In the football stadium of a local university in Johannesburg, the Belgian team is training for the last time before the game, and in three hours, their 1/8 knockout match with Mexico will begin.

Head coach Antienes went to the pre-match press conference, and it was assistant coach François who led the team in the warm-up session.

With other teams facing bans and injuries, Belgium is the most consistent and well-staffed team, with all 23 players in the squad ready to go.

The personnel are neat enough to make people red, and the most impressive thing is that the atmosphere in the Belgian team seems very relaxed, they do not have the perverted training system of England, Antienes is very lenient in the management of the team, except for the night before the game, must spend time in the hotel, the rest of the time, all the players can arrange their own arrangements, the reason for this is that Antienes wants every player in the Belgian team to relax their bodies and nerves as much as possible, and not carry unnecessary psychological pressure.

Just like the current training, although it is closed, the family members of the players can enter the training ground, and in front of the family, the Belgian players also seem more relaxed, and the whole training is full of laughter.

"Rod! Come here! ”

Hearing François's shout, Digan kicked the ball to Fellaini and walked over: "Is there something wrong?" Instructor! ”

François laughed: "Rod! How's the preparation? ”

Deegan also smiled, "What do you mean?" ”

"Of course it's this game!"

Deegan turned his head to look at his teammates on the training ground and smiled, "I've never felt so good. ”

François was also in a good mood when he heard this, and it can be said that Deegan is the barometer of the Belgian team, and his form is directly related to the team's results: "So, I can look forward to today's game!?" ”

"Of course, you can get ready to celebrate now!" ”

Deegan is not a light opponent, but Mexico is an opponent that really doesn't deserve to be too much of his concern, although the world ranking is very high, but Mexico has never achieved a record that matches the world ranking.

After Digan finished speaking, he noticed that although François was laughing, his expression looked a little nervous: "Coach! Are you worried about us? ”

François was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly said: "Of course not, I believe in your ability, it's just that Rod!" You know, this is the last time I'll be playing an international tournament with you guys, and I hope for the perfect ending! ”

Antienes will not renew his contract with the Belgian Football Association after the World Cup in South Africa, and Degan certainly knows that as Antienes' assistant coach, François will leave together, which is also a sure thing, and in this regard, Degan can not do anything except regret, he can't ask others to do anything for him.

But the best ending for Antienes and François was within Degan's power: "Don't worry! Coach, even if you are going to retire after the World Cup, we will give you a most dignified retirement ceremony! ”

After Digan finished speaking, he walked towards the court: "Guys! After training, go back and change your clothes, Maruwan! If you're energetic enough, sort it out! ”

Fellaini, who was showing off his skills in front of his girlfriend, suddenly wilted, and after saying goodbye to his girlfriend, he ran into the locker room with a smoke.

Deegan also walked in front of Park Ji-yeon and the others: "It's time for us to go, you guys will go to the stadium with the others later!" ”

As a family member of a player, I naturally have special care, at least I don't have to worry about tickets.

Park Ji-yeon nodded, and then shook her fist at Digan: "OPPA!" Fighting！ ”

Deegan smiled: "If you really want to cheer me on, it's better to think about what reward I will give me after the game is over, it's more realistic!" ”

Park Ji-yeon didn't understand: "Then what reward does OPPA want!" ”

Deegan smiled: "For example~~~~~~~ a kiss!" ”

Digan is playing, laughing and leaving, leaving Park Ji-yeon alone, the two of them have been communicating in English just now, and her members naturally can't understand everything, but who doesn't know "KISS"?

"Ji-yeon! Promise Digan son-in-law! ”

"That's it! Maybe your encouragement will be the difference between winning and losing the game! ”

"Ji-yeon! I'm going to envy you again! ”

"Cyrioni! Haven't you given your first kiss yet? ”

"Yikes! Han Enjing! If you dare to mention the first kiss again, I will kill you! ”

Park Ji-yeon lowered her head, her face flushed and listened to the noise of several sisters in her ears, and she really wanted to find a crack in the ground and get into it.

After the Belgian team changed their equipment, they boarded the bus and headed towards the stadium, and everyone looked very relaxed, which made Degan feel a lot more relieved.

Although Digan didn't take Mexico as an opponent in his eyes, Mexico is a strong team in North America after all, and if he really relaxes his vigilance, he may suffer at that time.

At the same time, the Mexican team also boarded the bus to the venue, and compared to Belgium's ease, they looked preoccupied.

As the team's number one star, captain Marquis even found that he forgot to bring a shin guard while waiting for the bus, and the bus had to return to the hotel.

From this small episode, it is not difficult to see that the entire Mexican team is under great pressure.

Mexico has never had a World Cup on the World Cup stage, and when they played more than five games, they finally broke through from the group this time, and met Belgium, the runner-up team of the last World Cup, which cast a shadow on Mexico's prospects of qualifying before the game.

Although Belgium is not a seeded team and is not the favorite to win the championship, from the previous three group games, defeated Nigeria 6-0, defeated South Korea 6-0, and then drew 1-1 with Argentina with half of the main team, such a performance made the European Red Devils never favored and became a favorite team.

Even head coach Aguirre publicly said in the previous team meeting: "To play Belgium as an opponent, we must first lower our posture and base ourselves on fighting!" ”

But can you really spell it down?

Especially after the previous group stage, the team's main goalkeeper Ochoa was injured and will definitely miss this game, and the offensive core Franco has a recurrence of his knee injury.