Chapter 532 Spain Defeated Italy in 30 Games and Advanced to the Quarterfinals!

Since the communication between Lin Quan and Busquets was in Spanish, the other party only felt that the way Busquets looked at him was strange, and he had no idea what was said between the two.

And this soon caused him to suffer a big loss.

Busquets is a veteran. After observing Damian's defensive habits for a while, he quickly found a way to deal with him.

In the 71st minute of the second half, Spain counterattacked. After Lin Quan received the ball, Busquets took the initiative to get closer.

Lin Quan passed the ball to him, intending to have a one-on-one match with him.

Busquets has a high football IQ, and he once played famous scenes such as assists of the century with Messi.

The Italian side naturally did not dare to ignore his threat. Damian was closest to Busquets, so he rushed towards Busquets without even thinking about it.

Busquets had already noticed his action, but pretended not to notice it and took the initiative to stop the ball, as if he was observing which teammate he was going to pass the ball to.

How could Damian miss such a good opportunity? After seeing the opportunity to steal, he stretched out his foot without hesitation.

This is what Busquets was waiting for. When the opponent stretched out his feet, he made a move to protect the ball while leaning towards the opponent. At the same time, he bumped Damian with his elbow very covertly.

Damian was knocked out of breath, sweating from the pain, and almost lost his balance. When he was retracting his feet, he accidentally stepped on something and almost fell down.

He was furious and was about to explode, but he saw Busquez holding his feet and spinning on the ground, letting out heart-rending screams while spinning.

For a moment, Damian was confused.

what happened?

Didn't he foul me just now?

Why was he the one who got hurt?

Could it be that I just stepped on his foot?

But I don’t seem to have put much effort into it?

Damian was confused now and couldn't figure out the situation at all.

The two were so close that the referee couldn't see clearly what happened when the two were in physical contact. He could only see Damian standing there perfectly fine, while Busquets was pale in pain and howling like a ghost.

So the first impression in his mind was that Damian committed a vicious foul on Busquets!

Beep!

A high-pitched short whistle sounded. The referee walked towards Damian with a livid face and a serious expression. In front of everyone's attention, he showed a yellow card to the Italian player who had just come on as a substitute.

Only then did Damian react and quickly complained to the referee, indicating that Busquets was acting and that he had not kicked him at all.

The referee ignored Damian's appeal and protest. Although he did not see Busquets elbowing Damian, he did see Damian stepping on Busquets' instep.

So giving the opponent a yellow card is not excessive at all!

Although Busquets was crying and howling on the ground, he had actually been secretly paying attention to the referee's decision.

After seeing the referee show Damian a yellow card, he suddenly felt happy.

Life is like a play, it all depends on acting!

Our acting skills are simply Oscar-winning actor level!

After getting the result he wanted, Busquets did not dawdle on the ground and quickly stood up. At first, he pretended to limp a few times. However, when his teammate's ball passed to his feet, His 'injury' seemed to heal instantly, and he immediately became lively and energetic.

When Damian saw this situation, his lungs exploded with anger.

This guy is playing me!

Even if he is a fool, he understands that he has been tricked by the other party.

As a result, the furious Damian seemed to have forgotten the coach's instructions to him, and instead of staring at Lin Quan, he started to compete with Busquets.

Conte saw on the sidelines that this boy Damian had gotten into trouble and completely forgot his responsibilities. He was so angry that he wanted to rush up and give this boy a stick!

Damian has an obvious weakness - poor tactical execution ability. This weakness is an important reason why he failed to go further and even gradually lost his main position in Manchester United.

Italy replaced Florenzi, which weakened its offensive strength, and replaced Damian, but failed to completely block Lin Quan's offensive threat as expected. This gradually began to change the situation on the field.

After withstanding this wave of Italian attacks, Spain began to gradually adapt to the opponent's style of play, and its own performance began to pick up.

The intuitive reflection of this is that Spain's offensive threat has also begun to greatly increase.

Seeing this, Del Bosque made decisive substitutions.

He replaced Cesc Fabregas and replaced him with Pedro.

This is a signal to step up the attack!

After Pedro came on the field, Lin Quan's position retreated a little and became a role similar to a shadow forward.

The advantage of not being at the front is that Lin Quan faces less defensive pressure. He can more calmly use his organizational skills to sort out Spain's offensive system, and then decide whether to lead the offense himself or assist based on the situation on the field. Teammates, let teammates complete the offense.

Lin Quan did not shoulder all the offensive tasks, but chose to cooperate with his teammates to help them score goals.

Using Pedro as a new force, the Spanish team played several beautiful wing coordinations in just a few minutes.

Although no goal was scored in the end, it put huge defensive pressure on Italy, forcing them to deploy their troops and focus on defending Spain's attack on the wing.

After seeing that the opponent was hoarding heavy troops on the wing and the defense in the middle seemed a little loose, Lin Quan quickly changed the offensive line of defense.

In the 74th minute, Lin Quan dribbled the ball forward suddenly. After passing the opponent's defensive player in the rib area, he sent the ball into the penalty area with a through ball.

Morata made a coquettish move and shot directly without adjusting after receiving the ball, sending the ball into the Italian goal again.

Unfortunately, the ball was offside and the goal was disallowed. Morata was overjoyed.

However, the Italian side did not seem to realize that there were loopholes in their defense in the middle, which gave the Spanish team the opportunity to replicate such an attack again.

In the 76th minute, almost in the same position as before, Lin Quan once again sent the ball into the penalty area. Morata was not offside this time. Unfortunately, Buffon predicted the opponent's intention in advance and struck early to confiscate the ball. .

After that, the two teams exchanged offense and defense. The game time passed little by little, but the score on the field remained unchanged.

The Italian side made successive substitution adjustments, replacing Eder, replacing Insine, replacing De Sciglio, and replacing Shaarawy.

This is a life-threatening situation!

Seeing the other side putting on a desperate posture, Spain also immediately changed its strategy.

Under Lin Quan's leadership, they began to slow down the pace of the game. After getting the ball, they did not rush to attack, but instead made more inversions in their own half.

In the 82nd minute, Lin Quan slowly moved back and forth between the midfielder and Iniesta, as if he wanted to consume all the remaining time in this way.

The two of them fell back and retreated, almost to the level of their own back line.

There were bursts of boos in the stands. The Italian fans were very dissatisfied with the Spaniard's shameless behavior and were booing in protest.

The Italian players couldn't stand it anymore. It was difficult to grab the ball at the feet of these two people, but they had to grab it no matter how hard it was.

If they ignore it, they have no doubt that the Spaniard will keep falling like this until the end of the game.

As a result, their formation pressed forward further and pressed the Spanish players even more crazily in the frontcourt.

Seeing this, Lin Quan pointed to the side when passing the ball to Iniesta.

Iniesta understood it and when he passed the ball to Lin Quan again, his strength increased a bit.

At this time, the Italian players had already rushed in front of Lin Quan. Seeing that they dared to repeat their same tricks, they naturally went to grab Lin Quan without hesitation.

However, what is unexpected is that after Lin Quan saw the football rolling toward him, he did not catch the ball. Instead, he feinted and gave the ball to David Silva on the wing.

Oops, I fell into a trap!

The Italian players felt bad when they saw Silva catching the ball. They retreated at full speed and sent people to block David Silva's passing line.

David Silva didn't wait for the opponent to get closer and passed the ball out immediately.

The target of this pass was not the forward center Morata, but Lin Quan who came in from the ribs.

After the opponent's formation pressed forward, there were not many defensive players left in the midfield and backfield.

Lin Quan had just used David Silva's cover, and there were no defensive players nearby, so he was temporarily unmarked.

Lin Quan was so scary when someone was watching him. If no one was guarding him, he wouldn't have punched a hole in the sky!

Thinking of this terrible consequence, almost all the nearby Italian players subconsciously rushed towards Lin Quan.

Lin Quan is still far away from the goal at this time. If the goalkeeper is well prepared, it is impossible to score directly from here.

So he chose to pass the ball, but the ball was not passed to Morata who was trapped in an offside trap, but moved to the wing in a wide range and found Spain's left winger Pedro.

Pedro, also known as Saber, is the fastest wide player in Spain's current lineup!

When receiving Lin Quan's pass, there was almost no defensive player in the area where Pedro was, which gave him room to gallop!

And all he has to do is accelerate and accelerate again!

Buffon saw Lin Quan move the ball to the other side and immediately realized the danger.

He immediately began to adjust his position and prepare to save and attack.

The Italian players worked hard to defend, but the Sabers were too fast.

Before most of the Italian players returned to defend, Pedro had already dribbled the ball into the penalty area and was ready to shoot.

Buffon's concentration is highly concentrated. While attacking, he spreads his arms as much as possible to block wider angles and reduce the opponent's hit rate.

Pedro was also very calm-minded. He knew Buffon's ability to save, so he did not hesitate and completed the shot before the opponent blocked him.

To Buffon's surprise, the ball did not go to the far corner, but hit the near corner.

This makes it very difficult for him to save with his body weight on the left side.

But Buffon calmly judged the opponent's shooting route, and after realizing that it was a ground ball, he took advantage of the opportunity of his falling center of gravity to quickly stretch out his right leg and block the path of the ball.

Almost at the moment Buffon stretched his leg, the football hit his leg, changed direction slightly, and slid past.

Buffon made an extremely crucial save and did not let his team fall into the abyss!

Spain once again missed an excellent opportunity and failed to rewrite the score and completely seal the victory.

However, good luck will not always favor someone!

One minute later, Spain's corner kick was taken. Lin Quan made a penalty gesture to point back, but passed the ball to the front point.

After Morata saw Lin Quan's gesture, he rushed back immediately, taking away the sight of the Italian players, allowing Ramos who was ambushing in the penalty area to rush out first and complete the header attack from the front point. Door.

Buffon had actually guessed that the opponent might point the penalty forward, and had already adjusted his position in advance.

But the quality of Ramos's header was too high. His head almost hit the ball hard like a heavy hammer.

The football flew towards the Italian goal at an extremely fast speed. At such a close distance, Buffon had no time to react before he heard the sound of the ball entering the net.

3:0!

Spain scored another victory in the 84th minute and completely sealed the victory.

After Ramos scored the header, he excitedly took off his jersey, rushed to the corner waving his jersey, and gave Lin Quan, who was standing in the corner, a bear hug.

Lin Quan pointed at Morata, indicating that he was responsible for the goal.

If Morata hadn't interfered with the opponent's line of sight and focused the attention of the Italian players on the back point, with Italy's height advantage, it would have been almost impossible for Ramos to get such a header opportunity.

Therefore, Morata deserves the first credit for this goal.

Morata's expression was a little depressed. He was conscientious and played very hard in this game, but unfortunately he failed to score. The only goal he scored was called offside.

This broke his two-game scoring streak, and he is likely to fall off the scorer list and be overtaken by others.

"Don't worry, there will be opportunities to score goals in the future, and it will be yours!"

As if he guessed what Morata was thinking, Lin Quan smiled and comforted him.

"Really? Brother Lin, are you trying to fool me?"

"Why are you fooling me? Just tell me whether I passed the ball to you in this game, right?"

Morata smiled. Lin Quan passed the ball to him a lot in this game, but it was a pity that he failed to seize the opportunity.

In this game, Morata completed a total of 5 shots. In addition to his own poor performance, the main reason why he failed to score a goal was because the opponent's goalkeeper was too strong. If the goalkeeper was replaced by someone else in this game, Morata would I feel like I can score a goal.

Ramos' goal completely shattered the confidence of the Italian players and made them realize that their team's situation was over.

In the end, in this last championship and runner-up battle, Spain defeated Italy 3:0 and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals!

And Italy once again fell at the feet of Spain, and Hispanophobia continues!