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A few days later, the second round of the European play-offs of the World Preliminaries kicked off.

Croatia returned home and defeated Iceland 2:0, successfully advancing with a total score of 2:0.

Greece went to an away game with a 1:1 draw with Romania and advanced 4:2 on aggregate.

There is also the most watched game. The French team lost 0:2 to Ukraine in the first round. They returned to the Stade de France and defeated their opponents 3:0, completing a major reversal.

This is the first time in the history of the European play-offs of the World Preliminaries that they lost 0:2 in the first round, but finally managed to come back.

Speaking of it, the French love waves themselves. They should have won a series easily without too many problems, but they messed around and made it so thrilling.

However, in this round of the world preliminaries, it was the match between Portugal and Sweden that produced the most news.

In the first round, Portugal defeated Sweden 1:0 at home. This score can only be said to be a small advantage for Portugal, but it does not guarantee who will advance.

The second round came to Sweden's home court. Ronaldo opened the scoring for Portugal, and then Ibrahimovic scored twice in response. Ibrahimovic began to pretend crazily, because Sweden has already started and is about to complete a big reversal.

But then C Luo Bang Bang made two more shots, completing a hat-trick by himself, and at the same time completely killing the game.

This game attracted a lot of attention. There was a duel between Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic. At the same time, both sides performed well on the court.

Ibrahimovic scored twice, Ronaldo hat-trick.

In fact, the goal that Portugal beat Sweden at home in the first round was also scored by Ronaldo, so that is to say, in the life-and-death battle against Sweden in the two rounds, Ronaldo scored four goals alone.

Ibrahimovic, who was extremely arrogant after the recent outbreak of the Champions League, was tidied up in front of Ronaldo.

And this year Ibrahimovic is 32 years old. This is almost the last time he hit the World Cup. Now that he has failed again, he is probably the kind of star who missed the World Cup in his career.

Of course, Ibrahimovic's pretentious level is definitely enough. After being eliminated in the game, he has already stated: "Zlatan's absence will only be a loss for the World Cup, not my loss."

Well, if there is no Ibrahimovic, your World Cup will be the same as if you didn't hold it, it is meaningless at all.

That's probably what it means.

On this day of the national team match, England played two warm-up matches at home, against Chile and Germany, both of which are strong teams.

Then, England naturally suffered a two-game losing streak.

Facing Chile's game, Lee Sung-ryong started the game, and then seized the opportunity to score in a corner kick in the first half to help England open the scoring.

But Sanchez scored twice in the second half and led the team to reverse the game.

In fact, England's overall performance in this game was not bad. They suppressed Chile in the whole game, but their ability to seize opportunities was poor, and Joe Hart was relatively poor. They all scored.

Especially Sanchez's lore in stoppage time, Joe Hart could have saved the ball, but a buttery hand came and directly leaked the ball into the goal.

However, this is also a compulsory course for England goalkeepers. Traditional skills cannot be lost in a day or two.

The game against Chile can be said to be a narrow loss,

But facing the German team, it was really a complete defeat.

Although the final score was only 0:1, England was completely suppressed at home, and there was no shot in the entire first half.

After Li Chenglong came off the bench in the second half, the situation improved slightly, barely completing two shots, so that the statistics were no longer so embarrassing.

England suffered a two-game losing streak in international competitions, which was the first time in ten years. This made England fans very unhappy. The English media also began to doubt Hodgson's coaching ability.

The international competition is coming, and of course the English media will come out to pick things up.

Whenever an international competition comes, the English media will come out to make a show, which is also a tradition.

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After this national team match day, the 32 places for next year's World Cup in Brazil have all been confirmed.

Thirteen teams from Europe, six teams from South America, five teams from Africa, four teams each from North America and Asia.

In the qualifiers on all continents, there were basically no big upsets, and almost all stronger teams advanced.

However, there are also some stars who missed the World Cup due to the overall strength of the national team, including Bell and Ramsey of Wales, Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden, Petr Cech of the Czech Republic, Ivanovic of Serbia, etc., all of which come from highly competitive teams. Europe.

The top 32 came out, and the draw for the next World Cup group stage will be held in Brazil in December.

When it comes to lottery, there will naturally be grades.

According to the classification rules of the World Cup, only the first team is completely divided according to the world ranking of the national team (except the host), while the second, third and fourth teams are considered and divided according to "sports and geographical factors". , This has caused many strong teams to fall, and it is easy to form a death group.

According to this FIFA rule, strong teams such as England, France and Chile belong to the third tier, while Italy directly belongs to the fourth tier.

So when the time comes to draw lots, maybe there will be a group of death.

Before the group draw, media from all over the world were already ranking the favorites for the championship.

According to the most common opinion, hosts Brazil are considered first favorites, Argentina second, Germany third and defending champions Spain fourth.

The top two favorites were directly taken by the South American duo, probably because the World Cup was held in South America, because in the history of the World Cup, the World Cup held in South America has always been won by South American teams.

However, the fifth favorite is a bit of a surprise. It is the European upstart Belgium team.

In fact, entering the World Cup this time is only the first time for Belgium since 2002. However, Belgium's football talent has blown out in recent years, so it has been rising in the championship rankings.

The Netherlands, Italy, France, Uruguay, Croatia and England are next.

England is ranked eleventh, and this ranking is reasonable, after all, England has not performed well in recent years.

In fact, after losing two games in a row in the warm-up match, including England coach Hodgson and captain Steven Gerrard said: "England is really not the favorite to win the World Cup in Brazil next year."

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During the national team match day, FIFA announced the shortlist for some award ceremonies, including the best team shortlist and the 23-man shortlist for the Ballon d'Or.

There is no doubt that Jackie Chan is on the list.

Among the candidates for the best team, Lee Sung-ryong appeared in the forward position.

The 23-man roster for the Golden Globes, including Jackie Lee.

Due to the overall outstanding performance of the Bundesliga in the Champions League last season, this year's Ballon d'Or list of 23 people, the Bundesliga has won a total of 8 places, which is the most among the five major leagues.

Bayern contributed six people including Ribery, Robben, Neuer, Ram, Muller, Schweinsteiger, Dortmund has a Lewandowski, and Schalke has a Lee Chenglong.

In addition, there are 6 in La Liga, 5 in the Premier League, 3 in Ligue 1, and only 1 in Serie A.

Although the Bundesliga has the largest number of shortlisted players, due to the increasingly fierce performance of Ronaldo recently, many gambling companies have raised Ronaldo to the number one favorite in the odds of winning the Golden Globe Award.

This also shows on the side that Ribery's advantages are gradually diminishing.

But these have nothing to do with Li Chenglong, he will definitely not even be able to enter the list of three people.

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