After the World Cup reached the quarter-finals, the schedule became two games in one day.

Of course, Italy arranged its game time for the prime time in the evening, leaving the afternoon game to Ireland and Cameroon, the biggest dark horse of this tournament.

If this World Cup does not have the invincible posture of the Chinese team, then Cameroon, the dark horse, will definitely shock the world!

In fact, even with the Chinese team shining like the sun, the Cameroonians still made their presence felt.

Originally, Cameroon almost defeated England in the quarter-finals.

If it weren't for the young and inexperienced back line and two successful points made by Reinker at critical moments, the English would really have become Cameroon's stepping stone.

But Great Britain is obviously in bad luck at this level. Although Ireland has created the best record in the team's history, compared with Cameroon, the representative of African football, they are actually at a disadvantage from beginning to end.

In this game, Uncle Mira, known as the "Sun of Africa", still played as a substitute, but the rest of the main players came out. Cameroon launched a fierce offensive from the beginning of the game that overwhelmed the Irish.

This is why everyone loves the Cameroon team. They do not play more and more conservative and utilitarian defensive football. The team's style is full of the freedom and wildness of the African grasslands.

The athletic ability of these Cameroon players is also obviously superior. Although they are not technically sophisticated enough, they are enough to make the Irish team, which lacks stars, helpless. They can only be on the defensive throughout the first half, and then win through some traditional long passes.

some opportunities.

Of course, it was the lack of delicacy and experience that led to the Cameroon team not scoring in the first half and missing many opportunities to score, which caused the Chinese team in front of the TV to sigh frequently!

"African brothers are too excited, and their technical moves will become rougher at critical moments!"

"Each of them has some problems with their basic skills, many of their habits are not good, and they seem to lack experience in competitions. However, they can really run and rush. This almost overwhelmed the Irish team!"

"But this alone is not enough. They obviously became more and more chaotic as they played. The Irish team slowly began to adapt to the rhythm. There were several opportunities to threaten the goal in the final stage of the first half. Is Uncle Mira really good in the second half?"

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The Chinese players could tell that the Cameroon team was already showing signs of going all out in one go, then failing again, and failing in three attempts. If they continued to play like this in the second half, they would most likely be hit by a fatal counterattack by the Irish.

Sure enough, Uncle Mira came on the field in the second half. As soon as this 38-year-old African star, the second oldest African star in this World Cup, came up, Cameroon's offense immediately improved significantly. A bunch of people who were originally running around like headless flies

The young men immediately had a backbone.

The Irish should experience the role a true leader can play, because they were completely suppressed by the Cameroonian's offense that began to become organized. Not only would they not be able to counterattack, but Cameroon's defense on the field would also have a significant improvement.

With the continuous improvement, the African Leopards made it difficult for the Irish team to pass and receive through active and fierce steals and interceptions.

At this time, Uncle Mira also performed a performance that shocked the world. He first completed the dribble in the 60th minute and then sent a wonderful pass to help the team that had been winning and not scoring, and finally broke through the door of the Irish team.

After that, he was experienced in many battles and was forced to take advantage of the opportunity when the Irish were desperate. He personally created a point through a counterattack and completely sent the Irish team to hell.

In the end, the Cameroon team relied on the amazing performance of Uncle Mira, a 38-year-old veteran, to become the first team to reach the semi-finals in this tournament.

After becoming "the first African team to reach the quarter-finals of the World Cup", the Cameroon team once again turned this milestone into "the first team to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup".

This achievement is actually not inferior to the performance of the Chinese team in the 1982 World Cup. Although the Chinese team entered the World Cup for the first time at that time, Cameroon had already entered the World Cup for three consecutive times.

"Damn it, African football is about to take off!"

"This feeling is scarier than when we were ranked fifth in the World Cup for the first time!"

"Don't tell me, this Uncle Mira is really awesome!"

"I heard that he only formally received football training when he was 16 years old, and it was still unreliable youth training in Africa. Do you think he would have been training in our alien school when he was less than ten years old? How awesome would it be!?"

"Hehe, now we have a chance to play against Cameroon. By the way, we haven't played against an African team in the World Cup, right?"

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The Chinese team really hopes that the Cameroon team will advance to the semi-finals, because they have also come from poverty and backwardness, and even now they are far from being rich, so they can empathize with the difficulties that this African team has faced along the way.

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So they hoped that Cameroon and North Korea could go further. Unfortunately, North Korea fell in the top 16, but fortunately Cameroon was really dark enough and tenaciously reached the semi-finals.

The Italian side says that they are very white. In this era, they don’t have a trace of black. In a word - very pure!

But the very white Italian team faced the weakest opponent they had chosen, and it was the Mexicans who had the upper hand in the whole game.

This is actually not a surprise. Italy is extremely utilitarian in this tournament, especially after entering the knockout rounds.

Although the Mexican team's lineup on paper is a bit worse, they are still a second-tier team. No matter how weak they are, they can be as weak as they are.

This is also a competition between the first and second gear under normal circumstances. Many times when the styles of play are incompatible or the tactics are overwhelming, then the second-tier team will not only not be at a disadvantage, they can completely defeat the second-tier team.

A first-class team.

As for the Chinese team, which can easily crush teams that are also in the first level, that is beyond the normal category. They can really be classified as aliens.

Today's Italian team is obviously in a mediocre state, especially the two strikers Baggio and Schillaci, who seem to be competing to see who can waste more opportunities.

Facing the shells delivered by the midfielder, these two men either stopped the ball too much, or went all the way to give the ball to their opponents.

The accuracy of the shots in the entire frontcourt seemed to be aimed at France. A bunch of anti-aircraft guns and crooked handles made the Chinese players in front of the TV shake their heads.

Mexico's offense was obviously better today. This was due to their better preparations and better players' condition. Therefore, even the Chinese team thought that Mexico could upset the host nation.

But the host is the host after all, and the Italian's solid defense did not perform abnormally today.

Although Real Madrid forward Hugo Sanchez scored a single goal in the second half that was not offside, the goal was forcibly disallowed by Italy's home advantage.

This game-changing goal was disallowed, severely damaging the morale of the Mexicans!

With the outstanding performance of Italy's defense, the Mexicans never had a chance to threaten the goal. In the end, the two teams were tied in regular time.

Both sides were a little afraid of the "golden goal" rule in overtime. As a result, they shook hands again after thirty minutes of caution, and the game was eventually dragged into a more cruel penalty shootout.

Now the Chinese team is in high spirits. After all, the "penalty shootout" is the most exciting part of a football match, especially the penalty shootout after entering the World Cup quarter-finals. Every game is full of legend.

Because almost every team that has reached this stage has world-famous stars. After all, even Cameroon has a world-class influential Uncle Mira.

Therefore, the penalty shootout in this kind of game often means: there will definitely be a superstar on one side who becomes another tragic hero because he fell on the 12th yard.

The winner today was the Italians. Their young striker, Roberto Baggio, a melancholy talented new star, despite frequently wasting opportunities in regular time, became the winner on the crucial third penalty.

The decisive hero.

Because before he took the free throw, Real Madrid's main forward Hugo Sanchez actually kicked the football over the crossbar on the third penalty.

This also caused Mexico's current number one star to instantly fall from the clouds of a national hero and directly into the bottomless abyss of a national sinner.

Because of this crucial penalty, Roberto Baggio became the hero of all Italy. In just one game, he was crowned the new prince of Italian football.

"This is really a reincarnation!"

Wu Jie couldn't help but laugh when he saw this scene. Unfortunately, reincarnation in football is too fast. It often only takes a few years for the hourglass to be turned upside down and the spring and autumn to be rewritten.

But no matter what, the Italians relied on the advantage of the host nation and the more outstanding younger generation to advance to the semi-finals without any danger.

The next day, media around the world reported extensively on Cameroon, which shocked the world. Italy's poor performance was indeed not worth mentioning in comparison.

In addition, tonight's match between the Chinese team and England is naturally the most attractive match. However, the match between West Germany and Brazil, which started in the afternoon, should have been rated as a five-star match, but it actually received little attention outside the two participating countries.

This also shows that the situation in world football has indeed changed. The traffic of old football powers such as West Germany and Brazil is not only far less than that of China, but it is not even as big as Cameroon's traffic in recent days.

But this is not to blame because everyone is too lazy to watch the games of these old football powerhouses. Even the Samba Legion, which "is not artistic, would rather die" has become more utilitarian this time.

Not to mention West Germany, one of the top three most Sinophobic teams in Europe. With its aggressiveness and aggressiveness over the years, the Chinese team has almost turned it into a "defensive counterattack".

Therefore, this strong dialogue was not very enjoyable to watch. On one side was Brazil, which had become less unrestrained, and on the other side was West Germany, which was unwilling to take the initiative to attack. The two teams actually benefited from each other and ended up with a score of 0:0 in regular time.

Needless to say, they didn't even dare to let go of each other during regular time. Faced with the sudden death of the "golden ball rule" in overtime, the two teams must have been steady to the end, and in the end there was another exciting penalty kick.

Great war!

At this time, the young German goalkeeper Bodo Irgena, who had made 8 effective saves in the entire game, transformed into the Brazilian team's wall of sighs and saved the Brazilian's first penalty kick.

Now the Brazilian, who was not good at psychology, collapsed on the spot. Careca, another striker of Real Madrid, made a feeble shot on the third penalty, and was saved directly by Yin Ergena again. He was saved on the spot.

Real Madrid became the biggest loser in this World Cup.

"Brother Haonan, aren't the two strikers in your club too good?"

"Brother Haonan, why don't you recommend Qin Yi to Real Madrid Club? I think this guy is more reliable than Careca!"

"Haha, no wonder your Real Madrid team couldn't beat me last season. Your two strikers are too old. If you don't update them, I will create a Barcelona dynasty!"

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Lin Yaodong smiled the most happily at this time, but what he said was really right.

Real Madrid's consecutive losses last season are indeed related to the instability of the forward line. Hugo Sanchez and Antonio Careca are both 30+ veterans. Although they are still at the tail end of their peak, under Real Madrid's long season of multi-line operations,

The state of this kind of veteran must be extremely ups and downs, especially in European wars where he often loses just one game.

"Real Madrid and Barcelona are rotten fish. I advise you to focus on the next game. Although the English are stinkier, they are not dead after all!"

Ruda's knowledge of Real Madrid and Barcelona is indeed at a bad level. Who made the basketball teams of these two clubs compete with his Bayi Men's Basketball Team back then?

As for today's England, in the eyes of Lu Daguan, it is basically a dead fish or a dead crab.

But Ruda's desire to attack today is very strong. This is not because British girls are very white, but because he seems to have never ravaged England in either basketball or football!
Chapter completed!