With Yang Yang's last-minute world wave kill, the Chinese team narrowly defeated Greece 1-0, and then followed Colombia with a record of two wins and one loss in three games in the group stage, and qualified as the second place in the group.

This has caused heated discussions and praise at home and abroad, especially for Yang Yang's performance in the group stage.

Three goals and one assist in three games, Yang Yang created all the goals of the Chinese team in the group stage, so much so that some media believe that Yang Yang is dragging the train of the Chinese team on the track of the World Cup.

Even the media in Greece generally only mentioned the defense of the Chinese team after the game, and pointed out two players, one is Zheng Zhi, who is a red card, thinking that if it were not for Zheng Zhi's red card foul at a critical moment, the Chinese team would have lost the game long ago.

And the other player is Yang Yang, at the critical moment, the one-on-three lore ball, played very beautifully, fully reflecting the strength and value of the world's top superstars, and even Greece as an opponent has to feel admired.

As the only team in Asia to win in the group stage of the World Cup and qualify from the group at the same time, the AFC praised the Chinese team fiercely on the official website, believing that the Chinese team played the highest level of competition in Asia in the World Cup, and Yang Yang proved his world's number one star strength.

Domestic public opinion is also boiling, the media and fans are basically satisfied with the performance of the national team in this World Cup, and think that it is indeed quite difficult to stand out from the group stage.

Needless to say, Colombia's strength is needless to say, Greece and Ivory Coast are also good teams, although these three opponents are not particularly famous, and they are not traditional strong teams, but their ability is undoubted.

The fact that the Chinese team was able to stand out from the encirclement of these three teams is really impressive.

Yang Yang is undoubtedly the player who has received the most praise, he has created all the goals of the Chinese team by himself, and he is definitely the undoubted hero of the national team.

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When the Chinese team defeated Greece with difficulty and successfully advanced to the round of 16, the group stage of the World Cup also ended one after another.

Group A hosts Brazil performed well, beating Croatia 3-1 and Cameroon 4-1 despite a 0-0 draw with Mexico in the second game, both of which earned Brazil a full chorus, and the core player Neymar was praised as the number one favorite to win the World Cup.

If Brazil is hot, Spain is cold.

Before the game, no one would have thought that Spain, which has won three international championships in a row and is incomparably powerful, would suffer such humiliation at the World Cup in Brazil, losing 1-5 to Louis van Gaal's Netherlands in the first game and 0-2 to Chile in the second game.

In the last game, although Spain defeated Australia 3-0 and saved some face, everyone can see that the former Spanish transmission and control dynasty has long been declining, not only the aging of the core players, but more importantly, this style of play is gradually being understood by others, and it has long lost its advantage.

On the contrary, Van Gaal's Dutch team, won three games and three victories in the group stage, and reached the round of 16 all the way, while Chile also won two wins and one loss, and entered the round of 16 with the second place in the group.

Spain's tragic elimination, once again triggered a heated discussion among the media and fans around the world, about whether the pass control football is outdated, caused a heated discussion in the outside world, but in fact, in the football circle, especially in European football, the pass control has long been popularized, as long as the capable team, are paying attention to the pass control, but not like Barcelona and Spain, the ball is regarded as life.

On the contrary, like Real Madrid, the team has a stronger adaptability, a richer and more diverse tactical means, coupled with strong financial backing, and the club's excellent ability to recruit has allowed the team to maintain a strong competitiveness.

Therefore, what should really be discussed is not whether the transmission control is outdated, but how to combine its own characteristics and use the transmission control well.

To put it bluntly, the essence of football is all about passing and controlling the ball.

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There is also a big eye-wrenching upset in the group stage of this World Cup, and that is Group D.

The four teams in Group D are Italy, England, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

According to the pre-match guesses, Costa Rica is undoubtedly a team that is slaughtered by others, and this team does not seem to want to perform, so it is not targeted in the pre-game warm-up game arrangement, including a game with the Chinese team, and lost to the Chinese team without Yang Yang.

What is surprising is that in the first game of the group stage, Costa Rica scored three goals in a row after conceding one goal first, and reversed Uruguay 3-1.

The second game was another upset, beating Italy 1-0 thanks to Ruiz's score near the end of the first half.

In the final game, Costa Rica drew 0-0 with England.

In three group games, two wins and one draw remained unbeaten, the record can be described as quite amazing, and even won the first place in the group to advance.

This shocked the whole world, with goalkeeper Keylor Navas being Costa Rica's best and most eye-catching player, but everyone was more concerned about the slump of Uruguay, Italy and England, the three traditional powerhouses.

Especially England, three games, one draw and two losses, such a result is really a bit unattainable.

The British media is also wailing, and the talk about the Premier League being too strong and dragging down the national team has also begun to be noisy, but the reason is that English football is now a little sluggish.

The older generation of Beckham, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Rio Ferdinand are getting older, but the new generation of players has not been able to take over the job or have not performed satisfactorily to meet the expectations of this team.

The Premier League is indeed in full swing, but the level of English football, especially the level of youth training, is indeed insufficient.

It is worth mentioning that Portugal, led by Cristiano Ronaldo, also suffered a serious blow in this World Cup, losing 0-4 to Germany in the first game, followed by a 2-2 draw with the United States, although the final game defeated Ghana 2-1, but still failed to qualify from the group.

In fact, Cristiano Ronaldo was not bad, suffering a humiliating defeat in the first game, but he provided a great assist in the second game and a very good performance in the third.

However, Portugal's overall slump, especially the 0-4 defeat to Germany in the first game, caused the team's morale to be exhausted, and in the end it failed to stay on the World Cup stage.

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Analyzing the group stage of this World Cup, all the media generally believe that the individual talents of the stars, especially the individual performances of the core players, completely dominate the game, and the most typical of them are Yang Yang of the Chinese team, Messi of Argentina and Neymar of Brazil.

According to the summary and analysis of the German Kicker magazine, the land of Brazil has always attached great importance to the individual talents of players, focusing on the ornamental play of stars, and this World Cup is also the same, that is, the importance of the player's personal brilliance exceeds the team's tactics themselves.

The German magazine believes that Yang Yang alone created four goals for the Chinese team, three shots and one pass, leading this weak team from Asia to advance to the round of 16, and may even go one step further, because according to the rules set before the game, their opponent in the top 16 is Costa Rica.

"In the warm-up match before the World Cup, the Chinese team without Yang Yang defeated Costa Rica 1-0, which shows that the Chinese team has the potential to defeat this North American dark horse."

The reason why Costa Rica was able to meet the second Chinese team in the group was that the stars of Uruguay, Italy and England were collectively sluggish, which allowed Costa Rica to take their place and win the first place in the group.

"Even God is helping the Chinese team and helping Yang Yang!" The German magazine lamented.

Kicker Magazine believes that there is another statistic that can reflect the impact of individual player ability on the game, and that is the number of goals scored.

Each team has played three games so far in this World Cup, but Argentina's Lionel Messi and Brazil's Neymar have both scored four goals in three games, with Messi also scoring a last-minute stoppage-time finale.

China's Yang Yang also scored three goals in three games, two of which were also very beautiful world waves.

Kicker magazine also believes that since the beginning of the new century, especially in 04 years, after Greece miraculously won the European Cup, overall football is constantly being valued, even after Pep Guardiola's Barcelona set off a passing storm, because the threshold for implementation is very high, it cannot be popularized at all, and all European teams still attach importance to integrity.

But in this World Cup, several European powerhouses have reached a level where they overemphasize the whole and seriously lack the individual performance of their players, such as Spain, and there is no flash of individual talent of players to change the local situation and drive changes in the overall situation, even in the face of weaker opponents, it is difficult to win.

The Kicker magazine also highlighted Queiroz's transformation of the Chinese team, believing that the Portuguese has inherited the foundation left by Dutchman Alihan in the past four years, further consolidating the overall football of the Chinese team, paying close attention to defense, and benefiting from it, while on the offensive end, Queiroz relies heavily on the play of core player Yang Yang.

"Without Yang Yang, the Chinese team is an Asian-level team, but with Yang Yang, the Chinese team will be completely transformed."

As for the Chinese team that advanced to the round of 16, Kicker magazine believes that as long as Yang Yang plays normally, it is very promising to lead the team to beat Costa Rica, but after entering the quarterfinals, they will encounter the winner of the match between the Netherlands and Mexico, which may become the biggest obstacle for the Chinese team.

"Yang Yang debuted in the Netherlands, his friends Sneijder, Robben, Van der Vaart and others are all in the current Dutch national team, and they also encountered in the World Youth Championships, coach Van Gaal and Yang Yang are friends again, if the Chinese team can really advance to the quarterfinals and meet the Netherlands, it is also quite interesting."

As for the collision between Yang Yang and Messi, which is widely concerned by the outside world, it will need to wait until the semi-finals, which is basically unlikely to happen, because the overall strength of the Dutch team is better than the Chinese team.

"The quarterfinals should be the limit of this Chinese team!"