Greece was eliminated, and this team that had been glorious for ten years was ultimately unable to continue their dreams.

This generation of Greek players is about to come to an end.

Two losses in two games, even if you win Côte d'Ivoire in the last round, it will be used.

After Dong Fangzhuo politely comforted the Greek players, he was surrounded by reporters on the scene. However, Dong Fangzhuo actually had nothing to say.

There was no turmoil in this victory.

"Quaning is just our most basic goal, and there is nothing to celebrate or write a lot. I hope you reporters don't blow us to heaven. The knockout round is the time to test us."

His eyes have already been on the knockout round, but in fact, the third round of the group stage is equally important because we need to consider winning the first and second group in the group.

The first and second groups of group c will appear in different half areas, and the opponents encountered in different half areas will be of different levels.

Group C will first and second divisions into the upper half of group d, while group C will first divisions into the lower half of group C.

Now after two rounds, the first place in Group A is locked by Brazil, which means that if you get the first place in Group C, you are likely to encounter the host at some time.

Of course, before the third round was completely over, everything was full of variables, and there were other group opponents, not just Brazil, Argentina, and Germany, all teams had to consider it.

Therefore, no matter how much you think, it is useless. If you want to go to the end, you still have to win all your opponents. It depends on what the team’s goal is.

In fact, in this national team, it is not only Dong Fangzhuo who maintains a calm attitude. The three dynasties such as Zheng Zhi, Zhao Xuri, Huang Bowen, and Feng Xiaoting are very calm.

Zheng Zhi said in an interview: "Go step by step and don't be too ambitious."

As the team captain, he, like Dong Fangzhuo, has no feelings for this victory.

Feng Xiaoting said: "We have always known that we can qualify. This is not surprising. Isn't it common sense for us to qualify?"

As for the elders of the four dynasties, Sun Jihai? Not to mention it.

"We know what we want to come here, and everyone knows it, so we treat every game like a final, but we don't even have a little complacent, I hope the results of this year can be better than last time."

At the press conference, Clauchen's formation change was also praised. Everyone wanted to know whether Clauchen would continue to fight with such a formation.

"Does today's formation mean the formation and configuration of the subsequent game? This seems to be the most competitive formation and configuration of the Chinese team at present?"

Clauchen smiled slightly, "That depends on the player's condition and the opponent. I don't want to sacrifice Dong Fangzhuo."

"But he can still score."

"You never want to put a super shooter in the midfield, it's a waste of resources."

"Is this saying that our midfield and backcourt are not strong enough?"

"If we compare with opponents like Brazil, Argentina, and Germany, this is the fact. We still lack a lot in many aspects, but we are more mature and stable than any team's playing style and cooperation."

"Will the main lineup be replaced in the third round and the substitute player?"

"This is something I only considered four days later, I haven't thought about it for the time being..."

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Four hours later, another group match ended. Colombia defeated Côte d'Ivoire and also obtained the right to qualify in the group. Among all the eight groups, Group C is probably the easiest group. Côte d'Ivoire also returned home early like Greece. For these two teams, they only have a battle of honor, and the Chinese team will compete with Colombia for the top spot in the group.

Of course, this group may not necessarily compete for the top name...

Many strong teams have capsized their gutters. Spain, Italy, and England have not scored the results they want, and they will lose if they fly, and it seems that they will be eliminated even more.

The official website of the AFC gave praise to the Chinese team at the first time: the pride of Asia is our only hope for the World Cup.

This sentence was instantly protested by Korean and Japanese fans, who scolded the AFC online miserably.

"What is the only hope? It's because they qualified early? Are Japan and South Korea eliminated? Is there no hope when we get it? The AFC is a bare-severe discrimination and strongly condemns such irresponsible reports!"

The AFC officials were depressed, but it seemed that this way of expression was indeed wrong. Then they quickly changed the title and turned it into the Chinese team moving towards the highest goal. No team can stop them.

I won't bring Asia this time...

England's Times wrote with great envy: The Chinese team appeared strongly from Group C, while England may miss the knockout stage. We need Chinese Dong.

Spain's "Maca" expresses the same meaning: Where is our forward? Even the Chinese team has qualified, while Spain is still struggling in the group stage. Can the defending champion even break through in the group stage?

Spanish Global Times: Forget about traditional strong teams such as Spain and England. The Chinese team is one of our strongest opponents. If the two armies fight, we dare not say that we will definitely win.

"People's Daily": Go forward! Go forward! The Chinese national men's football team advanced to the knockout stage with an irresistible momentum!

...

European teams have encountered obstacles, but South American teams are quite strong.

It is worthy of being the World Cup held in South America. They have natural advantages. Uruguay, Chile and Argentina all won, and no team fell behind.

Three days later, the second round of the group stage ended, and England, Italy, Spain, and Portugal were all on the verge of dying.

Especially Portugal, led by Ronaldo, lost to Germany 0:4 in the first game and drew with the United States, even if they won Ghana in the last round, they might not work, because they still have to consider the goal difference. Portugal's goal difference is lost to four, Germany is carefree, they don't need to fight the United States to fight to the death, and Portugal's fate is basically dead.

The depressed Ronaldo called Dong Fangzhuo and kept complaining.

"If Pepe didn't play with fire in the first round, we wouldn't be in such a desperate situation now."

"I went back to the locker room and really wanted to beat him up."

"well……"

C Luo and Pepe are friends. If a friend does something stupid, what can he do? The World Cup once every four years seems to be over, and he feels so sad.

Dong Fangzhuo's World Cup against Portugal four years ago is still vivid in his mind. At that time, they lost to the World Cup champion Spain because of an offside. He also comforted Ronaldo at that time, but he did not expect that Ronaldo would be even worse four years later, and Portugal had very few chances to qualify.

"Some things are destined by God, what can I do..."

He didn't know what to say, Ronaldo would not have the life of the World Cup. Who told him to be in Portugal? After the Golden Generation withdrew from the football stage, he was the only one who carried Portugal away. He was not Maradona.

No matter how sad it is, it is not as sad as Messi! Thinking that Messi won the runner-up in the World Cup that year, Dong Fangzhuo finally had words to comfort Ronaldo.

"Don't worry, Messi will be with you."

"ha?"

"Messi?" C Ronaldo smiled, "That guy is lucky. He is fighting in South America and has qualified now. What is he with him? But his Argentina has not played very well, and the game is so ugly."

"Ahem, don't worry, there will be that day. You have to think so. In fact, there is no difference between qualifying in the group and the quarterfinals and the quarterfinals, and when you reach the semi-finals or lose the finals, your mood will be even worse. In fact, only by winning the championship can you feel really good, but I think winning the runner-up is the most painful..."

"Okay, it seems to make some sense?" Ronaldo was confused, as if he understood, but he didn't seem to understand very much.

"Play the third round..."

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Just when Dong Fangzhuo and Ronaldo were talking about Messi, Messi and Aguero also happened to be talking about Ronaldo.

Aguero said: "That arrogant guy is finally going home. If Portugal can advance, I will stuff my head into my butt."

Messi didn't speak.

"Are you unhappy?"

Aguero wondered.

"At least, one Ronaldo left."

"But, he is not a real opponent..." Messi finally spoke.

"Oh, Dong." Aguero understood that from beginning to end, Messi only had Dong Fangzhuo in his eyes...

"You said, will we meet them?" Aguero suddenly said this.

“…”

Messi stopped talking again. For him, there were only two words, nightmare.

Didn’t the last World Cup lose to China in the knockout round?

I feel so depressed!

But no matter how many times this time the collision is, if you want to meet, it seems that you will have to be in the semi-finals or finals, right?

Thinking of this, Messi's heart became much more comfortable...

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The third round of the World Cup group stage came, and the two games in Group A started at the same time. In the end, Brazil and Mexico advanced with 7 points together. Brazil ranked first with many goals, and Croatia was eliminated by the promising team. The other team was eliminated by Cameroon.

Group B is a pity. The defending champion Spain only won the third place in the group stage, leaving the Brazil World Cup in pain, and Japan is at the bottom.

Then, we arrived at Group C.

There is no suspense in Group C. The teams that are qualifying are Colombia and China, but they have to split the first and second in the group.

Under the current circumstances, they don’t know the points of the next five groups, so it’s actually no difference to get the first or second.

But Clauchen made a decision before the game, and he played with a full substitute! It was not until the press conference that the people of the whole country knew that he had made this decision.

Why?

Everyone was very surprised...

The explanation given by Clauchen is that when the group is determined to qualify, there is no need to compete with Colombia again.

"Aren't you afraid of meeting the previous arch-rival Uruguay in the elimination?"

"We will lose when we come on the bench."
To be continued...