With the World Cup approaching, all over the world, it is gradually entering the World Cup time.

At this time, the most talked-about topic among fans is to predict the results of each team in this World Cup, who will qualify from the group? Who will make it to the quarterfinals? Who will win the eventual championship?

Among the 32 teams participating in this World Cup, the Dragon Country team, which participated for the second time, is regarded as the biggest fish belly.

In fact, the Dragon Nation team is not bad in the latest FIFA rankings, although it lost in the previous warm-up match with the Algerian team, but the ranking is still in the top 40, among the 32 participating teams in this World Cup, ranked 22nd, and ten teams are ranked below the Dragon Nation team.

However, the Dragons have a significant disadvantage in terms of experience in participating in the World Cup, only ahead of Iceland and Panama, which are participating in the World Cup for the first time, and equal to Senegal, which is also participating in the World Cup for the second time.

Iceland and Panama, although they are both newcomers in this World Cup, and the latest FIFA ranking of the Panamanian team is still below the Dragon Nation team, but in the mainstream perception of international football, their strength is above the Dragon Nation team.

Iceland is the biggest dark horse in international football in the last two or three years, the last European Championship reached the quarterfinals, let them make a name for themselves, in the European qualifiers of the current World Cup in Russia, they and Croatia, Turkey, Ukraine, Finland, Kosovo in the same group, ten rounds of games have achieved seven wins, one draw and two losses, as the group leader directly qualified, the strong Croatian team to play in the play-off position.

People are very much looking forward to the "Viking War Cry" sounding on the World Cup field, the biggest dark horse in the last European Cup, coming to the stage of the World Cup, the dark horse is still full of color!

The Dragons can't stand alongside it.

Panama were also a force to be reckoned with, as they qualified for the World Cup finals in the CONCACAF qualifiers against Costa Rica in the final round against strong United States and Honduras.

The strength of the Honduran team, Dragon Country fans are more clear, they have created a lot of trouble for the Dragon Country team in the intercontinental play-offs of the World Cup qualifiers.

The Costa Rica team, Dragon Country fans are more familiar with it, and the Dragon Country team's first World Cup trip was defeated to them 0:2.

The Senegalese team, which is also participating in the second time with the Dragon Team, is also very strong, and its record in the World Cup is significantly better than that of the Dragon Team.

Senegal also made their debut on the highest stage of international football at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, and their debut in the World Cup was amazing, defeating defending champion France 1-0 in the first round of the group stage, which directly led to the French team's exit from the group stage.

In the next two group games, they drew 1:1 with Denmark and Uruguay 3:3, beating the powerful French team and Uruguay, advancing to the round of 16 as the second in the group, and then eliminated the Swedish team in the quarterfinals and reached the quarterfinals!

In the quarterfinals, they met the group stage opponent of the Dragon Country at the time, the Turkish team, the Dragon Country team lost 0:3 to the Turkish team in the group stage, while the Senegal team, but in the quarterfinals, 90 minutes of regular time and the Turkish team were tied, until extra time, the Turkish team broke the goal, a small loss, regrettably out.

Although after that World Cup, the Senegalese team, like the Dragon Team, missed the World Cup finals for three consecutive years, but because of their much better historical record in the World Cup than the Dragon Team, before the start of this World Cup, the degree of favorability is still above the Dragon Team.

Not only the mainstream media in international football, but also the second World Cup journey of the Dragon Country team, the Dragon Country team itself did not set too high a goal for its World Cup "second entry into the palace".

In order to help the Dragon Team relieve pressure, the Dragon Football Association has not set clear performance requirements for the Dragon Team's World Cup journey in public, but just said in general terms, "I hope that the Dragon Team can 'play its own characteristics and show its own mental outlook' on the stage of the World Cup, and the most important task of the Dragon Team in this World Cup is to learn from experience......"

In private, the leaders of the Dragon Football Association set the goal for the Dragon Country team, and they did not completely ignore the actual situation like last time, patting their heads and putting forward the requirements of "scoring a goal, scoring a point, and winning a game", but only asked the Dragon Country team to get points and score goals in the three games of the group stage!

The Dragon Country team itself, the goal set for itself, is not too ambitious, and the host Russian team is to score as much as possible; The Uruguayan team is to concede as few goals as possible; With the Egyptian team, it is the fight for peace!

In the odds of winning this World Cup given by the world's major bookmakers, the Dragon Country team is ranked last without exception.

Dragon country fans, under the joint guidance of officials, professionals in the football circle, and authoritative media, did not give too high expectations for the Dragon team's trip to the World Cup.

The situation is different now than it was sixteen years ago.

Sixteen years ago, the Dragon Kingdom was in the early stage of rapid economic development, and national pride and self-confidence had not yet been established.

And that time, it was the first time that the Dragon Team entered the finals of the World Cup, and neither fans nor players had any concept of the World Cup, and they were inevitably a little blindly confident.

Economically, the current Dragon Kingdom is already an economic power that can compete with the world's leader, the United States, and in other aspects, it has also developed in an all-round way, and its national pride and self-confidence have been established.

The public and fans are much more rational about the World Cup than 16 years ago, and naturally hope that the Dragon Country team can perform well in the World Cup, but they can also realize the gap between Dragon Country football and the highest international level, and will not set unrealistic goals for the Dragon Country team.

So, in general, before the start of the World Cup, the pressure on the Dragon Nation team from the outside world was not as great as imagined in advance!

The players of the Dragon Country team were nervous before the opening game, and the reason was more due to themselves.

The World Cup is the ultimate dream of all football players, and for these players of the Dragon team, this dream is about to come true, and there are some uncontrollable changes in psychology, and some emotional tension is a normal thing.

In fact, there is no good solution to this kind of tension, and it can only be relied on by the players to self-mediate.

And the gap between a good player and a mediocre player is reflected in this!