The Era of Emerald

ps: Thanks to the book friend "Liu Xiang" for the reward, and please ask for a recommendation ticket by the way...

After breaking through the group stage and successfully entering the top [-] of the World Cup, the whole country of Chile sang praises for Italy's fair play - after all, before the start of this game, Chile, which had only one point in two games, was behind Austria One point, if Italy, which qualified ahead of schedule, deliberately loses the game against Austria, then even if Chile wins the contest with Cameroon, they will be blocked from the top [-] because they have fewer points than Austria outside!

If the Chileans were just grateful for Italy's move at the beginning, then when the last round of Group D ended two days later, the Chileans felt that it was really great that they could be in the same group as Italy -Because the Spanish Matador, who has a large number of well-known stars such as Hierro, Raul, Luis Enrique, etc., was actually blocked from the top [-] by Nigeria and Paraguay in the same group. After the end, you have to face the cruel reality of going back home!

"Spain is really useless. They were killed in the group stage." Looking at the newspaper headlines that had just been printed in his hand, Groz pouted and said disdainfully, "Antonio, I really let you You guessed it right, the Spanish team led by Clemente really failed in the group stage."

"Rebecca, no matter what, please trust me, okay?" Zhuang Mingge pretended to be helpless to the surprise expressed by little Groz, "If you always doubt my prediction like this , but it makes me sad."

"Ahaha~ People don't know enough about football, Antonio, you don't know what to say." Facing Zhuang Mingge who said so, little Groz had to play haha ​​and pretend to be cute, "Don't worry about such things. , A man who is too serious will be hated."

"Hi! Rebecca, what do you mean..."

"Tony, come and analyze for us. What is going on? Why was Spain eliminated in the group stage?" Karin asked from the side. Due to her work, she often had contact with football in her heart. Naturally, he has his own views on the reasons for Spain's exit, and raising this question now is more of a relief for Groz Jr.

Sure enough, after Karin raised this question, Little Groz immediately cast a thankful look at Karin, and the latter also winked immediately, indicating that this is what she should do.

"Well... In my opinion, there are many reasons why this Spanish team was eliminated in the group stage." Zhuang Mingge, who was successfully distracted by Karin, pondered for a while and expressed his opinion "The first reason is Clement himself. The Spanish coach really uses veterans too much. For example, with Canizares and Molina who are in their prime In the case of the goalkeeper, he still insisted on letting the veteran Zubizarreta, who was in decline, be the starter. Although Zubizarreta was indeed a world-class goalkeeper in the past, he is now 37 years old. He is just a veteran, and it was precisely because of his poor performance that Spain was reversed by Nigeria in a once leading situation and lost the three points that were about to be obtained."

"Secondly, the psychological quality of these Spanish players is really poor. Although they lost to Nigeria in the first game, in fact, as long as they played the next two games seriously, the probability of Spain qualifying was still very high." Zhuang Mingge Continue to explain my views with Karin and Groz Jr., "However, the loss to Nigeria had a great impact on the Spanish players. The initiative to qualify for the group was handed over to the opponent."

"Thus, in the first two games of the group with one draw, one loss and only one point, although the Spanish players broke out their true strength in desperation, facing Bulgaria, which has been confirmed to be out of the group, they scored six goals in the game Won a hearty victory, but this victory is obviously not enough to save the fate of Spain, Paraguay and Nigeria only used a very tacit draw to kill them in the group stage."

"Antonio, isn't this kind of tacit understanding match-fixing? Why didn't FIFA and the World Cup Organizing Committee come forward to punish them?" Little Groz asked strangely. Although she didn't know much about football, she also knew this Match-fixing will never be tolerated.

"The problem is that there is no conclusive evidence for these things. As long as no one is so stupid as to put these things on the table, there is no reason for FIFA to punish them." Zhuang Mingge shrugged and said, "And, If this game is a spontaneous tacit understanding between the two teams, then there is no evidence."

"Speaking of this, I always feel that Spain's death this time is really wronged."

"It's self-inflicted, whoever made Spain not play well in the first two games, deserved to be eliminated."

The Chileans naturally thought of the analysis made by Zhuang Mingge, so after they got the news that Spain was defeated by Nigeria and Paraguay, they were more grateful to Italy, who was merciful.

Not to mention the Chileans who are grateful to Italy in their hearts, now turn the topic back to Italy.

After qualifying from Group B, Italy quickly determined their opponents in the quarter-finals. Maldini's team will face Norway, who qualified second in Group A.

Norway still has some good players in this World Cup, such as Solskjaer, a super substitute with a baby face, Borg who played for Manchester United, Bjorneby who played for Liverpool, Chelsea's Center Flo and others, the combination of these excellent players allowed Norway to qualify from Group A after the favorite Brazil to win the championship.

When they learned that their opponent in the quarter-finals was Italy, the Norwegians knew very well that unless they were possessed by the goddess of luck, their World Cup trip would come to an end here.

However, although he knew that his chances of winning were small, the Norwegian did not give up easily - they had already reached the knockout stage, and no one was willing to directly raise the white flag to surrender without hard work.

The old Maldini did not despise Norway because of his opponent's weak strength. Inzaghi's pair of strikers are equally powerful. Pirlo and Albertini in the midfield are responsible for transporting shells, and Dino Baggio and Tomasi are behind to protect.

In the end, with Inzaghi's goal in the 703rd minute of the game, Italy, which took the initiative throughout the game, defeated Norway [-]-[-] and became the first team to reach the quarterfinals of the World Cup!