Chapter 1762 World Cup Grouping

The warm-up match of the Chinese team is still played in Europe.

Two games, first played in Seville and the Spanish national team.

In this game, Dillon sent almost the strongest lineup to start in the first half, but he did not gain the upper hand in front of Spain.

In the first half, the Chinese team struggled against the champion of the last World Cup.

Only in the 41st minute, through Hu Lai won a penalty for the Chinese team.

At that time, Spain had already led the Chinese team 2:0 at home.

Not only the score, Spain, which is better at passing and controlling on the scene, also has the upper hand.

Although Hu Lai used this penalty to help the Chinese team get back a goal, making the score in the first half fixed at 1:2, it seems that the loss is not much.

But in the second half, after both sides made substantial adjustments, the game lost its suspense.

Hou Lai was replaced in the 60th minute.

Therefore, it cannot be said that the performance of the Chinese team in the second half was due to the replacement of Hu Lai.

In the end, the Chinese team lost 1:4 to the Spanish national team in the away game.

Although this team no longer has Serrados, the World Cup Golden Globe winner, the Spanish national team, which does not lack talent, is still very strong.

In the current FIFA rankings, Brazil is the first, while the defending champion Spain is the second.

The FIFA ranking does not fully reflect the strength of a team, but that is when the rankings are very close. For example, Brazil ranks first, it does not mean that they will definitely be able to beat Spain.

But in the case of the rankings are far apart, this ranking still has great reference value.

Spain is second, while China is... 31st.

Even if Serrados retires, the Spanish national team still maintains most of the championship lineup.

The midfielder is still the "champion three midfielder":

Gaspar Rosas and Victor Campusano, and Juan Ramirez.

The three of them were the cornerstone for the Spanish national team to win the championship three years ago.

Although Rosas is thirty-four years old now, he is still in good shape.

Not to mention Ramirez, he is still the top midfielder in the world. The success of the Madrid Pirates in the past two seasons is also inseparable from his performance.

Although it seems that he is not as popular as Hu Lai, just like his nickname, he is the "cornerstone of the championship".

With such a strong midfield combination, the Spanish national team can always control the ball with ease, which makes it very uncomfortable for the Chinese team to play.

Under Ramirez's targeting, Zhang Qinghuan is almost difficult to create a threat.

At one point, the work of organizing the offense could only be handed over to midfielder Xia Xiaoyu.

But Xia Xiaoyu also faced Campsano's harassment, and his defensive task was not light - Gao Ruimin couldn't stop Rosas and Campsano, the main midfield combination of Catalan United.

Because the Chinese team spent too much energy in the midfield, there was no way to support Hu Lai in the attack.

Chen Xingyi and Luo Kai also acted like full-backs for much of the first half - they were pressed by Spain's right-back Joseba Iglesias and left-back Ion Martinez respectively Even the half time was sad.

The Chinese team's defense failed to withstand Spain's layered offensive and conceded four goals.

The loss to Spain is basically a reflection of the gap between the Chinese national team and the world's top teams at this stage.

The Spanish national team is the defending champion of the World Cup. Although there are no "popular chickens" like Meli and Kabanka in the team, the overall strength is very strong, and there are top players in various positions.

In fact, only three goals were lost, which is already a very good result for the Chinese team.

So unlike the loss to Serbia in the warm-up match last month, after the loss to Spain this time, there was no strong rebound in public opinion in China.

After all, it is the World Cup champion. Even the most arrogant Chinese fans and media dare not think that the Chinese team can beat the Spanish national team.

Especially since this is Spain's home stadium, one of the venues for next year's World Cup.

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After losing to Spain, the Chinese team did not go elsewhere. They stayed in Seville, Spain, and then played a warm-up match with an African team.

This is the first time in this World Cup preparation cycle against a non-European team.

The strength of the selected team is not strong - Benin.

The team also did not reach the World Cup finals.

Even so, Benin is not an opponent that the previous Chinese team could easily win.

It's just that the current Chinese team is not what it used to be.

So facing a big African team, the Chinese team finally won their first victory in the warm-up match.

Hu Lai scored a goal and assisted in the game, helping the Chinese team beat Benin with a score of 3:1.

This goal also became his ninetieth goal in 2029.

And from now until the end of this year, Hu Lai also happens to have ten games left. Among them are six La Liga matches, two UEFA Champions League group matches, and two Club World Cup matches-the Club World Cup matches are played in a semi-final first, and only after winning can they continue to play in the final, so strictly speaking, the Club World Cup is currently a competition. However, with the strength of the Madrid Pirates, it should not be a problem to reach the Club World Cup final-so even if there are ten games left this year.

With Hu Lai's current scoring efficiency of more than one goal per game, scoring ten goals in the remaining ten games does not seem to be a problem.

From this point of view, he is really likely to create an unprecedented record of more than 100 goals in a year.

After the warm-up match against Benin, all the matches of the Chinese team in 2029 will be over.

The next time they gather, they will have to wait until the "China Cup" in March next year, and then there will be the final training and warm-up match before the start of the World Cup.

All in all, in fact, before the start of the World Cup, the Chinese team only has two opportunities for training and warm-up matches.

They must seize these two opportunities and run the team to the extreme in order to show their best performance in the World Cup.

Fortunately, in this warm-up match, the Chinese team finally won the ball.

If even Benin can't win, it is estimated that it will severely damage the confidence of Chinese fans and the media in the team.

To be able to end this year's competition with a victory, everyone can also have a good year.

From this point of view, the World Cup preparation plan led by Jorge Dillon's team is quite thoughtful.

The opponents of next year's "China Cup" have not been finalized in advance like the previous two sessions.

This is because it is necessary to determine the team that will eventually participate in the "China Cup" based on the grouping of the Chinese team in the World Cup-the "China Cup" is also an important part of the Chinese team's preparations for the World Cup.

Now as the Japanese team eliminated Canada and got the last ticket to participate in the World Cup in Spain and Portugal next year, the World Cup group draw is imminent.

This will be the most eye-catching link before the start of the World Cup.

The thirty-two teams participating in the World Cup include fifteen European teams:

Hosts Portugal and Spain, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, England, France, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Croatia, Sweden.

Five South American teams:

Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Chile.

Five Asian teams:

China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia.

Four African teams:

Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Morocco.

Three CONCACAF teams:

United States, Mexico, Costa Rica.

No team from Oceania has qualified for the World Cup.

Among the 32 teams, except for the two hosts who are automatically seeded, the seeding teams of the other six groups are determined by the current FIFA rankings.

The remaining three teams are also determined in accordance with the FIFA ranking order.

So even though the Chinese team entered the World Cup for the second time in a row and performed very well in the top 12, they rose from the original 50th place to the 31st place in the FIFA rankings. It was still assigned to the fourth grade.

Just when the vast majority of Chinese team players returned to China by plane, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Hu Lai and other overseas players also returned to their respective clubs to prepare for the weekend league match, the results of the FIFA World Cup group draw also came out:

Group A: Portugal (9), Colombia (15), Senegal (22), Norway (36)

Group B: Brazil (1), Croatia (16), Japan (27), Mali (38)

Group C: France (3), Uruguay (13), Russia (30), Iran (32)

Group D: Germany (5), Mexico (14), Poland (28), Morocco (40)

Group E: Argentina (4), Belgium (8), Czech Republic (23), Costa Rica (35)

Group F: Netherlands (7), Switzerland (18), Chile (29), Saudi Arabia (44)

Group G: England (6), Sweden (19), United States (26), South Korea (33)

Group H: Spain (2), Italy (10), Nigeria (20), China (31)

Remarks: The numbers in brackets are the current FIFA rankings of the teams.

(end of this chapter)