From the man behind the football king to the football king.

On June 6, the World Cup kicked off with host Russia facing Saudi Arabia at the Luzhniki Stadium. This was the opening match of this World Cup. In the end, the host defeated the opponent 14:5 and got off to a good start.

The next day, the Portuguese national team played their first game.

The Portugal national team's match was the evening match on the second match day at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi.

On the afternoon of June 6, the Portuguese national team went from their hotel to the Fisht Olympic Stadium to adapt to the match field. Their first group match opponent was Spain.

This team is the champion of the European Cup in 2008 and 2012, and also the champion of the World Cup in South Africa in 2010. Although they failed to win the championship in 2014 and 2016, and their current world ranking is only tenth, the strength of this team is still very strong.

Facing such a strong opponent in the first game puts a lot of pressure on the Portuguese national team.

Everyone always has high hopes for the first game. No matter where you are, there is a saying of "a good start", so the result of the first game has a great impact on the team.

Especially four years ago, Portugal was eliminated in the group stage of the World Cup, which left many bad memories for many players of the Portuguese national team and made the players feel nervous.

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The game is about to begin. The Portuguese national team has got the right to kick off. Players from both sides are standing on the field according to their respective formations, and the game is about to begin.

In this game, Santos fielded a 442 starting formation, with Patricio as the goalkeeper, Cedric, Pepe, Fonte and Guerrero as the four defenders; Bruno, Moutinho, William Carvalho and Bernardo Silva stood in parallel in the midfield, with Bruno appearing in the right midfield position; the forward line was a combination of Ronaldo and Guedes.

Bruno knew what he was doing. What he was going to do was harder than climbing to the sky, but he wanted to try.

He didn't know whether his teammates had confidence in him, or in themselves, so this first game was particularly important.

"Portugal and Spain are about to play, which is their first game in this World Cup. For Bruno, it is also his first World Cup."

The referee stood outside the center circle, checked his watch, and blew the whistle to start the game.

Ronaldo passed the ball to Bruno, who received it. He did not kick the ball out immediately, but turned around and ran behind with the ball, and then passed it out.

After passing the ball, he quickly ran to the next place to ask his teammates for the ball.

At the same time, Spanish players quickly appeared around him.

The Spaniards also know the role of Bruno in the Portuguese lineup. As long as Bruno is frozen, the threat of Portugal will be reduced by half.

But keeping an eye on Bruno... that's so difficult!

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When his teammate passed the ball to him, Bruno pretended to move the ball to the left and turned around to leave, causing the opponent to move a step in advance. Bruno just dodged and let the ball pass to his right side. At the same time, he turned around and carried the ball forward, and he easily passed the opponent's player.

Bruno rushed to the Spanish half with the ball. Facing the opponent's pressing players, he did not pass the ball, but passed it directly to Moutinho next to him. After passing the ball, he quickly ran to the front and signaled Moutinho to pass the ball over.

In fact, Moutinho was once the core midfielder of the Portugal national team, but that was before Bruno rose to prominence.

Seeing Bruno asking for the ball, Moutinho passed the ball to him without hesitation.

After completing a one-two pass, Bruno continued to dribble the ball forward and he had already reached the front of the Spanish penalty area!

"The game just started and Bruno launched a very threatening attack!" the commentator shouted.

Everyone knew how powerful Bruno was, so the Spanish players did not dare to neglect him. As soon as they saw Bruno reaching the front of the penalty area, two people rushed up and tried to stop his shot.

Bruno has an exceptionally good shooting feel this season and a strong desire to shoot. If you don't strengthen your defense in this position, his long-range shot may break your goal.

Bruno was waiting for this moment. When the opponent's player pounced on him, he immediately poked the ball with the tip of his right foot, passed it between two Spanish players, and it rolled directly to the feet of striker Cristiano Ronaldo in the penalty area!

Ronaldo didn't expect the football to roll to his feet so smoothly. He turned and shot in a hurry, and the shot was too straight, hitting the Spanish goalkeeper De Gea's hand.

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Although this attack did not result in a goal, Bruno has used this pass to tell his World Cup opponents who were keeping a close eye on him: Defending against me is a worldwide challenge!

In this way, the Portuguese national team, led by Bruno, launched wave after wave of offensives against Spain. The Spaniards themselves did not expect that their opponents would be so difficult to deal with.

Soon, Portugal's offensive came back. Bruno received the ball, stopped it beautifully, then pulled the ball and turned around, sending it to the left.

There, Bernardo Silva was already plugging in at high speed.

In the club, the two are rivals; but in the national team, they are the best partners and have a tacit understanding with each other.

Nacho did not rush forward blindly. He signaled Koke to interfere with Bernardo Silva, while he himself kept his eyes on Guerrero who was advancing at high speed.

The two only faced each other in the Champions League last season, and Nacho knows that the Dortmund left-back is very fast.

Sure enough, when Bernardo Silva saw Koke coming to press, he passed the ball, targeting Guerrero who was moving forward at high speed from his side.

As I expected, Nacho then pressed forward, ready to force Guerrero.

However, the experienced Nacho did not attack too aggressively as he was still quite afraid of Guerrero's speed and skills.

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Guerrero dribbled the ball straight towards Nacho.

This was the moment they were waiting for. Just before the two men were about to make contact, Nacho suddenly kicked out.

However, Guerrero had no intention of passing his opponent. He suddenly stopped and dunked the ball!

Nacho was prepared for this and moved sideways to block it, but he did not wait for Guerrero's next breakthrough. Guerrero knocked the ball back to Moutinho who came over to receive it. The latter did not let the ball stay under his feet, but made a long diagonal pass. The ball went directly from the side close to the left to the right side, to Bruno.

"Precise pass! Moutinho!" shouted the Portuguese commentator.

"This is Moutinho, our number four, he made a beautiful long pass." The Portuguese commentator couldn't help but praise him.

Moutinho was originally the core of Portugal's midfield organization. However, with the rise of Bruno in recent seasons, he once lost his position in the Portuguese national team, but this does not mean that his ability is poor. As the core of Monaco's midfield, Moutinho is the key figure in Monaco's outstanding performance in recent seasons.

He has lost his main position in the Portuguese team in recent years, which can only be attributed to Bruno's outstanding performance.

Because Moutinho has performed very well in Monaco in the past two seasons, Santos even changed Portugal's formation for him, giving Moutinho the opportunity to start in a strong dialogue with Spain.

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Bruno was very fast. He caught up with the football, and then facing Alba who was rushing towards him, he dribbled the ball.

Alba was experienced. He immediately changed his action and poked the ball with his foot. Then, before Alba could be happy, he saw Bruno Second react quickly and touched the ball with his right foot, and the ball was hooked back.

However, due to this delay, Alba moved again and blocked Bruno's way forward.

"Beautiful! In front of the experienced Alba, Robben is still very immature." The Spanish commentator said happily.

Before the Spanish commentator finished speaking, Robbenho dribbled the ball from his right foot to his left foot, held up Alba with his body, and swept the ball into the penalty area with his left foot.

In the penalty area, Spanish captain Ramos held off Portuguese captain Cristiano Ronaldo, preventing the opponent from getting a chance to shoot.

At this moment, a figure in a red jersey appeared on the path of the football and swept the football back diagonally - the target was the top of the penalty area.

Spanish midfielder Busquets fell to the ground and slid to try to clear the ball. But before his feet touched the ball, a figure rushed up and shot the ball with a powerful kick!

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The football suddenly flew up and headed straight for the goal. The Spanish goalkeeper De Gea rushed to the door and planned to kick the ball out.

He successfully hit the ball, and it bounced to one side and somehow landed in front of Ronaldo and Ramos.

Both of them were stunned, and then they were about to make a move at almost the same time, but Ronaldo reacted faster. He stuck out his butt and blocked Ramos's outstretched leg with his buttocks, then he swept his right foot vigorously, and the football suddenly bounced up and flew into the net, rolling up the snow-white net high...

The penalty area was in chaos and it was hard to see clearly. The Fisht Olympic Stadium, which could accommodate 40,000 people, was silent for a moment. Then, the net was seen shaking and the football was seen in the net:

Boom!

The whole stadium was like a volcano erupting!

In the first round of the Group B match of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Portugal played against Spain. One minute and thirty-three seconds into the game, Portugal attacked and their captain, the thirty-three-year-old super shooter Cristiano Ronaldo, shot in front of the goal and Portugal 1:0 Spain!

They got off to a dream start that no one expected.