Belgium's first opponent at the World Cup in Brazil was Algeria from North Africa, and a team like Algeria seems to be born with a belly, and when it comes to the World Cup finals, it is almost a role to be slaughtered.

This claim is not unfounded, although Algeria has a long history of participating in the World Cup, having debuted at the World Cup in 1982, played again in 1986, qualified for the third time in South Africa in 2010, and Brazil for the fourth time.

But its previous record is miserable, in 1982, despite the 2-1 record, but failed to qualify for the group due to goal difference, in 1986 1 draw and 2 losses failed to qualify, in 2010, the second game of the group stage drew 0:0 with England, but lost to the United States and Slovenia 0:1 in two, the bottom of the group, out again, this time to the World Cup in Brazil, for Algeria, people are still not optimistic, especially they have to face the defending champion Belgium with the king of the ball in the first game.

However, it seems that Algeria is not a football powerhouse, but it must be said that Algeria has a strong football heritage, and Zidane, the "French football king", is an Algerian.

Although Zidane was born in Marseille, his parents were both Algerian. As an orthodox descendant of Algeria, Zidane has attracted cheers and applause from Algerians every time he has reached a peak in world football in the past. It's not just Zinedine Zidane, the current French international Karim. Benzema is also Algerian, and Nasri and Ben, who were not included in the squad. Alpha is also of Algerian descent.

Politically, Algeria was a French colony, and in terms of football, Algeria is an exporter of France. It's just that out of historical origins, the superiority of the suzerainty is difficult to give up. Countless young people of Arab descent born in France have had French nationality since their childhood, and some have traveled across the ocean one after another to set foot in ancient Gaul for their personal tenda. As a result, Algerian football has flourished but has struggled to thrive.

Four years ago, Algeria did not score a goal in the World Cup in South Africa and went out of the group, but this time in the World Cup, Algeria is still facing the old problem of weak attack, in the face of Belgium, Russia and other European giants, Algeria is likely to continue to play the role of "accompanying the prince to study".

The current head coach of Algeria, Halilhodzic, was one of the best Bosnian players in the 70s and 80s of the last century, and began coaching in the 90s, and was once dubbed the "devil's coach".

Halilhodzic managed Paris Saint-Germain from 2003 to 2005 and led them to a surprise Copa de France and second place in the league, and from 2008 to 2010 he led the Ivory Coast national team to an unbeaten World Cup qualifier and reached the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, although he was sacked four months before the start of the World Cup, after which he coached Dinamo Zagreb and began coaching the Algerian national team on 1 July 2011. Led the team to the World Cup finals again.

The core of the team, Tedder, like Zidane, Benzema and others, is also of Algerian descent born in France, to be exact, his mother is an authentic Algerian. Although Tedder has been selected for France's youth teams at all levels, including the Under-18s, Under-19s and Under-20s, he chose Algeria over France when it came to the selection of the senior national team for a lifetime.

For Tedel, he could have been a fringe international for the rest of his life if he had chosen the French national team, but in Algeria he was the number one midfield ace. He is the only player in the Algerian national team to play for a traditional European giant, and as a midfielder, he will not only be the biggest name of the team, but also the heart of the Algerian midfield.

Just in the first group stage, Algeria met the morale of the Belgian team, the European Red Devils naturally want to use a big win to sacrifice the flag, if it really loses by a big score, Algeria's morale will naturally be hit hard, and the next two games are easy to reduce to going through the motions, for Algeria, maybe be able to get a goal, break the embarrassment of zero goals in the last session, it will be more practical.

In this game, Belgium's head coach François did not slack off because the opponent was Algeria, which was the weakest in the group, and still sent the strongest lineup, the goalkeeper is Courtois, who currently plays for Madrid's economy, and Alderweireld, Kompany, Vermaelen and Vertonghen are in the backline, all four of them are the backbone of their respective clubs, and the midfield positions are De Bruyne, Hazard, Dembele, Mirallas, and in the forward line, Degan partners Lukaku.

The first round of the group stage against Algeria will not be difficult to win, but learning the lessons of Costa Rica's reversal of Uruguay, Digan, as the core of the team, will naturally shoulder the burden of helping the team win.

Before the game, it was unanimously expected that Belgium would win comfortably, but when the game started, it became clear that Algeria was not as weak as people thought.

On the Belgian side, because the players who played for Tottenham and Real Madrid ended their seasons late, they looked extremely tired after a long season.

Even the core of the team, Digan, was in a "stealth" state for most of the game, but Algeria played vigorously, firmly defending and counterattacking tactics, and repeatedly threatened the Belgian team's goal through wing attacks.

And in the twenty-fourth minute of the first half, Teddell, the core of the team, scored a goal and took the lead.

From behind, Belgium immediately launched a massive counter-attack, but their attack did not look very efficient, especially Digan, who seemed to be completely out of shape, with three shots on goal in the first half, all of which failed to hit the target.

At the end of the first half, people were surprised to find that Belgium had fallen behind the underdog Algeria by one goal.

This makes people think of the heroes of the sailing ships in the gutter before, speaking of which, this is also a matter of schedule, the World Cup in Brazil, which started earlier than the previous World Cups.

Most of the players from those strong teams play for big teams, and they play a lot more games every season, and they don't get a chance to rest before the World Cup starts.

After the start of the second half, Algeria was even more resolute in their defensive tactics, setting up buses in front of the goal, and even in the first ten minutes of the second half, Algeria had nine players stay in the backfield and die.

"Belgium seems to be in trouble, Algeria is defending with all their might, although Belgium has many talented players, especially with the famous world champion Digan, but in the face of Belgium who is desperately defending, it seems that there is no good way!"

Belgium is in a difficult situation, as the defending champions, if they lose to the underdogs in the first round of the group stage, it will be a big blow to the team's morale, so it is time to call for heroes again.

Degan, who had been silent for the entire first half, slowly entered the state after the start of the second half, and several breakthroughs with the ball were very threatening, although he failed to form a goal, but at least added a lot of confidence to his teammates.

In the 70th minute of the game, Degan received a pass from Hazard on the left side of the front field, dribbled the ball to attract two players from the opponent to defend, and when the ball was knocked back to De Bruyne who received behind him, he immediately inserted it into the penalty area, which also greatly attracted the attention of the Algerian defenders, when De Bruyne adjusted to send the pass, he didn't even have any defenders around him, a straight ball, Lukaku followed up quickly, and the Algerian defenders were all by Degan's side, No one noticed Lukaku's position at all, the little monster easily pushed the shot, but unfortunately he hit the angle too right, although the Algerian goalkeeper was a little off, but he still turned around in time, fell to the ground to save, and blocked the ball, but the football that he saved did not fly far, and Digan, who had already rushed into the penalty area, reacted very quickly, shook off the defender, pounced, fell to the ground and shoveled, and scored the ball!

1：1！

Deegan equalised for Belgium!

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL！” The Belgian commentator, who had been depressed for most of the game, finally had a chance to vent, and his roar resounded in the sky, "Rod! Rod! It's Rhodes again! Rode scored, he helped Belgium equalize, and Algeria's bucket formation was smashed open by Rod! ”

After the goal, Digan also looked very excited, but instead of celebrating, he got up, rushed into the Algerian goal, picked up the ball, turned back to the halfway point, put the ball away, and then urged the referee to restart the game as soon as possible.

A draw is not what Deegan wants, all he wants is a victory, if he even faces a fish belly like Algeria, the game is so difficult, how can he fight those heroes after that.

Degan's equalizer greatly boosted the morale of the Belgian team, and the initiative on the field completely fell into the control of the Belgian team.

In the 80th minute of the game, the Belgian backfield broke the ball and passed directly, Hazard rushed forward with the ball on the left side to launch a counterattack, for this defensive counterattack tactics, Hazard has been well versed in Chelsea coach Mourinho's tutelage, and in the face of the Algerian players' fight and retreat, Hazard did not blindly dribble the ball, nor did he cut inside to try to shoot, he had a wide field of vision He had already seen the high-speed plug-in Degan, so he saw the opportunity to plug the ball to the other party, Degan saw Hazard's pass, did not go directly to pick up, Instead, after letting the ball go, he quickly kicked out, knocked the ball sideways, and then accelerated to chase it, and then wiped it, and hit the right side of the penalty area, and after a slight adjustment, he volleyed vigorously and broke the goal again, and Belgium overtook the score 2:1.

After the goal, Degan rushed directly to Hazard, who provided him with an assist, Belgium could only rely on him alone, but now Belgium is different, with the explosion of Belgian football talent in recent years, the team has also gathered a lot of capable players.

As the most famous and valuable player in the Belgian team after Degan, Hazard scored 14 league goals for Chelsea last season, but he had zero shots on the pitch today, but he was involved in both of his team's goals, he contributed an assist and an indirect assist, Hazard made a total of 49 passes in the game, including four key passes that were the highest on the pitch, and he also had five dribbles and five fouls, which were the highest in the team.

A heat map of the players' activity during the game also shows that Eden Hazard's game was centred on the left and left of the centre, while at Chelsea he was roaming back and forth between the two flanks.

And Hazard on the pitch today is not active and excited enough, which may also be because he has played too many games at Chelsea in recent seasons, especially after being identified as the core of the team by Mourinho last season, as long as he is not injured or suspended, Hazard basically has to play every game, which is indeed a huge test of his fitness.

Hazard's training attitude at Chelsea was praised by Mourinho, but after the Belgian team arrived in Brazil, the team's coach François was a little dissatisfied with his training attitude, and just before this game, François was still "knocking" Hazard, asking him to sacrifice himself for the whole team: "Hazard has proven himself, but he can't solve the opponent alone, everyone in the team, including Hazard, has to sacrifice himself for the whole team. ”

Eden Hazard responded positively to the manager's request, looking at his team-mates in a better position rather than aiming for the opposition goal at crucial moments when the team was in desperate need of goals. Perhaps such Hazard is more terrifying, such Hazard may not be excited enough in the game, but he can kill the opponent with just one key pass.

In addition to Eden Hazard, Dembele, Romelu Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne, Vincent Kompany, Vermaelen, Vertonghen, as well as Marouane Fellaini and Naeng England, who missed the game due to injury, Dugan has so many great helpers around him that he feels more relaxed when he plays.

After overtaking the score, Belgium took over the game in an all-round way, Algeria was unwilling to lose, launched a counterattack, and when Belgium attacked, it became a lot easier, at least no longer have to face the siege of several players on the other side.

The final score was fixed at 2-1, and defending champions Belgium claimed their first victory at the World Cup in Brazil.

Speaking after the game, Deegan said: "It's just the beginning, I know we didn't play well today, but everything needs a process, we're just on the road!" ”