The Chinese team habitually stepped on the field at 9 o'clock in the morning on the day of the game, so as to familiarize themselves with the venue for the quarterfinals at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

Of course, these behaviors of the Chinese team are pretentious in the eyes of many media, and in their cognition, the Chinese team's encounter with Argentina also means the end of their World Cup journey.

However, the Chinese players don't think so, the World Cup has reached the 1/4 finals, how can they give up lightly? At least die with dignity!

The quarter-finals between China and Argentina will be played at 4 p.m. on July 3 at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town.

Whether it is for the Chinese team or Argentina, it is the 1/4 finals of the World Cup, and it must be treated rigorously, even if Maradona is in the pre-game routine press conference, but as the game is approaching, he still has to put the due focus on the opponent he is about to face, and there are many cases of overturning in the gutter!

I don't know if it was intentional by the organizers, but the buses of the Argentine and Chinese teams actually arrived at the designated parking space outside the Green Dot Stadium at the same time.

Since this game is likely to be the last game of the Chinese team in the World Cup, when the bus printed with the Chinese flag came to the periphery of the Green Dot Stadium, countless Chinese fans who lined up to enter the stadium chose to change their original plans to see the current mental state of the Chinese players, and in their subconscious they still hoped that the national team could beat Argentina to advance to the semi-finals of the World Cup......

Thereupon...... The security staff at the Green Dot Stadium felt the pressure, but the Chinese fans did not do anything wrong, but stood on the periphery of their designated positions holding up their slogans, banners and chanting slogans.

There are already many Chinese, and the cheering shouts they gathered to chant naturally affected the Argentine players who lined up to get off the bus, and when Messi got off the car, he immediately noticed the Chinese team bus surrounded by three layers of fans, and he took off the earphone in his left ear with a puzzled look on his face.

"Iroh, Iro, Iro!!"

At the moment when Iroh got out of the car, the Chinese fans, who had gathered thousands of people, erupted in a loud chant and shouted the name of the captain, Iro.

Messi turned his head to look at it, Iro's expression was very pleasant, with headphones in both ears, an indescribable sense of relaxation, and he waved to the enthusiastic fans from time to time.

I don't know what the idea is, Messi at this moment always feels like going over to beat Iro.

At this time, the Argentine fans who came to the designated position outside the bus also chanted Messi's name: "Leao! Leo! Leo!! ”

All of a sudden, the Argentine fans, who were not superior in numbers, were on par with the Chinese fans with their momentum!

Iello, who waved to the fans, frowned, took off his headphones, turned his head to look at the Argentine bus thirty meters away, and just met Messi, who was also paying attention to this side.

The eyes of the two were intertwined, like two invisible forces competing, and neither of them would back down first.

In the end, Messi's endurance was a little weaker, he took out the mobile phone in his trouser pocket and held it high, meaning the 'appointment' between the two a few days ago.

The media reporters who squatted nearby filmed this scene at the first time, and after the creative advertisement of Telefónica was announced three days ago, it immediately received good results, and those fans who followed the 1/4 finals of the World Cup were also full of greater interest in this game, at this time Messi, one of the two protagonists, showed his mobile phone......

Even if they think about things with their butts, they can imagine what is going to happen next......

Really! The corners of Iro's mouth rose slightly, and he gave a high thumbs up, and just as Messi's smile first appeared on his face, his smile froze on his face, because ...... Iroh turned his fist upside down, turning it into an inverted thumb.

Next, Messi is like a defeated rooster, turning his head and leaving......

Seeing this, Chinese fans naturally wanted to shout, in their minds, Messi was defeated by Iroh's momentum first!

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The Green Point Stadium is one of South Africa's most artistic stadiums, located in a prime location in Cape Town, but no eyes were on it at this time, as the stadium was seen as a key quarter-final venue for the game.

The 69,070-capacity Green Dot Stadium was already empty an hour before the start of the game, and more than half of the fans from China were already empty.

Jian Mangen and Liu Lei are the founders of the 'Dragon Team Fan Club', from the beginning of the World Cup group stage of the Chinese team, they are responsible for shouldering the responsibility of leading the fans to cheer and cheer correctly, and the game against Argentina is the same, compared to the previous four World Cup games, the preparation for this game should be more sufficient, unified red jerseys, banners, slogans can be seen everywhere, and everyone has a small red flag.

Half of the seats in the entire stadium are controlled by the Chinese fans, so the shock caused is also super strong.

When the commentator of Argentine national television came to the commentary seat, he was also taken aback by the situation in front of him, and the commentator 'Son of the Wind' Caniggia exclaimed: "It's hard to believe that this scene in front of us is that fans from China occupy half of the stands, it seems that this game will not be as simple as we imagined......

"Yes, even though our strength is much stronger than the Chinese team, in the face of the cheering and shouting of nearly 35,000 Chinese fans, many things are really difficult to say." The narrator nodded.

At this time, the stands on all sides of the Green Point Stadium, the atmosphere of the World Cup 1/4 finals have been ignited in advance.

After Iello and Messi arrived at their designated location in the stadium through the team bus, they did not cross paths during the warm-up of the stadium, much to the disappointment of media reporters who looked at things with tinted glasses.

Forty-five minutes of warm-up time flashed forward as the players from both sides returned to their dressing rooms to listen to the manager's final analysis.

As for the noise in the stands, it is much quieter, and Chinese and Argentine fans generally stuff throat lozenges into their mouths or drink some sports drinks to recharge their batteries for the next 90 minutes, and they know that not only the players have to fight for 90 minutes on the field, but also fight in the stands for 90 minutes as die-hard supporters of the national team.

CCTV commentators He Wei and Huang Jianxiang's partners are also making final preparations at this time, they all know that after the advertising effect of the Spanish film company before this game, Cheng Dù, who has attracted much attention, has risen two notches, and it is no longer a simple national team game, but more like the personal war between Iello and Messi.

But...... They would like the outcome of this game to be decided entirely by the core players, so ...... The Chinese team has at least a glimmer of hope of winning.

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When the players on both sides were waiting in the player tunnel, many Argentine players instinctively looked at Ailo, who was at the top of the queue, especially Maradona's hand-picked captain Mascherano, and his eyes were very complicated when he turned his head to look at Ailo, since he joined Liverpool, Liverpool has not won against Elo's team.

Even before this game, everyone was optimistic that Argentina would beat the Chinese team, but Mascherano had a trace of worry, the biggest characteristic of Iroh is uncertainty, you never know when he will break out, and even if the final game is won, if nothing else, Iroh will become a lone heroic star player, and he will be destined to become the background figure of Aello......

Maradona's pre-match arrangement of Mascherano was very different from his usual game, and his job in this game was only one function: to defend Ailo full-time!

Of course, Maradona did not expect a Mascherano to be able to defend Aillo, and equipped him with a balanced Gutierrez as a protection.

Many TV stations with the right to broadcast the World Cup have already connected to the game signal, and fans around the world sitting in front of the TV can see this scene in the players' tunnel.

Almost all the players on the field in Argentina paid attention to Aelo, but the interesting thing is that the person in question, Ielo, was facing forward with an indifferent face, waiting to play.

After about a few seconds, Mascherano turned his head back, he is the captain of Argentina, and it is impossible to keep his attention on the captain of the Chinese team, Ailo, otherwise it will attract a lot of criticism.

Goalkeeper Romero was an exception, with his head held high and his eyes closed, and he was presumably praying to his god that Iroh would miss all the shots in this game!

A minute later, Belgian referee De Bkereck received the logistics command and walked into the pitch with three referees and players from both sides.

As soon as the players from both sides stepped out of the players' tunnel, a huge cheer erupted in the sky above the Green Dot Stadium.

Whether it is Chinese fans, Argentine fans, or neutral fans, they all did not hesitate to burst out their first force.

"Come on! China! ”

"Elo Elo, knock out Argentina!!"

"Argentine miscellaneous, go die!"

The top of the players' tunnel happened to be a gathering area for Chinese fans, so there was a short period of free play after chanting.

The etiquette that follows is very simple, the two teams line up in a line, with the referee as the center, and the first thing to play is the Chinese national anthem drawn away from home, followed by the Argentine national anthem......

Shake hands, pick sides, exchange small flags between the captains of both sides, take a group photo, and wait for the kick-off......

After the players on both sides stood still, everyone's attention was on the referee De Boccraike, and even the fans in the stands stopped all their voices and waited for the moment when the referee blew the whistle......

The live director also gave a long-distance panoramic shot, Messi stepping on a football, and Higuain standing next to him.

Ailuo, Hao Junmin, and Gao Lin, who returned from suspension, stood on either side of the opposite arc, waiting for the whistle to start......

Beep~~~

China VS Argentina World Cup 1/4 finals begin!