The Era of Emerald

The wonderful World Cup matches always make people sigh that time is passing by unconsciously.In a blink of an eye, the World Cup in the United States has entered a more intense and hot knockout stage.

At Soldier Field in Chicago, the old German chariot and the Belgian team led by Schiff staged a wonderful confrontation. The Belgians were sent back to their hometown, and the former "European Red Devils" are on the verge of decline.

On the same day in Washington, the capital of the United States, Hierro, Luis Enrique, and Begiristan each scored a goal, and Spain easily defeated Switzerland to enter the quarterfinals.

On the second day, the "Desert Fox" Saudi Arabia lost [-]-[-] to Sweden led by Brolin and Dahlin, regrettably out of the World Cup.

Compared with the uneventful match between Saudi Arabia and Sweden, there was a wonderful match between Argentina and Romania. The Argentine team lost the "spiritual leader" who was suspended for taking banned drugs-Diego · After Maradona, morale was extremely low, and in the game against Romania, Argentina scored a wonderful free kick by Ili Dumitrescu just 11 minutes into the game. Four minutes later, "God of War" Batistuta tied the score with a penalty kick, but in the 4th minute, Dumitrescu scored another goal.

After the game entered the second half, the Argentine player Abel Balbo was seriously fouled by the opponent's goalkeeper, but the referee did not make a penalty. In the 58th minute, "Midfielder Conspirator" Haji's long-range hanging goal scored for Romania. Three goals, although Balbo scored one goal later, the Argentine team, which lost Maradona, could only regrettably stop in the second round.

After the game, Batistuta, who was depressed after the loss, was seen on TV. As the boss, Zhuang Mingge made a special phone call to comfort the latter.

On July 7th, although the Netherlands was full of internal turmoil, they still defeated Ireland with two goals from Bergkamp and Jonker, while Brazil relied on Bebeto's goal in the 4nd minute to defeat the host team. Beto's celebration after scoring a goal in this game - "cradle dance" has become a beautiful landscape in the World Cup, while another Brazilian player, Leonardo (who later coached the Milan duo and is now in Paris St. The brother of Rielman who is the general manager) brought himself a four-match suspension with a fierce elbow, which means that even if Brazil finally reaches the final, Leonardo will not be able to play. Although "Uncle Sam" was eliminated, they still achieved the best result since the United States participated in the World Cup. After the game, the Brazilian left back Leonardo, who was sent off by a red card for elbowing Ramos of the American team, sincerely expressed his gratitude to Americans apologize.

On the 5th, Baggio, who is not yet the "Prince of Melancholy", scored two goals at the Foxborough Stadium in Massachusetts, which helped Italy eliminate the "African Eagle" Nigeria; while Bulgaria fought Mexico for 120 minutes and scored a goal. One to one draw, had to stage a brutal penalty shootout, although the Mexican goalkeeper "Butterfly" Campos saved the penalty kick of the famous Bulgarian player Balakov, but his teammates unbelievably took the penalty kicks in the first three rounds All failed, and in the end the Mexicans lost 1:3 in a penalty shootout.

After the end of the day's game, the US World Cup's top eight list was released, and they were: Germany, Spain, Sweden, Romania, the Netherlands, Brazil, Italy and Bulgaria.

According to the schedule arranged by the World Cup Organizing Committee, in the next quarter-finals, the two games on July 7th are: Italy vs Spain and the Netherlands vs Brazil; Rutherford plays Bulgaria, and the Swede will travel to California to compete with Romania for a spot in the semifinals.

Since the knockout round on July 7, Zhuang Mingge's predictions have never been wrong, and the success of successive battles made several "investors" have unprecedented confidence in Zhuang Mingge.

It is said that women are animals that like to count carefully. A few women gathered together and calculated, and they are very good. After only four days of the game, their stake has more than doubled.

Stimulated by the huge profits, these women cared for Zhuang Mingge in every possible way in the next few days. Zhuang Mingge even suspected in private that if he wanted to hold a naked meeting now, these crazy women would agree to him Of course, the premise is that Karin will not give him a hatchet.

In the first round of the World Cup quarter-finals, Italy coached by Sacchi ran into another Spanish team led by Clemente, who is famous for his superstitious veterans. Another "Baggio" in the Italian team - Dino Baggio in No. In the 11th minute, he opened the scoring with a long shot, and Spanish midfielder Camineiro equalized the score in the second half.

In this game, the young midfielder Luis Enrique, who was still playing for Real Madrid at this time, was in full bloom. He used his speed and impact in the game to embarrass the veteran Tassotti who was guarding the right side of Italy. In desperation, Tassotti had no choice but to resort to a "hidden skill" that he hadn't used for a long time: he elbowed Enrique's nose very covertly when the referee's line of sight was blocked.Tassotti's elbow was really bad, which directly broke Luis Enrique's nose, but his appeal to the referee did not get the recognition he deserved.Believing that he had been treated unfairly by the referee, the Spaniard, who was full of anger, became more and more anxious after that. The prince of Italy, Roberto Baggio, succeeded in a sneak attack at the last moment and finally defeated the Spanish matador...

After the game, Tassotti, who escaped the referee's penalty in the game, was suspended by FIFA for 7 games. The 34-year-old Tassotti bid farewell to his last World Cup.

In another game, the match between Brazil and the Netherlands was regarded by the fans as a contest between the two most powerful teams in the World Cup in the United States (although Basten and Gullit are missing, the strength of the Netherlands is still very strong. powerful).Goals from Romario and Bebeto gave Brazil a 2-0 lead, while the Netherlands was equalized by Bergkamp and Winter. Brazil finally relied on the veteran Blanco who replaced the suspended Leonardo to play. In the 81st minute, a free kick bombarded the goal and achieved the final victory.

One thing that happened after this game made the "Ice Prince" Bergkamp, ​​who was depressed at Inter Milan, also suffer from "fear of flying":

The thing is, when the Dutch team returned to Amsterdam via Boston after the World Cup in the United States, the departure time of the plane was delayed.After arriving home, someone told Bergkamp that the reason why the plane was delayed was because some terrorists claimed to blow up the plane, and the police had to conduct a comprehensive search, and they were not allowed to take off until they were sure that there were no bombs. panic.Later, he said in an interview that he often encountered the tragedy of a plane falling from the sky in his dreams. Since then, the "Ice Prince" has never taken a plane again, so we will always find Bergkan in some away games of Arsenal. Pu Mingming did not enter the squad despite no injuries, because of this "fear of flying".

In the second day's two-quarter-final match, Germany took on Bulgaria, who had never won a match at any previous World Cup, at New Jersey's Giants Stadium.However, in this World Cup, Bulgaria achieved two victories in the group stage and defeated Mexico in the quarter-finals, finally meeting the defending champion Germany.

Before that, Germany also eliminated Belgium 50-15. As the defending champions, they are the favorites to win this cup.In the [-]th minute of the game, Bulgaria sent a penalty kick. Lothar Mateus made a penalty kick and scored for the German team.Everything seemed to be going in Germany's favour, but Hristo Stoichkov, who had already scored four goals before, assisted Bulgaria with a free-kick with [-] minutes remaining Tied the score, this world wave flew directly into the bottom corner of the goal.

Stoichkov boosted the morale of Bulgaria. Just 2 minutes later, Bulgaria's Lechkov scored a header, and Bulgaria, who was next in the game, surprisingly eliminated the defending champion Germany.

Relying on Raduchoiu's two goals, Romania tenaciously drew 120-12 with Sweden within [-] minutes. In the cruel penalty shootout, the players of both sides showed extremely strong psychological endurance ability, the penalty shootout was played until the sixth round before the winner was decided. Belodevic’s penalty kick was saved by Swedish goalkeeper Ravelli, and the Eastern European powerhouse Romania became the team that fell on the [-]-yard line .

So far, the match between the top eight of the World Cup has come to an end. Not counting the "profit" that has not yet been credited to the best shooter, Zhuang Mingge and others' gambling funds have also increased. Although the specific figures have not yet been calculated, Zhuang Mingge Conservatively estimated, this fund should now exceed [-] million US dollars.

With the deepening of the World Cup competition in the United States, these funds will grow explosively at the speed of snowballing, which is what Zhuang Mingge and others hope to see.

ps: This is a 1900-vote plus update. I went to drink with an old classmate today, and I feel uncomfortable now...