On the fifth match day, the match between China Hong Kong and Brazil will be played at the end. The first two games have already become the warm-up games for the last game in the hearts of Chinese fans.
Especially the first game, New Zealand versus Slovakia, is destined to become a warm-up game that no one cares about in terms of the attention and popularity of the two teams.
In the end, the two teams also maintained the style of the warm-up match and played tepidly at 1:1, ending peacefully with one point each.
They were nervous and couldn't let go, which is usually the case for the first time, but today Slovakia said no as common sense! The game against New Zealand was the first game in the history of Slovakia to participate in the World Cup finals. It was a historic moment for Slovak football.
However, the team showed calmness and ease in the game, and finally scored a historic goal and a precious point; New Zealand, also a weak team, relied on their perseverance and relied on Reid's stoppage time goal to win the game.
Scored 1 point. The two players simultaneously scored the first point in their country's World Cup history, which was enough to put the national football team in shame in the 2002 World Cup, which had a net loss of 9 bombs and failed to score 1 point.
Although there are big-name players like Hamsik Skrtel in the team, Slovakia's overall strength is extremely weak compared to other European powers. In the World Cup qualifiers, it was able to defeat the already declining Czech team to qualify for the World Cup.
Qualification has been regarded as a huge upset. This World Cup is the first time in the history of Slovakia to participate in the World Cup finals, and the weak Slovakia is therefore mistaken for soy sauce, and will inevitably be eliminated in the group stage.
Compared with Slovakia, although New Zealand participated in the World Cup 28 years ago, they failed in three games and returned miserably. After 28 years, New Zealand returned to the World Cup stage. New Zealand's prospects are not optimistic. It can be said that
The weakest team in this tournament, some media even asserted that New Zealand's overall strength is not as good as the China Hong Kong team, and New Zealand is therefore regarded as a score giveaway.
Considering the strength of the two teams, in this World Cup, the fate of the two teams is also believed to be the same as that of the Chinese men's football team that participated in the World Cup for the first time in 2002, losing their armor and losing face.
However, after the game started, it developed in the opposite direction to people's expectations. New Zealand, which was significantly weaker, took the initiative and even caused a panic in front of the Slovak goal in the first 30 minutes of the game. Although they failed to score a goal, they were tactically
The style of play was very determined, and the players on the field implemented the coach's tactics very well. Judging from the first 30 minutes of the game, New Zealand had severely criticized everyone who underestimated them.
On the other hand, Slovakia, although the situation was unfavorable for a while, still showed its superior ability as the game progressed and gradually took control of the game. The Slovak team's efforts paid off in the 50th minute. In the 50th minute, Sestak and Wei
After the Slovak right wing cooperated, the former completed a wonderful pass. Vitek in front of the goal easily stepped in and headed the ball into the net with his head. This goal created the history of Slovak football and was the first World Cup goal in the country's history.
Goal in the finals. If the 1-0 score is maintained until the end of the game, Slovakia, which is participating in the World Cup for the first time, will usher in a feast of domestic football.
However, the New Zealanders did not want Slovakia to dominate. New Zealand, which was participating in the World Cup for the second time, obviously did not want to miss the opportunity to create its own football history. When Slovakia wanted to control the rhythm of the game, Reid used a gold-like ball in stoppage time.
The goal equalized the score and helped New Zealand gain 1 point. This was also the first point in New Zealand's World Cup history. Two teams that were not optimistic before the game were able to create history for their respective countries in the game, which obviously exceeded
People's expectations before the game.
In sharp contrast, in the 2002 World Cup, the Chinese men's football team, which was participating for the first time, vowed before the game to "defeat Costa Rica, draw with Turkey, and narrowly lose to Brazil" and "score one goal and score one point.
With the goal of "win a game", the result was that they failed in three games and scored 9 goals. It was also a bad trip, and New Zealand's performance put the Chinese national football team to shame; it was also the team of Chu Ge, and Slovakia's performance was enough to make the national football team feel ashamed.
It won't be long before another Chinese Hong Kong team, representing the Chinese people, will step onto the stage of the World Cup as its first brother. Their first opponent is also the Brazilian team. In fact, the Chinese fans are also very worried. Will they return?
It's worrying to repeat the same old path of the Chinese national football team in the last game. This is a death group!
The first match of the death group that attracted immediate attention came into people's eyes first, Portugal played against Cote d'Ivoire.
The much-anticipated Cristiano Ronaldo has finally made his debut. Although, the combined value of the entire Côte d'Ivoire team is not as valuable as him alone; although, Cristiano Ronaldo's current influence in international football is not inferior to that of Messi, including Messi
Including any top star. However, this battle still proves that football is a team sport, and one person's power is limited after all.
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo? The 2008 Ballon d'Or Award, World Footballer winner, the only top star in today's football who can compete with Li Yu and Messi in the limelight and status. In the 07-08 season, he
He scored 42 club goals in 2016, so he was called a "god", "nuclear weapon", "supernatural" and "a visitor from outer space". The British media even believed that "he is a being who subverts the rules of football, and all the laws of football have no regard for him."
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But there is at least one rule that works for him. This is: football is a team sport. After all, one person's power is limited and cannot always influence the outcome of the game. In the past season, Ronaldo played at the top level in Real Madrid
, scoring 26 goals in 29 league games and 7 goals in 6 Champions League games. This performance once again made the whole world exclaim, and the Spaniards had to admit that this person is indeed worthy of a worth of 94 million euros.
According to the value assessment of the authoritative media "Transfer Market", the value of the players in Côte d'Ivoire are goalkeeper Barry (2 million euros), defender Demel (5 million), Toure (20 million), Zokola (1,000)
million), Kalou (14 million). The total value of these players is only 93 million! In other words, the sum of the starting 11 players in the Ivory Coast team is not as valuable as Ronaldo!
But so what? Having a high price does not mean that you can win. In today's game, Ronaldo did not work hard. He played almost with all his strength in the whole game. You can see him from the wing, he has 4
He can be seen in the middle, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area 4 times; he also worked hard at passing the ball, 47% of his passes were offensive passes; he worked hard at fighting for the top
, the success rate of header duels reached 75%. He even had 2 tackles, 1 foul, 3 steals, and ran for 2 penalty kicks. However, in the face of the Ivorian's overall well-organized defense,
In front of the dozens of thick legs in the penalty area, the opponent was as strong as Cristiano Ronaldo. He could only threaten the opponent with three long-range shots, and then watched the ball hit the goal post and kept sighing.
There is no need to blame Ronaldo. His efforts prove his fighting spirit. In the past, every time his team was eliminated in the World Cup, he would always shed heroic tears because of disappointment and pain. There is no need to blame Cote d'Ivoire for being conservative.
In this era of football, focusing on defense is the survival philosophy of every team. Didn’t you see that Brazil also plays a European-style counterattack, and offensive coaches like Brückner and Zeman are often beaten to the face by weak teams?
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Therefore, Ronaldo did not perform and Portugal did not win. The fault does not lie with Ronaldo and the opponent. The problem is that football is an overall sport and a team sport. The role of stars is certainly important, but on the field, the competition is the team.
It's about the whole, not the worth, nor the fame. Queiroz can't condense Portugal's many stars into an efficient whole, so no matter how powerful Ronaldo's martial arts are, it's difficult to use them.
The same scene played out in the Champions League this past season. Messi was named the new Footballer of the Year and was considered the most powerful player in the "post-Ronaldo era". However, Messi has one thing that is quite embarrassing.
Record, he led the team to face Mourinho 7 times in his career, and failed to score in all 7 times. In fact, there are not always stars under Mourinho who are more famous than Barcelona, but Mourinho knows how to
Only by knitting together the whole and building a team can we create such a miracle.
"Gazzetta dello Sport" said it well: "Football has long passed the era where one person decided everything. If Fontaine, Pele, and Beckenbauer were born in today's era, then their legends will be greatly reduced!"
If you look at it carefully, it makes sense.
The World Cup in South Africa will be the final match of Portugal's "golden decade". Queiroz formulated the strategy of "the first match is the decisive match" early on, but in the end he returned from a frustrating battle with Cote d'Ivoire. Cristiano Ronaldo, who took over the captain's armband in 2007, once again used both hands.
In vain, could the "golden decade" end in tragedy?
"Match" had mixed feelings before the game, "The facts are very clear for Portugal: they have the ability to go very far in this World Cup, but before that we must take the right step. Portugal has participated in the World Cup 5 times, 6 consecutive times.
To participate in major competitions, winning the first game is the key to the team.” Indeed, in the 10 years since the 2000 European Cup, Portugal has not missed any of the six major competitions (3 World Cups, 3 European Cups), and before 2000, Portugal only
I only have experience in 2 World Cups.
In the past 10 years, Portugal has won the runner-up in the European Cup and the third place in the World Cup. The "golden generation" has made the most of the contribution. The "golden generation" is centered on the two generations of "youth troops" who won the World Youth Championship in 1989 and 1998. Figo and Rui
-Costa, Baia, Joao Pinto, Paulo Sousa, Conceicao, Pauleta and Domingos are a star-studded group. The "golden generation" after forming the army
They competed in the European Cup for the first time in 1996 and lost to the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals. The failure to qualify for the World Cup in France in 1998 was a heavy blow to the "golden generation". The "golden generation" who made a comeback were at their peak in the 2000 European Cup, and the "death group" defeated England in a row.
, Romania and Germany successfully qualified, and lost to France in the semi-finals, thus starting the "golden decade" of Portuguese football history!
The "golden generation" failed in the group stage of the 2002 World Cup. The Portuguese Football Association learned from the painful experience and hired champion coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, hoping that this move could cure the chronic disease that was often questioned as "flashy". The Brazilian coach recruited fellow Germans in an eclectic way.
Cote, laying the groundwork for Portugal's future "Brazilianization". The 2004 local World Cup was the last and splendid "reporting performance" of the "golden generation". It won consecutive victories over Russia, Spain, England and the Netherlands, but it was a pity that the "turtle faction" of Greece was helpless in the final.
Football" finished runner-up, Rui Costa retired from the national team after the European Cup, the "golden generation" gradually disintegrated, and Cristiano Ronaldo, who shed heroic tears after the final, gradually grew into a leading figure.
In the World Cup in Germany, Figo led his team to finish third with 5 wins and 2 losses and then retired from the national team. The "golden generation" withdrew from the stage of history. In the 2008 European Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo led the team for the first time, and finally lost to the "German Tank" in the quarterfinals.
It was the worst result in three consecutive competitions. Cristiano Ronaldo only scored one goal in 4 games. The strange thing is that this goal against the Czech Republic on June 11, 2008 was actually the beginning of the "ball shortage" in the Portuguese forward's sports war. 6
Against Cote d'Ivoire on March 15, Ronaldo only scored a penalty against Finland in February 2009, which was also his only goal in two years. In the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, Ronaldo scored goals like chopping melons and vegetables, and in 7 games in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers
None of them were broken, and they were once unable to participate in the life-or-death battle with Bosnia and Herzegovina due to injury. As a result, there was a rumor that "Portugal qualified, and Cristiano Ronaldo was left behind", and the Real Madrid forward's leadership ability was questioned.
Although Portugal has excellent records against England (3 wins and 2 draws) and the Netherlands (3 wins and 2 draws) in 10 years, and the two penalty kick eliminations against England in the 2004 European Cup and the 2006 World Cup almost made British fans miserable, but everything is mutually reinforcing.
, Portugal has not won 10 games against Italy, France, and Greece in 10 years (1 draw and 9 losses). Why? These three teams all have strict defensive systems, and "Big Phil" Queiroz has never been able to solve the old problem of being incompetent in "tough battles."
Compared with Scolari, Queiroz, who once led the "golden generation" to win two consecutive World Youth Championships, now overly favors Ronaldo, which has attracted criticism from fans, "We need a head coach who can treat his children like parents, not
A coach like Queiroz treats Ronaldo differently from other players."
Although Cristiano Ronaldo repeatedly talks about "team spirit", he ignores his teammates and fires freely on the court. The first free kick against Ivory Coast was 40 meters away from the goal, but Cristiano Ronaldo took a standard advertising posture and hit the wall with his kick.
, a good offensive opportunity was wasted. Former French international Calembu hit the nail on the head, "Portugal's problem is outstanding individualism. Cristiano Ronaldo harmed himself in the last World Cup because of his personal heroism." Off the court, scandals are endless.
The helicopter "airborne" training camp has attracted criticism from the media, and Cristiano Ronaldo has no honors in the World Youth Championship and the Olympics. How can the fans and the media not recall every detail of the former leader Figo!
The "golden generation" relied on team spirit to usher in a glorious decade of Portuguese football. The "super golden generation" that was once talked about by the media only has the embarrassing situation of "Quiroz + Cristiano Ronaldo + 22 people". One Cristiano Ronaldo cannot support it.
In Portugal, Mourinho once sarcastically said, "Even if he reaches a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, he still can't win the world championship." This is Ronaldo's problem, Queiroz's problem, and it is also a question worth thinking about for Portuguese football!
On the other hand, despite not being able to start the game, Ivory Coast's top star Didier Drogba came on as a substitute in the first World Cup match against Portugal. In addition to the competitive significance of his appearance, his appearance was more spiritual.
In the 66th minute of the match against Portugal, the coach, who was unable to score goals, waved his flag and Drogba, the top star from Cote d'Ivoire and even Africa, came on as a substitute. Although he was wearing a long-sleeved jersey, the protective gear on Drogba's right arm was still vaguely visible.
After coming off the bench, Drogba's biggest threat came in stoppage time. At that time, he received a pass from his teammate and rushed to the front of the small penalty area. However, facing goalkeeper Warcraft, he did not choose to shoot and instead passed the ball across the middle. As a result, there was no teammate in the middle.
In response, the Ivorian fans in the stands felt extremely sorry.
According to statistics, Drogba made 1 shot and 5 passes after coming off the bench, 2 of which were successful, and 2 headers. Although he failed to bring a victory to the team, he played
It is already a miracle in itself. After breaking his arm in the warm-up match against Japan on June 4, Drogba made a lightning comeback in just 10 days after the operation. And judging from today's game, Drogba did not
Showing any symptoms of discomfort, the unstoppable monster of the past is back. This is the luck of Cote d'Ivoire, the luck of the World Cup, and the luck of Africa. Fox Sports Network praised: "Drogba has returned successfully!
"American Radio and Television Network also praised: "Although the game did not break the deadlock, Drogba still brought surprises."
In fact, for the sake of his own health and career, Drogba did not have to take such a risk and rush onto the stage. However, the sense of national honor in Warcraft's heart prompted him to come back impatiently. In his eyes, the interests of the team and national honor are supreme.
It is far higher than personal interests. As early as after qualifying for the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, Drogba led all the players to kneel in the locker room. He prayed that all parties involved in the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire would lay down their weapons and restore peace. For an athlete
, he not only works conscientiously and fulfills his duties on the court, but also always cares about the domestic economy and people's livelihood. Such a player is definitely worthy of people's respect forever.
Speaking of this, people will naturally think of Manchester City center Adebayor, who is regarded as Drogba's successor and is known as the "Little Monster". Some time ago, the Togolese striker officially announced his withdrawal from the national team. The fundamental reason is the incident he suffered at the beginning of the year.
The terrorist attack left him with lingering fears. For the Togo national team, Adebayor's withdrawal not only greatly reduced the team's strength, but more importantly, it lost its pillar and spiritual leader. In the face of disaster, Togo
When the national team urgently needed someone to step forward, the team's number one star chose to run away in panic. If it had been Drogba, I believe he would never have done such a thing.
Drogba's magical appearance is also reminiscent of another great star - German football emperor Beckenbauer. In the semi-finals of the 1970 World Cup, Beckenbauer dislocated his shoulder after a collision with an opponent.
At that time, the German team had run out of substitutions and was still 0-1 behind. Therefore, Beckenbauer refused to go off the field and continue to play. At that time, he only fixed his right arm with a splint and a bandage. This became the most classic moment in the history of the World Cup.
The scene, and Drogba's injured appearance today is equally touching. This kind of spirit is not only lacking in scattered African teams, but also urgently needed by the African continent suffering from poverty and war.
In any case, the draw between the two teams is good news for China Hong Kong. Next, it is China Hong Kong's turn...
