Chapter 250: Before the Decisive Battle
However, the result of the match between Argentina and Croatia was a big surprise!
The Argentine team led by Messi, in this game, was almost won by the Croatian team with three goals effortlessly, and the highly anticipated Messi behaved like sleepwalking in this game, which was a big disappointment.
The Argentine team only accumulated 1 point in the first two rounds of the group stage, with one draw and one loss, and has already stood on the edge of the cliff and lost the initiative to advance to the round of 16.
The champions and runners-up of the last World Cup performed so poorly in this World Cup, which is really unexpected.
However, the subsequent match of the German team in a dramatic way made people rekindle expectations for the fate of the German team in this World Cup - after the upset loss to Mexico in the first round, the German team has been pushed to the edge of the cliff, and the second game must be won!
However, in this game, the German team was completely blocked by the Swedish team, although the Swedish team did not recruit the biggest name of the domestic players in this World Cup, Ibrahimovic, but the strength of the team, not only was not affected, but because the team was more united and the atmosphere in the team was more harmonious, the team's combat effectiveness became stronger.
Germany gave it their all in this game without any reservations, but until the end of the 90 minutes, it was still only a 1-1 draw with Sweden.
If the match ends in such a result, the German team is very likely to be eliminated from the group stage one round early!
Therefore, the remaining five minutes of stoppage time became the last time for the German team to redeem itself.
A miracle happened at the last minute, in the last minute of stoppage time, the German team won a free kick in front, which was taken by their midfield core Kroos, Kroos and his teammates carried out a tactical combination, and then in one fell swoop, when the German fans all over the world were already desperate for the result of the game, scored a countdown goal for the German team to help the German team comeback and win!
This game has become the biggest explosion point of this World Cup, and even the next day, England's 6:1 bloodbath against Panama, failed to steal the limelight of this game after a day!
The German team used its tenacious fighting spirit of never giving up to prove that its name of "steel chariot" is not in vain!
Just when fans around the world were still immersed in the incredible victory of the German team, the third round of the group stage between the Dragons and Egypt arrived as scheduled.
On this day, a total of four games were played, of which two games in Group A started at the same time at ten o'clock in the evening of Dragon Kingdom capital time; The two matches in Group B will be held at 2 o'clock in the morning on the second day of Dragon Kingdom capital time.
Among these four games, the least attention is the game between the Dragon Team and the Egyptian team, although there are Shen Feng, who was born in this World Cup and is currently the leading scorer in this World Cup, and was injured in the previous Champions League final, resulting in missing the first round of the group stage of this World Cup, and came back in the second game and scored a goal, but failed to help the Egyptian team get the desired result, the current popular fried chicken Salah in international football.
However, compared with the host Russian team and the Uruguayan team of Suarez and Cavani, who have an international reputation that is better than Salah, as well as the Portuguese team led by Ronaldo, and the Spanish team that is a hero although it is twilight, but the tiger will not fall, Shen Feng's Dragon Country team, and Salah's Egyptian team are not enough to watch.
However, this match between the Dragons and Egypt was the only one of the four matches today that sold out of tickets - thanks to the enthusiastic Dragons fans, of course!
As early as after the group stage schedule of the Dragon Country team in this World Cup was determined, Dragon Country fans were moved by the wind and rushed to buy tickets for the three group stage games with the Dragon Country team participating through various channels.
In addition to the opening match with the host Russian team, due to the host of the Russian fans and the principle of ticket distribution, the Dragon Country fans failed to grab too many tickets, and the other two group stage tickets that the Dragon Country team participated in were mostly in the hands of the Dragon Country fans.
In the last match against Uruguay, the Rostov-on-Don Stadium, which can accommodate 45,000 fans, poured into as many as 35,000 Dragon Country fans, making that game the home of the Dragon Country team in a foreign country!
The Dragon Country team was able to withstand the crazy counterattack of the Uruguayan team after the equalization, and the strong support of more than 30,000 Dragon Country fans on the scene has an inseparable relationship!
The Volgograd Stadium, which hosted the match between the Dragons and Egypt, is also a new stadium built to host the World Cup, which can accommodate about the same number of spectators as the Rostov-on-Don Stadium, with more than 45,000 spectator seats.
According to FIFA's official statistics, nearly 30,000 of the more than 45,000 tickets for this game were snapped up by Dragon Country fans; In addition, Dragon Nation fans have obtained thousands of tickets to the game through other means, through other means, such as sponsor giveaways.
In other words, the number of Dragon Kingdom fans present in this game will not be less than the previous game, and it will even be exceeded!
In the random off-field interviews before the game on the Dragon Country Sports Channel and Youdou Video, more than eighty percent of the fans present are Dragon Country fans, if you don't look at the road signs outside the stadium and the Russian police on duty, people will mistakenly think that this is a game held in Dragon Country.
Dragon country fans want to make all the games that the dragon country team participates in, and make it the home of the dragon country team, this is not empty words, dragon country fans are putting it into practical action!
The all-round support of the Dragon Country fans for the Dragon Country team's journey to this World Cup is truly felt by the Dragon Country team.
Not only in the game, the fans of the Dragon Country gave the greatest support to the Dragon Country team, and perfectly played the role of the twelfth person of the Dragon Country team; Off the field, in order to create a good preparation environment for the Dragon Country team, Dragon Country fans also tried their best to do their best.
The World Cup journey of the Dragon Country Team this time is definitely not just a matter of the dozens of people in the Dragon Country Team, but a common thing for tens of millions of Dragon Country fans who really care about and support Dragon Country football!
In the past year, the Dragon Country team has fulfilled its promise and repaid the support of the fans over the years with excellent results, so that the Dragon Country fans can truly feel the joy brought by football.
Now, the Dragon Country fans and the Dragon Country team are truly heart-to-heart, hand in hand, and working together for a common goal - to make Dragon Country football better!