The strongest winger

Chapter 1160 The Battle of Vengeance
With Portugal defeating Belgium to advance to the quarter-finals, the eight 2014/1 finals of the 8 Brazil World Cup were all over, and the current World Cup entered a rest period. Three days later, the four quarter-finals of the World Cup will reignite the fighting.

The four quarter-final battles are: Brazil VS Colombia, China VS Germany, Netherlands VS Costa Rica, Argentina VS Portugal.

The Brazil World Cup has entered the quarter-finals, which means that this World Cup has entered the final stage, and the degree of excitement and attention has increased accordingly.

However, the degree of attention still depends on the specific strengths of the two sides of the game. The quarter-finals between Brazil and Colombia can basically be concluded as no major surprises. After all, Colombia’s top striker Falcao missed the World Cup due to injury.

The other quarter-final match in the first half was between China and Germany. This game obviously received more attention than Brazil and Colombia. The German team has entered the semi-finals the most times in the history of the World Cup, while the Chinese team is currently the most progressive team in world football, winning the Confederations Cup a year ago.

In addition, the current German team is very strong, which can be said to be on par with the Chinese team. Of course, this is based on the fact that Aiello is not included. If the strongest link of Aiello is included, the strength of the Chinese team is still slightly stronger than the German team.

But football games cannot be compared according to the lineup, otherwise there is no need to compare the hard nine to 10 minutes of the game, and it is enough to directly compare the lineup.

The Chinese media framed this quarter-final as a battle of revenge. In the World Cup in South Africa four years ago, the Chinese team was in the same group as the German team. Due to a serious lack of experience, the Chinese team lost to Germany in the group stage and qualified as the second place in the group.

Four years later, the Chinese team is the favorite to win the World Cup, and the prospect of winning is even ahead of the German team. This makes Chinese media practitioners feel extremely honored. There is nothing better than elated.

Therefore, in this match that was deemed to be evenly matched, the Chinese media believed that the Chinese team must be the one to advance to the semi-finals, because... they have a group of the best players, and they also have the best player in the world, Ai Luo. They have 1 reasons to believe that the Chinese team will definitely beat Germany and enter the semi-finals!
In addition, Gao Lin, Hao Junmin and Feng Xiaoting of the Chinese team are all playing for the Bundesliga team, and they are also giants. They know many players in the team very well.
The opinion of the German media is completely opposite to that of the Chinese media. They first determined that the Chinese team is very strong individually, but at the team level, the German media firmly believes that the German team is stronger than the Chinese team, so the German team must be the semi-finalist.

In this way, during the break period of the World Cup, the Chinese media and the German media began to fight the first battle on the Internet platform.

Since both sides of the game focused on preparing for the battle, no players joined them.

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The two games in the second half of the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil were not much different from those in the first half. Costa Rica went to the bottom and entered the quarterfinals with a record. But their opponent was the Netherlands, and everyone knew...they had already come to an end.

Only the remaining quarter-finals of Argentina VS Portugal can attract enough attention. Putting aside the history of the two teams, the captains of both teams are also a major focus. If there is no Aiello, perhaps in this world, only Argentina captain Messi and Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo compete for the best in the world.

The duel between the two is a duel of fate.

Ailuo is number one in the world, and they are number two and number three respectively.

The Chinese team is in the upper half, while Portugal and Argentina are both in the lower half, which means that if Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi wants to play against Aiello on the stage of the World Cup, they must at least enter the semi-finals...

And the two teams happened to meet in the quarter-finals, which completely symbolized that the second and third winners would challenge for the world number one.

The effect of such a quarter-final matchup is to make the Chinese media and fans feel a little bit dark. You must know that this kind of idea would never have occurred before, and even the great god of the novel world would not dare to write like this.

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After the 1/8 finals with Algeria, the Chinese team left Porto Alegre non-stop and went to the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

This stadium is a blessed place for the Chinese team. In the final of the Confederations Cup in Brazil last year, the Chinese team defeated Spain on this venue and became the champion of the Confederations Cup last year.

Before the start of this World Cup, the Chinese team also had a warm-up match with England in this stadium. The Chinese team defeated their opponents without any suspense and won.

So the Maracana Stadium is a lucky place for the Chinese team in a sense.

Coming to a familiar city, being in a familiar hotel and training ground made the Chinese players participating in the World Cup feel very happy.

As the Chinese team entered the quarter-finals, more and more Chinese appeared in Brazil.

In particular, Rio de Janeiro, a popular tourist city, has completely become a holiday destination for Chinese people. Even if they don’t have tickets for the quarter-finals of the Chinese team and the German team, they are still happy to come here and feel the different emotions brought by football together.

The current domestic football atmosphere in China is unprecedentedly strong. More and more people love this sport. In addition, the Chinese team is now a world-class team. They are completely proud of the Chinese team. If they can see the Chinese team win the World Cup on the soil of Brazil, it will be a moment worth remembering in their lives.

While the Chinese team was preparing for the quarter-finals against the German team, the domestic media stepped up their time to produce a promotional video for the game. CCTV, which has a good relationship with the national team, naturally got first-hand information. They even had direct interaction with the players outside the training ground.

Huang Jianxiang and He Wei will be the on-site commentators at the Maracana Stadium to send wonderful comments to domestic fans, so they are very suitable to be staff members interviewing Chinese players. Of course, the bigger reason for choosing them is that Ai Luo has the best private relationship with them. If there is any inside information, they will always be the first to know.

The quarter-finals between the Chinese team and the German team is the first match of the four quarter-finals of the World Cup in Brazil.

The day before the game, the head coaches and key players of both sides went to the site of the routine press conference before the game at the Maracana Stadium for interviews.

(End of this chapter)