Lord of Greenery

Chapter 528 Powerless
In the third round of the group stage, the Hua Guo team lost to Peru 1:4.

Exactly the same score as the loss to France in the first round.

Obviously Peru lost the game against France and Denmark, but it performed quite well against the Hua Guo team.

This result also completely disappointed many Huaguo fans, who cursed them loudly.

Li Ze is not surprised by this at all. Both losing and being scolded are expected. Peru is not a weak team.

In the original trajectory, they reached the final of the 2019 America's Cup, and eliminated Chile, who became Messi's pain, in the middle.

How high is the gold content of the America's Cup?
Let's put it this way, it is also the 2019 Asian Cup. The champion and runner-up in the original track are Japan and Qatar respectively.

The America's Cup will invite the Asian champions and runners-up to participate, and Japan and Qatar will go.

Originally, Huaguo was invited because Huaguo is a big country, but the Huaguo team didn't dare to embarrass itself.

And in the Copa America, neither Japan nor Qatar made it out of the group stage.

Japan's performance was a little bit better. They played the play-offs of the group stage as the third place in the group, but they still lost.

As the champion, Qatar was directly eliminated from the bottom of the group stage.

The gap between Asian teams and American teams is just that big.

As for Peru, which can reach the final of the Copa America, even if there is an element of luck in reaching the final, its hard power cannot be underestimated.

At least, the current Huaguo team really may not be able to win the Peruvian team.

Although he was mentally prepared, but he really lost, Li Ze was still very upset.

Especially after losing so badly, he really lost face.

The Hua Guo team's only goal in this game was still scored by him.

In the 3 rounds of the World Cup group stage, he scored 5 goals, but he only helped the team get 1 point!
No matter how difficult it is, there should be a limit!

The only function of these 5 goals is to save Li Ze from being scolded after the game.

Everyone has nothing but sympathy for him.

Li Ze hates their sympathy, the real strong don't need sympathy.

But helplessly, he became a tragic hero in the eyes of everyone.

At the end of the group stage, he temporarily ranked first in the scorer list with 5 goals.

In terms of individual performance, he was one of the best players in the entire group stage.

Ronaldo, Lukaku, Kane also scored a lot of goals.

Now, the only expectation of Huaguo fans is that Li Ze can keep his top scorer list.

That would at least provide some comfort.

But it's hard to be sure.

Ronaldo and Lukaku both scored 4 goals, only 1 less than Li Ze, and Kane also scored 5 goals, tied with Li Ze.

In the group stage, a lot of things happened.

The most conspicuous is undoubtedly the German team, the defending champion of the last World Cup, this time, like the Hua Guo team, they were eliminated in the group stage.

Especially in the last round of the group stage, the German team lost 0:2 to the South Korean team, and finally got out at the bottom of the round, which was a shame.

Germany is traditionally strong in the World Cup. Even if it sometimes seems that the lineup is not good, it can go very far.

In the German team in 02 and 06, Ballack was the real superstar, and goalkeeper Kahn was the main player only in 02.

This is the German team, which broke into the semi-finals twice and the final once, which surprised the fans who were not optimistic about them before the game.

Germany won the championship in 14, especially the 7:1 massacre of Brazil, which made many people think that it will be their era.

At that time, who would have thought that the German team would decline so quickly?
It can only be said that the German team is under the curse of "the defending champion will be eliminated in the next group stage".

There are many other things to watch, such as the thrilling appearance of Argentina in the last round, the appearance of the most inspirational team Iceland, the performance of Sweden and Russia far exceeded expectations, Japan and Senegal have the same points, the same goal difference, and the same number of goals. Winning with a fair score and successfully qualifying for the group stage...

It is worth mentioning that only Japan has qualified for the Asian teams.

This is the true strength of Asian teams.

Not to mention Saudi Arabia's habitual embarrassment, Australia's performance is not very good, Iran failed to qualify for the World Cup this time, Japan and South Korea's performance has always been okay, but only okay.

For Asian teams, it is already a very good performance to break into the knockout rounds.

However, the Japanese team gave everyone an even bigger surprise later.

Facing the Belgian team with Hazard, De Bruyne, Lukaku and Courtois, the Japanese team led by two goals in the first half.

During the half-time break, several Belgian players lost their belief in advancing to the next stage, but finally recovered and scored three consecutive goals in the second half to make a comeback.

Japan's performance in the second half was not very good, but the performance in the first half was really good.

At least, many Huaguo fans saw it, as if their mouths were full of lemons, it was really sour.

The Japanese team is different from the Huaguo team. Their outstanding performance is due to their overall strength, rather than relying on a single player.

After the game, Li Ze's old teammate Nagatomo Yuto said in front of the reporters: "If we had such an outstanding player as Li, this game would definitely not be overturned. He has a unique leadership quality."

"I even believe we can win the final championship."

In addition to Japan, there are actually many teams that have performed beyond expectations.

Both Argentina and Portugal stopped in the top [-], which means that both Messi and Ronaldo also stopped in the top [-].

Their elimination also made Li Ze quite relieved that someone was flying with him.

Messi and Ronaldo asked him to wait, wait for Neymar.

Neymar led Brazil to the quarter-finals, but they also stopped in the quarter-finals and did not break into the semi-finals.

Now, all three are happy.

Both Russia and Sweden without Ibrahimovic entered the quarter-finals, which was an upset.

England broke into the semi-finals, which ranks second in England's World Cup history.

Kane also relied on a penalty kick in the knockout round to officially surpass Li Ze to occupy the top scorer list.

It's just that his golden boots don't give everyone the impression that they have so much gold content.

Especially against Panama, Kane scored 3 goals, 2 of which were penalties. England won 6:1 in that game, and England could have won without these 3 goals.

The Panama team entered the World Cup for the first time. The goal scored against England was their first goal in the World Cup.

They also scored a total of 2 goals in this World Cup, one of which was the opponent's own goal.

In other words, Kane scored 3 goals against weak teams, and 6 of the 3 goals were penalty kicks. The only goal in the knockout round was also a penalty kick. It is hard to say that he performed well.

Li Ze was different. He played against teams that were stronger than the Huaguo team. Four of the five goals were scored in sports games, and the remaining one was scored from a free kick.

For example, Kane, who occupies the top scorer list, everyone still recognizes Li Ze more.

In terms of the team as a whole, the biggest dark horse is not the above-mentioned team, but Croatia led by Modric.

In 1998, under the leadership of Kim's left foot Davor Suker, Croatia broke into the semi-finals.

That time was the first time Croatia entered the World Cup.

This time, although Croatia was not upset along the way, they played very hard.

All 3 knockout games went into overtime, and 2 of them were decided on penalty shootouts.

A tired Croatia made it to the final, facing a strong French team.

No one thought Croatia would win, and they didn't, but the final score of 2:4 is no shame.

Before the game, who would have thought that Croatia could break into the World Cup final?

After a short period of unhappiness, Li Ze also quickly put the results of the World Cup behind him.

He once led the team to the quarter-finals, which is enough for him.

If his teammates don't become stronger, it is impossible for him to break through this achievement alone.

If he wants to improve his status in football history, it still depends on his performance at the club.

After Liverpool won the league championship last season, Henry also suddenly became generous.

He is not a miser, and he was quite generous when he first took over Liverpool.

It was only later that he couldn't get any grades that he started to be stingy.

Now that Liverpool have regained the league championship, and their biggest enemy, Manchester City, has a big problem, Henry sees hope, so he is willing to pay.

Liverpool does not need to worry about the Financial Fair Play Act, because Liverpool has not signed much in the past two years.

The boss is willing to pay, the team has a future, Liverpool is destined to have a bumper harvest this summer.

Although the final result was still those familiar faces to Li Ze.

(End of this chapter)