Champion’s Heart

After the match between China and Chile, no one knew what happened in the locker room, but the outside media were quite disappointed with the result and were also pessimistic about the Chinese team's prospects in this World Cup...

After the game, all major media in China expressed regret that the Chinese team failed to win the game, and then criticized the team's performance after the opening, and of course praised the team's performance after falling behind by two goals.

As for how to qualify from the group, the media and fans are also very enthusiastic in analyzing and making suggestions.

But in their view, no matter which method is used, it is very difficult to defeat the Netherlands or Spain.

Spain lost to the Netherlands in the strong dialogue. It was not surprising to everyone. It was surprising that the loss was by such a huge margin...

The defending champions have already lost one game, so in order to ensure qualifying from the group, they must win the remaining two games.

The Chinese media and fans never dared to think that the defending champion would be eliminated after the group stage. Although in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Italy, as the defending champion, did not qualify from the group. But the situation in Italy and Spain is different, and how is it possible that in two consecutive World Cups, the defending champion was eliminated in the group stage?

So no matter how you look at it, it is very, very, very difficult for the Chinese team to qualify from the group...

But within the Chinese team, there is indeed a different scene.

The players are preparing for the match against the Dutch team with full fighting spirit and confidence.

Head coach Lippi also put forward the goal of striving to qualify from the group.

First, they have to face the strong enemy of the Dutch team.

The goal proposed by Lippi is surprisingly consistent with Zhou Yi - of course it would be better if you can win, but if you can't win, you must strive for a draw.

With two points in hand, they fought hard against Spain in the last game, got three points, and qualified for the group stage with five points.

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The next day, four more World Cup group matches were played. In the group stage, the schedule is three or four games a day.

The first of the four games played on this day is Colombia vs. Greece, which is a game in Group C. In the end, they defeated the Greek team 3:0 with goals from Armero, Gutierrez and Rodriguez.

The second game is a game in Group D.

Uruguay versus Costa Rica, a civil war in Latin America. Before the game, everyone was more optimistic about Uruguay. After all, Uruguay has masters like Cavani and Suarez, and Uruguay is one of the top four in the World Cup.

Unexpectedly, in this game, Uruguay lost to the unknown Costa Rica 1:3. The first upset of this World Cup was exposed.

Next up is England and Italy. This is the game that everyone pays the most attention to on this match day. As the defending champion of the last World Cup, Italy was eliminated at the bottom of the group and became the laughing stock of many people. In this World Cup, they are making a comeback and want to prove themselves again in the World Cup.

In the first group match, they met England, the favorite to win the championship. The two powers competed, who would win?

In the end, Italy defeated England 2:1. The controversial genius Balotelli scored the winning goal in the game and was elected the man of the match.

England's road to the championship has just begun and suffered a heavy blow.

Before the World Cup, the English media would promote and hype England as the strongest England team in history and the favorite to win the championship. But in every World Cup, England's performance is unsatisfactory. Of course, the English media will not think that they have been slapped in the face. They will quickly find a scapegoat to take the blame after the team fails.

The last game on June 14th returned to Group C, and another Asian team appeared. Japan vs Cote d'Ivoire. Japan is also a very ambitious team. Since they reached the knockout stage of the World Cup in 2002, the country has been full of confidence. The goal of every World Cup is to reach the knockout stage. Of course, for a team that has never missed any World Cup finals since 1998, it is indeed time for them to take a step further. They cannot always be satisfied with going through all the hard work to reach the World Cup finals, and then The result was that he went home after playing three group matches.

At the last World Cup in South Africa, the Japanese team won two games and lost one in the group stage, accumulating six points to qualify for the group and once again entered the knockout rounds. However, their progress stopped in the quarter-finals, losing to Paraguay in a penalty shootout.

The Japanese team in this World Cup has assembled many outstanding players at home and abroad. The goal is still to qualify for the group, but it is not just to qualify for the group. They hope to go further.

Although the game opened in the first sixteen minutes, Japan's Keisuke Honda opened the scoring for the team and took the lead. But then they still couldn't escape the fate of losing-Ivory Coast scored two goals in the 64th and 66th minutes to reverse the score. In the end, this result was maintained until the end of the game.

Cote d'Ivoire defeated Japan 2:1, and the Japanese team's goal of qualifying for the group was hit at the beginning.

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The next game of the Chinese team is the 20th game of this World Cup, which will not kick off until the 18th. In between, they were training while keeping an eye on other teams' performances in the World Cup.

In the two games of Group E, Switzerland defeated Ecuador 2:1 and France defeated Honduras 3:0.

Argentina, the real favorite to win Group F, appeared. Argentina, which has many world-class stars, finally defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was participating in the World Cup for the first time, 2:1. However, this game does not seem very convincing, because the Argentine player only scored one goal in the game, the other two goals were scored by Bosnia and Herzegovina players, one was an own goal...Messi scored Argentina The team's only goal was an own goal to defeat Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was participating in the World Cup for the first time. This makes people doubt whether Argentina can really win the championship in this World Cup.

The World Cup held in South America is a good opportunity for Argentina to win the championship because they are more familiar with the environment here than European teams. If Messi wants to be the undisputed king, then he must win this World Cup championship.

Messi himself probably knows it very well, so he scored a goal in this game.

In another match in the same group, the third Asian team made its debut. Iran and Nigeria tied 0:0.

The German team in Group G showed their terrifying strength and state in the match against Portugal. They defeated Portugal 4:0. This result really surprised many people. Before, everyone thought that even if Portugal were to lose, they wouldn't be able to lose so much...

Although Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the two strongest people in football at that time, could kill everyone in the club, in the national team, he could not support the entire Portuguese team by himself. No matter how much strength he had, he could not stand alone. , and can't be used.

In another game, the United States defeated Ghana 2:1.

The first game of Group H was Belgium against Algeria. In the end, the Belgian team, which was full of talented players, defeated Algeria 2:1.

In another game in the same group, the last Asian team appeared.

South Korea faces Russia.

From the South Korean team's perspective, Russia should be the team they must win in this group. Like the Japanese team, they have the goal of qualifying from the group.

The best result of the South Korean team in the World Cup was also created in the 2002 Japan-South Korea World Cup, where they reached the semi-finals. It's just that fans from other countries except South Korea may not be very convinced of the results of the Korean team.

In the last World Cup in South Africa, the South Korean team and the Japanese team both reached the knockout rounds, but they had the same fate as the Japanese team and were eliminated in the quarter-finals. They also qualified as second in the group and met Uruguay. They lost 1:2 and stopped in the top 16.

This year, like the Japanese team, they not only want to qualify from the group, but also hope to go as far as possible.

Facing Russia, the South Korean team believed that they deserved to win. This was the only way to qualify from the group.

But the final result was disappointing. They tied with Russia 1:1...

At this point, all four Asian teams have made their appearances. The Chinese team, Iran and South Korea have all drawn and scored one point, while the Japanese team has lost.

Judging from the first round of the group stage, the performance of the Asian teams is not satisfactory, because their opponents are not the strongest in the group stage, but even so, they failed to win even a game. victory.

If you want to rank among the four teams in Asia, the Chinese team is still the best because they score a lot of goals...

But this kind of comparison, like chickens pecking each other, is meaningless.

Some experts analyzed that judging from the performance of each team in this first round of group matches, Asian teams may be wiped out in this World Cup. If that's the case, it's not a good thing for Asian football.

Because the quota for the World Cup is directly linked to the performance of teams from each continent in the World Cup.

If Asian teams always perform poorly, then their qualifying quota will be reduced, and there are so many Asian teams, which is obviously a big loss to the overall interests of Asian football.

For a time, gloom and misery enveloped not only Chinese fans, but also Japan, South Korea, Iran, and even those fans who did not participate in the World Cup, such as Australia - they originally joined the AFC because they thought that Asia was not very competitive. , and there are also many qualifying places, which is profitable. Unexpectedly, they encountered the rising Chinese team in this World Cup and didn't even get the right to qualify. If all Asian teams are wiped out in this World Cup, it will inevitably affect Australia’s chances of participating in the World Cup in the future...

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