With Yang Yang's world-class win at the last moment, the Chinese team narrowly defeated Greece 1-0, and then followed Colombia with a record of two wins and one loss in the group stage, and qualified as the second place in the group.

This has aroused heated discussions and praise at home and abroad, especially for Yang Yang's performance in the group stage.

Three goals and one assist in three games, Yang Yang created all the goals in the group stage of the Chinese team, so that some media believed that Yang Yang was dragging the Chinese team's train to run on the track of the World Cup alone.

Even the Greek domestic media generally only mentioned the Chinese team's defense after the game, and pointed out two players, one of which was Zheng Zhi with a red card. He believed that if Zheng Zhi had not made a red card foul at a critical moment, the Chinese team would have lost the game long ago.

Another player is Yang Yang. At the critical moment, he played very beautifully with one-on-one winning goal, fully reflecting the strength and value of the world's top superstars. Even Greece, as an opponent, has to admire it.

As the only team in Asia that won the World Cup group stage and qualified from the group, the AFC praised the Chinese team on its official website, believing that the Chinese team played the highest competitive level in Asia in the World Cup field, Yang Yang proved his strength in the world's number one star.

Domestic public opinion is also boiling. The media and fans are basically satisfied with the national team's performance in this World Cup, and believe that it is indeed quite difficult to stand out from the group stage.

Needless to mention the strength of Colombia, Greece and Ivory Coast are also strong teams. Although these three opponents are not particularly famous and are not traditionally strong teams, their abilities are beyond doubt.

It is really impressive that the Chinese team can stand out from the siege of these three teams.

Yang Yang is undoubtedly the most praised player. He created all the goals of the Chinese team alone and is definitely the unquestionable hero of the national team.

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When the Chinese team struggled to defeat Greece and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, the World Cup group stages also ended one after another.

Brazil, the host of Group A, performed well. Although he drew with Mexico from zero to zero in the second game, he defeated Croatia three to one and Cameroon four to one. Both of these victories won Brazil a lot of applause, and the core player Neymar was praised and was praised as the number one favorite to win the World Cup.

If Brazil is very popular, then Spain is very cold.

Before the game, no one would have thought that Spain, which had won three consecutive international championships, would encounter such humiliation in the Brazil World Cup. It was defeated by Van Gaal in the first game by one to five, and lost to Chile by zero to two in the second game. Both losses made the defending champion criticized for being incomplete.

In the last game, although Spain defeated Australia 3-0 and saved some face, everyone could see that the former Spanish pass-by-control dynasty had already declined. It was not only the aging of the core players, but more importantly, this style of playing is gradually being understood and has long lost its advantage.

On the contrary, Van Gaal's Dutch team won three games in the group stage, and they were unstoppable and reached the quarterfinals all the way. Chile also won two wins and one loss, and reached the quarterfinals with the second in the group.

Spain's tragic elimination has once again sparked heated discussions among the media and fans around the world. Whether the pass-by-control football is outdated has aroused heated discussions from the outside world. But in fact, in the football circle, especially in the European football world, pass-by-control has been popularized. As long as capable teams are paying attention to pass-by-control, it is not like Barcelona and Spain, ball control is regarded as life.

On the contrary, like Real Madrid, they have stronger adaptability and more diverse tactical methods. With strong financial resources as a backing, the club's excellent signing ability allows the team to maintain strong competitiveness all the time.

Therefore, what should be discussed is not whether the transmission and control is outdated, but how to combine its own characteristics and make good use of transmission and control.

To put it bluntly, the essence of football is passing and controlling the ball.

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There is still a big upset in this World Cup group stage, that is Group D.

The four teams in Group D are Italy, England, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

According to pre-match speculation, Costa Rica is undoubtedly the bottom-skinned team, and this team does not seem to have thought of performing, so it was not targeted when it was arranged before the game, including a game against the Chinese team, which lost to the Chinese team without Yang Yang.

But surprisingly, in the first game of the group stage, Costa Rica scored three goals in a row, reversing Uruguay by 3-1.

The second game was upset again, and Ruiz defeated Italy one-to-zero with his score near the end of the first half.

In the final game, Costa Rica drew with England by zero to zero.

In three group matches, two wins and one draw remained unbeaten, and the record was quite amazing, and he even won the first place in the group to advance.

This shocked the whole world. Goalkeeper Navas is the best and most eye-catching player in Costa Rica, but everyone is more concerned about the three traditional teams, Uruguay, Italy and England, actually performed so sluggishly.

Especially England, with three games, one draw and two losses, such a result is really unpredictable.

The British media also wailed, and the remarks about the excessive strength of the Premier League and dragging down the national team have also begun to be noisy, but the reason is that English football is now somewhat unsuccessful.

The older generation of players such as Beckham, Lampard, Gerrard and Ferdinand have grown old, but the new generation of players are still unable to take over the shift, or their performance is not satisfactory, meeting the outside world's expectations for this team.

The Premier League is indeed very popular, but the level of English football, especially youth training, is indeed insufficient.

It is worth mentioning that Portugal, led by Cristiano Ronaldo, also suffered a serious blow in this World Cup, losing to Germany in the first game by zero to four, followed by a draw with the United States from two to two. Although he defeated Garner 2 to one in the last game, he still failed to qualify in the group.

In fact, Cristiano Ronaldo's performance was not bad. Although he suffered a crushing defeat in the first game, he contributed an excellent assist in the second game and performed very well in the third game.

However, Portugal's overall downturn, especially the 0-to-4 defeat to Germany in the first match, has caused the team's morale to be depleted and ultimately failed to stay on the stage of the World Cup.

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Analyzing the group stage of this World Cup, all media generally believe that the personal talents of the stars, especially the personal performance of the core players, completely dominate the game, and the most typical of them are Yang Yang of the Chinese team, Messi of Argentina and Neymar of Brazil.

German kicker magazine summarized and analyzed that Brazil's land already attaches great importance to the players' personal talents, mainly focusing on the ornamental performance of the stars. This is the same with this World Cup, that is, the importance of the players' personal flashes exceeds the team's tactics itself.

German magazines believe that Yang Yang created four goals by himself, three shots and one pass, leading this weak team from Asia to the top 16, and may even take a step forward, because according to the rules set before the game, their top 16 opponent is Costa Rica.

"Just in the warm-up match before the World Cup, the Chinese team without Yang Yang defeated Costa Rica 1-0, which gave people the view that the Chinese team has the potential to defeat this North American dark horse."

The most important reason why Costa Rica can face the second-place Chinese team in the group is that the stars in Uruguay, Italy and England are all sluggish, which makes Costa Rica take the opportunity to take the lead and win the first place in the group.

"Even God is helping the Chinese team and Yang Yang!" German magazine sighed.

Kickers Magazine believes that there is another data that can reflect the role of the player's personal abilities in the game, that is, the number of goals.

So far this World Cup, each team has played three games, but Argentina's Messi and Brazil's Neymar both scored four goals in three games. Among them, Messi also had a finale in the final stoppage time.

Yang Yang of the Chinese team also scored three goals in three games, two of which were also very beautiful world waves.

The Kickers Magazine also believes that since the new century, especially in 2004, after Greece miraculously won the European Cup, overall football has been continuously valued. Even after Guardiola's Barcelona launched a pass control storm, due to the high threshold for execution, it is impossible to be popularized, and all European teams still attach importance to integrity.

But in this World Cup, several European teams have reached a level of over-adjustment and severely lacking in the performance of players, such as Spain, without the flash of players' personal talents to change the local regional situation and drive changes in the overall situation. Even when facing weaker opponents, it is difficult to win.

The Kickers magazine also focused on Queiros' transformation of the Chinese team, believing that the Portuguese have inherited the foundation left by Dutch Alihan in the past four years, further consolidated the overall football of the Chinese team, focused on defense, and benefited from it. On the offensive end, Queiros relied heavily on the performance of core player Yang Yang.

"If you lose Yang Yang, the Chinese team is an Asian-level team, but with Yang Yang, the Chinese team will completely transform."

As for the Chinese team that advanced to the top 16, Kickers Magazine believes that as long as Yang Yang performs normally, it is very promising to lead the team to defeat Costa Rica, but after entering the quarterfinals, they will encounter the winner of the game between the Netherlands and Mexico, which may become the biggest obstacle for the Chinese team.

"Yang Yang debuted in the Netherlands, and his friends Sneider, Robben, Van der Fate and others are all in the current Dutch national team. And they had encountered it in the World Youth Championship that year. Head coach Van Gaal and Yang Yang are close friends again. If the Chinese team can really advance to the quarterfinals and encounter the Netherlands, it will be quite interesting."

As for the collision between Yang Yang and Messi, which is generally concerned by the outside world, it will take a wait until the semi-finals. The Kickers Magazine believes that this is basically unlikely to happen, because the overall strength of the Dutch team is better than that of the Chinese team.
Chapter completed!