The carnival of Chinese fans and media for qualifying lasted for less than a day, and then everyone realized another problem - who is the opponent of the Chinese team after qualifying in the group?

At this time, the media told everyone that it was the host Brazil.

The joyful atmosphere of carnival suddenly cooled down.

When qualifying for the World Cup group, everyone is still looking forward to the Chinese team going further, but they actually met the host.

Does the Chinese team still have a way out?

Not to mention Brazil's strong strength, just talking about the host's advantages, how can the Chinese team resist?

Some conspiracy theorists immediately doubted whether FIFA would make trouble behind the scenes. In order to ensure box office revenue and broadcast ratings, the revenue of advertising sponsors allowed Brazil to go further.

This is an "official whistle". They are blatantly damaging you, leaving you with nothing to say.

But some people also said that this statement is a worry. In the last World Cup in South Africa, everyone thought that as the host, South Africa should qualify in the group, right?

No, South Africa was eliminated in the group stage.

The only exception is the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The Japanese team entered the knockout stage and finally stopped in the quarterfinals. It can be said that their home court advantage is relatively restrained.

The South Korean team has completely let go of themselves. Two of the top ten black whistles in the history of the World Cup were in the World Cup related games, and the South Korean team made all profits. In the end, with the obvious black whistle behavior, the South Korean team made it to the semi-finals of the World Cup. In the third place competition, they lost to Turkey, but also created the best results for Asian teams in the history of the World Cup.

However, this best result is not glorious. Except for Korean fans and media, they are rarely shown off by people from other Asian countries.

More optimistic Chinese fans think that no matter how corrupt the Brazilians are, they still have very high moral norms and superiority in the sport of football. They should firmly believe that with the strength of the team, it is enough to eliminate the Chinese team, and there is no need to use despicable means to bribe the referee.

But no matter what, the Chinese team hit the host after qualifying in the group, which is really not great, making Chinese fans worry about the prospects of the Chinese team in the World Cup.

There are also fans who have already given up on themselves, thinking that since they meet the Brazilian team, they will not think about the quarterfinals and other things. They just hope that the Chinese players can return to their own style in the game, not be cowardly, and face the Brazilian team head-on. Even if they die, they must stand up and die high, just like fireworks blooming, welcome death at the most brilliant moment, and leave their name forever in the history of the World Cup.

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While the Chinese team played against Spain, another match was between Chile and Netherlands.

The Chinese team defeated Spain 2:0, and the Netherlands also defeated Chile 2:0. Depp completely secured the victory for the Netherlands in 90 minutes.

In this way, the teams that finally qualify in Group B are the Netherlands and China. Among them, the Netherlands wins two goals and one draws seven points, while the Chinese team wins one draw two draws and ranks second in the group with five points.

According to the schedule of this World Cup, the confrontation situation after qualifying in the group is a cross-confrontation between the top two in Group A and the top two in Group B. It is the first place in Group A to compete against the second place in Group B and the first place in Group B against the second place in Group A.

In the last two group matches of Group A on the same day, Brazil defeated Cameroon 4:1, while Mexico defeated Croatia 3:1 in another match.

In this way, the two teams scored seven points at the same time, and compared the goal difference with the same points. Mexico suffered a loss of defeating Cameroon only 1-0 in the first game, and it significantly reduced Brazil's two goals in the goal difference, ranking second.

In this way, the Chinese team's eighth-finals opponent is Brazil, not Mexico.

If the Chinese team plays against Mexico, I'm afraid the Chinese fans and media will be more confident, believing that the Chinese team can eliminate Mexico and reach the quarterfinals of the World Cup.

The 8th-final opponent is Brazil. This news diluted everyone's joy and made many fans and media worried about the future of the Chinese team in the World Cup.

But within the national team, Lippi is constantly instilling completely opposite ideas into Chinese players.

"Brazil is not strong, or it is not strong enough to crush us. We are not without opportunities against the Brazilian team. It can even be said that the chance is not small, at least greater than the outside world imagined. I don't believe in conspiracy theory. The only thing that determines the outcome of the game in football matches is strength and on-the-spot performance. The strength of this Brazilian team should be regarded as the weakest Brazilian national team in Brazil's football history..."

Lippi's speech was a little exaggerated, but he was trying to build confidence in Chinese players, or break the myths and superstitions of the football kingdom in the hearts of Chinese players.

He is not talking empty words, making people feel that his words are unreasonable. He also took out data examples to prove that what he said is true.

Because Brazil is the host, it doesn't have to participate in the World Cup qualifiers, which seems like a bad thing. At least you don't have to worry about not being able to participate in the World Cup main competition. But in fact, for a team that is determined to win the championship, on the contrary, this is not a good thing, but a bad thing.

Due to the lack of high-quality continuous competitions to train the team, it is difficult for the team to maintain its state.

Some people say that you can play warm-up matches. Of course, every international match day, the Brazilian team arranges warm-up matches, but the intensity of the warm-up match is completely different from the real World Cup qualifiers. As opponents, the teams have different strengths and opponents' mentality. In the end, the effect is very different from the real qualifiers.

If you play in the qualifiers, of course there is a possibility that you will not be able to enter the World Cup. For example, the Dutch team in the 2002 World Cup lost the qualification to enter the World Cup in Japan and South Korea because of poor qualifiers.

However, the harder the qualifiers are, it is a kind of exercise for the team. In this process, the coaching staff can constantly discover problems, then solve them, and then verify whether the problem is solved through the next qualifiers. Players can also maintain their state through high-quality games. In addition, the qualifiers are also a process of allowing players to gradually enter the rhythm of the national team's game.

It is also an example of the 2002 Japan and South Korea World Cup. Brazil played very hard in the qualifiers of that World Cup. It once made people think that they would miss the World Cup for the first time. Finally, after changing several head coaches, they finally stumbled into the finals. Because of their poor performance in the qualifiers, this Brazilian team was naturally not favored, and they were not the favorites to win the championship.

Germany also performed poorly in the qualifiers in that World Cup, and they even lost 1:5 at home to their qualifiers.

The result was that these two teams did not play well enough in the qualifiers, but finally reached the final of the Japan-Korea World Cup. In the end, Brazil, which had a more bumpy qualifiers process, defeated Germany 2:0 in the final, winning the World Cup championship for the fifth time in history.

This is a typical example of the importance of the qualifiers.

As the host of this World Cup, Brazil team did not play in a single qualifier, and it was supported by warm-up matches. But how did they perform in these warm-up matches?

If we start from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the 2011 Copa America and the 2012 London Olympics are actually the "warm-up matches" for Brazil to prepare for the local World Cup.

Logically speaking, after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Brazil's national team coach Dunga was dismissed, and there was plenty of time left for his successor Meneses. He had adjusted and worked with the team for four years.

However, in the 2011 Copa America, the Brazilian national team led by Meneses won one and two draws in the group stage, and scored five points. They only gained the first place in the group by relying on the advantage of one more goal difference than Venezuela. However, after entering the knockout stage, they encountered Paraguay and the Brazilian team, which had always given people the inherent impression of being strong in offensive, could not break through Paraguay's goal in 120 minutes, and both sides entered the penalty shootout. In the penalty shootout, Brazil failed to score in the first three rounds, and Paraguay only scored two rounds of penalty kicks and eliminated Brazil.

Even the semi-finals of the Copa America have not even entered, and the performance of this Brazilian team is indeed difficult to satisfy.

The most important game after the Copa America is the London Olympics.

Brazil is a football kingdom, winning the World Cup championship five times in history, but has never won the Olympic football championship.

Therefore, the Olympic gold medal is something that Brazilian fans and the Football Association attach great importance to.

Meneses coaches the Brazilian Olympic team as the head coach of the Brazilian national team. This Brazilian Olympic team has many players who play in the European League, including Neymar, Marcelo, Thiago Silva, David Ruiz, Ganso, Hernandez, Danilo, Pato, Hulk, Coutinho, Ronaldinho and other long-standing stars.

This lineup fully proves Brazil's emphasis on winning gold at this Olympics.

What's the result?

The Brazilian Olympic team did reach the final of the Olympic Games, but facing the Mexican Olympic Team, Rafael's 28-second return pass mistake made Brazil's Olympic gold-winning dream absent.

The successive defeats in the Copa America and the Olympics have made Brazil very dissatisfied with Meneses' performance. Brazilian legend Mazzola believes that it is absolutely impossible to win the World Cup with this team now, and the Brazilian team needs players with personality.

Although the failure of the London Olympics exposed the problems of Brazil's strong offense and weak defense, weak offensive ability, lack of leadership, etc., Menesez firmly denied that there was a problem with the direction: "We lost the final, but we won the silver medal, which is very close to our ultimate goal, and we don't need to change all directions..."

Although he is stubborn, this cannot change the result of Meneses' failure.

In the second leg of the "South American Super Derby Cup", Brazil lost to its archenemy Argentina, and the coffin of Menesez laid the last nail.

Subsequently, the Brazilian Football Association announced a change of coaches. Scolari, who had previously led the Brazilian national team to win the 2002 World Cup championship, has only one goal, the Brazilian World Cup championship.

In the 2013 Federation Cup held in Brazil, Scolari led the team to win the championship, especially the 3-0 victory over the world champion Spain in the final of the Federation Cup, which seemed to allow Brazilian fans to see the hope of holding up Hercules Golden Cup at their doorstep.

But the following warm-up match made the hearts of Brazilian fans fall to the bottom again. Under the leadership of "Big Phil" Scolari, Brazil set an embarrassing record of losing five consecutive games since July 2001.

If you don’t play well in the warm-up match, you basically have no effect, and the effect you should have not played.

Finally, the official World Cup match has arrived. So what kind of performance did the Brazilian team have?

The first game against Croatia was very difficult to win. It was not until the last minute that the victory was secured.

In the second game against Mexico, everyone was looking forward to Brazil defeating Mexico and becoming the first team to win a group qualifying spot in this World Cup. As a result, they played 0:0 with Mexico due to the optimism of countless people.

It has caused a big and small upset in this World Cup.

In the last game, I faced Cameroon, the weakest in the group, and won 4:1.

But it is worth noting that their defense still conceded the ball.

In the end, the right to qualify as the first in the group also successfully covered up the problems faced by this team.

This is really not good news for Brazil.
Chapter completed!