Chapter 532 Spain defeated Italy by 30 points and advanced to the quarterfinals!

Since Lin Quan and Busquets communicated in Spanish, the other party only felt that there was something wrong with the way Busquets looked at him, and he didn't know what was said between the two.

This soon caused him to suffer a great 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 move closer to support.

Lin Quan passed the ball to him, intending to perform a two-on-one pass with him.

Busquets has a high football IQ and once made a famous scene with Messi such as the assist of the century.

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 see it. He also stopped the ball on his own initiative, as if he was observing which teammate to pass the ball to.

How could Damian miss such a good opportunity? When he saw the chance to steal the ball, he kicked without hesitation.

This was what Busquets was waiting for. When the opponent stretched out his leg, he protected the ball while leaning his body towards the opponent, and at the same time secretly hit Damian with his elbow.

Damian was knocked out of breath and broke out in a cold sweat due to the pain. He almost lost his balance. When he was pulling his feet back, he accidentally stepped on something and almost fell down.

He was furious and was about to explode when he saw Busquets holding his feet and spinning on the ground, screaming heartbreakingly.

For a moment, Damian was stunned.

What's going on?

Didn’t he just foul me?

How come he was the one who got hurt? Could it be that I stepped on his foot just now? But I didn't seem to use much strength?

Damian was now completely confused and had no idea what was going on.

The two were too close, and the referee couldn't see clearly what happened when they were in physical contact. He only saw Damian standing there fine, while Busquets was pale and howling in pain.

So his first impression was that Damian had committed a vicious foul on Busquets! Beep! A high-pitched short whistle sounded, and the referee walked towards Damian with a stern face. Under the attention of everyone, he showed a yellow card to the Italian player who had just come on as a substitute.

Damian then reacted and quickly complained to the referee, indicating that Busquets was acting and he did not kick him at all.

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

So it is not excessive to give the opponent a yellow card!

Although Busquets was screaming on the ground, he was actually secretly paying attention to the referee's decision.

When he saw the referee show Damian a yellow card, he was immediately delighted.

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

My acting skills are at the level of an Oscar winner!

After getting the result he wanted, Busquets did not linger on the ground, but stood up quickly. At first, he pretended to limp a few times, but when his teammate passed the ball to his feet, his "injury" seemed to heal instantly, and he immediately became full of energy.

When Damian saw this, he was so angry that his lungs exploded.

This guy is playing me!

Even a fool would understand that he was being fooled by the other party.

So, the frustrated Damian seemed to have forgotten the coach's instructions. Instead of staring at Lin Quan, he started to compete with Busquets.

Conte was on the sidelines and saw that Damian was getting carried away and completely forgot his duties. He was so angry that he wanted to rush up and give the boy a beating!

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

Italy replaced Florence to weaken its offensive strength, and replaced him with Damian, but failed to completely lock down Lin Quan's offensive threat as they wished, which gradually changed the situation on the field.

After withstanding this wave of fierce attacks from Italy, Spain began to gradually adapt to the opponent's style of play and its own performance began to improve.

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

Seeing this, Bosque made a decisive substitution.

He replaced Fabregas with Pedro.

This is a signal to strengthen the attack! After Pedro came on the court, Lin Quan's position retreated a little and became a role similar to that of a shadow striker.

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

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

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

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

Seeing that the opponent had heavily deployed troops on the wing and the defense in the middle seemed a little loose, Lin Quan quickly changed the offensive line.

In the 74th minute, Lin Quan suddenly moved forward with the ball, dribbled past the opponent's defender in the flank area, and then made a straight pass into the penalty area.

Morata made a dashing run, and after receiving the ball he shot directly without adjusting, sending the ball into the Italian goal again.

It's a pity that the ball was offside and the goal was called off, and Morata was happy for nothing.

However, Italy did not seem to realize that there was a loophole in their central defense, which gave Spain the opportunity to replicate such an attack.

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

After that, the two teams attacked and defended each other. As the game time passed, the score on the field remained unchanged.

Italy made a series of substitutions, replacing Eder with Insigne, De Sciglio with El Shaarawy.

This is a life-and-death struggle!

Seeing that the opponent was ready to fight to the death, Spain immediately changed its strategy.

Under Lin Quan's leadership, they began to slow down the pace of the game. After getting the ball, they were not in a hurry to launch an attack, but instead passed the ball back more often in their own half.

In the 82nd minute, Lin Quan slowly passed the ball back and forth with Iniesta in the midfield, as if he wanted to use up the remaining time in this way.

The two of them were retreating while kicking the ball, and were almost level with their own back line.

There were bursts of boos from the stands. Italian fans were very dissatisfied with the Spaniards' shameless behavior and were protesting with boos.

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

If left alone, they had no doubt that the Spaniards would continue passing the ball like this until the end of the game.

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

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

Iniesta understood what he meant and when he passed the ball to Lin Quan again, he increased the force a little.

At this time, the Italian players had already rushed to Lin Quan. Seeing that they dared to use the same trick again, they naturally tried to grab Lin Quan without any hesitation.

However, what was unexpected was that after seeing the football rolling towards him, Lin Quan did not catch the ball, but instead feinted and passed the ball to David Silva on the wing.

Oh no, I fell into a trap!

When the Italian players saw Silva receiving the ball, they felt something was wrong. They retreated at full speed and sent people to block David Silva's passing route.

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David Silva passed the ball immediately without waiting for the opponent to get close.

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

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

Lin Quan just took advantage of David Silva's cover and there were no defensive players nearby, so he was temporarily unguarded.

Lin Quan looked so scary when he was being guarded by someone. If no one was guarding him, he would have poked a hole in the sky!

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

Lin Quan was still far away from the goal at this time. With the goalkeeper fully prepared, it was impossible for him to score by shooting directly from here.

So he chose to pass the ball, but the ball was not passed to Morata who was trapped in the offside trap, but was transferred to the wing and found the Spanish left winger Pedro.

Pedro, also known as Sabre, is the fastest winger in Spain's current lineup!

When Pedro received Lin Quan's pass, there were almost no defensive players in the area where he was, which gave him space to run wild!

What he had to do was to speed up and speed up again! Buffon saw Lin Quan transfer the ball to the other side and immediately realized the danger.

He immediately began to adjust his position, preparing to save and attack.

The Italian players tried hard to defend, but Sabres were too fast.

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

Buffon was highly focused. While attacking, he stretched out his arms as much as possible to block larger angles and reduce the opponent's hit rate.

Pedro's mind was also very calm. He knew Buffon's ability to save shots, so he did not hesitate and completed the shot before the opponent could block him.

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

This made it very difficult for him to save the ball as his body weight was on the left side.

But Buffon calmly judged the opponent's shooting line, and after realizing that it was a rolling ball, he took advantage of the opportunity of his center of gravity falling, quickly stretched out his right leg, and blocked the trajectory of the ball.

Almost at the moment Buffon stretched his leg, the football hit his leg, changed direction slightly, and slipped through the goal.

Buffon made a crucial save and prevented his team from falling into the abyss! Spain once again missed a great opportunity and failed to change the score and completely secure the victory.

However, good luck will not always favor someone!

A minute later, Spain took a corner kick. Lin Quan made a gesture to kick the ball to the back point, but passed the ball to the front point.

After seeing Lin Quan's gesture, Morata rushed back immediately, diverting the attention of the Italian players, allowing Ramos, who was lurking in the penalty area, to rush out first and complete a header at the front point.

Buffon had actually guessed that the opponent might take the penalty kick forward and had adjusted his position in advance.

But the quality of Ramos' header was so high that his head hit the ball almost like a sledgehammer.

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 goal in the 84th minute, completely securing the victory.

After scoring the header, Ramos excitedly took off his jersey, waved it and rushed to the corner area, giving Lin Quan a bear hug who was standing in the corner area.

Lin Quan pointed at Morata, indicating that the goal was his contribution.

If Morata had not interfered with the opponent's vision and made the Italian players focus 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 should be credited with the main contribution for this goal.

Morata looked a little depressed. He played diligently and very hard in this game, but unfortunately he failed to score a goal. The only goal he scored was blown off for 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 more chances to score goals in the future, and you will be indispensable!"

As if he had guessed what Morata was thinking, Lin Quan smiled and comforted him with a few words.

"Really? Brother Lin, you are not fooling me, right?"

"Why would I fool you? Just tell me whether I passed the ball to you in this game or not?"

Morata chuckled. Lin Quan passed the ball to him quite a few times in this game, but it was a pity that he failed to seize the opportunity.

Morata completed a total of 5 shots in this game, but failed to score a goal. The main reason was not only his own poor performance, but also that the opponent's goalkeeper was too strong. If the goalkeeper was replaced by someone else in this game, Morata felt that he could have scored at least one goal.

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

In the end, in this last championship match, Spain defeated Italy 3:0 and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals! Italy once again fell at the feet of Spain, and the fear of Spain continues!

(End of this chapter)