Chapter 241: World Cup group stage draw


   The best death group has been created, but the final round of group matches will take two weeks before it takes place. Schalke needs to prepare for the domestic league first.
  , the 14th round of the Bundesliga, Schalke played against Stuttgart at home.
   Taking advantage of the smooth victory of the Champions League, the whole team is in good condition. In the Proud to Schalke Stadium, Schalke won the game without much effort.
   In the 14th minute of the first half, Li Chenglong scored with a free kick opportunity to help the team open the scoring.
   In the second half, Fox and Jermaine Jones, who came on the bench, scored another goal. Schalke won the game 3:0 at home.
   This round of Bundesliga's top four teams all won smoothly, so the ranking and point difference in the standings have not changed.
   However, Bayern has already completed six consecutive victories in the league, and it seems that it is about to take off.
Bayern did the same last season. At the beginning of the season, they were inextricably beaten in the standings with Schalke, Dortmund, etc., but in the second half of the season, the last wave of winning streaks directly opened the gap and locked the championship. Now they It seems to be repeating the old trick again.
   And the worst part is that Bayern has the depth of the lineup, and they can keep winning streaks in multi-line battles, but rivals such as Schalke and Dortmund can't. In the case of multi-line battles, points will always be lost.
   And this round of the game scored a goal, this is also the first goal of Li Chenglong in the last four rounds of the league, and it can be regarded as breaking the goal shortage of three consecutive rounds.
   Speaking of the previous three rounds, although Lee Chenglong didn't score a goal, he still had assists, but the media just liked to catch his failure to score.
   Now Li Chenglong is also considered to have entered that level, that is, if you don't score in three or four rounds, you will be caught by the media to hype the superstar level.
In the last four rounds of the league, Jackie Lee only scored one goal, but Dortmund’s Lewand was very good. Dort’s poor performance in the last four rounds was two wins and two losses, but Lewand won two matches, once A hat-trick scored twice and scored a total of five goals, which allowed him to quickly catch up on the scorer list.
   In the current Bundesliga scorer list, Lee Chenglong continues to top the list with 12 goals, but Lewand’s goal number has reached 11, only Lee Chenglong has one goal.
   Then, it would be Mandzukic with 8 goals.
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On December 5th, on the sunny beaches of South America and Brazil, the draw ceremony for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was held as scheduled. There were Zidane, Mateus, Cannavaro, Hierro, Cafu and others. The star came to support.
   Under the witness of more than 2,000 journalists from various countries, the results of the draw soon came out.
Most of the teams have distinct strengths and weaknesses. For example, Brazil in Group A, France in Group E, Argentina in Group F, Germany in Group G, and Belgium in Group H. These strong teams all stand out in their own group. There is basically no problem with the game.
   There is also a group that is considered to be a rookie, that is, Group C, with Colombia, Greece, Ivory Coast and Japan in the group, such a group, everyone has a chance to qualify, but no one has much advantage.
   The last two groups left are the dead group.
   Group B consists of Spain, the Netherlands, Chile and Australia. This group includes the champions and runners-up of the last World Cup, as well as the strong South American team Chile in the past two years.
   In general, everyone thinks that Chile may create some storms in this group, but the final result should be Spain and the Netherlands hand in hand.
   And Group D is the super dead group of this World Cup, with Uruguay, Costa Rica, England and Italy in the group.
   In such a group, Uruguay, England and Italy are all World Cup champions. The three teams have won 7 World Cup titles.
   And according to the latest national team rankings, Uruguay is ranked sixth in the world, Italy is ranked seventh in the world, and England is ranked twelfth in the world.
Looking at the results of the major competitions of the teams in recent years, Uruguay was the top four team in the last World Cup, the Copa America champion in 2011, Italy was the second runner-up in the European Cup in 2012, and England was a bit weaker. No results.
   Anyway, this group is a super dead group.
   According to the views of the media, in this group, Costa Rica is also a big fish, and the three teams of England, Italy and Uruguay should be inextricably beaten. In the end, it is not clear which two teams will succeed.
   Uh, Costa Rica? Fish belly? !
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   The results of the World Cup draw came out. The media from various countries are discussing the situation of their own national team, discussing the situation of other groups, and some even discussing what team may be encountered in the elimination round.
   Hodgson, who returned from the lottery ceremony in Brazil, was quite optimistic. He said in front of the media: "Our team does have some difficulties, but we should not be overly nervous. Football matches are not analyzed on paper."
   Li Chenglong felt that this old guy might be quite happy to be drawn into such a death group.
If he is drawn to a simple group, England cannot qualify. Hodgson will definitely be verbally criticized and face dismissal. However, if drawn to such a super-dead group, it is reasonable to not qualify. Everyone will not blame him too much, maybe Can continue to hold the position of England head coach.
Although for an old Youtiao coach like Hodgson, even if he gets off and on from the position of England coach, he is not short of next home. Some teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League give him opportunities, and no matter how bad they are, there are those who want to make it. he.
   But if you go to those teams to coach, how can the salary compare to the England national team?
   The next day when the results of the draw came out, Jackie Lee went to participate in training, Navas said with a cry on his face: "Boss, did you see the draw?"
   "Well, what happened?"
   "We were put into the same group, the group of death."
With his performance in Schalke 04 in the past six months, Navas is already the number one star in Costa Rica. Naturally, he has to shoulder the responsibility of leading Costa Rica to achieve good results in the World Cup~EbookFREE.me~ but this is the case now. In a group, most people think that Costa Rica is basically impossible to break out of the group stage.
   "What are you afraid of? Even if it is the death group, it is for the Uruguays and Italians. For us, it is enough to qualify from that group together." Li Chenglong said confidently.
   "Really?" Navas still didn't believe it.
   "Of course! Klinsmann is optimistic about you?"
Most people think that Costa Rica will be a big belly. Only the golden bomber Klinsman, who is currently coaching the US team, disagrees. He often plays against Costa Rica in North America. He has a high evaluation of this team and thinks them. It's a real hard bone.
   He thinks that Costa Rica will unexpectedly make waves in the death group, and even have the opportunity to kill directly from the death group.
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   The World Cup is about to come, and various speculations about the World Cup have also appeared.
   In the latest World Cup Golden Boot odds, Lee Chenglong has climbed to the fourth most popular position.
   The first favorite is Messi, then Ronaldo and Neymar tied for second.
   Lee Chenglong is the highest ranked player outside of La Liga, and behind him, there are stars such as Suarez, Aguero, Diego Costa and Higuain.
   As Thomas Muller of the last World Cup Golden Boot, he was ranked 11th.
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