Chapter 1237: Stand Out with Your Head Held High

The final round of the World Cup group stage in South Africa begins on 22 June, and within a week from that date, the dust will be settled on the qualification places and top spots in the seven groups. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Group A hosts South Africa must beat France in the final round, while Uruguay beat Mexico to qualify from the group.

France will have to beat South Africa by a big margin, while Mexico will beat Uruguay to qualify from the group.

South Africa does not have the strength to beat France by a big score, and Mexico does not have the strength to beat Uruguay, and the chances of France and South Africa qualifying are actually not very high.

This was quickly proven by Uruguay, who beat Mexico 1-0 to top the group, while Mexico finished second and South Africa, who beat former world champions France 2-1, were eliminated on goal difference.

Group B Greece wants to qualify need to draw or beat Argentina, but also need Nigeria to beat and draw South Korea, it is very difficult to qualify, before the game Greece and China are the same, lively calculation of learning football rules for several days, and then eggs, and finally Argentina easily defeated Greece 2:0 to win the first place in the group, and also let the South Korean team that drew Nigeria advance to the round of 16 with the second place in the group.

Before the third round, the best situation was the Slovenian team, they have 3 points, the United States team and England have 2 points, Algeria only has 1 point, but did not lose the hope of qualifying, but in the last round, the United States and England both won the game, and finally the United States team ranked first in the group because of the number of goals.

The situation in Group C is complicated, and the situation in Group D is even more complicated than Group C, with all four teams having three points and everyone can hope to qualify, and two games playing at the same time will also affect the qualification of both teams in the other game.

In the world, compared to the match between the Chinese team and Serbia, the match between Germany and Ghana is more attractive, but this does not mean that the match between the Chinese team and Serbia is not watched by fans.

This is the life-and-death battle of the Chinese team, the Chinese team still has a lot of hope of qualifying, and the Chinese fans are not crazy.

Originally, the fans did not expect that the Chinese team would have any hope of qualifying when it reached the third round, so there were not too many Chinese fans to book tickets for this game, when the Chinese team defeated Ghana by 3 goals, Chinese fans began to enter Nelspruit on a large scale, and many people did not have tickets, they came to try their luck, to see if there were any refunds, whether there were "scalpers", if you were lucky, you would have the opportunity to witness the Chinese team reach the round of 16 of the World Cup, and there was nothing if you couldn't buy refunds and high-priced tickets. You can also feel the atmosphere of the game up close and celebrate with the players for the first time.

Although Serbia's strength is stronger than the Chinese team, the Chinese team has conducted a detailed study of Serbia, the head coach of the Chinese team, Forado is still a star of the former Yugoslavia, the players and coaches are very confident in the game, they played steadily after the opening, neither aggressive, nor retreating, that is, patiently entangled with Serbia in the midfield.

Serbia started with a 451 formation: 1-Stojkovic/6-Ivanovic, 5-Vidic, 13-Lukovic, 16-Obradovic/10-Stankovic/18-Ninkovic, 22-Kuzmanovic/17-Krasic, 14-Jovanovic/15-Zhikic

In this squad, the most famous are Vidic who plays for Manchester United, Inter Milan's midfielder Stankovic and Chelsea's main full-back Branislav Ivanovic, Liverpool's Jovanovic, and most of the other players also play in the five major leagues. Serbia's biggest weakness is their goalkeeper, Serbia's goalkeeper Stojkovic has not signed up for the Portuguese Super League at Sporting Lisbon so far, and can only maintain his form through national team training, and whether his good hand can be maintained until the World Cup is still a question.

The Chinese team is unhurried, that's because time is on the side of the Chinese team, as long as the Chinese team gets a draw, no matter what kind of result Ghana and the German team play, the Chinese team can qualify from the group, the difference is only the first and second, with the strength of the Chinese team, the pie falling from the sky, will it be delicious or not?

Serbia can't play as slowly as the Chinese team, they must beat the Chinese team if they want to qualify, and if they draw, they will be eliminated by Germany and Ghana whatever the result.

The Serbian football talent is indeed worthy of its reputation, the Chinese team has studied Serbia very thoroughly, and the head coach Forado has also carried out the most targeted training, but under the onslaught of Serbia, the dense defense of the Chinese team still has a lot of flaws.

In the 5th minute of the game, the two-meter-tall striker Zhikic headed the ball, and the forward Krasic burst into the Chinese team's penalty area at high speed, and fell in the penalty area in physical contact with the Chinese team's defender, but the referee ignored it.

Two minutes later, Krasic broke through Chinese left-back Sun Hai on the right and fired into the near corner from a tight angle, which was saved by goalkeeper Zeng Lei.

In the 12th minute, the Chinese team counterattacked, Ivanovic quickly counterattacked after breaking the ball, Stankovic made a long pass, between the offensive and defensive transitions of the Chinese team, Krasic got a chance to score a single goal, he crossed the attacking Zeng Lei in the big penalty area and shot at a small angle to hit the empty goal, when everyone thought that the ball must be scored, Krasic actually knocked the ball away!

Serbia failed to take advantage of the succession of good shooting opportunities, which made Serbia's coach Antić yell at the pitch in anger.

The Serbian fans in the stands also sighed with regret.

After a series of dangerous encounters, the Chinese team began to launch ferocious pressing, blocking Serbia's attack outside the 30-meter area, preventing them from entering and leaving their penalty area at will.

The Chinese team's ferocious fouls and tireless running covered almost every piece of turf in their own half, and the skillful cooperation of the Serbian players was no longer smooth, and the very spiritual individual play also encountered rough fouls, and the game gradually developed towards the rhythm that the Chinese team hoped for.

Forado on the sidelines had a smile on his face, he was a Slav who was too familiar with the football of his country, knew what their strengths and weaknesses were, and also knew how to restrain them. But the problem now is that the Chinese team's players are too poor in execution, otherwise the Chinese team should have got one or two shots on goal.

However, unlike the two Chinese assistants, Forado is not in a hurry, resilience has always been Serbia's weakness, as long as it continues like this, the final collapse will never be the Chinese team, and Forado has a superstar like Chen Yu who can change the situation of the battle, Forado can play a lot of cards, so he is not afraid of consuming with Serbia.

In the 40th minute of the first half, Serbia missed the opportunity in front of the goal again, Krasic broke through the cross on the right, the Chinese defender rose to the top, and Ivanovic who assisted the Chinese team in the penalty area shot vigorously from close range, but Zeng Lei played bravely and saved Ivanovic's must-score goal.

Ivanovic's strong shot could not score, Sevilla was unable to rewrite the score in the first half, and the Chinese team relied on tenacity and luck in the first half to force Serbia to draw.

At halftime, there was an argument between the Serbian locker room and the Chinese team's locker room, the Serbs doubted their attack, and the Chinese team doubted their defense, but in the end Serbian coach Antic convinced his players and assistant coaches, and the head coach of the Chinese team, Forado, also convinced his assistants and players.

In the second half, neither side made any substitutions or changed their tactical play.

However, with Krasic's goal ruled offside and a volley from Zikic over the crossbar, Antic no longer believed in his starting line-up and tactical play, and in the 60th minute, he made two substitutions in a row, replacing Krasic with Tosic and Pykic with Padrick.

Antic's substitution is definitely a failure, although Krasic repeatedly missed opportunities, and Zhikic looks like nothing, but they are the two people who Serbia threatens the Chinese team the most, because with these two people and Stankovic's long-range shot, the Chinese team did not dare to shrink too much, and Serbia had the space to cooperate within the 30-meter area of the Chinese team.

Although Serbia's Bremen striker Tosic and Ajax's striker Pandridge are not weaker than Krasic and Zhikic, who were replaced, after the Chinese team contracted, Tosic's breakthrough and Pandridge's dexterity did not work.

As time passed, the Serbs became more and more anxious, in the 75th minute, the Chinese team scored, Sun Hai was suppressed by Krasic in the half, this time he finally had a chance to assist, he crossed from the left side, Chippefield in front of the ball did not reach the ball, and Chen Yu, who was inserted forward at high speed, jumped high to press Vidic's header to the bottom left corner of the goal.

China leads Serbia 1-0.

As Germany led Ghana 1-0 in the other group, this goal basically locked a place for the Chinese team, and Chen Yu, who scored four goals in three games, jumped high and roared with his fists, announcing to the world that the Chinese team was standing.

The Chinese fans in the stands excitedly started a crowd wave, turning the entire Mbobella stadium into a sea of joy.

Many Chinese fans came to South Africa because of love and impulse, but this time they made a worthwhile trip and witnessed the historical moment of the Chinese team.

Then the Serbian army was in turmoil, and could no longer play a decent match, and the Chinese team became more and more courageous, firmly keeping the goal without losing, until injury time, Stankovic's long-range shot only played once, he caused Zeng Lei's escape, striker Padrick grabbed the point and shot into the net, rewriting the score to a 1:1 draw, but it was too late, and finally the Chinese team drew Serbia with Chen Yu's goal, and qualified from Group D with its head held high as second.