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After breaking through from the group stage and successfully breaking into the round of 16 of the World Cup, the whole country of Chile sang the praises of Italy's fair play - after all, before the start of this game, Chile, which had only one point from the two games, would be one point behind Austria, and if Italy, which qualified early, deliberately lost the match against Austria, then even if Chile won the battle with Cameroon, it would be blocked out of the round of 16 because of fewer points than Austria!

If the Chileans were only grateful for Italy's move at first, when the final round of Group D was over two days later, the Chileans felt that it was great that they could be placed in the same group as Italy - because the Spanish bullfighters, who had a large number of well-known stars such as Hierro, Raul and Luis Enrique, were blocked out of the round of 16 by Nigeria and Paraguay in the same group, and had to face the cruel reality of returning home after the group stage!

"Spain is really useless, they were actually killed in the group stage." Looking at the newspaper headlines that had just been printed in his hand, Little Groz pursed his lips and said disdainfully, "Antonio, you really guessed it, the Spanish team led by Clement really won the cup in the group stage." ”

"Rebecca, anyway, can you trust my vision?" Regarding the surprise expressed by little Gross, Zhuang Mingge replied helplessly, "It makes me very sad to always doubt my prediction like this. ”

"Ahaha~ People don't know enough about football, Antonio, you don't know what to say." Faced with Zhuang Mingge, who said this, Little Groz had no choice but to pretend to be stupid and cute, "You don't have to worry about this kind of thing, a man who is too serious will be hated." ”

"Hey! Rebecca, what do you mean by that......"

"Tony, tell us what the hell is going on? Why were Spain eliminated in the group stage? Karin asked on the side, because of her work, she often has to contact with football, she naturally has her own opinion on the reason for Spain's exit, and now she asks this question, more to clear the siege of Groz Jr.

Sure enough, after Karin raised the question, little Groz immediately threw a grateful look at Karin, who immediately gave her a look, indicating that this was what she should do.

"Hmm...... In my opinion, there are many reasons why this Spain team will be eliminated in the group stage. Zhuang Mingge, who was successfully diverted by Karin, pondered for a while and said his opinion, "The first reason is Clement himself, the Spanish coach really reuses veterans too much. For example, with two goalkeepers in their playing years, Canizares and Molina, he insisted on starting the in-form veteran Subisareta. Although Subisareta was indeed a world-class goalkeeper in the past, at the age of 37, he is just a veteran who is no longer in the limelight, and it is precisely because of his clumsy performance that Spain was reversed by Nigeria in a once-leading situation, losing the three points that are about to arrive. ”

"Secondly, the psychological quality of this group of Spanish players is really a little bad, although they lost to Nigeria in the first game, but in fact, as long as they played the last two games seriously, the probability of Spain qualifying is still very high." Zhuang Mingge continued to explain his views to Karin and Groz Jr., "However, the impact of the loss to Nigeria on the Spanish players was too great, and they were forced to draw in the match against Paraguay, thus giving the initiative to the opponent to qualify from the group. ”

"So, in the first two games of the group, one draw and one loss only one point, although the Spanish players broke out their true strength in a desperate situation, facing Bulgaria, which has been determined to be out of the group, they scored six goals in the game to win a hearty victory, but this big win is obviously not enough to save the fate of Spain, Paraguay and Nigeria only used a fairly tacit draw to kill them in the group stage."

"Antonio, isn't this tacit ball a match-fixing? Why didn't FIFA and the World Cup Organizing Committee come forward to punish them? Groz Jr. asked curiously, although she didn't know much about football, she also knew that this kind of match-fixing-like game would definitely not be tolerated.

"The problem is that there is no conclusive evidence for these things, and as long as no one is brain-dead enough to put these things on the table, there is no reason for FIFA to punish them." Zhuang Mingge shrugged his shoulders and said, "Moreover, if there is a spontaneous tacit understanding between the two teams in this game, then there is no evidence to be found." ”

"In this way, I always feel that Spain is really unjust in its death this time."

"You can't live by your own evil, whoever let Spain play badly in the first two games deserved to be eliminated."

The Chileans naturally thought of these analyses made by Zhuang Mingge, so they were even more grateful to Italy for their mercy after receiving the news that Spain was jointly played by Nigeria and Paraguay.

Not to mention the Chileans, who are grateful to Italy in their hearts, now turn the conversation back to Italy.

After qualifying from Group B, Italy quickly confirmed their opponents in the quarter-finals, with Maldini Sr.'s side facing Norway, who finished second in Group A.

Norway still have some good players in this World Cup, such as the baby-faced super substitute Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Manchester United's Borg, Liverpool's Bjonebi, Chelsea striker Flo, etc., these excellent players have combined to allow Norway to qualify from Group A after the favourites Brazil.

When they learned that their opponent in the quarter-finals was Italy, the Norwegians knew in their hearts that unless they were possessed by Lady Luck, their World Cup journey would be over.

However, despite knowing that their side had a small chance of winning, the Norwegians did not admit defeat lightly - they had already reached the knockout stage, and no one wanted to surrender without trying hard.

Maldini Sr. did not take Norway lightly because of the weakness of his opponents, and although the old horse hid the team's top scorer Vieri in this quarter-final, Robert Baggio and Inzaghi were equally powerful, with Andrea Pirlo and Albertini in midfield delivering cannonballs, and Dino Baggio and Tomasi protecting them at the back.

In the end, with Inzaghi's leak in front of the goal in the 73rd minute of the game, Italy, which took the initiative throughout the game, defeated Norway 1-0 and became the first team to reach the quarterfinals of the World Cup!