Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 414

The Chilean team ranked first with two wins and one loss, scoring seven goals and conceding three goals, accumulating six points and four goal difference. The Chinese team ranked second with two wins and one loss, scoring six goals and conceding four goals, accumulating six points and two goal difference. Two wins, one loss, six goals, five goals conceded, six points and one goal difference ranked third, and the Morocco team ranked third with three losses, two goals conceded and nine goals conceded - this is the final ranking of Group B.

The Spanish team, one of the favorites to win the championship, was eliminated in the group stage, which really caused a shock, but when they saw the final ranking, everyone had nothing to say - generally speaking, six points can be obtained in a group Then you will definitely be able to qualify. Sometimes with four points or even three points, it is possible to get second in the group. Failure to qualify with six points can only mean that the team in this group is too strong or too weak, and it does not necessarily mean that they will be eliminated. It must be worse than the teams that entered the quarterfinals.

For the Spanish team, more neutral fans feel sorry, but for the Chinese Olympic team, which squeezed out the Spanish team to enter the quarterfinals, almost all neutral fans believe that the road of the Chinese Olympic team has come to an end.

There is no other reason, just because the quarter-final matchup has already come out, the opponent of the second Chinese Olympic team in Group B is the first in Group A, the Italian Olympic team.

Even the Chinese fans who should have the most confidence in the Chinese Olympic team basically think that it is a considerable improvement for the Chinese Olympic team to enter the quarter-finals. Facing the Italian Olympic team, winning or losing itself has become a matter of It is an insignificant thing, even if it stops at the top eight, it is still acceptable, so in the next few days, Chinese fans are still celebrating with great joy.

After the match against Chile, the Chinese Olympic team took a day off. After all, the quarter-finals will be held in four days. It is good for the players to take a good rest and relax at this time.

As time went by, the remaining four teams that entered the quarter-finals also appeared. Brazil in Group C beat the Japanese team that had already qualified ahead of schedule by a small victory [-]-[-], and also won tickets for the quarter-finals, while the top two teams in Group D The first names are Cameroon and the United States.

In the quarter-finals of this Olympic Games, Asian teams took two seats, and the two teams from South America also successfully broke through. Cameroon and Nigeria in Africa also entered the quarter-finals. The United States in North America took one seat, but Europe was miserable. Except for Italy, the other three teams Czech Republic, Slovakia and Spain were all eliminated. The most teams entered the finals, but the fewest teams entered the quarterfinals. This is also determined by the fact that European teams generally do not attach much importance to the Olympics.

On September 23, the first two quarter-finals will be held on this day, starting with Brazil vs. Cameroon.

Although Brazil's performance in the group stage was not very good, losing to South Africa, but fortunately they won Japan in the last round, and South Africa was tied by Slovakia. The reputation of the Brazilian team, even if the team does not have any outstanding stars, no one dares to take a peek at them.

Cameroon, the African lions, scored a beautiful direct free kick by overage star Mboma shortly after the game, and then they played the killing tactics of the 90 World Cup opener - almost that A replica of the game, Cameroon used fierce foul tactics and endless small movements and physical confrontation to prevent the Brazilians from dancing the samba at all. Of course, they also paid a great price for this approach——Gremi and Djemba After being sent off for accumulating yellow cards one after another, Cameroon could only fight with nine players.

Although there are two fewer people, the Africans, who have never lacked physical strength, are still not passive on the scene. It seems that they are about to defeat Brazil like they defeated Argentina in 90. The only future superstar in the Brazilian Olympic team The superstar stood up.

Ronaldinho, who has the same buck teeth as Ronaldo-he was still called "Little Ronaldo" at the time, took revenge on the rough and fierce Cameroonian with an even more exciting direct free kick. A free kick helped Brazil tie the score in the No.80 minute!
Brazilian fans all over the world began to rejoice. In their view, after the score was equalized, it was their turn to overtake the score—we had the advantage, and we had two more people—how could we not win!

Fans who hold this idea have forgotten that there is no reason to "absolutely win a game" on the football field. They also underestimated the tenacious strength of the Cameroonians-Mila can still compete in the World Cup at the age of 40. Scoring goals depends on this kind of tenacious will that is no less than that of the Germans.

In the last 5 minutes of overtime, when everyone had little physical strength to run, the Cameroonians showed the unique physical fitness of the blacks and the tenacious will bestowed by God.

Mboma, who retreated to the midfield, unexpectedly cut off the Brazil team's pass, and then he tried his best to pass the ball to Eto'o in front of him. Eto'o started to start, his movements were quick, His pace is steady, his speed is fast - like the game has just begun.

Taking advantage of his speed, he got rid of two Brazilian defenders who were seriously exhausted, but there was no one around him to follow up, and Eto'o, who couldn't break through to the goal by himself, was forced to the sideline.

Eto'o had no choice but to use up his last physical strength to forcibly break through the opponent's defense, and then passed the ball into the Brazilian team's penalty area-it is estimated that he himself could not expect someone to come up to respond to this kick, after all Fighting 11 people with nine people requires double the physical energy!

Eto'o really didn't expect that someone would come to respond, and in the end someone did come up to respond - midfielder Mbami has been following up when Eto'o took the ball, and the Brazilian defenders unexpectedly at this time Made a big mistake and no one noticed he came up!
Mbami jumped high in the Brazilian penalty area, and a powerful header broke through the ten fingers of Brazilian goalkeeper Elton!

golden ball!Football Kingdom Brazil was eliminated in the quarter-finals!

Compared with Brazil's disastrous exit, another South American powerhouse, Chile, was much more glorious. In another semi-final three hours later, in another dialogue between Africa and South America, in the final round of the group stage The Chilean team, which began to consciously preserve its strength, played a hearty game!

The Chilean team's front trident showed amazing offensive strength, Zamorano scored one goal and two assists, Navia scored two goals and one assist, Pizarro scored one goal and one assist - Chile's four-to-one As soon as the defending champion Nigeria was sent back to his hometown, Nigeria was no longer the energetic African Eagles four years ago. It was doomed when she was dissatisfied and refused to participate in the Olympics.

After the first two quarter-finals, Africa and South America have also followed in the footsteps of Europe-only one seedling is still in the Olympics, and the remaining two quarter-finals will be held on the 24th , respectively, Japan against the United States, China against Italy.

The Asian sports media agreed that if they want to grab a place in the Olympic semi-finals, they can probably only count on Japan. After all, the football level of the United States is not very high, and Japan still has a great hope of winning. They are the strongest team in Asia, but their luck is really bad. They just narrowly escaped and overwhelmed Spain to grab a ticket to the quarter-finals. Unfortunately, facing the stronger Italy, it may be very difficult to go further.

If Japan eliminates the United States and China is eliminated by Italy, then the top four will come from Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. Europe and South America have always been the focus of world football. African teams have always performed well in the Olympics. Asia can Entering a team, how can you say that it can prove that Asian football also has the confidence to challenge Europe and the United States to a certain extent?

Chinese fans began to curse God's injustice - if we were facing the US team, we would still be able to enter the semi-finals!Where is it the Japanese team's turn to show this face!
The Japanese media is even more triumphantly clamoring that our big Japan is the king of Asian football, and it is the hope of Asian football to show its face in the Olympics-I have not seen that the best results of Asian teams in the Olympics are created by us in Japan of it? We won a bronze medal at the 68 Mexico Olympics.

The Japanese media made the same mistake as the Chinese media did before the Olympics—they concluded that the U.S. team was vulnerable just based on their impressions. You must know that the U.S. team was in a group other than Kuwait, which lost all three games. Both Cameroon and the Czech Republic are very strong teams, and the team that can suppress the Czech Republic is definitely not as weak as it looks.

Sure enough, the Japanese team learned a lesson. Although Naoyasu Takahara and Hidetoshi Nakata scored one goal each in the second half, the US team still relied on two goals from Al Bryant and Donovan to tie the score. After three and 10 minutes of overtime, the two sides entered a penalty shootout. Nakata Hidetoshi, who was the last to play, missed the penalty kick, while the American Hejduk scored the last penalty kick steadily, and the penalty kick was [-] to [-]. With a total score of seven to six, the US team advanced to the semi-finals!

Africa, South America, North America, one left, Asia or Europe?

All eyes will be on the final quarter-final match three hours later, where China from Asia and Italy from Europe will compete for the last place in the semi-finals.

Italy wants to maintain the face of Europe, and the Chinese team wants to keep the last seed of Asian football in this Olympic Games.

(End of this chapter)