Many years later, when he retires, he will of course play beach football and enjoy the pure joy of football.

But now as a professional player, his natural duty is to lead the team to one championship after another and make the fans happy. Make Ronaldo happy.

Especially this champion, there is no room for loss. He would rather not have the chance to win the World Cup in the future, but also win the championship this year. Because, this is likely to be the last World Cup that Ronaldo participated in.

Ronaldinho takes the penalty. He easily fooled Ricciardo and scored the penalty.

Brazil leads 2:0!

Portugal stepped up their attack again. At this time, conservatism is useless. Only by trying to score a goal in the first half, they still have a faint hope.

In the 36th minute, they organized an attack just after the kick-off, but the Brazilian team's defense was very tight, they failed to find opportunities, and finally Deco ended the attack with a long shot 32 meters from the goal.

One minute later, Portugal made a comeback. Figo lightly swayed Robert Carlos' defense from the right and then made a cross. Ronaldo flew to the top and failed to hit the center.

The Portuguese players immediately protested. They believed that when Ronaldo headed the ball, Cafu made an interfering movement behind him and pulled Ronaldo's jersey. However, the referee Larionda did not award a penalty.

Scolari looked very dissatisfied and kicked a mineral water bottle away.

In the 39th minute, Ronaldo played a good show on the left. He broke through the joint defense of Cafu and Ze Roberto, cut inside the penalty area and then took a low shot with his left foot. This jumped out.

Ronaldo looked very regretful, his handsome face was clouded. This can be said to be Portugal's best chance in the first half.

In the 44th minute, Ronaldo switched positions with Figo again. He used his speed to break through Roberto Carlos and then volleyed with his right foot. The ball was slightly higher.

The first half ended with Brazil leading by two goals.

Back in the locker room, Pereira praised the performance of the players and made some arrangements. In the first half of the game, under the tight marking of the Brazilian team, Pauleta and Deco did nothing, but Figo and Ronaldo were very active. His arrangement was mainly how to contain the two. ...