Chapter 1165: The Battle of Revenge
With Portugal beating Belgium to advance to the quarter-finals, all eight quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil have ended, and the World Cup has entered a period of recuperation, and the four quarter-finals of the World Cup will be rekindled in three days.
The four quarter-finals will be played against Brazil vs. Colombia, China vs. Germany, Netherlands vs. Costa Rica, and Argentina vs. Portugal.
Brazil's World Cup has entered the quarterfinals, which means that this World Cup has entered the final stage, and the excitement and attention have increased.
However, the degree of attention still depends on the specific strength of the two sides of the game, and the 1/4 finals between Brazil and Colombia can basically be concluded that there is no big surprise, after all, the Colombian number one striker Falcao is absent from the World Cup due to injury, and the Brazilian team has the advantage of home and has a higher winning coefficient.
The other quarter-final in the first half was between China and Germany, which was clearly more watched than Brazil and Colombia, with Germany reaching the semi-finals the most times in World Cup history, and China being the most progressive team in world football at the moment, having won the Confederations Cup a year ago.
In addition, the strength of the German team is quite good, and the Chinese team can be said to be on par, of course, this is based on the fact that Ailo is not put in, if you count the strongest link of Ailo, the strength of the Chinese team is still slightly stronger than the German team.
But football games can't be compared according to the lineup, otherwise the hard 90-minute game will not be compared, and the lineup comparison can be done directly.
Four years ago, the Chinese team was in the same group as the German team at the World Cup in South Africa, and because of the serious lack of experience, the Chinese team lost to Germany in the group stage, thus qualifying as the second in the group.
Four years later, the Chinese team is the favorite to win the World Cup, and the prospect of winning the championship is still ahead of the German team, which makes Chinese media practitioners feel extremely honored, and there is nothing more refreshing than raising eyebrows.
Therefore, in this game, which is considered to be evenly matched, the Chinese media believes that the Chinese team must advance to the semi-finals, because ...... They have a group of the best players, and they have the best player in the world, and they have 10,000 reasons to think that the Chinese team will definitely beat Germany and enter the final four!
In addition, Gao Lin, Hao Junmin and Feng Xiaoting of the Chinese team all play for the Bundesliga team, and they are also giants, so they know many players in the team very well, which means that they know themselves and their opponents, and the chances of winning are greater!
The opinion of the German media is completely opposite to that of the Chinese media, they first determined that the Chinese team is very strong individually, but at the team level, the German media firmly believes that the German team is stronger than the Chinese team, so it must be the German team to advance to the semifinals.
In this way, during the break of the World Cup, the Chinese media and the German media began to fight the first battle on the online platform.
As the focus of both sides was on preparation, there were no players involved.
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The two matches in the bottom half of the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil were not much different from the first half, Costa Rica went to the bottom and made history by reaching the quarter-finals, but they met against the Netherlands, and everyone knows it...... They are already at the end of their rope.
Only the remaining Argentina vs Portugal quarter-finals can attract enough attention, first of all, aside from the history of the two teams, the captains of both teams are also a big focus, without the presence of Iro, perhaps only Argentina captain Messi and Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo in the world compete for the best in the world.
The duel between the two can be regarded as a fateful duel.
Iroh is number one in the world, and they are second and third in the world.
China is in the top half, while Portugal and Argentina are in the bottom half, which means that Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi will need to at least reach the semi-finals if they want to play against Iello on the World Cup stage......
And the two teams happened to meet in the quarterfinals, which completely symbolized that the second and third winners would challenge for the world No. 1.
The effect of such a quarter-final match is to make the Chinese media and fans feel a burst of darkness, you must know that this kind of thought will not arise at all before, even if it is the great god of the novel industry, Liu Nian Feishui would not dare to write like this.
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After the Chinese team finished the 1/8 final with Algeria, they left Porto Alegre non-stop and went to the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
The stadium is a blessed place for the Chinese team, who won last year's Confederations Cup final in Brazil by beating Spain.
Before the start of this World Cup, the Chinese team also had a warm-up match with England in this stadium, and the Chinese team defeated the opponent without suspense and won the victory.
Therefore, the Maracanã Stadium is a lucky place for the Chinese team in a sense.
Coming to a familiar city, in a familiar hotel and training venue, the mood of the Chinese players participating in the World Cup is very happy.
As the Chinese team enters the quarterfinals, in Brazil, there are more and more Chinese.
Especially Rio de Janeiro, a popular tourist city, has completely become a vacation destination for Chinese, even if there is no ticket to the 1/4 finals between the Chinese team and the German team, they are happy to come here and feel the different emotions brought by football together.
The atmosphere in China is unprecedentedly strong, there are more and more people who love the sport, and the Chinese team is now a world-class team, they are completely proud of the Chinese team, if you can see the Chinese team win the World Cup on Brazilian soil, it will be a moment worth remembering for a lifetime.
While the Chinese team is preparing for the quarter-finals with the German team, the domestic media has stepped up the production of promotional videos for this game, and CCTV, which has a good relationship with the national team, naturally gets first-hand information, and they can even interact directly with the players outside the training ground.
Huang Jianxiang and He Wei will be the on-site commentators for the Maracanã Stadium to give wonderful comments to the domestic fans, so they are very suitable to be the staff members who interview the Chinese players, of course, the bigger reason for choosing the two of them is that Iello has the best personal relationship with them, and if there is any inside information, he will always be the first to know.
The quarter-finals between China and Germany are the first of the four quarter-finals of the World Cup in Brazil, and the match will be played at 2 p.m. local time on July 4.
The day before the game, the head coaches and key players of both sides went to the regular pre-match press conference at the Maracanã Stadium for interviews.