Football King Bale

Chapter 673: Feast for wealthy families

After Pogba's goal, the two teams did not score again.

In the end, with the goals of Bale, Van Persie and Pogba, Manchester United defeated Arsenal 3:0 at home and won the first victory in the strong dialogue. At the same time, they also overtook the Gunners in the Premier League standings. Following the first round game Once again topped the Premier League standings.

Today, Manchester United is the only undefeated team among the 20 teams in the Premier League, but they have too many draws. In the first eleven rounds, they only achieved 7 wins and 4 draws, scoring 25 points, and 8 wins. Arsenal, with 1 draw and 2 losses, has the same points. However, Manchester United has the upper hand on goal difference and therefore tops the list.

This round of matches revealed two major upsets. One was that Chelsea, the Blues, were tied 2:2 by West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge. This also caused the Blues to lose 4:0 in the Premier League standings. Liverpool went ahead and dropped to 4th.

Another upset was even more surprising. Blue Moon, who visited the Stadium of Light, was defeated by the Black Cats, who had performed extremely poorly this season!

You know, in the previous ten rounds, Sunderland's record was only 1 win, 1 draw and 8 losses, scoring only 7 goals but conceding 22 goals, ranking second from the bottom in the standings.

This is Manchester City's fourth defeat in the league this season. In the first eleven rounds, Blue Moon only achieved 5 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses, and continues to rank eighth in the Premier League. However, the points have been overtaken by Newcastle behind them. , only ranked in front of the Magpies with a goal difference advantage.

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After the game against Arsenal, it was time for the national team match again.

In the European region, because the group stage of the Brazilian World Cup qualifying tournament has ended, the teams that have obtained tickets for the Brazilian World Cup, as well as the teams that have been eliminated early, now have relatively free schedules, and some warm-up matches have been arranged.

Wales has qualified for the World Cup in Brazil as the first in the group, so on this national team match day, they only arranged a warm-up match against Finland. Many of Wales' main players, including Bell, were not selected for this period. For the national team, Chris Coleman has recruited many new players to train new players for the team while also allowing the main players to rest.

In the end, Wales, with mostly unfamiliar faces, drew 1:1 with Finland at the Millennium Stadium.

For Wales, the result of this game dropped their FIFA ranking from 4th in the world a month ago to 5th in the world. On the other hand, the Finnish team, with this draw, has improved its FIFA points a lot.

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While teams like Wales, which had obtained tickets for the World Cup in South Africa in advance, were busy training their teams, the eight second-placed teams in the group stage with better results were fighting for the final ticket to Brazil.

After two rounds of home and away games, Bosnia and Herzegovina, second in Group G, defeated Romania and entered Brazil. In addition, Croatia, led by Bale's club teammate Modric, defeated Iceland and also gained a ticket to Brazil.

The other two play-off matches are between France and Ukraine, and Portugal and Sweden.

There are three Manchester United players in the current French team, Evra, Kante and Pogba, and all three of them are the main players of the French team. In the first round of the play-offs, the French team lost 0:2 away from home, which pushed the French team to a desperate situation. However, after returning home, the French team rose from desperation, relying on goals from Sakho and Benzema.

As well as an own goal by Ukrainian player Gusev, the Gallic Roosters won the opponent 3:0 at home, thus winning a ticket to Brazil with a score of 3:2.

The play-off match between Portugal and Sweden became a duel between two superstars, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic.

In the first round of the play-offs, Portugal defeated Sweden 1:0 with Cristiano Ronaldo's goal. Such a score made the second round of the game full of suspense, and also turned the second round of the game into a veritable life and death battle. The personal performance of two superstars, Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic, will determine the fate of the team to a large extent.

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In fact, in the game, although Cristiano Ronaldo scored the first goal, in the 50th minute, Portugal stole the ball from the backcourt and Moutinho directly hit the Swedish defense. Cristiano Ronaldo broke through alone and faced the attacking Isaksson with a left-footed shot. Net, 1:0!

Ronaldo's goal meant that Sweden had to pull back 3 goals to qualify. The Nordic fans in the stands held their heads in despair, and the entire stadium was silent.

This goal was the 64th goal scored by Ronaldo in an official game in 2013, breaking the record of 63 goals in 2012 and setting the highest goal record in a single natural year in his career.

However, the Swedes began to counterattack wildly. Ibrahimovic, who claimed to be God, scored twice in the 68th and 71st minutes. The Vikings seemed to have seen the dawn of a miracle, while the morale of the Portuguese team was at a loss. Starting to feel down.

Cristiano Ronaldo stood up again at the critical moment. In the 77th minute, Almeida handed the ball to Cristiano Ronaldo in midfield. The Portuguese king dribbled the ball into the left rib of the penalty area and calmly passed Isaksson and scored.

After scoring the goal, Ronaldo pointed domineeringly at the court at his feet, indicating that he was the king on the court and the well-deserved commander.

2 minutes later, Cristiano Ronaldo completely killed the game. Moutinho sent a through ball in front of the penalty area. Cristiano Ronaldo dribbled the ball past Isaacson in the penalty area and easily pushed the ball to complete a hat trick.

Seeing Ronaldo score his third goal, Ibrahimovic couldn't help but applaud Ronaldo's magical performance. The Swedish God Tower, who always thinks highly of himself, can admire his opponent's leader from the bottom of his heart, which is enough to show how powerful Ronaldo is.

As soon as the goal was scored, the whole game seemed like the final whistle was blown. Cristiano Ronaldo rushed into the Portuguese bench to celebrate with his teammates. No matter how strong the Swedish team was, it was impossible to get 3 goals back in the last 10 minutes.

When the game officially ended, Ronaldo accepted the admiration of his teammates.

In the 2-round match against Sweden, Ronaldo scored a total of 4 goals. The Vikings, together with the Netherlands, became the team with the most goals scored in Ronaldo's national team career.

At the same time, tonight is the second time that Ronaldo has performed a hat trick for the national team. In this World Cup preliminaries against Northern Ireland, when trailing 1:2, Ronaldo scored 3 goals in a row to help Portugal reverse 4:2. If Without Ronaldo's magical performance, Portugal might not even qualify for the play-offs.

Cristiano Ronaldo has performed 26 hat tricks in his career. This is the most important hat trick that helped the team qualify for the World Cup.

In addition, on the national team's historical scorer list, Ronaldo scored 47 goals, tying Pauleta and becoming the national team's top scorer. After Cristiano Ronaldo broke Eusebio's national team scoring record a few months ago, the Panthers once ridiculed CR7's goals for lacking gold content. Back then, Eusebio led the national team to the semi-finals in the World Cup and was called a national hero. Now Cristiano Ronaldo has single-handedly obtained a ticket to Brazil. This is the current god of the Portuguese national team!

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As Uruguay drew 0:0 with Jordan at home and advanced to the World Cup with a total score of 5:0, the top 32 of the 2014 World Cup are all confirmed. They are the host Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Iran, and Australia in the Asian region; Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, England, Spain, Wales, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Portugal, France; Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay in South America; the United States, Costa Rica in Central and North America and the Caribbean Canada, Honduras, Mexico, and Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana and Algeria in the African region.

However, if you then look at FIFA's World Cup draw rules, you will know that the group draw will be very lively.

The 32 teams are divided into four tiers. The first tier is the seed team. The host Brazil naturally occupies a seed seat. The remaining 7 teams are determined based on FIFA’s latest national team rankings, namely: Spain, Germany, and Argentina. , Wales, Colombia, Belgium and Uruguay.

FIFA is becoming more and more obsessed with the team rankings it launches, and everything is based on ranking data. Although there is a possibility of scoring points, FIFA simply ignores this.

UEFA President Platini said: "This ranking makes you very angry sometimes."

For example, the powerful European teams such as Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, England, and Portugal can only go to the second tier because they are ranked low in the world. Wales, on the other hand, has firmly established itself as a "world-class team" because it has won consecutive European Cups and this year's Confederations Cup, and performed well in the European qualifiers.

The other three teams are divided according to "geographical and sports criteria": European teams except the four seeded teams and the French team are in one pot; South American non-seeded teams and African teams are in one pot, including the French team; 4 Asian teams and 4 Central and North American teams are divided into one bracket.

The reason why the French team is not included in the same tier of European teams is because it ranks last in the European zone. Therefore, when the 8 European teams in the second tier are finalized, the French team automatically slips to the third tier.

Because of this, the French team has become the biggest potential factor in creating a "group of death" - one team is drawn from each pot in the draw. In order to avoid the three European teams in the same group, the French team automatically avoids the 8 seeded teams in the first pot. The four European teams in the second pot can only face Brazil, Argentina, Colombia or Uruguay, but France cannot avoid the eight European teams in the second pot, which means that it is very likely to face Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, England, Any of the powerful enemies such as Portugal meet.

Hypothetically, if the French team draws Brazil or Argentina in the first pot, the Netherlands, England or Italy in the second pot, and Japan or Mexico in the fourth pot, it will undoubtedly produce a super "death group" in the World Cup.

The draw ceremony held in Brazil at noon on December 6, local time, may create multiple death groups that are rare in the history of the World Cup.

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