Chapter 1027: Before the Elimination
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In the face of Zhuang Mingge's extremely straightforward slap in the face, although Mo Ji was very angry in his heart, he didn't come up with any good way to fight back. After all, this incident happened in front of everyone's eyes, and even he had nothing to quibble. Although the final result was not bad, Pierrot's behavior did destroy the harmonious atmosphere in the Italian team, and many people began to look at him unpleasantly.
What's more, even if Mo Lao Fox wants to continue to whitewash the Zebra Prince, he really can't find any convincing evidence - after all, the video of that game is enough to prove a lot of things, plus the analysis of a vote of professionals, it is almost an impossible task for Mo Ji to use the media he knows to reverse right and wrong.
In fact, the main reason why the two sides had such an unpleasant quarrel was that Pierrot was too anxious and ruined Vieri's chance to dominate the World Cup scoring record in the game, and Zoff added fuel to the fire, forcing Juventus to have such a strict confrontation with other teams in order to keep the team's flag.
But fortunately, although the two sides were very happy in their mouths, they still maintained their basic sanity and bottom line, but Tongguò's respective agents in the media field fought a war of words that was only about face, and it did not make trouble to the point that the bosses such as Zhuang Mingge and Agnelli needed to go down in person.
If the matter gets to the point where the big bosses of each team have to come forward in person, then it is not just a matter of face for each club, once the matter has developed to that point, it will definitely not end lightly without making a scapegoat to bear the responsibility for causing the conflict between the clubs.
Now, no matter which side is only engaged in indirect confrontation through the media, it still belongs to the category of the two sides can stop at any time. After all, although this is not the Celestial Empire, except for Zhuang Mingge, no one should have heard the phrase "be a man and leave a line, and see each other in the future", but everyone has been in the football circle for so long, even if there is something unpleasant, it will not make things out of control.
In fact, if it weren't for the "Torino Sports Newspaper", which is the mouthpiece of Juventus, who took the initiative to jump out to whitewash Pierrot, and at the same time sent a map cannon to other clubs with extreme recklessness, the scope of this incident is estimated to not even be able to get out of the gate of the headquarters of the Italian Football Association, and it will be directly absorbed and digested by the Football Association internally.
Just when the Italian media was in opposition because of Pierrot's, the only two remaining groups in this World Cup finally decided the winner the day after Italy successfully advanced to the round of 16!
Although the fans had expected the game before it began, when the game was over, the final result was a stunner. The situation in Group H is better, in the first two games, one win and one draw, the host Japan team easily defeated the weak team Tunisia and advanced to the round of 16 as the group leader; Belgium and Russia, the two former European powerhouses fought a battle for another qualifying spot, and Belgium defeated the Polar Bears 3-2 in a goal shootout to successfully enter the semi-final stage.
If the final result of Group H is still largely expected, the final round of Group D will look extremely strange. Poland, who had lost their first two group games, suddenly found their form that night, with goals from Olisadebe and Kriszalovic giving Poland a two-goal lead just five minutes into the game, and Zevalanov's second-half goal allowed Poland to extend that advantage further. Compared with Poland, which scored many goals, the United States, which did not have the cowboy style of the first two games, only scored a face-saving goal in the final stage by Donovan, and finally lost 1-3.
The Poles proved with an undisputed victory that they would have been eliminated early in the group stage only because of bad luck and against the golden generation of Portugal and South Korea, the hosts, otherwise there would definitely be a place in the round of 16 for this Eastern European team!
Despite an unexpected loss to Poland in the group finale, the American fans did not express much frustration after the game. The reason is very simple, because in the other group stage of Group D, the host South Korean team, with two red cards issued to Portugal by the referee on duty, relied on a goal scored by Park Ji-sung in the 70th minute of the game to defeat Portugal, which has a golden generation, and blocked the European powerhouse from the door of the round of 16 and advanced to the quarterfinals as the first in Group D!
With the help of South Korea, the United States team, which was careless in Poland, was able to beat Portugal by one point to win the second place in the group after losing to Poland in the last game, and advanced to the round of 16 of the World Cup for the second time in history.
Portugal's return home in the group stage surprised many fans, who did not expect that this powerhouse led by the golden generation would not learn their lesson after losing to the United States and turn over South Korea in the gutter!
However, with the exception of the die-hard fans of Portugal, most fans were only saddened and regretted by Portugal's exit, but did not have too many doubts about the result. After all, an unwritten convention in the World Cup is to take care of the host team, so it is normal for Portugal to receive a certain amount of differential treatment from the referee in this game, and at most they can only complain that the red card given to Beto is a bit too harsh.
What's more, it can be seen from the video of the game that although the referee's decision in this game is a little biased towards the host's side, for example, the second yellow card that Beto received in the second half is a bit far-fetched, which belongs to the kind that can be judged or not, but in general, Portugal's defeat is more because of their own naivety and incompetence, if they didn't think South Korea would play a tacit game with them without doing their best, and several attackers wasted a lot of opportunities, How could they lose to South Korea, which is inferior to them in terms of overall strength and individual ability?
Therefore, Portugal's exit is a bit of a self-inflicted affair - if they had not beaten the United States in their opening group game, or had they not dreamed of a draw against South Korea, where would this team have fallen to where it is now?
At this point, all the matches in the group stage of this World Cup have been completed, and the 16 teams that have qualified will prepare for the upcoming quarterfinals according to the schedule that has been arranged!