Chapter 549 World Cup group stage!
Chapter 549 World Cup Group Stage!
Although Yang Xiaozhuang failed to lead the "Red Devils" to dominate Europe again this season, he is still recognized as the number one star in the world. His edge is unstoppable. With the national football team he led, he is also regarded as the team with the most potential to become a dark horse in this World Cup.
The situation in Group G where the Chinese national football team is still very serious. The other three opponents in the same group are Spain, France and the United States.
Among these three opponents, except for the American team's strength, the French team and the Spanish team are both traditional strong teams, and even these two teams have the possibility of becoming the leader in the World Cup.
On June 14, the Chinese national football team ushered in its first group match, and its opponent was... Team USA!
In recent years, due to some political measures by the United States and the development of China, the so-called "threat" to the United States, which has led to a sharp deterioration in the relationship between the two countries, and the competition between the two sides has even spread to all sides.
This time, the national football team encountered the American team, and the whole team also put in full force to deliver a victory for the Chinese people!
This is really not just the expectation from the General Administration of Sports that the Chinese national football team can play style and win!
The Chinese national football players who bear the expectations of the Chinese people did not disappoint the Chinese people. As the leader of the team, Yang Xiaozhuang did not leave any regrets. In this game, Yang Xiaozhuang not only scored one goal in 15 minutes and 62 minutes, but also... also completed the assist hat!
In 19 minutes, 31 minutes and 59 minutes, Yang Xiaozhuang gave Zhang Yuning two assists and Shi Ke one assist.
In the end, Yang Xiaozhuang participated in all five goals of the national football team, making the first contribution to the first victory of the national football team's World Cup finals, and was also named the best player on the spot after the game.
Naturally, the Chinese national football team scored 5 goals, and on the court it was also because of the tactical arrangement of the old coach Xu Dapao. During the game, he always adhered to the tactical arrangement of hard attack and desperately scoring goals.
Therefore, the US team has many offensive opportunities, and the US team's No. 11 center Jordan Morris also scored a hat trick in the game, but his efforts alone have always been difficult to make up for the overall strength gap between the two sides.
After winning the first game, the national football team's domestic approval rating has increased unprecedentedly, and even hundreds of millions of fans are encouraging the national football team, hoping that they can compete for another game in the remaining two group matches, so that the national football team will definitely get the right to qualify in the group.
In this regard, Xu Dapao, the old coach of the Chinese national football team, seemed very calm. He said in an interview with the reporter of the team: "The Spanish team and the French team are both world's top teams. The gap between us and them cannot be made up by just one Yang Xiaozhuang. When facing these two opponents, it is obvious that we are the weak side, but we are definitely not without opportunities. As long as we have proper tactics, there are still opportunities to qualify in the group."
In the match between Spain and France on the 15th, the two world championship-level teams fought a century-long battle, and the confrontation between two teams with countless stars attracted the attention of fans around the world.
However, the game was very slow and anxious. The two teams were not competing for who had stronger attack power, but competing for who had stronger defense ability and who would make mistakes first.
In the 90 minutes of the entire game, the two teams' shots combined were only 7 times, the Spanish team twice and the French team five times, but... the French laughed to the end.
With two counterattacks from Mbappe and Martial, the Frenchman scored one goal in the first and second half and finally defeated Spain 2-0.
In the past, the World Cup group stage games were still very passionate, and once there was a collision between the strong teams, they would play very fiercely, but this time it was not like this.
Spain's coach Gracia also expressed his considerations after the game: "We all know that among the four teams in Group G, there is a spoiler who is not a seed team. The overall strength of the Chinese team is not strong, but this team has the most goal-scoring player in the world. This means that no matter who faces the Chinese team, there will be a chance of losing. So if we want to qualify in the group, the outcome of the game between us and the French team is very important. I believe that the French coach Mr. Wenger's idea is the same."
Two years ago, the seventy-year-old "professor" Wenger came back, picked up the French team's coaching stick, and led the French team to 8 games and 8 wins in the World Cup, easily entering the World Cup.
The "Professor" with rich coaching experience is obviously very clear that the Chinese national football team with "God Yang" has infinite possibilities, so he took the attitude of playing the knockout match when facing the Spanish team. In the 90 minutes of the game, he only gave the Spanish team two shots.
Facts have proved that Gracia and Wenger's fear of the national football team is correct. On June 19, the national football team and the Spanish team played the second game of the Group G group stage. As a result, the national football team, which was playing defensively counterattacked the national football team with a score of 2:1 with the goal of Yang Xiaozhuang and Zhang Yuning, defeated the Spanish team with a score of 2:1 and won the second victory in the group stage.
In another game later, France defeated the United States 3-0 and won the second group stage victory.
In this way, the third group match between the Chinese national football team and the French team will not have any impact on the qualifying situation in Group G. These two teams have already obtained the right to qualify in Group G in advance.
Now, domestic fans were completely happy. The Chinese national football team not only won the game in the World Cup finals, but also won two victories and directly reached the semi-finals of the World Cup. This... is satisfying!
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Even if the Chinese national football team was eliminated after entering the semi-finals, fans are already satisfied with the performance of the Chinese national football team. Qualifying in the group... isn't that bad enough!?
The head coach of the national football team, Xu Dapao, was also clear. In the last game of the group stage, facing the powerful French team, the national football team did not fight hard with their opponents at all, and directly lost the game with a score of 1:5.
After entering the top 16, the first and second in Group G will cross the front and second in Group H, and the four teams in Group H are Uruguay, Wales, Nigeria, and Ukraine. The current situation is that Ukraine has qualified by 2 wins and 6 points, and Uruguay has ranked second with 1 win and 1 draw. In the third round of the game, they cannot lose to Ukraine at least, so as to ensure that they have the right to qualify in the group.
If Uruguay loses to Ukraine and Wales beat Nigeria in the last game, because they tied with Uruguay in the front, the two sides would have a goal difference.
So to outsiders, Uruguay must fight against Ukraine in the last game, but the result is... Uruguay does not seem to want to anger Ukraine at all. They did not perform radically in the game, and Ukraine could also accept a draw to ensure its first place in the group. What's more, Uruguay's strength is not weak, so the two sides "tactfully" shaved a 0:0 draw.
Then... Ukraine is first, Uruguay is second!
So the first opponent of the Chinese national football team after entering the quarterfinals became Ukraine, while the French team, the number one in Group G, has to face the strong South American rival Uruguay!
After learning that the national football team was about to face Ukraine, everyone from top to bottom of the national football team breathed a sigh of relief, because with the personal ability of the national football team, once they encountered an opponent with stronger personal ability like Uruguay, they would be at a disadvantage in all aspects. On the contrary, when facing an opponent with less outstanding personal skills like Ukraine, the national football team really did not have the ability to compete.
Just as the Chinese national football team completed three games of the World Cup group stage and began to prepare for the next knockout round, Manchester United officially announced a transfer news... Belgian star Andreas Pereira, who had been at Manchester United for twelve years, just received a offer from Paris Saint-Germain.
"Paris Grande" offered a sky-high price that Manchester United could not refuse, with a down payment of 120 million pounds. According to the performance of Belgian stars, the future transfer fee can be up to 170 million pounds!
Not everyone can offer such "sky-high prices". At present, it is Manchester City, a rich team like Paris Saint-Germain, which can offer because they don't care about money at all, and they even play football to burn money.
This is not even comparable to Real Madrid!
At this stage, Paris Saint-Germain is indeed losing money. After they sold Mbappe to Manchester City, the team urgently needed to introduce a sufficient number of stars to supplement it. Otherwise, both fans and players would be dissatisfied. After all, no one wants to see the team's overall strength decline.
So... Andreas Pereira, a Belgian star with comprehensive skills and super strength, entered the vision of "Paris Grande". Even though they knew that they would pay more if they wanted to poach people from Manchester United, that's what they did!
And this time, even Woodward was powerless because Paris Saint-Germain directly negotiated through the Glaze family, and Andreas Pereira's value was only about 60 million pounds. Paris Saint-Germain directly gave the price doubled, and it may even rise to almost three times in the future. It would be a hell for Glaze not to sell people!
For Manchester United supporters, they are staring at Yang Xiaozhuang now. As long as Manchester United's "King" does not leave the team, everyone else will sell whoever they are willing to sell. Even the team's second-ranked star B fee, or Martial, etc., it doesn't matter. As long as they sell them all in one breath.
Sell all?
It's simply impossible!
With the current value of these Manchester United players, if the Glazer family sold all the people in one go, the entire European football market might not be able to hold on!
Manchester United spitted, it would be simple for Paris Saint-Germain to conquer Andreas Pereira. It was nothing more than whether the money was given enough. As long as you give a high enough salary, how can you be irresistible loyal?
Chapter completed!