After the three rounds of Group A, the results have come out, Belgium and Turkey have joined hands to qualify, and the European Championship journey of the declining giants Czech Republic and host Switzerland can only come to an end.

Croatia, who have already qualified from Group B, will not be able to take it lightly and will have to fight for top spot if they do not want to face Belgium with Digan.

In this game, they will have to face the opponent Poland to qualify only in theory, and the final result is fixed at 1-0, with Croatia coming out victorious.

It was a dull game that should have been forgotten by the fans sooner rather than later, but one person who made it go down in the history books of international football forever was Krasnic.

As the first player in the world to return to the pitch after a kidney change, Krasnić scored the first "kidney fighter" goal in the history of world football.

In order to cope with the next knockout round, Bilic hid most of the main players in this game, because even the substitute lineup is not something that Poland can deal with, and Krasnic, who did not get the opportunity to play in the first two games, started the game.

Krasnic was also one of the few bright spots of the match, and from the outset, the striker showed a strong desire to win.

The historic moment came in the 53rd minute when Pranic sent in a low cross from the left, which Krasnić, who had been knocked to the ground by a defender, quickly rose to his feet and fired a low left-footed shot through Borussia.

This is Krasnić's first major goal for Croatia, his first international goal since October 7, 06, and the first goal in the history of the European Championship.

Krasnic fell to his knees and screamed after the goal, and the Croatian fans burst into tears and cheers for him, and Krasnic was substituted shortly after, and the left-footed heavy gunner once again won a round of applause from the fans.

Krasnić had a smooth start to his career, moving from St. Pauli to Bremen in the summer of '01 and has been with the Parrots ever since.

Elton, Klose, and Krasnić's partners changed one after another, but only he gave all his love to Bremen, and the word "traitor" would never have anything to do with him.

In the three years between 03/04 and 05/06, Krasnić scored more than 10 league goals in each of them, and his 13 goals helped Bremen reach the top of the Bundesliga in 03/04.

On December 17, 2006, Krasnic was suddenly declared to be suffering from kidney failure halfway through the Bundesliga season, and then received a kidney transplant, but the kidney from his mother caused him to suffer from severe physical rejection.

After his condition stabilized slightly, Krasnich underwent a second kidney exchange operation, which came from his father, and this operation was very successful, and Krasnich finally got rid of the shadow of weekly hemodialysis for the rest of his life.

On 24 November 2007, it would be a day that will be remembered forever by Krasnić, when the Croatian finally returned to the Bundesliga after 11 months in Bremen's 2-0 win away at Cottage Fortbus.

Krasnic's form was not affected by a year's rest, as he scored twice 20 days later in Bremen's 5-2 win over Bayer Leverkusen.

Krasnic scored 7 goals in 16 appearances throughout the season, with an average goal rate of 0.44 per game, and on March 26, 08, Croatia warmed up to draw 1:1 with Scotland.

"After so much about it, it's all great to have him again," Bilic said at his press conference after the game, "It's incredible that he's back to his top so quickly, it's a story of honour, thanks to his goal, yes, all the Croatians have to thank him, he did it, he really did it!" ”

Krasnić was also quite emotional after the game: "I said before that being able to return to the pitch is like a gift from God, it is like a dream, I want to thank God for keeping me alive and being able to continue playing, to be part of Croatia, I am very proud and I hope the coach will think about me in the quarter-finals." ”

Warriors who can face blood are certainly worthy of respect, but Krasnic, who will never "abandon or give up" for football and life, is more worthy of people's admiration, this strong man, does not need pity, what is needed is applause and respect.

Like Krasnić, he deserves the respect of the fans and the Croatia he plays for, no one is optimistic about them before the game, but after the start of the European Cup, 1:0 defeated Austria, 2:1 beat Germany, 1:0 defeated Poland, Croatia advanced to the knockout round as the group leader, and the results of winning all three games also made people seem to see the Plaid Army of the World Cup in France 10 years ago.

Ten years is enough to complete a cycle in the football world, and the Croatian team has completed the process from heyday to regeneration in this decade.

When Bilic transformed from a bad boy on the pitch to a coach in the Croatian dugout, Croatia's former glory seemed to be being rediscovered with the return of the golden generation.

The 1998 World Cup in France was the most glorious moment for the Croatian team, which qualified steadily in the group stage, and won Romania with a goal in the first game of the knockout round.

In the semi-finals against the host France, the core of the midfield, Asanovic picked up a pass, and Suker pushed France to the brink. If Thuram's kick from behind Boban wasn't a foul, Croatia didn't have to complain about Thuram doing it again against Jairni, as the French right-back went down with two unwhistled back-to-back fouls and two God-possessed shots that followed, sending Croatia one step away from the World Cup final.

Beautiful things are always fleeting, and after the withdrawal of a strong Croatia that would go down in the annals of football history after the exit of a generation of figures such as Boban and Suker, Croatia has become a forgotten term.

In 2008, Bilic returned to the spotlight with a world medal from a decade earlier, while Croatia completed Nirvana.

Admittedly, Modric and others do not have the style of Boban back then, Petrich is not Vlaovic, and it is more difficult to compare with Suker, but Bilic's team is more focused on teamwork.

In the first game, Croatia defeated Austria 1-0, Croatia's pre-match arrogance and embarrassment in the game made them the object of ridicule, but the performance of the 2-1 victory over Germany in the second game made the critics who were still smiling and unable to close their mouths directly replace their expressions with surprised expressions, eliminating the link of shutting up, and the third game defeated Poland with a substitute lineup, and Croatia qualified as the first in three games and three wins in the group stage.

Dark horse, the biggest dark horse of this European Cup, the Croatian team once again makes the term dark horse seem synonymous with strength and dignity.

William Hill is snobbish and by the time Croatia's performance has surprised everyone, they have also risen to fifth place at odds of 7.00 behind favourites Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and Germany.

After the match against Poland, coach Bilic said again: "It's nice that we gave our fans another reason to celebrate, but we should have won more. ”

Not satisfied with a temporary victory, Croatia, a dark horse that has never been humble, prides itself on its loneliness, but has the strength to convince everyone.

While Croatia qualified, the German team finally withstood the pressure in a crucial battle of life and death, and Ballack's heavy shot also became a booster for Germany to qualify from the group.

In 2004, in his first game in charge of Germany, it was decided that Ballack would replace Kahn as the new captain of the German team, and that game was in Vienna. Now, four years later, Ballack returned to Vienna, and with his free-kick score, Germany beat Austria 1-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the European Championship.

Starting as an obscure newcomer in midfield at Euro 2000, Ballack began his career as a German team. 2002 was the year when Ballack established himself as the heart of the midfield, helping Bayer Leverkusen win the "King of Sanya" and he also had an eye-catching performance in the summer World Cup, he and Kahn teamed up to send Germany to the World Cup final, Ballack scored the only goal of the game in the quarter-finals against the United States and the semi-finals against South Korea, helping the team to reach the final.

But unfortunately, Ballack had to miss the final because of the accumulation of yellow cards, and the German team without Ballack seemed to have lost the soul of the midfield, and finally lost 0:2 to Brazil, losing the World Cup championship.

2004 was a mixed year for Ballack, who scored at the European Championships in the summer but was unable to avoid Germany's elimination from the group stage.

However, after Klinsmann took office, Ballack was elected as the new captain of the German team, and the German team began the "Ballack era", and the Germanic chariot also entered the revival and glory under the leadership of Ballack.

In the 2006 World Cup, although Ballack did not score again, his role in the team was more obvious, and in the end, Ballack led the team to win the third place in the World Cup, composing a "summer fairy tale", and Ballack also established his leadership position in that World Cup.

Now, after a two-year spell at Chelsea, Ballack is leading Germany to the European Championship again, and at the age of 32, his role for the German team remains irreplaceable.

In the end, when the German team was in danger of elimination, it was Ballack who stepped up and knocked on the door of the quarterfinals of the European Championship with a wonderful free kick in Vienna, which witnessed him becoming the captain of the German team, and sent the German team to the knockout round.

The snarling Ballack gave Vienna a testament to his leadership and unrivalled dominance, and the midfielder, who scored 37 goals in 84 international appearances, is leading the German team to new glory.

In the German national team, Ballack's excellence on the pitch is not only reflected in the goals, judging from the post-match statistics, Ballack also dominated the landslide, his sharp passes repeatedly tore through the Austrian defence, creating scoring opportunities for his teammates. In addition, Ballack's overall movement was very aggressive, covering almost every area of the pitch.

In addition to a goal, Ballack had two dangerous shots on goal and a free-kick to break the deadlock and secure the victory in the face of Germany's sluggish performances throughout the game and lack of athleticism.

On the field, Ballack is a well-deserved leader of the German tank, and Ballack also shows his leadership temperament off the field, before the game, he dared to angrily reprimand his teammates and girlfriends in front of the media for not wanting to make progress in the hotel, and dared to raise objections to the decision of coach Loew to allow the "wife group" to accompany the team, in addition, Ballack also convened a meeting of his teammates to express their views on the team's problems.

Ballack's goal, round the German team's 12-year European Cup quarterfinals dream, two consecutive European Championship group stage failed to qualify for the knockout stage they finally appeared in the knockout round again, the next Ballack led the German team will meet the Belgian team led by Degan, in the previous Champions League semifinals, Ballack's Chelsea lost to Degan's Fiorentina, now, the two meet again, Ballack is bound to look forward to successful revenge, leading the German team to a higher goal, the leader of the German team, We will follow the glorious footsteps of the predecessors of the national team and move forward step by step.

Ballack knocked on the door of victory for the German team, but throughout the game, it was not Ballack who performed the best for the Germans, but someone else, and that person was Lahm.

Ballack's only bright spot in the game can only be regarded as this stunning free kick, and more on Ballack is a kind of cohesion and dominance as a captain, he roared many times in the game, reminding his companions that it is this unity that allowed the German tank to advance to the quarterfinals, and perhaps it was after the game that the organizing committee saw such dominance that gave the best of the game to the German captain.

Ram's excellence is more in the technical level, this game, Lahm returned to the left side, seems to have regained the feeling, the whole game can be said that the overall performance of the Germans is not outstanding, and only Rahm lit up the whole field, the left side of the defense is not leaky, his speed and breakthrough in the attack is also vividly displayed, and even after creating a free kick that remembers the score, Rahm also has a cooperation with his teammates to go directly into it, but the linesman's offside misjudgment will end the attack.

In the 04 European Championship in Portugal, although the German team failed to qualify from the group, Lahm became the biggest discovery of the German team that summer, in the 06 German World Cup, Lahm scored the first goal of the cup in the first game against Costa Rica, and finally with his excellent performance, he was selected into the best team and was nominated for the World Footballer of the Year that year.

In this game, the overall performance of the German team in the first half was substandard, and Lahm could only help the team clear in the second half, and could not play his excellent assist ability at all.

However, in the second half, Lahm suddenly became powerful, and in the 49th minute of the game, Lahm broke through from the left to the edge of the penalty area, and after being brought down by the opposing player, he won a free kick opportunity for the German team, and the German team also took the lead with this opportunity and changed the passive situation on the field.

Lahm's flash could not make people ignore the sluggish form of the German team since the start of the European Championship, although Ballack's goal saved the whole team and the coach Loew, but one of the members of the German chariot is gradually going to the abyss of a more sluggish abyss, that person is the striker Gomez, who has completely lost Loew's patience, and this game is also the last chance Loew gave him to enter the starting lineup again.

Three hours before the game, the German newspaper Bild announced the starting line of the German team, and Friedrich entered the starting line-up in a surprising way, Gomez still occupies the starting center forward position is a big surprise, and in the game, Gomez kicked the empty goal in front of the goal in the first half, which will definitely make Loew completely lose patience with him, and the battle with Austria will also become Gomez's Waterloo out of the main list.

Loew's continued start against Austria obviously gave him enough face and gave him one last chance to prove himself, but missing an empty goal and being substituted in the middle of the game was enough to indicate that Gomez will not be in the starting line-up of the German team in the quarter-finals against Belgium.

Gomez's slump is just a point, but the weakness of the German backline is really to the point where people can't bear to look at it directly, in the first game of the group stage against Poland, the German team's defense has exposed a lot of holes, Lehmann almost gave the opponent a chance to make up for the ball several times, and the German team's side has also become the opponent's main breakthrough. It's just that the Polish players have limited counter-attacking ability and don't score.

In the second game with Croatia, it can be said that the holes in the German team's defense were exposed, Janssen's left side was repeatedly broken by the opponent, and the gaps behind the two central defenders also became the main point of attack of the opponent many times, and the opponent also used these two holes to score two goals.

That's why Loew made a substitution in the third group game against Austria, replacing Janssen with Lahm and Friedrich at right-back.

However, Germany's defensive problems have not been fundamentally improved, and the form of the two central defenders is still disappointing, Metzeld pulled down Hanik in the box in the first half, and was almost awarded a penalty, and his form is still not the best, the opponent caught a few holes to break through, and the defense is very embarrassing.

Mertesacker was cut off shortly after the start of the second half, and almost gave the opponent a single chance, but fortunately, the opponent was not fast and was counter-robbed by Mertesacker.

Friedrich's right side was also very mediocre, not only did he not provide effective support to the frontcourt players, but the defense was still fearful, and the opponent seized several chances to successfully break through.

In addition, although the left side of Lahm performed eye-catching in this game, many breakthroughs to the front, there were a few threatening passes, but the defensive problem has still not been effectively solved, because Podolski is almost not involved in the defense, which makes Lahm defensive pressure is not light, but fortunately, Austria's frontcourt attackers are also not good at shooting, so that the German team can try to keep the door open.

Compared with the 2006 World Cup, the German team's defense is now a big failure, that World Cup, the combination of the two central defenders of the German team, Metzeld and Mertesacker, can be described as seamless, do not give the opponent a chance, only conceded one goal in the group stage, and played as good as ever in the knockout stage, it can be said that in addition to the strong attack in the front, excellent defense is also one of the important factors to ensure that the German team advances to the semi-finals and wins the third place.

Today's German team seems to be timid, not daring to press boldly on offense, and there are shortcomings such as lack of confidence and lack of tacit cooperation in defense, which also brings huge psychological pressure to the German defenders, making it difficult for them to play better.

Judging from the current defensive performance of the German team, only Lahm has performed well, and the rest of the players are obviously not in the best condition, or even play abnormally.

The limited depth of the bench is destined to make it difficult for the German team to have more changes and adjustments, and the only player in the German team who has not played in the back is Westmann from Schalke, but he may not be able to surprise people in the future with his limited national team experience.

And with Loew's conservative character, I am afraid that he will not make major adjustments to the existing lineup. Therefore, in the knockout stages, the German team still have to rely on this unreassuring defence, and they may only hope that the defenders can return to excellent form as soon as possible.

However, after entering the knockout stage, the German team's defense may not be as easy as it is now. The defeat to Croatia was enough to serve as a wake-up call for Loew's side, not to mention that they were against Belgium, who had the world's most fearsome attacking weapon, Degan.

The risk combination against Croatia is still full of holes, and in the face of Digan, who has a sharper breakthrough and more comprehensive skills, the German team's defense may not escape the fate of being "ravaged" by the opponent if it still performs poorly in the group stage.

All right! The Germans won, but even as an ordinary fan, after watching enough of the game, the dull and chaotic process was very, very disappointing for Degan.

Before the start of this European Championship, many people were predicting which teams would have the quality to win the championship, and the German team was mentioned repeatedly, but the Germans performed even worse today than the last one.

In the first 10 minutes of the game, the Germans also showed overall tactical execution on the pitch, but when it came to the hosts' use of home pressure, their performance was almost useless. If there was one bright spot in the German team in this game, it was only one Lahm.

Two years ago, in the German World Cup, the energetic German team did not appear on the field today, Deegan basically did not feel the German players showed enough desire to win, including captain Ballack, almost all the players lacked desire to win this game, they seemed to be very reluctant to complete the pre-game task, and the rest, basically nothing was shown, but this is okay, if it is time to wait until the knockout round, Deegan is still facing such a team, Winning doesn't seem to be a problem.