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The games before the World Cup, the same round, are all played at the same time.

However, when it comes to the knockout rounds, they will be played separately - after all, it is a knockout round, and each game will attract a lot of attention. If they are put together, it is easy to cause too many people to pay attention to one side, and not too many people to pay attention to the other side. That would be bad.

Although in the past World Cups, the level of the first and second in the group stage was indeed different in many cases, the confrontation in the semi-finals was basically the history of the first in the group beating the second in the group, and there would be no change.

However, there are many times, just like this time, one of the semi-finals is the most worthy of attention, and the other is relatively weak. Their meaning seems to be to determine a place to lose in the final. .

Of course, such a game will not receive too much attention.

However, after the separation, there are still many people who will pay attention.

The two games in the semi-finals were played on the same day, but not at the same time, but one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

In the morning, Zenit played against Liverpool.

The contest between the two sides on the field was actually very exciting and intense-after all, although Zenit had a certain advantage in strength, their state had declined a lot. In the match with Fei Fan, they fought fiercely. What's more, their self-confidence has disappeared a lot. After losing to Feifan, they almost have no chance of winning the World Cup, which makes them feel even more frustrated.

The situation is different for Liverpool. Although they also know that the possibility of winning the World Cup is still very small, it is also a very good achievement to be able to enter the World Cup finals. They have won the World Cup in history. , but generally speaking, the number of times to enter the finals is still very small, if there is one more time, it is one more time.

This allowed Liverpool to have a better fighting spirit in the game to meet the game. With this mentality, Liverpool actually suppressed Zenit in the game and took the lead in the first half.

"Ouch, first they won against the Knicks, and now they are ahead of Zenit. It seems that Liverpool's level is not bad." Many Chinese fans thought this way.

"Agata's performance is not good, so Zenit's performance is not good, maybe the previous blow was too big and the mentality was unstable." Zheng Qi muttered.

"Did you hit me too hard? I remember that in the East Asian Cup, the core of the opponent was also a woman, and she was also hit hard by you. Are you a woman-hater? You bullied me very hard at the time. Ah." Niu Lihua said.

Zheng Qi broke out in a cold sweat: "Sister, you can't button your hat randomly, I'm not that kind of person."

"Hey, I'll let you go." Seeing Zheng Qi begging for mercy, Niu Lihua laughed.

"To be honest, Agata's performance is really not good. After all, she may have been too smooth before. Let's see if she can recover from this emotion in the second half." Bin Shiqiang said with a smile.

The others nodded.

However, in the second half, Zenit seemed to find that even if they didn't win the World Cup, they couldn't play so ugly in the semi-finals. Under the leadership of Agata, they started a counterattack.

Zenit's passivity in the first half has a lot to do with Agata's poor performance. In their system, Agata's role is the most important. He needs to command, support, and be the key Always go up to attack, if she does not perform well, Zenit's performance will of course be greatly affected.

In the second half, Agata's performance obviously recovered.

This allowed Zenit to begin to occupy a certain advantage and began to bombard Liverpool indiscriminately, while Liverpool began to shrink their defense, trying to keep the two-goal advantage gained in the first half.

When Liverpool wanted to defend, they played very well. Under the leadership of the captain, they kept delaying Zenit's attack, trying to drag the opponent out of patience.

After all, for Liverpool, they also knew that they were at a disadvantage against Zenit. Now that they have taken the lead, it is natural that the longer the delay, the better.

If Zenit loses patience up and down, then their chances of winning will become even greater.

Facing Zenit's attack, Liverpool defended abruptly for more than ten minutes, which surprised the fans in the stands. After all, under this level of attack, they can still defend to such a degree. It's a very surprising thing.

"It's boring. They put so much effort in defense, they don't want to attack anymore." Zheng Qi, who was watching the game, yawned.

"What's the matter, I think they are doing very well now." Li Guorui asked curiously.

"In terms of performance alone, of course there is no problem. We may not be able to do this kind of defense, but this kind of defense is undoubtedly a waste. Everyone has paid a lot, but it is only to delay the opponent's attack... They are in The more you spend on defense, the less cost-effective it will be. No matter how good the defense is, under the opponent's powerful offense, as long as the opponent does not have any problems, they will always lose the ball. It is better to spend too much on defense. It's the offense." Zheng Qi replied.

"That's because you are better at attacking, right? Focus on attacking, of course you want more." Liu Shibo laughed.

"No, if you can launch a counterattack while defending, it's okay if you are at the level of your Nanguo last year, but they are purely defensive." Zheng Qi said with a smile: "Isn't this passive beating? Passive beating, of course Sooner or later the ball is going to be lost.”

"Won't that also consume the other party's energy? Zenit should also lack energy." Huang Yuanfan said after thinking about it.

"Energy is very important, but energy is not everything." Zheng Qi replied simply.

He didn't want to make it too clear. There are many truths that need to be understood by oneself.

The extraordinary players nodded silently. They also needed to digest Zheng Qi's words.

On the field, Zenit continued to attack. Although they suffered repeated setbacks, they were not emotional.

Agata completely recovered her composure, and she began to direct the whole team to attack patiently, not to reveal any flaws.

After layers of pressure, Zenit finally recovered a goal-this is a goal they scored without any suspense after passing through the pressure.

Although they are only one goal ahead of Zenit, Liverpool are not worried. After all, they will attack next, and in their opinion, Zenit has already spent too much energy in the attack just now. Maybe their next attack It will look more relaxed...

However, what they didn't expect was that when they attacked, they encountered fierce resistance from Zenit.

Not only Sergey and Agata are on the court, but Peternovic is also on the court.

His roar filled the entire arena.

Zenit is not defending, but fighting bravely.

They are taking risks and forcibly attacking Liverpool's formation. Although this makes their defense almost empty, as long as they can find where the ball is, they will win.

"Liverpool can't do it. They didn't even count the playing time of Sergey and Petronovich in the first half, and they don't know where the confidence comes from." Zheng Qi said a little bored.

Li Guorui and Huang Yuanfan looked at each other, and then blushed at the same time - they also ignored this point...

What a shame.

Zenit's passivity in the first half was not only due to Agata's abnormal performance. Peternovic and Sergey did not play more than 10 minutes combined. This is the key to their passivity.

However, this also means that they can play more time in the second half of the game.

This time, it was beyond the opponent's expectation.

With the onslaught of Peternovic and the assistance of Sergey, Liverpool lost the ball aggrievedly. Zenit took advantage of the situation and launched an attack. After 10 minutes, they equalized the score.

At this time, Liverpool actually still had the advantage. After all, their offense was next, but the two-goal advantage was lost in this way, which created enough pressure on Liverpool.

After the Eastern European overlords perform at a normal level, it will be too difficult for them to win.

So even though they performed well in the next attack and surpassed the score again, they still faced a serious problem, that is, when facing Zenit's attack, they had no good way...

Sure enough, after 5 minutes, Zenit defeated their defense again and evened the score again.

At this time, there were only 10 minutes left in the second half of the game, but Liverpool was getting farther and farther away from victory.

Zenit needs less and less time to score goals, and their pressure will increase.

After Zenit regained their offensive rhythm, their offensive pressure began to become equally huge.

Sure enough, they were successfully stopped by Zenit in the next attack.

When the Liverpool players began to retreat and prepare to defend, even their most die-hard fans felt that something was wrong with them in this game...

The same is true.

3 minutes before the end of the game, Zenit made the first overtake of the game.

And this score is also the final score.

Four to three, Zenit defeated Liverpool and took the lead in entering the final.

However, it is obvious that countless people did not have much hope for them to enter the final - they entered the final, just waiting for a loss, especially in this game, Zenit played so well It is even more difficult to win the finals.

All eyes were on the game in the afternoon.

Extraordinary versus the Knicks, this semifinal is the most important game.

Even if the winner is scarred, but Zenit is not scarred?What's more, they lost Fei Fei a game. In terms of momentum, they were already overwhelmed by their opponents in the final.

This semi-final is an early final, worthy of the name.