Thanks for the reward of "Death of the Thief"! ――

On the first day of December, Millwall trained as usual in the morning.

The players who come to the club in different types of cars go about their work, Ronaldo chats with the goalkeeper for a few minutes, Nedved goes to the team doctor to read his medical report from last month, Thierry Henry sits in the dressing room and listens to music to relax, Pirlo plays on the pitch, Gattuso sees the right time to play tricks on Pirlo, Alonso holds a bookmark in one hand and holds a book in the other hand and leans against the goalpost to read in the bright sun

In the small world of the club, you can still get a glimpse of the various states of life.

Aldridge has spent more than a year driving to the club, parking the car, and getting out of the car with a cup of takeaway coffee in hand.

Although the schedule has been reasonably planned under Yiwen's advice recently, it is difficult to break the habit.

Before training, he would chat with everyone in the coaching staff's studio, and when the time was almost up, he would go to the training ground, when most of the players were there.

There was something special about the atmosphere today and the players seemed distracted.

The coach, the coach, the players, in fact, everyone's mind is not on training.

After the warm-up, Aldridge did not train with the ball, and directly let the players practice physical fitness, and after half an hour passed, many players were sweating profusely, and Aldridge gave an order.

"Let's go, let's go and watch the World Cup group draw."

The players cheered and followed the coaches to the office building of the training base, where they sat in the room where they usually had a pre-match preparation meeting, and the big TV screen was already showing the live draw for the World Cup in South Korea and Japan.

"Boss, is this girl a player in the Asian women's football team? Asian women play football so beautifully? ”

Xiao Luo moved a chair and sat in front of Aldrich, which is considered the position of the first row, he pointed to a lottery ambassador on the big screen, and asked curiously.

There were teammates around who immediately whistled.

Aldrich couldn't laugh and cry, and said: "That's a Korean female star." It's not about kicking. ”

Xiao Luo pointed to South Korean movie star Song Hye Kyo, as one of the 13 ambassadors who drew lots, if you want to talk about women who play football, there are also 13 ambassadors, China's Sun Wen.

Some Asian faces, the players don't know each other. For example, South Korea's Jung Mong-joon, Hong Myung-po, Japan's Ihara Masa, etc., but others such as Pele, Cruyff, and Platini are old faces that everyone is familiar with in European football.

Xiao Luo turned his head again and asked, "Boss." Your England have such a good record in the past year, why not the seeded team? ”

"Because the World Cup is held in Asia, Japan and South Korea have two seeded places, and without the two of them, England and Portugal would be seeded."

Aldrich pushed Ronaldo's head forward and said, "Watch quietly, don't make trouble." ”

In fact, England has not been seeded. Aldrich didn't think the difference was much.

If you are the weakest in the first tier, you will have a high probability of being part of the group of death.

In the second pot, even if it is divided with the seeded team, at least the second pot has a high probability of occupying a place.

It's just that it depends on luck, because the World Cup is a group stage, except for European teams, teams from other continents have the principle of avoiding the group stage.

With Japan and South Korea seeded, there are as many as 11 teams in Pot 2, which means that there are 3 teams in Pot 2 that have not been drawn. Pot 3 will be entered, and if you are unlucky, you will be seeded and two teams from Pot 2 will be placed in a group, and the Group of Death will be born.

In the third pot, Aldridge saw a name: China.

I didn't think much about this history in my previous life, but now that I look at it, I think it's very strange.

To say Senegal. It's not unusual for Tunisia, South Africa, and Cameroon to be in Pot 4, but the United States. Nigeria is in the fourth pot, which is a bit inconsistent, especially in the United States, although football is not ranked high in the United States' domestic competitive sports, but people have also participated in the World Cup in recent years, held the World Cup, and the Chinese team can be classified into the third pot when they enter the World Cup.

The record of the past two years has been blown up? Swiped FIFa points?

Aldrich didn't remember, and didn't bother to think about it.

The players in the conference room began to whisper, in fact, the real lottery will not take too long, but the lottery ceremony still has to go through the motions, the flag-bearers of the participating teams enter, the national flags of various countries are displayed, the cultural performances arranged by the Korean government, and the theme song "Leap" sung by the American actress Anastasia, followed by the promotional video introduction of the participating teams.

In England's team promotional video, the players are naturally dominated by the two most famous stars, Xiaobei and Owen, but rarely, among the promotional videos of the 32 teams, only England's promotional video gives the role of the coach a close-up moment of more than 2o seconds

When the draw began, the meeting room fell silent as everyone waited for the results of the draw.

When the result of England being drawn into Argentina's group came out, there were exclamations at the draw scene, and the coaching staff around Aldridge also showed a variety of expressions.

Klinsmann gasped, and Jenson slapped his thigh and clutched his head helplessly.

I only did one in 98 years, and four years later, I will continue to lead!

Aldridge's expression was the same, and he watched the draw of all the teams in Pot 2 until he frowned.

"I'm cǎo! Why Argentina? ”

Jenson couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

Ten years from now, when people talk about this World Cup, what can Argentina remember?

What is remembered is the five-star Brazil!

However, before the World Cup was played, Brazil?

Brazil and Argentina are not at the same level at all!

Brazil in the South American qualifiers, until the last round is still in danger of going out, the penultimate round 1:3 defeat to Bolivia almost made the Brazilian people desperate, fortunately in the final round of the home 3:o defeated Venezuela to get the third place with the same goal difference, the fourth place is the same as them, the fifth place, the sixth place is 27 points, away from Brazil, only 3 points, you know how thrilling Brazil's qualifiers are.

And what about Argentina?

"Vilas, what's going on in Argentina lately?"

Jensen turned to ask Boas.

There is a draw today. Naturally, Boas would also do some simple intelligence preparations.

Before Jenson asked, he opened the thick notebook, found the information about Argentina, and said in a deep voice: "In the South American qualifiers, Argentina had 13 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, and 43 points came out of the first place, scoring the most goals, 11 more than Brazil, which has the second most goals." Conceding two more goals than fifth-place Uruguay, who are the best defensive, with the most goal difference in attack and second in defence, the only defeat was at home in Brazil, although they returned home to get their revenge. ”

It is no exaggeration to say. Before the start of the World Cup, the strongest division in South America was none other than Argentina!

This is not empty talk, but there is a record basis, stable dìng, strong offensive firepower, and solid defense. This is the impression that Argentina gives to the outside world.

After Boas finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Aldrich, but they heard Aldrich say thoughtfully: "We have a 75% probability of entering the group of death." ”

At this time, the coaching staff invariably looked at the big TV screen again.

After all, the first two to qualify for the group stage of the World Cup will go home.

Argentina and England are placed in the same group, so if they are placed in a weaker third pot, such as China. Plus a team in Pot 4.

Then, this signing is actually very good, and if you earn 6 points on the weak, you will definitely be able to qualify.

It's just that when everyone looked at the big screen, they understood the meaning of Aldrich's words.

There are three European teams in Pot 2 who have been placed in Pot 3, and while European teams do not circumvent the principle in the group stage, there is also a cap. That's a group with a maximum of two European teams.

Therefore, these three teams can only be divided, Brazil. Argentina, Japan, South Korea are in the group.

The seeded teams France, Italy, Spain and Germany have all drawn a European team in the same group.

When England is drawn into the Argentine group, the probability of the group of death appearing is very high.

Bad luck, so to speak, as long as you don't draw into the group of Brazil and Argentina, and are placed in a group with South Korea, Japan, or the other four European seeded teams, then the probability of avoiding the group of death is very high, but first, the probability of winning the bid is 25%, and then it depends on the probability of 75% whether you can avoid it.

After the results of the third team's draw from Argentina and England were announced, there was another exclamation at the draw scene.

In the conference room, Larson looked down and smiled wryly.

Sweden, into this group.

The Group of Death, without a doubt, was born.

Aldrich is also smiling bitterly, I, a butterfly, why doesn't it affect this lottery?

After the draw results of the fourth pot team were announced, the England delegation at the scene, as well as the Fleet Street media representatives, all had black faces.

African-class eagle Nigeria.

Argentina, England, Sweden, Nigeria.

Grass your grandma FIFa!

Aldridge raised an eyebrow after watching the draw ceremony.

The group of death is the group of death, and it is not without good information.

At least in Group F, where England is in, if they can break out, then the group stage and the knockout stage will be played in the Japanese side, without South Korea and Japan.

The players are also talking about it, and some players have good signings for their respective national teams.

Just like Henry's France, Denmark, Uruguay, Senegal, Pirlo and their Italy, their opponents are Ecuador, Croatia, Mexico, and even Klose and Schneider's Germany are in a relatively weak group, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Cameroon.

Count them up, and they're the worst in England!

Of course, Aldrich didn't think it was so tragic, and he was mentally prepared.

By the end of the training session, reporters were already gathered outside the Leo training base.

Football reporters from Fleet Street flocked to ask Aldridge what he thought of the draw.

"Mr. Hall, England and arch-rival Argentina are in the same group, will you be mentally prepared for this battle of revenge?"

"What do we know about Nigeria? Will such an opponent cause us trouble? ”

"And Sweden, we haven't won against Sweden in 33 years! Are you confident to lead LinkedIn Gran to break through in the Group of Death? ”

Aldrich was dumbfounded.

England in the Malegobi.

We don't beat Germany in 3o years, we know it, and we don't think there's any problem, Germany is strong.

But why did a 33-year winless Sweden suddenly pop up again?

Aldrich, who was sitting in the car with a dumbfounded face, was photographed by reporters.

Everyone thought that this young marshal was drawn into the group of death because of England, and he couldn't bear the pressure!

Aldridge was really confused by the recent history of football in England.

As England manager, it seems that he has to go back and read the history well.

Otherwise, don't win Germany in 3o years today, Sweden in 33 years tomorrow, and England in N years the day after tomorrow, who have you won?

That's it, England has the face to call itself a strong team?

Really kneel down to Fleet Street!

It is you who praise England for being strong, and it is you who use England's embarrassing record to force the national team coach to ask!

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