Six Hundred and Ninety Seventh Chapter Stop Four Strong

? At 13:00 on July 4th, the first quarter-finals of France VS Germany officially kicked off at the Maracanã Stadium.

With Hummels' goal in the 13th minute, Germany beat France 1-0 and advanced to the semi-finals.

At 17:00, it was the turn of the second quarter-final between the Chinese team VS Colombia. The venue was the Castelão Stadium in Fortaleza. The winner will face Germany in the semi-final.

Because Zeng Cheng was shown a red card in the last game, he was automatically suspended for one game. In this game, Wu Sihuo will serve as the starting goalkeeper.

In the stands, most of them are Chinese fans. Many Brazilian fans who bought tickets for this game in advance, thinking that Brazil would advance, finally resold the tickets to the Chinese who are not short of money.

Castelão Stadium has become the home of the Chinese team.

Colombia is currently ranked 8th in the world, and its strength is not bad.

However, the Chinese team has even eliminated the host and football kingdom Brazil, and their mentality has become much more confident, which is quite different from when they played in the group stage.

In the 4th minute of the game, Lu Wenbin passed the ball to Yu Hai. Yu Hai stepped on his bicycle while dribbling the ball on the sidewalk, passing the Colombian player who was defending him, which caused applause from the Chinese fans in the stands.

Yu Hai's performance this time fully reflected the difference in his mentality.

The trembling mentality in the group stage cannot be said to have completely disappeared, but facing Colombia, an opponent that is much less deterrent than Brazil and Spain, at least he dared to make fake moves to surpass others.

After completing the pass, he took a few steps before dribbling the ball on Haihai Road, then cut inside, prepared to smash the ball outside the penalty area to pass Sanchez, the midfielder who intercepted him, and shot into the penalty area to shoot.

Yu Hai's spike dodged Sanchez, but Sanchez might have become a little annoyed, and turned around and pulled Yu Hai to the ground from behind.

After Hai fell to the ground in all directions, Sanchez woke up like a dream, and raised his hands to signal to the referee that he did not pull Yu Hai down.

But this action is too obvious. It's not that Sanchez said that he didn't foul if he didn't foul.

Although no yellow card was shown by the referee, the Chinese team was given a free kick to the left of the front of the penalty area and only about 25 meters away from the goal.

At this distance and position, Lu Wenbin's free kick threat is too great.

And now, the game has just started 4 minutes.

Although Sanchez tried his best to defend, the referee's penalty cannot be changed.

Lu Wenbin stood behind the ball with a smile, waited for the referee to signal that a free throw could be made, and kicked the ball into the near goal with an arc.

In the 4th minute of the opening game, the Chinese team took a free kick due to Hai, and Lu Wenbin directly scored a penalty to lead Colombia 1-0.

This accidental conceded goal made Columbia directly confused.

Want to attack wantonly, but afraid of Lu Wenbin's counterattack. Want to play steadily, but can't break through the defense line of the Chinese team led by Lu Wenbin.

As a result, before the end of the first half, in the 44th minute, the Chinese team had another chance. Lu Wenbin picked a pass from the penalty area, Hao Junmin cut in from the side, and an irregular volley shot swept the ball into the goal.

With one pass and one shot by Lu Wenbin, the Chinese team led Colombia 2-0.

After 15 minutes of intermission, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

In the second half, Colombia was about to attack aggressively, but the Chinese team made a substitution.

Zheng Zhi replaced Wu Sihuo, Lu Wenbin played goalkeeper instead, and Zheng Zhi played Lu Wenbin's midfielder position.

The defense line of the Chinese team is more impenetrable.

Although there was no threat of counterattack from Lu Wenbin, Columbia aggressively pressed the attack, and many more threatening shots were shot, but Lu Wenbin threw them all out.

It wasn't until the 88th minute that Colombia made a lucky shot, which hit Feng Xiaoting and caused a change of line, escaped Lu Wenbin's save, and regained a point.

But before that, Lu Wenbin scored China's third goal in the 72nd minute with another free kick made by Wu Lei.

In the end, relying on Lu Wenbin's two shots and one pass, the Chinese team defeated Colombia 3-1, won the quarter-finals of the game, and advanced to the semi-finals.

This has already tied the best record of an Asian team created by the South Korean team in the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan.

The point is that the Chinese team did not rely on referees, but instead eliminated the host Brazil.

This is much tougher than the Korean team.

Not only China, but many Asian countries also reported it as a breakthrough in Asian football. It is a different scene than when everyone was ashamed to mention South Korea's achievements in 2002.

Next, Argentina defeated Belgium 1-0, and the Netherlands defeated Costa Rica in a penalty shootout. The semi-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil were produced, namely Germany, China, Argentina, and the Netherlands.

The Chinese team has become the biggest dark horse in this World Cup.

However, the dark horse road of the Chinese team has come to an end.

The remaining three teams, no matter which ones, are not what the current Chinese team can resist.

Especially the opponent Germany in the semi-finals, and even won the championship in the end.

On July 8, the first semi-final of China VS Germany took the lead.

After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 5-2, with Germany ahead and China behind.

The German team beat China with a hearty 5-2 victory. If it weren't for the Chinese team with Lu Wenbin sitting in the rear and scoring two counter-attack goals, the Chinese team may have lost even more.

The German team reached the final of this World Cup and is preparing to attack for their fourth World Cup title.

On July 9, the second semi-final ended. Argentina defeated the Netherlands in a penalty shootout and advanced to the final. Messi, Maradona's successor, led Argentina to their third World Cup championship.

On July 12, in the third and fourth finals, the Chinese team faced the Netherlands again after the group stage.

They lost 1-3 to the Dutch team in the group stage, but Lu Wenbin hadn't used his trump card as a goalkeeper at that time.

In the third and fourth finals, the Chinese team changed their tactics and let Lu Wenbin play the starting goalkeeper, wanting to rely on defense to win a third place.

But things backfired. The attack power of the Dutch team was indeed too strong. The Chinese team was suppressed to the point that they could hardly fight back, and Lu Wenbin was not provided with a free kick.

The Dutch team, on the other hand, continued to challenge the nerves of the Chinese with shots.

Although Lu Wenbin flicked left and right and saved many of the Dutch team's must-have goals, there were still times when he missed.

In the 74th minute, Lu Wenbin saved Robben's first shot after breaking in from the wing, but the saved ball did not go out of the baseline, but hit the post and bounced back to the penalty area.

Then, Van Persie appeared on the spot and poked the ball into the goal.

Lu Wenbin, who fell to the ground and didn't get up because of Robben's long-range shot, was powerless against this supplementary shot.

After all, the Chinese team still failed to create a miracle. They were defeated by the Dutch team 1-0, stopped in the semi-finals, and only won the fourth place in the World Cup in Brazil.

This game proved that when Lu Wenbin was the goalkeeper, he lost the threat of a counterattack to the opponent, and could only be beaten passively. The opponent could attack the Chinese team with all their strength unscrupulously, and then they could beat the Chinese team with a random dribble.

Lu Wenbin is still suitable to play as a defensive midfielder, and the goalkeeper can only make cameo appearances occasionally in emergencies or penalty shootouts.

But even so, it is already an unprecedented highlight moment in Chinese football, which makes fans all over the country feel extremely happy and gratified.