The next day, the World Cup ushered in the semi-finals between the hosts Germany and Italy, and the final result between the two teams was 2-0, with Italy eliminating Germany with two goals in two minutes of extra time.

This is the same result as Zhang Tiehan's conjecture, and it also gave him more than 2,000 pounds of income.

Of course, this money is nothing, this is just an episode of Zhang Tiehan's life, the important thing is the game, this game is not very exciting, both teams started to play very conservatively, and the atmosphere of the competition was vividly reflected in the game.

The two goals of the Italian team were scored in the last two minutes of extra time, both of them are classics, and both of them are stunners!

Due to the FIFA ban on Frijns, the German starting line-up was slightly changed, with Kyle replacing Frings at the back, and the right midfielder Schweinsteiger, who started the first few games, was on the bench, with Bolovski in his place.

In terms of the game, Italy do have the advantage.

However, after 90 minutes of play, the score of the two teams was still 0:0, neither side was there, although the German team had to be passive, but it was not without chances, but no one expected that the German team lost because of relaxation, and the reason why I said this is because both goals came in the last time of extra time.

The game played 118 minutes and the extra time was almost over, and the score of both teams was still 0:0.

But in the 119th minute, the Italian team took a corner kick from the right side, the German team pushed the ball out of the penalty area, Pirlo took the ball in front of the penalty area and cleverly plugged it into the right side of the penalty area, Grosso made a tricky curling ball in front of the goal, and the ball flew around Lehmann into the far corner of the goal.

1：0。

In the 121st minute, when the German team was pressing, the Italian team played a quick counterattack, and Gilardino made a wonderful pass to Piero. The latter hit a perfect shot and the ball curled into the net again.

2：0。

The Italians scored an important victory in the last two minutes to reach the World Cup final for the first time since 1994.

On the way to the final, the German team players will inevitably be very sad, many players in the team shed tears after the game, Schneider and Ballack cried the saddest. For them, missing a World Cup final on their doorstep is a lifelong regret......

The mood of the German players is actually different from that of other countries.

They are also a world powerhouse, and this World Cup is being held in Germany, which is definitely a rare thing, but they still lost the game.

In the mixed zone, German players were interviewed.

I was very disappointed not to make it to the final and win the title," Ballack said in an interview. "We can't say we're proud of ourselves, because we lost."

Despite playing hard, Ballack's performance on the field was not satisfactory, his technique was not excellent, but more in terms of playing, and against Italy, Ballack's appearance was somewhat dwarfed.

Being eliminated at the last minute under the watchful eyes of the fans is a fatal blow to any player. Therefore, Ballack also said that he should not expect the German players to say the words "satisfied" or "proud". The last-minute defeat was a disappointment for all the German players.

However, Germany coach Jurgen Klinsmann did not seem as pessimistic as his players, although he spent five minutes on the sidelines alone at the end of the game. In an interview with FIFA reporters, Klinsmann said that despite the loss, he was still proud of the young German team. 'We can be proud of this team, we have a lot of young people and I think we have a good future.'

However, no one can say what will happen in the next four years, and now it is not even known who the next head coach of the German national team will be.

For Germany. Their World Cup is also over.

But they still have one more game, and that is a battle against England for third or fourth place, but who cares?

……

After losing to the French team, the England team is still concerned by the world, England has Zhang Tiehan like the 'scheduled World Cup Golden Boot', and there is a lot of big news after the game, although they lost to the French team, but the results of reaching the World Cup semifinals are actually very good for the English.

Many media analyzed the reason for England's defeat and believed that there was a gap between the midfield and the opponent.

England has a super luxury midfield, but the weakness of the midfield is obvious, and their super luxury squad is completely incompatible, before the World Cup, England has Frank Lampard, Gerrard and Beckham's midfield is known as one of the best among the 32 participating teams, but Frank Lampard, who is known as the "Iron Man of the Premier League", and Gerrard, who has always been the soul of the Reds' midfield, have scored, but the table outside the goal can really be used' Pingping', and those goals, the media also attributed it to Zhang Tiehan.

On a couple of occasions, it was Zhang Tiehan who sent the ball to their feet, and they only needed to hit the ball into the empty goal.

Other times, their performance has been quite poor, with Frank Lampard failing to score a single goal with dozens of shots, squandering more chances than he could count, and Gerrard's form not being the same as he was at club level.

So, why are the two Tiger generals who dominate the Premier League like sick cats when they arrive at the national team, and they look awkward to cooperate? An op-ed in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph answered this question -

"After England were knocked out of the last four of the World Cup, many blamed Eriksen for his conservative tactics, but few paid attention to the root causes of England's weakness.

Admittedly, Eriksen didn't get the best out of his players tactically, his selection of World Cup internationals was somewhat unsatisfactory, and his overly conservative philosophy didn't fully motivate his players, but these reasons are just the tip of the iceberg.

As a traditional football powerhouse, we have been deceiving ourselves into believing that we have world-class players who will shine in the Premier League every week. Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard are good players, but they are not yet world-class. The reason why they have been able to perform well in the Premier League is because many of their club team-mates are high-level foreign players, and these foreign players are of a higher level of tactical and technical skills than their teammates in the national team.

In the last 20 years, there has only been one star in England who can be technically described as world-class, and that is Gascoigne. Unfortunately. Gascoigne's character flaws are very eye-catching, and his temper is too hot, just like former Manchester United star George Best.

The level of players produced in England is not high enough.

Although the FA introduced a training system aimed at developing new talents a few years ago, this good idea did not pay much attention because the coaches in the school themselves were not very high. Despite improvements in sports science, psychology and facilities, the content and philosophy of the training have not changed.

Of course. Our players also have a certain responsibility because, as we have seen in this World Cup, players from other countries are more able to adapt to tactical changes than our players, because overseas players are more willing to learn and improve their tactical awareness, while England players find the learning process too tedious and tiring.

England's players hate tactical meetings, video analysis or self-improvement discussions, with the result that they only play one-dimensional tactics on the pitch rather than multi-space. In the Premier League, the teams that often switch positions, pass and receive well, and run accurately are mostly coached by foreign managers or have foreign players in the team, which is a mockery of the English players and coaching system.

While the FA has come up with a number of ways to improve coaching, England's coaching capacity is still not high. They are not creative enough in the first place. Tactically lacking in originality. Arsene Wenger, the French coach of the Arsenal team, is a very capable coach and his record at Arsenal has also been impressive. He realised that if he wanted to dominate the Premier League and Europe, he would have to look to the youngsters of other countries than the newcomers in the UK. He knew that other countries were better than England in developing their youngsters in terms of tactics, technique and mentality. The reason why Arsenal are able to play a good game is that they rely on foreign players from all over the world, and these high-level foreign players turn playing into an art.

Listen to the so-called football experts on British radio and television, whose comments are nothing new or profound enough to seem to know much more than the average football fan. Other than that. There are also problems with our media coverage, with most reporting focusing only on the game itself. Rather than a tactical analysis of the outcome of the game. After a game, the problems faced by the coach are rarely tactical, and as a result, fans who have no concept of professional knowledge only want to watch the fast-paced offensive battles and are not too concerned with tactical issues.

England must face reality, not run away from it. Our youth training and coaching skills lag behind some other countries. Instead of always blaming referees, opponents for faking or other reasons to excuse our elimination at the World Cup, we should look internally and see what can be done to improve the quality of England's players. ”

In short, the English seem to be doing a kind of self-reflection.

There are even more reports about Zhang Tiehan. After the baptism of the World Cup, Zhang Tiehan has become the most popular player in the England team, he is the 'scheduled World Cup Golden Boot', and his performance in the World Cup can almost be called perfect, and no player really compares to him.

Of course, this is the opinion of the English.

But it is undeniable that Zhang Tiehan's performance is indeed very good, he was nominated for the "Best Young Player" award, and in the six-man list, he received far more votes than the second-place C-Ronaldo.

Coupled with the World Cup Golden Boot, he also won two awards in the World Cup.

There are many media who believe that Zhang Tiehan will be nominated for the 'World Cup Golden Ball Award', but this award is more competitive, because England failed to enter the final, Zhang Tiehan has little hope of getting this award, his biggest competitor is Zidane of the French team, considering that Zidane is about to retire, the media also know that Zhang Tiehan has little hope of winning the 'World Cup Golden Ball Award', after all, this award is actually awarded by FIFA.

In the current World Cup, Zhang Tiehan and the England team still have to face the third and fourth place battles with the German team.

The match was scheduled for July 9, the day before the World Cup final, but it was clear that not many fans were following the match, despite the big game between England and Germany. But after all, it was a third- or fourth-place match, not a final, and few people cared about such a match.

Even the two teams are the same.

After leading the team to play this game, Eriksen is leaving the national team, and Beckham has already announced that he will take out the captain's armband, but for the time being, the captain's armband is still on Beckham's shoulder.

Both teams also sent their full main lineups.

But obviously the managers of both teams, including the players of both teams, are not going to really fight for anything. It's like an entertaining game, but Zhang Tiehan still cares a little about the game, after all, the opponent is Germany, and he once wanted to join the German team.

So when the game started, Zhang Tiehan seemed very serious.

The German team is also very serious, after all, the main players on the field, but in the face of the England team's 'free play' and the strong impact of Zhang Tiehan, the German team is very uncomfortable.

The result was only ten minutes into the game. England were the first to score.

It was Zhang Tiehan who scored the goal.

Next, the German team cautiously stopped the attack, I have to say that in terms of coordination, the German team did much better than the England team, the German team is a whole, their football is very rigorous, more focus on the team's table xiàn rather than individual play, they do not have a star with too outstanding individual ability, but they can always win lightly.

This is the German team.

When they get serious. England will be difficult to defend defensively.

In the 23rd minute, Germany equalized thanks to the combination of Podolski and Ballack. It was their captain Ballack who scored the goal.

The game continues.

There was a problem in the game now, both teams went to attack and were negligent in defending, so soon the game became an attacking battle.

In the first half alone, both teams scored five goals and Germany scored three. England scored two.

At half-time, Eriksen asked everyone to pay attention to their defence, but when it came to the game, England were still eager to score and equalise. As a result, Germany scored another goal at the beginning of the second half, and the score became 4:2.

Despite being two goals behind, the players didn't care, after all, the game was not very important, they were still playing seriously, and this mentality made the England team better and better.

The Germans had a two-goal lead and felt that victory was in sight, and they didn't expect that Zhang Tiehan would be so terrifying when he broke out...... Between the 70th and 73rd minutes of the game, in just three minutes, Zhang Tiehan knocked on the door of the German team twice with only two long-range shots.

At one point, the score became 4:4.

Only then did the Germans realize how terrifying England's No. 13 was that he was known as the 'world's top scorer' by many media outlets.

In fact, the German team didn't care much before the game, the Germans were rigorous, and the German team also inherited this rigorous style, the German players' way of thinking was very similar to Klinsmann's, they always believed that the group was more important than the individual, even if Zhang Tiehan scored many goals before, they didn't think that Zhang Tiehan could have any good performance in the face of the defense of the entire German team alone, after all, the England team as a whole had a zài gap with them.

But now they don't see it that way.

Four goals, Zhang Tiehan completed a hat trick alone, especially the two goals just now, which surprised them very much, just one didn't care, the opponent scored two goals in a row, this kind of strong individual ability, does the team really have an advantage?

They were a little dazed.

In the coach's seat, German coach Jurgen Klinsmann was even more anxious.

In fact, it doesn't matter if the game is won or lost, but he doesn't want to see Zhang Tiehan have an excellent performance, and he doesn't want to see him beat the entire German team alone, the reason is naturally related to his contradiction with Zhang Tiehan, many people know that the reason why Zhang Tiehan is now in the England team and not in the German team has a lot to do with him.

At that time, he did not recruit Zhang Tiehan into the German team several times in a row, he gave up Zhang Tiehan, he originally thought that it was nothing, but he did not expect Zhang Tiehan to choose to join the England team.

What to say now?

The player you gave up won the World Cup Golden Boot and became the best newcomer in the World Cup, and now your team is playing England and the opponent has scored a hat-trick...... If your team loses again, is there anything else you can say?

Klinsmann can almost imagine what the German media will say after the game!

Even if he wins the match, he will be under a lot of pressure, because Zhang Tiehan's performance is too good, and it is because of his excellence that Klinsmann will have so much pressure. Many German media have already pointed out that "Klinsmann has deprived the German team of the best player in decades", and if he loses again, he can't imagine how much pressure he will have, maybe those German fans will throw rotten eggs at him when they meet him on the street.

In short, Klinsmann was in a hurry.

But the game is not subject to his will. No matter how anxious he is, he can't replace the players on the court to participate in the game, and the German players rarely have the experience of playing games with Zhang Tiehan, and Klinsmann did not make any special arrangements before the game, and they were a little busy in the face of Zhang Tiehan's frequent impacts.

It was okay at the beginning, they were full of fitness, but now, many players are a little too physical to keep up, after all, they have just played in the big game against Italy. As a result, they can't kick anymore.

On the contrary, Zhang Tiehan is simply a perpetual motion machine!

He constantly attacked the German team's defense, and the defender's negligence would be passed by him, and by the end of the game, the German team almost did not attack, and all the players retreated to defend and held the goal. But even so, Zhang Tiehan continued to create threats.

This time Zhang Tiehan took the ball by himself. At the edge of the penalty area, a small area shook the three German team in a row!

"God! Zhang's feet are nimble as if he could sew clothes......" the German narrator said, and then he began to exclaim.

I saw that on the field, Zhang Tiehan rushed directly into the penalty area after shaking past the defenders, facing the attack of goalkeeper Lehmann. He opted for a stab shot - through the crotch.

Insulting shot!

When Lehmann stared blankly at the football and passed between his legs, he couldn't believe it, but it was clear that the opponent definitely did it on purpose!

Lyman and Zhang Tiehan are already old friends.

He's a veteran. He has been with Arsenal since 2003 and met Arsenal in the Carabao Cup in May 2004 when he was playing for Wigan Athletic, and that game made Lehmann know that a League One striker can score three goals in a single game.

This past season was followed by Liverpool and Arsenal.

Whenever he faced Zhang Tiehan, Lehmann had a psychological shadow, what he didn't expect was that the two had such a 'fate' and could meet in the World Cup, in fact, Lehmann had been praying to play with Zhang Tiehan on the same team, but now he has become an opponent.

The key is that Zhang Tiehan scored three more goals in this game.

Now it's the fourth.

Wear the crotch.

When the football rolled between his feet, Lehmann subconsciously turned his head and watched the football fly over the goal line, he didn't know what kind of mood he was feeling, whether it was anger, depression, sadness, or only a wry smile...... Maybe yes.

Fortunately, Zhang Tiehan comforted him.

Zhang Tiehan stepped forward and patted Lyman's shoulder embarrassedly, and the two looked at each other very tacitly and smiled, although they had not communicated, it did not prevent the relationship between the two of them who had long been 'acquainted'.

"I'm sorry, I ...... subconsciously" Zhang Tiehan was a little embarrassed.

He is too familiar with Lyman, because he has scored at least ten goals or more for this guy, it is impossible for such an acquaintance to remember, he is really a little embarrassed, just now he saw that Lyman's legs were wide enough, he really subconsciously completed a crotch shot.

What else could Lyman do?

He shrugged his shoulders with a dark face, as if he didn't care at all, and at this time he only smiled bitterly in his heart, and secretly blamed Klinsmann - if Zhang Tiehan was a member of the German team, he Lehmann wouldn't have to go through this now, right?

Conceding four goals against the same player in a World Cup game, maybe he can go down in World Cup history.

It's nothing more than a negative annals.

Of course, Klinsmann may not be in the mood to care about what Lehmann thinks at this time, he yells on the sidelines to let the team hurry up and attack, and it can be seen that he is in an extremely bad mood now.

It's a pity that the game has come to an end.

No matter how unwilling the German players are to lose, they really can't play anymore, it's just a battle for three or four places, not a World Cup final, and they just experienced a big battle two days ago, where are they in the mood to continue fighting?

And the other party's thirteenth is too powerful......

He is really the same as the media reported, there is no way to completely restrain it, they just worked hard for a long time, or was scored by the other party, and now they are one behind, how can they play?

……

In the end, England won 5-4 against Germany.

England didn't celebrate the victory or anything after the game, but under the arrangement of FIFA, they received the World Cup bronze medal, and for them, at this time, the World Cup is really over. (To be continued......)