Fox in the Penalty Area

In the locker room of the Brazilian national team, the players have just arrived, and they will prepare for the next game against Algeria.

Someone turned on the bluetooth speaker and played enthusiastic samba music.

For the Brazilian team, it is like a pre-match ceremony, indispensable.

Listening to samba music in the locker room before the game, and twisting my waist to the rhythm of the music, it seems that I can become more flexible during the game and have a better sense of the ball under my feet.

While the music was playing, someone was changing clothes, someone was playing with a ball in bare feet, and someone was praying to God.

Overall, the atmosphere in the locker room is harmonious and relaxed.

This is of course related to their opponents in this game.

Algeria, a newcomer to the World Cup, ranks third in this group. In other words, this is the second-to-last weakest team.

Although they played well against the Chinese team in their first group match, their good performance against the Brazilian team is not worth mentioning at all.

The Brazilian team not only wants to win Algeria, but also strives to win by a big score, so that it can compete with Russia for the first place in the group.

As a result, at this moment, an exclamation suddenly came from the noisy locker room:

"Russia didn't win the Chinese team!"

The intense samba music seemed to pause for a moment.

Someone turned to look at the teammate who made the exclamation, it was the main goalkeeper Victor Lemos.

After he made such a voice, it attracted the attention of other people in the locker room.

"Don't be funny, Victor. How could Russia not even win the Chinese team?" Some of the teammates didn't believe his words, and said half-jokingly, "The Chinese team is just a fool, who else are they? I know You and Hu played against each other in the Premier League, but you don't have to brag for him..."

"Shut up, Lima!" Remos waved his mobile phone to his teammate Lima Bidou who was teasing him: "If you don't believe it, don't you open your mobile phone and look online?"

In fact, he didn't need to say that, some of his teammates had already pulled out their mobile phones, ready to search for the results of the match between Russia and China.

As they looked down at their phones, Kendor Kabanka stood up and testified for Remos: "Victor was right.

Russia was tied 1:1 by the Chinese team. "

Remos is used to joking, and everyone will reflexively think that he is playing a prank. But Kabanka said so...

Some fast-moving people have already seen the results of the game refreshed on their mobile phones:

Russia 1:1 China

"God! It turned out to be true!" Exclaimed one after another in the locker room.

"To be honest, although I know that Russia's current strength is not as good as before, but I didn't expect that they would not even be able to win against the Chinese team..."

"How did such a team draw with us in the first group stage?"

"Isn't this good? Our team is stable first."

"Yes, yes, this is good news!"

After the initial shock in the locker room, the atmosphere is cheerful again.

The samba music continued, and the Brazilian internationals continued to dance.

When they saw the results of the group draw, the Brazilian players knew that the only thing that could threaten them in this group was Russia.

Not to say how strong Russia is, but the Russian football style is a headache for the Brazilian team.

The first group game also proved this point. The two teams fought fiercely for 90 minutes, scored a goal each, and then shook hands.

Because it is the first group match, the two teams are not unacceptable to this result. After all, their respective strongest opponents have played in the first round, and the opponents in the remaining two rounds of the group stage are not as strong as themselves, and they are completely the target of their goal difference.

Thinking about it, whether it is Algeria or the Chinese team, it is not difficult to score three points.

Therefore, the key to deciding who of the two teams can win the first place in the group and who is second in the group is who can win a few more goal difference from these two weak teams.

In the case of seven points, whoever has the most goal difference will be able to win the first place in the group. Advance to the knockout round as the number one in the group, and have a greater chance of meeting less powerful opponents in the quarter-finals, so that you can go further in the World Cup...

As a result, because of the tie between Russia and the Chinese team, the competition for the first place in the group has basically been given up ahead of schedule.

As long as the Brazilian team beats Algeria and China, they will be able to top the group with seven points.

And Russia's best result is nothing more than ranking second with five points.

This is absolutely good news for the Brazilian team.

In the rejuvenated atmosphere, Rafael Fonseca looked down at the latest battle situation on his mobile phone. He remembered a conversation he had with Kabangka a few days ago at around five o'clock in the morning, about the Chinese team.

This team even drew Russia... You must know that our Brazilian team also failed to win Russia. Rounding it up, wouldn't the Chinese team equal us to a draw?

If we were also tied by the Chinese team... Fonseca thought about the situation and found it unimaginable what would happen. The Brazilian media and fans would drown them with saliva, right?

"Russia must have underestimated the enemy, right?" He asked the one with the highest probability.

"It should be like this, otherwise how could it be impossible to win the Chinese team?"

"I can't think of any other reason besides this..."

Teammates who had never watched the game gave him affirmative answers.

Because that's really the only possible reason.

With Russia's characteristics, how can it be impossible to win against the Chinese team, which is not outstanding in physical confrontation?

If it didn't win, it could only be because Russia was proud and underestimated the enemy.

But Kabanka suddenly said: "Russia did not underestimate the enemy, it was the Chinese team that played well."

Someone asked him in surprise: "Kendor, did you actually watch the live broadcast of the Chinese team's game?"

"I also just watched some clips when I got time, I didn't watch the whole thing. But like the video we saw before against Algeria, this team is a whole. That's what they used to draw with Russia. Yes. Oh, Hu didn’t score this time.” The young Kabanka introduced to his teammates very seriously.

Because they are going to face Algeria, the coaching staff of the Brazilian team released the video of the game between Algeria and the Chinese team for all the players to get to know the two opponents at once.

So everyone can see that the overall tacit understanding of the Chinese team is relatively high.

This is actually easy to understand. After all, there are only two players in the Chinese team playing abroad, and the rest are playing in their own leagues. Naturally, they are more familiar and can cooperate better.

But after everyone listened to Kabangka's words, it was still hard to imagine how the Chinese team could withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the giant northern bear...

After all, no matter how high their tacit understanding is, it is impossible for a single player to suddenly become stronger!

They fought so hard against Algeria, and they were able to tie the score entirely because of Hu Lai's super personal ability. If it weren't for his kick that made all the Brazilian players envious and envious of the Super World Bo Shengsheng, which prevented the morale and physical fitness of the Chinese team from declining, I am afraid that the Chinese team would be defeated by Algeria, who is also a newcomer to the World Cup...

Just such a team, do you think he can defend against Ivan Romanov's bombing?

What the hell!

Is their defense better than our Brazil's defense?

Even if this Brazilian team is not good at defense, but the central defender combination composed of Luis Payson and Jose Amorim, after all, it is impossible to be at the same level as the obscure defense line of the Chinese team, right?

Luis Payson plays for the La Liga giants Catalan, and Jose Amorim plays for the Bundesliga giants Ruhr Rhine. They are the absolute main players in their respective clubs, and they are by no means ordinary people.

However, under the unreasonable impact of Ivan Romanov, they still failed to block and conceded a goal.

If it weren't for the fact that the overall level of the Brazilian team is stronger than that of Russia, although Russia has a lot of chances to pass the ball, the quality of the crosses is too poor, and too few balls can be accurately sent to Romanov's head... Otherwise, the two central defenders will definitely Even more embarrassing.

Now the two main central defenders looked at each other, and they both saw deep doubts and a little shock in each other's eyes.

It's not that they don't believe Kabanka's words. After all, Kabanka is not Remos who is talking about running trains. He won't joke about this kind of thing.

But the more this is the case, the more they can't understand how the Chinese team did it.

Their understanding of the Chinese team is limited to Hu Lai. This is because Hu Lai helped Leeds City win the Premier League championship last season, and he himself won the Premier League Golden Boot. Their understanding is limited to this level of "cognition", and they have not personally fought against Hu Lai.

They had never heard of Luo Kai who scored in this game.

Kabanka could feel everyone's doubts and doubts, but he did not explain further.

Anyway, before the final round of the group stage, the coaching staff will definitely show everyone the video of the match between the Chinese team and Russia to analyze the opponents.

So whether people believe it or not now, sooner or later they will know that they are right.

In fact, Kabanka didn't believe it at first, but the reality was in front of him, so he couldn't help but not believe it.

He doesn't worry about the reasons behind this, he only knows that if the Chinese team faces Brazil in this state, it will be a difficult opponent-he has changed his previous belief that as long as the Brazilian team takes it seriously, the Chinese team will not be enough. fearful thoughts.

In this game, Russia did not underestimate the enemy, and the result was not conceding the ball? And in the end, when the bombardment was indiscriminate, didn't the Chinese team's defense line also have no way to do it?

Even if the Brazilian team is serious, these three points are not as easy to get as previously imagined.

At this moment, the head coach Marcos Herner walked in with the coaching staff, and then he was taken aback for a while, because although music was playing in the locker room, no one danced to the music...

Instead, they all looked serious.

It was a bit different from the Brazil dressing room he was used to.

He smiled: "Why? Knowing that Russia didn't win, puts you under pressure?"

Although he didn't know what happened in the locker room, he could guess why everyone had such expressions through normal logical reasoning.

"Alright. At least let you know that no team in the World Cup is easy to deal with. Even if it is a new team that has never participated in the World Cup..." Hena shrugged and spread his hands. Take it seriously in the game. Remember, don't underestimate your opponents, even if you haven't heard of them before, but when they stand in front of you, they are no longer nobody!"

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In the Algeria locker room, head coach Jimmy Durand was telling his players about another group match that just ended: "The Chinese team can draw against Russia in extremely unfavorable circumstances, why can't we follow their example in the next round?" The draw against Brazil? The Chinese team showed us their courage. Facing the impact of Romanov, their players did not give up until they were injured. They successfully defended against the Russian attack...Are we worse than them? We But they almost beat them! So what the Chinese team can do, we can do too!"

The captain of the team, Iliyah Sadri, stood up and shouted loudly: "Come on! Let's go and show our courage and determination to the Brazilian team! Get rid of them!!"

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The players of the Chinese team who returned to the hotel after the game were not arranged by the head coach to watch the live broadcast of the match between Brazil and Algeria, because there was too little time.

When they returned to the hotel, the game had already started for almost half an hour.

In addition, everyone has just played a very difficult game, everyone is very tired, and basically lined up to report to the physical therapist. The three physiotherapists of the national team all went into battle, but they couldn't get in line, so they had to wait.

Therefore, there is no objective condition to concentrate on watching the live broadcast of the game.

Anyway, until tomorrow, the coaching staff of the team will let everyone watch the video of the game together.

Although the team doesn't organize everyone to watch the live broadcast together, there are always some people who are more concerned. They watch the live broadcast of the game on their mobile phones during dinner.

"Fuck, Algeria is three goals behind?!"

After turning on the mobile phone live broadcast, someone made such an exclamation.

"what?"

Everyone quickly gathered around.

The score was really 3:0, with Brazil leading.

In fact, it is normal for Brazil to lead Algeria by three goals.

It's just that for the players of the Chinese team who just cling to a draw with Russia, they were a little bit shocked:

We are tied 2:2 with Algeria and 1:1 with Brazil and Russia.

After the original draw with Russia, the players of the Chinese team were quite high-spirited, and felt that they could fight the Brazilian team.

As a result, now we can see that the Brazilian team has a three-goal lead and they are playing inextricably with Algeria.

It can only be said... as expected of the football kingdom, Brazil is the favorite to win the championship!

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