Chapter 19 The battle of life and death is coming

The Chinese team's prospects for qualifying are bright. Not only the team has noticed, but the all-knowing fans cannot miss it.

At this time, Chinese fans had not experienced as many beatings as they did later, and they often seemed very idealistic. Especially in this World Cup, the Chinese team's trend is moving forward on the trajectory everyone expected: beating Costa Rica and losing to Brazil. So according to

As the script progresses, the next step is to level Turkey.

One win, one draw and one loss, get 4 points, and then advance to the knockout round, everything is planned and under control!

In fact, many fans are already thinking about the knockout rounds.

In this World Cup, the knockout stage will be divided into upper and lower halves, but the upper half is not the four groups ABCD, but the four groups ACFH, and the lower half is the four groups BDEG. Moreover, the competition method is Group A.

Group F, Group C vs. Group H; Group B vs. Group E, Group D vs. Group G.

If the Chinese team finally advances to the knockout rounds as the second place in Group C, then their opponent will be the first place in Group H.

The four teams in Group H are the host Japan, Belgium, Russia and Tunisia. These four teams are not considered strong teams. In the first round of FIFA rankings before the start of the World Cup, the strongest Belgium was only ranked third.

23, one place lower than Turkey; followed by Russia at 28, Tunisia at 31 and Japan at 32.

If the Chinese team can defeat the 29th-ranked Costa Rica and draw with the 22nd-ranked Turkey, then why can’t the Chinese team beat one of these four teams after reaching the knockout rounds?

If the Chinese team can advance to the quarterfinals, their quarterfinal opponent will be the winner between the second place in Group A and the first place in Group F.

Currently, the second place in Group A is dark horse Senegal, ranked 42nd in the world; the first place in Group F is Sweden, ranked 19th in the world. For the Chinese team, they are still not invincible opponents.

And if it can pass this level again, then the Chinese team will be really awesome and advance directly to the semi-finals!

Of course, we are only halfway through the group stage, and everything is still subject to change.

Moreover, the premise of everything is that the Chinese team can draw or even defeat Turkey and advance to the knockout rounds.

Although all this is still far away, it cannot stop fans from dreaming. After all, dreams are not guilty.

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For the other three teams in Group C, the one with the greatest hope of advancing is indeed the Chinese team.

This is not only because of their current advantage in points, they also have an advantage in terms of schedule.

The match between the Chinese team and Brazil will be at 8:30 pm on June 8, local time in South Korea, while the match between Costa Rica and Turkey will be at 6 pm on June 9. In other words, the Chinese team will be better than Turkey

Nearly 1 day more rest time.

Costa Rica has the worst promotion prospects. Not only do they have one less day of rest than the Chinese team, but their opponent in the final round is the powerful Brazil. Moreover, they are also at a disadvantage in their mutual record with the Chinese team.

According to the rules of qualifying for the World Cup, points are compared first, then the goal difference if the points are the same, then the number of goals scored, and then the head-to-head record.

To put it simply, the current promotion prospects of these three teams are as follows: the Chinese team will definitely advance if it wins, and there is a high probability of advancement if it draws; Turkey only needs the Brazilian team to defeat or draw with Costa Rica while defeating the Chinese team; Costa Rica

If you want to advance, you not only need to defeat the powerful Brazil, but also hope that the Chinese team will tie with Turkey, or the Chinese team will slightly lose to Turkey, but you will beat Brazil by a big margin.

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With the Chinese team's brighter prospect of qualifying, countless fans began to gather in Seoul.

As the venue for the opening match of the World Cup between South Korea and Japan, the capacity of the Seoul World Cup Stadium is much larger than the stadium where the Chinese team played the first two games, and accordingly it can accommodate more fans to watch the game.

Both Gwangju World Cup Stadium and Jeju World Cup Stadium can only accommodate more than 42,000 fans to watch the game, but Seoul World Cup Stadium can accommodate more than 64,000 fans, which is the second largest among the ten stadiums in South Korea, slightly less than

The Daegu World Cup Stadium can accommodate 68,000 fans. Even among the 20 stadiums used during the entire World Cup, the Seoul World Cup Stadium can be ranked in the top three, and the Yokohama Stadium has the largest capacity of 70,000.

During the group stage, not many people from countries like Turkey came to the far east to watch football, but more local fans from Japan and South Korea. China is an exception. China, which is not far from Japan and South Korea, has too many fans.

Fans flock to Japan and South Korea to watch games. If it were not for the inability to buy tickets, it would not be a problem for Chinese fans to completely fill the stadium.

According to media estimates, there will be at least 40,000 Chinese fans watching the match between the Chinese team and Turkey, which is about the right to qualify. In addition, it is estimated that there are 10,000 to 20,000 local Korean fans. As for the Chinese team’s opponent, Turkey, how many people will be watching?

It would be great if thousands of fans enter the stadium.

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While Chinese fans are flocking to Seoul from all over the country, as well as Japan and South Korea, the Chinese team has been conducting closed training in their assigned training base. In addition to the opening hours stipulated by FIFA, Milu’s response to the Chinese team

The training content is completely confidential, and players are required not to leak training conditions to the outside world.

But judging from the performance of the players after training, everyone seems very confident. This can't help but make all media who follow the Chinese team very curious about what kind of training Milu has done for the Chinese team and what kind of training he has given the players.

Such great confidence.

It is a pity that all the players, including the staff, are keeping this secret. Everyone can only continue to wait, and everything will become clear when the game starts.

Time passed quickly, and the group stage entered the third round on June 11.

At 3:30 pm on June 11th, local time in South Korea, the two games of the third round of Group A started first. As a result, the defending champion France team, which had previously had a draw and a loss, once again lost to the Danish team with a jaw-dropping score of 0:2.

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With 3 games, 1 draw, 2 losses and 0 goals, the French team became the worst defending champion in the 72-year history of the World Cup, while Denmark and Senegal jointly entered the top 16!

At 8:30 pm on the same day, the group stage of Group E also came to an end. The German team defeated Cameroon 2:0, securing first place in the group with 2 wins and 1 draw; Ireland defeated Saudi Arabia 3:0 and got another promotion.

quota, and Saudi Arabia has netted 12 goals in 3 games, and has firmly established itself as the worst team in this World Cup.

On the 12th, the four games of Group B and Group F were played in the afternoon and evening respectively. As a result, in the two games of Group F, Sweden drew with Argentina 1:1, Nigeria drew with England 0:0, and two European teams

Jointly promoted. In Group B, Spain narrowly defeated South Africa 3:2, winning all 3 games and scoring 9 points; Paraguay won Slovenia 3:1, with the same points and a goal difference of 0, with 1

The goal advantage beat South Africa and advanced to the top 16.

At this point, the world's attention has focused on several games on the next match day, including the focus battle between the Chinese team and Turkey.
Chapter completed!