Chapter 264: Abruptly Stopped

As the new champion of the European Championship, Portugal is also one of the favorites to win the World Cup.

The Portuguese team itself also has great ambitions for this World Cup.

As one of the most successful players in international football in the past decade, Ronaldo is only one World Cup title away from the title of "King of the Ball"!

This World Cup is his last and best chance to win the bid!

Therefore, it doesn't matter who Portugal is against in the quarter-finals, because the quarter-finals are not their ultimate goal in this World Cup, but just a hurdle they have to cross.

The confidence of the Portuguese media, of course, comes from the recognition of the strong strength of the Portuguese team.

This point, including the Dragon Kingdom media, cannot be denied.

However, the biggest focus of the Dragon Country media on this game is not in the final victory, and it is a pity that Shen Feng cannot compete with Ronaldo, the best player in international football today.

The next day's media coverage of the Dragons will certainly not focus on the quarterfinals that will only be played in a few days and the Dragons have little hope of winning, but simply on this rare victory.

The changes of the Dragon Country Team in the past year are obvious to all in the Dragon Country, and this victory is the best footnote for the Dragon Country Team to further grow and progress!

As the highest stage in international football, the victory of the World Cup here is particularly unique, and it can show the maturity and heritage of a team.

As a latecomer in international football who has only participated in the World Cup finals for the second time, the Dragon Country team can win such a big victory, which can indeed greatly boost the morale of the people of the whole country!

The victory in this game also made the Dragon Country team appear on the national station for the second time after the opening game, and received a one-minute special report!

The last time the Dragon Country Team appeared on the "News Network", half of the reason was that it borrowed the light of the supreme leader @ sleeve to watch the game in person, which was considered political news, and this time, it was the recognition that the Dragon Country Team won with its own efforts, and it was 100% sports news.

The prestige of the Dragon Country team, across the country, has reached its peak!

Naturally, Shen Feng, who was the biggest contributor to the victory of the Dragon Country team, was able to further climb in popularity in the Dragon Kingdom, and he was in the limelight for a while!

The Dragon Football Association did not expect the Dragon Team to break through in the group stage and advance to the round of 16, so it did not book a venue for the next game for the Dragon Team in advance, and it needed to coordinate temporarily.

Therefore, after the match with the Egyptian team, the Dragon Country team did not rush to the venue of the next game as soon as possible, but temporarily stayed in Volgograd, where they rested, adjusted, and prepared for the next game.

According to FIFA's schedule, the quarterfinals between the Dragons and Portugal will be held in Sochi, a tourist resort located on the coast of the Black Sea in southwestern Russia.

Today's Dragon Nation fans know more about the city of Sochi from the XXII Winter Olympics held here in February 2014, but it was one of the most important resort cities in the Soviet Union during the Soviet era.

The latitude of Sochi is about the same as that of Chuncheng, the capital of Jilin Province in the Dragon Kingdom, but the climate here is very different from that of Chuncheng, the lowest temperature in Sochi in winter will not be lower than 5 degrees, and the mountains in the north block the cold wind blowing from the north, and the warm sea breeze blowing from the Black Sea in the south, making it warm as spring all year round.

In December 2017, Sochi was named one of the world's top 10 spring cities, along with Paris in France, Sydney in Australia and Los Angeles in the United States, as well as Kunchun, the capital of Yunnan Province in the Dragon Kingdom.

As the world's most vast country, Russia has a changeable climate within its borders, and although the eleven host cities of this World Cup are all concentrated in the European part of Russia, the weather is also very different from each other due to the difference in latitude between the north and the south.

Due to this World Cup, the group stage of each team, and the next knockout round, are not fixed in the same city, so the last game often happens, or in the hot summer when the temperature is more than 30 degrees, and the next game is transferred to the spring and autumn weather with a temperature of only a dozen degrees.

This is quite unfriendly to the participating teams.

The Dragons are relatively lucky, the cities where the previous three group stage games were held - Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, and Volgograd, the weather this season is good, and it is more suitable for the game.

Sochi, where the next quarter-finals will be held, has a pleasant climate.

This also strongly guarantees that the Dragon Country team can have such an excellent performance in this World Cup.

With the arrival of the final round of the group stage of the World Cup, the promotion situation of each group has entered a white heat, and the next three days of games are full of highlights.

The promotion situation of Group C is already relatively clear before the last round of the group stage, and the French team has won both games in the first two rounds and has advanced in advance; Denmark won one and lost one of their first two rounds, and only needed a draw with France in the final round to secure progress.

So, the fans are more reluctant to see a scene, in this game, the French team and the Danish team in Moscow Luzhniki stadium witnessed by 78,000 fans, played tacit ball, the two teams finally shook hands 0:0, hand in hand to advance, but the whole game was extremely dull, even the fans of both sides could not see, in the course of the game, the two teams held bursts of boos.

Relatively speaking, there are more highlights in the last round of Group D, and what everyone is most concerned about is, of course, one of the biggest upsets in this World Cup so far, the first two rounds of one draw and one loss, which has been pushed to the edge of the cliff, the Argentine team led by Messi, can it stage a reversal in this round of the game, and get through the danger.

In the end, the adjusted Messi, and the Argentine team he led, did not disappoint Argentine fans around the world, beating Nigeria 2:1, Messi scored a goal for Argentina in this game - and it was also his first goal in this World Cup.

In another game, there was also a favorable result for the Argentine team, Croatia, which had won consecutive victories in the first two rounds, did not release water in the final round of the group stage, defeating Iceland 2:1 and winning three consecutive wins in the group stage.

Iceland, the biggest dark horse in Euro 2016, lost the next two games after stubbornly drawing with Argentina in the first round of the group stage, and the team's first World Cup journey came to an abrupt end, failing to carry the good luck in the European Championship to the World Cup.

Argentina finished second in their group and advanced to the round of 16.