Football: The Strongest Hexagon Warrior

"competition is over!"

"11:0!"

"Too cruel!"

Francisco, the commentator of Portugal's National Sports TV, said with regret at first, then changed the subject and shouted: "But... I like it! It's great! I think this crushing defeat is God asking South Korea to pay back the debt for the Korea-Japan World Cup 20 years ago! In the words of the Dragon Kingdom, God is watching what you do! It's not that there is no retribution, it's just that the time has not come yet!"

The Portuguese fans who watched the live broadcast of the game felt particularly relieved, because it was the shamelessness of the South Koreans that caused them to fail to qualify from the group.

Twenty years later, their national team not only successfully took revenge, but also nailed South Korea to the pillar of shame!

At the same time, Spanish and Italian fans who were paying attention to the game cheered loudly and gave Portugal a good lesson to South Korea at the Education City Stadium.

Let them know what it means that it’s not that I won’t take revenge, it’s just that the time has not come yet!

Mixed zone.

Ronaldo was interviewed by a media reporter and said without hesitation: "I was only 17 years old at that time. I felt very powerless sitting in front of the TV watching the live broadcast of the game. I think everyone knows that World Cup very well, so I won't go into details. Thank you."

At the same time, South Korean domestic media and fans are looking for someone to blame for the national team's disastrous defeat on social platforms.

The discord between Son Heung-min and Lee Kang-in naturally became the target of criticism and bombardment from the media and fans.

With the help of media from China, Italy, Spain and Portugal, it immediately caused an uproar in the world football.

Head coach Paulo Bento said only one sentence in the routine press conference after the game: "I resign, no other comments."

The president of South Korea was planning to let head coach Paulo Bento take the blame, but he unexpectedly just resigned.

Depend on!

For this reason, he could only use Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Then resign.

I thought that as long as I quit quickly enough, you can't do anything to me!

In another group match in the same group, Uruguay defeated Ghana 2-0.

As a result, Portugal ranked first in the group, and Uruguay, which won the game, ranked second with 1 points.

The evening match is the last round of Group G's group stage.

It was also a surprise.

Cameroon defeated Brazil 1-0.

Serbia lost to Switzerland 2:3.

The three rounds of group matches for all eight groups have ended, and the teams that advanced to the round of 8 have been decided.

The 16/8 finals of 1 to 8 are divided into two halves, upper and lower.

The final two half-zone winners will compete in the final at 12 p.m. local time on December 18.

The four quarter-finals in the upper half are: Netherlands vs Sam, Argentina vs Australia, Sakura Country vs Croatia, Brazil vs Uruguay

The four 4/1 final teams in the lower half are: England vs. Senegal, France vs. Poland, Morocco vs. Spain, Portugal vs. Switzerland

There is no break between the round of 1 knockout stage and the group stage, and the last two Group G matches of Cameroon vs. Brazil and Serbia vs. Switzerland are seamlessly connected the day after the end of the match.

However, for fans who are used to watching at least three or four games a day, it may be a little uncomfortable.

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The football atmosphere in Qatar itself is not strong, but due to the influence of the World Cup, the most lucrative sport in the world, football, the streets and alleys are full of the World Cup atmosphere.

The official theme song "Hayya Hayya" is played in every city across the country.

The first 1/8 final match was between Netherlands and United States.

The match will be held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha.

The time is 12 pm local time on December 3rd.

Martin and the Portuguese national team finished a day of recovery training and technical and tactical drills early, and watched the first live broadcast of the round of 1 together in the restaurant during dinner.

The Dutch team, which had obvious overall strength advantage, took the initiative in the game early on and suppressed the Sam team led by Pulisic.

In the 10th minute, the Netherlands team launched a counterattack from the backcourt, passing the ball six times in a row to Dumfries who was making a high-speed run on the right side of the attack.

Dumfries, who received the pass from Gakpo, made a high-speed pass and sent a quick, sharp, low cross. Depay, who was following up in the middle of the penalty area, kicked the ball into the goal guarded by Matt Turner.

For a long time afterwards, both sides attacked and defended, but were still a little short of scoring the other side's goal.

It was not until the end of the first half that Dumfries made an inverted triangle pass near the baseline.

Blind made a detour to the penalty spot two meters behind and pushed the ball into the goal, extending the goal to two.

In the second half, both teams changed the situation of the game by making substitutions.

Unfortunately, none of them worked out as planned.

The Dutch team, which was leading by two goals, consciously tightened its defense to launch a counterattack. Sam's team's continuous attack finally paid off in the 76th minute.

'Captain America' Pulisic broke into the penalty area and made a cross from the right sideline. The ball hit the heel of his teammate Haji Wright who ran too far, creating a strange parabola and finally landed in the absolute blind spot of the far goal.

1:2

I just never expected it.

Just when the United States was gaining momentum, the Netherlands scored another goal.

Blind's curved cross from the left bypassed the front and middle points and accurately found Dumfries who was unguarded at the back point. The latter pushed the ball into the goal with his left foot at the front of the small penalty area on the right, setting the final score at 3:1.

The Netherlands team became the first team to enter the quarterfinals of this World Cup.

The second World Cup quarter-final will start later.

Ahmed Ben Ali Stadium.

Argentina faces the challenge of Australia.

Argentina, which used to have a good-looking style of play but was always short-lived, has abandoned its flashy style and focused on efficiency in this World Cup.

Argentina played steadily and showed strong dominance.

In the 35th minute of the game, Argentina played a wonderful combination near the penalty area. Otamendi, who received the ball from Alvarez, assisted Messi to score the first knockout goal in his World Cup career.

The Australian team's strength was already quite limited, and even with the advantage of ball possession, they had no way of threatening Martin guarding the goal.

Argentina entered the locker room with a 1-0 lead.

After the change of sides, Australia, which was behind in the score, consciously stepped up its attack, but failed to break through Argentina's defense.

Instead, they made a fatal mistake in the 56th minute.

Goalkeeper Matthew Ryan passed the ball too carelessly, DePaul actively pressed the ball and cooperated with Alvarez to steal the ball and score into the empty goal.

Argentina, leading by two goals, played more calmly.

Because of this, the defense was lax in the 76th minute of the game.

Australian player Icky made a 45-degree cross, but Otamendi's clearance was not far enough, and Goodwin, who came on as a substitute and was hailed as the God of Sports Lottery, shot from the edge of the left penalty area and hit Enzo Fernandez's face and deflected into the net.

According to the investigation of FIFA's official technical committee, the goal was finally counted as Enzo's own goal.

The Australian team unexpectedly narrowed the gap and fought back in the following game time, but unfortunately their overall strength was not as good as Argentina, and it was very difficult to maintain the score of 1:2.

However, the Australian team had a chance to equalize in the last minute of injury time, but unfortunately Kuor's shot at the far end of the penalty area after leaning away from Tagliafico was miraculously saved by Martin.

The third round of 1 match was between France and Poland.

This is also a contest that is known to be unequal in strength.

France's advancement to the quarterfinals is a foregone conclusion.

The French team led by Deschamps, as always, focuses on defense first and then waits for an opportunity to launch an attack.

In the 43rd minute of the game, Mbappe turned around on the left and made a diagonal pass, and Giroud understood the intention and shot to score.

With this goal, Giroud surpassed Henry to become the top scorer in French team history.

The Polish team, which originally wanted to play overtime or even a penalty shootout with the French team, panicked when the score fell behind and began to intensify its attack.

Unfortunately, the overall strength did not allow it, and the French team took advantage of the counterattack to score a goal to expand the score.

Griezmann received the ball in his own penalty area and made a long pass to launch a counterattack. Giroud received the ball near the center circle and passed it to Dembele on the right. He first pretended to walk towards the baseline, but then used the flexibility of his ankle to suddenly use the outside of his left foot to push the ball inwards, which directly made the French team's counterattack become clear.

After attracting enough attention, Dembele passed the ball to Mbappe who was unmarked on the left.

Mbappe received the ball, made a slight adjustment and made a powerful shot, which was beyond the reach of goalkeeper Szczesny.

The French team, leading by two goals, played more calmly.

The impatient Polish team also failed to create any decent chances.

In the first minute of injury time, Thuram Jr. made a triangle pass into the penalty area from the left, Mbappe drew a beautiful arc with his right foot, and Szczesny was once again out of reach.

Mbappe scored twice and raised his personal goal tally in the World Cup to nine goals, second only to Martin and Thomas Muller among active players.

In the last stage of injury time, Upamecano handballed in the penalty area and Lewandowski scored the penalty, making the final score 3:1. France became the third team to advance to this World Cup.

The evening match of the second day of the knockout stage kicked off at the Bay Stadium.

England, the favorite to win the championship, beat Senegal 3-0 thanks to goals from Henderson, Harry Kane and Saka.

The two matches on the third day of the round of 1 were between Sakura Country VS Croatia and Brazil VS Uruguay.

Portugal's quarter-final against Switzerland at the Lusail Stadium is an evening match on the fourth match day of the knockout stage, but according to international practice, the team must attend a routine press conference the day before the game. Whether or not to walk the field before the game is entirely voluntary.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, head coach Santos attended the pre-match press conference with B Silva, and the assistant coach took the players into the Lusail Stadium for a short tactical drill to warm up and prepare to adapt to the venue.

Santos, who was interviewed by the media, still looked confident and was full of confidence in the round of 1 that will start at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.

Seat B's answer was exactly the same, and it was obvious that they had reached a unified statement in advance.

"We respect Switzerland, but we have to say that defending the title is our ultimate goal."

About two hours later, the Swiss team attended the routine pre-match press conference.

The Swiss head coach Jakin who was present was exactly the same as many other head coaches who were going to play against the team led by Martin, showing full weakness to see if he could catch the team off guard.

The Swiss captain Xhaka, who was also present, mentioned the former Arsenal captain Martin in an interview with the media. He said: "Martin is very strong. As a former teammate, I know very well, but this is the charm of football. We know that Portugal is very strong, but we still have to bravely overcome this mountain!"

The content of Xhaka's media interview won wide acclaim from the Swiss domestic media.

However, many media and fans believe that Xhaka is likely to be slapped in the face after the game.

In the minds of many media and fans, the mountain of Martin is something that can never be overcome.

At 1 pm, the fifth World Cup 8/ final between Sakura Country and Croatia kicked off at the Janub Stadium.

The two teams were tied 1:1 after minutes of regular time, and neither team made any progress in overtime, which meant that both teams entered the first penalty shootout of this World Cup.

Takumi Minamino, who took the first penalty kick, missed the penalty, and Vlasic, who took the penalty for Croatia, scored.

In the second round, Sanzan Xun, who took the penalty kick, was obviously affected by Minamino Takumi's missed penalty kick and had technical problems and missed the goal. Croatian player Brozovic took the penalty kick and scored, making the total score 3:1.

Sakura Country's third-round penalty taker Takuma Asano scored, but Livaya missed.

The penalty shootout came to the particularly important fourth round.

Maya Yoshida failed to withstand the pressure and the ball was saved by Livakovic. The fourth Croatian player Pasalic scored the penalty.

With one round left in the penalty shootout, Croatia widened the gap to two goals, which meant there was no need to continue playing the last round.

In other words, Croatia became the fifth team to advance to the quarterfinals of this World Cup.

I thought the sixth round of the quarter-finals would be evenly matched, but it turned out to be so one-sided.

The Brazilian team scored from multiple points and took a 4:0 lead at halftime.

Uruguay only scored two face-saving goals in the 76th and 89th minutes of the game, scored by Cavani and Valverde respectively.

In the end, Brazil defeated Uruguay 4:2 and became the sixth team to advance to the quarterfinals of this World Cup.

Fans who watch the live broadcasts of the World Cup every day gradually feel that the happy time passes very quickly, and when they open their eyes, it is the last 2022/1 final match day of the 8 Qatar World Cup.

The first round of 1 was held at the Education City Stadium.

Morocco VS Spain.

Spain had an absolute advantage in strength and launched a strong offensive, but Morocco defended very well.

Watertight.

Neither team scored a goal in 90 minutes and had to go into extra time of 30 minutes in the first and second half.

Facing the extremely defensive Morocco, Spain, which had the advantage in strength, was never able to break through the goal guarded by Bono.

Thus, the second penalty shootout of this World Cup kicked off.

The whole world thought that at this point in the game, Spain, with better footwork, would most likely eliminate Morocco on penalties.

The result is exactly the opposite.

The Spanish players, who had advantages in strength and technology, were unable to withstand the tremendous pressure.

Sarabia, Soler and Busquets all missed three free throws.

Morocco, which was not favored by many, made three of four free throws and eliminated Spain with a total score of 3:0, creating a major upset in this World Cup.

Morocco, which advanced to the quarterfinals, also surpassed the record of the 1986 World Cup round of , creating a new best result in team history!

After noticing the result of this game, Martin began to fear this team.

The original historical result in my impression was that Morocco eliminated Portugal, made it to the semi-finals for the first time in history, and created the best result for an African team in the World Cup.

When the game was over, Portugal also arrived at the outer square of the Lusail Stadium by bus.

The overwhelming shouts came one after another.

"Martin!"

"Martin!!"

"Martin!!!"

As the biggest star in Portugal and the number one player in the world of football today, Martin's fans cheered him loudly for a long time.

Martin, who has always been fond of his fans, waved to the enthusiastic fans through the glass window until he entered the designated parking space.

About an hour before the game, the entire Portuguese team changed into training jerseys and went to the stadium to warm up.

Looking around, more than 80% of the audience seats were already filled.

The remaining seats were also occupied by fans queuing to enter the stadium at a very fast speed.

Not long after, the starting lineups of both teams appeared on FIFA's official website.

Portugal is still in the 433 formation.

Goalkeeper: Diogo Costa

Defenders: Guerrero, Ruben Dias, Pepe (C), Dalot

Midfielders: B Silva, Martin, William Carvalho

Forwards: Felix, Gonzalo Ramos, B Fee

Switzerland changed its 352 formation to 3142.

Goalkeeper: Sommer

Central defenders: Ricardo Rodriguez, Schar, Akanji

Defensive midfielder: Xhaka (C)

Midfielders: Vargas, Feloile, Sow, Edmilson

Forwards: Shaqiri, Embolo

The starting lineups of both teams often appeared, and everyone knew... the last 1/8 final was about to start.

And we also know that this is a quarter-final match with no suspense!