Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have come to an end, and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are one step closer. As an evergreen event in the Olympic Games, football matches have naturally attracted much attention, especially for men's football.
Not long ago, the 2024 Paris Olympics men's football 1/4 finals ended, and four of the games were extremely hot, and the competition between the strong teams was extremely fierce. In the end, France, Spain, Egypt and Morocco successfully qualified, and will continue to stage exciting matchups in the semi-finals.
Although each team put in a lot of effort in the competition, there were only four winners in the end, which is also the charm of competitive sports. Next, let's review the wonderful moments of these 1/4 finals and feel the charm of football games.
As the host, the France team is naturally in the spotlight, and their opponent in the quarter-finals is Argentina, which can be described as a "life and death battle".
From the start of the game, France showed a very strong attacking quality, dominating possession and shots, and their attacking efficiency was amazing.
In the 5th minute, France broke the deadlock with a corner kick and then added in the 84th minute, and it looked like they were on the safe side, but the referee ruled that the goal was fouled after watching VAR, and the goal was disallowed.
Just when everyone thought that the game was going to go to extra time, Argentina actually launched a crazy attack in stoppage time, but unfortunately could not equalize, and finally lost 1-0 to France and missed the semi-finals.
In the other quarter-final, Spain defeated Japan 3-0 to advance to the semi-finals.
In this game, the strength advantage of the Spain team is very obvious, and the Japan team does not choose to use overage players, so it is still slightly inferior in overall confrontation ability.
In the 11th minute, Spain broke the deadlock with a long-range shot to take the lead, and Japan's goal was disallowed before the end of the first half, which took a certain blow to their morale.
At the start of the second half, Spain scored again through a corner kick to seal the win and finally advance, while Japan stopped in the quarterfinals.
Morocco also performed well in the quarter-finals, with their strong attacking firepower, comfortably beating United States 4-0 to advance to the semi-finals.
In this game, the Morocco team showed a very good overall coordination ability, especially the speed of the counter-attacking attack, which made the United States team tired to deal with.
On the offensive end, the players of the Morocco team also performed very well, especially Ruiz, who not only made wonderful passes in the game, but also scored goals, and contributed a lot to the team.
In the end, Morocco managed to advance to the semi-finals thanks to the efforts of the whole team, and their next opponent will be the mighty Spain.
In the final quarter-final, Egypt played Paraguay, and the match was extremely fierce, with the two sides 1-1, and after the game went to penalties, Egypt won 5:4 and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.
From the start of the game, Egypt showed a very tenacious sense of confrontation, especially in defence, and they successfully limited Paraguay's attacking performance, so that the opponent could not form an effective shot on goal.
On the offensive end, the Egypt players also performed very well, especially Marseille, who took advantage of the penalty opportunity in the game to give the team the first goal, and then had a wonderful attacking performance, almost the next goal.
Unfortunately, Paraguay managed to equalise in the final stages of the game, and the game went to extra time and a penalty shootout, and Egypt finally managed to advance to the last four thanks to a consistent penalty shoot-out, and their next opponent will be a strong France team.
Through these fierce matchups in the quarter-finals, the four teams that finally advanced were France, Spain, Egypt and Morocco, and the competition between them is bound to be extremely fierce.
In the upcoming semi-finals, France will face a stubborn Egypt team, while Spain will face a strong Morocco team, who will have the last laugh and successfully advance to the final?
I believe that this game will be wonderful, and each team will definitely go all out for their dreams and dedicate a wonderful game to make the audience and friends have a good time.