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However, although this victory made Italy beat Mexico, which was the same as them in the standings, it failed to make them the first place in the group. Because in another group match that was held at the same time, Croatia, who had sent all the elites, defeated Ecuador with the 4-to-zero goals of Olic, Vlaovic and Davao Suk, also achieved two wins and one loss in the group stage. In the end, relying on a narrow advantage of a goal difference (Croatia scored six goals in three games, and Italy also scored six goals in three games, but conceded three goals) and ranked first in Group G!

This means that Italy will face the team ranked first in Group D in the next quarterfinals as second in Group G!

Although the last round of Group D has not yet begun, judging from the current situation, it should be no problem for the United States to win Poland, which lost both games. The host South Korea, which has four points with the United States, will compete with Portugal (three points) led by the Golden Generation. Although South Korea has home advantage and famous coach Hiddink, from the book strength of the two teams alone, Portugal has a greater hope of winning with world-class stars such as Figo and Rui Costa, even if they still have not completely returned to their best form in a season of competition.

Of course, if the South Korean team can play their advantage in home games, Hiddink's team will not be without the strength of a game, and it will not be a problem to win a draw. After all, the weak forward has been a chronic disease that has plagued the Portuguese for many years, especially as Nuno Gomez's condition is becoming increasingly sluggish and Pauletta, who has been dominating the two consecutive Ligue 1 Golden Boots, has proved to be only suitable as a shadow striker, and scoring has become an indelible long-standing problem in Portuguese football.

"It seems that the opponent Italy is most likely to encounter in the quarterfinals should be the United States, followed by Portugal and South Korea." On the way back to the hotel, Zhuang Mingge listened to Karin's analysis and said, "But then again, Mexico is really unlucky. It became the first team in the history of the World Cup to score six points but still fail to advance to the next round."

Unlike the Korean and Japanese World Cup that Zhuang Mingge experienced in his previous life, in this World Cup, Italy, Croatia and Mexico, both achieved two wins and one loss after the group stage. Therefore, according to the rules set by FIFA, these three teams with the same score will be ranked from more to less in the group stage.

Therefore, Mexico, whose goal difference is only one zero egg, became the most unlucky team, and at the last moment he lost his qualification to qualify with a handful of hand and ended their journey in this World Cup.

"Damn Ecuador, it actually dropped the chain at this time. If they could beat Croatia like in history, then Mexico should have touched the group of sticks from South Korea..." Although Italy successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, Zhuang Mingge knew very well that the most difficult test of the defending champion in this World Cup is about to come!

Well, I hope those ignorant kids can be more clear-headed and don’t do disgusting things in this World Cup in this life, otherwise they will definitely regret what they did today. Thinking of the tragedy that happened at the Korean and Japanese World Cup in their previous life, Zhuang Mingge secretly made up his mind. If the kids dare to extend their black hands to Italy this time, he would not mind launching another financial crisis in South Korea. Zhuang Mingge can guarantee that as long as he thinks, the scale of the crisis in South Korea will definitely not be less than that of the entire East Asia five years ago!

Not to mention Zhuang Mingge who is planning the future in his mind, let’s take a look at the reactions of other people from all walks of life after the game.

On the fans, although many Italian fans are very sorry for the slight disadvantage between the national team and Croatia in goal difference and have to advance to the top 16 of the World Cup as the second in the group, they are not depressed for long. After all, the team won the game with Mexico. Even if this victory is not so perfect because of Croatia, it is worth celebrating the fans.

What's more, there is another thing worth celebrating in the bar and square now, that is, their ace center, Christian Vieri successfully tied the World Cup goal record set by Ged Mueller 28 years ago, and tied with the legendary German football center to top the World Cup overall scorer list!

This incident alone is enough to allow Italian fans to have sufficient capital to brag about with fans from other countries in the next four years: Who said that we Italy will only stick to our own goalscorers and did not see the World Cup No. 1 scorer is also our Italian? Do you have one?!

Compared with the fans who began to celebrate spontaneously, the atmosphere of the Italian national team was not as relaxed at this time. The Fiorentine gang led by Vieri and Inzaghi, as well as non-Fiorentine people like Martini and Koko, as well as players Dibiagio and Matrazi who had played in Fiorentina, gathered together and expressed strong protests at the post-match in the team meeting to replace Vieri at the end of the game. At the same time, they also hinted to the coach at the meeting that they were dissatisfied with Pierro, believing that he was the one to be replaced.

Although Zov's temper has been well tempered by many years of general managerial career in Lazio, the players' collective protests this time still activated the iron-blooded spirit in the head coach's heart. So, after a tit-for-tat roar, the meeting ended unhappily, and both sides ended the exchange with a slight face, ready to accumulate strength and fight again next time.

It can be foreseen that even if Italy can reach the final of this World Cup or even win the championship trophy, Zoff, who has lost the support of most players, will never remain in the position of national team head coach.

"These bastards! They were all pointing fingers, completely ignoring the interests of the team!" After returning to the room, Zoff, who felt that the head coach's dignity was damaged, threw out the briefcase in his hand and roared angrily, "It seems that it is necessary to communicate with the Football Association and carry out a large-scale rectification of the current trend of the team."

Zoff did not think there was anything wrong with his move to replace Vieri at that time. In his opinion, who is more focused on the team, although Pierro's behavior is a bit rash, isn't it good to score a goal? Compared with the upcoming knockout round, what is Vieri's record-breaking thing? Is it more important to become the No. 1 scorer in World Cup history than the knockout round after Italy won?
Chapter completed!