Chapter 126: Those Who Want to Win Go to Fight
Belgium got off to a perfect start with a 4-0 thrashing of Ukraine in the first round and will face 2004 Africa Cup of Nations winners Tunisia, who need only a win to qualify from the group.
In this game, Belgium maintained the starting lineup in the first game of the big win over Ukraine, and the forward line was still Deegan as the single arrow.
At the start of the first half, Belgium quickly took control of the game with possession. In the second minute, Deegan received a corner kick from Simmons on the right side and shook his head to hit the top of the goal.
Four minutes later, Gul made a long pass to the front of the penalty area, Degan would do it, Bufeel cut in, and 20 meters out in front of the goal, his right foot shè, the ball hit the side netting and went off the bottom line.
However, although Belgium attacked fiercely, they also made frequent mistakes, and the players on the field seemed to be very inattentive, perhaps the strongest opponent in the first win group, Ukraine, which made them despise Tunisia.
In the eighth minute of the game, when Simmons broke through with the ball on the left side, he was cut off by a Tunisian defender and passed directly to the front, Jaziri broke through the Kompanydel defense from the right rib and broke into the penalty area, facing the defense of Van den Boray and Van Bitten in the penalty area, using his personal jishu to pass the ball to the middle, after Mnari received the ball, after dodging Gul's sliding tackle, he pushed shè with his right foot and was blocked by Proto, but Mnari reacted quickly, followed up with his right foot to make up shè, although Proto's fingertips touched the ball, But the ball still flew into the net.
The unexpected fall behind made the Belgian team stunned, and immediately launched a big counterattack, but the mentality was impatient, so that their mistakes were more frequent, and Degan kept yelling to keep his teammates calm, but it didn't seem to have a very obvious effect.
Tunisia, who took the lead, retreated from the defense and took advantage of Belgium's mistakes from time to time, playing several high-quality counter-attacks.
In the eighteenth minute, after Namoushi's midfielder slashed back, Jaziri suddenly activated the anti-offside position successfully, but fortunately, Proto made a decisive attack to block the ball and defuse the danger.
In the 30th minute, the number one star of the Tunisian team, Trabelsi, who plays in the Eredivisie, was directly tackled by Van Bitten, who was yellow carded, and Ayari took a free kick and was held up by Proto with one palm.
In first-half stoppage time, Munari took advantage of another corner and headed in the goal, which was cleared by Van Bitten in Xiangshang. In the first half of the game, Belgium trailed Tunisia 0:1 into the halftime break.
Boom!
In the Belgian locker room, Digan kicked the cabinet out of a dent and looked at his teammates angrily, and the atmosphere in the locker room instantly became tense.
In the first 45 minutes of the game, he was basically in a lonely state in the front court, and he did not get a few backups at all.
Especially after the team was scored, he failed to receive a pass from behind, and the only corner of the shè goal, which was also after he fought down in the midfield, went all the way to the front of the Tunisian penalty area, and under the triple clip, barely shè was deflected.
"Do you think that after defeating Ukraine, we are already shijie champions!"
Degan roared loudly, and among his teammates, even veterans such as Simmons, Gul, and Van Bitten, looked silent in the face of Degan's anger.
"Look at the way we played in the first half, we were like eleven shit piled up on the pitch, and we were here to moisten the turf of the pitch! Gentlemen! Now I want to ask another question, do you think that with a victory, you have already achieved the goal, or do you think that our opponent in the Shijie Cup is only one Ukraine!? ”
No one is talking!
What they were like in the first half, everyone knows exactly what they were like!
"I don't want to say anything superfluous, I just want to tell you one thing, I'm here for the championship, not to score a goal, to draw, to win, to have a group or something, only the champion! If you think I'm delusional, you can continue your bad show in the second half, I'll only take the people I want to win, and if I don't want to win, I'll fuck off! I don't want to sleepwalk on the field! ”
If it was someone else who said this, a fiery temper like Van Bitten would have exploded a long time ago, but in the face of Degan, he couldn't even say a word to defend himself.
After the start of the second half, Belgium significantly tightened their control in midfield, and the players were scolded by Digan in the dressing room and calmed down.
In the 48th minute, Digan made a return in the penalty area, and Gul followed up with a strong right foot, which was bravely blocked by Tunisian goalkeeper Bumnieger.
Four minutes later, Van Bitten suddenly stepped forward into the Tunisian half, and after receiving a pass from Digan, a powerful shot from outside the box was blocked by Bumnigre's fists.
After regaining their composure, Belgium also played more and more fiercely, attacking wave after wave, while Tunisia fully retracted their defense, hoping to hold on to a one-goal lead.
However, Belgium that has recovered its form is obviously not able to stop it with strict defense, when the game went to the seventy-first minute, Gul midfielder crossed diagonally to the right side, Boufer took the ball and crossed, Van der Haeger deliberately missed, Gul kicked away, the ball was blocked by Bumnigre, Digan inserted in time, and scored an equalizer in the case of Trabelsi's shovel, which was also Digan's fourth brother goal in this Shijie Cup.
In the 76th minute, Belgium made a comeback, Gul midfielder Jing Miao long pass to the ball, Digan diagonally inserted into the penalty area, saw Bumnigre attack, with the outside of his right foot to bounce shè empty goal to overtake the score.
Belgium scored two goals in a row in just five minutes to overtake the score, and Le Maire was a little panicked at this time, and hurriedly ordered the team to attack, but after holding for so long, it was not easy to attack.
In the 90th minute of the game, Belgium sealed the win, the goal was still Digan, Simmons left diagonal cross to the far point, Dugan in the opponent's defender pulled, still jumped up and shook his head to attack the goal, scored another goal, completed two consecutive games to complete a hat-trick.
In the end, with three goals from Deegan in the second half, Belgium finally reversed Tunisia 3:1 to advance to the round of 16 and became the eighth team in the German Shijie Cup to advance to the round of 16.
In the other game of the same group, Ukraine, led by the nuclear warhead Shevchenko, although they swallowed four eggs in the first round, but with the defeat of Saudi Arabia 4:0 in this round, the team's prospects for qualification suddenly brightened.
After two rounds, Belgium won both games, scored 7 goals and conceded 1 goal to advance to the first round, Ukraine ranked second with 3 points from 1 win and 1 loss, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia both had a draw and a loss with 1 point, and because Tunisia had a goal difference of 2 more than Saudi Arabia, it occupied the third position, and Saudi Arabia was temporarily ranked at the bottom.
In addition to Belgium qualifying early, the other three teams also have a chance to qualify, in the third round, Belgium against Saudi Arabia, Tunisia against Ukraine, from the current situation, Ukraine is in the best situation.
If Ukraine beat Tunisia they will also have six points, and with Belgium currently having a goal difference of six and Ukraine currently having a goal difference of zero, Belgium will certainly finish top of the group as long as they are not beaten by Saudi Arabia, while Ukraine will finish second in the group.
If Ukraine draws with Tunisia, then Ukraine's points will reach 4 points, at this time it will be necessary to see the result of another game to decide whether Ukraine can qualify, if Saudi Arabia can beat Belgium, then their points will also reach 4 points, the two teams need to compete for goal difference, after two rounds, Ukraine's goal difference is 0, Saudi Arabia's goal difference is -4, that is to say, Saudi Arabia must beat Belgium by five goals to beat Ukraine.
If Ukraine loses to Tunisia, then Tunisia will have 4 points, similar to the situation in the second article, whether Tunisia can qualify depends on the result of Saudi Arabia and Belgium, if Saudi Arabia wins, then both teams have 4 points, now Tunisia has a goal difference of -2, and Saudi Arabia with a goal difference of -4 also needs to beat Belgium.
In short, after two rounds of Group H, Belgium basically locked the top spot in the group, while Ukraine can basically ensure the passage as long as it draws, as for Saudi Arabia, not only is the fate of qualifying no longer in their own hands, but the requirements for qualifying are also almost harsh, cruel to say that Saudi Arabia can already prepare a return ticket.
Although the group appeared early, after the game, Belgium's core player Degan harshly criticized the whole team, believing that the team had slackened after the big win in the first game, which he absolutely could not allow.
I will only fight with those who want to win!
Deegan issued an ultimatum directly to his teammates.
Although in the current Belgian team, Degan's qualifications are the most shallow, but his strength and fame are significantly higher than his teammates, plus he is the captain of the Belgian national team, no one dares to refute such a statement.
The head coach of the Belgian national team, Antienes, was equally unhappy with the course of the game in his post-match press conference: "I expected it to be a very difficult and complicated game before the match. Tunisia scored in the first half and then they defended with all their might, so we really didn't have much to do. Faced with such a situation, we must make adjustments to change it. In the second half, we made changes to the players, gradually starting to control the game, paying more attention to the use of passes to pull the gaps, while emphasizing the break and cross from both wings, and then we found the chance to open the net, and luckily Rod took the opportunity to equalise and then helped the team to take the lead and seal the win. But we only played a good half today, we had a very bad first half, most of the players were out of shape and we were very impatient after conceding the goal, which is something we need to improve on later! Although we were behind early in the game, we kept trying to get back on the score, and Zuihou finally paid off and we completed the big comeback. It was a tough game but the three points were the most important for us. After a game like this, I think it's time for the players to calm down. If we want to go further in the Shijie Cup, the first thing we need is to face ourselves! ”
Belgium finally appeared in the group, and Degan naturally contributed to it, and after this game, there was a new round of heated discussions in European football around where Deegan will go next season.
Degan is physically strong, jishu is a rare all-round center forward, can shè with both left and right feet, and headers are his strength. In the opponent's penalty area, he has extraordinary calmness, and once the opportunity appears, he can always rush to seal his throat with a sword as soon as possible. It is precisely because he has all the qualities of a good striker that he quickly stood out in this Shijie Cup and became the favorite for the best shè player with six goals.
Speaking after the game, Deegan also expressed his general satisfaction: "Our victory today was very difficult, the most important thing for the team is to believe in our style and stay calm at all times, we made a lot of mistakes in the first half, but fortunately we corrected them in time in the second half and the final goal came. We know that sometimes it's going to be easy and sometimes it's going to be very difficult, like today. But this is the shijie cup, and we have to be mentally prepared. There's nothing to brag about when it comes to scoring goals, I want my team-mates to score goals and if one of us can be the best shè because it bodes well for Belgium. ”
The Belgians could have celebrated the victory, but for the Tunisians, it was a bitter one, with a one-goal lead in the first half and a comeback in the second, a score that Tunisian coach Le Maire was clearly disappointed with.
In the first half, Tunisia performed well, taking the lead and not giving Belgium too many chances, but in the second half the team could not withstand the Belgian attack and finally suffered a miserable reversal.
Speaking to reporters after the game, Lemaire said: "I'm very disappointed, especially in the second half. We set up the game with a lot of effort and I asked the players to defend with all their might, but a few mistakes ruined the whole game. ”
Le Maire said that Digan's equaliser was the turning point of the game: "It's too difficult to completely defend Dugan in a game, the good thing we haven't been out yet, but the situation is not in our favor, the group Zuihou game against Ukraine is decided, it will certainly not be an easy game, but we still have chances and we hope to win." ”
Tunisia's key player Munari also told reporters after the game: "We played very well for most of the game, we didn't let Belgium play their own special sè, Belgium tried to control the game with speed, but our defense was very good. Unfortunately, we didn't stay focused throughout the game and were conceded twice in five minutes by Belgium. In the next game against Ukraine, we will definitely give it our all. ”
Belgium appeared smoothly, but faced the next Saudi Arabia with a more relaxed mentality, and anyone who watched Belgium's previous two games knew that Saudi Arabia's desire to beat Belgium was basically a fantasy.
In the group stage, Antienes rotated most of the players, Digan also sat on the bench, and the Mponsa brothers partnered up front.
In the final game, Belgium defeated Saudi Arabia 1-0 with a goal from Mpongsa Jr.
In the other match in Group H, Ukraine defeated Tunisia with a brace thanks to Shevchenko's brace and advanced to the round of 16 as the second in the group.
At this point, the group stage is over, the 16 teams that advance to the knockout stage will fight each other, its host Germany will face the Nordic pirates Sweden, the South American powerhouse Argentina will face Mexico from North America, the eternal platinum generation England will face Ecuador face to face, Portugal and the Netherlands will meet, Italy will face the teams from Oceania Australia, Switzerland and Ukraine will meet, and the defending champion Brazil will face the challenge of Ghana. Belgium, who are top of the group, will face tough opponents France.
There has been no unbelievable thing in the current position of this Shijie Cup, and South Korea's shameless kung fu that entered the semi-finals of the last Shijie Cup is no longer useful, and after the group stage, he went home for plastic surgery.
Ghana, the only dark horse, faced the defending champion Brazil in the first round of the knockout round, and it is estimated that it will be more than lucky.
At the same time, this cup has once again verified the football king Pele's crow's mouth, before the start of the game, he had said that Ivory Coast will surprise the shijie football world, the result caused a lot of mourning in Côte d'Ivoire, after the group stage, Ivory Coast was eliminated, Pele's law is still continuing, even if it is the team that advanced to the round of 16, now they are praying at home, hoping that the foul mouth of the ball king will not pronounce his own name.
In the shè hand list, Digan, who was suspended in the first round of the group stage, is still in first place with six goals, followed by Klose and Shevchenko's four goals, if there are no accidents, the best shè player in this Shijie Cup is already in Digan's bag.
However, it seems that it is still difficult to surpass Fontaine's record of thirteen goals in a single Shijie Cup, after all, once it reaches the knockout stage, there are basically no weak teams, and it will become more and more difficult for Digan to score goals.
Especially with their next tough opponents, France, challenging Thuram's leading backline, which will not be an easy task for Degan.
And according to the memory of the previous life, although this year's French team is far from being comparable with the luxurious lineup in 98, but after the end of this Shijie Cup, a large number of talented young Zhuang faction will emerge in France, among which Ribery, Abidal, Malouda is the best, Belgium wants to step on France to continue to move forward, it seems to be difficult.
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