Fox in the Penalty Area

Remember [New] in a second! "The group of death! The prospect of the Chinese team's World Cup road is bleak!"

"The lottery is tragic! The unluckiest thirty-two are born!"

"A blow to the head! Chinese football ambitions have been frustrated!"

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As soon as the results of the World Cup group draw came out, the Internet in China exploded.

After the Chinese team reached the World Cup finals, Chinese fans and the media are most concerned about the group results.

Everyone hopes that the Chinese team can be assigned to a relatively easy group, so that the hope of qualifying for the group is very high.

Because the rules of the group draw were announced long ago, Chinese fans and the media have been making various arrangements and combinations some time ago to see which group the Chinese team is assigned to is the most favorable result.

But they patronize to calculate the most favorable outcome, but completely ignore the possibility of the worst outcome...

So when the lottery result came out, everyone was dumbfounded.

Hosts and defending World Cup champions and second-ranked Spain, last World Cup winner and 10th-ranked Italy, and Nigeria, the highest-ranked team in Africa.

In front of these three teams, the Chinese team is helpless, weak and pitiful.

Taking a closer look at the grouping results of all eight groups, the Chinese team's group H is the closest in strength, and naturally the deadliest.

None of these three teams is easy to play.

Not to mention the defending champion, who has the advantage of home court. If anyone doesn't believe it...the Chinese team just played against them in the warm-up match and lost 1:4.

Italy, the champion of the last World Cup, also has many powerful players. Although Caesar is old, they still have top goalkeepers like Albertazzi, top central defenders Petro Nazari, Insubre's midfielder Marc Co Rossini, and of course Hu Lai's teammate Danielle Diquin left in the Madrid Pirates... FIFA ranked tenth, which can somewhat explain their current strength.

The Nigeria national team ranks the highest among all African teams, and their actual performance also proves this ranking, because they did not encounter too many difficulties in the African qualifiers and got the right to qualify smoothly.

So as soon as the result of the lottery came out, there was wailing on the domestic Internet.

Many people have already said that the Chinese team will be in the "three rounds of the group stage" this time. If you want to make a breakthrough, you should wait for the 2034 World Cup in China. At least in terms of the results of the group draw, they should not be hacked.

Because the host naturally occupies a place for a seeded team.

At the same time, considering factors such as attendance rate and ratings, the Chinese team will not be arranged with too strong opponents, and it will be guaranteed that the Chinese team can qualify from the group.

"...Actually, being able to enter the World Cup finals consecutively is already a great victory. Everyone should relax and face the matter of qualifying for the group stage with a more peaceful attitude...Look at Japan and South Korea next door, then they have entered How many World Cups does it take to reach the knockout round? What? Japan is the second time? But Japan is the host for the second time. Isn’t it normal for the host to enter the knockout round? This also proves from the side that the Chinese team will definitely enter the knockout round in the next World Cup !"

"But next year will be the peak time for this team! Wait another four years...Hu Lai is 31 years old, let alone the others, Brother Huan is 34...Experience is rich, but physical fitness is inevitable Falling. Even if you can qualify from the group stage, what good results can you get?"

This is indeed a place where Chinese fans are particularly entangled.

At the World Cup next year, the golden generation of Chinese football will indeed be in their golden years.

Zhang Qinghuan was 30 years old, Wang Guangwei was 28 years old, Hu Lai was 27 years old, Chen Xingyi was 27 years old, Luo Kai was 26 years old, Xia Xiaoyu was 25 years old, Zhou Zijing was 25 years old, Lin Zhiyuan was 24 years old age.

Physical fitness and experience awareness are at their peak.

This is indeed the best time to produce results.

The result was the "Group of Death".

Many Chinese fans have a sense of "God is going to kill me", and the resentment in their hearts is difficult to dispel for a while.

Unlike domestic fans, Jorge Dillon, the head coach of the Chinese team, expressed his joy to Jin Tao on the result of the draw:

"This is really the lottery result I dreamed of, Yu! You know what? When the result came out, I almost slipped and knelt in the living room at home!"

Even through the phone, Yu Jintao could fully feel the excitement of the old man Dillon. He smiled bitterly and said, "You'd better not show your excitement in front of the media, Jorge, or you will go to China again." It's a hot search on the Internet."

Dillon understood: "Of course, I'm not that stupid, Yu. But this is really the result of my dream draw. Didn't Hong ask me how to make the world look at Chinese football with admiration? That's it, what's better than dying What would surprise the whole world even more if the group breaks out?"

"Are you still thinking about qualifying in the 'Group of Death', Jorge?"

"Of course, why not? Because of this, it is even more important to qualify!" Dillon said firmly.

Yu Jintao was speechless, because he found that many people in China have less confidence in this team than a foreigner...

"...Jorge Dillon, head coach of the Chinese national team, said in an interview that although being in the 'group of death' is not a good result, no matter what the grouping result is, the team just needs to go all out That's enough. So he thinks this result is not too bad for the Chinese team...'We have a great stage to show ourselves', Dillon said at the end of the interview..."

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When Hu Lai arrived in the locker room of the training base, he saw many teammates staring at him.

Then captain Ramirez walked up to him and said, "I really don't know what to say, huh..."

Hu Lai: "It's okay, captain, then 'everything is in the dark'."

Ramirez shook his head and said, "Honestly, Hu, I may have a different idea from some people outside. I don't know if this is a sign up or a sign down..."

"What's there to hesitate about?" Hu Lai shrugged, "For me, it's definitely a sign!"

"I just don't think it's a good sign for us..." Ramirez said.

Yoon Martinez followed suit.

Chinese fans patronize and wail for the "group of death", but in fact, for all the teams in the "group of death", this is not a good result.

What is the "Group of Death"?

It means that the strength of the four teams is close, and it is normal for whoever wins and who loses.

In the eyes of Chinese fans, the other three teams are strong teams, but in the eyes of the other three teams, their opponents are not good.

Even if the Chinese team is the weakest in this group, and the three teams compete for two qualifying places, no one can guarantee that their probability of qualifying is higher than that of the other two teams.

It seems that the Chinese team is the target of the remaining three teams competing for points.

But look at Hu Lai standing in front of them.

Who dares to say that his team can securely win against the Chinese team with Hu Lai?

Seeing the way everyone looked at him, Hu Lai knew what they were thinking, and hurriedly cupped his hands: "Oh, oh, don't look at me like that. I know the level of the Chinese team very well. We are the last one, so I really treat you guys." No threat...Really. The 31st ranking of the Chinese team was still obtained by the top 12, but the top 12 is simply an Asian level competition, which is completely incomparable with Europe and South America. "

When he was speaking, no one interrupted him, and everyone just looked at him quietly.

After he finished speaking, Ramirez and his teammates in the Spanish national team looked at each other and said with a smile: "Hu, do you think we will believe what you say?"

Hu Lai froze for a moment, then frowned: "Tsk."

Everyone here knows his details, so it's not easy to be deceived...

Seeing him like this, the locker room roared with laughter.

Ramirez smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "When it comes to the World Cup, we will go all out, Hu."

This time Hu Lai said seriously: "I will do my best, Captain."

"Very good, regardless of winning or losing, the most important thing is to go all out." Ramirez finally patted Hu Lai on the shoulder, "Go change your clothes and get ready for training!"

"Okay!" Hu Lai's serious expression just now disappeared from his face in an instant, replaced by a hippie smile, "Captain, I said that I went all out for fun, and you don't have to take it too seriously... Then what, let's Let's discuss it, let's go out together..."

Di Kunzuo yelled, "I'm still here, Hu!"

Hu Lai immediately pointed to Dikun Zuo, and said seriously: "Captain, please do your best!"

Some people covered their faces, others laughed.

The atmosphere in the locker room has returned to the joy and peace of the past...

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"Peng!"

This is the sound of a fist hitting a football.

With this muffled sound, the football flew out of the penalty area.

There, someone raised his right leg and shot directly without stopping the ball!

The goalkeeper who had just landed on the ground immediately flew out sideways, and at the same time, he closed his fists together and hit... the football!

The flying football was thrown out by him again!

"Wow! Mauro is in great shape!"

Someone on the sidelines made such an exclamation.

After Mauro Albertazzi got up from the ground, the football was out of his box.

He shook his fist vigorously, as if to cheer himself up.

There are still seven months!

There is no better stage than the World Cup!

You wait for me, Hu! Come!

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ps, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the recent epidemic in Chengdu, home isolation was already impetuous - because the children also stayed at home together - and then there was an earthquake again.

It's frightening ~www.novelmt.com~ During this period of time, the time of coding is getting later and later—I have been going to bed at five or six in the morning for a week, and my wife has a lot of opinions on this.

Let me switch back to my schedule and synchronize with her.

I am indeed a little anxious, because there are only three chapters in the manuscript, and I have reached the "deadline".

So I decided to be cheeky and stay alone for a period of time. On the one hand, I adjusted my work and rest, on the one hand, I adjusted my mentality, and on the other hand, I also saved the manuscript to make myself less anxious.

After all, this book is already the second longest in my career—the first is "We Are the Champions", but I only wrote more than three million words in that book in three years, and this book in two and a half years With six million words written, the workload is completely different. At this time, it is inevitable that I will be mentally exhausted.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's a troubled time, I hope everyone understands...

Originally, I still wanted to persevere, to see if I could try my best to write three chapters a day, and make up the saved manuscripts.

But yesterday's earthquake still made me give up this idea - if something unexpected happens, a bad physical condition will lead to serious problems, so let's adjust the body first, at least sleep well.