Vol 6 Chapter 35: Powerful host?

Chinese fans and the media continued their carnival for the qualifying less than a day, and then everyone realized another question-who is the opponent of the Chinese team after the group's qualifying?
At this time, the media told everyone that the host is Brazil.
The joyous atmosphere of the carnival quickly cooled down.
Everyone in the World Cup team is looking forward to seeing the Chinese team go further, but the host has come across.
Is the Chinese team still alive?
Not to mention Brazil's strong strength, let's talk about the advantages of the host. How can the Chinese team resist?
Conspiracy theorists immediately doubted that FIFA would be behind the scenes. In order to ensure box office revenue, broadcast ratings, and advertising sponsor income, the Brazilian team will go further.
This is a "official whistle." People are black and upright and leave you with nothing to say.
However, some people said that this kind of argument is unfounded. At the last World Cup in South Africa, everyone felt that South Africa, as the host, should be qualified for the group?
No result, the South Africa group stage is out.
The only exception is the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The Japanese team entered the knockout stage and finally stopped at the round of 16. It can be said that home advantage is more restrained.
On the other hand, the South Korean team was completely free. The top ten black whistle in the history of the World Cup, two games were related to the South Korean team in that World Cup, and the South Korean team all profited. In the end, with the obvious black whistle, the South Korean team reached the semifinals of the World Cup all the way. In the third place battle, they lost to Turkey, but also created the best results of Asian teams in the history of the World Cup.
But this best result is not glorious, except for South Korean fans and the media, they are rarely flaunted by people from other Asian countries.
More optimistic Chinese fans feel that no matter how corrupt the Brazilians are, they still have very high moral standards and superiority in football. They should firmly believe that with the strength of the team, it is enough to eliminate the Chinese team. The next three means of buying up the referee.
But in any case, the Chinese team hit the host after qualifying, which is really not very good, so that Chinese fans are again concerned about the prospect of the Chinese team in the World Cup.
There are also fans who have voluntarily abandoned themselves. I feel that since they have encountered the Brazil team, the quarter-finals don’t want anything. I only hope that the Chinese team players can return to play their own style in the game. Even if you die, you must stand still and die, just like a firework blooming, greet death at the most gorgeous moment, and leave your name in the history of the World Cup forever.
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While the Chinese team was playing against Spain, another match was between Chile and the Netherlands.
The Chinese team defeated Spain 2-0, and the Netherlands also defeated Chile 2-0. Depek completely locked the victory for the Netherlands in ninety minutes.
In this way, the final qualifying team in Group B is the Netherlands and China. Among them, the Netherlands won the first place in the seven-point group with two wins and one tie, while the Chinese team ranked second with five points and one tie.
According to the schedule of the World Cup, the confrontation situation after the group's qualifying is the top two of Group A and the top two of Group B. The first place in Group A is against the second place in Group B, and the first place in Group B is against A Second place in the group.
In the last two group matches of Group A on the same day, Brazil defeated Cameroon 4-1, while in another match Mexico defeated Croatia 3-1.
In this way, the two teams have the same points and compare the difference in goal difference under the same points. Mexico took the first game to defeat Cameroon by only 1:0. In the goal difference, Brazil lost two goals and ranked second.
In this way, the Chinese team's opponent in the quarterfinals is Brazil, not Mexico.
If the Chinese team plays against Mexico, I am afraid that the fans and media of the Chinese team will be more confident. I believe that the Chinese team can eliminate Mexico and reach the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
The opponent in the quarter-finals is Brazil. This news dilutes everyone's joy and makes many fans and media worry about the future of the Chinese team in the World Cup.
But within the national team, Lippi is constantly instilling the completely opposite concept to the Chinese team players.
"Brazil is not strong, or it is not strong enough to crush us. We are not without opportunities when facing the Brazil team. We can even say that the opportunities are not small, at least larger than the outside world imagines. I don’t believe in conspiracy. On the argument, in football matches, only the strength and on-the-spot performance determine the outcome of the match. The strength of this Brazilian team should be regarded as the weakest Brazilian national team in the history of Brazilian football..."
Lippi's speech is slightly exaggerated, but he is to build the confidence of Chinese players, or to break the myths and superstitions in the hearts of Chinese players about the football kingdom.
He is not talking empty words, it makes people feel that he is unfounded, and he also comes up with data examples to prove that he is not false.
Because Brazil is the host, there is no need to participate in the World Cup qualifiers. This seems to be a beautiful difference. At least don’t worry about not being able to participate in the World Cup. But in fact, for a team that wants to win the championship, on the contrary, this is not a good thing, but a bad thing.
Because of the lack of high-quality continuous games to train the team, the team's state is difficult to maintain.
Some people say they can play warm-up matches. Of course, every international match day, the Brazil team has arranged a warm-up match, but the intensity of the warm-up match and the real World Cup qualifier is completely different. The strength of the opponent team is different, and the mentality of the opponent is also different. In the end, the results are very different from the real qualifiers.
If you play in the qualifiers, there is of course the possibility of not being able to enter the World Cup. For example, the Netherlands team of the 2002 World Cup lost its qualification to enter the World Cup of Japan and South Korea because of the poor qualifiers.
But the harder it is to play in the qualifiers, it is an exercise for the team. During this process, the coaching staff can constantly find the problem, then solve the problem, and then verify whether the problem is solved by the next qualifier. Players can also maintain their state through high-quality games. In addition, the qualifiers are a process that allows players to gradually enter the national team's rhythm.
As another example of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the Brazil team played very hard in that World Cup qualifier. It was once thought that they would miss the historic World Cup for the first time. Finally, after changing multiple head coaches, they finally stumbled into the finals. Because of the poor performance in the qualifiers, this Brazilian team is of course not optimistic. They are not hot favorites.
Also underperforming in the qualifiers at that World Cup was the German team, who even lost 1:5 at home to the ugly enemy England in the qualifiers.
The result is that these two qualifiers did not play well enough, but in the end they reached the finals of the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The final qualifiers of the Brazilian team in the finals were 2-0 in the final victory over Germany, the fifth in history A World Cup champion.
This is a typical example of the importance of qualifiers.
In this World Cup, as the host Brazil, the qualifier did not play a game, all supported by the warm-up match. But how did they perform in these warm-up matches?
Starting from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the America’s Cup in 2011 and the London Olympics in 2012 can actually be regarded as the
warm-up
for the Brazilian team to prepare for the local World Cup.
It stands to reason that after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Brazil’s national team coach Dunga is out of class, leaving his successor Menezes with plenty of time. He has four years to adjust and run in this team.
However, in the America’s Cup in 2011, the Brazilian national team led by Menezes won one and two draws and scored five points. With only one more goal difference than Venezuela, they won the group first, but after entering the knockout stage In the encounter with Paraguay, the Brazilian team, who has always given a strong and inherent impression of attack, was unable to break the goal of Paraguay in the 120-minute game. The two sides of 0:0 entered the penalty shootout. In the penalty shootout, Brazil did not score in the first three rounds. Paraguay scored only two rounds of penalty kicks and eliminated Brazil.
Even the semifinals of the Copa America did not enter, and the performance of this Brazilian team is really difficult to satisfy.
The most important game after the Copa America is the London Olympics.
Brazil is the football kingdom. It has won five World Cup titles in history, but it has never won the Olympic football championship.
Therefore, the Olympic gold medal is very important for both Brazilian fans and the Football Association.
Menezes coached the Brazilian Olympic team as the head coach of the Brazilian national team. This Brazilian Olympic team has many players playing in the Europa League, as well as Neymar, Marcelo, Tiago Silva, David Ruiz, Ganso, Hernandez , Danilo, Pato, Hulk, Coutinho, Ronaldinho and other famous players.
This line-up fully proves that Brazil attaches great importance to winning gold in this Olympics.
The results of it?
Brazil's Olympic team did reach the finals of the Olympic Games, but in the face of Mexico's Olympic team, Rafael's 28-second return error at the opening made the Brazilian team's dream of winning the Olympic Games a bubble.
The successive defeats of the America’s Cup and the Olympics made Brazil very dissatisfied with Menezes’ performance. Brazil’s famous Mazzola believes that with this team, it is absolutely impossible to win the World Cup. The Brazil team needs players with personality.
Although the failure of the London Olympics exposed the Brazilian team’s offensive strength, weak defense, lack of strength, lack of leaders, etc., Menezes firmly denied that the direction was wrong: "We lost the final, but we won the silver medal. It’s very close to our ultimate goal, we don’t need to change all directions..."
Although hard-mouthed, this does not change the outcome of Menezes’ failure.
In the second round of the "South American Super Derby Cup" match, the Brazilian team lost to their rival Argentina, and the Meneses coffin nailed the last nail.
Subsequently, the Brazilian Football Association announced a coaching change. Scolari, who previously led the Brazilian national team to win the 2002 World Cup championship, succeeded with only one goal, the Brazilian World Cup champion.
In 2013, the Federation Cup held in Brazil, Scolari led this team to win the championship, especially in the Federation Cup final 3-0 victory over the world champion Spain, it seems that Brazilian fans can see the door at home Hope for the Golden Cup of Hercules.
But the next warm-up match made the hearts of Brazilian fans fall to the bottom. Under the leadership of "Big Phil" Scolari, the Brazilian team created the first consecutive unbeaten five games since July 2001. Awkward record.
The warm-up match was not played well, basically no effect, and the role it played did not work.
Finally, it's the official World Cup match, so what kind of performance did the Brazilian team show?
The first game to play Croatia ~ EbookFREE.me ~ won very difficult. The victory was not locked until the last minute.
In the second match against Mexico, everyone expected the Brazilian team to beat Mexico and become the first team to win the group qualifying for this World Cup. As a result, they were optimistic about countless people, but they played a 0:0 against Mexico.
It's a big hit in this World Cup.
In the final game, Cameroon, the weakest group, won 4:1.
But it is worth noting that their back line still lost the ball.
In the end, he won the qualifying position as the first team, which successfully covered up the problems faced by this team.
For Brazil, this is really not good news.
"...Brazil is not as strong as people think, and we are not as weak as they think." After detailed analysis of the current Brazilian team, Lippi said to his players.
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