According to the statistics provided by the authoritative company "OPTA" after the game, in this Russian-Spanish battle, the Matadors became the first team to complete 1,000 passes in a single match of the World Cup since the relevant statistics began in 1966. And the final figure of 1,137 times is not only unprecedented, but it may also be difficult for anyone else to achieve, because in 120 minutes of the game, the opponent's bus tactics allowed the Spanish team to get 79% of the possession time, which is too rare.

It stands to reason that to be able to use the passing and possession tactics to the extreme, it must only be a team at the palace level, and winning the championship is not to say that it is a hand-holding, at least it should be to sweep all the rhythm of the team that is not as strong as itself, but the reality is obviously not to follow this routine.

Almost more than 80 per cent of these more than 1,000 passes were made in areas where they could not pose a threat to the opposition defence, and the proportion of passes passed in front of them was far less than that of Russia, which had a quarter of their total number of passes. The Spanish players are just passing the ball for the sake of passing, and most of the time they are doing pointless inverts on the field, just killing time.

Although the statistics of 25 attacks and 9 shots on target in the whole game looked good, most of them were not completed under good chances. With such a clear advantage, the only goal scored was an own goal from an opposition, which shows how poor the team's attacking efficiency is.

And if it's only the offensive end that doesn't play well, it doesn't matter, after all, when they won the championship in 2010, the Matadors scored very few goals, almost carrying forward the 1-0 doctrine to the extreme. However, even the defensive ability, which was previously considered the best in the world, has shown an unimaginably inferior performance, which makes it difficult not to be angry.

Pique and Sergio Ramos, the world's top centre-backs, have both made big mistakes in this World Cup, and Carvajal, who can compete for the world's No. 1 right wing-back in the club, has not even been able to secure his starting position, and Alva, who is better at inserting assists, has become the one who has performed relatively best at the back, which is somewhat ironic.

But what is truly desperate is that the main goalkeeper David De Gea seems to have been possessed or taken away by an amateur goalkeeper, and has become a very different person from when he was at the club. In the four games he played in regulation time (i.e. not counting the penalty shoot-out), the duck was shot over the target seven times (Portugal 3, Morocco 3, Russia 1, Iran 0), and he made six failed saves except for the one that Moroccan striker Butaib voluntarily kicked to his chest.

And with only one successful save being the goalkeeper with the fewest saves in a single tournament since the 1966 World Cup, who would have predicted that this would happen to the world's number one goalkeeper before the game?

After the match, the world's media commented on the former World Champion's outing, with the vast majority of them criticizing them with words similar to playing with fire and self-inflicted misfortune. Of course, it is the media in their own country that scolds them the most.

Spanish media such as "Marca", "As", and "World Sports" directly scolded this national team, from interim coach Hierro to every player, almost no one was spared. There are also a few tabloids that use Galeries Lafayette as a target in order to attract attention and increase sales. Anyway, before the start of the new season of the league, the whole country was scolding, fully demonstrating what it means to love and hate.

However, in this environment, there are still other things that deserve everyone's distraction, the first focus is the announcement that the little white Andres Iniesta will retire from the national team.

Although this situation was foretold before the start of the World Cup, when this moment really came, fans still couldn't let go of their attachment to the football master, and left messages on the Internet to express their respect and blessings to the veteran.

Since May 27, 2006, when he wore the Spanish senior national team shirt for the first time, Iniesta has played a total of 136 international A-level matches for his country, scoring 13 goals, including the golden extra-time goal in the 2010 World Cup final in South Africa, and contributing 27 assists.

His departure also marked the farewell of Spain's golden generation, and from then on, people can only look for the art of pass-and-control football that will be pleasing to everyone.

In addition, if nothing else, the two veterans of Reina and Silva will also completely take off the national team jersey in the near future, and Ramos, Pique and others, who are over 30 years old, can at most hold on to the European Championship two years later, and the arrival of a large-scale renewal of the Matadors army seems to be not far away.

As for Li Mudi, in addition to reminiscing about the disappearance of Tiki-Taka with the mentality of fans in his previous life, he naturally focused his attention on his friend Hierro while working part-time as a commentator. Spain's big upset and fall in the first round of the knockout round is certainly unsatisfactory, although the president of the Football Association gritted his teeth and insisted on not regretting the decision to change the coach, but the current situation is that this pot must be carried by someone, and it is clear that Real Madrid is one of the candidates who can't escape the pot no matter what.

Although he thinks that his big brother is indeed not suitable for the work of the team's head coach, if he is forced to leave the national team because of this unwarranted disaster (to be honest, his lack of coaching ability is one of the main reasons for the early exit of the Spanish team, but he himself should not suffer too much blame for this, because this time to take over the national team coaching whip is a product of the situation, not to mention that there is no time to come, at least few people are willing to become Lopetegui's successor in that unfavorable situation), and forced to leave the national team, That's a bit wronged.

To be honest, Li Mudi is very interested in the position of head coach of the Matadors, even without plug-ins, just by relying on the various information he has gathered during his years in Real Madrid's various age echelons, you can know how strong the country's football foundation is. Even if all the international players in the current senior national team are removed, within three or four years, a new team can be cultivated, and the strength is also world-class.

It's a pity that although he has the country's household registration book, he is an immigrant from the Celestial Empire, even if he does not offend the chairman of the Football Association, he has no chance. However, out of concern for his second country, he still hopes that Hierro, who has done a very good job in the position of sports director, can return to his original position, and then select a suitable person from a large number of local coaches to take charge of the coach, and the future of the Spanish national team is still worth looking forward to.

However, before the Torino coach calmed down his complicated emotions and turned his attention back to the next commentary mission, he received a call from Valentino Caiiro from Italy, Inter Milan inquired about Benasi, and the midfielder's agent also submitted an application to the club to leave the club almost at the same time.

Li Mudi, who had been prepared for this situation for a long time, quickly gave his own proposal: 25 million euros plus the right of first refusal of striker supernova Pinamonti.

As the core of the Torino team's midfield for the previous three seasons, Marco Benasi, who was born in 1994, had a relatively comfortable life during his four years with the Red Bulls. Especially after the arrival of Li Mudi in the summer of 2016, the team's results jumped into the ranks of the Serie A powerhouses, and he himself played a very good performance, although he still failed to fulfill the dream of playing for the country, but at this stage of the scarcity of local organizational midfielders, his future development prospects are still very optimistic.

It's just that since the team changed to a 3-5-2 formation last season, Benasi, who has been playing in central midfield, has been repeatedly mentioned by the manager as a midfielder, a position he doesn't like, which not only seriously affects his personal emotions, but also causes his statistics to shrink seriously.

Compared to the impressive performance of 37 appearances in all competitions in 2016-17, scoring seven goals and providing 13 assists, Benasi's statistics have become 5 goals and 8 assists in 41 games in the year just ended, which is a significant drop in efficiency.

And after Portugal striker Bruno Fernandes joined the Torino team and Cagliari's midfielder Nicolò Barella officially returned from his loan spell, Benassi believes that his playing time is very likely to be seriously squeezed, which is completely unacceptable for him who is determined to prove his quality in front of the new national team coach Roberto Mancini and thus get the chance to be selected for the Azzurri.

As a result, Benacy, who had the idea of leaving the team in the middle and late stages of last season because he shared playing time with Barceli and other teammates, immediately strengthened his determination to switch to a team that could promise him a main position when the team's lineup for the new season was basically decided.

It was at this time that his former club Inter Milan (Benassi joined Inter's Under-19s from the Modena Academy at the age of 17 and ended a three-year Nerazzurri career until 2014, when he was now bought by Torino for 4.4 million euros) contacted his agent, Francisco Romano, with a desire to welcome back the midfield playmaker. And coach Spalletti also stated that in his plan, Benassi will replace the position of Spanish veteran Valero and become the team's main midfield combination in the new season with Brozovic and new signing Nainggran.

Faced with the strong invitation of one of the three giants in China and the former owner, Benassi nodded and agreed without too much hesitation, for this reason, he did not hesitate to use the method of submitting an application to leave the team to reject the possible retention actions of the current team, which can be said to be a ruin.

However, he obviously thinks too much, and Li Mudi has always pursued the transfer concept of "as long as the price is reasonable, everything comes and goes freely", and rarely does anything to force players to stay. Even if AC Milan wanted to buy Belotti, although he was not very reluctant, he did not force it to stop. It was only because the opponent was in a deep financial crisis that he could not come up with funds in line with the player's value in a short period of time that the Torino coach, who was unwilling to prepare for the game, rejected the trade proposal.

Even the team's number one star and main scorer Red Beibei, Li Mudi has no intention of staying, let alone Benasi, the personnel reserve in the midfield position of the Torino team can be said to be quite abundant, and anyone can play without it, and there are a large number of excellent supplementary candidates, who are not afraid of being poached at all.

It's just that the sentence is still the same, the person who wants me has to pay something that matches its value in exchange, either real money that can satisfy the psychological bottom line of the Turin coach, or can pay off the debt with Xi'er - ah, no, it is the potential Zhengtai in exchange. In short, even if Li Mudi opened a black store, if you want to spend and enjoy here, you must not be short of money, otherwise...... Hey, hey, hey!

And when Li Mudi was sinisterly calculating what he could gain from this deal, and subconsciously reading the news in his mind that was the focus of European football, he was suddenly shocked by an ongoing transfer incident, and his heart may have been scared out of it. Because this news is so unbelievable!

Juventus are actively in contact with football superagent Mendes, who hope to bring the 33-year-old Ronaldo from the Bernabeu to the Allianz Arena.

Immediately, this super transfer incident, which was supposed to be in a secret transaction, was soon learned by well-informed media. On July 3, the front page of Torino Sport newspaper was printed with a photo of the president celebrating after a goal scored in the World Cup, with the caption: "Cristiano Ronaldo and Juventus, what a story!" However, the article also admits that although the Agnelli family believes that the Portuguese captain is the best person to help the team break the Champions League curse, the Serie A hegemony is completely unlikely to succeed in the face of a release fee of up to one billion euros in the other party's contract.

Soon after, the Spanish newspaper Marca also published an article confirming that Juventus' interest in Cristiano Ronaldo is real, and the possibility of this deal becoming a reality is not low, because Real Madrid is likely to agree to reduce the president's release fee to 120 million, which shows Lafayette's firm determination to sell the team's number one superstar.

Subsequently, all kinds of related news showed a trend of swiping the screen, covering up all other football news except for the World Cup, especially on the Spanish side, and even temporarily forgot about the liquidation of the national team after the disgraceful exit, and began to devote itself to this transfer that may change the pattern of world football.

As the report continues to deepen, everyone has basically determined that Ronaldo's "fantasy" of switching to Juventus is about to become a fact, because Real Madrid has not denied the previous rumors. At the same time, the Italian and Spanish media broke the news that the Bianconeri had submitted an offer of 100 million euros to the Galaxy Battleship and offered the player a four-year contract with an annual salary of 30 million after tax (up to 60 million before tax). These two conditions are not much different from the psychological bottom line of the parties, and after a wave of bargaining, it is very likely that a consensus will be reached in a short period of time.

As a result, Juventus supporters were excited, and although the introduction of a 33-year-old veteran at such a large cost would have caused criticism before, the president was the only exception. Judging from his performance in this World Cup, his physical fitness is still quite good, not inferior to other 27 or 8-year-old players who are in their peak form, and his world-class skills and fighting spirit will bring immeasurable role models to Juventus players who have always been willing to drop the chain at key moments in European competitions. So with the exception of a few people, the general view is still very bullish on this transfer deal.

Li Moody now does not know whether Ronaldo's future performance will swell the faces of Real Madrid and Galeries Lafayette, he just knows that his original plan to overthrow the city's sworn rivals in the domestic league is likely to suffer a major blow before the start of the season.

The already powerful seven-time champion in a row, coupled with one of the two best quasi-ball kings in world football, makes other Serie A teams how to play? This red fruit cheating ah! Do you have?