When Duan Xuan heard Liu Jianhong's statement, he also realized that this was indeed the case!

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind: "If, I say, if Germany loses the second round of the group against Serbia a little later, then we will be firmly at the top of the group, which means that we will have an absolute advantage in the final round of the group stage at the same time......"

Of course, he didn't finish his words.

If Germany does lose to Serbia, then the Chinese team only needs a draw in the final round of the group stage to qualify, but 'a draw will qualify' is not a good sign for Chinese football.

And in a sense, a draw can qualify for the Chinese team, which is completely equivalent to being out of the game, so say the rest of the words on this day of national celebration.

"No matter what, at this moment, we China have become the first in Group D! Congratulations! Come on, Chinese team!! ”

At this moment, countless fans sitting in front of the TV are dancing with joy, even the older generation of fans.

Especially the sentence "No matter what, at this moment, our China has become the first in Group D!" Everyone knows that the Chinese team, which is participating in the World Cup finals for the first time, wants to win the first place in the group is tantamount to a dream, and it is already a super level to qualify as the second in the group, and want to win the first place in the first round of defeat to the German team?

No way!

But Chinese have always paid attention to an auspicious person, and it should sound at least comfortable, especially on the façade.

The camera returned to the Real Buffoken Stadium, and Ielloh, who scored a goal and assisted a goal, naturally became the best player of the game, so the focus of the on-site media reporters was on him, who was able to perform well in a row in the quadrennial feast, and also played brilliantly in consecutive starts in serious injury recovery, which is even more admirable.

Soon, Iroh was surrounded by enthusiastic journalists from all over the world.

He also had to be interviewed by reporters, when asked about the prospects of the Chinese team to qualify, he was as confident as the answer before the game: "For us to qualify is not as difficult as imagined, as long as everyone works hard to win the game, it turns out that our Chinese team also has a strong strength, I believe that after the third round of the group stage, we occupy one of the qualifying places!" ”

The Chinese reporters who wanted to interview were so happy that the Chinese team was excited enough to qualify for the World Cup finals, but now Iroh said that the Chinese team would still occupy one of the qualifying places, and that was really the spring of Chinese football......

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Four hours later, the match between the German team and Serbia ended, and countless Chinese fans who followed the results of the German team did not relax for half a day.

CCTV has been broadcasting the Bundesliga live from the nineties to 2010 for fifteen years, and these years are enough for a little guy to grow into a sturdy young man, so the fans who watch the Bundesliga live broadcast have also extended from their favorite clubs to the national team level, and there are also a large number of loyal fans of the German national team in China.

It is natural to stand on the side of the national team in the game between the Chinese team and the German team, but the game between the German team and Serbia naturally returned to supporting the German team, but what disappointed them was that the German team lost to Serbia 0:1, in which Klose accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off, and Podolski also had a penalty that failed to hit the bull's-eye......

After the result of Germany's loss, the initiative to qualify from the group unexpectedly fell into the hands of the Chinese team, and now the four teams in Group D have all three points with one win and one loss, which means that all four teams have the possibility of qualifying from the group and going out.

However, due to the same qualifying rules for the World Cup group stage, the four teams have specific rankings, the Chinese team ranks first with a goal difference, the German team and Serbia both have zero goal difference, but the German team ranks second because of the number of goals, Serbia ranks third, and Ghana ranks fourth with a goal difference......

China is playing against Serbia, which is third in the group, in the last round, while Germany is playing Ghana, which means that no matter what the result of the other game in the final round of the group stage is played at the same time, as long as the Chinese team does not lose in the face of Serbia, then it can rely on the advantage of goal difference to get a group qualifier.

When this theory appeared, many Chinese fans were excited, but it didn't take long for their hearts to 'chuckle'.

The black history of the Chinese men's football team can have a lot of examples of drawing and elimination, in 1985, the final round of the final stage of the World Cup in Italy lost to Hong Kong, China 1:2 in the case of a draw to qualify, four years later with Qatar can qualify and again 1:2 was eliminated, and in the 2007 Southeast Asian Cup in the case of winning Malaysia and drawing Iran, as long as Uzbekistan drew Uzbekistan to qualify for the group, the result was a 0:3 defeat......

For example, in the 1980, 1992 and 1996 Olympic men's football qualifiers, they were all defeated by a draw in the last round......

The painful experience made the older generation of Chinese fans subconsciously associate it with 'a draw means out' when they heard the seven words 'a draw can qualify'......

In fact, it is no wonder that the older generation of fans have this kind of thinking, although the past history does not represent the future, but at least it will have a certain psychological impact on what is to come.

What is Koreanophobia, Japanphobia, Iranophobia......

So many games against South Korea, Japan, and Iran are timid, and how will they play in the next games?

A generation of old people has changed to new people, and the ideas of the old generation have also been well continued to the hearts of modern young people......

So, in less than five minutes after Germany's 1-0 upset loss to Serbia, countless controversial posts appeared on the Chinese Internet......

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The next day, the focus of the reports of the Chinese physical newspapers all revolved around the legendary words in the history of Chinese football - a draw can qualify!

In addition to China, the national media news center is about the most bizarre scene of this World Cup so far, Germany and Ghana won in the first round of Group D, both lost in the second round, which caused the two rounds of the same group to have a dead end in the past, all of them are one win and one loss to accumulate three points, and finally rely on goal difference and goals to separate the specific ranking.

"France Football", which has an official cooperation with the World Cup in South Africa, reported on the same day: "Before the start of the second round of the group stage of Group D, no one dared to imagine that there would be a dead end in the end, and no one thought that the Chinese team with Ai would beat the German team by virtue of goal difference to become the first group in Group D after losing one game first, which means that after the third round of Group D, it is very likely that there will be a situation with four points, and this situation is extremely rare in the history of the World Cup finals. There was such a strange scene in the 1994 World Cup in the United States, and in the end, it was only by goal difference and goals scored that the final qualification was decided......"

The authoritative German newspaper "Kicker" followed the criticism of Germany's narrow victory over China, and once again publicly questioned Loew's team performance: "Loew still has no adjustment to the team after the narrow victory over the Chinese team in the first round, so that the team's attack was completely defused by Serbia, Klose's red card may be a good excuse, but losing is losing, in the final round facing Ghana who only has a chance to qualify if he wins, Germany is really very dangerous, and a little carelessness is likely to fall into the point where he cannot qualify, It is a proud tradition to know that we have qualified for the group stage of every World Cup, except for 1930 and 1950, when we did not participate in the finals, but the game that ended yesterday prevented me from seeing the future of the team......"

However, according to Germany's group standings, they are the same as China, and a draw can get the right to qualify.

It's just that the arrogant Germans don't bother to qualify with a draw, what they need is to hold their heads high and advance to the round of 16 as the group leader!!

Of course, there is another layer of meaning......

If the German team wants to avoid England, the strongest team in Group C, in the 1/8 finals, then it must win the first place in Group D, otherwise the German team that has not found the best form will face the England team, and it is very likely that they will only be eliminated!

The English media, which has always had a bad relationship with Germany, will naturally not let go of this opportunity to ridicule it.

The headline of the "Times" of the day said: "Where did the German team, which had won three consecutive group games before the start of the World Cup and advanced to the round of 16, go? They relied on luck to defeat the Chinese team 3:2 in the first round of the group, and finally ran out of luck in the second round of the game, and the German team, which did not score penalties, finally lost 0:1 to Serbia, breaking out the third upset after Spain lost 0:1 to Switzerland and France lost 0:2 to Uruguay......

After ridiculing the German team, there was naturally praise for Ailo: "Sure enough, according to what everyone said before the game, the Chinese team with Ai is completely equal to the world's second-rate team, and the best of the game evaluated by FIFA after the game is also the best praise for him, he led the Chinese team to defeat Ghana 3:1 is a good proof, and the two rounds of the group stage have been ranked first in Group D with a goal difference in the past, which means that the Chinese team only needs to score points in the third round of the group stage to get the right to qualify from the group!" Of course, if Ai, who is the top scorer in the World Cup, can play 100 per cent of his ability, it is not impossible to beat Serbia in the final round to become the top of the group......

In fact, in the mind of Robert Thomson, the editor-in-chief of The Times, he would prefer to meet the in-form German team in the 1/8 finals, and the Chinese team with Iello sincerely scared him.

And this time...... The Chinese team is ready to fly to the city of Nestit in Pumalanga province, where they will face Serbia in their final group game four days later at the Mbobela Stadium.