The Chinese players also paid close attention to the semi-finals and watched the live broadcast in front of the hotel TV in the evening.

Most of the players, like the mainstream opinion, are optimistic that the German team will advance to the final, especially someone like Liang Xin, who claims to be a die-hard fan of the German team, and is a staunch fan of the German chariot.

However, the course of the game also proved that the German team is indeed worthy of everyone's general favor. They continued their usual strength against Argentina. Just ten minutes into the game, Gotze sent a clever through ball from near the penalty area, straight between the straight gap between midfielder Banega and central defender Otamendi, Muller cut in from an offside position, faced the attacking Romero, and fired a low shot into the corner of the extremely awkward angle, directly into the Argentine goal.

After seeing the first goal, Liang Xin directly clapped his hands and applauded: "Gotze's goal has opened the eyes of the sky, haha, and Erwa's running position, this shot is simply amazing." ”

Wen Zhihao saw that Liang Xin was so excited, he just smiled and didn't say anything. But he knew that such an opening had set the tone for the whole game, and without the big variables, it would be difficult for Argentina to escape a fourth consecutive defeat.

The German team has a lot of experience against Argentina, with heavy troops around Messi, cutting off the connection between him and his teammates, and at the same time time high-intensity physical confrontation, even if Messi's foot skills are incomparable, it is also difficult to beat four hands with two fists.

On the offensive end, the German team also has a trick to restrain Argentina, Loew sent a 1.94 meter Bayern striker Wagner in the forward position, using the high-altitude advantage to bombard Argentina's goal. The effect of this move was soon proven, and in the 25th minute, Ozil pulled to the side and crossed the ball, and Wagner forced Rojo to make it 2-0.

By this time, Argentina had actually gone on the ground, and even if Sampaoli kicked the mineral water bottle angrily on the sidelines to vent his emotions.

In the second half, Messi and Draxler each scored a goal for their respective teams, and the 1:3 result was not ugly compared to the overall scene.

In addition, the news that is favorable to the Chinese team is that Argentina's main defender Banega was sent off in the 77th minute with two yellows and one red, and will miss the third and fourth finals with the Chinese team, which has weakened Argentina's midfield defense to a certain extent.

Although it was not surprising that he met Argentina in the third-place match, Wen Zhihao felt a little regretful for Messi. He has won all the honours at the club, but he has not won anything in his international career so far, and he has lost to the same team in a row. Even if he can hold out until four years later, with the current state of the Argentine team, there is no one to be his successor, and Messi may find it difficult to achieve the ultimate dream of winning the championship.

With the winner of the two semi-finals decided, the champions, runners-up and the third-place and fourth-place finals will be decided.

The third-place match between the Chinese team and Argentina has limited attention except for the audiences of the two countries, but the two opponents in the championship and runner-up finals are definitely full of topics.

Spain and Germany, rivals in European football. The last time the two teams met at the World Cup was back in the semi-finals in South Africa eight years ago, when Spain swept away their eventual rivals with a 1-0 header from centre-back Puyol in the 83rd minute.

If you go back further, this is the second time the two teams have met in a final since the Euro 2008 final. Time has passed, and the current German team is significantly better than the Spanish team in terms of strength and state, after all, the Spanish team has experienced a hard battle with the Chinese team in the semifinals, while the German team has won Argentina much easier, and the physical consumption is smaller, so it naturally has more opportunities.

According to the schedule, this World Cup will officially close on July 15, and the day before the closing ceremony and the championship and runner-up finals, the third and fourth finals of the Chinese team and the Argentine team will be held first.

Both managers fielded the same 4-3-3 formation, and to the delight of the fans, the two teams did not set up a full-time defensive midfielder in the starting positions for this game, and the three Chinese midfielders Wen Zhihao, Hao Junmin and Zheng Zhi stood in parallel positions, and Lippi's request was to get as close to the front line as possible and focus on attacking. Although Lippi knew that it was not a wise choice to play against Argentina, he still persisted, telling his players: "In the last game, we should draw a perfect end with aggressive attacking. ”

The same is true for the Argentine team, Banega could not play in this game, but it strengthened Sampaoli's determination to abandon the defensive back and play against the Chinese team. Anyway, the Argentine team doesn't value the third-place result, so they simply treat him as a game, and the "Pampas Eagles" will fully unleash their offensive talent in this game.

The reason why the third and fourth place finals are scheduled to be held before the championship and runner-up finals is also because there is not much pressure on the results, and the game scene will be very open, and before the finale opens, fans will be given an appetizer.

From the starting line-ups announced by both sides, experts and media on both sides predicted that the game would definitely go in the direction of a goal shootout. However, it still underestimated the determination of both sides to fight for firepower.

In the third minute of the opening game, Messi took the lead for Argentina with a direct free kick from outside the penalty area.

However, just two minutes later, Hao Junmin responded in the same way. He lived up to Wen Zhihao's kindness in giving him the right to take the penalty this time, and hit Argentine goalkeeper Romero quite embarrassed with a lift ball. He also showed his superb footwork.

Until the end of the first half, the two sides have contributed five goals together, Argentina led 3:2, Wen Zhihao did not contribute a goal, and the second goal of the Chinese team was scored by Gao Lin from the left corner kick.

In the sixty-fifth minute of the second half, Lippi finally thought of Beijing Guoan midfielder Zhang Xizhe, who has not yet played in the World Cup, in the last game, the former national team main midfielder only got the opportunity to show himself, as for him, the gap in his heart must not be small, but in the national team, any player must accept the cruel competition law of "the capable go up, the mediocre go down".

The fans applauded him warmly, not only affirming his great performance in this World Cup, but also thanking him for his perseverance and dedication in the national team for more than ten years.

At the age of 38, no one can say whether this is his last game for the national team - the media has already revealed that at the Asian Cup early next year, Lippi will promote young people to the top of the table even more for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. This means that Zheng Zhi may be strategically abandoned......

"I really can't say goodbye, and we don't want this to be the time to say goodbye to Zheng Zhi's national team career, thank Zheng Zhi for his dedication and dedication at the lowest point of the national team, look at his relieved smile, you can see the national team finally see the light of day, reaching an unprecedented peak, he is very satisfied."

Many old fans who have accompanied the national team all the way and witnessed Zheng Zhi's 20-year national team career have a sour nose, and He Wei's words resonated with them at this time.

Zheng Zhi is not a hypocritical person, he did not hug everyone one by one in a very sensational way, and when he saw that he was replaced, a kind of ease of completing the mission appeared on his face. After confirming with Lippi's eyes, he walked up to Wen Zhihao, took off the captain's armband on his arm, put it on for him personally, and then said appreciatively: "This armband should have been handed over to you a long time ago, you will definitely be better than me." ”

Wen Zhihao's way of responding was to stretch out his hand and shake Zheng Zhi's palms, no words are as practical as actions, feeling the power of Wen Zhihao's palm, Zheng Zhi nodded with satisfaction, he knew that Wen Zhihao would definitely take over his class and live up to his mission in the position of captain of the national team, which is both a tactical core and a spiritual leader.

In the eyes of fans, this is the handover of the times, Zheng Zhi's national team captain era has come to an end, and Wen Zhihao has also become the youngest in the history of the national team, and at the same time is destined to be the best captain.

The future Chinese team will be led by the new forces.

No one questioned whether Wen Zhihao would do better in this position, but despite this, Wen Zhihao quickly gave a strong response with practical actions.

In the 72nd minute, Wen Zhihao continued to pass Enzo Perez and Beluschi with the ball and pedaled on a bicycle in a quick counterattack, and then continued to fake the real dunk, deceiving the central defender Otamendi's block, and then changed direction and broke through two steps, without waiting for the opponent to make up the defense in place, directly at the top of the penalty area arc to rub the arc to shoot the goal, Romero did not react at all, perhaps he thought that the shot would be off the post, but the final result was directly into the goal.

After Wen Zhihao wore the captain's armband, his first goal as the captain of the national team helped the Chinese team to make the aggregate score 3:3!

At the same time, his personal goal tally reached a terrifying eight!

Since the 1970 World Cup, Wen Zhihao is the first Golden Boot to score more than seven goals in a single tournament. In the previous World Cup Golden Boots, there are two who have the same number of goals as him: the first World Cup Golden Boot in 1930, Argentine Guillermo? Starbil and the 1958 World Cup Golden Boot, Brazilian Leonidas.

But those two were early figures in the World Cup, and Wen Zhihao lived in a different era, with the success of Italian football at the beginning of this century, which made the defensive theory of modern football more sophisticated than ever. Especially in a strong dialogue like the World Cup, each team attaches great importance to defense, and has focused on man-to-man defense, area blockade and even destructive defensive tactics of "cutting down big trees" for the opponent's core players, but in this case, Wen Zhihao can also brush up the number of individual goals to this height while taking into account the team's victory, and everyone must be convinced!

Absolute strength is strong!

Crazy cool hanging bomb sky!

British commentator Joe Crooka jumped up and said: "Although Wen's size is far from Ronaldo's, I really want to give him the nickname Alien." His whole performance at the World Cup, to be honest, really wasn't what Earthlings of his age could achieve......"

In the final period of regular time, the Argentine team slowly began to show its superior overall strength and suppressed the Chinese team in attack, but due to Yan Junling's high resistance, the Argentine team missed the opportunity to kill again and again in the final stage.

After three minutes of stoppage time, the two sides could only go into extra time with a 3-3 draw.

The twists and turns of the game process have made the fans addicted, and now everyone is looking forward to Wen Zhihao being able to reach the exhaustion point of the team's physical fitness, and then magical, as long as there is another stroke of genius, it can basically be determined that the Chinese team can stand on the podium of this World Cup.

But the reality is often cruel, Higuain grabbed a point in the penalty area in the 118th minute of extra time and shook his head to score, and Yan Jun couldn't reach it.

3:4, the Argentine team overtook for the fourth time in the game.

After this conceded goal, all the Chinese team players, including Wen Zhihao, showed disappointed expressions on their faces.

Until the referee blew the final whistle, Wen Zhihao could only regretfully accept the result of being only one step away from the podium. He only scored 80 points on the overall performance of the national team in this World Cup, because he lost the last two crucial games, which seemed a bit anticlimactic.

Unwilling! Wen Zhihao asked himself that the Chinese team would have had a chance to win these two games. But I still lost because of my own lack of experience.

However, even Argentina, which won the game and finished third, no one was excited, and Wen Zhihao exchanged jerseys with Messi as soon as the game ended and congratulated him. But Messi only responded with a forced smile.

Wen Zhihao can understand his current feelings, the last World Cup was almost able to win the championship, this time Messi and his Argentine team are ambitious and want to make a comeback, but instead of completing the revenge on the old rival German team, they are not even qualified to enter the finals, and the final peak showdown can only be seen but not touched.

For a top star who sees the World Cup title as his only shortcoming, any position is unattractive to him except the title.

However, it was the Chinese fans and media who were most satisfied with the result of the game. He Wei concluded after the Chinese team finished all the journey of the World Cup: "For Chinese football, this is already a perfect World Cup, the result of the fourth place equaled the best record in the history of Asian teams, and the performance of the national team is enough to conquer the hearts of every fan." ”

Xu Yang nodded and agreed: "In the World Cup, in the face of European and American giants, the Chinese team will not fall behind, and the next major competition of the national team in half a year - the 2019 Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates, fans should have full confidence." The current strength of the Chinese team should be said to be enough to crown Asia! The strongest contender for the Asian Cup title! ”

Xu Yang has set his sights on the Asian Cup, and his words make everyone look forward to the national team's Asian Cup journey in half a year.

Although all the competition tasks were over, the Chinese team was not in a hurry to return to China, and the team allowed everyone to move freely in Moscow for one day, and then returned to China for disbandment after the World Cup final.

Wen Zhihao, on the other hand, is relatively less free, and he must be present in the championship and runner-up finals, because he will also hold the championship trophy in front of the cameras of the media around the world at the award ceremony after the final.