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Chapter 490 Chapter 488: The first big upset of the World Cup in South Africa!

The first round of the group of death is over, and group H is on the stage.

As the winner of the European Cup in 08, Spain has attracted the attention of fans all over the world, and they are also the favorites to win the championship.

Germany and the Netherlands both scored big wins in the first round, can Spain also get a big win?

Chile and Honduras took the lead in Group H. At 01:30 pm on the [-]th, the two teams competed at the Mbobela Stadium in Split.

The last time Honduras participated in the World Cup was in 1982. The Central and North American teams drew with Belarus and Azerbaijan in warm-up matches, and lost to Venezuela and Romania respectively.

Chile, which is participating in the World Cup for the eighth time, has a strong momentum after Argentine coach Bielsa took over. It lost only to Mexico in the warm-up match, and won Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia, Northern Ireland and Israel respectively.

After the start of the game, the Chilean team took the lead. In the second minute, Chile got a direct free kick in the frontcourt. The ball was only 25 meters away from the goal. It was an excellent chance to score!

Mathias Fernandez's free kick went around the wall and flew towards the top right corner of the goal!
Soccer ball flies past Honduras goalkeeper Villadares and goes off the crossbar!

This ball shocked Honduras into a cold sweat!
Then the two teams fell into a stalemate in the midfield competition, and neither got a good chance to score.

As time went by, the Chilean team slowly gained the upper hand in the stalemate. In the No.201 minute, Valdivia's strong shot in front of the penalty area was blocked by the Honduran defender Guevara!
Vidal took a corner kick, Sanchez shot a long shot in front of the penalty area, and the football went over the bar!

No. In the 205th minute, Matias Fernandez took a corner kick and Vidal scored a header eight meters away from the goal!
A surprise in the eyes of Chilean fans!

However, the football went wide of the goal!
Under the blow of the Chilean team's continuous high-strength team, Honduras' defense had problems.

In the 304th minute of the first half, Mathias Fernandez made a direct pass. Isla made a pass from the right side of the penalty area. Mendoza made a tackle and made a clearance on Bossejor!
Magical bounce of football into the goal!

The ball is in!
One to zero!

Chile broke the deadlock!

No one thought that this goal turned out to be the only goal in the game. In the end, the Chilean team beat Honduras with one goal and got off to a good start.

Chile beat Honduras 1-0 thanks to a goal from left winger Bossejor.

For this day, the Chileans waited for 48 years, and they finally won again!

1962年6月16日，智利在世界杯季军争夺战中以1-0击败南斯拉夫，但智利人没有想到，他们下一次在世界杯赛场上取得胜利，还是在2010年6月16日的今天。

After defeating the United States 1950-5 in the 2 World Cup group stage, this is the first time that Chile has won a World Cup outside its borders in 60 years.

Fans all over the world turned their attention to the Durban Stadium. Spain, the favorite to win the championship, will make its debut. Their opponent is the Swiss team.

The European champion Spain has achieved 18 wins and 15 draws in the 3 encounters between the two sides and remains unbeaten. After 10 victories in the qualifiers and advanced to the finals, Spain defeated France, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Poland in the warm-up match.

Switzerland are participating in their ninth World Cup and kept a clean sheet for 9 minutes in the 2006 World Cup, only to be eliminated in a penalty shoot-out loss to Ukraine.However, they have not won any of the last 394 warm-up matches.

At four o'clock in the afternoon on the [-]th, the game officially started at the Durban Stadium.

Due to Barcelona's success in recent years, coach Bosque transplanted Barcelona's style of play to Spain and achieved success-they won the European Cup two years ago!
After the start of the game, Spain began to control the rhythm of the game on the field.

As the creator of the chain defense, Switzerland used intensive defense to deal with Spain's pass control. It was not until the No. 17 minute of the first half that Spain got the first shot of the game, which shows how successful the Swiss team's defense is!

In the 204th minute of the first half, Espanyol almost broke the goal, Iniesta made a direct pass, Pique passed Grichting and then shot a low shot 12 meters away from the goal!
However, the football was blocked by Benario's magical legs!
In the first half, the two sides shook hands and made a 15-[-] draw. After a [-]-minute intermission, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

Spain speeded up its offensive rhythm, so the field showed an overwhelming situation-Spain is the main attack, Switzerland is struggling to support!

In the 7th minute of the second half, Switzerland launched a quick counterattack after defending Spain's attack.

Deldiyok dribbled into the penalty area and fell while dodging Casillas, but the referee did not blow his whistle.

Fernandez followed up with a push!
Pique stretched out his right leg and blocked Fernandez's close-range shot!

Fernandez flew forward, made a supplementary shot, and the football flew into the empty goal!

The ball is in!
The passive Swiss team leads by one goal!
This made the Swiss fans in the stands overjoyed. They hoped that their team would continue their efforts and burst out the biggest people in this World Cup!

After the game restarted, Spain launched a tidal wave of attacks, and they wanted to equalize the score.

In the 13th minute of the second half, Iniesta passed the ball and Villa shot in front of the penalty area, but the ball was too weak and was easily confiscated by Swiss goalkeeper Benario.

In the No.15 minute of the second half, Harvey took a corner kick, and Ramos rose from the ground, overwhelming the opponent's defender with a vicious header!

The football goes wide of the goal!

After 1 minute, Harvey made a direct pass to Villa, but Benario made the first attack and saved it.

In the No.18 minute of the second half, Villa's breakthrough inside the restricted area was blocked, and Iniesta shot a beautiful arc from outside the restricted area, and the football flew towards the right side of the goal!

The air in the stadium became tense!
The football flew past Benario's fingertips!

Then flew to the bottom line towards the post, Spain missed the best chance to equalize the score!
The Swiss team united as one and maintained a one-goal lead until the whistle sounded at the end of the game!
Switzerland narrowly beat Spain with one goal, breaking the first upset of this World Cup!
The world is in an uproar!
Marca commented: The invincible warship of the Spanish team finally capsized on the coast of Africa.

Switzerland pulled Spain out of the clouds, taking advantage of mistakes by the Spanish goalkeeper and defenders to score, and the European champions looked restless after conceding a goal, unable to find their way to the goal and lost the game.

In the first round of the World Cup group, the Spanish team was given a lesson in humility.

Unable to attack for a long time and was fatally hit by the opponent, the Spanish national team transplanted Barcelona's tactics and also transplanted Barcelona's weaknesses.

Whether it is Barcelona or the Spanish national team, tactics have been thoroughly studied by more and more teams. Opponents are no longer afraid to let them control the ball, and they use efficient offenses or sharp counterattacks against them. From the Espanyol to Arsenal, and now Switzerland, this is the case.

In terms of offense, the Spanish players carried themselves away. They confidently believed that with a world-class striker like Villa and an excellent passer like Xavi, it was only a matter of time before the Spanish team scored.

However, it was the Spanish team who conceded the goal first. After conceding the ball, the Spanish team seemed flustered.

Defensively, Del Bosque transplanted Barcelona's combination of Puyol and Pique, but this combination performed mediocre in this game. The Swiss team's goal was related to the unfavorable defense of the Spanish central defender combination. In addition, Casillas' attack was also responsible for conceding the goal.

After conceding the goal, Spain was still in chaos in front of the goal, allowing the opponent's players to play in the penalty area. If they were not lucky enough, Spain would concede another goal.

Siege opponents, shoot more than 20 times but can't score, and if you don't pay attention, your team will lose the ball, which has a great impact on your team's psychology.

Barcelona's most typical defeat is this kind of defeat.

In this game, the Spanish team passed the ball too quickly after losing the ball, which was very bad, and the passing and shooting were not accurate.

The defense is messy, Puyol and Pique have experienced nightmares, and Ramos and Capdevila can't help the team.

Spain's poor day was best captured by the Swiss goal.

Whether it is Barcelona or the Spanish team that transplanted Barcelona's tactics, the physical fitness and concentration requirements of the players are very high. Once there is a problem in a certain link, the team's offense will have big problems.

Moreover, the offensive tactics of Barcelona and Spain have always been risky. As long as there is some negligence, a counterattack by the opponent is enough to be fatal.

The most typical way of death for Barcelona is that they can't attack for a long time in the frontcourt, and they can't break through the opponent's goal anyway, but their own goal is seized by the opponent's few opportunities to break through.

There are Chelsea, Liverpool, Atletico Madrid, and Rubin Kazan. In the last season, they were "classically" defeated by Arsenal. Obviously, Switzerland is also following this path.

Due to their own poor performance and underestimation of their opponents, the Spanish team's defeat was not groundless. The pass was not smooth enough, the shots were not threatening enough, and there were several fatal mistakes in the midfield defense.

Spain copied Barcelona's fast pass and fast fall tactics, but at the same time transplanted Barcelona's vital goal. It can only be said that the loss to Switzerland was not an accident.

L'Equipe commented: Although the Spanish team ranked seventh in the World Cup's overall score list, I believe that fans will always have a feeling of trepidation when they see Spain appearing in the World Cup.

No matter how well the team warms up before the game, how united and harmonious the atmosphere inside and outside the team is, when it comes to the World Cup, it will always suddenly lose the chain without warning.

The most painful thing in this is the loss in the first game. Losing to Switzerland is already the sixth time in the history of the World Cup that the seemingly strong Spanish team lost in the first game.

Of course, there are still many curses about the Spanish team, and the European champions will not be able to win the World Cup curse, which seems to be close to realization in 90 minutes.

Although it was a strong team in the world very early, the Spanish team is also a famous international team that is not reliable in its first game.

In addition to Argentina and Switzerland today, they lost to Czechoslovakia in 62, Austria in 78, and Brazil in 86. If the era of these losses is too far away, the 98-2 loss to Nigeria in 3 should be a game that many fans still remember.

In the game when he was the host in 82, he barely tied Honduras with a controversial penalty kick, tied Uruguay in 90, and tied South Korea in 94.

Spain participated in a total of [-] times, and only won the first match four times. It seems that no matter what the status of the Spanish national team in history, the first match of the World Cup seems to be an inescapable nightmare for them.

More detailed data show that the European champions are not only bad at the World Cup.

It is very rare to be able to win the first match of the World Cup. So far, the last eight European champions won the World Cup two years later. There were only two occasions when they won the first match. They were France's 8-86 victory over Canada in 1 and Germany's 0-98 victory over the United States in 2.Now it seems that Spain is not exempt.

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