green mercenary

Chapter 515 Winning Odds
At 6:17 on June 14, the match between Portugal and Mexico, which Bai Xiaotian was most concerned about, blew the whistle at the Quanzhou World Cup Stadium.

The Portuguese team is ranked 24th in the most recent FIFA rankings, and it stands to reason that the position is not low.

But it is hard to think that this World Cup is the third time Portugal has entered the finals.

The first time they entered the World Cup in England 36 years ago, they finished third under the leadership of "Black Panther" Eusebio.

In the last World Cup in Mexico, they returned home early.

In the European Cup in 2000, Portugal's performance made everyone's eyes widen.

With the efforts of the "golden generation" headed by Figo and Rui Costa, Portugal is once again entering the World Cup this time, and intends to climb new heights.

In qualifiers, they are unbeaten in 10 games.It was also they who successfully entered the finals after squeezing out the "Orange Legion" Netherlands.

When Portugal was able to score a goal against South Korea with 9 people and pull itself back from the cliff, all Portuguese fans began to believe that this "sexy football" team led by Oliveira has the ability to reproduce the glory brought to Portugal by the predecessor Eusebio.

Due to injuries and red cards, Oliveira can only take Portugal, which is short of major generals, against Mexico, which has no shortage of personnel.

Although the fans were sweating, but fortunately Figo and Rui Costa are still on the court.

The Mexican team had a slight advantage after the start, but Portugal quickly stabilized its position with the influence of a superstar like Figo, and began to frequently launch defensive counterattacks after Mexico's aggressive attacks, in order to greatly consume the opponent's physical strength.

In the 28th minute, Figo passed the ball from the right, broke through the bottom line at high speed and made a low pass to the center.Under the pressure of the defender, Gomez grabbed the front point and knocked back with the instep of his right foot. Another striker Pauletta volleyed with his right foot 10 meters in front of the goal and scored into the lower left corner of the goal.

In the 65th minute of the second half, Portugal once again expanded its advantage through lightning defense.

Xavier distributed the ball to the left, Pauletta broke through the defender's bottom line at high speed and made a cross, Figo shook off Vidrio, rushed into the net 5 meters away from the goal, and Portugal led 2-0.

After falling behind by 2 goals, the Mexican players were obviously in a hurry.Many hasty shots did not bring the expected effect, and the time passed bit by bit.

As the game drew to a close, the desperate Mexican moved more and more.In the 87th minute, the Mexican captain Max and Conceição were fighting for the top. He flew up and kneeled on Conceicao's body, but was sent off with a red card.

In this way, Mexico bid farewell to the World Cup with regret.

After Portugal's golden generation advanced, people turned their attention to the Brazilian team, which is beating the beautiful samba.

According to the FIFA world rankings: Brazil ranks 2nd and Belgium ranks 23rd.

Brazil has won the World Cup four times, while Belgium only reached the quarter-finals in 4.

Brazil's starting lineup for this campaign and the last game against Costa Rica in the group stage changed a lot.

Because this campaign is a knockout match, coach Scolari will do his best to send the main force.Carlos, who was truce in the previous game, was able to start, and Edmilson also replaced Polgar as a defender, because the European Red Devils Belgian teams are generally tall, and Edmilson is 3 cm taller than Polgar, so he was able to start.

Coupled with the 3R combination on the front line, from the face of the card, it seems that it is not difficult to win the European Red Devils.

Everyone knows that playing against Brazil is the most difficult thing in the world.Because this team is not a question of which striker needs to be guarded, but who can not be guarded?
People say that the team's backup defenders can score goals, so what kind of defense can be considered effective?
Only attack!

So the European Red Devils simply didn't think about any defensive issues, but looked at it as an onslaught as soon as they came up.If luck is better, whoever scores first may not be able to do so!
Sure enough, in the 35th minute, Wilmots opened the scoring for Belgium.

But before he celebrated, the referee from Jamaica blew his whistle and sentenced him to press ahead with a header.

The goal that the Red Devils had originally led was blown off by the referee.

After the ball, the Brazilian team obviously became impatient and did not play their gorgeous style of South American football at all.

Coupled with Belgium's ineffective offense, the stands were dull for a while.

Until the 63rd minute of the second half, No. 11 Ronaldinho dribbled the ball from the right line to the middle, facing the pincer attack of the Belgian team No. 10 Wallem and No. 5 Van Kerkhoven, rubbing the ball with the outer instep of his right foot to the center.

After No. 10 Rivaldo stopped the ball on the chest at the top of the penalty area, he first adjusted the ball with his left foot to the left side of his body to get rid of the blocking defender, and then turned around halfway and volleyed vigorously with his left foot.The ball rubbed against the feet of another Belgian No. 6 Simmons who rushed to block, changed direction, and flew past goalkeeper de Villiger into the net.

1 to 0, Brazil took the lead.

Perhaps this goal awakened the fighting spirit of the Brazilian players. Nine minutes later, the Brazilian team made another victory: No. 9 Kleberson dribbled the ball along the right at high speed, and crossed the ball in the middle before the opponent's defender caught up with the block.No. 15 Ronaldo, who was plugged in at a high speed in the middle, followed up from behind to the front of the penalty area line. With no one marking, he pushed the arch of his left foot and shot a low ball.The ball was low and fast, slipping in between the legs of the off-guard Belgian goalkeeper de Villiger.

So far, the Brazilian team has secured the victory 2-0.

Due to the time difference, Brazilian fans watched the game at 08:30 am local time, and it happened to be Monday.

In order to satisfy everyone's desire to watch football, the Brazilian government has stipulated that the office hours of various government departments will start at 12:[-] noon today, and the central bank has also postponed the opening time of all banks.

The whistle of the end of the game was blown, and from Salvador in the north, Belo Horizonte in the southeast, Rio de Janeiro, a famous tourist city, to Sao Paulo, the largest city in South America, the whole country of Brazil was full of joy.

Because Brazilian fans generally believed that the strength of the three teams in the group stage was generally weak, they celebrated Brazil's first "real victory" in this World Cup. Instead of going to work after watching the game, Brazilian fans came to catch up and danced samba happily, wishing the team more victories in future games.

But for the European, especially the Belgian media, they highly praised the Red Devils, and at the same time were dissatisfied with the referee's penalty.

Belgium's "Sports 24" website commented as soon as the game ended that Belgium's performance was enough for the world to admire. They controlled the rhythm of the field in the first half and performed better than Brazil.

Although Belgium lost, it was not lost to Brazil, but to the referee.

After the promotion of the Brazilian team, the "England-Pakistan War" that fans all over the world are looking forward to will be staged soon.

In order to find out the strength of the opponent, Beckham also appeared in the stands of this game.When it was learned that the opponent for the next match was Brazil, not only the England players, but the whole of England began to prepare for the match.

In order to facilitate fans to watch this thrilling contest, British officials are deciding whether to set up a big screen in the city center, such locations also include public places such as buses and railways.

In fact, the British have been waiting for this battle for a long time, especially after the team won the Danish team 3-0, the reunion with Brazil has become the unanimous voice of many British fans.

The William Hill bookmaker in the United Kingdom expects this game to be the most bet on in history, so they set it to bet 30 minutes before the game.

赔率是：巴西90分钟内取胜——10赔11，英格兰——1赔2；90分钟内打平5赔11；英格兰90分钟内不失球8赔15，费迪南德进球1赔7。

By the way, the odds of the 10 teams remaining in the World Cup are as follows:

Brazil 1 to 2;

Spain lost 2 to 7;

England lost 1 to 4;

Italy lost 2 to 9;

Germany lost 1 to 6;

Portugal lost 1 to 8;

Senegal lost 1 to 20;

Japan lost 1 to 41;

China 1 to 50;

South Korea lost 1 to 66.

(End of this chapter)