Introduction Paul the Octopus Paul the Octopus Paul the Octopus "Paul", full name Paul Gasol. He was born in England and grew up in Germany. Now lives in Germany's Oberhausen Oceanarium. Paul in the World Cup in South Africa has "successfully predicted" the German victory over Australia, Ghana, lost to Serbia's group stage results, and in the World Cup Quarter-Finals, Germany will beat Argentina. On the evening of July 3, Germany played against Argentina, and finally did beat Argentina 4:0 to enter the quarterfinals. He also had an 80% hit rate on his predicted matches for the Europa League. [Edit this paragraph] prediction match 1, in the World Cup in a row in the prediction of the German team's first four games, has been the world-famous octopus "Paul" again to make a prediction: in the World Cup Quarter-final of the strong dialog, Germany will beat Maradona led by the Argentinean team, and into the semi-finals. 2, octopus "Paul" this performance, seems to indicate that this in the staging of the showdown between the two teams is likely to draw, and through the penalty kicks to decide the winner, and ultimately good at punting the German team will win. In the last World Cup quarter-final, Argentina and Germany drew 1-1 after 120 minutes of play, and Germany eliminated Argentina in the penalty shootout. [edit paragraph] prediction method 1, marine curators were printed with Germany, Argentina flag shells into the glass tank, and England's fastest before the game to take out the German shells, octopus "Paul" on Germany and Argentina's duel some "hesitation", "considered for as long as a year". The octopus "Paul" was a little "hesitant" about the Germany-Argentina match, "thinking about it for up to an hour" but finally took out the shell with the German flag on it. Paul the octopus predicted that Germany eliminated England in the eighth 2, Paul was staring at the glass tank with the German flag until he saw we were going to take away both tanks, then he finally jumped to the glass tank with the German flag shell, removed and swallowed the mussel, a spokesman for the aquarium said, his actions are indicative of the fact that Saturday's game will be a very tough game, and may be played in extra time and a penalty shootout. extra time and decided on penalties. But in the end it was Germany that prevailed. However, the final result was beyond everyone's expectations, with Germany beating Argentina 4:0. 3, although the octopus "Paul" is currently living in Germany, but the spokesman said that there is no need to worry about he will favor his current country. Because he was born in the United Kingdom, is a "many generations of immigrant descendants", its ancestors may also come from Argentina. [Edit Paragraph] Paul the octopus and crow's mouth Pele's century showdown before the German-Argentine war started, Paul the octopus and crow's mouth Pele launched a century "prophecy" showdown. In the German-Albanian war before July 1, the king of the ball Bailey again open "golden mouth", claiming that in the German war in the German team, he also told the media that: "Germany in the two years before the European Cup has shown the world that they can play a very beautiful attacking soccer, this World Cup, they are more so I am sure of this. convinced of this." This is not to let the German fans greatly alarmed, because Pele's "prediction" is always contrary to the actual results. But another World Cup prediction guru, Germany's little octopus Paul before the game on the side of the German team. In the World Cup, the England-born, grew up in Germany, the small octopus Paul guessed the German team before all four games. In the face of the German war, after an hour of "deep thought", choose Germany as the ultimate winner. The results of the game also proved that the strength of the small octopus Paul to be higher than the king of the ball Pele's "crow's mouth", the German team successfully eliminated Argentina into the quarter-finals. Argentina's fans were so upset that they claimed on Facebook that they would cook the star octopus, who lives in the Oberhausen Seaquarium, and eat it. The German newspaper "Bild-Zeitung" commented on this with only four words - "What a bore". [Edit paragraph] A media annoyed to cook it With the German team in the World Cup over the top, the German team's lucky star, a magical octopus named Paul is also gradually known to fans around the world. Before this, the octopus had successfully predicted the German team to beat Ghana and England's game, of course, the loss against Serbia also did not escape Paul's prediction. Before this match, Paul predicted that Germany would win the match, and the Germans lived up to their expectations and took the battle in the spotlight with an outstanding performance. Before the match, Paulo's extraordinary predictive ability caused fear of the Argentine media, the daily newspaper even indignation of this magical octopus into the recipe: "We only need four ordinary potatoes, olive oil, plus a little pepper. That alone is enough to bring Paul down." Star chef Nicholas Bedloe cruelly wrote in his Facebook post, "We're going to catch it and put it on paper. Then we beat this octopus up in order to get it to make predictions the way we want it to. And finally, dip it in boiling water." Apparently, the Argentinians wanted to turn this octopus named Paul into "seafood soup". It is no wonder that the Argentineans so resent the octopus, Paul's ability to predict out of this world is indeed frightening: before the start of each game, Paul will be marked with the flags of both sides of the glass tank to make a choice, Paul's choice of a side will become the winner of the game. And in the German team in the previous four games, Paul made the prediction is completely correct. So when Paul chose the glass jar with the German flag before the match, all the German fans couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, while the Argentines inevitably felt nervous. Sure enough, the boys of the German team did not let Mr. Octopus trust, blood wash favorite Argentina to reach the World Cup quarterfinals, the magical octopus Paul renewed his prediction legend. And now, when the German team launched a final assault on the title of world champion, people will not forget the credit of Mr. Paul as well. Now it seems that the Germans must protect the team's "lucky star", because the losing Argentineans are looking to make it into "seafood soup". [edit paragraph] latest prediction Paul predicts the second final [1] Paul predicts the second final 2 [2] octopus Paul semi-final choice: Spain beat Germany to advance to the final Sina Sports News Germany local time July 6 at 11:00 pm (Beijing time on the 6th at 17:00), much attention to the Oberhausen aquarium octopus out of this octopus named Paul World Cup semi-final Germany and Spain to predict, finally Paul chose Spain to predict the World Cup semi-final. The octopus named Paul on the World Cup semifinals Germany and Spain for prediction, the final Paul chose Spain - this means that it believes that the European champions Spain will beat the momentum of the German team in the semifinals to enter the final. When the World Cup was in full swing, no one would have thought that so many people in the world would care about an octopus and be so concerned about his predictions. From the start of the World Cup so far, living in Germany Oberhausen Aquarium Paul on the German team's prediction of all the matches, so far the probability of guessing is 100%. As the game enters the semifinal stage, concerned about the team's victory or defeat of the fans began to track Paul's every move, Oberhausen Aquarium staff notified in advance of the semifinal "octopus action" is at 11:00 local time on the 6th. As the moment approached, the Oberhausen Aquarium's website was severely overloaded and the page could not be opened properly. In addition, the German newspaper "Bild-Zeitung" made a live text broadcast of the "octopus action" on its website, which attracted a large number of Internet users' attention. In the end, the octopus Paul chose Spain, "Picture Post" website broadcasters in the announcement of the results at the same time, said: "I hope that Lefebvre's boys can turn the situation, to save the semi-final." However, it was precisely in the Euro 08 match that Paul got it wrong when predicting Germany vs Spain. German fans can be confident that Paul will turn into Pele when he predicts Germany vs Spain.