“It’s really a tough time…”

When Zhou Yi was lying on the bed and was so emotional, the Brazilian vs. Croatia was playing on the TV. Just 11 minutes into the game, Brazilian left-back Marcelo scored an own goal, resulting in Croatia's lead.

The host Brazil team is lagging behind under the gaze of tens of thousands of compatriots and fans.

The Brazilian commentator who was broadcasting on the TV kept talking, but no one could understand it. Even if Spanish and Portuguese were similar, the fast-paced Portuguese sounded very difficult for people like He Ying and Sun Pan, so they didn't plan to understand what the commentator said at all.

Even if you watch the game, you will be absent-minded.

Because it doesn’t matter how other people’s competitions are. What matters is your own competitions.

Just before the opening game of this World Cup, the Chinese team announced the list of tomorrow's game, and Zhou Yi was naturally not there.

In the first group match tomorrow, the Chinese team will challenge the Chilean team at the Pantanal Arena in Cuaba.

In the last warm-up match that just ended a few days ago, the Chinese team's opponent was Costa Rica. The reason why they chose this team as their opponent was because everyone is a Latin American country, and perhaps there are certain similarities in the style of play.

In that game, the Chinese team tied with Costa Rica 1:1.

It may be fine only to look at the results, but you should know that Costa Rica is the lead most of the game. It was not until the 77th minute that the Chinese team made a successful defensive counterattack, and relied on He Ying's personal ability to equalize the score.

So from the process, the performance of the Chinese team is not satisfactory.

This is just a warm-up match. The World Cup is about to start, and Costa Rica players have not put all their strength into it. They don’t try very hard when defending, just worrying about being injured.

When the real World Cup game is over, the opponent will no longer have any reservations.

How can the Chinese team, which does not have Zhou Yi's control of the rhythm, face an opponent with fangs exposed?

Everyone gathered in Zhou Yi's room to watch the opening game, but they probably didn't think about it in the game.

So naturally they talked about Zhou Yi's injury.

Zhou Yi, who always shows his smile and confidence in front of the media, expressed his feelings in front of his friends and felt the same way he said.

It's really hard to endure since he was injured.

In fact, the injury itself is not very serious, as long as you have enough time to recuperate, it is not a big deal at all.

But this time it happened that I caught up with the World Cup, and time was very tight. If Dortmund had not reached the Champions League final at all, Zhou Yi suffered the same injury in the last round of the Bundesliga, which would not have caused such a big reaction. More than a month was enough for him to recover.

Just because of the World Cup, this not serious injury became very difficult.

Does Zhou Yi himself want to make a comeback soon? Of course, he also wants it, and he wants it more than anyone else.

Does Zhou Yi want to miss the first two group matches? Of course, I don’t want it, and I don’t want it.

But there is no way, he can only accept this result now.

"Don't worry, we won't stop in the group stage...warm man," Yang Muge comforted softly.

"I believe we won't stop in the group stage, but it's still a bad time to watch you games in front of the TV like now."

Sun Pan smiled: "Idiot! You can go to the scene to watch it!"

Zhou Yi gave him a blank look.

On TV, after a series of bombardment, the Brazilian team finally tied the score by their core player Neymar in the 29th minute.

"Brazil is so difficult to play at home... It's really hard to play in this World Cup..." He Ying murmured as she looked at the TV.

"Brazil underestimates the enemy, right? They thought Croatia must be casually pinched, but they didn't expect it to be a tough guy." Others also focused on the game, and Guo Nu said. "There are still many powerful players in this group of Croatian players..."

"I think the overall strength of this Brazilian team has declined," said Zhou Yi. "The current Brazilian football talent gap is quite serious. It has not been a long time since there was an excellent youth training seedling. Look at this Brazilian team, players like Fred who were difficult to score in the Brazilian team before can now be the center..."

In the end, Brazil's team scored a goal until the 71st minute of his home court, surpassing the score. In the 90th minute, Oscar completely secured the victory for the team, 3:1, Brazil won the first game of the World Cup with some difficulty.

The first match day of the World Cup ended like this.

Brazil won the victory they had to win, laying a good foundation for qualifying in the group.

The next day is the day when the World Cup will be fully launched.

At 1:00 noon on the 13th, the second group match of Group A began, Mexico vs. Cameroon. At 4:00 pm, Spain talked to the Netherlands to kick off. At 7:00 pm, the Chinese team and Chile team made their debut in the second group match of Group B.

The corresponding Beijing time for these three games is 0:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.

The match between China and Chile will kick off at 6 a.m. on June 14. If you only watch the Chinese team's game, you don't have to stay up late and get up early.

However, before the match between China and Chile, everyone was also very concerned about the match between Spain and the Netherlands.

This is a repeat of the last World Cup final.

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On June 14, the outside of the hotel where the Chinese team stayed was crowded with media reporters and Chinese fans since the morning.

Although news broke out yesterday that Zhou Yi would definitely not be able to participate in this game, everyone was still lucky and hoped that the miracle would happen at the last moment, Zhou Yi would miraculously recover and then catch up with this game.

After lunch, the entire Chinese team took a lunch break in accordance with the coaching staff's requirements.

At this time, the match between Mexico and Cameroon also began.

Maybe it was because I had lunch, or maybe it was because the game was too early, and the players on both teams were not very excited.

In the end, Mexico defeated Cameroon 1:0 with Peralta's goal. The points ranking in Group A have come out, Brazil, which beat Croatia 3:1, ranked first, Mexico second, Cameroon third, and Croatia ranked last because of the least goal difference.

Before the game between the Netherlands and Spain began, the Chinese team players recovered from their nap state. Then they went to the conference room to watch the game between the Netherlands and Spain at the request of the coaching staff. Their purpose of watching the game is different from that of ordinary fans. As opponents in the same group, they must of course fully understand the current state of these two teams.

Dutch striker Van Persie, who arrived at the horse, leaped to the top. At a very far distance, he chose the shot that was completely unexpected. The football flew past Casillas who stood in front and fell into the goal behind him! The Dutch team equalized the score!

"Damn!"

Seeing this goal, there was a burst of exclamation in the conference room. It was really something that no one expected.

"This is so lucky!" someone shouted.

"No, it's Casillas' position that is too high. He has a big problem in his judgment of high balls. The lack of game has made him lose the ability to accurately judge the football landing point..." Zhou Yi must be "Casillas black" in the eyes of Casillas' fans. However, what he said is true, because he has proved it in the Champions League final.
Chapter completed!