Chapter 196: Victory in all three battles

The 2014 Brazil World Cup entered the third round of the group stage, before the seven groups have fourteen teams, successfully qualified, before the start of the third round of Group H, Belgium won two games, ahead of schedule, although the South Korean team has hope, but expect them to win, but also need to beat Belgium, basically an impossible task, so Algeria and Russia games, will directly determine the other qualifier in Group H.

Before the match against Algeria, Russia only had 1 point from 1 draw and 1 loss, while their opponent Algeria had 3 points from 1 win and 1 loss, so Russia must win against Algeria if they want to qualify.

The initial trend of the match was entirely in favor of Russia, who took the lead in just five minutes into the game, and if they can hold on to that score until the end, it will be Russia who will qualify.

However, I don't know if it was at this time that it made the same conservative mistake again, or if it was full of confidence in its "1:0" doctrine, Russia did not show its own advantages in the subsequent games.

On the contrary, in the second half of the game, Algeria's Slimani scored with a sneak header, 1:1, and by the end of the game, the score did not change, and Russia was also eliminated.

This is Fabio Capello's second major tournament in front of his country, but not a single one of them has been satisfactory, and at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Capello made his debut as England manager, and after stumbling through the group stage, they met old rivals Germany in the quarter-finals.

Although England may still be able to find an excuse for the referee in that game, but England's skills are inferior in the whole game, and it is indeed an indisputable fact, 1:4, England lost incompletely.

This year's World Cup in Brazil is Capello's second World Series, but this time Russia did not even qualify from the group, and he led the team to only one victory in a total of seven matches in the two World Cups he led.

Ironically, Capello suddenly announced his resignation before the 2012 European Championships because of Terry's affairs, in fact, even if Capello led the team to the European Championships, his prospects were not optimistic, so once Capello did not resign, maybe this Brazil World Cup defeat will lead to the coach's "World Series failed hat trick." ”

Conservative is always the label of Capello, and boring football has long been criticized, but he has always been successful at club level.

For example, he once led AC Milan to a classic league unbeaten streak of 58 games in football history, for example, he led Roma to regain the league trophy in the century after a long absence of championships, for example, he coached Real Madrid twice and won the league championship twice, but now his consecutive failures have made people begin to re-examine the famous coach, in the end, the success of the coach in the club is not based on the club can pay for him, and in the national team, without such conditions, Capello can not continue to magical?

The next World Cup will be held in Russia, and Capello's poor coaching results in this tournament will certainly make the Russians re-examine whether they are the right coach for Russia.

If Capello is to survive until 2018, he will have to make rapid progress in this gloomy Russia to maintain his reputation.

Capello is tragic, compared to him, Algerian coach Halihovic, who is completely a small role, was very excited after the game, and at the post-match press conference, the old coach said excitedly: "We played a heroic game, deserved to qualify for the group, in the last three years, Algerian football has made great progress, in this World Cup, the whole Arab world is behind us, which has helped us to achieve good results, and we have received a lot of support in Brazil, It's very proud of us, but also the way the players play and it's a pleasure to coach a team like that. ”

Algeria, who made their World Cup debut in 1982, surprised people when they upset West Germany 2-1 in the first group stage, lost 2-0 to Austria in the second round and beat Chile 3-2 in the final round.

Unfortunately, in the final round of the group stage, West Germany and Austria played a tacit match, and West Germany beat Austria 1-0. In the end, West Germany, Austria and Algeria all had 2 wins and 1 loss and 6 points, but Algeria was eliminated because of the lack of goal difference. It was from that World Cup that FIFA dictated that the two matches of the final round of the group stage must be scheduled at the same time.

And this time in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Brazil, Algeria's opponent happened to be Germany again, and Halihovic is looking forward to a miracle and revenge for the scene 32 years ago: "I want to continue to enjoy this victory, but in the next few days, everyone will talk about Algeria beating West Germany in the 1982 World Cup, and we will not forget, of course, it has been 32 years after all, this is a long time, Algeria will perform better this time, beat Germany?" Why not? I know it's difficult, we don't have as much support as Germany, but I hope more people cheer for us, I know that the Brazilian people love football and Algeria can bring great football to everyone. ”

In another match played at the same time, the result was not unexpected, Belgium still beat South Korea 6-0 when half of the main players were suspended, and Digan scored a hat-trick in the game, updating his World Cup goal tally to seven, ranking first in the scorer list, in addition to De Bruyne, Mirallas, and Fellaini, who returned from injury in this game, scored one goal each.

Although the Koreans worked very hard in the game, and even Digan's wife Park Ji-yeon "defected" to the Korean fans to cheer for the Taiji Tigers, but the difference in strength between the two teams was too big and there was no comparison at all.

After the victory over South Korea, Belgium won all three games in the group stage, and appeared smoothly, 1/8 finals, they will face the United States, although the United States team has Dempsey, Bradley and other powerful stars, but compared with Belgium, their strength is obviously at a disadvantage, Belgium to advance to the next round, it seems that it is not a problem.