Chapter 1280: Unpopular Surprises

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As time went on, the final round of the group stage of the European Championship finally began. When this round of group stage is over, the list of the quarterfinals of the European Championship will be released and enter the even more brutal knockout stage!

First up was Group A, where Portugal and Spain, who had missed out on Greece, faced off in a tight battle at the Alvared Stadium in Lisbon. In the end, the hosts defeated their neighbour with a goal from Nuno Gomez and advanced to the quarterfinals in the last minute!

For this result, the Portuguese fans, who were worried about the fate of the national team in this European Championship before the game, naturally cheered, while the Spanish fans were sad at the moment. Although the game is over, it is really difficult for them to accept this slightly cruel reality.

Of course, while these Spanish fans are deeply saddened by the team's early exit, they are also annoyed by the series of poor performances by manager Sess at this European Championship.

Forget about one win, one draw and one loss in three games in the group stage, what's the deal with only scoring two goals? Is this still the Spain we love who are full of passion at all times, full of thirst for attacking and scoring goals?!

Therefore, after learning that the national team will be returning home at the end of the group stage, Spanish fans launched a huge protest to demand the resignation of the culprit, Saiss!

In fact, without these fans protesting, the Spanish Football Federation will definitely fire Saiss after the European Cup. After all, although Spain's performance in international competitions over the years has been quite average, it is too much to say that they will not even qualify for the group stage.

Then again, the Spanish Football Federation's criteria for selecting coaches are strange enough. Obviously, there are many good coaches in Spain, and Camacho, who played in Euro 00 and the World Cup in 02, also led the team to play good results, but they chose Seth, a guy who wants fame and no prestige. I have to say, it's a strange thing.

At the same time, when Seth learned after the game that Greece had been beaten 2-1 by Russia on another field, and Spain was there, the coach's first reaction was not to regret that he had won too little in the first game against Russia in the group stage, but to complain that the Russians were not strong enough to win by only one goal against Greece......

If Russia can get into Greece by one more, wouldn't it be my Spain who will advance to the quarterfinals now? Seth thought with resentment in his heart.

Seth, who only complained about Russia's ineffectiveness, did not realize the series of serious mistakes he had made at this European Championship. For example, he was reluctant to improve in the first two group games, and after taking the lead, he aimed to hold on to the current scoreline, so that the team did not earn enough clean sheet against Russia, and gave the Greeks the chance to equalize, which in turn led to the Spanish national team in an embarrassing situation of needing to fight Portugal in the final round.

In addition, Seth's blind trust in Raul is also quite criticized. After all, Raul is no longer the superkiller who led Real Madrid to the European Champions League two years ago, and he is now only regarded as a spiritual leader after the 02 World Cup, and he should not continue to dominate the main position in the national team.

Judging from these two points, Spain is really not unjust at all when it is in its current situation. I'd rather stick to Raul, who is in a sluggish state, than give Berleron, who is more playmaking and more suitable for the current Spanish team, how many chances will Spain's fate in this European Championship has actually been determined since Seth made this choice.

Despite the news of Spain's exit from the European Championship group stage caused quite a stir in international football, England and France in Group B did not seem to be affected by this, with the two traditional powerhouses playing very consistently (although England were miraculously reversed by France in the last two minutes in their opening game) to knock out Croatia and Switzerland to advance to the quarter-finals.

As for Italy's Group C, the Apennines have already qualified for the group with all the previous two wins, so the players are very relaxed before the final round against Bulgaria, and the training ground is full of laughter, and it is difficult to see the shadow of the big game coming.

It's no surprise that up and down Italy would behave so relaxed. You know, the Bulgarian rose has been sinking since it bloomed once in the American summer of '94, and the dilemma of a lack of successors has always plagued the country that once won the fourth place in the World Cup. Up to now, although there are still players in the Bulgarian team who play in the four major leagues such as Petrov and Bodinov, these people cannot be compared with the players of Balakov and Lechekov's generation in terms of fame and strength.

The most important thing is that there is no iron-clad manager like Rehhagel in the Bulgarian squad. The backwardness of the technical and tactical level and the disunity of the team's thinking,

What's more, the Bulgarian players don't have the bloody nature of the Russians to pull a cushion even if I die. The reality of two games and two losses in the group stage and a net swallow of seven bullets and one goal did not score made Bulgaria, which was out of the tournament early, have low morale and no desire to fight, and the players' minds have long been out of the game. Perhaps the Bulgarian players are now more eager to get the match over so they can enjoy the summer sun or have a romantic encounter at one of those resorts.

Thanks to the Bulgarians' unfocused attitude, if they follow Russia's example and fight for honour in the final round, Italy will suffer a big loss in this game as Portugal and Spain did against Greece.

In this way, Italy, who played with an all-substitute lineup, defeated Bulgaria 3-0 at the Enrique Stadium in Guimarães with goals from De Rossi, Cassano and Perrotta, and advanced to the quarterfinals of the European Championship with all three victories!

After the results of Group B and Group C were released one after another, the fans' mood of hanging because of Spain's exit finally relaxed a little. In the eyes of these fans, having more strong teams advance to the knockout rounds is the result they are most happy to see, and a dark horse like Greece only needs to have one, and if there are too many, it will inevitably make the next tournament look a little starless.

However, just one day later, the European Cup broke another shocking news: the German team, the runner-up of the 02 South Korea-Japan World Cup, only won two draws and one loss in three games without a win, and fell in this group that can be called the group of death!

This also means that as soon as the group stage of this European Cup is over, two traditional strong teams have faded out of people's field of vision and waved goodbye to the Delaunay Cup!