"Ronaldo, you liar."

“Too bad!”

After the game, Dong Fangzhuo ran to the locker room in Portugal and caught Ronaldo.

He punched Ronaldo in the chest, but grinned.

"Congratulations, you've advanced."

C Luo was embarrassed and was a little hiding from Dong Fangzhuo.

"Uh, you know,"

"China is stronger than Portugal, we want to go to the lower half of the area..." Ronaldo expressed his thoughts.

“The lower half should be able to go further, hahaha.”

"Just laugh... Can't you see this year's game? It's hard to fight anyone. You have to be careful. Don't be as careless as your teammates. You will die of carelessness!"

"I'm serious."

C Luo stopped smiling.

"Yeah, I know."

"This is really a strange World Cup. I always feel that it is very different from before." Ronaldo expressed his approval, and of course he also felt the difference in this cup.

Two days later, when all the group matches ended, when the event organizers counted the group matches, many records were incredible.

Due to the intervention of VAR technology, there are more penalty kicks.

The 18 penalty kick record maintained in the 2002 World Cup was created through 64 games, and it took only 36 games to break the 18-goal record in this World Cup. Since FIFA announced the introduction of var in this World Cup, there have been constant controversy in the outside world. The controversy over var is more concentrated on the result of the penalty kicks being called. This is also the direct reason for the surge in the number of penalty kicks in this World Cup so far. In 48 games in the group stage, 23 penalty kicks were eventually generated and 18 penalty kicks were scored. Judging from the current trend, the number of penalty kicks will continue to rise.

The second point is that there are many games without scoring!

There were 36 games in this World Cup in Russia, and it was not until France and Denmark were ended in the third round of the group stage, thus breaking the record of 26 games in the Swiss World Cup in 1954 and successfully setting the record of 0:0 in a single game in the World Cup history.

The third point is that the scores of 1:0 are as numerous as a bull's hair.

The 1:0 in the group stage of this World Cup has become a brilliant phenomenon. With Belgium defeating England in the last group stage, the 13th final score of the 1:0 game was born in this World Cup. You should know that in the last 2014 Brazil World Cup, there were only 12 games in the entire competition, and the 2018 Russian knockout round had surpassed this value before it even started.

Next is the knockout match.

China vs Uruguay, I knew it when Group B ended, but I didn’t know which teams there were in the upper half of the area at that time.

Everything is clear now.

Russia's 16 strong rosters in the World Cup: Argentina, France, China, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium and Japan in the upper half; Portugal, Russia, Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, England and Colombia.

Indeed, Ronaldo and his Portugal bet right. They bet on the lower half of the area, and then the lower half is obviously much simpler than the upper half. At least in terms of name, the upper half is indeed scary enough.

16 The strength of Germany is gone, which is surprising, nor is it surprising. The German tank can no longer run, but Argentina unexpectedly appears... Messi's fate in the national team doesn't look very bad...

However, Argentina's opponent is France, and his life seems to be far from better. No one really optimistic about them. Even if Argentina has Messi, France, which has a stronger strength, is more optimistic. Of course, France is not very good in the group stage. France defeated Australia 2:1 in the first round of the group stage, France defeated Peru 1:0 in the second round of the group stage, and France draws Denmark 0:0 in the last round of the group stage. Three goals were scored in three group stages, including one penalty kick, one own goal, and only one goal in the sports game. France relied on these three goals to achieve 2 wins, 1 draw and 7 points, and won the top spot in Group C.

Argentina was even worse. Argentina drew 1:1 with Iceland, who played for the World Cup for the first time in the first match. Croatia defeated Argentina 3:0 in the second round. Argentina 2:1 in the third round. Argentina was knocked against Nigeria in the group stage and was pulled back by the big brother of the group Croatia, who was the second in the group, and successfully qualified for the second place in the group.

The other matches are Brazil vs Mexico, Belgium vs Japan. Portugal vs Russia, Croatia vs Denmark, Sweden vs Switzerland, Colombia vs England.

As for China vs. Uruguay?

The Chinese team also played against Uruguay in the last World Cup, and the Chinese team eventually defeated Uruguay 3-2. At that time, the game was controversial. Uruguay believed that China won the victory. This year, the two teams met again. Uruguay had a chance to take revenge, as long as they had the ability.

Suarez, the team's ace, believes that "luck cannot always be on China's side. It's time for us to win this year."

"But the Chinese team is still very strong, and Spain has been defeated by them. I think we must give out 200% of our strength."

"They have the best players in the world, and this is their most special place."

After being no longer a teammate with Messi, Suarez was not as cautious as before. In the past, he always said that Messi was the best player in the world, but now he changed his words.

The media also carefully captured the highlights of Suarez's words.

"Luis, didn't you say Messi is the best player in the world before? Why did he become Dong?"

"Ha, in some years, Messi is indeed, but Dong this year is indeed the best player, and most of the time he is..."

"But I think it's mainly because Dong didn't appear on the front line. If he appeared on the front line, I believe he has always been." Suarez's words were not hypocritical at all. His answer actually did not offend Messi, but he did not have a high evaluation of Dong Fangzhuo.

"How do you plan to defeat the Chinese team?"

“Defense,”

"Use the best defense."

"We want to threaten them with a stronger offense, so that Dong cannot get close to our penalty area and let him return to the midfield. I think that when we reach the knockout stage, Dong will no longer play forward. If he doesn't return to the midfield, there will be big problems with the Chinese team's midfield. They have done this before, and this time is probably no exception."

"You mean, isn't anyone other than Dong threatening?"

"It can be said that the Chinese team has many excellent players, but they are not enough to pose a threat to us. Thankfully, they did not bring those Brazilians in the end, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with."

"You mean naturalized players?"

"Yes, naturalization, that Elkeson's threat is quite big. If he is on the front line, then Dong can concentrate on playing in the midfield."
Chapter completed!