Chapter 134: The Battle of the Two Teeth

The last 1/8 final of the World Cup in South Africa was passionately staged by the two teams Spain and Portugal in the same Iberian Peninsula, and these two teeth also turned a World Cup 1/8 final into a "La Liga infighting".

Of the 22 players who started both sides, 16 played in La Liga, with Real Madrid and Barcelona contributing five and six respectively. If you count the 46-man rosters of the two teams, there are 27 people from La Liga, accounting for nearly 60%.

Ligue 1 is gone, the Premier League is gone in disgrace, Serie A is ridiculously gone, and only the Bundesliga and La Liga are left in the five major leagues to support the façade of the World Cup. La Liga is undoubtedly more worth looking forward to, and after quickly accumulating a large number of top stars in world football, it has become the "world's first league".

One only has to look at Spain's starting line-up to see how terrifying they are, with Villa, Xavi, Iniesta, Pique, Puyol and Buzques from Barcelona and Casillas, Ramos and Alonso from Real Madrid.

It only takes two top clubs to build the backbone of a national team, plus Portugal's Real Madrid players Camuro and Pepe, what is this not "La Liga infighting"?

It is obvious that in addition to the "Westernization" of the staffing, the entire Spanish team has integrated Barcelona's style and technical and tactical play. With Xavi as the core, Puyol in the back and Villa in front, the delicate passing and receiving cooperation between club teammates, smooth ground advancement, and tacit multi-person running positions have been completely moved to the national team.

After 90 minutes of play, Golden Mauro left a sad back, Portugal lost 0:1 to Spain in the 1/8 finals of the World Cup in South Africa and was eliminated.

In his post-match interview, Kim Mauro looked sad and emotional: "You go talk to Queiroz, I just want to say that I feel ruined, completely ruined, I have a huge sense of frustration, I'm not in the mood to explain what happened on the pitch today, of course, as captain of the team I owe responsibility. ”

Golden Mauro should indeed take responsibility, even though he won three single-game MVP trophies in South Africa, but the overall disconnection between Golden Mauro and the Portuguese team has become more and more obvious in the South African World Cup.

First of all, there is the question of the position of the Golden Mauro, from the CR9 of the club to the CR7 of the national team, the area where the Golden Mauro takes the ball a lot back, and the task of organizing the midfield involves a lot of his energy, weakening his direct threat to the goal.

Unfortunately, the Portuguese midfield's organizational ability is not as good as before, and the attack lacks the combination of the side and the sense of depth, and the lack of support for Camuro forces him to rely on individual breakthroughs to advance to the front, and the success rate is naturally not high.

The second is that Golden Mauro's excessive competitiveness and changed sense of responsibility, overshadowing his team spirit, although wearing the captain's armband, but Golden Mauro has never been like Belgium's Digan, recognize the captain's responsibilities, and think that relying on his own to complete the goal is the greatest contribution to the team.

In addition, Camuro also arranged all the free kicks from the halfway point of the team, no matter how far or far they went, so the Portuguese team failed to show any set-piece cooperation and gave up an attacking weapon.

The handing over the captain's armband to the Golden Mauro has dragged down the attacking prodigy, who is nowhere near the height of Figo's charisma and cannot convince the team to follow him together.

In the end, the Golden Mauro was sluggish, and Queiroz could not escape the blame, and in four games, Queiroz let him play the left, center and right positions, and he still does not know how to play the best of the genius of the Golden Mauro.

Without the support of his team-mates, the Golden Mauros have become the panacea of expectations for Queiroz, and morale is especially important during the tournament, with Queiroz being far inferior to his predecessor Scolari in governing the army, resulting in the Portuguese team's fighting spirit remaining only lip service.

It's no wonder that after the defeat to Spain, the Golden Mauro shook his hand and asked the world to hear what Queiroz had to say.

Although there is no shortage of stars in the squad, at the World Cup in South Africa, the Portuguese team left the most impression on the world for two things, but unfortunately both were negative.

First, after the first game in the group stage against Ivory Coast, the core of the midfield, Deco, bombarded the manager Queiroz, questioning his substitution, and then after the loss of the Iberian derby, the big name Camero's "mouth slammed".

In both civil wars, the protagonist has Queiroz, which has to question his ability to command the army.

Germany is fourth in the World Cup, and Portugal in the South Africa World Cup qualifiers only qualified through the play-offs, and Queiroz's coaching ability is not very high.

After the qualifiers, some players in the Portuguese team brewed a "military advice" and asked Queiroz to step down, but they were unsuccessful under the suppression of the Portuguese Football Association, but this laid the groundwork for the infighting in the Portuguese team during the World Cup.

In the first game against Ivory Coast, Deco did not play well and was substituted in the 61st minute, and Deco, who was dissatisfied with his substitution after the game, questioned Queiroz's substitution and team play. Although Deco immediately changed his tune and apologized to head coach Queiroz and the whole team in person, Queiroz was ruthless enough to come out and say that Deco was injured and never let him play even a minute in the next three games. Deco didn't do it right, Queiroz didn't have the stomach, and the manager who couldn't tolerate people ended up betraying his family.

If only one of Portugal's team rebelled, it could be seen as an isolated incident, but in fact, Portugal's number one star Camuro has long been unhappy with Queiroz.

The World Cup has played four games, and there have been no two consecutive games in which Portugal's starting lineup is the same, and each game has changed four starters compared to the previous game, and several changes have not had the desired effect.

The first game against Ivory Coast started "rookie" Nani, and it was puzzling to put the old captain Simão on the cold bench, and Queiroz's faint move also included playing Camuro as a center forward in the first game against Brazil, letting fullback Duda play as a winger, and starting Pepe, who had been injured for more than half a year against Brazil and Spain, was not necessarily a clever move.

The World Cup was eliminated, and the golden mulo held his breath, so he threw his anger on the head coach.

Queiroz may not be innocent, and the match between Spain and Portugal was also considered by the media before the game to be a contest between two Real Madrid frustrated people, because both Bosque and Queiroz were victims of Real Madrid under Florentino.

However, the reasons why the two were expelled from Real Madrid are not the same, Bosque was not driven away because of the results, but Florentino thinks that Bosque's old-fashioned image does not match the commercial image of Real Madrid to conquer the world, while Queiroz is purely because of the results, he took Real Madrid for a season, and the result was a tiger, and Real Madrid was defeated in the end.

Of course, all of this is a thing of the past, and it is only logical that two of Real Madrid's frustrated coaches are in a battle and that Bosque, who has the better results, wins.

Portugal was passive due to Queiroz's substitution, but Spain broke the deadlock with Bosque's substitution, and the two former Real Madrid managers separated the two through substitutions.

In the first half, Spain had the upper hand in possession, however, they didn't have a good chance to score and the goals they needed didn't come.

In the second half, Bosque made a substitution, replacing Torres, who likes to run wide, bringing on high striker Llorente and allowing Llorente to move in the box.

Bosque's substitution was very effective, with Spain's attack having a benchmark and Llorente catching the attention of the Portuguese defence, with Villa's goal coming soon in coming.

Llorente attracted the opposition to the two central defenders, while Andres Iniesta, Xavi and Villa combined to leave the opposition helpless, and Portugal lost confidence after conceding the goal, because attack is not their forte, and the Portuguese looked helpless in the rest of the game, and Queiroz clearly did not have a second solution in a passive situation.

Madrid media commented after the game that Bosque sensed that the Spanish team was missing something, so he sent Llorente on the pitch to replace Torres, who could not find his senses. Bosque is great because of this keen intuition.

And what about Queiroz?

He played like a fly without a head.

The eight 1/8 knockout rounds are all over, and the World Cup is like a strong man, and it is undoubtedly the top martial arts master who can enter the quarterfinals. At this level, although everyone's skills are similar, each has its own secret weapons, each has its own magical powers, and it leaves different marks on the pass to rush and kill on the rivers and lakes.

The characteristics of the Germans are "horizontal", and the Australian kangaroo is not strong, and meeting the Germans is like an infantry encountering a tank on the battlefield, either surrendering or being crushed into meat sauce. The Serbs' kung fu is more like fists and legs, but the upset win over the German team is still the referee's nonsense. encountered the British, who were still pretending to be gentlemen in the knockout round, and the German strongman couldn't hold the fire, and after a few quick advances, he wiped out the opponents with similar status in the rivers and lakes, making the English want to cry without tears.

The Spaniard played the role of a cold-faced killer this time, while quietly falling to his feet, as if he usually did daily exercises at the door of his home, but he had already ambushed the knife and axe man in the slanted stab, whether it was Villa, Iniesta or Torres, who was still looking for a feeling, he was very good at making a sharp knife with a bull's ear, and when the lightning and thunder roared, a knife was fatal, and the football masters Portugal and Chile were such a life, and I don't know how many Spanish knives were under the knife in the next step.

The performances of veterans such as Brazil and Argentina are still stable and strong, and now fans around the world are looking forward to these two South American powerhouses meeting in the final, so that fans can feast their eyes.

The Netherlands should not be underestimated at any time, the key to their victory is whether they can find the leading big brother in time, if the leading big brother roars, anyone will tremble, now it seems that the Netherlands at least Sneijder and Robben, when it comes to winning or losing, can release the winner in time.

Not to mention Belgium, if you want to find a team with the most stable sideline in the quarterfinals, it must be Belgium, Africa's best goalkeeper Enyeama was beaten into a nervous disorder in front of them, the mentally strong South Koreans were beaten back to the prototype, half of the main team played against the powerful Argentina, and they can still get out of the way, and Belgium is also easy to pass the 1/8 knockout round against Mexico.

In the quarterfinals, Ghana, the only African seedling, is deducing the legend of a hero out of a teenager, to be a strong man, qualifications are to be saved, and the reason why Ghana has been optimistic about the past two World Cups is that this African football "little guy" has long dominated the youth football field.