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England is out!

From being in a desperate situation to being in a desperate situation, it only takes 90 minutes in one game.

But all fans know who the credit belongs to.

The least is who belongs to the biggest share of the credit.

Of course, the British media also understand, so after England qualified, in addition to frantically bragging about the Argentine's fair play spirit, they were still bragging about Rafael.

However, compared with before, their bragging style has obviously changed.

Before the start of the game between Argentina and Sweden, they always compared Ronaldo and Rafael, exaggerating "Archangel vs. Alien".

But after Argentina really helped them snipe Sweden and helped them qualify, they never mentioned Ronaldo and Brazil.

After all, wouldn't it be a pleasure to mention someone's sworn enemy (one of them) at this time?

And after England qualify, according to the current schedule, they will play against Denmark, the number one in Group A.

A victory over Denmark would put England in the quarter-finals, a position where they would not feel humiliated.

After all, France, as the double winner of the last World Cup and European Cup, went home unseemly after the group stage.

Why is it the top 8?

Of course it is because of the stumbling block in Brazil.

Yes, if Brazil hadn't been upset and overturned, they would have met Brazil earlier than Argentina.

With England's performance in the group stage, and bullying their next opponent Denmark, they are still very confident. Can they win against Brazil?

Even England fans who have always been optimistic in terms of optimism, it is difficult to be optimistic in front of Brazil.

The Brazilian may not be able to do it, but it is obviously mentally handicapped to brag about Ronaldo before the game, especially when Raphael and Ronaldo, who play the role of savior, are bragged together.

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Although Owen scored twice in the game against Nigeria and helped the team advance, it is obviously inappropriate considering the performance in the war between Britain and Afghanistan.

So the British media changed a new angle——

Let's blow Raphael alone!

Look, three consecutive goals in the group stage. Although Argentina scored many goals, Rafael also scored 5 goals alone, and this is not counting his assists.

How many has Ronaldo scored now?

The Brazilians have been outmatched!

The British media's operation killed a bird with one stone. What did Raphael do?

He just rushed to the camera after the game, looked at the camera and asked: "The group stage is over, when will you come to Tokyo?"

Although Raphael didn't mention his name, all the fans knew who he was speaking to——

Raphael's dad, Albert Hughes!

Raphael actually acted like a baby with his father and asked him to come to Tokyo quickly. Isn't it obvious why this game helped England stop Sweden?

In fact, Rafael's "acting like a baby" behavior, in the eyes of his "friends", is more incredible than his hard work against Sweden.

After all, Rafael is always a guy who is eager to win and hates losing.

They didn't want to associate too much off-field affairs with his football, but after the game, he called his father to watch the game or something, he said it himself!

Such a coquettish ghost can do such a thing, they can't say, can't they laugh?

Short message!

Send a text message to blast him!

While other people were busy texting, the person whom Raphael acted like a baby, our Lord Hughes, had already rushed to the airport immediately.

He wants to reach Tokyo as fast as possible!

Because he shouted at the camera, Raphael couldn't run fast enough, and was caught by the reporter who got admission after the game.

The question that the reporters want to know most is, of course, whether Rafael intends to help England attack Sweden.

More importantly, what are his teammates thinking?

Would you like to help him do this?

"I want to clarify," Raphael said, looking at the camera. "At the beginning of this game, we first thought about the opponent, how to win. We tried a lot for this. Sweden is a very good opponent, Although we took the lead in the first half, they also brought us a considerable challenge.

I think if it wasn't because it was the last round of the World Cup group stage, but the first two rounds, the tactics of the Swedish team might be very different, but the world of football is like this, we were the better side, so we won the game.

I know that everyone is very concerned about England, and I am also concerned, because the current coach of England is Sir Robson, who is my mentor and one of my favorite people.

Owen and Cole are also my team-mates at the club, we have a good personal relationship, but Nigeria also has Kanu and West.

So no matter before the start of the game or at this moment, I hope that the side with better performance will advance and use football itself to speak.

I just got another score from you guys and I'm glad England have found their way, if we win all the way there will be a chance to play again, it will be fun.

And my teammates are the same as me, our goal is to win, we are fighting for the same goal.

I think it would be interesting if you asked me to guess how they feel at the moment. "

When Raphael said this, the reporter asked again: "Can you tell us what kind of 'interesting' it is?"

After he finished speaking, Rafael raised the corner of his mouth: ""I hope you can imagine for yourself-how does it feel for us to have England fans cheering for us and singing our praises? "

reporter:"……"

Do you still need to guess this tm?

You must have had a blast!

Raphael smiled, waved his hand and walked straight to the stands. He saw that Louis had already run over!

Although Raphael left, he viewed the wonderful angle of attacking Sweden from the perspective of an Argentine, and it has been broadcast live and quickly became popular on the Internet!

There were still many Argentine fans dissatisfied with this, but it can be interpreted from Rafael's perspective——

Wow, double explosion!

Should those nasty Englishmen call us Argentine papas!

When Raphael was driven back to the locker room, he took a shower and turned on his phone, only to find that his inbox had exploded.

At the top is Owen's text message.

After Raphael opened it, he found that the little man said this: [I should thank you, I should!But that was before seeing your statement!I wish we could get Brazil out and kick your ass. ]

This dwarf still wants to kick him?

Raphael couldn't help laughing, who gave him the courage?

In addition to Owen, he also received a lot of text messages from bad friends.

For example, bobo, he said this: [In the past, people said that the person who loves you the most is the person who hates you the most.I used to think this was weird logic, but now I believe it——

Rafa, your bobo used to love you very much, now your bobo hates you very much. ]

Raphael didn't intend to poach him, but he still couldn't hold back.

Since you can't bear it, why do you need to bear it?

He replied directly: [You are not my bobo, but pippo's, you can do whatever else you like. ]

Anyway, he doesn't care if this stupid bobo hates him, but Rafael thinks he should hate Koreans.

He intends to remind bobo, but now South Korea has not yet qualified, and in order to appear, he must pass the level of Portugal, it is too early to talk about this.

Now that we have come to this point, let me introduce to you the qualifying situation of Group D where South Korea, Portugal, the United States and Poland are located.

When the lottery was drawn, everyone thought that the Portuguese golden generation with Figo and Rui Costa had good luck and got a top lottery.

Even if the host is not easy to play, it should be easy for Portugal to win the United States and Poland.

It turns out that's not the case.

This year's

Portugal, an epic stretch!

After two rounds of comparison, in the standings of Group D, South Korea and the United States have 4 points each, Portugal 3 points, and Poland has only 0 points.

But Portugal still has a chance now, as long as they draw with South Korea in the final round, they will still have a chance to qualify, and they have a goal difference advantage of 4-0 Poland.

Of course Rafael hopes that Portugal can win, but Figo is also complaining about him!

Figo's text message reads: [Who will say that you don't love England in the future, I will be the first to express my objection.If anyone says that old man Robson loves Ronnie the most, I will be the first to object. ]

Raphael's response to this is simple: [You are religious, jealousy is the original sin. ]

Not only Figo and bobo are like this, but the Brazilians go too far——

They collectively sent a taunt.

This Rivaldo guy said: [You Argentines are so weird, I don’t understand your love and hate, but I think we can get you.See you on game day. ]

That fellow Jaminia posted seven or eight posts, making complaints all the way, and the core is just one sentence:

[Old Tuo said, no matter Baying or Baa, as long as I play, he will support me, jealous?I also have a coach's preference! ]

Although Raphael was too lazy to reply to Figo and the others, he only gave this guy a middle finger expression.

Then he checked his inbox, and sure enough, he received several text messages from Lao Tuo.

The old man was very dissatisfied with him for not killing England, but for "helping the evildoers". He called him a villain and formally informed him that he would support Jaminia in the Baa match.

Raphael twitched the corners of his mouth and told the old man——

Let your lover play and talk.

In addition to these teasing, mocking, and even incriminating text messages, Raphael also received sweet compliments and super-obedient blessings.

The former were Byron and Robson Sr.

After the game, Byron hugged Louis and brushed his face into the player tunnel, and gave him a huge hug against the unwelcoming eyes of the Argentine internationals.

He also said it was a hug from a fan representing England.

In addition, Raphael also received a text message from Robson.

The old man praised him unabashedly, but Raphael saw through the essence——

This sweet-mouthed old man must have sent Zanetti similar content, don't think he doesn't know, hum.

The latter comes from Messi.

Messi obviously didn't care why they helped England qualify, but he sent his congratulations seriously, and finally asked a few tactical questions about the game.

Because the cub was so obedient, he was so obedient that Raphael didn't dry his hair, so he called him back, and asked Bielsa, who was a good teacher, to talk to him about tactics in person.

When he came back after drying his hair, Bielsa was still holding his mobile phone to make an international call with Messi. Rafael didn't care at first and was about to change his clothes when Simeone poked his chest muscle.

Raphael glared at him, he has a wife, and the wife is still in the locker room!

But Simeone didn't understand his eyes at all, but lowered his voice and said: "There will be no holiday tomorrow, nor the day after tomorrow, and there will be no holiday until the next game starts."

Raphael: "That's it?"

Simeone: "..."

This guy spends all day with his lover day and night, how can he understand the feelings of men like them who can't see their wives!

Now it's hard to finish the game, but they don't have a holiday. Of course they are depressed!

Bielsa will have such an arrangement, but also because of the schedule.

They are just four days away from their next knockout game against Senegal, who have one more day off than they do.

Don't underestimate this day, these brothers from Africa are more adapted to the hot weather in Japan than they are, and their next game will still be held at noon.

The combination of these factors made Bielsa think that they not only need to rest, but also need to rest [quietly].

In a word, stay in the base.

Although staying at the base, what awaits them is only recovery training and basic training, and will not arrange too much training, but Bielsa just doesn't allow them to run around.

In these respects, the Argentine internationals are actually very worry-free.

Because even Maradona was very disciplined during the competition, not only obeyed the rules, but also took the lead in grasping discipline, and the captain before Maradona, named Passarella, everyone understands his style better .

So Argentina has few thorns in this regard.

Bielsa only needs to lock them into the base, and there is no need to worry about them going over the wall and running out to drink, or go to nightclubs, or go shopping.

There are not many things to do in the base. Aimar's favorite pastime is to play games, and what Rafael likes to do is to watch games.

This also caused them to either play games or watch games together.

On the night when Argentina and England qualified together, Spain also qualified from Group B as the top of the group. Their next opponent is Ireland, which Rafael thinks is very good.

And No.2 in group b is Paraguay, which is their South American brother.

And unfortunately Paraguay will meet Germany.

At 6:14 p.m. on June 7th, Rafael and Aimar followed the match between Portugal and South Korea.

As a result, this game made him extremely unhappy——

Portugal has always been very anxious when they can qualify for a tie. This anxiety also made them fight with 9 people in the end. They lost to South Korea and were eliminated from the group...

Although in Rafael's impression, South Korea, the host, has done too much evil in this World Cup, but playing against Portugal...

Portugal had 9 players against 11 players, and the final loss was purely self-inflicted!

But this also directly led to South Korea's upset and won the first place in the group, and the next game will be against Italy, which is second in the group.

Italy still hasn't escaped this disaster...

In addition to watching the games these days, Raphael spent a lot of time on the Senegal-Turkey game.

After watching it, he complained to Aimar like this: "I just found out that the Senegalese team is more French than France."

Aimar watched the game with him, and he was quite puzzled by such a conclusion——

What is the conclusion?

Raphael smiled: "Isn't it right? Think about it, they have 23 players in the team, and 21 of them play in Ligue [-].

When we play well, such as playing against France in the group stage, we play very beautifully, even more romantic than France.

But when they play badly, they are also very French, because they are more loose and unreliable than France. "

Aimar was overjoyed after hearing this, and laughed and complained: "You really have a poisonous tongue."

Raphael snorted: "Am I wrong? Is the description inaccurate?"

More than right, more than accurate?

Aimar said with a smile: "I think it is very interesting to play against them, but I don't know whether it will be the romantic Senegal or the sloppy Senegal."

Raphael said without hesitation: "You must want to compete with the Romantics."

Aimar admitted generously: "Of course, because they play well and are not conservative, it is our favorite style of play."

If it comes to Sweden again, it will be annoying.

Rafael smiled: "I think this will be an easy game, but Turkey is hard to say."

On June 6, the current World Cup officially entered the knockout stage.

As the first knockout match, the Germans got off to a good start, beating Paraguay 1-0 and making it to the top 8.

On June 6, Argentina also ushered in their first knockout opponent, Senegal from Africa.

This is also the third African team they have played against this year.

As Aimar said, they played a good game against Senegal.

In the end, the score of the game was fixed at 3 to 2. After the game, Raphael took the initiative to exchange jerseys with Senegal's No. 7 Camara.

After that, he rushed to the stands, beckoning to Hughes in the stands, telling him to go to the locker room.

Yes, he missed him, and if it wasn't for too many fans, he even wanted to run to the stands.

Compared to Argentina, Spain, who played on the same day, was significantly more difficult to win——

Spain and the United States were tied 1-1 in regulation time, after which the two teams had to go into overtime.

In this cruel "golden goal" era where whoever scores first wins first, neither team scored a goal in overtime, which led to a brutal penalty shootout to decide the winner.

In the end Spain defeated Ireland 3-2 on aggregate.

After re-watching the game, Raphael came to a conclusion: the reason why the Matador Corps was not eliminated was not because of the high level of penalty kicks of their own players, but because the Irish goalkeeper was obviously better than Cassie. !

They won by the goalkeeper, not by luck!

But the Spaniard obviously doesn't think so, and the stupid Juan doesn't think so either. Even the real hero Cassie posted a funny picture of himself kissing a duck after the game.

Raphael couldn't complain about this, as long as they were happy.

After playing this game, the advantage of the schedule in the lower half is reflected——

There are still 5 full days before their next knockout match, and Bielsa actually generously gave them a day and a half off.

Although this day and a half is counted from the end of the game, the players are still cheering and grateful to Dade!

Even Raphael is considering—

How can I convince Little Curly to take each other's relatives to spend such a precious holiday?