611. The opponent of the second round

After the first round of the group stage, the Chinese team defeated Ivory Coast 3-1, which made 1.3 billion Chinese people happy, but it was not the most talked about in the world.

The Chinese team is no longer the Chinese team of 4 years ago, they have been in the top 30 in the FIFA rankings for a long time, and even squeezed into the top 20 for a time, under the leadership of Long Shute, they also won the Asian Cup and the Confederations Cup, although most of the players are still not too famous, but the world football has long stopped seeing them as a fish belly team.

With such a team, as long as the tactics are right and the players are united, it will not be too surprising to beat Ivory Coast, after all...... The African team doesn't seem to have much to boast about other than physical.

What really broke everyone's glasses was the strong battle in Group B:

The defending champions, the true hegemon of world football for the past eight years, the Matadors...... Spain suffered a 5-1 defeat to their men, last World Cup runners-up, Tulip Army...... Team Dutch!

Spain actually got off to a very good start, thanks to a fake fall from Diego Costa, who won a penalty.

Xavi Alonso made it all the way and the Spanish men were clearly confident.

The tempo of the rest of the game was firmly at the feet of the Spaniards, but their advantage did not carry over into the dressing room at half-time.

In the 44th minute, with a long pass from the Dutch side, Van Persie, who had not played too well, alertly countered offside, and then "hoisted" the ball into Spain's goal with a fish leap on the penalty line!

The long-range header would undoubtedly be a classic goal of the tournament, full of imagination, artistic beauty and good luck, and Long Shut's three goals were dwarfed by Fan's brilliant header.

Although the Dutch team equalized, they are not as good as Spain in terms of overall strength and individual ability, especially the reserve strength of the Tulip Army, which is even more shabby in front of Spain, which is full of talented players.

The Matadors' starting line-up was of course star-studded, with even the bench featuring the likes of Torres, Cesc Fabregas, David De Gea, Reina, Mata, Pedro, Villa, Javi Martinez, and the Netherlands' starting 11...... What can be recognized is nothing more than Van Persie, Sneijder, Robben, and De Jong who are over 30 years old!

It was relying on this group of old guys that the Netherlands suddenly went completely crazy in the second half!

In the 53rd minute, Blind (Longshut's old teammate) made a long pass from the left side to the right, and Robben's iconic in-cut shot was successful, 2-1!

Ten minutes later, Sneijder's free-kick was hoisted into the box, and De Vrij headed the ball into the net in a chaotic battle, 3-1!

In the 72nd minute, Pique passed back to the goalkeeper, Casillas stopped the ball three meters away, Van Persie made an accelerated break and successfully accepted the gift with an unceremonious smile, 4-1!

- Reality is sometimes more unimaginable than ever, who can believe that St. Cassie would slip on the soles of his feet without any interference?!

In the 80th minute, Sneijder sent a straight plug from the backfield, Robben ran 60 meters and then entered the penalty area, facing the scrambling Casillas, the old wings turned and flashed an empty hole with an extremely slow ball protection, and then unceremoniously blasted into the goal!

5-1!

Of course, some people predicted before the game that the Netherlands could get revenge on Spain, but no one could have imagined that it would be such a bloody scoreline!

After all...... Xavi, Iniesta, Alonso, Busquets, Pique, Ramos and other main players are still in their playing years, and there is Diego Costa, the Atletico Madrid striker, who has joined strongly, everyone thought that their offensive firepower would be further strengthened, but they didn't expect that the only goal in the game came from a fake fall!

When Cassie had a look of despair on his face, he knew his time was over.

In the last two seasons, both Mourinho and Ancelotti have pressed him on the bench, if in this World Cup, he can prove that he is still the omnipotent San Cassie, maybe after returning to the club, he can still fight with the manager, but this game has made him fall to the dust in front of the world, and there is no power to return!

He suddenly began to envy the other goalkeeper.

Why can Gianluigi Buffon sit firmly in the top spot with Juventus and the Italian national team at his age?

He, Buffon, is not Juventus' academy yet!

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Compared to the 5-1 massacre of Spain by the Netherlands, the results of the other matches were not shocking.

Germany beat Portugal 4-0, France swept Honduras 3-0, Italy beat England 2-1, Uruguay beat Costa Rica 1-3, and Argentina beat Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-1...... None of these games can compare to the Battle of Jose.

Perhaps the only thing that can make people divert their attention a little is that the plum ball king scored his second goal in the World Cup after 8 years, and Messi, who scored the key goal, ran all the way, and let out an uncontrollable roar of passion, exhaling years of depression.

According to statistics after the game, in order to win the game, Messi ran a distance of 8,169 meters, which is 1,300 meters more than the league championship against Atletico Madrid!

Oh, and Ronshit is 13,208 meters, and because he is defending almost the whole field, his stats are much lower than before......

In fact, Long Shute doesn't understand why Messi plays so hard in the national team?

You're going to say that they are not united?

But Mascherano, Di Maria, Aguero, Higuain, Lavic, Romero, Gago, Zabaleta, Garay, the main players are almost all old teammates who won the Olympic championship in 2008, and most of them are also teammates at the World Youth Championships before the previous year.

Occasionally, if he led this group of Argentine players, would he win the championship in minutes?

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Leading the ...... Argentina That's impossible, so Long Shute still focuses more on studying the next opponent.

He is now fully responsible as a head coach, with almost all of the squad being done with the cooperation of a few assistant coaches.

The second round of the group stage is five days later against South American powerhouse Colombia.

Just like their eighth-ranked ranking in the world, Colombia has risen dramatically in recent years, from 2011 to around 40th in the FIFA rankings in 2013 and in 2013 they were in the top 10 and for a while even third behind Germany and Argentina.

Their head coach is the veteran coach Pekerman, who once coached Argentina, and in this Colombian team, there are also a group of players represented by "Tiger" Falcao, Guarin, Cuadrado, Moreno, Zapata, Zuniga, J Rodriguez, and J Martinez, most of whom play in mainstream clubs in mainstream European leagues, which are probably still a grade better than Ivory Coast.

Although the main striker Falcao was unable to play, Lonshut still did not dare to be careless.

He also hopes to give the main players a few days off after finishing out Colombia and qualifying early, and let those substitutes brush up on their presence in the third group game!

In this way, they will be more obedient to the orders of their captain!