Vitinha returned to Fröttmaning. The Karajan of contemporary football, the man who last Saturday raised the Champions in the field of Munich’s outskirts, returned three days later to step on the same grass in the semifinal that he faced his country against Germany. He entered the second half, with 1-0 against, and in Tandem with Bernardo Silva and Conceição led Germany to the clearance. Nagelsmann’s team did not lose since he fell against Spain in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Eurocup. Yesterday his streak was over without anyone seeing strange. It had not been imposed on Germany for 40 years.
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Marc-André Ter Stegen, Waldemar Anton (Felix Nmecha, Min. 70), Jonathan Tah, Robin Koch, Leon Goretzka, Maximilian Mittelstädt (Robin Gosens, Min. 59), Aleksandar Pavlovic (Karim Adeyemi, Min. 70), Joshua Kimmich, Leroy Sané (Serge Gnabry, Min. Florian Wirtz y Nick Woltemade (Niclas Füllkrug, min. 60)
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Diogo Costa, Gonçalo Inácio, Nuno Mendes, João Neves (Nelson Semedo, Min. 57), Rúben Dias, Bernardo Silva, Rúben Neves (Vitinha, Min. 57), Bruno Fernandes, Trincão (Francisco Conceição, Min. 57), Cristiano Ronaldo (João Palhinha, Min. 89) Y Pedro Neto (Diogo Jota, 82)
Goals
1-0 min. 47: Florian Wirtz. 1-1 min. 62: Francisco Conceição. 1-2 min. 67: Cristiano
Referee Slavko Vincic
Yellow cards
Ruben Neves (min. 51), Martínez (min. 51), Jonathan Tah (min. 79), Rúben Dias (min. 83), Füllkrug (min. 83), Florian Wirtz (min. 83)
Drift is natural. Portugal is the richest country in the world in football talent per square kilometer. Together with Spain, there are no selections with more brilliant players for the inner game. However, the coach prefers to be cautious. Against Germany, the Spanish organized his team to wait before pressing, he let Germany deploy until the mediocampo line passes, and arranged everything to recover near his goal and take advantage of the spaces given to the rival. All against the nature of his most creative men to favor Cristiano’s careers, at whose service he aligned at two ends that passed the first part hanging centers. Trincao to the right and Pedro Neto on the left. The device did not work.
Thanks to Bernardo Silva, Vitinha, João Neves or Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese football rises to the stratosphere. It is demonstrated by teams such as Manchester City or PSG. The selection, however, follow a rain of a storm that happened. At 40, Cristiano offers an admirable state of form for the Saudi League. It could function as a resource of second times. A genuine spreads embers, As they say in Portugal, an emergency agitator. Nothing of the sort. Roberto Martínez uses it as a strategic instrument. Portugal played according to his old captain the last Eurocup and the consequences were eloquent. In the absence of a year for the World Cup, the team does not leave its nostalgic loop. The operation was repeated against Germany. In bad time. If the German central rigids stand out for something, it is because of their splendid capacity to evacuate centers to the area. Tah and Koch looked in the first hour of the game against Portugal. The rain of Portuguese centers fell on the zinc roof.
Input, Portugal controlled the situation by inertia. Because no matter how much they gave him air at the exit, Germany without Musiala lacks imagination. Bernardo Silva and Bruno Fernandes were enough to keep a team at bay whose only line of progress towards danger goes through winning the second moves, betting on the arrival of the tanks, or waiting for Florian Wirtz to invent something. Only an accident could tip the game towards the local team. It happened in minute three of the second half. Germany went to press emboldened by Nagelsmann’s talk at rest. Trincao was surprised by Wirtz on the front of the area, and the midfielder opened the game to Kimmich, which returned a balloon. Wirtz nodded with all the imaginable delicacy, like a cat, and the ball entered crying in the farthest stick.
The urgency forced Roberto Martínez to send a change of registration. Portugal began to press the limited German centrals, Wirtz did not supply, and Vitinha and Chico Conceição tickets completed the overturning. After the time of the Conceição party he received a pass of days in his field, nailed Gosens with the control and went by the middle before slapping the ball with the instep of the left foot. He sent a missile to the squad. It was the tie.
Minutes later, Vitinha activated Mendes in the central lane and the side left Cristiano alone to push the 1-2 that decided the pass to the final. At 40, the man is still rabid for scoring goals. With vitinha you can keep in force ten more years.
