On June 14th, it can be said that the much-anticipated 2018 World Cup in Russia finally kicked off in a thousand calls!

After a simple but grand opening ceremony, the World Cup ushered in the opening match - Russia against Saudi Arabia.

In the first half, Golovin assisted Gazinski's header to score the first goal of the World Cup, and the Russian core Zagoev left the field with an injury, and then substitute Cheryshev extended the score.

In stoppage time, Cheryshev scored a brace with a wonderful instep volley, Golovin scored from a free kick, and completed one goal, two assists and one indirect assist.

At the end of the game, Russia defeated Saudi Arabia 5:0 and made a good start to this World Cup!

Seeing this result, most of the people in the Chinese team were unable to sleep.

Because, compared with Saudi Arabia, the strength of the Chinese team is also in the middle of the middle, while Russia is only a second-rate team in Europe, far worse than the German team.

Since Russia was able to slaughter Saudi Arabia 5-0, how would the German team insult the Chinese team?

Almost every member of the Chinese team fell into a haze, and even if Lippi and Dai Zhiwei enlightened, it seemed that the effect was not obvious.

However, just one day before the Chinese team's game, a piece of news rekindled their fighting spirit!

The German team was knocked down by Mexico 0:1!

If the many "accidents" in the first three days of this cup are just not routines, the German team's defeat to Mexico is completely "contrary" to people's expectations before the game.

As a four-time champion and four-time runner-up, the German team reached the semi-finals in the first four cups, and can be called the most consistent team in the World Cup. Although the Mexican team has qualified from the group in the previous 6 cups, it has never been able to go further, and it is also the most stable "cup 16".

The situation on the field was quite surprising when the whistle blew, and the Mexican team showed aggressive momentum, launching consecutive attacks and ushering in the harvest. In the 35th minute, Mexican star "Little Pea" Hernandez assisted Lozano to score and take the lead.

The Straw Hats finally ushered in their first victory against Germany in the World Cup, ending the 36-year unbeaten streak in the first game of the Germanic Tank World Cup.

Although they were at a disadvantage in the first half, the technical statistics after the game showed that Germany was significantly ahead of its opponents in terms of shots (25:12), shots on target (9:4), possession (61%: 39%), passing (631:317), and pass success rate (86%: 75%), but the result was a loss.

Previously, the Chinese team had always regarded the German team as the big devil, but they didn't expect to be killed by Mexico.

Although the Chinese players do not have that kind of "I can do it" conceit, at least it is not so empty.

On June 18, the fifth match day of this World Cup, the second match of Group F of the World Cup was played at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium in Nizhny Novgorod, where the "Viking Vikings" Sweden team played against the Chinese team.

The Chinese team is the most representative of Asia, which attracts attention. Sweden, on the other hand, is remembered by fans all over the world for knocking out Italy in the play-offs. Because there are also strong Germany and Mexico in the same group, this game must be won by Sweden and China if they want to qualify.

In general, Sweden's strength is still much higher than that of the Chinese team, and Sweden's three advantages make it difficult for them to create a miracle.

In addition, because of Germany's upset loss, this has become a life-and-death battle to qualify, and whoever loses will have a difficult situation to qualify, after all, the German team will go all out in the next two games.

Looking back at Sweden's journey to the World Cup finals is telling. Sweden knocked out the Netherlands on goal difference in the group stage of the World Qualifiers, and they also beat the mighty France 2-1 in the group stage, handing the Gallic Roosters their only defeat in the group stage.

They were unafraid of facing tough opponents Italy in the play-offs, keeping clean sheets over two legs and knocking out the Azzurri 1-0.

The Swedes are not afraid of any formidable opponents and are aiming to make history in this tournament.

The hottest player in this Chinese team is none other than Dai Zhiwei, it is undeniable that Dai Zhiwei is the biggest favorite for the Golden Ball this year, but who else is there in the Chinese team besides him?

On the other hand, even the most influential Ibrahimovic did not make the selection. However, Victor Lindelof of Manchester United in the Premier League and Forsberg of RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga are all very powerful hard players.

Another person who has to be mentioned is Berry who plays for Al Ain in the UAE league and is Sweden's top scorer in the World Championships, scoring eight goals in 11 games, including a crucial first-leg goal against the Netherlands.

So in terms of squad configuration, Sweden is clearly superior.

However, the Chinese team also hides a "big move" - a strong logistics team.

In order to let the team go to the game without worries, the Football Association has formed a very complete logistics team for the national team, including team doctors, translators, physiotherapists and even chefs and other different logistics staff.

In particular, the Chinese also brought China's exclusive medical equipment to Russia this time, including extracorporeal shock wave pain therapy devices, laser therapy machines, etc., and the total weight of these medical equipment has exceeded 900 kilograms, almost 1 ton.

It is said that details determine success or failure, this time the Chinese team has done a really good job, no matter what the results are, at least in terms of logistics, we have to compete for the championship!

Sweden's starting line-up –

Goalkeeper: Olsen

Defenders: Lustig, Augustinsson, Glenqvist, Jansson

Midfielders: Sebastian Larsson, Ekdal, Forsberg, Klasson

Forwards: Marcus Berry, Toivonen

The starting lineup of the Chinese team——

Goalkeeper: Zeng Cheng

Defenders: Li Xuepeng, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng, Zhang Chengdong

Waist: Zheng Zhi, Hao Junmin

Avant-garde: Yu Hanchao, Wu Xi, Wu Lei

Forward: Dai Zhiwei

Although the average age of the 23 members of the Chinese team in the World Cup is 27.96 years old, the main age is not young, the average age of the starting list of this game is 30.18 years old, except for Wu Lei in 91 and Dai Zhiwei in 94, the rest are post-80s.

Where can Dai Zhiwei and the Chinese team go in this World Cup?

Nothing is yet known!

It also means that anything is possible!

Dai Zhiwei, who captained the team for the first time, won when guessing the coin, and he chose to tee off.

With the referee's whistle, Wu Lei dialed the football to Dai Zhiwei, and the match between China and Sweden officially began.

The Chinese team wore the traditional white-on-white red-edged jersey, while the Swedish team wore their signature yellow jersey.

Wu Lei dialed the ball to his forward partner, and Dai Zhiwei gently knocked the ball back to Zheng Zhi's feet again.

The Chinese team is not qualified to attack against the Swedish team, or the Chinese team is not qualified to attack against any team in this World Cup, so after qualifying for the top 12, the Chinese team has been practicing only one tactic under the coaching of Lippi - defensive counterattack!

After a few backwards, Wu Xi and Hao Junmin played a one-two, Artemisia Junmin went straight in front of the penalty area on the right side, and Wu Xi used his physical advantage to shake off Klason's defense and hit the front of the penalty area.

After Wu Xi stepped past Sebastian Larsson, who was rushing to block, he flashed a gap and passed straight to the middle, but unfortunately Olsen was held by Olsen, who was standing in the front, and Dai Zhiwei shook off Glenqvist, but to no avail.

Glenqvist passed the ball to Forsberg, Xiaobai looked at the situation in the penalty area, glanced at it, quickly dribbled straight down and passed the ball diagonally, and the ball quickly spun to the vicinity of the small penalty area of the Chinese team.

Feng Xiaoting held Sebastian Larsson at the back post to prevent him from jumping, and he jumped up with all his might, trying to push the falling ball out.

"Oops!"

Feng Xiaoting felt that a yellow figure appeared in front of him, and he had rushed over from the side, Feng Xiaoting wanted to take the lead, but Sebastian Lalsson behind him was dead on his waist and didn't let him exert his strength.

A tall figure had already crossed Feng Xiaoting, and was in the middle of the ball, and the ball changed direction in an instant, flying towards Zeng Cheng's right side, and flew straight to the corner of the goal.

Zhang Linpeng was still a little out of shape at the beginning of the game, and this time he didn't protect Feng Xiaoting's body, and was grabbed by Augustinsson from behind and completed an attack.

"Shot, Augustinsson's header...... Oh, damn the beams! The Swedish commentator saw Augustinsson's powerful header hit the crossbar and bounce off the line.

Feng Xiaoting patted Zhang Linpeng and exchanged the problem of defending the ball, the game had just begun, and the two of them had already realized the terrible high-altitude bombing of the Swedish team!

This is the World Cup!

Every team is not a weakling!

The Chinese team narrowly escaped, and the players quickly increased their concentration, and Yu Hanchao and Hao Junmin became more cautious in handling the ball.

Wu Lei used his flexibility to successfully shake off Yang Song and quickly cut in.

The past season at Villarreal was quite successful for Wu Lei, scoring 10 goals and providing 11 assists in all competitions, although he was still not the team's number one striker after Bakambu's departure, but he has gradually settled into the starting position, which is a big improvement from last year.

Seeing that Wu Lei was about to enter the penalty area, Glenqvist hurriedly pulled the side and rushed towards him, and Sebastian Larsson was also approaching Wu Lei at this time.

Wu Lei didn't expect that his inward cut would attract the attention of the three players, and he knew that he would not be able to break through the defense of the three players, so he knocked the ball to the feet of Dai Zhiwei, who was inserted.

At this time, Dai Zhiwei was already in the middle of the road with no one to defend, he started quickly, shook off Ekdal who was pulling behind, quickly burst into the penalty area, and forcibly shook off the blocked Sebastian Larsson, and there was a vacancy.

It's a space where you can shoot with your feet!

Dai Zhiwei glanced at Olsen's position, did not stop the ball, pumped his left foot into the upper part of the ball, shot low, and flew directly to the right side of the goal against the ground.

Olsen's body was blocked by Granqvist who was returning to the defense at this time, but he didn't expect Dai Zhiwei to shoot a cold shot before he entered the big penalty area, and quickly fell to the ground to save.

Although the football shot by Dai Zhiwei flew close to the ground, it was extremely fast, and at the moment when Olsen fell to the ground, the ball had already passed through everyone, directly through Olsen's ten fingers.

"The ball went in...... Oh no! Dai Zhiwei's shot hit the side netting against the goal frame, and this angle looked like it was follow-up! Ah, alas! If it's a little closer, there will be. He Wei, the commentator of the sports channel of Huaxia TV, lamented.

Because the Chinese team joined the World Cup, Huaxia TV Sports Channel also came up with a golden lineup of commentators.

The commentary lineup of the Huaxia TV Sports Channel Russia World Cup is 7 people, of which 5 are CCTV commentators, namely "First Brother" He Wei, "Everything is coming" Hong Gang, Zhu Xiaoyu, Liu Jiayuan and Zeng Kan, and the commentators are two former international players Xu Yang and Yang Cheng.

He Wei first saw the high-speed flying ball through Olsen's ten fingers, and soon stirred up a burst of white waves, thinking that the ball had already gone in, and excitedly shouted "goal", but unfortunately saw Dai Zhiwei's posture of holding his head, only to know that the ball was rubbing against the door frame and hitting the side net.

Lippi on the sidelines and Swedish coach Andersson also thought that Dai Zhiwei had scored the goal, so the expressions of the two changed dramatically in just a dozen seconds, comparable to the face-changing stunt in Sichuan drama!

After Sweden sent the ball, both sides paid more attention to their defense, they knew that the opponent's offensive strength was very good, Sweden relied on high-altitude bombing, while the Chinese team relied on Dai Zhiwei's individual combat, no matter which side made a mistake first, it would definitely be punished by the opponent.

Dai Zhiwei also had to sigh that the luck of the Chinese team was not bad in the front court, the opponent in the first game of the World Cup was Sweden, compared to Germany and Mexico, the offensive strength of the Vikings who played team football was not strong, so the Chinese team was able to barely cope with it.

The scramble in the midfield became the focus of this game, and Yu Hanchao increased the speed of his feet, and quickly handed the ball to Zheng Zhi's left after winning the ball.

After Zheng Zhi held up his chest to catch the ball, he increased his speed in an instant, saw Ekdal rushing over, the ball flicked outside, and then his body passed through, wading through Ekdal alive, and opened a gap on the left side, and Li Xuepeng on the side also followed.

However, Zheng Zhi's speed was mediocre after all, and he was quickly blocked by Lustig, so he could only stop his moving body alive, and then quickly pulled back the ball, stepped on the ball, and did not let Lustig have any chance to touch the ball.

Zheng Zhi had no way to break through the opponent, so he could only divide the ball into sides, and a white figure galloped past and quickly received the ball.

After Li Xuepeng received Zheng Zhi's pass, he ignored Sebastian Larsson, who rushed over, and quickly inserted himself into the Swedish team's penalty area, and took a look at the situation in the penalty area.

The football is like a meteor in the Swedish penalty area!

(End of chapter)