Ultimate Demon Sword

Chapter 341

After the match, almost all Chinese players, including Wen Zhihao, collapsed on the turf. Even Wen Zhihao, who had exercised super physical fitness with Simeone at Atletico Madrid, suffered from cramps due to excessive physical exhaustion.

But the smiles on everyone's faces are happy. They actually eliminated the five-star Brazil that they thought was invincible and invincible when they were children. The madness belonging to the Chinese team is still going on.

Even Lippi wasn't calm this time. The old man was used to seeing strong winds and waves, but at this moment he didn't care about his image at all, waving his arms wildly and roaring.

After the game, the Brazilian players were very depressed. Many players just shook hands with the Chinese players out of courtesy, and then quickly flashed into the locker room. Only Paulinho sincerely congratulated Wen Zhihao: "Congratulations, I hope you lead the Chinese team to go further."

Wen Zhihao, you know that he must be feeling uncomfortable, so he patted him on the back without saying anything, and said, "You are also very good. If you don't meet us in the next World Cup, you can go further."

Paulinho froze for a moment, and asked the bottom line: "You mean that next time we meet the Chinese team, we will still lose? With such confidence, do you really think we will be determined?"

Wen Zhihao and Paulinho didn't have so many scruples when joking, and replied along with his words: "Who knows what will happen in the future? We didn't expect to win you before!"

"You won't have such an opportunity next time! We will improve too!"

Paulinho retorted, Wen Zhihao laughed and didn't answer, the next time we meet again will be four years later, and this match, the Chinese team is the winner, this result is enough.

Corresponding to the ecstasy of the Chinese media, the Brazilian commentator seemed very depressed and commented in a depressed tone: "Since the 1990 World Cup, the Brazilian team has never been eliminated in the top 1. No one would have thought that the Brazilian team's journey in this World Cup will stop at the quarter-finals, and it is the first time they lost to an Asian team. This is simply a worse loss than the 7-[-] loss to Germany in the last World Cup. Brazilian football must reflect. Where is the new generation of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Kaka? Brazil? The team wants to embroider the sixth star on their jersey, only such a genius can realize the wishes of the fans."

British Sky Sports commentator Joe Crooka commented that China's elimination of Brazil was a "victory for the common people". He said: "Brazil's net worth ranks first among the 32 teams, reaching an astonishing 300 million euros, which is more than 20 times that of the Chinese team. It seems that the two sides are completely unequal, but the Chinese team will win in the end. Everything can happen on the court again. It is not a myth that the weaker side counterattacks.

German commentator Marcel Leif also said: "If you watch this game, you will not think that this is a particularly surprising unpopular Chinese team. The performance of the Chinese team is not weaker than Brazil. The victory is well deserved. Haha! The real protagonist in this World Cup is the Chinese team. Even the German and Brazilian teams can't beat them. Who can stop them? Are they going to stage a counterattack in Russia similar to the 1992 'Danish Fairy Tale' and 2004 'Greek Mythology'?"

(Note: This refers to Denmark in 1992 and Greece in 2004, which were considered impossible by the outside world and won the European Cup all the way. Everyone understands the meaning of the analogy here.)
At the post-match press conference, Lippi seldom praised the performance of the national team in front of all reporters: "Even if I led the Italian team that won the World Cup, I would have to go through a hard fight to win Brazil. Although the Brazilian team is not at their peak now, their strength is still far stronger than ours. I am very satisfied with the performance of every player today. I will give full marks to the hard work of the players today."

The Chinese team took the lead in advancing to the quarter-finals, and then waited for the opponents in the quarter-finals. There are still two games in the eighth-finals. According to the schedule, the next round of the Chinese team will face the winner between Belgium, the first in Group G, and Poland, the second in Group H.

The Chinese team attached great importance to this game. Lippi even went to the stadium with his assistant Madaloni to watch the match between the two teams.

The quarter-finals between Belgium and Poland kicked off a day later than China. In terms of strength, Belgium has a clear advantage. Although Poland has a big killer like Lewandowski, Belgium is known as the "European Red Devil". The overflowing players occupy the main positions in the major European giants, and they will definitely not be at a disadvantage when they encounter any team.

In terms of the quality of new stars produced, Belgium is definitely better than Iceland and Austria. The little monsters in each position are produced in batches. Therefore, in addition to the nickname "European Red Devils", Belgium has another label: Europe's No. [-] monster team.This is the most popular label about Belgium in the past two years. The starting lineup is almost all extremely capable and extremely young monsters

Belgium has become a strong team in European football in recent years. Their rise of football is very similar to that of Iceland. They have invested heavily in youth training. By creating a football atmosphere across the country, young children can enter the football field and provide the entire country with a huge pool of football talent candidates.This group of players is the result of Belgium's dedication to football youth training after the 02 World Cup. Although they missed two World Cups in 2006 and 2010, this group of Belgian players shocked the world in the last World Cup and made it to the quarterfinals.

For Chinese football, although the results of this World Cup are gratifying, there is still a long way to go in the construction of youth training at the grassroots level.

In this game, Belgium showed a clear strength advantage as soon as it came up.In the 10th minute, Hazard took advantage of the acceleration phase to break through the Polish team's right-sided defense and sent a high-quality cross. Lukaku relied on his physical advantage to overwhelm Beresinski and smashed the ball into the goal.Lukaku gave him the nickname Little Warcraft, and his style of play is very similar to the Ivorian striker Drogba. This goal perfectly shows that his nickname is appropriate.

This goal also opened the prelude to Belgium's victory. Nainggolan used the world wave outside the penalty area in the No. 308 minute to expand the half-time score to 2:0.

At the beginning of the second half, Poland's leading star Lewandowski once narrowed the point difference, but Hazard then used a penalty kick to rewrite the score to 3:1. Substitute striker Miralas added the icing on the cake in stoppage time.

In the end, Belgium defeated Poland 4:1 and met the Chinese team in the quarter-finals.

(End of this chapter)