Seven-time Champion

Chapter 696: Fighting Spain

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After the game, the Chinese team, which won its historic first World Cup victory, and its fans celebrated for a long time at the Pantanal Arena until the stadium managers came in and politely asked the Chinese players and fans to leave.

After the game, domestic media naturally reported extensively on the Chinese national football team's historic first World Cup victory, and it was even reported on the news broadcast.

Foreign media also congratulated the Chinese team on their victory and changed their predictions on their qualification.

After winning one game and having 3 points, the Chinese team is in a good position to qualify.

As long as the Chinese team can draw with the Netherlands or Spain, they have a chance to qualify.

After defeating Chile, Lu Wenbin himself also received experience rewards for a single group match, which was a very generous reward.

The system's rewards for a single World Cup group match are 500,000 for assists, 1 million for goals, and 2 million for a win.

Lu Wenbin scored two goals and led the team to victory, and was rewarded with 4 million experience points.

In addition to the 1 million experience points for completing the first World Cup victory mission, Lu Wenbin received a reward of 5 million experience points + 10 skill points after this game.

After maxing out the goalkeeping skill, Lu Wenbin now has 63 skill points left. With the 10 points obtained as a reward, the skill point balance is 73 points, and the experience is level 21, 12.886 million/100 million.

Most of the results in the first round of group matches were in line with the predictions of the media and fans, but there were inevitably some upsets.

In Group D, Uruguay, who qualified through the intercontinental play-offs, unexpectedly lost 1-3 to Costa Rica, which was a huge upset.

Although Germany's victory over Portugal in Group G was not an upset, the score of 4-0 made this game as jaw-dropping as the Netherlands' 5-1 victory over Spain.

Finally, in Group H, the European powerhouse Russia failed to defeat the Asian team and was tied 1-1 by South Korea, which was a small upset.

Next, the second round of the group stage will begin.

At 13:00 noon local time on June 18th, at the Beira Rio Stadium in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the first match of the second round of Group B between China and the Netherlands officially began.

Although knowing that the Dutch team is strong, the Chinese team still wants to give it a try.

If we draw with the Netherlands, our chances of qualifying will naturally be greater.

But the opposite happened, as the Netherlands was in too good a form in the group stage of this World Cup.

Even though Lu Wenbin ran all over the field, defended hard and directed the back line, he still couldn't stop the Dutch team's attack.

In the 10th minute of the game, Robben broke through the wing and cut inside before launching a signature left-foot shot into the far corner.

The Netherlands leads 1-0.

Lu Wenbin was quite helpless.

Because he was defending Sneijder, Sneijder passed the ball to De Guzman on the wing just after crossing the center line, and De Guzman passed it to Robben.

Midfielder Zhao Xuri and defender Rong Hao tried their best to intercept, and even pulled and tugged, but they failed to stop Robben.

Robben, who is not injured, is also hard to guard against.

In the 39th minute, the Chinese team lost the ball again.

This time it was the full-back Blind who assisted, and then he made a wall pass with Sneijder to break through Lu Wenbin's defense. In the diagonal pass zone, Van Persie forced a shot under the siege of three Chinese defenders.

The ball coincidentally hit Zhao Peng's foot as he raised his leg to try to block the ball, changing its direction just in time to avoid Zeng Cheng's save.

The Netherlands leads China 2-0.

Fortunately, the Chinese team still has Lu Wenbin, so they are not completely powerless.

Before the end of the first half, in the 43rd minute, Lu Wenbin used his personal ability to cause De Jong to foul in a counterattack, won a free kick, and then activated his special skills to score in one fell swoop, earning a point.

The Chinese team is 1-2 behind the Netherlands, only one goal behind.

With a score of 1-2, both sides entered the halftime break.

15 minutes later, the two sides changed sides and continued the game.

The Dutch team's attacking power was indeed so strong that Lu Wenbin could not defend no matter how hard he tried.

In the 68th minute, the Netherlands team won a corner kick and Lu Wenbin went deep to help defend.

As a result, the Dutch team took a tactical corner kick and passed the ball directly outside the penalty area. Sneijder outside the penalty area spread his legs and made a shocking long shot.

The ball flew into the goal like a cannonball and no one touched it.

The Netherlands team scored another goal and led the Chinese team 3-1.

Although the Chinese team, led by Lu Wenbin, defended and counterattacked tenaciously, they only managed to score a point in the 80th minute thanks to a long-range shot by Lu Wenbin in a counterattack.

Until the end of the game, the Chinese team failed to equalize the score.

Like in the first game, Lu Wenbin scored twice, but the Chinese team still lost the game 2-3.

The Netherlands team won two consecutive games and advanced to the next round in advance, while the Chinese team still has only 3 points and a goal difference of zero.

However, the Chinese team's performance was unanimously praised by domestic and foreign media as they only lost to the Netherlands team by one goal.

With 4 goals in two games, Lu Wenbin unsurprisingly ranked first in the World Cup scorer list.

Some media and fans have already been discussing whether Lu Wenbin will win the Golden Boot of this World Cup with just three group matches, even if the Chinese team fails to qualify

It is entirely possible.

Subsequently, in the second round of Group B, Chile defeated Spain 2-0 and tied with China on 3 points, and ranked ahead of China because of the advantage of one more goal difference.

In the last round of the game, as long as the Netherlands team is not waterproof, the Chinese team will be able to advance by defeating Chile if they draw with Spain.

No matter what the Netherlands does, China must at least draw with Spain to have a chance of qualifying.

We can only pray that the Dutch team abides by sports ethics.

There were also many upsets in the second round, especially Italy's 0-1 loss to Costa Rica, which shocked the world.

This also gives the Chinese team a lot of confidence to tie or even defeat Spain.

In order to avoid match-fixing or tacit agreement based on the points situation, the two games in the last round of each group are all played at the same time.

At 13:00 on June 23, the Group B matches between China and Spain and the Netherlands and Chile started simultaneously.

This is the Chinese team's last match in the group stage and also a crucial one.

Whether or not we can qualify depends entirely on the result of the match with Spain.

For Espanyol, although they lost two games in a row, they are not completely eliminated yet and they still have hope.

As long as they beat China by a large margin in the last round and Chile loses to the Netherlands, Spain, China and Chile will all have 3 points each and compare the goal difference.

Therefore, in the last round of the game, Spain, which was forced into a desperate situation, did not surrender and give points to the Chinese team. Instead, it broke out with stronger fighting spirit and combat effectiveness than in the previous two games, striving to defeat China.

Even if they can't get out of the game, they will fight for their dignity.