"It's been a tough time......"

When Zhou Yi was lying on the bed with such emotion, the TV was playing the match between Brazil and Croatia, and only eleven minutes into the game, Brazilian left-back Marcelo scored an own goal, causing Croatia to take the lead.

Hosts Brazil, under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of their fellow fans, are falling behind.

The Brazilian narrator on TV kept talking, but no one could understand it, even if Spanish was similar to Portuguese, but the speed of speaking in Portuguese made people like He Ying and Sun Pan sound very difficult, so they didn't intend to understand what the narrator said.

Even if it's watching the game, it's absent-minded.

Because it doesn't matter how other people's games are. The important thing is your own game.

Just before the opening match of this World Cup, the Chinese team announced the starting list for tomorrow's game, and Zhou Yi was not there as a matter of course.

Tomorrow, in the first group stage, the Chinese team will challenge the Chilean team at the Pantanal Arena in Cuiabá.

In the last warm-up match just a few days ago, the opponent of the Chinese team was Costa Rica, and the reason why this team was chosen as the opponent was because everyone is a Latin American country, and there may be a certain similarity in the style of play.

In that game, the Chinese team drew 1:1 with Costa Rica.

Just looking at the result may be fine, but you must know that Costa Rica was leading for most of the game, and it was not until the 77th minute that the Chinese team played a successful defensive counterattack and relied on He Ying's personal ability to equalize the score.

So from the point of view of the process, the performance of the Chinese team is not satisfactory.

This is just a warm-up match, the World Cup is about to start, and the Costa Rican players are actually not doing their best, and they are not very hard when defending, or they are worried about injury.

When it comes to the real World Cup, the opponent will no longer have any reservations.

When the time comes, how will the Chinese team, which does not have Zhou Yi control the rhythm, face the opponent who shows its fangs?

Everyone gathered in Zhou Yi's room to watch the opening game, but their minds were probably not on the game.

So naturally, they talked about Zhou Yi's injury.

Zhou Yi, who has always shown his smile and confidence in front of the media, only revealed his heart in front of his friends, and he had the emotion just now.

Since he's been injured, it's been really hard.

In fact, the injury itself is not very serious, as long as there is enough time to recuperate, it is not a big deal at all.

But this time it was just in time for the World Cup, and the time was very tight. If Dortmund hadn't reached the Champions League final at all, and Zhou Yi had suffered the same injury in the final round of the Bundesliga, it wouldn't have caused such a big reaction, and more than a month was enough for him to recover.

Just because of the World Cup, this not serious injury has become very tricky.

Doesn't Zhou Yi himself want to make a comeback as soon as possible? Of course he wants to, more than anyone else.

Does Zhou Yi want to miss the first two group games? Of course he doesn't want to, more than anyone else.

But there is no way, he can only accept this result now.

"Don't worry, we won't stop at the ...... of the group stage," "warm man" Yang Muge comforted softly.

"I'm sure we're not going to stop at the group stage, but it's still nice to watch you play on TV like this. ”

Sun Pan smiled: "Stupid! you can go to the scene to see it!"

Zhou Yi glanced at him.

On TV, Brazil went through a series of bombardments before finally equalising in the 29th minute through their key player Neymar.

"Brazil is playing so their home turf...... This World Cup should be really difficult to play......" He Ying muttered as he looked at the TV.

"Brazil is a light enemy, right? They thought Croatia must be pinched casually, but they thought it was a hard bone. Others also focused on the game, Guo Nu said. "There are still a lot of great ...... in this group of Croatian players"

"I think it's the overall strength of this Brazilian team that has declined. Zhou Yi said. "The current Brazilian football talent gap is also quite serious, and it has been a long time since there have been excellent youth seedlings. Look at this Brazilian team, players like Fred who were difficult to get into the Brazilian team before can now be starting center forwards......"

In the end, Brazil did not score until the 71st minute at their home stadium through Neymar to overtake the score. In the 90th minute, Oscar sealed the victory for the team, 3:1, Brazil won the first game of this World Cup with some difficulty.

That was the end of the first matchday of the World Cup.

Brazil got the win they had to get and laid a good foundation for qualifying from the group.

The next day is the day when the World Cup is in full swing.

At one o'clock at noon on the 13th, the second group stage of Group A began, with Mexico versus Cameroon. At 4 p.m., Group B kicks off with Spain vs Netherlands. At 7 o'clock in the evening, the Chinese team and the Chilean team appeared in the second group stage of Group B.

The three matches correspond to 0:00 a.m., 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Beijing time, respectively.

The match between China and Chile will kick off at 6 a.m. on June 14. If you only watch the Chinese team's game, then you don't have to stay up late and get up early.

However, the match between Spain and the Netherlands before the match between China and Chile is also of great interest to everyone.

It's a repeat of the last World Cup final.

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On June 14, the hotel where the Chinese team was staying was crowded with media reporters and Chinese fans since the morning.

Although there was news yesterday that Zhou Yi would definitely not be able to participate in this game, everyone still hoped that a miracle would happen at the last moment, Zhou Yi would recover miraculously, and then catch up with this game.

After lunch, the whole Chinese team took a lunch break according to the requirements of the coaching staff.

At this time, the match between Mexico and Cameroon also began.

Maybe it's because they've just had lunch, maybe it's too early in the game, and the players on both teams aren't very excited.

In the end, Mexico relied on Peralta's goal, and the standings of the 1:1 group were already out, Brazil, which defeated Croatia 3:1, was first, Mexico was second, Cameroon was third, and Croatia was at the bottom because of the least goal difference.

Before the match between the Netherlands and Spain, the players of the Chinese team recovered from their naps. Then, at the request of the coaching staff, they went to the conference room to watch the game between the Netherlands and Spain. They watch the game for a different purpose than the average fan, and as opponents in the same group, they certainly need to fully understand the current state of these two teams.

At the same time, in China, there are also many fans who stay up late to watch the game.

This match is the first heavyweight clash of the World Cup.

Prior to this match, the Spanish national team was at the pinnacle of world football, having monopolized the last three World Championships, including two European Cups and one World Cup. Although they lost 0:3 to Brazil in the final of last year's Confederations Cup, the Confederations Cup has always been used for training, which does not mean anything.

Before the game, everyone was looking back at the final four years ago, recalling De Jong's chest kick to Xavi Alonso, recalling Iniesta's stunner, recalling Casillas' brilliant save.

Prior to this game, Casillas had held the World Cup record for 433 minutes without conceding a goal. In the last World Cup in South Africa, Spain conceded just two goals in seven games, and all of them came in the group stage. Casillas have kept a clean sheet in all four knockout matches. As long as he keeps a clean sheet for the first 85 minutes against the Netherlands, he will set a new record and surpass the legendary Italian international Zenga who has not conceded a goal for 517 consecutive minutes.

"I'm not very optimistic that Casillas will break Zenga's record. Before waiting for the game to start, Zhou Yi said. "He is in a bad state now, especially after losing the Champions League final, and the Spanish domestic media have been criticizing him, believing that Real Madrid lost the tenth Champions League, and he is the culprit. There are also voices saying that De Gea will be used instead of Casillas...... These doubts have all hit Casillas' confidence. In addition, he is under a lot of pressure himself, which is not conducive to his performance at the World Cup. ”

Zhou Yi is really not optimistic about Casillas. If Casillas was the world's top goalkeeper, he has now been relegated to Europe's top goalkeeper. Although he is still a very good goalkeeper, there is still a big gap from the magical and omnipotent "Saint Igor" before.

When you get old and you don't get good training at the club, it's inevitable that your form will slip.

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After the start of the game, the two sides played very positively. have created some killing machines.

Casillas also saved Sneijder's one-on-one shot.

It looks like the defeat in the Champions League final didn't seem to affect him.

In the 26th minute, Silva sent a through ball, and after giving up the opportunity to join the Brazilian national team, Brazilian striker Diego Costa, who chose to join the Spanish team, burst into the box to try to get rid of the defense of the Dutch player but fell to the ground, and the Italian referee Rizzoli blew the whistle decisively and blew a penalty for Spain.

However, judging from the slow motion, Costa is suspected of faking a fall.

But the referee has already decided, and it is useless to say anything.

Xavi Alonso came to take the penalty and sent the ball into the bottom left corner of the net to give Spain a 1-0 lead over the Netherlands.

After four years of playing between the two teams, nothing seems to have changed, and Spain is still stronger than the Netherlands.

But in the following matches, the Dutch team launched a fierce counterattack. They continued to attack until the end of the first half, when Blind of the Netherlands suddenly played a long diagonal pass near the halfway line on the left.

The ball flew in the air for about 50 meters before flying into the Spanish penalty area.

Dutch striker Robin van Persie jumped to the top, and at a very long distance, he chose to shoot in a completely unexpected way, and the ball flew past Casillas in front of him and crashed into the goal behind him!

"Holy!"

Seeing this goal, the conference room was full of exclamations, Van Persie's goal could be scored, which was really unexpected by everyone.

"That's a lot of luck!" someone shouted.

"No, Casillas is too far forward. He has a big problem with the judgment of high balls, and the lack of games has made him lose the ability to accurately judge the landing point of football...... "Zhou Yi must be "Casillas Black" in the eyes of Casillas fans. But what he said was true, because he had already proven it in the Champions League final.

The first half ended in a 1-1 draw.

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