Grass roots glory

Chapter 848 The Setting Sun of Greek Mythology (Part [-])
The first match day of the World Cup is over. Before the match, the teams that were considered to be the favorites to win the championship, except for Spain's big upset in Group B, European giants such as France and Switzerland all won in their respective groups.Zhou Tiancheng's two Dortmund teammates Hummels and Gundogan's German team made their debut two days after the Chinese team's match. In the first game, they beat Portugal led by Ronaldo 4:0, showing the determination of the Germans.

In terms of Asian teams, the situation is not so good. "Outsiders" Australia lost 1:3 to Chile, and Iran, who played after the Chinese team, drew 0:0 with Nigeria in the first round, and will face Argentina in the next two rounds, as well as sit on Manchester City's Gaota Dzeko and Roma's core leather. Yanic's Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is basically a no-brainer to qualify.The Japanese team, which has twice advanced to the top 1 of the World Cup, finally played in Group H and drew 1:[-] with Russia, the host of the next World Cup.

After the first round matches of the eight groups were all over, the Chinese fans were cheering. Everyone found a very encouraging fact: among the four Asian teams, only the Chinese team won!And the one most likely to qualify is not the Iranian team with the toughest style of play, nor Japan with the most experienced World Cup, the most delicate technology, and the most skilled team, nor the Europeanized Australia, but the Chinese team, which is generally underestimated by conservatives!
This is a very satisfying experience, especially for the Chinese journalists involved in the World Cup coverage ahead.

When they met counterparts from other countries in the World Cup media center where journalists from various countries gathered, no one would greet them in Japanese or even Korean.When European and American journalists saw them beaming with smiles, they gave them a thumbs up, and then praised them in poor Chinese: "China! [Great]"

This feeling is really amazing, and it also made these reporters from China breathe a sigh of relief: finally cured the prosopagnosia of this group of foreigners.

In the eyes of Europeans, it is really difficult to distinguish East Asian faces, they all look the same. As for which country they think you are from, it is very simple. On the court, the final say is your strength!

It feels really comfortable to rely on strength to get a name for yourself.These reporters are very motivated to work. While paying attention to other group games, they pay more attention to the next opponent of the Chinese team, Greece.

In fact, just like Zhou Tiancheng, after seeing the roster of the Greek team for the World Cup in Brazil, and then looking at their performance against Colombia in the first round, almost all the Chinese media have the same confidence.

Especially these days, I have been paying attention to the Chinese team. I watched Lippi consciously start to practice more laps, especially for one-on-one, two-on-two, or teams with more than three people. The defense of the cross from the side was obviously prepared against the Greek team's tactical routine.

This makes me more confident.

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As soon as the second round of the World Cup group stage started, it was destined to set the tone for this World Cup: frequent upsets and overturning of strong teams.

Everyone thought that the defending champion Spain's disastrous defeat in the first round was just a nap of the tiger, but in the second round they lost 0:2 to Chile and almost declared an early exit, so people had to accept the reality: they also fell into the magic about the World Cup champion. Curse-the last World Cup champion group couldn't get out of the line.

When the age of Harvey and Iniesta began to suppress their talents, and San Cassie was no longer brave, the dynasty belonging to the Matador could be turned over.

In addition, the most chaotic group is D, where England, Italy, and Uruguay fell into a series of killings, while Costa Rica, which was regarded as a scoring machine before the game, outshone Uruguay 3:1 after two rounds. 1:0 Lectra Italy, but the most unfavorable "fish belly" took the lead in getting the right to qualify.

Every night at the feast of the giants, Zhang Bin always has such a sentence: "This is the World Cup, everything can happen, let alone this is a hotbed of unpopularity, the top feast of the 32 world football giants, no one is always the ultimate big Winner."

On June [-]th, the night before the match between the Chinese team and the Greek team, Zhang Bin added a sentence in the program: "Perhaps in the eyes of many people, the current situation of the Chinese team is indeed an unpopular one. In their eyes, the Chinese team, like Costa Rica, already has the quality of a dark horse. Then we can look forward to it, why can’t we play the dark horse more thoroughly? Our goal is to conquer the stars and the sea, and the first wave can only be crossed if we win Côte d’Ivoire. Locking the right to qualify for the group has surprised the whole world, so it is not impossible to use Greece, which has won the European Cup, to sacrifice the flag."

The nearby guest Zhang Lu clicked on the 3D tactical analysis map of the Greek team, and said with a smile: "Don't say it, haha, it's really not impossible. The current Greek team is really not as good as it was then."

Zhang Lu shrugged, looked at the list of the Greek team lined up, pointed to the two names in the middle, and commented: "The current lineup of the Greek team is completely incomplete. There are many old arms and old legs, and the younger ones are not good enough." With no experience, the Chinese team needs to pay attention to these two old demons, Katuranis and Karagunis. They are old now, but they are still the dual-core midfielders of the Greek team. Don't let them go crazy. The Chinese team basically Can control the situation.”

Zhang Bin commented with a smile: "The current situation of the Greek team is really not good. The 'dual-card' combination of Karagounis and Katuranis, 35-year-old and 37-year-old veterans are still persisting. Ten years ago, they created Greece and Europe together. Those people in the World Cup myth, Nicopolidis, Delas, Setaridis, and Charisteas, have long since faded out of the national team and even left the football field. Of course, the World Cup is also a stage to pay tribute to veterans, like Veterans like them have not called a curtain call, and are still sticking to the last setting sun of Greek mythology, and they deserve our respect... But we will not talk about this tonight, everything is from the standpoint of the Chinese team. Facing such a team, Jiayi, From your point of view, what kind of targeted restrictions will Lippi make?"

Zhang Bin turned his head to look at another old international footballer sitting next to him, Shao Jiayi, who played three games in the World Cup in Korea and Japan, and ended up dying in red.Shao Jiayi smiled: "Arranging tactics normally, the Chinese team must be able to control the situation. When Zhou Tiancheng and I played against each other in the Bundesliga for the first time five years ago, he knew very well how to deal with a team with veterans at the core. Anyway, I had nothing to do at the time, let alone him now. These two Greek veterans are indeed legends, but now, are you sitting here without seeing me? This is not the era of our generation gone."

(End of this chapter)