Chapter 283: World Cup Final

After the end of the business activities, Shen Feng's life completely recovered, and he was still bored in the training base of the Jianye team every day, while completing the team's training subjects and completing the daily training tasks of the "Shenfeng System" by the way, he continued to train himself according to the previous practice, and carried out special training tasks according to the established plan.

The only leisure every day is chatting with Zhang Zifeng.

Two people who grew up in completely different backgrounds and environments don't know how to talk about so many things.

Moreover, even if the conversation is just a small thing, the content of the chat is even more boring in the eyes of others, but the two of them are happy and tireless.

When chatting, Shen Feng and Zhang Zifeng are three meters around, and they both exude the atmosphere of love - because they are first love, the breath is very fresh, not the deliberately contrived rancid smell between those love veterans.

In the meantime, the World Cup is still in full swing.

The result of the second semi-final was a bit unexpected, but when you think about it, it makes sense.

Although the Croatian team has gone through 120 minutes of play in the previous two knockout games, winning or losing, and finally relying on penalty shootouts to eliminate the opponent, this also proves the tenacity of this team.

Therefore, in the semi-final with England, the 90-minute regular game time was 1:1 again, and extra time was needed, psychologically, the Croatian team had some advantages.

Although the England team also experienced extra time in the previous quarterfinals, and finally eliminated the opponent through a penalty shootout, this young team still lacks a domineering spirit and the belief that they must win!

Although the "happy football" they advocated in this World Cup has allowed them to create the best record in recent World Cups, it has also formed certain restrictions on them to a certain extent.

In the end, in this semi-final, with a goal from Mandzukic, one of the team's leading stars, who now plays for Serie A giants Juventus, in the second half of extra time, Croatia defeated England with a score of 2:1 and reached the World Cup final for the first time in team history.

In this way, the final of this World Cup will be played between France and Croatia.

And these two teams once met in the semi-finals of the World Cup in '98, when the French team defeated the current president of the Croatian Football Association and the Croatian team led by Davao Suker, the biggest star in team history, with the outstanding performance of Zidane, Henry, and the current head coach Deschamps.

At that World Cup, the French team won the first World Cup trophy in the team's history.

Now, after 20 years, the two old enemies have met again, and the stage has been changed to the more important World Cup final.

Before the final, the first to be played was the third or fourth final between the losers in the two semi-finals, and this game was quite important to Dragon Country fans, because its result will determine that Shen Feng can successfully win the "Golden Boot Award" of this World Cup.

Harry Kane "lived up to expectations" in the previous semifinals, failed to narrow the goal gap with Shen Feng, and this game became his last chance to catch up with Shen Feng in the scorer list.

However, it seems that because of the impact of not being able to enter the final, Harry Kane and the England team led by him, the performance in the third and fourth finals was not satisfactory, and the Belgian team won cleanly with a score of 2:0, and the England team did not score, and Harry Kane naturally missed the last chance to catch up with Shen Feng in the scorer list.

As a result, with only the last final left in this World Cup, Shen Feng still leads the scorer list alone with 7 goals, Harry Kane follows with 6 goals, and Ronaldo and Lukaku are tied for third place with 4 goals.

Among the two teams to play in the last final, France's Griezmann and Mbappe have 3 individual goals in this World Cup; Croatia's top individual goal before the final at this World Cup was Perisic, who scored two goals for Croatia.

The gap between these players and Shen Feng's goals is too big, and it is almost impossible to catch up in this final final!

In the knockout stage of the World Cup, the score is relatively scorching, let alone the final.

In the 2006 World Cup final, France and Italy drew 1:1 in 120 minutes of play, and finally had to use penalty shootouts to determine the champion.

Only in the 2002 World Cup final, Brazil defeated Germany with a score of 2:0, and the score was quite impressive.

Therefore, in everyone's prediction before the game, the final between France and Croatia should not be too big.

Although the French team has set off a youth storm in this World Cup, it has not shown too much dominance in attack, scoring only three goals in three games in the group stage.

In the knockout stage, as the opponent strengthened, the French team also performed better, beating Argentina 4-3 in the quarter-finals and Portugal 2-0 in the quarter-finals.

However, in the semi-finals, France showed some fatigue by scoring only one goal in the win over Belgium.

So, when it comes to the final final, how the French team will perform, it's really hard to say now.

The state of the Croatian team, not to mention, the average age of their main squad is already older, several core players in the team, Modric is thirty-three years old, Mandzukic is also thirty-two years old, Rakitic is slightly younger, but he is already thirty years old, only Perisic is not yet thirty, but he was born in 89 and is already twenty-nine years old.

Physical fitness is the biggest problem for the Croatian team to overcome in this final!

They played extra time in their first three knockout games, two of which were decided on penalties, which made them much more physically depleted than the French team.

Moreover, the semi-final of the Croatian team was played one day later than the French team, which gave the Croatian team one less day to prepare for the final, which was even more detrimental to their physical recovery.