[Football] Crown of Thorns

In the history of the Portuguese team in the international competition qualifiers, as long as they get the first place in the group after the first three rounds, they can always advance to the main match.

After the first round of the world preliminaries, Portugal and Russia tied for the top spot with 3 points. In this round, the Russian team will challenge Israel away, and the Portuguese team will meet them at the home court of the Russian team in the third round. Strive to get points, so that you can be sure that in the third round of direct dialogue with Russia, as long as you win the opponent in one fell swoop, you can become the top of the group and lay a solid foundation for breaking into the Brazil World Cup finals.

"As long as the captain can resist the pressure and score a goal, we will definitely win!"

Jia Ma had a Pearl Pearl in his mouth, chatting with his teammates while eating.

Veloso, who had endured it for a long time, couldn't help but reached out and snatched the Zhenzhuzhu candy from Jia Ma's mouth, "Enough is enough, you can never finish."

Having been robbed of the candy, Gama blinked, dissatisfied, "What's wrong with me chewing gum?"

Veloso glanced at the smaller lollipop in his hand, and the corners of his lips twitched, "Since when did you fall in love with eating this thing? Do you think you are the king of Barcelona!"

"Oh this," Gama suddenly realized, "Envy? Steven, oh Gerald gave it."

Veloso: ==

"Why did he send you this?"

"Maybe it's an apology?"

Gama put on an innocent look, tilted his head and blinked.

His appearance disgusted those sitting there. Furtado at the side didn't make a sound, but just stuffed the fruit salad on the table into Gama's mouth with a spoon.

"It was brought to you by the way when he bought too much for his princess!"

Coentran sneered.

"Perhaps Madam thinks he bought too much candy for the little princess and had to give it away~"

Pepe is analyzing calmly.

Gama: ...

"I suddenly remembered that what the captain said before was a treat for winning the game, but now that I think about it, everyone's condition is really bad even though we won. I still suggest that the captain should not treat the guests, and it is better to practice more."

Teammates sitting nearby who were eavesdropping: Hey Gama, what do you mean?

Veloso looked indifferent, "We can't go out anyway, it doesn't matter if we eat or not!"

Futa Doha laughed, and said slowly, "This is not a threat."

"No!"

Because not only the national team teammates, but also the club teammates Master Pei and Golden Retriever hehehe, they can treat Cristiano after they return to Madrid. Anyway, he is very generous and he often pays for everyone to go out for dinner.

Oh, how naive!

Jia Ma silently turned on his cell phone, glanced at the text message he just sent, and found that the recipient was a certain well-known Mr. Bu Gu.

Although the well-known Mr. Buju is also playing for the national team—because his physical condition has recovered quite well this year, the national team will naturally not let him go as a superstar—but the game schedule coincides with them by a day.

They are going to play a game tonight, so they are spending their time in the restaurant after eating just now.

Of course, the reason why he dared to discuss this is because the captain C Ronaldo followed the coach to the pre-match press conference and was not here.

Despite scoring a goal in the first round of the group stage to help Portugal beat Luxembourg 1-2, Ronaldo is still under heavy pressure, but in the past few days, more and more people in the football world have turned to Ronaldo. Luo expressed his support.

Former Real Madrid star Roberto Carlos said: Don't worry, there are many people who love you.

France striker Real Madrid teammate Benzema said: "Together we will help Cristiano succeed."

In addition, many players have expressed their support for Ronaldo, which made Ronaldo, who is not in a good mood these days, finally calm down a lot today.

Of course, in Jia Ma's view, the private appeasement of the well-known Mr. Bugu played the biggest role.

Cough cough, since the European Cup game, Jia Ma, who has exchanged phone numbers with Mr. X, will occasionally send him a text message or something, just like he recorded some conversations with his teammates and sent it to the other party... It is estimated that in the next month, no one should be able to eat the meal invited by Ronaldo.

After chatting nonsense for a while, Jia Ma looked at Master Pei, "Speaking of which, how is your injury, Ke Pei? Can you play?"

"no problem."

Master Pei raised his arm, indicating that he is recovering well.

Previously, Pepe and Nani were injured to varying degrees in the 2-1 victory over Luxembourg. So far, coach Bento has not announced the starting lineup for tonight, although it was announced that both of them recovered from their injuries in time come over.

But Gama, who is in it, is still very worried. Judging from his estimation, if there is no accident tonight, Bento will still make the starting lineup for the last game. Captain Ronaldo will continue to lead the trident, and he will still be the midfielder. With Meireles and Moutinho, Pepe and Veloso, Coentrao continued to guard the defense.

"Shiko!"

Nani, who had been hiding from Gama for a while except for training and competition, came over, and Veloso gave him a seat.

Gama smiled with his chin propped up, "Yo Louis, long time no see!"

Nani looked at Gama speechlessly. Since returning to the team, they have trained together and played together.

"Let's discuss something."

Anyway, he was going to be blackmailed by the bastard Jia Ma, so Nani said straightforwardly, "Do me a favor for tonight's game."

"Yo yo, help~~" Jia Ma smiled, "How can I help you!!!"

Looking at his deliberately contrived expression, Nani gritted his teeth, "Tomorrow we will go back to England together, and I will pay for the air ticket."

"Actually, that," Veloso raised his hand, "Our air ticket back to the club was booked by the Football Association."

"Yes, you don't need to pay for it personally!"

Gama blinked.

In front of these two gangsters, Nani really wanted to laugh at the two of them, "...I had a few bottles of the best champagne last season, let's drink them together when we go back!"

"Hey, I'm so sorry. I'm just curious about the best champagne in the audience. Louis, you are so generous."

Jia Ma clapped his hands, looking innocent.

Nani: Damn it!Xiko, you have to show your face, after three rounds of the league, you have already won two best games, and you still come to fool me?

But now he has something to ask for, so he can only bear with it.

"I haven't scored in seven consecutive games in the national team, Chico!"

"I know."

Gama nodded.

Poor Nani, he hasn't scored a single goal in nearly seven national team games, while Postiga, who can be regarded as his striker partner and rival, has scored 3 goals in the past few national team games, In the first round of the group stage, he also scored a goal to reverse the score. As the right-hand man of captain Ronaldo, the comparison of the number of goals now...

"So……"

Nani's eyes lit up.

"I can pass the ball, but the opportunity to play the ball is my own."

Jokes are jokes, the situation changes rapidly during the game, and Gamar will not take the game as a joke.

"I know."

Nani nodded - he is not a person who likes to spit out cakes, of course he has to work hard if he has the opportunity.

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"...Hi everyone, we are now broadcasting the second round of Group F of the 2014 World Cup European qualifiers for you at the Municipal Stadium in Braga, Portugal. Today's match is between Portugal and Azerbaijan..."

"In the first round, the Portuguese team reversed and beat Luxembourg 2-1 in the away game. The Portuguese team returned home to face Azerbaijan, another weaker team in the group..."

"...Azerbaijan drew a 1-1 draw with Israel at home in the last round and scored a valuable point..."

"...Today's game is the first time Portugal and Azerbaijan have faced each other after 5 years. Portugal met their opponents in the European Cup preliminaries 5 years ago and double-killed their opponents at home and away..."

"Although the Azerbaijan team has been regarded by many people as a weak team before, they have basically played the role of soy sauce in the qualifiers of previous competitions, and rarely

There is a record of upsets. Of course, sometimes some teams in the lower reaches of the middle will take advantage of the home court advantage... For example, in the first round of this qualifier, the team drew 1-1 at home to Israel, which is ranked in the middle of the group. , it was difficult to get the first point of this world preliminaries... However, their away games have always been relatively dismal. For example, in the 2012 European Cup qualifiers, Azerbaijan lost all 5 away games... Then this game Whether it can be as upset as Cyprus was three years ago, let us wait and see. "

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The non-stop chattering sound above their heads made the Portuguese players a little depressed. Is this really their own commentary?

"You should have gotten used to it a long time ago, don't they always say that every time we play!"

Coentrao pulled down his jersey and smiled at everyone.

Gama slapped the cute golden retriever's face, "If you dare to make a mistake in today's game, you know Fabio~~"

"Hey Xiko, why are you always targeting me!"

Pulling off Jia Ma's paw, the golden retriever protested.

Jia Ma heheed twice, "Do you want me to report to you the statistics of the number of mistakes you made in the last few national team games?"

The golden retriever student who was hit by Gama hid behind Veloso, "Miguel~~"

"Hey, don't make mistakes!"

Veloso patted his head, showing his big white teeth with a smile.

Then, everyone turned their heads and smiled at the golden-haired classmate, and the white teeth grinding rate in the room suddenly increased a lot.

So, good teeth, good appetite!

This is the truth!

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"...The players from both sides came out! They came out under the leadership of referee Marciniak's referee team..."

"With Machniak's whistle, the game begins!"

"... out the ball!"

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