However, the process and result of the battle of the two teeth not only made Li Mudi feel a little embarrassed alone, but also swollen the cheeks of many people who thought that the president was old and was about to decline, among which Real Madrid Club and Hao Dong, the No. 1 striker in Asia that year, bore the brunt.

The former was unwilling to fulfill the previously agreed contract renewal conditions, and even moved the idea of selling the quasi-football king who is still at the top level in the world, which was considered by many fans of the outside world or Ronaldo to be blind and ungrateful. For a time, it has caused a small negative impact on the Galaxy Battleship, which has been in the world football in recent years.

And the stalk of the latter is only known by the football circle of the Celestial Empire. Eight years ago, at the World Cup in South Africa, the former international player, known as "Hao Cannon", commented on the peerless pride in football in the program, believing that Argentina's one has outstanding skills and can continue his state for a long time, while Portugal's one is all about eating with his body and has only been on fire for three years. As a result, three years after three years, three years after three years, since then, the president has maintained his world's best competitive level at the beginning of the ninth year, and has equaled or even surpassed Messi, who was ahead of him in team results and personal honors, and directly beat those who are not optimistic about him into pigs' heads.

Almost every year during the competition, domestic fans will jump out and ask Hao Dong to re-evaluate the conclusion that "the fire is only three years", but it has never been fulfilled. With this super MT in front to attract firepower, Li Mudi feels that his life is still relatively comfortable, at least he should not be turned over by the fans every year, if he thinks about it like this, his mood is much better, after all, he is a dead friend and not a poor man, hehe!

However, no matter how ridiculous it was, Li Mudi had to give his knee to the president once, and his performance in this game was so great that it was hard to believe that anyone could have scored a hat-trick on the Spanish team if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes. This time he won three yuan, allowing him to create countless great records and raise his position in the history of world football by another point.

This is Ronaldo's fourth consecutive World Cup goal, tying Uweschiller (Germany's legend, West Germany's top striker before Gerd Muller), Pele and Klose, tied for the first place in history; At the same time, this is also the time he has scored in nine consecutive continental competitions and above (four European Cups, four World Cups, one Confederations Cup), the absolute number one in the world, not to mention the number of goals, just looking at the time span of 2004-2018, you can see how long the president's excellent competitive state has been maintained, which makes people have to admire.

The hat-trick also made him the oldest player to achieve the feat at 33 years and 130 days. At the same time, it is also the 51st hat-trick of Ronaldo's career (including 44 for Real Madrid, 6 for the national team and 1 for Manchester United), and the 51st hat-trick in the history of the World Cup, a perfect coincidence.

What's more, those three goals helped the president rise to 84 goals for the national team, equalling the old-timer Puskas and tying Portugal and the entire European region for the top spot in the national team's goalscoring charts. In the world, he is also second behind the legendary Iranian goalscorer Ali Daei's 109 goals.

The list of these dazzling achievements is enough to blind the eyes of the fans. It can be said that this game has pulled most of Ronaldo's body into the throne of the king of the ball, as long as he can lead the Portuguese team, which is not widely favored by the outside world, to reach the semi-finals of this World Cup, it is likely to become the third and only one who has not won the World Cup. At that point, there may be no one other than Messi's supporters who will question the president's position.

In this way, only on the third day of the opening of the World Cup in Russia, such an influential event appeared inside and outside the stadium, which hyped people's enthusiasm to an extremely hot state. It's just that as the group stage progresses, all those who follow this football boom are starting to find that the game is becoming more and more incomprehensible, and almost all the favourites have failed to show the expected strength in their debuts, and it can be said that the frequency of upsets is far more frequent than in previous tournaments.

In Group C, France, who were considered to have no weaknesses, won two rounds of play-offs to qualify for the World Cup against Australia, who had played the most games of any team in the qualifiers in the Asian region and between Asia and CONCACAF and the Caribbean), but just looking at the game, the Gallic Roosters did not put in a convincing performance. Didier Deschamps' team had an absolute advantage in both technique and speed, and the physical confrontation was not in an obvious disadvantage, and they obviously lacked the spirit of fighting with all their might, and the whole game seemed to be insufficient to win. Had it not been for Paul Pogba's goal in the 81st minute, a draw would have looked more fair.

In another key matchup on the same day, Messi's Argentina team was even more unbearable when facing Iceland, which made its World Cup debut. Although everyone knows the meaning of the phrase that there is no weak team in Europe, before the game, not many people were optimistic that this new Nordic team could get points in front of the Pampas Eagles. It's just that the big upset has reappeared, Argentina with 10,000 reasons to win actually played a worse game than the French team, although the score of 1-1 is barely acceptable, but judging from the performance of Messi and other world-class stars, the final result of their visit to Russia this time is likely to be another tragedy, and the sound of the famous song may have been inevitable.

However, few people could have imagined at the time that even more outrageous results were yet to come. The Samba Army, the favourites to win the championship, was forced to score 1-1 by the Swiss team, which was far above their true strength in the world rankings, which was disappointing; The defending champion Germany team broke out a shocking upset, losing to Mexico in the first round of the group stage by one goal, which had never lost in the World Cup before, and the prospects of qualifying suddenly became very unoptimistic; England, the weakest opponent in the first round, barely beat Tunisia only thanks to Harry Kane's stoppage-time goal.

In addition to the sluggish form of these traditional powerhouses, there were also other matches in the first round of the group stage where the results of the matches were quite different from the pre-match predictions, the most surprising of which was Japan's 2-1 clash against Colombia. J Ronaldo's pre-match injury and the ultra-luxury package of red card and penalty in the opening three minutes of the game by main defender Alexis Sanchez made the game, which was supposed to be an easy win for the South American powerhouse, another big hole for bettors.

After 16 group games, not to mention the reaction in the rest of the world, anyway, a wave of arguments in the Great Celestial Empire claiming that "match-fixing is prevalent" has already made waves in the community, and there is even a famous musician with a high surname (what do you say he has to do with the football world?). is still there to unashamedly break all kinds of news, what a strange thing in China! He made public remarks, portrayed the World Cup as a money-making tool manipulated by major European bookmakers, and produced some seemingly plausible evidence to prove that his claims were extremely correct, which caused a frenzied response from many fans and bettors.

Huang Jianxiang, Duan Xuan and others even replied to the above-mentioned nonsense by name, as if a faction could not tolerate the rhythm of this world's No. 1 sport being splashed with dirty water by others.

Regarding this World Cup, another issue that has attracted everyone's attention is the use of VAR, many people think that the use of video assistant referees seriously affects the smoothness of the game and brings very poor senses to the audience. And there are a lot of people who feel that the referee team is too subjective when choosing when to use or whether to adopt the advice of the off-field video team, and it is impossible to ensure the fairness of the game. For example, in the battle of the two teeth, Costa had a suspected elbow foul on Pepe before scoring the first goal, which was clearly seen from the video, but the referee on duty was determined not to watch the video, which led to strong dissatisfaction among the Portuguese players and their supporters. In other subsequent sessions, there were many similar situations, which caused a lot of negative impacts.

In response to these two controversial topics, Li Mudi, who had just arrived in Nizhny Novgorod after returning to Italy to deal with some club affairs, was ready to explain the match between Argentina and Croatia in the second round of Group D. was caught by CCTV reporters who were stationed here to cover and report during the World Cup, and had to give his views in public.

The Torino coach believes that the 32 teams that can enter the World Cup, although they are high and low in the FIFA rankings, but in terms of their overall strength, the gap is not as big as people think, and the results of each game have their own reasons and cannot simply be attributed to the underdogs.

From the perspective of those strong teams or the favorites to win the championship, the results in the first game are not ideal, and the reasons are not the same. France, especially Argentina, played poorly, mainly because they did not pay enough attention to their opponents and made the mistake of underestimating the enemy in their thinking. Sampaoli announced their starting line-up the day before the game, a rarity in a cup format where every game is crucial, giving Iceland plenty of time to prepare. It was clear to everyone in the game that several of Argentina's stars did not play into the rhythm they were used to, which was inseparable from the fact that they were extremely targeted by their opponents.

Brazil's draw was due to some problems with the manager's line-up, and when Neymar's injury was not fully recovered, Tite still put the burden on him, and Jesus's start made the team have no offensive fulcrum in the front, and if he wants to rely on small skills to break down the Swiss team, it is inevitable that he will not take the world sixth seriously. After replacing Firmino, who can still protect the ball without losing ability, the attacking effect of the Samba Army is much better, and if they can send Liverpool center forward early or even simply get the start center, the situation may be completely different.

As for the defeat of the German team, everyone should not have thought of it before, but anyone who watched that game can see the problem of the defending champions, those big players seem to have no fighting spirit at all, and the game is very lazy. And Loew's tactics also made major mistakes, wanting to play a suppressive routine but not sending a high striker, he couldn't attack Mexico's penalty area at all. Moreover, the German midfielders pressed too far forward, so that the opponent's counterattack could easily directly impact their own defence, allowing the two tall central defenders Boateng and Hummels to compete with Little Pea and Lozano for speed and dexterity, and it was a ghost without conceding a goal.

Therefore, among these so-called unfavorables, it is the German tank that loses the least unjustly. There is also a sentence in his heart, Li Mudi did not say it in front of the camera, because it was not analyzing, and it was provoking. Loew has been in the national team manager for so long that there is nothing new to help the team continue to improve, and as the players get older, it will be very difficult to maintain the form they did four years ago. And the over-consistency of the player lineup is also a disadvantage, just like the current Real Madrid team, the players are full of honors, the desire to win is no longer strong, and the mentality is not right, and it will become extremely difficult to win.

In addition, the modern methods of gathering information, the speed of dissemination and the degree of global communication are unmatched in the previous world, and the weaker teams have always been able to keep all aspects of their opponents out of secrets after a long period of research. In this way, through learning, the gap between the strength of the two sides will become smaller and smaller, and over the years, the pattern of world football has already undergone earth-shaking changes.

Five or six years ago, could you have imagined that the Swiss team would be ranked in the world ahead of traditional powerhouses such as France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands? More than ten years ago, the European Red Devils Belgium, who were only five places higher than the national football team, have actually entered the top three in the world, and even once topped the list.

Another important factor affecting the performance of the strong teams is the form of the players, the members of these favorite teams are basically the main players of the top European and even top clubs, and the degree of physical fatigue can be imagined after a fierce season. It would be too difficult for them to perform at a very high level on the days that were supposed to be holidays, and this is one of the most important reasons why world-class stars rarely make a splash in major tournaments.

As for whether the VAR should be introduced into the World Cup, Li Mudi responded succinctly: "The NBA's video replay system has been implemented for decades, but to this day there are still various controversies, but no one has come forward to say that they want to cancel this measure. The football world has only been using the VAR system for a short period of three or four years, and it is still in the initial stage of exploration, and some minor problems are inevitable. If someone is always serious about interrupting the rhythm of the game or the referee's access and rules, then you can ask him if he is willing to accept the rules of the game that have been misjudged and cannot be changed in time, and I think there is nothing to argue about whether or not to support VAR. ”