Chapter 390: Tough Opponents
In the third game, it was still 2VS2.
This time, the captain of the Brazilian team, Sival, was personally on the side, his popularity is one of the best in the UFC, and he is also very high in the field of fighting, and he immediately caused a sensation as soon as he got on the court.
This game is a middleweight and heavyweight pairing, the Brazilian team's middleweight is Sival, who has an absolute advantage, but the strength of the heavyweight players is much worse, and it is difficult to win against the British team, so the Brazilian team has a strongest Sival with a weaker heavyweight player and wants to win these two points.
After the start of the match, the Brazilian side took the initiative to rush, but instead of heavyweight vs. heavyweight, middleweight vs. middleweight, it was Sival who took the initiative to face the heavyweights of the British team, and put his heavyweight teammates against the middleweights of the British team.
This can also be seen from the Brazilian team's confidence in Sival, a middleweight fighter crosses a division to fight a heavyweight, not only is they not worried that Sival will lose, but they feel that Sival can suppress the opponent!
It didn't take long for the game to become clear: Sival was able to move faster than his opponent and shoot with ease, but he was still able to keep his opponent from leaving, and if the opponent had a tendency to leave, he would immediately launch a furious attack to knock them back. And as soon as the opponent counterattacked, he began to dodge and played with ease.
On the other side, Brazil's heavyweights played the British team's middleweights with the same ease, crushing a weight of weight, and more than a step stronger in terms of resistance and strength, and quickly pressed the British player to the ground and rubbed it.
In the third minute of the match, the British team's middleweight was knocked out, and the scene turned into a two-on-one.
However, Sival shouted on the field, and asked his teammates not to interfere, he wanted to single out his opponent!
Such a scene made the audience immediately boil, the middleweight fight heavyweight, except for Wu Li and Li San of the Huaguo team, the audience has never seen anyone else do this, and now Xival is going to stage it again to hit the heavy with light.
On the field, Sival began his own performance, obviously inferior to his opponent, but he played aggressively.
"How does it feel?"
In the lounge of the Huaguo team, Wu Li asked Li San.
Li San looked at the TV screen in front of him, his expression was a little solemn: "The center of gravity is like mercury." ”
That's right, the ability to control the center of gravity of the body that Sivar showed at this time has clearly reached the realm of the center of gravity like mercury!
Wu Li nodded: "It's a strong opponent." ”
Xival's ability at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends is top-notch, and his reaction speed is too fast, and his body control ability is too strong, so he is called a strong opponent by Wu Li.
UFC legends, well deserved!
Two minutes later, Sival had already parried his opponent and couldn't fight back, and finally he seized the opportunity to hit his opponent's chin and temple in succession to knock his opponent out.
"Sival!"
"Sival!"
"Sival!"
The audience chanted his name, and Sival kept gesturing around, making celebratory gestures.
In the third game, the Brazilian team won and scored 2 points, the total score became 3:2, and the next game was the match point!
This game also made the rest of the teams see a general trend of 2vs2 games, that is, one strong with one weak, let their strong players fight against high-weight players, and let their weak players use their weight advantage to beat low-weight players, so that a main player can not only score one point, but two points!
In the fourth game, the British team chose a lightweight match, and it was Charles, an old acquaintance of Wu Li, who took the court.
Ranked seventh in the UFC lightweight division, Charles is not weak and is also the main force of the British team. However, his opponent is not small, he is a member of the Gracie family in Brazil, and the master of the black and red belt.
Charles is good at ground game, and the Gracie family naturally doesn't need to say much, so it's a ground fight.
More than three minutes later, the Gretel family submitted Charles to death, living up to the name of the 'Jiu-Jitsu Myth' family.
Charles, on the other hand, lost a crucial point to the British team, allowing the British team to be eliminated by the Brazilian team 2:4.
"This Charles doesn't seem to have had a good time since he met your master. ”
In the lounge, Wang Ruojun whispered to Xu Chuan.
Xu Chuan looked at Charles's dark face on the TV screen, and couldn't help but smile; this Charles repeatedly provoked Wu Li, but was slapped in the face by Wu Li many times, and now that the British team has been eliminated, Charles is no longer even qualified to become Wu Li's opponent.
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Soon after the results of the match between Brazil and Great Britain, it was soon the match between Germany and Canada.
There is not much difference in the strength of these two teams, and the game is also very intense, but there are no top players, so the enthusiasm of the audience is still not aroused.
In the end, the Canadian team narrowly defeated the opponent 4:3 and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.
However, the Canadian team also paid a terrible price to win this game, and injured two main players in tonight's game, and also injured one main player in the group stage before, and now basically no one can stand up. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the semi-finals in the second half of the division may be less interesting than the group stage.
This is also a difficult point in this Fighting World Cup, of course it is important for a team to have top masters, but the depth of the team must also be enough, otherwise you will play a few games and injure a few masters, and no one will be able to pick the lead, then it will immediately become a top team from a top team, how to play later?
At this point, the American team is undoubtedly the most confident of all the teams, they are not worried about the lack of manpower at all, but they have to worry about who is better to send in every game, because everyone is sure to win, then the game is to increase popularity, show strength, no one wants to miss it.
I heard that the coach of the American team is about to lose his hair for every play-on list, which can be regarded as a happy trouble.
The third match of the evening was the United States vs the Netherlands, and players from both sides entered quickly.
The host U.S. team naturally received the warmest applause and cheers when they entered the stadium, and the emotions of the audience were also mobilized.
The total number of points in the group stage of the U.S. team is 20 points, that is, in three games, a total of 21 games, the U.S. team lost one game!
This is undoubtedly the best of all teams in terms of points, and they have the right of first pick.
On the U.S. side, it was not captain Jon who picked the order of the game, but the U.S. coach Lille, while the Netherlands sent the same team coach.
The selection of the order of the game, in addition to being arranged in advance, can also be improvised, and the two teams are sent by coaches this time, so there must be considerations in this regard.
Sure enough, after the selection began, both sides did not give immediate results, but frowned and pondered. However, each time I think about it for no more than a minute, the pace is quite fast.
After the order of the competition is determined, the official competition begins.
In the first game, the flyweight match chosen by the U.S. team was UFC women's featherweight champion 'Mechanical Mother' Rossi.
The Dutch team is actually not weak in terms of women, but compared to Rossi, who has won three UFC featherweight belts, it is undoubtedly a step behind, so Amanda won the opponent without any twists and turns in the first round.
In the second game 2VS2, the Dutch team chose the heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions.
In the selection stage, when the head coach of the Dutch team made this choice, the whole audience was in an uproar, and the head coach of the American team, Lille, was also surprised, completely unexpecting the opponent to choose this way.
Heavyweight and light heavyweight, these two weight divisions are the strongest points of the American team, the captain of the American team, UFC legend superstar "The Great Devil" Jon is the absolute hegemon of the heavyweight division, and the light heavyweight division also has "Warrior" Miocchi, who also has extremely strong dominance. In addition to this, the No. 1 fighters in the UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions are also on the U.S. team.
With such a lineup, luxurious to the extreme, how can the Dutch team win?
But the Dutch team chose like this, which made the head coach of the American team, Lille, stunned for a long time before reacting, and the other party should have deliberately wanted to let go of these two points.
Sure enough, when the second game began, the two players on the Dutch side were not the main players, and they were quickly defeated.
In the third game of 2vs2, the U.S. team chose to play the lightweight and middleweight divisions, and the choice of the second Dutch team to play was once again unexpected, as the two masters who originally played light heavyweight and middleweight lowered their weight by two levels to play the match.
Such a choice is undoubtedly risky, and it may not be possible to adapt to the weight of a fighter with good skill in the high-weight division to move down to a low-weight class, but the Dutch team can only choose this risky way if they want to challenge the American team.
The third game was extremely intense, the longest game of the night, and it lasted ten minutes, and finally the Dutch team narrowly won the third game, and the score was 2:3.
The U.S. team's lightweight, UFC champion Conrad, suffered a serious injury to his left leg and should not be able to participate in the rest of the fight, while another welterweight was also injured and would affect the rest of the fight.
In the fourth game, the women's strawweight match, the two sides also fought fiercely.
The U.S. team sent UFC flyweight champion 'Lioness' Amanda, and the players on the Dutch team's side were also not weak, and they played very targeted, completely over-performing!
The two sides fought for a full 13 minutes, and their physical strength was exhausted to the limit, and they were completely relying on perseverance to hold on, and the willpower of the two female players was moving. In the end, the Dutch fighter fought until he had a thigh cramp, and Amanda dislocated her left arm and was TKO.
At this point, the score on the field was rewritten to a 3:3 draw!
This is a result that no one expected in advance, everyone thought that the United States team would win by a large score, but they did not expect to be forced into a tiebreaker by the opponent.
In the final game, the atmosphere at the scene was obviously tense, and the American audience changed their previous calm and relaxed mentality, and they were all cheering loudly for the American team.
The final bout was a welterweight bout, and the U.S. team was UFC welterweight champion 'GSP' George at the end. As a powerhouse who has won the UFC welterweight championship five times in a row, George's strength is undoubted, and the American audience has relaxed a little by holding the final hurdle.
The bout started quickly, and George was clearly stronger than his opponent. Although the players of the Dutch team also played very targeted, obviously prepared well before the game, the absolute gap in strength still made him gradually fall into the disadvantage, and he tried to fight back several times, but he was still pressed to death by George, and was finally knocked out by George.
The score was fixed at 4:3, and the United States team won.
Although they were caught off guard by the tactics of the Dutch team, and almost all of the players on the court of the Dutch team today played at a super level, which once gave people hope of a reversal, the American team is still like an insurmountable mountain, making people unable to see the hope of overcome.