There is a dream called football

At 8 pm on July 4th, German time, the first semi-final of the German World Cup begins, with Germany and Italy playing against each other.

The game started in Dortmund. Although the Chinese team was eliminated, as one of the top 32 teams, they were still invited to watch the game.

The whole country of Germany attaches great importance to this game. It is related to the four-year wait, whether the Germans can enter the final again, and whether the Germans can return to their capital Berlin to participate in the final competition for the Hercules Cup.

After the game started, the scene was a bit boring, and Lippi and Klinsmann chose conservative tactics.

In fact, for both sides, this is a game they cannot afford to lose.

It goes without saying for Klinsmann, the hosts.

For Lippi, Italian football is currently in a precarious situation, and it is in urgent need of victory to restore domestic fans' confidence in football.

In the first half, both sides played very boringly, with very few shots. Italy's reinforced concrete defense made it difficult for the Germans to find opportunities, and the German team's midfield also played very strongly.

After the boring first half, many commentators even thought that this game would definitely lead to a penalty shootout.

In this way, the German team may have an advantage, because they eliminated Argentina on penalties to advance, while the Italians' previous games were relatively smooth, except for the quarter-finals with Australia, which was a bit difficult.

Li Qiao had seen this game in his previous life. Of course, time has changed and he only remembers Grosso's winning shot, but he has forgotten the process of the game.

But will the result be the same?

Maybe not, maybe the Germans will be in the finals this time.

In the second half, both sides played a lot more proactively and took more and more shots. In the first half, they really suppressed themselves deliberately, but in the second half it was time for the decisive victory, so they had to work harder.

Time passed minute by minute, but the score was still 0-0 until the 85th minute of the game.

The German scored first.

Li Qiao was dumbfounded, he had really changed.

This was Ballack's long shot. Buffon rarely let go, and Asamoah followed up and scored the ball.

1 to 0.

Next to him, Gao Lin said: "It looks like the German team will really make it to the finals."

"It's true that in the World Series, the Germans are really reliable."

"I like that Germany will eventually win the World Cup. Then I can say that we lost to the World Cup champion, and that will be a good thing."

"hehe."

Li Qiao just smiled, maybe history has changed and it will be more interesting.

At this time, there are only 5 minutes of regular time, and with injury time, it may be less than 10 minutes. In this case, the opponent is still Germany, and maybe even the Italians themselves have little confidence.

But when the time came to the 90th minute, Italy got a corner kick opportunity.

Pirlo took a corner kick and the ball came to the center. At this time, Materazzi jumped up and headed the ball toward the goal. Lehmann jumped up and couldn't save it.

The whole audience was stunned, but Italy evened the score at the last moment.

The Chinese team players were also dumbfounded, because Italy's goal was very strange and too domineering. It was obviously the Germans who were careless.

It is estimated that the German players were already thinking about Berlin just now, so they made such a big mistake in marking, and Materazzi, who was so dangerous in the Italian team, did not mark him.

And the ultimate punishment is painful.

"Oops, Germany is going to get worse."

"Haha, weren't you still optimistic about Germany just now?" Li Qiao said with a smile.

"This situation is not going well."

Li Qiao also nodded. This goal was a big blow to the German team. After all, it was the last moment.

In the end, the score was 1-1 until the end, and the semi-final between Germany and Italy went into overtime.

Li Qiao remembered that in his previous life, the two sides fought hard for 120 minutes, but the process was completely different.

This ball looks great!!

Entering overtime, the physical fitness of both sides dropped like a cliff. It was the sixth game in a month, and these players were all players who had experienced a long season, so the physical problem was very clear.

"It looks like both sides are basically going to a penalty shootout."

Let alone Gao Lin and Feng Xiaoting, even those who don't know much about football can tell that the two sides seem to be unable to play.

But in the second half of overtime, Lippi used Italy's last substitution and replaced Perrotta with Del Piero.

Many people interpreted this substitution as preparing for a penalty shootout, because Del Piero is Juventus' number one penalty kicker.

But Lippi probably didn't think so. The old man is full of wisdom, and his substitution shouldn't be that simple.

It was precisely this substitution that did not attract the attention of the German team's coaching staff. Both Loew and Klinsmann ignored this substitution, and a few minutes later, the German team suffered the heaviest punishment.

When Del Piero debuted, he was known as Baggio's heir. The title of Italy's Golden Boy was resounding throughout the Apennines.

Although he did not reach the heights of Baggio, Pierona was one of the best strikers in Italy of that era.

This time Lippi positioned Del Piero as a surprise player, and this time the surprise move really worked.

Zambrotta handed the ball to Del Piero in the penalty area. What position is this? It is commonly known as Del Piero's corridor.

It's just that Del Piero was no longer at his peak at this time, so maybe the Germans really forgot that there was no one to block the Del Piero corridor on the left side of the penalty area.

And Del Piero shot with his right foot when no one was guarding him, just like he scored countless times in Piero's corridor in Serie A.

The ball was drawn along a straight trajectory. The ball drawn by Del Piero in Del Piero's corridor basically had no arc, it was just steady and hard.

Lehmann was out of reach and the ball flew into the goal from the near post.

2 to 1.

The whole place was quiet.

Piero stuck out his tongue, which was his signature celebration gesture. He was as happy as a child at this time.

In the final moments of overtime, Del Piero almost beat the German team.

"I'm going to choke it, Germany is absolutely defeated."

"I was careless just now. I see Piero often scores goals here."

"It's still a matter of physical fitness."

After losing the ball, the German team launched a violent counterattack, but failed to score again. In the end, Italy reversed Germany 2-1 and became the first team to reach the final. Their final opponent will be the winner of France and Portugal.

One day later, at the Allianz Arena in Munich, another semi-final was held as scheduled. This was a more boring semi-final. In the end, France defeated Portugal 1-0 and reached the final.

The processes of the two semi-finals are different, but the expectations for the final have increased. On July 9, Italy and France will hold the final in Berlin, the capital of Germany.

After four years of waiting, the Hercules Cup will find its owner for the next four years, and the Chinese team will also go to watch the final.