In the next knockout rounds, there are some clear distinctions between strong and weak. People want to see how the Argentine team led by Maradona can win the final victory.
Mexico was originally favored by all parties.
Argentina advanced to the top 16 with a complete victory in the group stage, while Mexico ranked second in the group with 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss. There have been 25 encounters between the two sides in history, and Argentina had the advantage with 11 wins, 10 draws and 4 losses. The two teams in the last World Cup
The team also met in the 18th final, and Argentina defeated Mexico 2-1 in overtime to advance to the quarterfinals.
Today Argentina arranged a 433 formation, with Messi, Higuain and Tevez forming a front three. In the midfield, Mascherano served as the midfielder, Di Maria and Maxi Rodriguez assisted on both sides. The defenders
On the line, Demichelis and Burdisso partnered as central defenders, Heinze and Otamendi were on the left and right, and the goalkeeper was still Romero.
The course of the game was as expected before the game. Argentina did not encounter many difficulties and easily defeated Mexico with a score of 3:1 to advance to the quarterfinals.[
In the 25th minute, Tevez scored with a header from an offside position; in the 33rd minute, Higuain took advantage of the opponent's defender's mistake to expand his advantage; in the 52nd minute, Tevez scored twice with a blast. Mexico scored in the 71st minute.
Hernandez scored a face-saving point.
In the 14th final, Argentina will repeat the scene four years ago and start a duel with Germany.
The 18th finals of the World Cup in South Africa ended with two more clashes. Germany swept England 4-1, while Argentina defeated Mexico 3-1. In this way, the scene of the 14th finals of the World Cup in Germany four years ago will be repeated again, and Argentina and Germany will compete in the 14th finals.
compete for a spot in the semi-finals.
According to FIFA's official statistics, in international competitions, Argentina and Germany have had a total of 18 encounters in history, with Argentina having the upper hand with 8 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses. If we only use World Cup results to calculate, then the two sides have had
In 5 encounters, Germany had a slight advantage with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. In the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, the former Federal Republic of Germany defeated Argentina 3-1. In 1966, England
In the World Cup in Argentina, the two sides tied 0-0. In the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Argentina defeated the former Federal Republic of Germany 3-2 in the final, and Maradona won the Hercules Cup. In the 1990 World Cup final in Italy, the two teams once again competed in the final.
They met in a narrow way in the final. This time the former Federal Republic of Germany won 1-0 with Bremer's penalty kick and won the cup. Maradona burst into tears at the Olympic Pickleball Stadium in Rome.
The most recent World Cup meeting between the two sides was at the World Cup in Germany four years ago, when Argentina also defeated Mexico in the finals of 18 to advance. At the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Ayala gave Argentina the lead in the 49th minute, and Klose scored in the 80th minute.
Germany equalized within 120 minutes
There was no winner between the two sides. In the penalty shootout, the German team's Neuville, Ballack, Podolski, and Borowski all made free throws, while Argentina's Cruz and Maxi Rodriguez
Ayala and Cambiasso missed the free throw, and in the end Germany eliminated Argentina with a total score of 5-3 and advanced to the semi-finals.
Looking at the player lists of both sides for this cup, there are only 7 players in the German team who participated in the previous confrontation, namely Friedrich, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Klose, Lahm, and Per Mertesacker.
, Podolski and Janssen. And Argentina has 6 people,
They are Heinze, Mascherano, Tevez, Maxi Rodriguez, Messi [blog] and Burdisso. Four years later, the two armies met again in the World Cup 14 finals, which was history repeating itself.
Or is it Argentina's revenge? Fans all over the world are paying attention.
For Argentina, Messi remains the key figure in their victory.
The German central defenders Friedrich and Mertesacker are obviously slow to turn around. Once Messi tries to pass the ball or break through the middle, it is expected that Germany's tall defense will be difficult to resist.
But at the same time, Argentina's defense also has weaknesses. Demichelis, who has repeatedly made mistakes, comes from the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich, and the opponent he will face in this game will be club teammate Miroslav Klose.
In addition, Muller, Gomez, Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger and others are all his teammates. Another attacker Podolski also played for Bayern Munich. They are very familiar with the characteristics of Demichelis.
They are all very familiar with each other, which will help Germany find the weakness of Argentina's defense to score goals. Maradona must come up with a solution.
In addition, it is worth noting that four years ago, Maradona was not the head coach of Argentina and he did not participate in the command. The German coach Loew was Chrismann's assistant at the time, and he personally concocted the victory process.
Such experience may also help him gain a psychological edge.
The World Cup in South Africa seemed quite dull in the group stage, but after entering the finals of 18, at least 3 goals were scored in every game, and the World Cup is getting better. Although the battle between Germany and Argentina has not yet started, it has already attracted the attention of public opinion and fans.
focus.
At the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, Germany and Argentina will have a peak showdown. Will the scene of the penalty shootout 4 years ago be repeated, or will Argentina succeed in revenge? Will the handsome Loew advance to the semi-finals, or will it be a god-like ball?
Will Maradona continue to advance? Let us patiently wait for the arrival of this battle of the century. The two teams will surely deliver a new climax to this World Cup.
Messi followed Tevez into the mixed mining area in a low-key manner. After seeing Tevez stop in front of the first reporter, he walked 5 meters forward and stopped in front of the reporter. Many people were
The reporter who interviewed Tevez immediately moved his "position" after discovering Messi.
Messi was a little tired after winning, but after four games he still didn’t score, and Messi was also very depressed. “Before the game, Diego (Maradona) and I promised that I would score a goal in this game, but I didn’t.
If you can fulfill your promise, how can you make up for it? Then try to score 2 goals in the next game against Germany."
In this quarter-final match with Mexico, Argentina took a 2-0 lead in the first half, but the first goal was very controversial. "I thought at first the referee would penalize the first goal.
As for the ball effect, fortunately in the end he admitted that the first goal was effective," Messi said.
Talking about the performance of the Mexican team, Messi was full of praise, "The Mexican team has a strong ability to control the ball, so they are very threatening. Fortunately, we scored the first goal, which helped us win the game in the end."
When asked about the situation in the next game, Messi said that the German team will not be easy to deal with, "They are difficult to play, but we will prepare well. We still know the German team very well, after all, most of the people are from four years of experience."
The team in front of me.”
In a seemingly successful game, the referee's penalty still became the focus after the game.[
When the game reached the 25th minute, thanks to Tevez's goal, Argentina took the lead 1-0, but looking at the slow-motion replay, Tevez was obviously in an offside position.
At that time, Messi got the ball in the middle and went straight into the penalty area. The goalkeeper blocked the ball out of the penalty area before Tevez, but the ball returned to Messi's feet. Messi took advantage of the situation and passed it to Tevez, who was still in the penalty area.
Tevez's header into an empty net helped Argentina break the deadlock.
However, judging from the slow-motion replay, Tevez was obviously in an offside position at the moment Messi picked the ball, but the assistant referee seemed not to see it at all. The Mexican player immediately rushed to the assistant referee to complain, but the referee Rose
Dee has no intention of changing the sentence.
In my impression, except for a few "black whistles" in favor of the host South Korea in the 2002 World Cup between South Korea and Japan, there have been no referees in recent World Cups that affected the process of the game and the final result like this World Cup. The World Cup in South Africa opens.
Since then, the referees on duty have performed fairly well in the first two rounds of the group stage. However, as the competition progresses, especially after entering the life-and-death battles and knockout rounds that are about qualifying, the referees have begun to make more and more mistakes in judgments, and
All fatal mistakes.
In the final round of the group stage, Serbia faced Australia. At the last moment of the game, the Australians handballed in the penalty area, but the referee ignored it. It was precisely because of this penalty that Ghana, which lost another game, became the only African team to advance to the knockout rounds.
team, this penalty was considered to be suspected of sending Ghana out.
Please note that the referee at that time was Uruguayan Larrionda, the chief referee of the match between England and Germany! In the exciting game last night, Larrionda was not able to see England's shot across the goal line. That time
The penalty completely changed the trend of the battle between England and Germany. Another walk?
Just over two hours later, Argentina broke the deadlock with an obvious offside kick. The referee was Italian Rossetti.
Are these misjudgments a problem with professional standards or professional ethics? Are these misjudgments of referees black whistles or FIFA red whistles?
FIFA has always resisted any improvement in the work of football referees with an incredibly tough attitude, refusing to involve any high-tech auxiliary facilities to help referees enforce the law. What do they want? Is it just to maintain the tradition of football matches, or to preserve it?
A means of controlling the outcome of a game? We might think of it with the worst possible malice.
The referee was put on the front line. The referee is a human being, not a god. Three people guard a huge area of nearly 10,000 square meters, and they don't have the sharp eyes of Sun Wukong. How can they not make mistakes? Today's football matches are changing offense and defense faster and faster, and there are many referees.
There are times when we are overly motivated and unable to do anything. Take England’s goal which was blown away.
Regarding the goal, neither the referee nor the linesman made any obvious positional errors from their point of view. Their mistakes were simply because they could not keep up with the rhythm of the game in an instant, especially the linesman, who was passive.
, he has to guard the line of the last player on the defensive line, and he must move behind the movement of the players.
It was not his fault that he didn't see the goal. Unless future linesmen have Bolt's starting ability and speed, it will be impossible to fundamentally prevent this kind of thing.
The referee has become the target of criticism from the outside world, while FIFA hides behind and chuckles. In fact, it is not the referee who should be blamed, but FIFA.
At this time, many fans naturally thought of Li Yu, because he is now a veritable Usain Bolt on the court. His unparalleled speed makes it easy for the referee to make wrong calls for offside, especially since the referee has been in the spotlight before.
Many media also interviewed Li Yu for this, but Li Yu expressed disapproval, "Goals are the best proof. We should not speculate too much, we should choose to believe!"
Li Yu's generosity and trust have won the love of many fans. Don't question it, just prove everything with goals!
The game between China and Hong Kong will start in another day. The game is the second game of the day. So in the eyes of Chinese fans, the first game between the Netherlands and Slovakia is more like an exhibition match, but the final outcome is
It is worthy of everyone's attention, because according to the rules of the game, the winner of the Netherlands game will face the winner of the China Hong Kong game.
Chinese fans have reason to believe that the Netherlands and China Hong Kong will play an 8-4 game.
The Netherlands advanced to the group stage by winning all three games and performed very steadily, while Slovakia defeated the defending champion Italy and became a dark horse. The two teams (including the former Czechoslovakia) have played 9 times in history, and the Netherlands has 2 wins and 1
They were at a disadvantage after drawing 6 and losing. In the 1938 World Cup, the Netherlands lost 0-3 to Czechoslovakia after overtime. However, this was the first meeting between the two sides after Slovakia became independent.
For this campaign, Van Marwijk formed the strongest lineup of the Netherlands. The numbers are from 1 to 11. Robben started for the first time in this World Cup. Robin van Persie led the striker. Van Bommel and Sneijder were in the midfield. Stekelenbo
Ge guarded the gate. Slovakia's lineup had only one change compared to the previous battle. Weiss Jr. replaced the injured Strba, and Vitek and Jendryšek came forward.
In the 18th minute, Sneijder launched a counterattack with a long pass. Robben pulled out a gap in front of the penalty area and scored with a low shot with his left foot. In the 84th minute, Sneijder scored. At the end of stoppage time, Vitek scored a penalty kick and pulled it back.
One ball.
In the end, the Netherlands defeated Slovakia 2:1 to advance to the quarterfinals.
Sneijder's precise counter-attack pass and Robben's killer inside shot, these two "bug-like killing moves" helped the Netherlands open the door to victory. After defeating Slovakia, the Netherlands successfully advanced to the top 8, and quietly,
The record has been expanded. Starting from the qualifiers, they have won 12 consecutive games; the longest winning streak in the World Cup in the history of the Dutch team; 39 unbeaten games in nearly 40 appearances in orange jerseys... The Dutch team has shown their green-faced fangs!
People often refer to the Dutch team as the "Orange Storm". However, in the past few decades, the Orange Army has been considered a guarantee of exciting football, but not a guarantee of victory. In recent years, Dutch football has begun to reflect on the
Under the premise that the Eredivisie continues to decline and the Dutch team's performance fluctuates, Dutch football has made important changes: it no longer pursues the pursuit of success at all costs.
Instead of playing exciting football at a high price, they are pursuing results through a more pragmatic style of play. This change has made the Dutch team’s orange the color of victory. There is a set of data: Counting today, the Dutch team has played in orange 40 times.
Unbeaten in 39 games, the only game they lost was in the 14th final of the European Cup in 2008, when they lost to Russia under Hiddink.[
Since the start of the European World Cup qualifiers in September 2008, the Dutch team has started a terrifying winning streak. Among its opponents in the qualifiers, there are "hard bones" like Norway and Scotland. However, the Netherlands won 8 games in the qualifiers and entered the competition.
Conceding only 2 goals in 17 goals, they qualified with their heads held high. Although the Dutch team did not swamp their opponents with a butcher knife when facing a team of Iceland's level, the stability of their record is amazing.
After entering the main match of the World Cup, the Dutch team became even more powerful. When the World Cup group draw was just announced, many people marveled that the Netherlands was in a "group of death". After all, Denmark, Cameroon, and Japan all have good fighting capabilities. But the Netherlands
The team defeated Denmark 2-0, defeated Japan 1-0, and still defeated Cameroon with half its strength in the final game, winning all three games.
To qualify. In fact, the Dutch team has not yet exerted its full strength, Sneijder and others deliberately reserved their strength, and Robben has been recuperating for insurance... It was only then that the world's mainstream media began to exclaim: Have people underestimated the Netherlands?
Team? You must know that the performances of Robben and Sneijder in the past season are not inferior to Messi [Blog] Ronaldo!
In the 1\8 finals, the opponents faced by the Netherlands were still difficult to deal with. Although Slovakia participated in the World Cup for the first time, it was definitely not a good thing to defeat Italy and advance to the top 16. However, facing such an opponent, the Netherlands did not play particularly unrestrainedly.
, but still steadily defeated the opponent, winning 4 consecutive World Cup main matches and 12 consecutive victories in the qualifying rounds while talking and laughing!
What is the concept of 4 consecutive victories in the World Cup? In history, the longest winning streak of the Dutch team was in 1974, and that era was also considered to be the era of the real rise of Dutch football. The Netherlands with Cruyff
It was considered the strongest team in the world at the time and was also recognized as the strongest Dutch team in history. Starting from the third round of the group stage, the Netherlands won 4 consecutive games and reached the final. However, the Netherlands lost to Germany 1-2 in the final.
, ranked second.
Of course, it is not easy for the Netherlands to reach the finals. Their opponent in the quarter-finals is China Hong Kong. The winner of Chile is likely to be the China Hong Kong team.
The China Hong Kong team has become the biggest dark horse recognized in the World Cup. How far Li Yu can lead this dark horse will have to accept the baptism of the Netherlands after Chile. After qualifying from the group, the China Hong Kong team has actually unloaded unnecessary tasks.
With so much baggage, can the China Hong Kong team, which is traveling lightly, make further progress?
First of all, the Chilean team is in front of us. The final answer will be revealed in the later games. Every subsequent game is a life and death battle. What kind of miracle will Li Yu perform? This is the hope of all Chinese fans.
The hope is also the guarantee for the China Hong Kong team to advance.
