Don't count it as a "death half", let's guard against sudden death in the round of 16

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2024-06-27 20:28Creators in the field of sports

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01 The round of 16 of the European Cup is all released, and the upper half of the zone is called the "death half", including the four teams of Spain, Germany, Portugal and France.

02 Ukraine became the most tragic team to go out of the European Championship, and Portugal came back from the dead after beating Portugal in the final round.

03Portugal, France and England did not perform well in the group stage, raising questions about the team's form.

04 However, for the first time in the European Cup, there was a four-point exit, and the gap between the teams was not as big as people thought, and the knockout round was full of surprises.

05 In any case, each team needs to adjust its form in the 1/8 finals to meet the more fierce competition.

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Don't count it as a "death half", let's guard against sudden death in the round of 16

With the end of the group stage, the round of 16 of the European Championship has been released. The upper half of the zone, which brings together Spain, Germany, Portugal and France, is called the "death half", but whether the melee between the top powers can be achieved or not must first pass the 1/8 finals.

There are no surprises, only surprises.

The European Cup played a game, and for the first time, there was a miracle of 4 teams with the same score and 4 points out. Ukraine deserves to be the team that won the most tragic exit from the European Cup, but it can't complain about others - it poured 3 missed the lead to Romania at the beginning, and the life-and-death situation lacked the momentum of Belgium in the face of the cauldron and the boat, and finally went home with a stomach full of anger, not wronged.

Georgia's comeback from the ground up against Portugal in the final round was the biggest surprise of the round. Portugal never expected that the final abuse of vegetables would become a dish-busted dish by itself.

Even conspiracy theorists and scorers can't reasonably explain why the state of the Five Shields is so sluggish, and they can only reluctantly admit that Kvaratskhelia's goal came too suddenly, disrupting the existing pace of the Portuguese: anyway, there is no need to qualify without worry, the first is stable, and there is no need to fight for a place in Georgia, and the strength is left to the knockout opponent Slovenia.

According to the logic of conspiracy theories, Portugal loses less. If Costa can put in two more and send the Five Shields to the other half, there will be fewer strong teams, and the road to promotion will be smoother. The question is: football has never been a simple paper strength to distinguish who wins, with Portugal's current form, it is certain that it will be able to pass the Slovenian barrier?

The failure to score against Georgia ended Cristiano Ronaldo's goalscoring streak in the group stage of the European Championship. At 39 years old, can he still break Modric's record for the oldest goalscorer?

Losing to Georgia, the strong Ronaldo can't accept it. Portugal crossed the line in advance and did not let Ronaldo rest, because he has not yet gained anything in this competition, and Ronaldo has never scored in the group stage in the previous five European Championships. For the team and for themselves, it is necessary to score goals and win. Portugal's loss was a surprise, and more of it was due to its own poor form.

Of course, compared to form, Portugal is not the worst in the sequence of strong teams. Portugal didn't manage to snatch two wins in the group and at least hold on to the basics. France and England are even more unbearable than the Five Shields, with the former scoring 0 goals in three games, the attack is not integrated, and the forward line is fighting separately. The scene of the strikers shouting loudly that the players' passes were not answered, and instead they shook their heads and sighed as the opportunity passed, made the media's so-called "Deschamps is accustomed to debugging the overall coordination in the group stage and preparing multiple plans" The slow cheek remark of the media is not tenable at all. Playing the Netherlands was almost killed by Simmons, and he didn't have any advantage over Poland, but was sent to the second place in the group by the bottom team with the only point.

Compared with the efficiency of the German teenager Musiala, the leading scorers of various countries have been a bit dumb in this competition, so that there was a miracle of 31 players scoring 31 goals in the first round. Mbappe, who has the momentum of "the world's first striker", only broke his embarrassment of scoring 0 goals in 5 games in the European Cup with a penalty kick in the last round of the group stage.

There is no worst, only worse. Like Deschamps, England also has a good hand in hand. In the first game, the Serbian media saliva had already sprayed Nanmen's face, but I didn't expect to compare it after the group stage, and this victory was actually the best game played by the Three Lions. The Three Lions' overall pinch is even more disorderly than France's, and Foden has made more passes to Pickford after the group stage than to Kane! The team's overall progress was slow, Bellingham's two-point offensive routine was penetrated by the opponent, and Sanmeow immediately became a toothless tiger, roaring without momentum.

If we continue to kick in this state, the so-called "death half" is nothing more than wishful thinking hyped up by public opinion. The match between France and Belgium will be worse than who plays better, and Georgia's victory over Portugal will also inspire Slovenia to dare and fight against the Five Shields. The format is always 90 minutes long-term, as the Swiss proved in the last edition. When it comes to Switzerland, this hard-core team is already on the Italian chopping block in the eyes of the scorers, responsible for delivering tickets to the last eight for the Azzurri. But who is the knife warrior and who is the fish meat? The results are likely to be a big surprise.

With a four-point exit for the first time in the European Championships, the gap between the teams is not as wide as one might think, which will make for a single knockout game after that.

After the group stage is played, the entire European Championship has been played seventy percent. There were many surprises in 36 games, which set the tone for the knockout round. If France and Belgium continue their last-round form, who can guarantee that Switzerland's upset of France three years ago will not be repeated? Deduction of the "Death Half"? Let's talk about it after 1/8 first.

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