Green Dragon

Chapter 590 The opponent in the second round
After the first round of the group stage, the Chinese team defeated Côte d'Ivoire 3-1. Although the 13 billion people in the country were rejoiced, it was not the most topical game in the world.

The Chinese team is no longer what it was 4 years ago. They have been ranked in the top 30 in the FIFA rankings for a long time, and even squeezed into the top 20. Under the leadership of Long Shute, they also won the Asian Cup and the Confederations Cup Although most of the players are still not very well-known, the world football has long ceased to regard them as a big team.

Such a team, as long as the tactics are proper and the players are united, it will not be too surprising to beat Côte d'Ivoire. After all... African teams seem to have nothing to boast about except their bodies.

What really surprised everyone was the strong contest in Group B:

The defending champion, the real overlord of world football in the past eight years, the Matador Legion... Spain lost 1-5 to their defeat, the runner-up of the last World Cup, the Tulip Legion... the Netherlands team!

Spain's start was actually very smooth, relying on Diego Costa's diving, they won a penalty.

Harvey - Alonso overnight, the Spanish soldiers are obviously full of confidence.

The rhythm of the next game was always firmly controlled by the Spanish players, but their advantage was not brought into the locker room at halftime.

In the 44th minute, the Netherlands made a long pass from the wing. Van Persie, who had not played very well, turned offside vigilantly, and then "hanged" the ball into the Spanish goal with a diving dive from the penalty area line!
This ultra-long-distance header lob will undoubtedly become the classic goal of this World Cup, full of imagination, artistic beauty, and good luck. It also pales in comparison in front of the ball.

Although the Dutch team equalized the score, they are actually inferior to Spain in terms of overall strength and individual players, especially the reserve force of the Tulip Legion, which is even more shabby in front of Spain, where talented players emerge in endlessly.

The starting lineup of the Matador Legion is of course star-studded, and even the benches are filled with Torres, Fabregas, De Gea, Reina, Mata, Pedro, Villa, and Harvey Martinez. Star players, and the starting 11 players in the Netherlands...the only ones who can be recognized are Van Persie, Sneijder, Arjen Robben, and De Jong who are over 30 years old!

Relying on these old guys, Holland suddenly went crazy in the second half!
In the 53rd minute, Blind (Longshut's old teammate) made a long pass from the left to the right, and Robben's iconic in-cut shot succeeded, 2-1!

After 10 minutes, Sneijder dropped a free kick into the penalty area, and De Vry headed the ball into the net in a chaotic battle, 3-1!

In the 72nd minute, Pique returned a pass to the goalkeeper. Casillas stopped the ball three meters away. Van Persie succeeded in an accelerated steal.

——Reality is sometimes more unimaginable than fiction. Who can believe that Saint Cassie will slip on the soles of his feet without anyone interfering? !
The Netherlands, which led by three goals, still had no intention of stopping. In the 80th minute, Sneijder sent a through pass from the backcourt. Robben ran 60 meters and rushed into the penalty area. Slowly protecting the ball, he turned around and made a gap, and then unceremoniously blasted into the goal!

5-1!

Before the game, of course some people predicted that the Netherlands could avenge Spain, but no one could have imagined that it would be such a bloody score!
After all... Harvey, Iniesta, Alonso, Busquets, Pique, Ramos and other main players are still in their prime, and there is also Diego Costa, the Atletico God With Feng joining strongly, everyone thought that their offensive firepower would be further strengthened, but they didn't expect that the only goal in the game came from a flop!
When Cassie had a look of desperation on his face, he knew his time was over.

In the last two seasons, both Mourinho and Ancelotti have put him on the bench. If in this World Cup, he can prove that he is still the all-powerful Saint Cassie, maybe After returning to the club, he can still fight against the head coach with his remaining prestige, but this game made him fall into the world in front of the world, and he has no power to recover!

He suddenly began to envy the other goalkeeper.

Why can an old Buffon still sit firmly in the top spot with Juventus and the Italian national team?

He Buffon is not Juventus's youth training!
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Compared with the Netherlands' 5-1 massacre of Spain, the results of other games are not shocking.

德国4-0吊打葡萄牙、法国3-0横扫洪都拉斯、意大利2-1顽强战胜英格兰、乌拉圭1-3惨败哥斯达黎加、阿根廷2-1力克波黑……这些比赛都无法和荷西之战相提并论。

Perhaps the only thing that can divert people's attention a little bit is that the club king scored his second goal in the personal World Cup after 8 years. Messi, who scored the key goal, ran all the way and gave out uncontrollable passion Roaring, venting the depression of many years.

According to statistics after the game, in order to win the game, Messi ran a distance of 8169 meters. Compared with the league championship match against Atletico Madrid, he ran 1300 meters more!
Oh, Long Shute is 13208 meters, because almost the whole game is defending, his statistic is much lower than before...

In fact, Long Shute didn't understand why Messi played so hard in the national team?
You want to say that they are not united?

But Mascherano, Di Maria, Aguero, Higuain, Lavezzi, Romero, Gago, Zabaleta, and Garay are almost all the main players who won with him in 2008. Most of the old teammates of the Olympic champions are also teammates from the World Youth Championship earlier. They not only know each other well, but also have a sense of tacit understanding that is difficult for other teams to compare. Why can’t they feel these things in their games?

Occasionally, Long Shute thought, if he led the Argentine players himself, would he win the championship every minute? -
Leading Argentina...that's impossible, so Long Shute still puts more energy on studying the next opponent.

He has now fully fulfilled the duties of the head coach, and almost all the work of arranging troops is done by him with the cooperation of several assistant coaches.

The second round of the group stage is five days later, and the opponent is Colombia, a South American powerhouse.

Just like their eighth ranking in the world, Colombia has been rising rapidly in recent years. In 2011, their FIFA ranking was still around 40. By 2013, they had reached the top ten. For a while, they even It once ranked third, behind Germany and Argentina.

Their head coach is the old coach Pekerman who once coached Argentina. Most of the players represented by Pata, Zuniga, J Rodriguez, and J Martinez play in mainstream clubs in mainstream European leagues. Compared with Côte d'Ivoire, they are probably still a level stronger.

Although the main striker Falcao was unable to play, Long Shute still did not dare to be careless.

He also hoped that after defeating Colombia, he would give the main players a few days off after obtaining the qualification to qualify early, and let the substitute players have a sense of presence in the third group match!
In this way, they will obey the orders of their captain even more!

(End of this chapter)