El Salvador is the third largest city in Brazil, located in the northeast of the coastal city and the capital of the state of Bahia, which may not be known to many people, but the mention of Robinson Crusoe will make people remember it vividly, and the British writer Daniel Defoe wrote about it for short.

"Team China!Team China!!Team China!!"

When the whole Chinese team walked out of the domestic flight exit of El Salvador Airport, the Chinese fans who had been waiting for a long time shouted loudly in tacit understanding.

The high-spirited Chinese players smiled and waved to the enthusiastic fans to thank them for their support.

As the biggest contributor to the Chinese team's promotion to the quarterfinals, Tang Zheng is naturally the most popular, even if Tang Zheng is still wearing a pair of headphones in his ears, he can clearly hear the shouts from the fans.

For the support of the fans, Tang Zheng knows how to reciprocate.

The Netherlands is strong, but it can be fought for.

Losing is reasonable, winning is unexpected.

The 2014 Brazil World Cup 1/8 finals continued, and France defeated Nigeria 2:0 with Pogba's goal and Jobo's own goal in the two 1/8 finals of the day, and Germany narrowly defeated Algeria 2:1.

The remaining two 1/8 finals were played on the second day, with Argentina and Switzerland drawing in the first game after 90 minutes, and Argentina beat Switzerland in the final stages of extra time thanks to Messi's assist for Di Maria's goal.

Belgium beat the United States 2-1 to become the last team to advance to the quarter-finals.

All eight 1/8 finals have been completed, and the dust has settled on the places, and the teams that have advanced are Brazil, Colombia, the Netherlands, China, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium.

The four quarter-finals kicked off at 1 p.m. local time on July 4 in Brazil, with the match between France and Germany.

Four hours later, Brazil will face Colombia's challenge at the Castello Stadium.

The quarter-finals between China and the Netherlands are the last of the four quarter-finals to kick off, and will be played at 5 p.m. local time on July 5 in Brazil at the New Water Source Stadium.

China and the Netherlands have met once in history, but that game has no reference value as the first meeting was in 1996.

The Dutch team arrived in El Salvador later than the Chinese team, but this did not have much impact on the Dutch team, they are strong as a whole, and the media who follow the World Cup know that the Dutch team has basically advanced to the semi-finals of this World Cup.

Of course, it's not that the Dutch team doesn't pay attention to the Chinese team as an opponent, but the preparation period needs a relaxed environment and a good mood.

In particular, Dutch star Robben can be said to be very jealous, and Robben, who has a strong voice in the Dutch national team, often instills the concept of Tang Zheng's super strength with his teammates, because he is afraid of the situation against Dortmund in Bayern Munich again.

In the four years that Tang Zheng has been with Dortmund, Bayern Munich has failed to beat Dortmund in all competitions, and there are even few draws, so he has a deep memory.

It is easy to see that Robben's training in the past few days is not related to his famous stunt of cutting inside shots, but crosses from the left and right.

It is not difficult to find that Robben is afraid of Tang Zheng as a defensive midfielder.

There is a saying that is very true, once you are bitten by a snake, you are afraid of the well rope for ten years.

The Chinese team's match is directly beneficial, the Dutch team is the team with the most goals in the quarterfinals, and the offensive ability is quite amazing.

In addition, captain Zheng Zhi has accumulated yellow cards and is suspended, even if Feng Xiaoting returns to the starting lineup after being released from the ban, he will not be able to make up for Zheng Zhi's vacancy.

In the face of the strong Dutch team, Italian coach Lippi naturally prioritizes defense, but which player partners with Tang Zheng to play double back has become the biggest headache for Lippi's coaching team.

Wu Xi's ability is relatively comprehensive, he can attack and defend well, and he also has a certain ability to insert the attack, but the defects brought by being able to attack and defend are also obvious, and his defensive ability is definitely not as good as a professional defensive midfielder.

Cai Huikang has outstanding defensive ability and good physical fitness, but his movement speed is slow, and he has no offensive ability, so he can only do transitional work, which means that Tang Zheng, who plays as a defensive midfielder, will take on more responsibility for the game.

In this way, sacrificing the attack becomes inevitable.

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Time flies very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it is the first match day of the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and the two old enemies Germany and France will play a key battle at the Maracanã Stadium.

The two teams have met 25 times in history, with France holding the upper hand with 11 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses, but scoring one less goal than Germany, and there have been three meetings in the World Cup, namely the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, the 1982 World Cup in Spain and the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, but due to their age, there is no reference value.

The most recent meeting came in February last year, when France lost 2-1 at home to Germany.

It was Valbuena who helped France to the scoresheet, while it was Thomas Müller and Khedira who scored for Germany.

Due to time constraints, the Chinese team had to do proper strength recovery training at the hotel, and then go to the Xinshuiyuan Stadium to adapt to the venue, so Tang Zheng did not have time to watch the live broadcast of the game.

At the end of 90 minutes, the German team defeated the French team 1-0 thanks to the header of Tang Zheng's former teammate Hummels in Dortmund.

Tang Zheng also didn't have time to pay attention to the 1/4 finals between Brazil and Colombia, because the Chinese team's adaptation time was half past four local time in Brazil.

"Whoa"

When the whole Chinese team took the bus and parked at the designated parking place outside the Xinshuiyuan Stadium, the Chinese fans, who had been waiting for the event, broke out into huge cheers very tacitly.

The Dutch national team's acclimatization was announced half an hour ago, except for captain Robin van Persie and head coach Louis van Gaal who went to the stadium's press conference hall for the regular pre-match press conference, and the other players were led by assistant coach Blind Sr. to the team to take the bus and prepare to return to the hotel.

The sudden shouting attracted the attention of a large number of Dutch players, who looked up one after another.

A red and yellow bus parked not far away, with a five-star red flag sign on the windshield in the upper right corner of the bus.

The Dutch players know that this is their opponent at the Xinshuiyuan Stadium tomorrow, China.

For the Chinese team, the Dutch players are not in the eye.

They believe that the reason why the Chinese team was able to enter the quarterfinals was completely lucky.

The group stage matches can only be said to be extraordinary, and the first place in Group D faced in the 1/8 finals was not the traditional powerhouse Uruguay, Italy or England, but the super dark horse Costa Rica.

The duel between the two dark horses, only the Chinese team happened to win the game.

It is true that Robben has been instilling in his teammates that Tang Zheng is very strong, but professional football players are a group of energetic people who like to be competitive and never easily agree that others are stronger than themselves, not to mention that football is a team sport.

No matter how strong Tang Zheng is, can he still be stronger than a team?

And this feeling is something that only Robben has truly felt, and other teammates can't empathize.

Van Persie and Huntelaar also have a record of facing Tang Zheng, but they rarely have direct contact with Tang Zheng due to their position, so they are not as touched as Robben.

Tang Zheng is the well-deserved number one star of the Chinese team, and he naturally walks at the back of the team.

"You're in very good shape today, can you score goals in tomorrow's game?" Sneijder accosted Robben as he walked, only to find that Robben stopped in place, looking at the direction of the Chinese team's bus in a daze, so he stretched out his hand and shook it twice in front of Robben's eyes: "Alger, huh?"

Robben reacted at this time, with a very reluctant smile on his face: "Hurry up and keep up with everyone's pace." ”

After that, he didn't give his friend Sneijder a chance to speak again, walked straight to the team bus, and then signed autographs for several fans who were surrounded by security personnel.

Sneijder looked at Robben and shook his head and smiled bitterly, Robben's training state today can be described as quite hot, even better than the first victory over Spain in the group stage, but after seeing Tang Zheng, Robben's mental state seems to have decreased significantly.

Sneijder has not had a direct confrontation with Tang Zheng, but Tang Zheng, as one of the hottest stars in world football today, is in a position similar to Sneijder, and will be compared by the media of good things.

The two No. 10s in the World Cup 1/4 finals of the Netherlands and China were compared by a large number of media, and there was no suspense in the results, and the media believed that Tang Zheng's ability was far better than Sneijder.

This is also why Tang Zheng was able to play in Real Madrid, while Sneijder wanted to seek a transfer in Real Madrid.

People cannot be compared with each other, because without comparison, there is no harm.

Sneijder didn't really care about media comparisons, he had his own characteristics, and the two had nothing to do with each other.

However, his friend Robben was too influenced by Tang Zheng, so he had to face Tang Zheng squarely.

Could it be ...... Is Tang Zheng really as strong as Alger said?

Wouldn't it be too mysterious?

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The Chinese team had about an hour and a half of acclimatization before the game, and the first half hour was an open training session and taking pictures for the media.

The last hour is when the Chinese team rehearses the game tactics, and during this period, it is closed.

Not long after, the one-and-a-half-hour pre-game adaptation venue ended, and Lippi took Tang Zheng to the press conference hall of Xinshuiyuan Stadium to participate in the regular press conference.

Due to the suspension of captain Zheng Zhi for accumulating yellow cards, the pre-match routine press conference must bring a player who will start tomorrow night.

First of all, Tang Zheng has very rich experience in domestic and foreign media reporters, and then in the 1/4 finals starting tomorrow, Tang Zheng will play as the captain of the Chinese team, which is very important for Tang Zheng and the Chinese team.

In fact, as the captain of the Chinese team in the 1/4 finals of the World Cup, Tang Zheng has long known, and the media is not surprised that Tang Zheng became the captain of the Chinese team in the 1/4 finals, because Tang Zheng's voice as the captain of the national team is higher, and Zheng Zhi, who served as the captain, is senior.

The second captain announced by the press officer of the Chinese team is also Tang Zheng, so Tang Zheng deserves to be the captain when the captain Zheng Zhi is suspended for accumulating yellow cards.

The questions at the regular pre-match press conference were simple, nothing more than about confidence and outlook for the game.

The difference in strength between the two teams, most of the Chinese players are mentally prepared to be eliminated, but then again, Tang Zheng's participation in the pre-game regular press conference as the captain will naturally not be demoralized and destroy his prestige, and he said loudly: "At this stage of the game, no one has a way out, even if the overall strength is indeed inferior to the strong Dutch team, but it does not mean that we will lose! I believe in my teammates, because they are the best!"

Tang Zheng's official media interview for the Brazil World Cup answers in Chinese, so in addition to the Chinese domestic media can know the first time, other foreign media need to translate to know the specific meaning.

Tang Zheng's use of Chinese to give media interviews is deliberate, even if he knows a lot of languages, but to represent the national team in the World Cup, can use Chinese if he can use Chinese.

English is the lingua franca?

That doesn't exist either!

Through translation, the foreign media finally knew what Tang Zheng meant, but Tang Zheng spoke in a very orderly manner, which made it impossible to refute.

In the other quarter-final played a little later, Brazil defeated Colombia 2-1, and it is worth mentioning that James Rodriguez scored again, which means that his World Cup goal tally was finally fixed at seven.

Tang Zheng, Muller, Lionel Messi and Neymar, who are currently ranked second in the scorer list, all have four goals, three goals away from James Rodriguez's seven.

Tang Zheng's goal tally is likely to not grow, because the overall strength of the Dutch team is the strongest opponent that the Chinese team has encountered in this World Cup, and the game will definitely be tired of defense and have no time to attack.

Germany are the first to reach the last four, with Muller having at least two games to go, but scoring three goals in two games will be difficult.

If Messi can lead Argentina to the final four, it is not impossible to score three goals in three games, but it can only be said that there is little chance.

There are no weak teams in the World Cup, especially in the quarterfinals, and Argentina's 1/4 final opponent Belgium is not weak, and it is difficult to determine whether it can win.

Roll call for a goal?

The suspense is a bit big.

Neymar was injured in the quarter-finals and was substituted, and it is not known whether he will be able to return in time for the semi-final against Germany, so it is even more difficult to say how to score.

If you can't play a game, how can you score?

Throughout the past ten World Cups, scoring seven goals is only in the 2002 South Korea and Japan World Cup can not get the Golden Boot, the other nine World Cups can win the Golden Boot, that is to say, James Rodriguez, who scored a penalty in the quarterfinals, has a great chance of winning the Golden Boot of this World Cup.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the Chinese team, but Tang Zheng returned to the hotel to pay attention to the latest news of the World Cup.

That night, Tang Zheng and captain Zheng Zhi had a tacit understanding and hit it off, pulling the other 21 teammates to have a meeting in the hotel where they stayed to unify their thoughts before the game.

Tomorrow at 5 p.m., the quarter-finals against the Netherlands will be played at Xinshuiyuan Stadium, and Tang Zheng and Zheng Zhi both hope that their teammates can put aside all distractions, travel lightly, and fully focus on the future games.

Even if you lose in the end, at least you have struggled!

The next day, head coach Lippi and his coaching staff noticed that the players' mental outlook had changed dramatically from what he had imagined.

If this mentality can be brought to the game, even if they can't win the game in the end, they will have to make the Dutch team choke!