Chapter 263: The opponent is determined

Not only the players of the Dragon Country team, after the end of this match with the Egyptian team, there was a long celebration, and all the Dragon Country fans, after the game, also collectively entered the victory celebration carnival!

Any fan's favorite thing to see is for the team they support to win the game!

Dragon country fans are even more eager for this, because the dragon country team has not won in the World Cup before this - the victory of this game can be regarded as creating the history of dragon country football!

Dragon football is still in the initial stage of reform, and there is still a big gap between the overall strength and those world-class teams in Europe and South America, and there is still a long way to go in the World Cup, enter the World Cup semi-finals, and win the World Cup, and there are still many things to do.

No matter how demanding the Dragon Country fans are, they will not ask the current Dragon Country team to fight for the World Cup championship.

Being able to win a victory in this World Cup is enough to make all Dragon Country fans satisfied.

Unfortunately, the time of the game of the Dragon Country team is a working day of the Dragon Kingdom, and after the game, it is close to midnight, and many people who still have work the next day need to forcibly suppress their excitement and lie down in bed to sleep, which is a bit of a disappointment.

But there are also a lot of fans who choose to go out and party all night and work and live the next day? Let the chips fall where they may!

There are also some fans who stayed up all night to watch the final round of Group B at 2 o'clock in the morning at 2 o'clock in the morning the next day.

The two games in Group B not only have the Spanish team and the Portuguese team, which are loved and supported by the Dragon Country fans, but also the opponents of the Dragon Country team in the next quarter-finals, which makes the Dragon Country fans pay more attention to these two games.

These two games started relatively late in the Dragon Country, so the National TV Sports Channel did not have too high expectations for their ratings, but due to the enthusiasm of the Dragon Country fans, the real-time ratings of these two games, although much lower than the previous Dragon Country team's games, have far exceeded expectations, which is a surprise.

Before this game, the situation in Group B was that Spain and Portugal had one win and one draw in the first two rounds, and the number of goals and goal difference were the same, and the Spanish team only had the advantage of fair play (the number of red and yellow cards was relatively small), and the group was temporarily topped.

Like the Dragon Country, the Iranian team, which is also from Asia, won one and lost one in the first two rounds, temporarily ranking third in the group; Morocco from Africa, who failed in the first two rounds, finished bottom of the group and have already been eliminated early.

In the final round, Spain's opponents were Morocco, Portugal and Iran.

From the perspective of strength comparison, the Spanish team and the Portuguese team have a clear advantage, but in the World Cup, any situation can happen, and the comparison of the strength of the two warring sides is not the only decisive factor in the outcome of the game.

In the course of these two games, there was a more dramatic scene.

In this match between the Spanish team and the Moroccan team, it was the Moroccan team that broke the deadlock first, although the Spanish team soon equalized the score with color, but in the subsequent half of the game, although the Spanish team had the advantage on the field, it was unable to rewrite the score and transform the advantage into a victory.

Until the game entered the last ten minutes of the ninety-minute regular game time, it was the Moroccan team again, unexpectedly leading again, but the Spanish team is the former World Cup champion after all, and so far, the only team to defend the European Cup, although as this group of "golden generation" players gradually age, the team's strength is not as good as before, but the tiger does not fall, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and finally the ninety-minute regular game time is used up, and it enters the injury time. Once again, he stubbornly equalised, defended his dignity and did not let the Moroccan team cause an upset on him.

Portugal and Iran were in control of the game, and Portugal scored a goal at the end of the first half to take the lead and maintain the lead until the 90 minutes of regular play ran out.

However, just when the Portuguese team, and the Portuguese fans, were about to celebrate the victory, the situation on the field changed dramatically, and the Iranian team won a penalty and scored in the team's last offensive attempt when the game had entered injury time!

Portugal could only watch as the three points turned into one point, and although this draw would not affect their promotion to the round of 16, they ended up finishing second in Group B due to the disadvantage of goals scored.

However, this result is not bad news for the Portuguese team, because in this way, the Portuguese team will face the weaker Dragon team in the next quarterfinals.

The Spanish team, which won the first place in Group B, will have to beat the host Russian team in the next quarterfinals.

This result is not good or bad for the Dragon team, because no matter whether the opponent in the quarterfinals is Portugal or Spain, with the current situation of the Dragon team, it is unlikely to pass.

If the Dragons have a full lineup, they can still fight their defensive strength like in the game against Uruguay, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack, and if they perform well, there is a glimmer of hope for continued promotion.

But now, due to the accumulation of yellow cards and suspensions, the offensive core of the Dragon Country team, Shen Feng, the defensive core Zheng Zhi, as well as Zhang Linpeng and Hao Junmin, the two fierce generals, will not be able to play in the next eighths of the finals, which makes the strength of the Dragon Country team drop a notch, the defensive intensity has decreased, and the threat of counterattack has also weakened a lot, and the hope of continuing to advance has become very slim.

In the news report on the second day, the vast majority of Western media had similar thoughts about the next quarterfinals.

The Portuguese media are even already celebrating Portugal's advance to the quarter-finals of this World Cup.

Although the Portuguese team is a traditional strong team, it is the winner of the last European Cup, but in the World Cup, the record is not very outstanding, the best record in history is the fourth place in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and the next two World Cups, one stopped in the round of 16, one was eliminated in the group stage, and went home early.