Chapter 1937 The joys and sorrows of the World Cup are not connected

Spain's 3-1 win over Nigeria was the final match of the second group stage.

After this game, the third round of the group stage kicked off the next day.

From the third round of the group stage, the World Cup schedule began to accelerate.

Because of the last round of the group stage, the two games in the same group must be played at the same time.

In the same time period, two group games are played at the same time, two time periods in one day, this day is four group games, and the games of the two groups are played.

There are a total of eight groups, two groups a day, and all the group matches will be played in four days.

Then there is no rest, and the quarter-finals will start directly.

After the quarter-finals, take a day off and then play the quarter-finals.

Two days off after the quarter-finals, play the semi-finals.

After two days of rest in the semi-finals, there are three or four finals.

The second day of the third and fourth finals is the final.

This is the rough schedule of the World Cup.

After two rounds of group matches, the situation of each group has gradually become clear, but there are also more complicated ones.

Some qualified ahead of time, and some kept the suspense of qualifying until the last second.

But this is the charm of football and the charm of the World Cup.

The competition between different countries, the joys and sorrows between people of different countries, will be condensed into a game of 90 minutes.

A day later, the road diverged in front of the participating teams, one leading to heaven and the other to hell.

And those teams that have already fallen into **** have a chance to pull down teams that might have gone to heaven.

Those teams that were eliminated early chose to die, only out of team honor and national honor.

At this time, don't mention anything like "you have to forgive others and forgive others".

Why should I forgive you?

Everyone is in pursuit of victory, in pursuit of the breakthrough of their respective countries in the World Cup.

Why let you go just to qualify?

So in fact, the more teams that have been eliminated early, the more dangerous they are.

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The situation in Group A is more complicated, because the hosts lost to Norway in the first round, so after two rounds of the group stage, there has not been a team that can qualify early, nor a team that can exit early.

Even for Senegal, which is the last, with only one point, it is still possible to advance. Because their opponent in the last round is Norway.

Norway top this group with four points. If Senegal can beat Norway and also accumulate four points, it is possible to squeeze Norway down with a goal difference advantage.

Portugal with three points and Colombia with two points are relatively simple - no need to look at the results of the other game, whoever wins will qualify, and whoever loses will definitely not qualify. Only a tie will complicate the situation of qualifying for the entire group.

Portugal did not overturn in front of their home fans this time. Amid the cheers of tens of thousands of fans, they defeated Colombia with a score of 2:1, and finally advanced to the round of 16 with six points.

The Norwegian side almost overturned the car.

Because they lost 0:1 to Senegal!

In this way, both Senegal and Norway have four points, and the points are the same. Let's compare the goal difference first.

On the goal difference, Norway is 0, Senegal -1, one less than Norway, ranked behind Norway, and was eliminated.

Senegal scored in the 67th minute of the game.

For the rest of the time, the whole Senegalese team went crazy and besieged the Norwegian team.

The offensive was so fierce that even though the Norwegian team knew that Senegal was full of space behind them and was very suitable for counterattacks, they still failed to fight and were completely suppressed by Senegal.

Senegal is well aware that as long as they score one more goal, they will have an advantage in goal difference comparison - Senegal and Norway have a total of three goals. If they score another goal, the goal difference will change from -1 to 0, while Norway's goal difference has changed from 0 to -1, and Senegal has one more goal difference than Norway, pushing Norway to third place.

Norway is naturally very aware of Senegal's intentions. In the last fifteen minutes of the game, Norway retreated across the board and placed a bus in front of the goal.

Every time Senegal attacks, it can attract exclamations and cheers in the stadium.

In the end, the Norwegian team withstood Senegal's crazy offensive, maintained the score of 0:1 until the end, and advanced to the top 16 as they wished.

After the game, the Norwegian players who lost the ball celebrated wildly, and the Norwegian fans in the stands almost turned this stadium into their home field. Cheers and singing are mixed together.

The Senegalese players who fought to the last moment all collapsed to the ground at the moment the final whistle blew, shedding sad tears.

This is football, there are always people who taste the joy of victory and others who have to suffer the pain of failure.

From now on, there will only be more and more sad and happy stories like this in the World Cup, and the joys and sorrows of each story are not connected.

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"The game is over, the game is over... The game is over, Japan's World Cup journey is over... Although they worked hard to beat Mali 3-0 in the game, they still couldn't take their fate into their own hands- In another stadium, Brazil and Croatia played a 0-0 game...so Brazil won the group with seven points, and Croatia came second in the group with five points. The Japanese team with four points can only be eliminated!"

Junpei Morikawa stood on the field with his hands on his hips, looking up at the sky.

Beside him, a Mali player collapsed on the ground, covering his face with his hands, crying.

Mali, as the second-to-last team ranked by FIFA in this World Cup, is indeed not very strong. The last time they participated in the World Cup was the 1970 World Cup sixty years ago.

After returning to the World Cup this time, they lost all three games, failed to score a goal, and conceded a total of nine goals.

Such a performance can't satisfy Mali's players anyway.

They are sad that their trip to the World Cup has failed so badly.

In fact, before this World Cup match, they had already been eliminated in advance. But they still prepared for this game very seriously, not expecting to beat the Japanese team, the leader in Asia, but hoping to score at least one goal, breaking their breakthrough of zero goals in the World Cup.

As a result, they wanted to try to score a goal. Instead, they gave the Japanese team more opportunities to attack.

In the end, Mali missed one goal due to lack of strength, but the Japanese team scored three.

But the Japanese team is also desperate. Even if they can score another goal and rewrite the score to 4:0, since they lost to Brazil 0:2, they still have two goals less than Croatia in terms of goal difference.

Unless the Brazilian team can beat Croatia with the same score, or a score greater than 2:0, the Japanese team may advance to the top 16 by virtue of their goal difference.

But Brazil and Croatia have been playing very restrained.

The Brazilian team, which qualified ahead of the game, withdrew most of the main lineup. Even Kabangka, the absolute core, rested for 69 minutes and was replaced in the 70th minute.

The Brazilian team didn't want to go all out to win Croatia at the beginning, because Croatia doesn't need to win. If the Brazilian team is too hard, it may stimulate Croatia. In the end, the two teams fought a tough battle, but it broke Brazil. The team wanted to take turns to adjust their status at the beginning.

Therefore, the Brazilian team played with their hands closed.

Seeing that the Brazilian team didn't work hard, Croatia didn't work hard. Because they are also afraid of stimulating the Brazilian team.

Now Croatia has four points and Brazil has six points. The Brazilian team is sure to qualify, but it is not sure to win the first place in the group. If Croatia "accidentally" wins the Brazil team, it will accumulate seven points and directly become the first in the group.

The Brazilian team has to fight against Portugal, the first group in Group A. This is obviously not the result that the Brazilian team wants.

So if Croatia wants to beat Brazil, it will be crazily counterattacked by Brazil.

In the end, no matter who wins or loses, both teams are actually losers.

That's why they have such a tacit performance.

There is no doubt that this is a "tacit ball", but it is not the same thing as the "fixed ball" in the mouth of the gambling dogs.

It's just that the Japanese fans may be very angry, because Brazil and Croatia have such a tacit understanding, and the Japanese team gave the Japanese team a tacit understanding out of the World Cup...

Not to mention the Japanese fans, the Japanese players were very angry after hearing the score of that game over there.

"Despicable and shameless Brazilians and Croats! It was they who joined forces to make us out!" Japan national team midfielder Maruyama Yuki shouted in tears. "This is a disgrace to the World Cup! The biggest shady scene!"

Although Yukishi Maruyama's mood is understandable, his last words are still a little too much. As the captain, Kengo Yamagami is afraid that Yukio Maruyama's words will bring great trouble to Koshi Maruyama and the Japanese team after being photographed by the media. .

So he stepped forward to dissuade him as the captain: "Shut up, Maruyama! Don't talk such nonsense!"

Maruyama Yuki, who was reprimanded by the captain, stopped crying, but the dissatisfaction and anger on his face were still quite obvious.

Everyone could see that he was still brooding over this result.

It's just because Kengo Yamagami is the captain and his senior, he has to listen.

And I'm afraid there are many people in the team who have the same idea as Maruyama Yuki, and they all think that they were made by Brazil and Croatia.

It's just that they didn't lose their composure like Maruyama Yukishi, and just yelled out what was in their hearts...

At this moment, Junpei Morikawa, who had been silently looking up at the sky, lowered his head, looked at Yukishi Maruyama, who was still not angry, and said in a very serious tone:

"It has nothing to do with Brazil, Croatia. It comes down to our own poor performance. If we can beat Croatia in the first game, if we can draw with Brazil in the second game, how can we need to play in the last round? Look at other people's faces? This is indeed a shame, but not the shame of the World Cup, but the shame of our own Japanese team. Senior Maruyama, if you are angry about being eliminated, please join me and work hard in the next four years Do your best!"

Speaking of this, Morikawa Junpei also bowed to Maruyama Yuki who was five years older than himself.

A "please, senpai" look.

Yukio Maruyama was stunned. He really wanted to say that in four years, I will be thirty-six years old, so where is the chance to do it again? What's the point of trying so hard for the next four years?

But facing Junpei Morikawa like this, the trough in his heart was blocked in his throat~lightnovelpub.net~ and he couldn't express it. Because he knows that Morikawa Junpei is one-sided, and it is useless to reason with him...

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Tatsuya Sugiyama, who scored one goal and assisted one time in this game, helped the Japanese team defeat Mali 3:0 and was elected the best player in the game.

Tatsuya Sugiyama, who won the best player in the World Cup for the first time in his career, was not happy when he accepted the award.

There were even stains of tears on his face.

The second World Cup between him and Junpei Morikawa, the first World Cup that really took the lead, ended like this.

And FIFA can finally hire cleaners to clean the locker rooms and stands. (Note 1)

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Note 1: funny.jpg

PS, the update resumed today. However, since my body has not fully recovered, I dare not stay up late now. If the situation is not right, I may fall into a break at any time.

After all, life is still important...

I hope everyone understands!

(end of this chapter)