France played against Switzerland and Spain played against Croatia.
No matter how prestigious the big screenwriter of the universe, he dare not write the script of today's two European Cup 1/8 finals.
The Swiss team celebrates the victory. Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
Excluding the penalty shootout, the two games scored 14 goals almost frantically.
Of course, this is nothing. The buzzer lore and penalty shootout can only be regarded as unremarkable small sections in these two duels.
The true collector's version of the plot includes: Xhaka "righteous" for Coke, Mbappe "tribute" to the predecessor Platini, the peerless striker "Own Goal" made new contributions, the World Cup champion and runner-up return home hand in hand, and Pedri's version of "One The ball became famous" and so on.
Of course, there is also the longest own goal and the second longest goal in the history of the European Cup. The wonderful thing is that they are the same goal...
Two games recorded in history
Regarding the two 1/8 finals, as many as double-digit keywords were on Weibo hot searches at the same time, and they accounted for half of the top 10.
How detailed is it?
Linking these keywords together, even if you don't stay up late to watch the game, you can guess the game process as soon as you wake up.
There are so many elements that I don't know how to cut it in. If you think about it, let's start with the score.
In the first match, Spain and Croatia drew 3:3 in 90 minutes. The more powerful Spanish team scored two goals in overtime, which allowed them to pass by 5:3.
Video screenshot The moment when Simon stops the ball
How exciting is the game?
The first goal in the game is enough to go down in history.
In the 19th minute of the game, Pedri passed back near the distant middle circle. The goalkeeper Unai-Simon, who wanted to show a wave of operation, "showed his face but not his butt", he had to watch the ball roll into his door after he stopped the ball.
What's more innocent is that this can be a miserable pitfall for his little brother Pedri, because UEFA eventually counted the ball as Pedri's own own.
As the youngest player in the history of the Spanish team to participate in the European Cup finals, the 18-year-old Pedri was forced to "fame with one goal": According to foreign media statistics, this is not only the longest own goal in the history of the European Cup on record, but also the second. Far goal...
The same is true for UEFA, do you think this is appropriate?
People are still just a child!
Morata finally scored. Source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
Fortunately, the Spanish team was not affected by this "epoch-making" conceded too much.
Saravia, Azpilicueta and Ferran Torres scored in the subsequent games one after another, Spain took the lead with a 3:1 reversal.
However, at the end of the game, Spain, which has always been known for its control, failed to block Croatia's counterattack.
In the 84th minute and the third minute of stoppage time, Orsic and Passalic helped Croatia miraculously tied the score.
However, in overtime, Morata and Oyazabal scored two goals in 3 minutes, and Spain finally won the contest 5:3.
Modric regrets saying goodbye. Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
The next game between France and Switzerland was simply carved out of a mold.
Switzerland took the lead in breaking the deadlock. Benzema's score and Pogba's goal helped the French team lead 3:1. The goals of Seferovic and Gavranovic before the end made the Swiss buzzer equalized.
Unlike the previous game, the two sides did not score again in overtime and the game entered a penalty shootout.
Not knowing whether it was habit or received a "secret mission", Swiss captain Zhaka took a Coke from the staff at the moment and feasted on it.
The atmosphere is all set off here, the sponsor BUFF (referring to the gain effect) will not be laughing with you this time.
No one knows sponsors better than Zhaka
In the first 9 rounds of players all free throws, the finale Mbappe missed a penalty, which can not help but reminds him of his predecessor Platini.
In short, after a fierce battle, the French team went home.
The "tradition" of dividing the pot after the game cannot be lost.
This time Mbappe can't run, so who is the right one to find him a partner?
It will never be the Benzema who scored twice in two minutes!
What is he?
Who didn't let him play the whole game, maybe he could make another one?
This, it sounds like what you said makes sense...
Benzema scored twice in this campaign. Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
Of course these are all jokes.
But in this way, Portugal, the last European Cup champion, as well as the last World Cup champion France and runner-up Croatia, all stopped the last 16 European Cup this year.
In particular, France and Portugal, who had struggled to climb out of the "death group", were going home before they had time to be happy.
Mbappe leaves after the game Source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
Looking at it this way, what does "death group" mean?
Tomorrow morning, the German old iron who will be playing in England, I don’t know if I can persist more than my brothers who live and die together...
Including the Czech Republic, which cleanly eliminated the Dutch team the day before, and today’s Switzerland, these not-so-optimistic teams were all in their heads in the knockout rounds. The group stage was stumbling, and they were all thinking about pretending to be a pig. tiger.
The next game will definitely be more exciting!
If your friend asks you again why you love football so madly, you don’t have to spend a lot of time to promote the teams and stars that press the box, a thousand words are worse than a single sentence: Let’s watch the game together!