Chapter 382: It's a good sign!

The Chinese team pressed heavily in the last ten minutes, which was to turn the score into 6:0, which was completely inappropriate for the rhythm, fully explaining what it means to be insatiable.

Although the Brazilian collapsed, he was still able to play individually, and such an inappropriate person quickly allowed the opponent to find an opportunity to score.

In the 87th minute, Socrates, in the same state of mental explosion, still sent a second pass that gave Careka a single chance.

But this time it was Lin Yaodong who became the protagonist, he faced Carreka's shot in the penalty area, and in the whole reflex save, he magically touched the ball with his fingertips, and then used the rotation of his wrist to change the flight direction of the football, and finally the ball flew out of the bottom line by grazing the left post.

Careca was stupid on the spot, and at this moment, all his self-confidence as the world's top shooter was almost destroyed in front of Lin Yaodong.

At this moment, Carreca's face was mixed with a mixed expression of disappointment, surprise and disbelief, and even the Brazilian fans in front of the TV had a psychological shadow on the Chinese team.

After the Chinese team's defense that almost overturned this time, it immediately reined in the infinitely inflated self-confidence in their hearts.

The Brazilian collapses again, but he still has a terrifying skill on his feet.

If it weren't for Lin Yaodong's performance in front of the door today, he would not be able to open it; If it weren't for the tactical restraint of their opponents, the Brazilians would still be above them in terms of hard power.

After that, both sides had no desire to launch another onslaught, and finally when the referee blew the final whistle, Brazil lost 0-5 to the Chinese team.

This result was not only unexpected, but also shocking to the world!

The Chinese broadcast did not give a live signal after the match.

Chinese fans only saw the sad Brazilian female fans in the live camera near the end of the game, the national flag and colors painted on their faces had long been smeared with tears, and there were Brazilian beauties hiding their faces and crying bitterly.

But this was only the tip of the story, after the game there were small riots in the stands everywhere, there were lit Brazilian flags everywhere, many seats were also lit by angry Brazilian fans to vent, countless mineral water bottles and lighters and other items were thrown away, the scene can be described as a mess!

After the game, the players of the two teams did not even have time to exchange jerseys, so they quickly left the stadium under the cover of security.

As for Brazil, riots of varying magnitude occurred in many cities after the game, with dozens of cars and buses burned in one night, hundreds of shops looted, and many drunk Brazilian fans fighting each other over blaming each other's favorite players, killing several people and injuring hundreds in the brawls.

But these were all news that would not be revealed until the next day, and the Chinese team quickly staged a champagne battle in the lounge after quickly returning to the locker room.

Due to insufficient preparation, the CCTV film crew did not waterproof the camera, and the expensive machine was accidentally injured by champagne in the middle of the shooting and scrapped, which shows how much joy the Chinese players have.

This joy also continued to the post-match press conference, where the Chinese players were clearly in the mood to face reporters than the Brazilian, who had ended the interview hastily.

"Tonight's winner is China, but is that victory built on an ugly solid defense? Is this your killer feature for the knockouts? ”

The Chinese players were in a good mood, but the first question they faced at the press conference affected this good mood a little.

Lin Yaodong laughed directly when he heard this question, and replied with a mocking face: "We scored five goals and didn't concede even one goal at the same time, are you mocking the Brazilian team?" ”

This face embarrassed the South American media who asked the question, and they could not launch a fierce offensive against the Chinese team at the moment because the Brazilians lost too completely.

The Chinese team did play ugly, but that bloody 5:0 made all doubts unable to take effect.

The Brazilian played well, but such a complete defeat was hard to regain his dignity.

Even if it weren't for the double standard, the last 30 minutes of the second half, the Brazilians played an ugly game.

This makes the Brazilian media unable to find any excuse to attack the Chinese team, otherwise Brazil, as a loser, will not be even more unbearable.

"When football in Brazil was considered 'art', and you beat the Brazilians today with anti-'art' methods, does that mean that football has entered an era of anti-art?"

At this time, his family ran out to assist again, but what Wu Jie didn't understand was why the media under the "Mirror Group" always changed reporters, and this time they didn't even send female reporters who could run horses, and it was actually a bald man who came to interview.

But this bald guy's question is very sharp, and it also means that there is more room to play.

Wu Jie thought for a moment before replying: "If the gorgeous attack is art, then the "anti-art" that you call defeating it has become an art in itself. ”

The bald guy immediately asked, "Can you explain the difference between the two arts?" ”

Wu Jie, as the winner, of course, gave face to the Brazilians at this time, and replied: "Brazilian football is full of creativity and vitality, just like their dance 'samba' has a rich rhythm of change, and their athletes turn football into a unique art through this innate rhythm, so I certainly agree with the idea that Brazilian football is an art." ”

At this time, he changed his words and began to add attributes to Chinese football.

"The style of Chinese football is related to its long history, it pays attention to moderation, but it is not simply the midpoint of the line segment, not to mention the simple reconciliation of extremes, but like different dynasties in the long history of the colorful attributes, not only contains creativity and imagination, rich vitality and aggressiveness, but also elegant and gorgeous factors, but also has rigorous, tenacious, stable, and even utilitarian nature."

This answer made Western reporters very unhappy, feeling that you have taken up all the good things you have, and the long history is amazing!

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The next day, the European media reported that the battle was "the collapse of the Brazilian team in the World Cup, the end of the Samba Army".

South American media said that this was "the disaster of Santana, the end of a generation of legendary coaches".

The media in Brazil even said that "the Samba Army was humiliated to the bone by the Chinese in Mexico, which is the eternal shame of Brazilian football."

But the Chinese no longer care about Brazil's life or death, because the opponent has gone home and they will continue their journey in the World Cup.

It's not time to celebrate, they just reached the quarterfinals, which is not the ultimate goal, after all, they reached the quarterfinals in the last World Cup, and this result is not a breakthrough for the Chinese team, at most it is just qualified.

Their match against Brazil is the final game of the eighth-knockout round, with a new draw set to begin the next day and every team that advances will be looking forward to their next opponent.

But unlike the draw before the eighth-knockout round, this time the Chinese team has become an opponent that no one wants to encounter.

The Brazilians are not good at the group stage, but the Chinese team is weak in the group stage.

But a 5-0 match showed all teams the cunning of the Chinese, who clearly stayed in the group stage and hid more than one hand, and even the style of play completely changed.

Now every team is frightened by the defense that China showed in their win over Brazil, the kind of defense that is somewhat similar to Italy's, but clearly self-contained, and they have struggled to find a way to deal with it for a while, so of course they don't want to deal with it.

Mexico first showed enough respect to the Chinese team in the draw for the quarter-knockout round, and they drew the Spanish team.

The Spaniard said he was humiliated and who didn't know who Mexico drew in the knockout rounds meant that the team was one of the best of all the teams that qualified.

So what does it mean that Mexicans draw them?

Do you really look down on people?

However, for other teams, everyone would prefer to draw Mexico, including China, who also think that Mexico is the easiest to deal with.

Now that the two most rookie teams have been drawn, the remaining six teams are destined to be evenly matched, no matter who meets whom.

Soon, West German fans and Argentine fans became depressed, looking at each other unhappy at the same time, their hearts were not so confident, who made these two teams the best teams in the group stage or in the knockout round.

The next to show disdain for each other were the fans of Italy and France, two countries that had never stood together and pinched each other every time, and this time they were going to pinch each other again.

"Won't it?"

"Shady! It must be shady! ”

"Why are we responsible for defending the Earth every time?"

“……”

Needless to say, these voices were all made by the British at the top of their throats.

There are only eight teams left in the quarter-knockout round, and since the other three groups of matchups have been drawn, it goes without saying that the last group has met the Chinese again.

"Haha, this is the best lottery we can draw, right?"

"Why didn't the Mexicans smoke England and leave our weakest opponent to us?"

"Hit the British? Isn't that going to get us to the Final Four? ”

"I just watched the game, and I want to ask, the British team, is he good?"

'It's not a question of whether he's good or not, they're the only players who can stop the ball 20 metres at their feet and form a shot that forces the opposition goalkeeper to make a save!'

"All I know is that the player who can knock the corner flag over when he takes a penalty is a player from the British Empire."

“……”

When the matchup was announced, the reactions of the Chinese and British fans were diametrically opposed, and the ridicule was of course from the inflated Chinese fans.

But it's no wonder that they look down on the British, Lin Yaodong's original sentence "Wu Jie went to England to play football for the purpose of technical poverty alleviation" has not only become a joke in the mouths of Chinese fans, but also a joke in all Europe except the United Kingdom.

However, the British's foot skills are indeed a little rough, especially with Wu Jie as a comparison, it naturally seems that all the English superstars are scum.

But if you are realistic, this comparison is very unfair, just like the original plane to compare the skills of national football players with Messi, it is really too difficult for the Chinese team?

The Britons on this plane are comparing their own players with Wu Jie, and the result is naturally that the more they compare, the less confident they become, and the more they compare, the more they feel that they are too far behind.

In addition, England has not won a single match against China, and the last World Cup was eliminated by the Chinese team in the group stage, and now the whole of England lacks the self-confidence to beat the Chinese team.

If there is any country in Europe that may be the first to change to Sinophobia, then watching Wu Jie abuse vegetables in his own league every day, facing England, which has a painful memory of the Chinese team, should be who else should be me!

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"What do you think of the England team?" The next day, after the lottery results were released, Lin Yaodong openly stretched out a hand and gestured in the face of media interviews, "Let's put it this way, they are like fingerprints in my palm, no matter how tortuous they are, they are always in my hands!" ”

These words were extremely slap in the face, fortunately, the current information transmission is not as developed as it was twenty years later, otherwise not only Lin Yaodong would become the public enemy of all England, but Wu Jie would also suffer from the pond fish.

Wu Jie was helpless and ignored this, Lin Yaodong's words would definitely let him be scolded, but he understood that since he was going to fight England, he would be scolded sooner or later unless he lost the game.

In fact, even if the Chinese team loses, although he will be scolded lightly, he will only suffer more ridicule.

Thinking about it this way, it might as well be scolded.

The quarter-finals will be played over two days, June 23-25, with a day off after the quarter-finals, with the four matches on the 27th and 28th.

The contest between China and England was put in the last game, and the first match on the 27th was a blockbuster contest between West Germany and Argentina.

Originally, most of people's impressions of Argentina, the World Cup champion, were only Maradona's epic performance of angels and demons, but they also ignored that although this Argentina team lacked starry, it was much better overall than the star-studded Argentina later.

In fact, this Argentina team deliberately gave up many famous stars for the sake of wholeness when selecting people.

The premise of the manager Bilardo when selecting players is that there is no conflict with Maradona, and everyone will revolve around him as a deputy.

So there are not many well-known stars in this Argentine team except Maradona, but everyone is a low-key powerhouse. This also makes the team beyond the South American team in terms of running ability, discipline and coordination ability, but still has higher technical ability than the average European player.

In the original knockout games, Argentina faced England, Belgium, and West Germany all had the upper hand on the field, especially England did not lose to the hand of God, Argentina's advantage in that game has been very large, even without the hand of God, England has no chance.

The same is true of this contest with West Germany, except for the first 20 minutes of trial between the two teams, West Germany did not complete a few really effective shots until more than 70 minutes in the second half, both offensive and defensive scenes, and were scored by Argentina in the 22nd and 55th minutes respectively.

However, at this time, the West Germans showed a tenacious fighting spirit different from the Brazilians, when the Argentines led by two goals and deliberately narrowed the line, the Germans who fell behind 0:2 were still able to fight relentlessly, and actually drew 2:2 with Rummenigge and Worrall in the 76th and 83rd minutes with Bremer's two precise corner kicks, this kind of resilience is undoubtedly an example that the Chinese team should learn from.

However, West Germany's defense at the expense of Mateus in order to limit Maradona ultimately failed to pay off as expected.

Maradona found space just before the break, and a brilliant through ball allowed Bruchaga to run 40 metres with the ball and struck the fatal blow through Schumacher's goal at the same time.

History seems to have returned to its place at this moment, except that the West Germans fell from the final to the quarter-finals, and their achievement of reaching the final of three consecutive World Cups is completely lost.

Wu Jie can also see why Argentina can win the championship, this is obviously a Chinese team that does not have superstars like Chen Haonan and Lin Yaodong, but has no shortcomings in overall strength.

Argentina's configuration is a ball king with 10 little brothers with an ability value of 86-92, although each supporting role is inconspicuous, but they are all excellent players with solid basic skills, the whole team has the same thinking, tacit cooperation, and a piece of tacit running and solid basic skills to help Maradona build a god platform, and finally help a generation of football kings to ascend the throne smoothly, and this is not the team that Wu Jie wants?

The gap between the Chinese team and Argentina lies in the lack of strength of the supporting roles, but they are strong in having two historical superstars second only to the king of the ball, and in fact they are fully capable of competing with Argentina.

But in the face of such a team with the king of the ball to lead the charge and have no shortcomings at all, the West Germans really have nothing to gain the upper hand except for tenacious tenacity and will to fight.

After the Great War between Argentina and West Germany, Mexico and Spain fought in prime time in the evening.

The Chinese team still gathered together to watch this quarter-knockout match, and at this stage of the World Cup, no team's game can be missed, because anyone can become the next opponent.

Mexicans feel that the Spaniards are the worst of the seven teams, but Wu Jie feels that Italy and Mexico are the worst of the eight teams.

But this kind of "difference" can no longer determine the outcome of the game at this stage, and on-the-spot performance, tactical strategy, style restraint, injury attrition, and even luck may affect the outcome of the game.

Argentina's goal against Germany actually had a certain element of luck.

If the game is dragged into extra time by the more physical Germans, Argentina may not be able to win the German tank, which is getting more and more morale.

Compared with other teams, Mexico has more geographical advantages + people.

Therefore, in this big battle with Spain, the two teams are also inseparable on the field, the battle is extremely fierce, and the scene is undoubtedly very good-looking, because both sides are holding high the banner of attack.

In the end, after 90 minutes of beating each other, the two teams actually fought 3:3, and a total of six goals were scored in the regular season.

The Chinese team was made a bit of a yin and yang by the commentators of many countries in this game, because in this World Cup, except for Italy and China, there is really no one who is defense-oriented, and almost all of them hold high the banner of offense and replace defense with offense.

The Chinese team may have a lot of goals, but they did play ugly in the knockout round, and no matter how many goals they scored, they didn't talk about martial arts.

Mexico and Spain were naturally exemplars of martial virtue, but perhaps running out of ammunition in regulation time, the two teams ran out of ammunition in extra time and ended up in a brutal penalty shoot-out after 120 minutes.

Spain's striker Butragueno is also always mentioned today, as he scored again in regulation time, successfully extending his tally to seven goals, once again equaling Wu Jie in the scoring charts.

This performance is very important for the Western media, Wu Jie won the Golden Boot in the last World Cup, and if he wins the Golden Boot again this time, it will really rule an era.

However, this big hero in the eyes of the Western media, who was even expected to beat Wu Jie's new superstar, dropped the chain in the penalty shootout.

However, with the exception of Putragno, none of the other Spanish players missed a penalty.

The Mexican, on the other hand, sat at home and missed the first goal.

Finally, in the fifth round of life and death, Mexico's captain Kirarte lost his head due to psychological pressure, and Spain's Rafael Gordillo announced Mexico's exit in one fell swoop.

After the game, many Mexican fans who became angry because of disappointment, of course, may also take the opportunity to vent the evil that has accumulated for half a month, in short, all the big cities in Mexico have produced a lot of vicious incidents of smashing and looting this night.

The Chinese team didn't feel any difference in Mexico this night, although they came to live in a new hotel, they still stayed in a private hotel, and the surrounding area was still Gallardo's territory, and no one would come to them without opening their eyes to get in trouble.

Now the Chinese players only have one thing in mind, that is, in tomorrow's game, completely discount the legs of the Englishmen!