No. 487: The Group of Death is here!

The situation in Group F is confusing, and the Group G match of the Group of Death is about to be introduced. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

If there is a group of death in this World Cup, Group G is definitely well deserved.

This group gathers five-star Brazil, Portugal led by Cristiano Ronaldo, Ivory Coast led by strong center Didier Drogba, and North Korea, a mysterious trip to Asia.

The first three teams are favourites to qualify in either group, but they are in the same group and are competing for two places.

Which two teams will be the lucky ones in the end?

Until the end of the three rounds of the group stage, no one dares to assert.

At 4 p.m. on the 15th, Portugal and Côte d'Ivoire, known as the "African elephant", competed at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.

This is the first time in the history of the two teams that they have met.

Since losing 6-2 to Brazil in November 2008, Portugal have been unbeaten for 20 consecutive months and have never drawn in the group stage of the World Cup, with an overall record of 8 wins and 4 defeats.

Pepe, who returned last week, failed to make the starting line-up and Bruno Alves continued to partner with Corvalho in central defence.

Ivory Coast have only met European sides once on African soil, beating Switzerland 1-0 in Abidjan in December 1983.

In the group stage of the last World Cup, the "African elephants" conceded 2 goals in each game.

Coach Christian Eriksen has only been in charge for 74 days, and his England side were knocked out by Portugal at Euro 2004 and World Cup 2006.

The biggest suspense before the game is whether Drogba, who is injured, can start?

Once the game began, the Ivory Coast captain ended up on the bench and Lille striker Gervinho was given the chance to play.

From the start of the game, Portugal appeared to be very proactive and the best way to qualify from the group was to beat their direct rivals.

In the 11th minute of the opening game, Portugal ushered in a great opportunity to score - Meireles made a direct pass on the right side, Ronaldo took the ball in the middle and turned past Yaya Toure, and volleyed with his right foot 30 meters in front of the goal!

The soccer ball blasts towards the top right corner of the goal!

In a flash of lightning, the ball flew past the fingertips of Ivorian goalkeeper Barry!

The Portuguese fans couldn't help but let out cheers, but "Pong! ......" with a bang, the football was rejected by the crossbar!

Cristiano Ronaldo missed his first goal at the World Cup in South Africa!

"Oh! No! ……”

The Portuguese fans let out cries of pain, and the Ivorian fans were covered in cold sweat.

Instead of blinding the Ivorians, the goal allowed them to launch a fierce attack.

In the 14th minute of the first half, Alves knocked down Gervinho from behind, and Tiene took a free-kick wide of the near corner from 27 yards.

In the seventeenth minute of the first half, Tiott fired a right-footed volley from 20 yards from the left flank, and the ball went over the crossbar.

The Ivorians defended Cristiano Ronaldo fiercely, and Ronaldo was frequently put down on the turf by the opponent.

In the twentieth minute of the first half, Ronaldo broke through the top of the penalty area and fell to the ground with Demer's cross-tackle, referee La Leonda signaled the game to continue, and Ronaldo got up and had a verbal altercation with Demer.

Referee La Leonda called the two together, played fifty boards each, and showed each of them a yellow card.

For more than 20 minutes, the two sides engaged in a brutal battle in midfield, but neither could gain the upper hand. Until the end of the first half, both teams did not shoot for more than twenty minutes!

At the start of the second half, the two teams continued to fight in the midfield, but neither team could penetrate the opponent's goal and ended up in a 0-0 draw.

Such an outcome is very dissatisfied with both sides.

Cristiano Ronaldo was interviewed by the media in the mixed interview area after the game, and when talking about the battle for the world's number one, the Portuguese superstar said: "It's too early to talk about this, the first person to laugh may not be the last to laugh, the one who laughs last is the one who laughs the best!" ”

A dull draw made the Portuguese feel very uncomfortable, but he did not admit defeat.

At 8:30 p.m. the next night, the second match of Group G was played at the Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, with five-star Brazil taking on Mystic North Korea.

Five-time World Cup champions Brazil are now ranked No. 1 in the world, while North Korea is the lowest-ranked team in the round of 32 with only 85th in the world.

Brazil is the only team to have participated in every World Cup, while North Korea has been in the finals for the first time since 1966.

Brazil won back-to-back matches against Ireland, Zimbabwe and Tanzania in the warm-up matches. North Korea, on the other hand, lost to Paraguay and Nigeria respectively, and only drew with South Africa and Greece.

Whether it is in terms of rankings, World Cup experience, or warm-up results, Brazil has the upper hand.

After the start of the game, the North Korean team adopted a dense defensive strategy, which made the Brazilian team's attack useless again and again. The Mystery Trip took the score 0-0 into the second half.

As time went on, the North Korean team's fitness began to take shape.

In the 11th minute of the second half, Brazil attacked from the right, and midfielder Elano made a through ball from the right.

Inter star McConn stepped forward to control the ball from the baseline, almost parallel to the goal.

However, what people didn't expect was that McCone actually got up and shot the goal!

It's a zero-angle shot!

Unexpectedly, North Korean goalkeeper Lee Myung-kook failed to block this shot!

The ball is in!

Brazil finally broke the deadlock on the field!

In the next match, the Brazilian team took advantage of the victory and launched a fierce attack on North Korea.

In the twenty-seventh minute of the second half, Brazil launched an attack from the right rib of the North Korean hinterland, Robinho's direct pass tore apart the North Korean defense, and the football flew into the North Korean penalty area!

Elano, who had previously assisted McConn, flew into the penalty area and shot hard from 12 meters from the goal on the right side!

Football hits the net!

Two to zero!

Brazil extended the score!

With the win in place, Brazil relaxed a bit as they were in the Group of Death with two important games to come.

The North Korean team did not give up, in the 44th minute of the second half, North Korea launched an attack from the side, Zheng Daeshi headed the ferry, Zhi Yinnan burst into the left rib of the penalty area, and scored with a strong shot eight meters from the goal!

The ball is in!

The score became 2-1, and North Korea narrowed the score gap.

However, the goal came too late, and the North Korean team finally lost by a small goal at the feet of five-star Brazil.

After the game, the world praised North Korea's resilience, while Brazil was criticized by the domestic media.

Brazil felt they were unmotivated after a two-goal lead and were slotted home by North Korea just before the end of the game.

The German newspaper Bild commented: Tonight, Blatter should bow and thank North Korea, who woke up the already lethargic World Cup with their defeat.

The festival of world football is trampled by conservatives, they always keep 1 point and then fight for 3 points, they only hold the stars but only surround the iron bucket, they will only scold the opponent at the press conference after not winning the game.

This kind of game can still be tolerated by the fans, just because he is the World Cup, this kind of game, no one will scan him when he is usually thrown on the street.

Under such embarrassment, North Korea has unexpectedly become the biggest savior since the start of this World Cup.

Since the week before the game, they have done everything that can surprise the outside world, beating Brazil and shouting to win the championship, and the Brazilian coach Dunga is still polite, but the North Koreans are shouting big words to the sky.

So much so that a non-suspense game like Brazil and North Korea finally became the absolute focus of Group G, surpassing Drogba, surpassing Ronaldo, and surpassing everything.

They're only trying to achieve a somewhat vicious goal: see how North Korea ends.

Naturally, there is no need to repeat the result, no one cares about whether North Korea wins or loses, and what this mysterious division brings to the World Cup is what we care about the most.

Arrogance and the desire to win, in fact, these are the things that originally belonged to football but were gradually driven out of football.

In this materialistic era, North Korea, which came out of a closed country, used its primitive and somewhat ridiculous true temperament to let football regain some of its original face from South Africa.

Football is originally the embodiment of men's unruly character, football is originally the goal of winning the first, and those giant teams that interpret defensive tactics to the extreme have long forgotten these.

The team in the round of 32 who is "least qualified to play football" has taught everyone a lesson, and North Korea is currently ranked 85th in the world, the lowest of any team participating in this World Cup.

But the football they play is very pure, very real, against the mighty Brazil, they are at the same time able to defend the iron bucket and attack the nest, instead of passively piling up, waiting for an opportunity to steal a goal in the middle of the game.

In 90 minutes, North Korea went from being a global laughing stock to moving the whole world, licking the wounds of Brazil's blades and staring at Portugal and Côte d'Ivoire, which no longer dared to despise them.

Victory over Portugal?

Victory over Côte d'Ivoire?

Entering the top 16?

There is nothing that North Korea does not dare to shout!

Good luck to them!