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With Italy and France out of the question, who won the European Championship two years ago and are now losing together, let's take a look at the performances of other traditional powerhouses in the opening game of the World Cup.

After France's shock defeat to Senegal, England were also deflated by their old rivals, Viking Sweden. Although the injured Beckham used a corner kick to set up Campbell to open the scoring, a low-level mistake by Mills in the second half sent the ball straight to the feet of Swedish midfielder Alexandersson to equalise and leave England, who were hoping to get off to a good start, to continue their embarrassing history of winless run against Sweden since 1968.

Although he failed to get England off to a good start in the opening group game to the World Cup, Eriksen was clearly much more fortunate than Lemaire, at least his Three Lions ended in a draw with Sweden, rather than losing to an unknown division like Senegal like France. Therefore, after the game, many English media even came out to praise Eriksen's World Cup debut, believing that it was a very good result to be able to draw with Sweden.

Perhaps the British media's propaganda is suspected of exculpating Eriksen's responsibility, but it has to be said that for more than 30 years, there has been no way to win the Swedish team, whose overall strength has regressed significantly every year after the fall of Brolin, and the strength of this so-called "strongest England in history" seems to be about to put a big question mark.

Of course, not all of the traditional powerhouses have been upset by their opponents in their World Cup opener. For example, Argentina, who are in the same group of death as England, the Pampas Eagles defeated Nigeria, known as the African Eagles, with a header from the 33-year-old veteran war god Batistuta, and proved their strength as the favorites with a victory.

Hawkers, although judging from the course of the game, the Argentine's victory seemed a little too hard.

In addition, Brazil in Group C and Spain in Group B also won their first matches at the World Cup. The Samba Army, led by the 3R pair, relied on a brilliant performance by Rivaldo to defeat an unexpectedly difficult Turkey and only fell to second place in the group due to the disadvantage of goal difference; Camacho, on the other hand, led the Matadors to easily defeat their old rivals Slovenia, who had caused them a lot of trouble at the European Championship two years ago, and topped Group B with three points.

If there was one traditional powerhouse that surprised the most, it was Germany's 8-0 win against Saudi Arabia. In the face of this desert fox from West Asia, the German tank, which was evaluated by the media as "old and unbearable" before the opening of the World Cup, exerted amazing combat effectiveness, and finally unexpectedly scored an 8-0 score, creating the largest score difference since the start of the World Cup between South Korea and Japan!

At just 24 years old, Miroslav Klose was the star of the game, and the young striker who played for Kaiserslautern scored a hat-trick in the game, and all three goals were headers! Klose's hat-trick with a header made many German fans seem to see that a new generation of air tyrants is rising.

After all, with the likes of "Golden Bomber" Klinsmann and "Golden Head" Bierhoff retiring or aging, and rising star Jankel embarrassed to take on the task, the German forward line really needs a striker like Klose who can score goals.

The 8-0 win over Saudi Arabia put Worrall in the driver's seat for the time being, slightly recovering the prestige he had lost in a 5-1 defeat to rivals England in World Cup qualifying, and slowing down the pace of the media and fans who have been criticizing his coaching skills for a while, giving them more expectations for Germany's World Cup journey.

Now let's talk about the group of the two hosts, in the Group H match, the hosts Japan and Belgium played out a 2-2 draw in 90 minutes and returned with a point satisfaction. As for the other hosts, South Korea, in Group D, they were the last of all the groups to finish the first round. Like the previous groups, Group D also had a big upset: Portugal's golden generation, led by Figo and Rui Costa, unexpectedly missed against the United States and messed up their World Cup debut!

Portugal's defeat has once again caused an uproar among fans and the media, with top stars such as Figo and Rui Costa in charge, as well as a highlight from the Euros two years ago, making Portugal one of the favourites to win the tournament. However, what people didn't expect was that, like the previous favorites Italy and France, Portugal was actually planted, and it lost to the United States, a country that can be called a football desert!

Although the United States once achieved the round of 16 in the World Cup held on home soil eight years ago, fans who know a little about football should know what kind of status football is in the United States, and the huge gap between the two teams in terms of book strength.

In this way, after all the first round of the World Cup group stage was played, fans were stunned to find that there were really many traditional strong teams that were exposed to the upset this time. From Italy, the double winner of the World Cup and the European Championship, to the European Championship runners-up France, to one of the favourites to win the tournament, as well as the "European Red Devils" Belgium and the golden generation of Portugal, these giants have really surprised pundits and fans in their World Cup opener matches.

Start with an upset and end with an upset. This is how people evaluate this round of the group stage when the first round of the group stage of the South Korea and Japan World Cup is over.

Of course, many experts believe that the reason why there will be so many upsets after the start of the World Cup is largely due to the fact that this World Cup started too early, and most players have not yet recovered from the fatigue of a season. For example, Zidane, the midfield maestro played a Champions League final with Real Madrid half a month before the start of the World Cup, but he was forced to exhaust himself, and led France to lose the most important core and leader of the team before the start of the game.

While the experts' analysis does sound plausible, it's actually useless – now that it's almost a week before the World Cup kicks off, can you still have the organizers temporarily suspend the tournament and wait for the stars to recover before restarting? Such a thing is obviously impossible to happen.

After Portugal's surprise defeat to the United States, the second round of the group stage also officially kicked off, and Italy finally welcomed their second game of the World Cup in South Korea and Japan. This time, Zoo and his players will face Ecuador, a mysterious division from South America, at the Sapporo Dome Stadium in Sapporo, Japan!