Chapter 142: Group Stage Situation

The reason why the group draw ceremony of the World Cup is divided into two parts, group and position, is because it involves the order of the matches in the same group.

The four teams in the same group, taking Group A where the Dragon Country team is located as an example, the host Russian team automatically falls into A1, and then the Uruguayan team drawn falls in A4, the Egyptian team is A3, and the last Dragon Team drawn can only be A2.

The principle of playing in the same group is: in the first round, A1 vs. A2, A3 vs. A4; Second round, A1 vs. A3, A2 vs. A4, third round, A1 vs. A4, A2, A3.

In other words, the Dragons will face the host Russia in the first round of the group stage, Uruguay in the second round, and Egypt in the third.

According to FIFA's arrangement, the first round of matches of the host team will be played first, that is, the opening game, so the first game of the Dragon Country team in next year's World Cup is the opening game!

As the beginning of a World Cup, whether you can make a good start for this World Cup depends on the opening game!

Therefore, the first game of the Dragon Country team has to bear additional pressure, which is also one of the reasons why Yan Wall said that the game with the host Russian team was not easy to play!

However, since the rules are like this, the Dragon Nation team has no room for resistance, and can only accept such a fate.

Now, there are still more than seven months to go before the opening of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but the Dragon Team should have entered the preparation cycle for the World Cup.

The next East Asian Cup can be regarded as a warm-up.

The results of the World Cup group draw came out, and the attention of Dragon Country fans to the World Cup set off another wave of high @ tide, everyone not only cared about the grouping situation of the Dragon Country team, but also learned about the opponent situation that the Dragon Country Team will face in case the group qualifies and advances to the top 16.

According to FIFA regulations, Group A, where the Dragons are located, will face the top two opponents in Group B in the quarterfinals after the group stage, of which the group winner in Group A will face the group second in Group B in the quarterfinals, and the division where these two teams are located is the top half; Group A's second-place opponent in the quarter-finals will be Group B's group winner, in the bottom half of the division.

The most likely scenario for the Dragons in the group stage is to withstand the pressure in the opening game, draw with the host Russia team with the advantage of home field, and then face the Uruguayan team in the second round, do not want to win, try to keep the draw, be prepared for defeat, and put the final in the third round to try to beat the Egyptian team.

In this way, the Dragon Country team has one draw, one loss and one win in the three group stages, accumulating 4 points, and it is very likely to win the second place in the group and advance to the round of 16.

Due to the new European Cup champion in Group B, Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal team, and the 2010 World Cup champion Spain, the two teams should not have much problem advancing to the round of 16, as for who is the first group and who is the second in the group, it depends on their specific performance in the group stage.

However, no matter who is the first in the group and who is the second in the group, there is not much difference between the Dragon Country team that was lucky enough to advance to the round of 16, because the difference in strength between the Dragon Team and these two teams is more obvious than that of the Uruguayan team.

With Uruguay, the Dragons still have a lot of strength to try to fight for a draw or something.

But in the face of Portugal and Spain, and in the knockout stage where the winner must be decided, the hope of the Dragon Team winning is extremely slim!

In the demanding Dragon Country fans, they will not put forward the requirement that they must win the battle when the Dragon Country team faces the Portuguese team and the Spanish team!

For the Dragon Country team, being able to qualify for the group stage and advance to the round of 16 in the second World Cup journey is considered to have exceeded the task!

The goal of the actual point should be to strive to score goals and get points in the group stage, and achieve the "zero breakthrough" of goals and points that was not achieved in the last World Cup trip!

All the fans of the top 32 countries in the World Cup finals hope that their country's teams can achieve good results in the World Cup, and the fans of the Dragon Country will naturally be no exception!

However, the definition of "good results" is not the same as that of the fans and the team itself.

Especially Dragon Country fans, they often set an unrealistic goal for the team, and if the Dragon Country team does not complete the goals they set according to their expectations, it will be unanimously criticized by the fans!

The additional pressure created by the fans on the Dragon Country Team is also one of the reasons why the Dragon Country Team's record has not improved in the past few years!

Everyone knows that players must be burdened with heavy psychological pressure, and even more pressure than they can bear, then in the game, there must be no good performance!

When the Dragons played the two play-offs with Australia and Honduras, they didn't talk about the goal before the game, but only about the determination, which was also a way to decompress themselves, and in terms of the final result, the effect was not bad.

After the results of the group draw of the World Cup came out, some self-media and Weibo big Vs who were afraid of the chaos in the world immediately publicized on their respective platforms that the Dragon Country team had drawn the "upper sign", according to their views, the Dragon Country team in the Russian World Cup seven months later, the group qualified, and advanced to the round of 16, which seems to be a sure thing!

These people, completely for their own selfishness, cater to the psychology of the fans, regardless of the actual situation, make a lot of nonsense, and assume the role of the main force in putting extra pressure on the Dragon Country team!

This kind of behavior of harming others and benefiting oneself in order to rub off on the hot spots of the World Cup and the Dragon Country team is hated by all football practitioners in the Dragon Country!

In the past few years, the Dragon Country team and Dragon Country Football have become stinky shit that everyone can step on in the eyes of the national public.

Now, with the Dragon Country team advancing to the World Cup finals for the second time in history, the Weibo big V and public account that originally disdained the Dragon Country team and Dragon Country Football have changed their attitude and become advocates of the Dragon Country Team and Dragon Country Football.

They did exert their strength, but they produced a counterproductive force!

These skinless and faceless so-called public knowledge and self-media, like Xiaoqiang, are endlessly banned, and whoever is stuck to them has no other way to go except for the road of self-recognition of being unlucky.

Although these self-media are hyping up the prospect of the Dragon Country team qualifying for the World Cup in Russia, the professional football practitioners represented by Xu Yang and Yan Wall have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the group stage situation of the Dragon Country Team from the perspective of seeking truth from facts, helping the Dragon Country Team disperse considerable pressure.