Mister Legend

Chapter 476 What a "cold" World Cup

However, the process and result of the two-tooth battle not only made Li Mudi feel somewhat embarrassed, but also swollen the cheeks of many people who thought that the president was old and his status was about to decline. The first striker Hao Dong is the first to bear the brunt.

The former is because he is unwilling to fulfill the previously agreed renewal conditions, and even moved the idea of ​​​​selling the quasi-ball king who is still at the top level in the world. It is considered by the outside world or many Ronaldo fans as blind and ungrateful.For a while, it caused a moderate negative impact on the Galaxy Battleship, which has been enjoying great fame in world football in recent years.

The latter's stalk is only understood by those who belong to the Tianchao football circle.In the World Cup in South Africa eight years ago, the former international footballer known as "***" commented on the peerless football double pride in the program, thinking that the Argentine player has outstanding skills and can continue his state for a long time, while the Portuguese player The second one relies entirely on his body to eat, and he has only been popular for three years.As a result, three years after three years, three years after three years, since then, the president has maintained his world-best competitive level at the beginning of the ninth year, even tying him in terms of team performance and personal honor. He even surpassed Messi, who was ahead of him before, and directly labeled those who were not optimistic about him as pigs.

Almost every year during the competition, domestic fans will pop up and ask Hao Dong to re-evaluate the conclusion that "the fire will not last for three years", but they have never got what they want. , When you can't do what you want.With this super MT attracting firepower in front, Li Mudi feels that his life is relatively comfortable, at least he should not be cheated by the fans every year. Thinking about it this way, his mood is much better, after all, he is a dead friend Impossible, huh, huh!
But no matter how much he ridiculed, Li Mudi had to give his knee to the president once. His performance in this game was really great. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be really hard to believe that someone could do it against the Spanish team. Completed a hat trick.This time, he scored three goals in a row, allowing him to create countless great records and elevate his position in the history of world football by another point.

This is Ronaldo scoring goals in the fourth consecutive World Cup, tying Uwe Schiller (German legend, the number one striker of West Germany before Gerd Müller), Pele and Klose, tied for history First; at the same time, this is also the goal he has scored in nine consecutive intercontinental competitions and above (four European Cups, four World Cups, and one Confederations Cup). He is the absolute No.1 in the world. Just looking at the time span from 2004 to 2018, you can see how long the president's excellent competitive state has been maintained, which makes people have to admire.

此外，这个帽子戏法还令他以33岁零130天的年龄刷新了世界杯正赛中达成该成就的最年长纪录。同时这也是C罗职业生涯当中的第51个帽子戏法（其中皇马44次、国家队6次、曼联1次），还是世界杯历史上诞生的第51次帽子戏法，一个完美的巧合。

More importantly, these three goals helped the president's total goals in the national team rise to 84, tying the old predecessor Puskas, and tied for the Portuguese team and even the entire European region in the national team's scoring list Top position.Worldwide, he is second only to Iran's legendary striker Ali Daei with 109 goals.

These dazzling achievements listed together are enough to blind the eyes of fans.It can be said that this game pulled most of Ronaldo's body into the throne of the king of the ball. As long as he can lead this Portuguese team, which is not widely favored by the outside world, to the semi-finals of this World Cup, it will be very easy. It is possible to become the third but only one who has not won the World Cup champion.By then, apart from Messi's supporters, perhaps no one else will question the status of the president.

In this way, only on the third day of the opening of the World Cup in Russia, such an influential event occurred inside and outside the stadium, which ignited people's enthusiasm to an extremely hot state.It’s just that as the process of the group stage continued to move forward, all the people who followed this prosperous football world began to find that the game became more and more incomprehensible, and almost all the favorite teams failed to make their debut. Showing the expected strength, it can be said that the frequency of upsets is far higher than that of previous events.

In Group C, the French team, which is considered to have no weaknesses, won the World Cup qualification after two rounds of play-offs. , is the country that participated in the most games among all the teams participating in the qualifiers), but just looking at the game process, the Gallic Rooster did not show a convincing performance.Deschamps' team has an absolute advantage in terms of technology and speed, and the physical confrontation is not in an obvious disadvantage. It obviously lacks the spirit of hard work, and the whole game seems to lack the desire to win.If it weren't for Pogba's attack in No. 801 minutes to create the opponent's own goal, the result of a draw would seem more fair.

In another focus match on the same day, the Argentina team led by Messi performed even worse when facing Iceland, which made its World Cup debut.Although everyone knows the meaning of the saying that there are no underdogs in Europe, before the game, not many people were optimistic that this new Nordic team could score points in front of the Pampas Eagles.It's just that the big upset reappeared. Argentina, which has 1 reasons to win, actually played a worse game than the French team. Although the score of 1 to 1 is barely acceptable, but from Messi and others Judging from the performance of world-class stars on the court, the final result of their coming to Russia this time is likely to be another tragedy. The sound of that famous song may already be inevitable.

However, few people would have thought at that time that even more outrageous results were yet to come.The favorites to win the championship, the Selecao, were forced to 1-1 by the Swiss team, whose world ranking far surpassed their true strength, which was disappointing; the defending champion Germany team was shocked, losing a goal in the first round of the group stage to the previous Mexico, which has never lost in the World Cup, suddenly became very pessimistic about its prospects for qualifying; and England, whose opponent was relatively weakest in the first round, only relied on Harry Kane's incredible stoppage time. Kill goals barely beat Tunisia.

In addition to the sluggish state of these traditional strong teams, there were also situations in other games in the first round of the group stage where the results of the game were quite different from the predictions of the outside world before the game. The most surprising one was the Japanese team 2 to 1 Lectra beat Colombia in this matchup. Ronaldo's accidental injury before the game, and the ultra-luxury package of the main midfielder Sanchez who sent a red card and a penalty kick in only 3 minutes of the opening, made this game that was originally thought to be an easy victory for the South American powerhouse. A big pit that makes lottery players lose their money.

After the [-] group matches, regardless of the reaction in other parts of the world, there is already a turmoil in the big court claiming that "ball-fixing is prevalent", and there is even a famous musician with the surname Gao (you What does he have to do with the football world? He is still there to make all kinds of news without shame, what a strange thing in China!) He made public remarks, describing the World Cup as a money-making tool controlled by large European gaming companies, and took out He produced some seemingly reasonable evidence to prove that his statement is extremely correct, which aroused the crazy response of many fans and lottery players.

For such remarks, many people in the football world stood up and refuted them in time. Huang Jianxiang, Duan Xuan and others even responded by name to the above-mentioned nonsense. The rhythm of splashing dirty water.

Regarding this World Cup, another issue that has attracted everyone's attention is the use of VAR. Many people think that the use of video assistant referees has seriously affected the fluency of the game and brought very poor senses to the audience.Moreover, quite a few people feel that the referee team is too subjective when choosing when to use it or whether to adopt the suggestions of the off-site video team, and cannot guarantee the fairness of the game at all.For example, in the battle of the two teeth, Costa made a suspected elbow foul on Pepe before scoring the first goal. It was very clear from the video, but the referee on duty was determined not to watch the video , leading to strong dissatisfaction among the Portuguese players and their supporters.In other subsequent sessions, similar situations occurred many times, causing considerable negative impact.

In response to these two controversial topics, after returning to Italy to handle some club affairs, Li Moody, who had just arrived in Nizhny Novgorod and was about to explain the second round of Group D's focus match between Argentina and Croatia, was hired by the resident during the World Cup The CCTV reporter who conducted the interview and report here was caught in the face and had to give his point of view in public.

The coach of Turin believes that although the 32 teams that can enter the World Cup have high and low points in the FIFA rankings, in terms of their overall strength, the gap is not as big as people imagined. The results of the game have their reasons to speak of, and cannot be simply attributed to upset.

From the perspective of those strong teams or favorites to win the championship, the reasons for the unsatisfactory results in the first game are also different.France, especially Argentina, played poorly, mainly because they did not pay enough attention to their opponents and made a mistake in thinking that they underestimated the enemy.Sampaoli actually announced the starting lineup the day before the game, which is extremely rare in cup competitions where every game is very critical, and it gave the Iceland team enough time to prepare.During the game, everyone could clearly see that several of Argentina's stars did not enter the rhythm they were accustomed to, which was inseparable from the fact that they were restricted by their opponents in a very targeted manner.

The Brazil team's draw was due to some problems with the coach's formation. When Neymar's injury did not fully recover, Tite still put the burden on him, and Jesus The team's first start left the team without an offensive fulcrum in the frontcourt. If they want to defeat the Swiss team with small skills, it is inevitable that he will not take the world's sixth place seriously.And after replacing Firmino, who is not at a disadvantage and can protect the ball, the offensive effect of the Samba Army will be much better. If they can be deployed earlier or even take the Liverpool center forward, the situation will be better. Maybe it will be completely different.

As for the defeat of the German team, everyone probably didn't think of it before, but anyone who watched that game can find the problem of the defending champion. Those big-name players seem to have no fighting spirit at all, and the game state is very lazy.Moreover, Loew's tactics also made major mistakes. If he wanted to suppress the routine but did not send a high center forward, he would not be able to attack Mexico's penalty area.Moreover, the German midfielders pressed too far forward, making it easy for the opponent's counterattack to directly attack the defense line, allowing the two tall central defenders Boateng and Hummels to compete with Xiaopea and Luo. Sano put all his speed and dexterity into play, and he was out of trouble without conceding the ball.

Therefore, among these so-called upsets, the German tanks lost the most unjustly.There is another thing in his heart, Li Mudi did not say it in front of the camera, because it is not analyzing, but picking things up.Loew has been in the position of head coach of the national team for too long, and there is nothing new to help the team continue to improve. As the players grow older, it is very difficult to maintain the state of four years ago.The over-stability of the player lineup is also a disadvantage. Just like the current Real Madrid team, the players are full of honors, their desire for victory is no longer strong, and their mentality is not correct. difficulty.

In addition, modern information collection methods, speed of transmission, and degree of global communication are unmatched in the previous world. Those relatively weak teams can always study all aspects of the opponent's situation after a long period of research. There are no secrets.In this way, through learning, the strength gap between the two sides will become smaller and smaller. Over the years, the structure of world football has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Five or six years ago, would you have imagined that the Swiss team's world ranking would overwhelm traditional powerhouses such as Fassi, Italy, and Netherlands?And the European Red Devils Belgium, which was ranked only five places higher than the national football team more than ten years ago, has already entered the top three in the world, and even reached the top of the list at one time. I wonder if the Chinese Football Association and related people can learn anything from it. Maybe they Still be selective.

And another important factor that affects the performance of strong teams is the state of the players. The members of these favorite teams are basically the main players of various first-class or even top clubs in Europe. After a fierce season, the degree of physical fatigue can be imagined And know.It is too difficult for them to show a high level of competition in the days that should have been holidays. This is also one of the most important reasons why world-class stars rarely explode in competitions.

As for whether VAR should be introduced into the World Cup, Li Moody responded succinctly: "NBA's video replay system has been implemented for decades, but it is still unavoidable to this day. Various controversies, but no one has stood up and said that they want to cancel it. This measure. The football world has only used the VAR system for only three or four years, and it is still in the initial stage of exploration. Some minor problems are inevitable. If someone always takes the interruption of the rhythm of the game or the use of referees and rules seriously, Then you can ask him if he is willing to accept the previous rules of the game that had many misjudgments and could not be changed in time, I think there is nothing to argue about whether to support VAR."

(End of this chapter)