"Tick! ……”

The referee blew the whistle, and in the midst of the huge boos of the Spanish fans, Cardoso ran to the football and fired a volley, which flew towards the bottom right corner of the goal!

Casillas leaps to his feet and pounces the ball under him!

The Spanish national television commentator shouted: "Casillas! The great Cassie, who saved the penalty and kept Spain's hopes of qualifying! ”

Cardoso covered his face in pain, he missed the best chance to open the scoring, and he felt like his body was completely hollowed out......

Just when Cardoso was in great pain, just when the Spanish fans were in ecstasy, Casilla brazenly launched a quick counterattack!

In order to stop the Spaniard's quick counter-attack, Paraguayan midfielder Victor Cáceres knocked Iniesta, who had the ball, to the ground.

Iniesta quickly got up from the turf and sent the free-kick over.

Alonso received the ball and burst through the middle, followed by a precise through pass, and Villa flew to the ball!

In the rush, Paraguayan full-back Alcaraz made a big mistake when he tripped Villa from behind.

"Tick! ……”

The referee blew a whistle and pointed firmly to the penalty spot with his right hand!

It's a penalty again!

It was only thirty-nine seconds after Casillas saved the penalty! The two penalties were awarded 123 seconds apart, setting a record for the shortest penalty interval since 1966!

After a few seconds of silence, the stadium erupted in loud screams and cheers, and the Spanish fans saw their chance to take the lead!

The Paraguayan fans watched the stadium in disbelief as they came out in pain before they missed a penalty and immediately found that their team had been battered.

Spanish midfielder Marcos Alonso came to the penalty spot with a football in his arms, and he wanted to take the penalty.

After the referee's whistle, Alonso slowly ran towards the football, then pushed it and the ball flew into the net!

The ball is in!

Just as Alonso was about to run all over the pitch and the Spanish fans were about to cheer, the referee signaled that the goal was invalid.

His reasoning was that when Alonso took the penalty, a Spanish player entered the box early, and the penalty did not count and had to be retaken.

Alonso could only put the ball back on the penalty spot.

Obviously, the Spanish midfielder was affected, and his football was bravely blocked by Paraguayan goalkeeper Villar!

Cesc Fabregas followed up on the right and was about to shoot and was brought down by Villar, but referee Butres didn't say anything!

Ramos shot from a tight angle six meters in front of goal and was blocked again!

Paraguay escaped!

The ESPN commentator exclaimed, "What happened? What's going on? In just two minutes, both sides missed penalties! ”

"The world is crazy, this night is crazy!"

There was a stalemate on the pitch in the following time, and the Spanish boss began to make substitutions, replacing Alonso, who was declining in fitness, with Pedro.

In the 38th minute of the second half, Iniesta broke through the middle with the outside of his right foot to divide the ball, and Pedro pushed the ball with his right foot from 11 meters away from the goal!

The ball hits the inside of the left post and bounces back into the field!

Villa reacted quickly, took two steps forward to stop the ball eight meters in front of the goal, and then curled the ball with his right foot into the inside of the right post, and the ball bounced into the other post!

The ball is in!

The score became 1-0!

Spain breaks the deadlock!

The commentator of Spanish national television shouted: "Villa! The great Villa, he broke the deadlock, Spain victory is in sight! ”

It was Villa's fifth goal of the tournament, and he ranked second in the scorer list behind Chen Fan.

After the resumption of the game, Spain fended off Paraguay's onslaught with a tight defence, and then firmly controlled the football at their feet.

Paraguay were desperate and they had to interrupt the Spaniards' passing with fouls, and the situation was completely under Spain's control.

In the end, Spain held on to their one-goal lead until the end of the game, and they crossed the hurdle of Paraguay to reach the semi-finals!

They equalled their best result at the World Cup – fourth!

This ranking was set in the '50 World Cup.

So far, the top four have all been produced, Europe occupies three seats, the Americas occupy one seat, and Uruguay has become the last hope of the Americas.

Of the four teams, Germany and Uruguay have won the World Cup, while the Netherlands and Spain have never tasted the title.

Will two former World Cup champions meet in the final, or will two teams that have never tasted the championship meet in the final to produce a new king?

This is unknown.

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Spain are stronger than Paraguay and reaching the semi-finals was expected, but no one expected them to qualify in such a thrilling way.

The Spanish media believe that the biggest contributor to this victory was goalkeeper Casillas, who was brave enough to save the penalty and avoid the team's passivity.

"As soon as the ball was saved, Casillas probably didn't know that he had set another great record, he trampled the world under his feet, and he became the greatest goalkeeper in the World Cup."

The newspaper commented: "Counting the time that saved Hart in 02, the penalty that was saved twice in 90 minutes was only achieved by only three goalkeepers in the 80-year history of the World Cup!"

And it's twice, with Cassie, American Friedel who currently plays for Villa in the Premier League, and Tomas Zeski, Poland's greatest goalkeeper in the 70s.

And if you count the saves in the penalty shootout, San Cassie made four successful saves, tied with the legendary German goalkeeper Schumacher and the Argentine goalkeeper Goyego Cecchia, becoming the goalkeeper with the most penalty saves in the World Cup! ”

Spain's newspaper El Monde Sport lavished praise on Villa: FIFA gave the best to organiser Andres Iniesta after the game, which is the same idea as the best in Germany.

But you have to admit that in Bosque's tactics, Villa, who barely has to defend back, is the one who strikes Paraguay the most thoroughly and the most harmful.

In the "three-point battle", which has become a famous scene in the World Cup, the penalty won by the Spanish team was Villa, giving full play to the characteristics of short players, almost caused by the Paraguayan defender's armpit squeezed in.

In the final moments of the game, the Spanish team completed the last volley by Villa in a fast attack, but was saved by Paraguay's goalkeeper Villar, who has a similar name to himself.

The Spanish team did not inflict many lethal attacks on their opponents, and Villa almost single-handedly carried them.

With such a keen sense of smell in front of goal, coupled with such brilliant footwork, with Villa, Bosque can replace Torres without scruples and play Villa's single striker tactics.

In the last two games, the opponent's defense against Villa will inevitably be doubled, but what does it matter?

Look at our Villa, running around in front of a defender who is a head taller than him, interspersed with ease, so chic, people want to kick and kick, but they can't rub him in the slightest!

Go ahead, Villa, you can't let Chen Zhuanmei and South Africa, although it is difficult for you to catch up with him in terms of goals, but this is nothing, go and help Spain get the Hercules Cup!

That's all that matters!