Han Sen's outstanding performance on the commentary bench attracted nearly half of the Chinese fans to pay attention to CCTV, which naturally made CCTV happy, and the World Cup events were also wonderful and in-depth.

Also in Group A, last year's runners-up France had a disadvantaged performance, only drawing with Uruguay, and then losing to Mexico and hosts South Africa, and with only one point, they were eliminated from the group stage after the 2002 World Cup, while Uruguay and Mexico joined hands to qualify for the quarter-finals. Although South Africa beat France 2-1 in the final game, they were inferior to Mexico on goal difference, and both sides of the tournament were eliminated from France, becoming the first host team in the history of the World Cup to fail to advance to the second round.

In Group B, 2002 runners-up South Korea and Argentina, who are considered favourites this year, qualified for the round of 16 for the first time since the 2002 World Cup and the first time the country has progressed to the second round away from home.

In Group C, England led the United States in the first game due to a goalkeeper error, which ended in a 1-1 draw, and the other game could only draw with Algeria; However, they recovered their level in the match against Slovenia and eventually won 1-0 with five points. The U.S. won the third game with Langdon? Donovan's late goal secured another qualification for the quarter-finals.

Group D, which is regarded as the "Group of Death", one of the big upsets was that the traditional powerhouse Germany lost 0-1 to Serbia in the second match, but fortunately the previous and subsequent matches were able to play at the same level and still maintain the first place to qualify; Ghana is not far behind, also following the last World Cup. Reach the knockout round again.

The first own goal of the tournament came in Group E, when a Danish defender scored in a game against the Netherlands, which ended in a 2–0 defeat. Japan in the final group game against Denmark. Keisuke Honda and Yasuhito Endo scored two stunning free-kicks to beat Denmark 3-1 and finish second in the group. The Netherlands qualified in first place.

Another big upset came in Group F. Defending champions Italy were able to draw their first two matches against Paraguay, who qualified third in qualifying, and New Zealand, who had been absent from the World Cup for 28 years, before losing 2–3 to Slovakia in the final game, making them the fourth defending champions in history to exit from the group stage. As for the only Oceanian team to reach the finals, New Zealand did not qualify for the quarter-finals, but their performance was better than expected. In the group stage, they played all 3 games, beating Italy by 1 point and exiting with honor.

Group G had the biggest margin of the tournament. Portugal won 7–0 against North Korea. In the end, Brazil qualified along with Portugal. By the way, North Korea is 44 years this time. Qualified for the finals again. However, they failed to advance to the quarterfinals and went out with Ivory Coast.

In the first round of Group H, Spain suffered a shock 1-0 defeat to Switzerland, but also won the next two games to qualify with Chile. Also in the same group was Honduras from Central America, but it lost one and two of its three games and only scored one point out.

There are 16 places in the second round (knockout round) of this year. European teams have only six seats, since 1998, when the 32-team format was introduced for the final week. The least number of European teams (in the second round of previous editions, European teams usually held at least half of the seats), and due to the different performances of European teams in the group stage, the six European teams were affected by their group standings and were allocated exactly three games (i.e. Euro vs. Europe), so only three European teams could reach the quarterfinals, which is also the lowest in history. All five South American teams qualified, making it the second round for the second time since 1990 that all South American teams had reached the final week. Two teams from Asia and North and Central America each qualified, with South Korea, Japan and the United States advancing to the round of 16 for the first time since 2002.

In the knockout stage, Uruguay played the first game against South Korea, which advanced for the first time in the non-home World Cup, and finally Uruguay advanced to the quarterfinals 2:1. Ghana, the only African side to qualify, eliminated the United States in extra-time in the other round of 16, becoming the best African team since 1990 and 2002 and the third African team to reach the quarter-finals of any World Cup. In the group stage between Paraguay and Japan, the two teams failed to decide the winner in 90 minutes of legal time and 30 minutes of extra time, becoming the first match of the tournament that had to be decided by 12 yards, and finally Paraguay defeated Japan to advance to the quarterfinals, which is the best result in Paraguay's previous World Cup. In the last round of 16, Spain defeated Portugal 1-0 to advance to the quarterfinals thanks to a goal from Villa.

In the match between Germany and England, Germany defeated England 4-1 to advance to the quarterfinals. There was a huge suspense in this game, with England trailing 2-1 early on with two mistakes at the back. However, on 38 minutes, England midfielder Frank Lampard hit the bar with a long-range shot that clearly crossed the white line by at least 50 centimetres. However, the referee and assistant referee at the time agreed that the ball did not cross the white boundary, and England missed the opportunity to equalize, and at the start of the second half, because the score was behind and the whole line pressed the attack, Germany scored two more goals.

After the incident, it shocked the world, including Reuters, AFP and the Associated Press have written articles on the headlines to criticize the referee and FIFA's compromise policy on miscalculation, it is said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is holding the G20 summit in Canada, and British Prime Minister Cameron watched the live broadcast of the game on TV, Merkel personally apologized to Cameron after the game, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said after the game that the referee's misjudgment is "human nature", for the modern technology-assisted penalty system proposed by all parties, He said FIFA would restart discussions on using video technology to "assist" referees in enforcement. Hansen, who was in the commentary box at the time, directly described the incident as the worst misjudgment in the history of the World Cup, claiming that with his own game experience, there was no need to watch slow motion, judging from the movement and position of goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, and the spin of Lampard's shot to touch the ball, the ball must have crossed the goal line. One obvious detail is that after Neuer made the save, the ball bounced forward into his hands at a fast speed, and according to the physical trajectory, the ball fell in the direction of the goal.

After the remarks were directly adopted by CCTV, important media such as the AFC website have reprinted Yinghe, and after fermentation through operation, it was originally a subjective remark of Han Sen, but it has once again become a milestone event for CCTV to gradually begin to have more voice in the world media.

Ratings, discourse power...... The success of these broadcasts not only means that CCTV gains face, but also means that the bonus after this broadcast may be doubled. Han Sen naturally didn't care about this bonus, but it was naturally different for the reporters of the broadcast group who had been busy abroad for a month. And in addition to the live broadcast, the senior Liu Jianhong told Han Sen meaningfully that in fact, in the previous 2002 World Cup and 2006 World Cup, the reporter team failed to get the full bonus when he went abroad to broadcast the report twice, and Han Sen naturally asked why strangely.

"In the 2002 World Cup, you know, the Korea-Japan World Cup, I remember that we were commenting on a couple of games in South Korea that were controversial." Liu Jianhong recalled, "We also asked questions bluntly, which is normal for the live broadcast, and as a result, the South Korean embassy sent a diplomatic note, thinking that we had inappropriate words and deeds in the game." You say that if you stab such a big man, do you dare to give out the bonus? ”

Han Sen laughed: "It's all risen to this height!" Diplomatic note? ”

Liu Jianhong nodded: "From then on, I tried not to touch the Korean team. ”

Han Sen then asked, "What happened in '06?" ”

"You should have gone to college in '06, right?" Liu Jianhong looked at Han Sen and said, "My former colleague Huang Jianxiang knows, Italy vs. Australia!" ”

Han Sen recalled: "Oh, I know, I was about to fall asleep at that time, and I was woken up by Huang Jianxiang." ”

Liu Jianhong snorted: "That matter is also very big and controversial, some people say that this is a passionate commentary, and some people say that it loses the neutral position of a commentator, excessively exalts one side, and overly belittles one party." What's more, it's not a game to explain your own country. ”

Han Sen listened interestingly: "Then Germany vs. England, I didn't have neutrality, that ball I also favored England, I said at the time that I could guess that the ball crossed the goal line without even looking at it, so why didn't anyone say me!" ”

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