The group rankings of the four qualifying places in groups A and B are determined, and the two 1/8 finals are also divided into the upper and lower halves, with A1 Uruguay and B2 Spain drawn in the upper half, and B1 Portugal and B2 Russia drawn in the lower half.

With the winner of C1 and D2 facing the winner of Uruguay and Spain in the quarter-finals, while the winner of D1 and C2 facing the winner of Portugal and Russia, the Chinese team, who are currently top of Group C, can 'choose' their future quarter-final opponents.

Of course, before that, the Chinese team still needs to play their last round of group stage in Group C, as for the future 1/8 finals opponent and 1/4 finals opponent, they can only wait until the 1/8 finals and 1/4 finals to make plans.

Thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground, and the Chinese team has not yet qualified from the group, so naturally it is not qualified to think about the 1/8 finals and 1/4 finals.

FIFA in order to maximize the appearance of match-fixing, the last round of the group stage are all kicked off at the same time, the group stage of China vs Peru and France vs Denmark is at 5 p.m. local time on June 26, that is, 11 p.m. Beijing time.

These two matches were the earliest opening fixtures of the third round group stage of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, while the two Group D games three hours later were the latest.

Before the start of the stalemate Group D, the two group games of Group C naturally attracted the attention of the world.

No one expected that the favored French team would be ranked second in the group before the start of the third round, and even at risk of elimination.

Even if it is a small loss, as long as France and Denmark do not play two goal difference or more than two goal difference, the Chinese team with two goal difference still has one goal difference left, and the Chinese team that scored five goals in the first two rounds can still advance to the round of 16.

With more than half a day to go before the start of the game, Moscow and Sochi are full of frenetic football atmosphere.

Because in the near future, France and Denmark, China and Peru will have a 'life and death' battle in these two cities!

As the time for the match drew closer, the square near the Luzhniki Stadium and the Fisht Olympic Stadium was so crowded with fans that the surrounding traffic was paralyzed.

Traffic congestion in the vicinity of the Fisht Olympic Stadium has intensified as more and more Chinese fans have come to Russia as the Chinese team is about to qualify, and they can only wait outside the stadium or near the hotel where the Chinese team is staying when they are hard to get tickets.

They want to take a look at the national team they support before the match between China and Peru.

In the past, Chinese football was unsightly, and now it is perfectly recovering, better than the Chinese men's football team at its peak, the leading Tang Zheng will be twenty-nine years old this year, and the next World Cup will be thirty-three years old.

Even if there are a group of outstanding young players in the midfield, only Tang Zheng can really be regarded as a top superstar.

Two games, four goals and one assist.

And these are the data that those young players who are growing up can't do.

As Yang 5 commentator He Wei said, players like Pele and Maradona will produce one in a hundred years, and players like Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will produce one in fifty years, but players like Tang Zheng will only produce one in a thousand years.

To get back to the point, when the Chinese team arrived at the designated parking space of the Fisht Olympic Stadium by bus, whether it was the fans in line or the fans waiting, they all saluted and let out a huge cheer in the direction of the bus: "Whoa, whoa—"

Especially for those fans who didn't have tickets, the shouting was particularly staggering.

The Chinese players sitting in the bus kept waving, and they thanked the fans for their support in this way, and at the same time cheered themselves up in their hearts, they must win!

Although the Peruvian team has been eliminated early, they will inevitably fight to the Chinese team in the final round for the glory of the country for the glory of the country, and strive to get three points, so the third round that looks easy is actually very dangerous.

Of course, the most dangerous are France and Denmark, as long as China does not lose to Peru, Denmark will have to beat France if they want to advance to the round of 16.

As the favorite to win the championship, France will definitely become the laughing stock of the media in various countries if they fail to win the group, so they will definitely take the initiative to attack as much as possible in the last game and strive for more goals.

With both sides on the offensive, the outcome is hard to predict.

With an hour to go before the start of the game, the starting list of the Chinese team appeared on the official FIFA website.

Compared with playing Sweden on the field, there are two personnel changes, Hao Junmin, who has accumulated two yellow cards, was replaced by Ye Erfan, a nineteen-year-old striker who has not played before, but Ye Erfan did not play the front midfield, but was played by Lu Liang, Ye Erfan replaced Zhang Yuzhan as the center, Wu Sanshi played as the left forward, and Sun Jingbo was still on the right.

The Chinese team played Denmark in the last round, Zhang Yuzhan worked very hard, but it seems that the impact of injuries did not meet the expectations that Lippi wanted to see, so this game tried to train better Ye Erfan.

The Chinese domestic media who got the starting lineup of the Chinese team were not too surprised, Ye Erfan was very good in terms of form, but he was limited by the national team's qualifications and was not able to start in the last two rounds.

It is worth mentioning that Ye Erfan scored a god-level upside down golden hook in the Panda Cup against Hungary in May last year, which is impressive, so many domestic fans hope to see Ye Erfan can replicate that classic goal on the World Cup stage.

Peru's number one star Farfan continues to be absent due to injury, and the starting line-up has only two changes from the 0-1 defeat to France in the previous round, with Tapia and Santa Maria replacing Pedro Aquino and Alberto Rodriguez, who have accumulated two yellow cards and suspended, as midfielders and central defenders respectively.

Obviously, Peru, which was eliminated early, did not make a large rotation of the squad in order to fight for glory in the final round, so the head coach of the Chinese team, Lippi, reminded the players after returning to the locker room that they must not underestimate the enemy, otherwise they are likely to be greeted with a big defeat.

Peru's early elimination does not mean that they are not strong, as they finished fifth in the South American zone ahead of Chile to qualify for the play-offs and finish 11th in the FIFA rankings.

The FIFA rankings may not show that Peru is strong, but they do show that they are not weak.

There are no weak teams in the World Cup, and the Chinese team does not have any capital to despise the opponent, so this is a matter of qualifying from the group and cannot be taken lightly.

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At 5 o'clock in the afternoon local time in Russia, the final round of the World Cup Group C match between the Chinese team and the Peruvian team kicked off at the Fisht Olympic Stadium.

The Fisht Olympic Stadium, which can accommodate 44,000 fans, is full, and the fans who support the Chinese team account for the vast majority, because the number of Chinese fans pouring into Russia is too large, and the organizing committee officially left more votes for neutral fans than for the fans of the 'Dragon Team' fan club, and after rapid development China now has a lot of rich people, in addition to buying neutral tickets through formal channels, more rich people buy tickets from neutral fans.

Of course, the cost is very large, several times or even ten times higher than the face value of the ticket......

However, being able to see the group stage of the World Cup of the Chinese team is nothing to these fans who have come to a foreign country.

Sprinkle with water.

As far as the eye can see, almost two-thirds of the stands of the entire stadium are occupied by Chinese fans.

"Beep~"

With a long whistle from Russian referee Sergei Karashov, the final round of the group stage of the World Cup between the Chinese team and the Peruvian team officially began!

Wearing a white jersey and white pants, the Peruvian team urgently needed a victory to play the shame of two consecutive defeats in the previous group, so the Peruvian team, which had the advantage of kick-off, took the lead in attacking the Chinese team in the half.

At the beginning of the game, as predicted by the head coach of the Chinese team Lippi before the game, the Peruvian team took the lead.

However, the Chinese team was clearly prepared, and at the beginning they put on a defensive posture and allowed the Peruvian team to attack.

In the blink of an eye, five minutes into the first half, the scoreboard still showed the score at 0:0.

Yang 5 commentator He Wei tapped his chin and said with a smile: "The tactical arrangement guided by Lippi is very targeted, the Chinese team that is currently ranked first in the group only needs a draw to get the right to qualify from the group, and there is no need to spend too much energy to attack, after all, the Chinese team's rapid counterattack ability is very strong, and Lu Liang, Wu Sanshi, Sun Jingbo and Ye Erfan, who appeared in the front waist position in this game, have a very fast speed......"

In the other match played at the same time, France, who were aiming to top the group, launched a fierce attack on Denmark from the early stages of the game.

Although the third round of Group D has not yet started, the basic situation has become clear, Croatia is certain to be the first in the group, and the second place in the group is a bit more variable, Nigeria, Argentina and Iceland all have a chance to qualify.

According to the strength of the matchup, Argentina, who have been reborn from a desperate situation, is certainly more likely to beat Nigeria to qualify from the group, but Nigeria, who have already accumulated three points, only need a draw to qualify from the group.

Argentina defeated Croatia by three goals in the second round, coupled with the recent news that coach Sampaoli and striker Sergio Aguero had a conflict, causing Sampaoli to lose control of the dressing room, considering the 2010 World Cup in South Africa France infighting, many media are optimistic that Nigeria will advance to the round of 16 of this World Cup as the second in the group.

Iceland, who have a chance to survive, will also have a chance to finish second in the group if they beat Croatia in the final round.

Nigeria and Iceland are better to deal with than Croatia, who are in good form, so Didier Deschamps' France must have more goal difference in order to win the group, so as to beat China.

In the eighteenth minute of the game, the score of the Chinese team and the Peruvian team has not changed, and the score of the French team and the Danish team has changed first, with Griezmann grabbing points in the penalty area, the French team leads Denmark 1:0.

As soon as the score of the Luzhniki Stadium changed, the assistant coach of the Chinese team, Madaloni, came to the command area as soon as possible to inform Lippi of the latest score change.

Immediately, Lippi raised his eyebrows, if the game ends according to the current score, France will win the first place in the group, and the Chinese team will retreat to the second place in the group.

If the second place in Group D is Nigeria or Iceland, the Chinese team will naturally go all out to win the first place in the group, but Argentina, which is not favored, will beat Nigeria and Iceland will not be able to beat Croatia, then Argentina will be second in the group......

So Lippi didn't know how to choose, thought about it for a long time, sighed, and let it be.

Before choosing the opponent of the 1/8 finals, it is more important to qualify from the group.

With more than 70 minutes to go until the end of the game, the defense is very big, and there is no need to go to Peru too early for the so-called group top.

There are too many stories of fighting snakes and not dying, but suffering from them, perhaps...... Group second is not necessarily a bad thing.

Unconsciously, the Chinese team became a little confused.

Fortunately, the tactical execution of the players was very good, and the score did not change until the end of the first half, and the two sides entered the dressing room with a score of 0:0.

If the two matches are played according to the current score, the French team will emerge from Group C as the group leader, and the Chinese team will be second in the group.

During the break, Lippi did not explain the tactical changes for the second half in the dressing room, but asked the players meaningfully if they wanted to compete for top spot in the group.

The players frowned and couldn't make up their minds, so they looked at the captain Tang Zheng.

According to their habitual thinking, Tang Zheng made the idea.

Tang Zheng was very helpless to the eyes of his teammates, but he knew that as the captain at this time, he had to make up his mind, so he glanced at his teammates and head coach Lippi, and shouted from a deep voice: "The opponent in the 1/8 finals is naturally trying to avoid stronger opponents, but we should show our best level, if we can beat Peru and score more goals, why keep it? We are not representing ourselves, but the whole country!"

With the statement of captain Tang Zheng, other Chinese players have expressed their support, after all...... The game is a fight for the country.

It is good to choose opponents for the knockout round, but it must not damage the spirit of national sportsmanship, and if you can win and score a lot of goals, you must win and score a lot of goals!

The fifteen-minute half-time break passed quickly, and in the second half, neither side made any changes to the lineup, and it was very burning that the managers of both sides were relatively satisfied with the performance of their respective players.

The Chinese team, which had the advantage of kick-off, did not retreat to half-court defense as in the first half, but boldly participated in the attack, which was a big surprise.

The Peruvian team obviously did not expect that the Chinese team would increase the offensive in the second half, insufficient preparation, and it was too late to strengthen the defense, in the 49th minute, Tang Zheng received Lu Liang's horizontal pass without making any adjustments, and directly used his left foot to pass the football to his own side to attack the right side, Zhang Linpeng inserted at high speed, and the left back Trenco was attracted by Sun Jingbo to expose a huge gap, and the left forward Flores was insufficiently recovered, giving Zhang Linpeng a lot of space to handle the ball.

Zhang Linpeng, who beat Lichtsteiner to become Juventus' main right-back, made a slight adjustment in the run and crossed directly.

Yerfan, who had a good nose in front of goal, dove over Santa Maria and headed the ball towards goal, but goalkeeper Galese did not react.