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Chapter 495 Chapter 493: Frustrated Germans!
Argentina's big victory made Maradona proud, and people turned their attention to England, another favorite to win the championship.

In Group C, Slovenia and the United States took the lead.

Slovenia beat Algeria by one goal in the first round. If they win this game again, they can advance to the knockout round one round earlier.

At [-] pm on the [-]th, the match between the two teams will start at the Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg!

Slovenia took the lead in the 13th minute of the first half. Radosaflevic passed the ball. Bielsa scored with a left-footed curve ball 25 points away from the goal. Howard did not respond!
One to zero!

Slovenia expanded the score in the first half No.40 two minutes, Novakovic made a direct pass, and Ljubjankic single-handedly scored from the left side of the penalty area 12 meters away from the goal!

Two to zero!
Slovenia has seen the dawn of early promotion!

However, the situation changed suddenly in the second half, and the Americans did not give up.

In the 3rd minute of the second half, the desperate United States launched an attack from the wing. Cherendolo passed the ball, Cesar made an interception error, and Donovan broke into the penalty area and shot from a small angle on the right side!
Soccer hits the net!

Two to one!

The American team narrowed the point difference, and the American fans saw the hope of equalizing the score!
In the 307th minute of the second half, the U.S. team launched a long pass from the backcourt to quickly counterattack. Cherendolo made a long pass and Altidore flew the header. The unguarded Bradley shot ten meters away from the goal!
Two to two!
The Americans equalized the score!

The American team became more and more courageous. In the 41st minute of the second half, Donovan made a free kick from the right, and Edu pushed and scored!

Lore!

When the US team was about to revel, the referee blew his whistle to indicate that the US player fouled first and the goal was invalid.

In this way, the United States lost the lore and was ruined by the referee in a super reversal!

In the end, the two teams shook hands [-]-[-] to make a draw. After the game, Slovenia was criticized by the domestic media, but the United States received praise.

At 08:30 in the evening, England, the favorite to win the championship, will play against Algeria at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town.

The pre-match media generally believed that they would win.

However, what people didn't expect was that England failed to break through the opponent's goal. After 10 minutes of fierce fighting, the two sides scored a goalless draw [-]-[-]!
England has been severely criticized by the British media, and even Algeria cannot win, what else can England do?
The situation in Group C is complicated, and all four teams have a chance to advance. They will leave the suspense of advancement in the final round of the group stage.

After Group C, people will focus on Germany. Can they continue the good state of the first round, continue to win, and advance early?

Their opponent this round is Serbia.

Serbia lost to Ghana with one goal in the first round. This is their life and death battle. If they lose again, they will be eliminated in advance.

At 01:30 pm on the [-]th, the match between the two teams started at the Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.

After the opening, Serbia appeared to be more proactive. They launched an attack from the wing and made a cross. Zigic headed the ball and Jovanovic headed the ball wide of the goal!
After 1 minute, Zikic passed the ball, Kuzmanovic took a long shot in the hinterland of Germany, and the football went wide of the goal again!

German No. suffered a blow in 307 minutes. Klose kicked Stankovic behind the midfielder. He was sent off with two yellow cards!
Serbia No. took the lead in 308 minutes, Krasic made a pass from the right, and Zikic headed the ball far away.

The unguarded Jovanovic volleyed in the penalty area!

Soccer hits the net!

The score became one to zero!

Serbia leads!

In stoppage time in the first half, the German scored two corner kicks and almost equalized the score. Stojkovic saved the opponent's tactical corner kick and Khedira, who was unguarded, hit the crossbar with a shot 15 meters away from the goal.

Germany missed the equalizer again in the No.15 minute of the second half. Nemanja Vidic fouled with a handball when clearing the pass without being under pressure. He was also fined a yellow card!

penalty!

The Germans had the best chance to equalize!
However, Podolski's penalty kick was accurately saved by Stojkovic!

Muller's supplementary shot from the right side of the penalty area was blocked by Subotic from the bottom line again!
It was the first time Germany missed a penalty in a World Cup since 1982.

Serbia almost expanded the score in the 67th minute. Krasic broke into the penalty area and passed the ball on the right side. Jovanovic shot with his left foot 15 meters from the goal, but the football hit the left post and bounced off the baseline.

In the end, Serbia maintained the advantage of one goal until the end of the game, and the German team, the favorite to win the championship, was defeated by Serbia!
This is another big upset since Spain lost a goal at the feet of the Swiss team!

After the game, the German team was criticized by the German media, and Klose became the main target of media criticism. If he hadn't been sent off with a red card in advance, the German team would not have been passive.

However, the German media focused their firepower on the on-duty referee. The headline of the German Bild newspaper was: Controversial judgments shocked the whole world. Crazy referee has played 17 red games in La Liga in 11 games!
Alberto Udiano Marenco, the only referee from Spain in this World Cup, today is the first time that Marenco played law enforcement in the World Cup against Serbia.

At the age of 36, if he doesn't blow it, he will startle the whole football world!
In this event, which didn't seem very violent at all, he was awarded 9 yellows and 1 red in a row, setting a record of playing cards since the start of this cup!
Klose, Germany's most aggressive player, was sent off in the first half. Former Ireland coach McCarthy angrily claimed that the game was ruined by him.

Marenco, who has punished La Liga for 10 years, is also a fierce player in the league, but when it comes to the World Cup, where the art of control is too much needed, he still draws cards so continuously.Although FIFA verbally shouts zero tolerance for serious fouls, the existence of those who enforce the law too strictly will undoubtedly destroy the fluency and beauty of too many games.

In the last season of La Liga, Marenco enforced 17 games of the first division, and showed 11 red cards, while the number of yellow cards reached 82, and the last three league games reached an astonishing number of 26 yellows and 3 reds!

In the 37th round of the league between Sevilla and Barcelona, ​​Marenco gave 11 yellow and 1 red penalties. In his history of whistleblowing with data available, this time is the most violent.

And on November 09, 11, during the Barcelona-Real Madrid battle, Marenco showed 29 yellows and 6 reds, and expelled Busquets and Diarra successively. Judging from the specific numbers, Marenco gave the cards too hard, but in La Liga, where referees generally make "vicious" shots, his penalty is still reasonable, so it is rare to hear that some teams use Marenco as a punching bag.

However, the Spanish league's aggressive cards are not suitable for today's World Cup.

At least it made the players on both sides feel very uncomfortable. Many Serbian players come from the Bundesliga and the Premier League, which are fiercely confrontational leagues. The referees' law enforcement in their leagues is obviously different from the La Liga law enforcement, which is almost as big as the action.

Putting it in this kind of game, the difference in concept immediately made the first half completely dominated by Marenko's call. In any case, this is what FIFA does not want to see.It can be said that it was Marenko's penalty that ruined a game.

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