Stop the ball ten meters away, the goal depends on Meng

Chapter 387 These powerful people are not too strong!
There is a full 16 days between the top 8 and the top 6, which is enough for Su Changwei to fully recover his physical fitness.

Within these 6 days, the results of other games were also released one after another.

In a rough fight between Costa Rica and Greece, Costa Rica opened the scoring, but the center back was sent off after two yellows and one red.

Greece, which had one more man to fight, also took advantage of their numerical advantage, and Papastathopoulos, the "Peach Stealer" who caught Messi's bird in the 2010 World Cup, equalized the score.

After 30 minutes of overtime, the two sides entered a brutal penalty shootout.

Costa Rica scored all penalty kicks in the first four rounds. Greece's fourth penalty kick was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Navas with one palm!
With Costa Rica's No. 5 penalty taker taking the penalty in one fell swoop, they advanced to the next round with difficulty! -
Except for this group of rookies pecking each other, the other games were all clearly divided between strong and weak, but unexpectedly, several powerful teams fell into hard battles one after another.

On the third match day, France played against Nigeria. The 0:0 score lasted until the 79th minute, when Pogba seized the opportunity of the goalkeeper to break the deadlock with a header.

Nigeria, who were eager to equalize the score, not only failed to score, but were seized by the opponent. Valbuena took a tactical corner kick, but the ball failed to find Griezmann. Instead, Nigeria defender Yabo crashed into his own door. …

The Gallic Rooster advanced to the quarterfinals 2:0!
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In another match on the same day, the German team also fell into an unprecedented hard battle against Algeria from Africa.

Compared with African teams such as Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal, Algeria is slightly less famous. In history, there are no such players as George Weah, Drogba, Yaya Toure, Eto'o, Salah, etc. A superstar of Mane's level, but they made Germany miserable.

——By the way, Zidane, Benzema, and Nasri are all of Algerian descent, while Mahrez is still unknown at this time...

At this time in Algeria, the most famous player in the team is probably Fegouli, who plays for La Liga powerhouse Valencia.

At the beginning of his debut, Figuly mainly served as an attacking midfielder, so he was once called the "new Zidane".But with the change of position, he played more of a right-side attacker in the Bat Corps, so much so that he was hailed as "the fastest horse in La Liga" by the Spanish media!
Unfortunately, compared to his outstanding speed, Fei Tianwang's other abilities are much inferior. Every attack is loud and thunderous, and the number of goals scored in each season always remains between 4-8 goals, unable to truly reach a new goal. Joining the ranks of first-class players, coupled with the long-term turmoil of the Bat Corps, 5 coaches were changed in 10 years, and the club was even sold to Singaporean wealthy businessman Lin Rongfu. Not only did he fail to reach his peak, but he gradually declined...

——After all, he didn’t meet the fledgling Li Polo.

Relying on the intensive defense of the backcourt players and the sharp counterattack of Fegouli, Algeria successfully dragged the 0:0 score into overtime.

In this game, Loew obviously wanted to practice the passing and controlling tactics he learned from Bayern coach Guardiola on a weak team, so he set up a forward-less formation.

Unexpectedly, the team's offensive efficiency was surprisingly low. They had 65% of the ball possession rate and three times as many shooting opportunities as their opponents, but they were still unable to create enough threats, so that Loew was replaced at halftime. Bad Gotze.

But Schuerle, who came on as a substitute, failed to change the situation. Instead, it exposed the problem of unstable defense.

If it weren't for Feiguli's poor shooting skills and Neuer's activation of his god-like state, repeatedly rushing out of the penalty area to resolve crises, the German team might have been eliminated!
In the 2nd minute of overtime, luck finally favored the Germans. Left back Hewedes caught the opponent's mistake of stopping the ball too much and found Muller in the frontcourt with a straight pass!
The second child, who had the highest luck, dribbled the ball into the left rib of the penalty area and swept the ball in front of the goal. Xuerle finally appeared in the most correct position and used an unconventional heel to knock the ball into the goal!
But the German team's ecstasy lasted only 3 minutes, and the score was tied by their opponents.

Algeria responded quickly. Fegouli passed the ball from the right and Gabe, who came on the bench, scored with a shovel from the edge of the penalty area, 1-1!

Seeing that the game was about to drag into a brutal penalty shootout again, German captain Lahm stepped forward.

He forcibly broke through the opponent's side defense and sent in an overhead cross. However, there was no strong center in front of the goal at this time, and the ball was pushed far out of the penalty area by the opponent's defender.

Khedira, who had found the right spot, rubbed the ball towards his teammate a few meters away. Kroos shot without hesitation, and the ball roared through the gap and flew into the goal, 2:1!

Although the German tanks won the victory without any danger in the end, Loew's frontless formation still received unanimous criticism from all over the world.

Especially in the German football world, dozens of big players suddenly jumped out and clearly opposed him learning Spain's ground passing and control. Such huge pressure forced Loew to bow his head and admit his mistake.

After all... their opponent in the next round is the French team, which is much stronger than Algeria!
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On the fourth match day, the last two duels also started one after another.Like other games, Argentina, the favorite to win the championship, struggled hard against Switzerland...

The head coach of the Swiss team is Hitzfeld, a famous German football player who once led Dortmund and Bayern to win the Champions League respectively. Under his leadership, the Swiss team has become a united and tenacious iron army.

Messi, who was in hot form in the group stage, was very sluggish in the first half and didn't even have a shot in 45 minutes.

In the second half, Argentina gradually found its feeling. Messi and Di Maria frequently cooperated and threatened the opponent's penalty area, but the tenacious Switzerland dragged the game into overtime.

Time passed quickly, and everyone's physical fitness was on the verge of reaching the limit. Seeing that the overtime period had come to the last 3 minutes, Messi squeezed out all his potential and started dribbling the ball from the midfield!
He passed the oncoming Swiss midfielder Behrami, surrounded by five players and went all the way to the front of the penalty area, but at the last moment he gave the ball to Di Maria who came in from the right!

The Angel, who had been fighting for 118 minutes, did not show any weakness at this time, and shot a powerful volley through the Swiss team's last line of defense!

1:0!The Pampas Eagles advance to the quarterfinals with a winning goal!

Although Messi only received one assist, his performance in the last moments still earned him unanimous praise from Argentina.

Some people praise Messi as being comparable to Pele and Maradona at this moment, while others think that Argentina has finally abandoned the flashy artistic football and chosen pragmatism...
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As for the final game, it was pretty intense.

Belgium and the United States contributed to a battle of attack, with both sides completing a total of 50 shots!
I originally thought that Belgium, with its perfect formation, could easily defeat the football desert United States, but I didn't expect that the "European Red Devils" would also be dragged into overtime.

Hazard, De Bruyne, Lukaku, Mertens, Fellaini, Kompany, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Van Buyten, Witsel, Courtois… ...These first-line stars, even top superstars, faced the goal guarded by the famous butter player Howard, but they failed to score anything in 90 minutes!
Including 30 minutes of injury time, Belgium shot a total of 38 shots, becoming the most shooting team in this World Cup!
But it wasn't until Lukaku came off the bench that Belgium really turned around.

First, in the 93rd minute, Lukaku made a breakthrough pass, creating an opportunity for De Bruyne. Ding Ding passed the two people with the ball and then shot low into the far corner to break the deadlock.

At the 105th minute, the two stars of Milan formed a connection again. De Bruyne made a pass from the right, and Lukaku shot past the American defender and scored!

Although the US team later recovered one point, it didn't help! -
Four of the eight top-16 matchups went into overtime. Some people called out that "world football has completely entered an era of utilitarianism"!
All the traditional giants performed poorly, and no team showed enough dominance on the court to defeat their opponents like chopping melons and vegetables.

Brazil, Germany, France, and Argentina, which were favored by the public before the game. These four favorites to win the championship have each exposed different problems.

Another issue that has been widely criticized is that the forwards of all teams collectively fell into a scoring drought in the knockout rounds.

Neymar, Messi, Higuain, Benzema, Van Persie, Huntelaar, Muller, Klose (not playing)...all misfired!
In eight games, the Zhengyin forwards of each team only scored 3 goals in total!

They are not as good as half Su Changwei! -
According to the World Cup season, the quarter-finals will be announced soon.

Brazil and Colombia will once again start a South American civil war.

Germany and France staged a European civil war.

Argentina and Belgium have no grudges, and perhaps the biggest gimmick is the "Belgian Messi" Hazard, a tribute to the Argentine Messi himself.

The theme of China and Costa Rica is...the battle of revenge!
Costa Rica is the first team to defeat the Chinese team in the history of the World Cup!
After 12 years, they met again in the World Cup!
This time, the Chinese team wants to avenge the last defeat!

(End of this chapter)