Football: The strongest post-zero generation

Brazil's 2-0 win over Mexico in 90 minutes can be said to be expected, and naturally it will not cause much of a stir, unless Mexico upsets Brazil 2-0, but the possibility of such a theory appearing does not appear.

With Brazil's quarter-finals against England in the quarter-finals, the world's sports media went crazy.

England and Brazil have met 26 times in history, England is at an absolute disadvantage with 5 wins, 10 draws and 11 losses, and the World Cup has met four times, with one draw and three losses, without a win.

The first World Cup meeting between the two teams was in Sweden in 1958, with the two sides going 0-0 in the group stage, and the second meeting was in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Chile four years later, when Brazil beat England 3-1 thanks to Garrincha's excellent performance.

The third meeting was the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, the first World Cup in history to be broadcast live from the world, with Brazil beating England 1-0 thanks to the only goal of the game from Jailkinho.

The last meeting was the Korea-Japan World Cup 16 years ago, and it was still a quarter-finals, Ronaldinho's shocking free-kick lobble, teasing England's legendary goalkeeper Seaman, helping Brazil reverse England, thus advancing to the semi-finals of the Korea-Japan World Cup, and finally winning the championship.

The most recent meeting was in a warm-up match in November last year, when England beat Brazil 2-0 at the new Wembley Stadium thanks to two goals from Li Qing.

Although Brazil and England have the absolute upper hand in the historical head-to-head, these statistics only show that Brazil have been too strong in the past to prove that Brazil can still beat England in the next quarter.

The most important thing is that the current England is not what it used to be, and the overall strength gives people a sense of invincibility as Li Qing's form gradually improves, and now England seems to have surpassed Brazil to become the biggest favorite to win the championship after France.

Of course, the Brazilian media know that England are strong now, but they can play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses and use fishing boats to pressure England, which leads to England's poor performance in the quarter-finals and does their part to help Brazil qualify for the semi-finals of the World Cup.

England and Brazil met in the 1/4 of the World Cup after 16 years, and all the past three 1/4 finals were lost, and the English media, fans and Celestial Empire media and fans did not think that Brazil would win again, so the media and fans of both sides fought very fiercely on the Internet, so that the other 1/8 final that started at 9 o'clock lacked enough attention.

In other words, the 1/8 finals between Belgium and the Sun Country are clear and lack of highlights.

But in reality?

The Suns exploded with amazing energy and almost overthrew Belgium, one of the favourites to win the tournament.

The first half was scoreless, but the second half had a surprising outcome when Shibasaki sent in a through ball on the counter-attack, Vertonghen made a mistake and Genki Haraguchi fired a low shot into the far corner from 12 yards out on the right side of the box.

Four minutes later, the Suns extended the score, and the division passed back to Qianguishi, who used a long-range curling shot from 25 meters to break Courtois to help the Suns lead Belgium 2:0.

Belgium, who were two goals behind, dreamed like a dream, and in the 69th minute, the erring Verchen scored with a high-quality header from the left side of the penalty area to narrow the score to 1:2.

Belgium equalized in just five minutes, that is, in the 74th minute of the game, Hazard crossed from the left, and the more than one-tall 'unkempt head' Fellaini pressed two defenders of the Sun Country on the edge of the small penalty area to complete the header.

2：2

The score turned into a draw, the game time was getting less and less, and both sides played very carefully, and the scoreboard showed the score at 2:2 at the end of 90 minutes of regular time, and just when everyone thought that the second extra-time game of this World Cup would come, the Belgians completed the steam in the fourth minute of extra time.

Courtois threw the ball to instigate a counterattack, De Bruyne, who won the ball, crossed diagonally to the right side in the middle, Meunier passed the football into the penalty area at 45 degrees on the right side, Lukaku at the front point cleverly conceded, and Chadley who followed up in the middle tackle the second to kill the Suns.

The Suns fans at the Rostov Arena clearly didn't expect the goal to come so badly, and they were all stunned, and the Belgian fans reacted in stark contrast, celebrating ecstatically and venting the huge pressure of advancing to the quarter-finals.

Belgium once trailed the Sun by two goals, as the favorite to win the championship, such a result was obviously unacceptable, but fortunately, the next adjustment was timely and scored three goals in a row......

The 1/8 final between Belgium and the Suns became the focus of the media and fans, while England and Brazil, who were preparing for the quarter-finals of the World Cup, were happy to focus all their attention on the quarter-finals that started in three days' time.

The last two quarter-finals were played at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time in Russia on July 3, and Sweden scored the only goal of the game in the 68th minute of the game with midfield commander Forsberg to help the team defeat Switzerland 1-0 at the Zenit Arena in St. Petersburg, and advance to the quarterfinals of the World Cup again after 24 years.

The quarter-final match between Colombia and Croatia was the final quarter-final match, and it was a dramatic match, with Mandzukic's goal helping Croatia keep the score until the third minute of stoppage time, only for Mina's header to level Colombia to a 1-1 draw with Croatia and send the game to extra time.

I thought that Colombia, whose morale was boosted, would kill in one fell swoop, but there was no goal until the end of overtime, and Croatia made three of five free throws in the penalty shootout, while Croatia made four of five free throws, which means that Croatia eliminated Colombia with an aggregate score of 5:4 and became the last team to advance to the quarterfinals of the World Cup.

Fans who watched the game were speechless, saying that Colombia's goal was too much......

With the end of the last 1/8 finals, the World Cup in Russia once again ushered in a two-day break.

According to the schedule, Uruguay VS France is the first 1/4 match, the time is 6 p.m. local time in Russia on July 6, at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, and the 1/4 match between England and Brazil is played at 9 o'clock in the evening at the Kazan Arena.

The two-day break was a pain for the fans, and they wanted the quarter-finals to start immediately, but the coaches and players who participated in the competition wanted 24 hours to be used as 48 hours or even 72 hours.

It can be seen that the tournament system leaves too little time for players to prepare.

However, what is more beneficial to England is that they beat Denmark 3:0 is not much physical consumption, and there is an extra day of rest, Brazil did not decide to eat Mexico until the end of the game, and the physical and energy consumption is more serious than that of England players, but the rest time is still one day less, so that fans who support England can see that the team they support has advanced to the World Cup semi-finals again after 28 years. _

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