At 02:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 7, the 1/4 finals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia continued, and Brazil faced Japan at the Kazan Arena.

On July 7, the 81st anniversary of the Lugou Bridge Incident, there was a match between the Japanese team on this day, and after the Chinese team defeated Portugal to reach the semifinals, the Chinese audience naturally paid a lot of attention.

Is it possible for the Taijun to be upset to the end and kill two world powerhouses in a row? In comparison, in fact, the strength of the Japanese team's opponents in these two rounds is much stronger than that of the Chinese team, and it is not all polite to say that the Japanese team is worthy of respect.

The Chinese and Japanese teams did not meet in Kazan, the Chinese team just left, the Japanese team came to Kazan, originally hoped to stay in the Chinese team's previous Royal Hotel, but the Royal Hotel clearly vacated the room, still did not take the Japanese team's order, the Japanese team was very depressed, but in the end had no choice but to go to the Ramada Hotel where Argentina had stayed.

The Royal Hotel was purchased by Xi'er for most of the shares, and all the facilities and equipment inside have been renovated for the arrival of the Chinese team, which has reached the World Cup hotel standard or even exceeded a lot, how can it be cheaper for the Japanese! It's just to make you greedy, but you won't let it come, hehe. According to the meaning of the little fairy Xi'er, she also wanted to hang "Japanese people and dogs are not allowed to enter" on the gate, and was persuaded by others to cause a conflict between China and Japan, so she gave up.

When you hung a similar sign, didn't you make any "contradictions"......

The heroes of the Japanese team have money but can't enjoy better accommodation, depression is depression, but on the other side it is not without benefits, they can enjoy Messi, Ronaldo, Modric...... A beautiful portrait of Kane.

The time Lu Zhuhu passed by, he saw a good person writing on Ronaldo's graffiti: Can you exceed me if I scored four goals? Leo!

Looks provocative.

Ronaldo finally scored one more time, but unfortunately these two people are now home, it seems that the curse of the Kazan mural is really not fooling! Lu Zhuhu had to congratulate himself on his wit and gave such an "honor" to Kane.

The Brazilian team is now in Kazan, and they did not choose the Royal Hotel, but stayed in another hotel in the city. The enthusiasm of the people of Kazan is still high, the Samba Army has not yet arrived, and a large graffiti portrait of Neymar has been painted on a building opposite the hotel, and the words "Neymar welcomes you to Kazan".

On the opposite side of the team's hotel, the players can see directly through the floor-to-ceiling windows of their rooms, and I wonder if such a headshot graffiti has brought them a "surprise" (fright), and how Neymar himself feels when he sees it......

It's complicated anyway......

The way Kazan fans express their love for a person is indeed a bit special, and as the "curse" becomes more and more confirmed, it is not known whether such graffiti can bring Neymar "good luck" in tonight's game.

It may ...... Suspend?

Brazil is a real teacher and even a "mentor" for Japan, and even the head coach of "Big Sky Wing" is the Brazilian "Robert Hongo"! (Nicholas Zhao Si is not convinced!) ）

In the 80s of the last century, the Japanese team was still a second-rate team in Asian football, with no body and no technology, the Chinese team and the Japanese team played, although it was not like the five-goal massacre in the era of Li Huitang, but it was often consumed with 2 goals. It wasn't until 1988 that Japanese soccer began to establish a professional soccer league (J-League), and at the beginning of the league, Japanese soccer discussed the style of football and play in their own country, and finally decided to learn from Brazil and follow the path of technical football.

Japanese players are generally not tall, but there is also an advantage to being small, flexible on their feet. Japanese football plays to its strengths and avoids its weaknesses, specializing in the lower three, learning the delicate short-pass penetration of samba football, and using precise passes to advance layer by layer. The style is quite uniform, from the J-League to all levels of national teams, including women's football, all of them are based on pass-and-control technical play. For 30 years, the Japanese team's style of football has not changed, and they have always adhered to the Brazilian team's style of play. From the initial resemblance, to the later resemblance, until now it has formed its own technical style. The Japanese team has also suffered setbacks, because of the loss of height and strength, the so-called "technical football" of the Japanese team is often washed away by European teams. But even if the results are not good, Japanese football is determined to learn from Brazil. In the World Cup, the Japanese team is not a strong team, but the level is close to the second-rate or even first-class in Europe.

The last time the two teams met in the World Cup was in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Japan lost 4-1 to the "teacher" Brazil. But today everyone believes that the Japanese team will definitely perform better than the last time.

Because it was also World Anti-Discrimination Day, players from both sides stood together to commemorate the occasion, which was a bit ambiguous and made it seem as if everyone was actually in Japan.

The game started on time. At the beginning, the two teams attacked and defended each other, and were in the stage of testing each other. In the 4th minute of the opening game, Qianguishi scored the ball in the middle of the field with a right-footed long-range shot from outside the penalty area, and the ball deflected off the left post - the Taijun took the lead, and the Japanese team showed its fangs against the Brazilian team for the first time.

In the 8th minute, Neymar drove a corner kick from the left side of the field into the penalty area, and Hotaru Yamaguchi nodded the ball forward, and the ball hit Thiago Silva and hit the left post.

In this game, the Japanese team's last killer hero, Yuki Lu Zhuhuji, did not get a start, and his replacement was Hotaru Yamaguchi. The main reason is that the foot work of Qiji is much rougher than that of Yamaguchi Taijun, and this time the Japanese team really wants to discuss the foot work with the Brazilian team.

Although most fans think that this practice is to shine a lantern on the pit - to find (to die).

Nishino Lang is still different from the coach of the Portuguese team, although he played quite well in the last game and was like a "selected child", but as long as he felt that it did not match his tactical intentions in this game, he resolutely put him on the cold bench, unlike Portugal who had unrealistic illusions about the king of the ball.

Who would have thought that the Japanese team's slap in the face came quite quickly, just 13 minutes, the Japanese team Yosuke Izuguchi also took a corner kick from the left side, Miranda made a mistake in marking, and the central defender Tomoaki Makino headed into the near corner 5 meters from the goal, 1-0!

After taking the lead over Belgium, Japan scored a goal for Brazil with a preemptive approach!

Looking at the Japanese celebrating wildly, the whole world is trembling, is world football really going to change the sky and become the world of Asian teams?

However, the Brazilian team was not an idle role after all, and they underestimated Japan at the beginning, and after conceding the goal, they significantly strengthened their defensive intensity, and the offensive end gradually began to gain momentum. The Japanese team was not happy for a few minutes at all, and in the 17th minute, Neymar broke the ball to the right side, and Willian passed to Marcelo on the set, Marcelo burst into the right side of the penalty area to send a bocce ball, and Paulilio easily pushed it into the net with his left foot 3 meters in front of the goal!

Equalize!

Just 6 minutes later, Brazil added another point!

Neymar chested the ball in the penalty area and was distracted by Hotaru Yamaguchi behind him when he shot and deflected off the post. It was a penalty, but the referee gave a corner. Brazil takes a corner, the Japanese defender is not far away, Marcelo volleys into the top left corner from 20 meters in front of the goal!

Overtake the score! 2 to 1!

It took less than ten minutes for the Brazilian team to beat the Japanese team back to its original form, showing its physical, technical, and individual ability of the players in all aspects. After taking the lead, Brazil relaxed the pace of the game, but kept the ball at their feet, and although Japan also put a lot of effort into pressing, they could only be played by the Brazilian superstars.

Just when everyone thought that the suspense of the first half was not very large, near the end of the half, the Japanese team got a free kick opportunity. Maya Yoshida took the penalty, and his power and arc were almost impeccable, and the shot flew straight to the top left corner of the goal!

One hit!

Rely on a free kick opportunity to score and tie the score at 2-2!

Once again, there seemed to be suspense in the game, and at half-time, people began to talk about the possibility of the Japanese team using strong willpower to complete a second upset, and some even gossiped about the portrait painted by the people of Kazan for Neymar......

Only this time, Japan were unable to continue their good form after half-time from Belgium and the first half of this game, and the main players showed a clear decline in physical strength.

In the 57th minute, Jesus' shot from 5 meters from the goal on the right side of the penalty area was blocked by Yuto Nagatomo, and Brazil won a corner. Brazil took a corner kick, and Neymar was about to grab a point, when the referee suddenly interrupted the game and motioned for the video assistant referee to intervene, and after getting the video referee's opinion, he chose to watch the video replay on the sidelines.

After that, he chose to blow for a penalty!

From the slow motion, he could blow Maya Yoshida to pull down Fernandinho – a common tug in the box when there is no VAR technique, but with that, everything becomes more demanding.

Neymar took the penalty kick and pushed it into the bottom right corner, 3-2, and exceeded the score again!

The penalty was a corner kick that Gabriel Jesus had taken, but after Brazil scored, Tito replaced Jesus with No.7 Douglas Costa and didn't even let him finish celebrating with his team-mates......

Anyway, Gabriel Jesus' "worst Brazilian No. 9 in history" makes sense in this World Cup, and if he hadn't missed several chances in the first half, Japan wouldn't have even had a chance to equalize......

In the 76th minute, Coutinho picked up a right-footed pass in the penalty area on the left side of the field, and Augusto, who came on as a substitute, shook his head and scored another goal, Brazil 4-2 Japan, basically killing the suspense of the game!

Beijing Guoan's "celebrity" Augusto is very excited, this is a very important resume capital, and it also proves that the players from the big and medium Super League are all easy to use, wow......

The Japanese team almost ran out of energy in the last game in order to fight Belgium, and even if the difference of 2 goals was not so useless that it was useless to get it back, the players really had no heart......

In the end, Nishino Lang still left 10 minutes for Kiji, but Kiji was also powerless, but was played by the completely opened Brazilian team. But Qi Er's heart is relatively strong under the influence of Lu Zhuhu, Rao was humiliated by Neymar with a gorgeous rainbow, and he didn't get angry, just silently accumulated his qi groove. Before the end, Brazil began to release water, and the Japanese team set off a series of attacking climaxes, with a free kick from the left side of the mountain accurately passed to the goal, and substitute Kiji used his unfortunate head hammer to head the goal again - only the referee ruled that it was offside.

The slow-motion freeze-frame screen shows that Kiji's attack this time is quite level, he is a roundabout run that retreats and then inserts forward, and at the moment of Qianguishi's pass, he is almost on the same level as his brother and daughter-in-law, and offside or not is a millimeter.

In stoppage time, Japan formed a lethal offensive on the right flank, but unfortunately the substitute Genki Haraguchi missed the target in front of the small penalty area and failed to score.

At full-time, Brazil beat Japan to qualify for the semi-finals, where they will next face another "stronger" Asian team, the reigning World Cup champions China.

Japan has come a long way from 1-4 to 2 years ago......

However, there is still a gap with a strong team of Brazil's level, although the Japanese team can fight back and forth with Belgium and achieve a lucky kill, but the energy after that is not enough to challenge another strong team.

But durability is also an important factor in considering a strong team! In one game, the Chinese team can achieve the same number of results as the first-class teams in Europe in many competitions, and even this is in the case of conceding the land to chase the tiger......

Japan were beaten by two goals by Brazil after a 2-2 equaliser, missing out on the chance to continue making history. The Japanese fans who watched the game also followed the team and experienced a heartbreak after the joy. But even in such a situation, Japanese fans still did not forget to clean up the stadium. They have also been praised by the world media, especially the Chinese media.

A good Chinese journalist wrote: "Despite the pain of being killed at the last moment, the Japanese fans stayed in the stadium for a little longer to clean up their garbage." They represent a noble image of Asians, and they deserve our deep reflection and learning from them......"

When the Chinese media killed and promoted the Japanese spirit, they didn't seem to see that the garbage picked up by Japanese fans was obviously thrown on the ground by themselves......

After this game, Lu Zhuhu, who was originally going to rest, became more busy, because his friends were busy calling him. First of all, Kiji was very angry that the referee blew away his goal that was originally a good goal, and said that the "offside" was obvious, which was really unbearable, Lu Zhuhu and the Chinese team must play well in the next game, avenge him Kiji, avenge the Great Japan team, and fight for the honor of East Asian football. Lu Zhuhu endured it and didn't complain, even if the Chinese team wins, it doesn't matter to you, and who the Chinese team is avenging can't avenge your Japanese team, obviously today is the anniversary of the July 7 Incident......

Then came Bindi's call from Kazan – the "accurate prediction" came true, and Brazil finally took on China this time, four World Cups after the last 4-0 victory.