Finally, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the contradiction between the teams intensified. In this key battle, Italy beat Mexico 31 to advance to the top 16 of the World Cup at the last minute!
Chapter 125 The aftermath (in)
However, although this victory allowed Italy to beat Mexico in the standings, it failed to make them into a group. First, Croatia did its best in another group match at the same time. With goals from Olic, Vlavovic and davor suker, Ecuador also scored four wins and one loss in the group match. Finally, it beat Italy with a slight advantage of goal difference (Croatia scored six goals and lost two goals in three games, while Italy also scored six goals but lost three goals in three games) and reached the top of Group G!
This means that Italy will play the second place in Group G against the first team in Group D in the next final!
Although the final round of Group D has not yet been played, judging from the current situation, it should not be a problem for the United States to lose to Poland in both wars. The host South Korea will compete with Portugal led by the golden generation (with three points) for another qualifying spot. Although South Korea has home court advantage and famous coach Hiddink is in charge, judging from the book strength of the two teams, Portugal’s hope of winning should be greater, even if they still have not finished recovering from a season’s campaign.
Of course, if the South Korean team can play a good home game advantage, Hiddink’s team is not without the strength to win a draw. After all, the forward force has been a chronic disease that has plagued the Portuguese for many years, especially when nuno gomes’s state is getting more and more depressed. It has become a longstanding problem for Portuguese football to score goals when it is proved that pauleta is suitable for being a striker.
So it seems that Italy is most likely to meet the United States in the final, followed by Portugal and South Korea. On the way back to the hotel, Zhuang Ge said while listening to Karin’s analysis. But then again, Mexico is really unlucky to be the first team in the history of the World Cup to score six points but still fail to advance to the first round.
Unlike Zhuang Ge’s previous World Cup in Korea and Japan, Italy, Croatia and Mexico all scored two wins and one loss after the group stage. Therefore, according to the rules formulated by FIFA, these three teams will be ranked according to the total goal difference in the group stage.
So the goal difference was only one egg, and Mexico became the most unlucky team. At the last minute, they lost the qualification to qualify for the World Cup and ended their journey in this World Cup.
Damn Ecuador unexpectedly lost the chain at this time. If they can win Croatia like history, it will be Mexico to touch those great teams in South Korea … Although Italy has successfully qualified for the top 16, Zhuang Ge knows very well that the most difficult test of the defending champion in the next World Cup is coming!
Well, I hope those who don’t know much about the world will be soberminded and don’t engage in disgusting things in this World Cup, otherwise they will definitely regret the scenes of tragedies that happened in the previous World Cup in Korea and Japan today. Zhuang Ge secretly made up his mind that if the players dare to extend their black hands to Italy again this time, he won’t mind launching another financial crisis in South Korea. Zhuang Ge can guarantee that he will think that the scale of this crisis in South Korea will never be less than that which swept the whole East Asia five years ago!
Not to mention planning the future in my heart, Zhuang Ge, now let’s take a look at the reactions of other people from all walks of life after the game
On the fans’ side, although many Italian fans are very sorry that the national team and Croatia have to advance to the top 16 of the World Cup in the second place in the group because of their slight disadvantage in goal difference, they have not been depressed for long. After all, the team won the game against Mexico, even if the victory is not so perfect because of Croatia, it is worth celebrating for the fans.
What’s more, there is another thing worth celebrating in bars and squares, that is, their ace center christian vieri successfully tied Gerd Müller’s World Cup goal record set 20 years ago in this game and tied with the German football center for the top spot in the World Cup top scorer list!
This alone will give Italian fans enough money to brag to fans from other countries in the next four years. Who said that we Italy would stick to our guns and didn’t see that the top scorer in the World Cup was also Italian? Do you have any? !
The fans were in high spirits to celebrate spontaneously. Compared with the Italian national team, the atmosphere was not so relaxed at this time. vieri and Inzaghi first helped nonFlorence people like Paolo Maldini and Coco, as well as players who used to play in Florence, such as Dibiagio and Materazzi. These people got together at the postmatch team meeting and expressed a very strong protest against coach Zoff’s move to change vieri at the end of the game. At the same time, they hinted at the meeting to the coach that they were dissatisfied with pierrot and thought that he was the one who should be replaced.
Although Zoff’s temper was well honed by his long career as general manager in Lazio, this physical protest by the players still activated the iron spirit in the head coach’s heart, so after a titfortat roar, the meeting ended in discord, and both sides ended the exchange with grim faces and prepared to save their strength for another battle.
It is foreseeable that even if Italy can reach the final of the World Cup and win the championship trophy, Zoff will never stay in the position of head coach of the national team without the support of most players.
This help a bastard! One by one is there, regardless of the interests of the team! After returning to the room, he felt that the head coach’s dignity was damaged. Zoff threw out his briefcase and growled angrily, It seems necessary to communicate with the Football Association. Now this trend has been rectified on a large scale.
Zoff didn’t think there was anything wrong with changing vieri at that time, but he paid more attention to the team. He thought it would be nice to score goals, although pierrot was a bit rash. What’s vieri’s record break compare with that coming knockout round? Is it more important to be the top scorer in the history of the World Cup than to win the knockout after Italy wins?
In this way, after Italy went through hardships to qualify from the group, this team did not show the cohesion of the old Maldini era, but showed signs of division!
Chapter 126 The aftermath ()
I’m going to this is how a situation? It’ s only been one night, and it’ s such a big thing? Although vieri and other players had a fierce argument with Zoff, because there were no outsiders present and the Italian secret worker did a good job, it was not known by the media, but Zhuang Ge learned about it through him in the Football Association Department early the next morning. Fortunately, it was not known by the paparazzi, otherwise I am afraid that fans all over the world would watch Italian football jokes …
Zhuang Ge did think that vieri and his team would have some unpleasant conversations with Zoff in the final stage of the game, but he always thought that the two sides should sit down and talk about it well, so it was unexpected that things would develop to the point where the two sides turned against each other openly!
Although vieri and his team corrected a large group of people to have a showdown with Zoff, it was indeed inappropriate. However, Zoff did not handle this matter properly and was too unreasonable. He didn’t give a reasonable explanation to vieri, nor did he consider that it was difficult for players Qi Xin to help vieri break the record but was destroyed by their own people.
After all, players are human beings and have feelings. No matter how big they are, they will have some selfishness and bias in dealing with people. For example, Maldini suggested that Zoff should not change his team before the game and let Pirlo start. Did he try to get a starting position for his good friend albertini? In exchange, of course, he should support Pirlo’s starting appearance, otherwise the words in the dressing room are second only to him, but the Fiorentina gang will have a problem
This is a compromise and tacit understanding between different factions in the national team. Every player will distinguish his own territory and responsibilities without affecting the overall situation. If you want to get something extra, you must pay some price. However, this exchange of interests only lies in the most powerful factions in the national team. Those players who have no backers behind them will never enjoy this treatment and can work hard in the national team on their own.
Of course, this degree of compromise and tacit understanding is only to some extent to make the head coach more in line with the wishes of the bosses of these teams when deciding on the starting lineup. For example, when the players are similar in ability, they will give priority to their junior players in the club instead of those famous pawns from small and mediumsized clubs. However, if a player’s ability can be recognized by everyone, the starting lineup will also open the door to him. After all, the players are not fools. If the truly capable people are finally placed in the position because of their selfishness, then they will also be in great trouble.
At present, in the Italian national team, Paolo Maldini leads Milan and Florence, led by vieri and Inzaghi, have mastered most of the words in the dressing room, while Roman players have the opportunity to become a new force in the national team. Unfortunately, Totti’s personality has offended these teammates Tony and panucci so hard that there is no way to twist them into a third force in the Italian dressing room, which leads to the fact that Totti can finally occupy a place in the Italian main team.
That’s why when Inzaghi went out to help vieri brush the data in the Mexican game, there was almost no voice to express opposition. The main reason was that the two factions had reached a consensus, and no one wanted to come out at this time.
Now pierrot’s headgrabbing behavior has really broken this balance and tacit understanding, which not only makes the outside world have a bad guess about the degree of unity of the Italian team, but also makes the national team bosses look pale, while the head coach Zoff lacks this sense of smell and coaching thinking. He didn’t realize the danger of things at all twenty years ago, and then he wanted to impose an iron fist rule like his teacher bearzot to forcibly suppress the opposition … It would be a ghost if nothing happened.
After all, nowadays, compared with the soaring wages of players and the changes in living environment after the implementation of Bosman Act 20 years ago, these international players who have become millionaires naturally can no longer listen to the head coach like their predecessors, but pay more attention to selfworth and career development, so Zoff will naturally conflict with the players in this respect.
The situation of Italy’s national team is similar to the escalation of contradictions. Italy is not calm at this time. Although all media praised the national team for taking Mexico in the key battle and kicking out the most promising team, it was overwhelmed by Croatia. As a result, some discordant notes broke out in the final stage of the game, which made these backgrounds and positions different. The media quickly divided into two factions during the postmatch analysis.
Tuttosport, the mouthpiece of Juventus, naturally praised pierrot’s performance in the game, calling the zebra king’s goal completely decided the trend of the game and kept silent that pierrot’s goal actually robbed vieri’s head; Other Italian players were cynical, thinking that they were jealous of pierrot’s ability and talent, so that the zebra king could not continue to play his incomparable talent. The Italian national team made great achievements in the World Cup.
God, it’s a pity that these Italian players were so blamed by Tuttosport that they didn’t even come to envy vieri, who tied the scoring record. That’s why they didn’t even get pierrot for the starting position.
Seeing that Tuttosport is so partial to its own players, it belittles them. First, the media in other places will naturally not be indifferent to this, and they have written articles to refute the fallacy that pierrot is the culprit in destroying the atmosphere in the Italian dressing room. Some media have even joined hands to compile a program to intercept the video of pierrot’s goal, and invited experts to analyze the picture frame by frame to prove their correctness.
Needless to say, this is naturally because Zhuang singer Pen is very dissatisfied with pierrot. When he saw Juventus, he dared to come out and help pierrot wash his white clothes, so he arranged for people to make such a program to slap the other side directly, warning Mo Lao Fox not to stir up trouble.
Chapter 127 Before the knockout
In the face of Zhuang Ge’s extremely straightforward facetoface behavior, Moggi was very angry in his heart, but he didn’t come up with any good way to fight back. After all, it happened in public, and even he didn’t have anything to justify. Although the final result was not bad, pierrot’s trip did destroy the harmonious atmosphere of the Italian team and made many people look down on him.
What’s more, even if Mo Lao Fox wants to continue to whitewash the zebra king, he really can’t find any convincing evidenceafter all, the video of that game is enough to prove that it is almost impossible for Moggi to reverse right and wrong through the media he is familiar with.
In fact, the main reason why the two sides were so unhappy was that pierrot was too impatient and destroyed vieri’s chance to monopolize the World Cup scoring record in the game, and Zoff added fuel to the fire, forcing Juventus to have such a serious confrontation with other teams in order to save the team’s flag.
But fortunately, although the two sides are shouting happily, they still maintain their basic reason and the bottom line is that they fought a war of words through their respective agents in the media field, which did not make it necessary for Zhuang Ge and Agnelli to do it themselves.
If things get to the point where the big bosses of each team have to come forward in person, it will not just be a problem for each club. Once things get to that point, it will never end easily unless a scapegoat is made to bear the responsibility for causing the club conflict.
Now, no matter which side is engaged in the confrontation through the media, to a certain extent, it belongs to the category that both sides can stop at any time. After all, although this is not China, no one except Zhuang Ge should have heard the phrase Be a man and leave a line to meet each other in the future, but everyone has been in the football circle for so long, even if there are places that are not pleasing to the eye, they will not make things go to the point of law.
Actually, this time, if the mouthpiece of Juventus, Tuttosport, didn’t take the initiative to wash pierrot’s white, and at the same time, it was extremely deadly to send a map gun to other clubs, the wave range of this matter is estimated that even the headquarters of the Italian Football Association can’t get out, so it will be directly absorbed and digested by the Football Association in the Ministry.
Just when the Italian media started a confrontation over the pierrot scandal, there were only two groups left in the World Cup, and finally the final winner was decided the day after Italy successfully advanced to the top 16!
Although the fans had expected it before the game, when the game was over, the final result was dumbfounded. The situation in Group H was better. In the first two games, one win and one draw, the host Japanese team easily defeated the weak team Tunisia and advanced to the top 16 with its head held high. However, Belgium and Russia, two European powerhouses with serious aging, won another qualifying place and exhibited a enter the dragon. Finally, Belgium defeated the polar bear 32 in a goal war and successfully entered the semifinals stage.
If the final result of Group H is still expected, then the final result of Group D will be extremely strange. Both the first two games of the group match were defeated, and Poland suddenly found its state on this night. Ollie Sudbay and Chris Zalovic scored goals to help Poland establish a twogoal lead in just five minutes, and Zevaranov’s goal at halftime further expanded this advantage! However, Poland scored again and again, compared with the cowboy style of the previous two games. The American team scored a goal to save face in the final stage by Donovan and finally lost 13.
A controversial victory of Poles proves that they will be out of the group stage only because of bad luck, or this Eastern European iron rider will definitely be all over the place in the top 16!
Although they unexpectedly lost to Poland in the final match of the group, American fans did not show much frustration after the match. The reason is very simple. In another group match of Group D, the host South Korea was awarded two red cards to Portugal by the referee on duty, and there were two more players than their opponents. With Park Jisung’s goal in the 70th minute of the game, it was difficult to beat Portugal, which has a golden generation, to keep this European powerhouse out of the 16th strong door and advance to the first round of Group D!
In South Korea, the United States lost to Poland in the last game, and Portugal won the second place in the group history and advanced to the top 16 of the World Cup for the second time.