Football King Bale

After the seventh round of the league match against Newcastle, it was the international match day again. Bell returned to the Welsh national team again for the 2014 European World Cup qualifiers in Brazil.

On this international match day, Wales also has two games, namely a home game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, the group leader, in the third round of the group stage, and an away game against Slovakia, another strong enemy in the group, in the fourth round of the group stage.

It can be said that in the entire Group G, the only teams that hope to compete for the right to qualify are these two teams, plus Wales.

In fact, although the opponents in Group G are not strong, they are not friendly to Wales because several opponents are relatively far away from Wales. Lithuania and Latvia, two former Soviet republics, are located in eastern Europe. The distance from Wales is about 2,000 kilometers.

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovakia, the two countries that split off from the former Yugoslavia, are also not close to Wales. They are both about 1,780 kilometers apart.

The distance between the five group opponents, the weakest of which is Liechtenstein and Wales, is slightly closer, about 1,100 kilometers.

Moreover, these games are spaced apart from home and away games, so on every international match day, the Welsh national team basically has to travel thousands of kilometers back and forth. Fatigue is the biggest enemy of the Welsh national team players.

On October 12, the Welsh national team faced Bosnia and Herzegovina, which ranked first in the group, at home. It was a super-flammable and super-explosive game that people imagined would be like a volcano hitting the earth, but the result was shocking.

This game, which took place between the two teams with the most goals among the 53 teams, maintained a 0:0 draw in the first 85 minutes. It was not until the 86th minute that Bell scored in Bosnia and Herzegovina. When the defensive players were exhausted, they dribbled the ball past three people into the small penalty area, triggering a killer blow and helping Wales defeat their biggest opponent in the group 1:0!

After winning, Wales finally left Bosnia and Herzegovina alone at the top of Group G.

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Four days later, the Welsh national team went to Southeast Europe to challenge Slovakia, another strong enemy in the group stage.

In the third round, Slovakia defeated Latvia 2:1 at home. With 2 wins and 1 draw, they surpassed the losing Bosnia and Herzegovina in the standings and climbed to second place in the group.

With their excellent results in South Africa four years ago and their current good ranking, Slovakia hopes to make a difference at home. After all, as long as they defeat Wales, they can rise to the top of the group and take the initiative to qualify. Therefore, Slovakia played very actively at home.

Wales is also aware of Slovakia’s strength;

They played very pragmatically in the away game and adopted defensive counterattack tactics. They almost stayed in the penalty area throughout the first half and did not give Slovakia a chance.

After the start of the second half, Wales continued the tactics of the first half. For them, even if it is a draw, they can still maintain the first place in the group, which is acceptable.

Slovakia is eager to win, and its formation is getting more and more reliable, hoping to overwhelm Wales. However, the Slovaks were quickly hit. They saw the terrifying power of Bell, the current number one player in world football.

In the 63rd minute of the game, Wales launched a high-speed counterattack. Ramsey received a pass from his teammate after stealing it in front of his own penalty area and hit a long pass near the center circle.

Bell received a pass from Ramsey and single-handedly challenged the entire Slovak defense. After breaking through, he drove straight into the penalty area and passed the attacking Slovak goalkeeper Kusiak again in the penalty area, easily sending the ball into the Slovak goal.

1:0!

Wales, who broke the deadlock, played more and more confidently on the court. They took advantage of the Slovak players' mentality fluctuation after losing the ball and launched a wave of strong attacks against the away team.

In the 81st minute of the game, Bell broke out from the left and sent a precise cross, assisting Steve Morrison to score.

2:0, Wales sealed the victory!

Although Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Lithuania 3-0 at home in this round, Wales still topped Group G with four consecutive victories.

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After this national team match day ends, there will be a temporary ceasefire in Group G of the European World Cup qualifiers, and the fighting will not resume until March next year.

After four rounds of group matches, only three of the 53 teams in Europe still maintain a complete victory. Wales is one of them. The other two teams are the Netherlands, led by Robin van Persie and Sneijder, and Russia!

This Dutch team is extremely powerful. In addition to the two stars of Manchester United, Robin van Persie and Sneijder, there are also main players from European giants such as Robben. In the four group matches, they defeated Turkey 2:0 and Hungary 4:1. , defeated Andorra 3:0, and defeated Romania 4:1. Scored 13 goals in 4 rounds, extremely powerful firepower.

Russia in Group F also performed very well in the first four rounds. They defeated Northern Ireland 2:0, swept Israel 4:0, defeated Portugal led by Ronaldo 1:0, and defeated Azerbaijan 1:0. The winning streak suppressed Portugal and occupied the top spot in Group F.

In the scorer list, Bell surprisingly does not rank at the top of the list, and he cannot even be seen in the top three.

So far, the most goals scored are 5 goals. Three players have completed this number of goals, namely Israel's Hemed, Bosnia and Herzegovina's Dzeko, and Germany's Goldfish Eyes. Bell and Bosnia and Herzegovina's other two top scorers Misimovic and Ibisevic both scored 4 goals and tied for fourth in the scorer list.

However, Bell occupies the top position in the assists list. In the first four rounds, he sent a total of 6 assists!

As for Ronaldo, he performed poorly like Portugal, scoring only 1 goal in 4 games, and his name is not visible at all on the scorer list.

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After the international match day, the Premier League, which had been idle for two weeks, resumed the war.

In Chelsea's first away game against Tottenham, the Blues defeated Tottenham 4:2. In this game, Blues midfielder Juan Mata was full of stars. Mata, who was not selected for Vicente del Bosque's Spanish national team during the international break, was full of firepower in this Premier League game after getting enough rest. At the beginning, with Chelsea trailing 1:2, Mata scored two goals in three minutes, and his gorgeous two-game winning streak determined the outcome of the game.

After 2 shots and 1 pass in this game, Mata's statistics in the last 6 games have reached a new high. Starting from the Premier League match against Stoke City on September 22, one month has passed now. Chelsea has also won 6 consecutive victories in the third tier (Premier League, Europa League, League Cup), and Mata has played in every game. There were goals or assists in all 6 games. In 4 of these 6 games, he scored goals, in 5 games he had assists, in 3 games he scored both goals and assists, and in 6 games combined , he has a total of 6 goals and a total of 7 assists, which means that he has directly participated in 13 goals!

Even Messi, who is in great form now, has only scored 6 goals and assisted 4 times in the last 6 games for Barcelona. That is to say, Bale, who has scored 8 goals and assisted 4 times in the last 6 club games, can Comparable to him. Even in terms of the number of goals he directly participated in, Mata is one higher than Bale!

And because of Mata's explosive performance, Chelsea temporarily surpassed Manchester United and rose to the top of the Premier League standings with 7 wins and 1 draw despite playing one game first.

However, Chelsea was immediately kicked off the top spot in the standings before they could get their butts hot.

Manchester United, which started at 3pm on October 20, faced the challenge of Stoke City at Old Trafford.

In this game, the Manchester United Trident showed their terrifying strength.

Perhaps thinking that he was too strong, Rooney was the first to give an own goal, conceding a goal to Stoke City just 11 minutes into the game.

In the 27th minute, Bell made a pass from the left, and Shawcross jumped up. At the same time, he shook Van Persie. As a result, Rooney got a chance from behind. Lu Xiaopang inserted a header from the edge of the small penalty area and succeeded, evening the score. It was a 1:1 draw, which was considered as a win back for the goal he had given Stoke City earlier.

In the 39th minute, Manchester United almost reversed the score. Bell shot a curved ball with his right foot from 30 meters away from the left rib of the penalty area. After the ball bypassed the Stoke City goalkeeper, it hit the crossbar and bounced out, failing to score.

However, Manchester United reversed the score before the end of the first half. In the 44th minute, Bell broke through from the left and hit a low ball through the crotch. Van Persie unexpectedly reached the edge of the small penalty area and sent the ball into the net with his left foot, scoring his sixth Premier League goal this season.

At the beginning of the second half, Manchester United scored another goal. In the 46th minute, Rooney made a pass from the right. Bell leaned over the edge of the penalty area and shook his head to send the ball into the left corner of the goal. This was Bell's 11th league goal contribution to Manchester United this season. The goal gave the Red Devils a 3:1 lead.

In the 49th minute, Bell made a cross from the left, and Evans headed the ball from close range, but Begovic incredibly saved the ball from the goal line.

In the 53rd minute, Rooney's left-footed shot with a cross was blocked and decelerated, but Begovic got the ball.

In the 55th minute, Rafael passed a cross in front of the goal near the right baseline. Bell, who was outflanking, was pulled by the defensive players and failed to form a shot.

In the 59th minute, Ketley's midfielder dribbled the ball too far but hit Ferdinand, which happened to be an adjustment. Ketley entered the penalty area and shot with his left foot from 9 meters through the crotch of Evans, who was defending, and the ball hit the inside of the right post and bounced. Entering the net, Stoke City tied the score at 2:3.

But just 6 minutes later, Manchester United once again extended its lead to 2 goals. In the 65th minute, Bell took a corner kick from the right. Whitehead's header was not well placed. Shawcross' kick rebounded continuously. Rooney pushed with his left foot from the left side of the penalty area. Although Begovic hit the ball, he was unable to do so. Still unable to prevent the ball from entering the net, Rooney scored twice to help Manchester United lead 4:2. Rooney's personal club goals reached 200.

In the end, Stoke City lost to Manchester United 2:4 and had no wins in the past 14 Premier League away games with 6 draws and 8 losses. Manchester United regained the top spot in the standings with eight consecutive victories.