CHAPTER 1859: CHAPTER 973: UPCOMING ROCKET RECOVERY TEST

Two days later.

Still at Aztec Stadium in Mexico City, the America-Canada-Mexico World Cup’s Group D group stage, the national football team’s second match against the Tunisia Team.

The number of spectators at this match was not as high as the first match between the national team and the America Team.

After all, there are only a few who can travel to Mexico City’s Aztec Stadium to watch the game live; more people are watching the live broadcast on the sports channel back home. The main reason for the large audience last time was that the national team was playing against the America Team. Since this World Cup is the America-Canada-Mexico World Cup, the fans of the America Team naturally came to support them, along with the local fans in Mexico.

This time, it was just the fans of the national team, a few Tunisia fans, and some local Mexican fans.

After all, compared to Xia Country and America, Tunisia is just a small country with a relatively small population; even fewer people could come to Aztec Stadium in Mexico City to watch the match live.

However, having fewer spectators doesn’t matter.

This doesn’t affect the performance of the national team, as the fans on-site are still showing great enthusiasm in their support.

Although in this match between the national team and the Tunisia Team, main attacking players Li Shuangying and Liu Zhan did not take the field, the two starting players who replaced Li Shuangying and Liu Zhan actually performed quite well too.

Zhao Xuanming, as the core force in attack, also had a very brilliant performance.

Ultimately, the national team secured the match against the Tunisia Team with a huge advantage of four to one. It must be said that the Tunisia Team displayed strong resilience, managing to score a point even when trailing by two points.

The point the national team lost was somewhat regrettable, as it was due to over-defending which caused some defensive players to cross-position, giving the Tunisia Team an opportunity to score.

Goalkeeper Zhu Cheng also had a misjudgment because of the defensive mistake by his teammates, eventually failing to stop the shot.

Losing a goal doesn’t matter; the players won’t lose confidence because of it. They will only be more encouraged, carefully analyzing the reasons for losing that goal, and making up for it.

Throughout the match, the Tunisia Team still had many attacking shots, most of which were intercepted by the defense players and goalkeeper Zhu Cheng.

The national team also had a lot of shooting opportunities, ultimately scoring four goals, winning the match, and bringing their points to two, becoming the brightest presence in Group D.

Afterward, the America Team also won against another Ecuador Team, securing a match and earning a point.

That means the current points situation for Group D is —

National team: 2

America Team: 1

Tunisia Team: 0

Ecuador Team: 0

In this way, the whole situation in Group D has become quite clear. As long as there are no unexpected events later, the national team is certain to advance. The America Team also has a great chance to advance as their strength is above the Tunisia Team and Ecuador Team.

After the national team’s match against the Tunisia Team, preparations continued for the match against the Ecuador Team.

In the match against the Ecuador Team, the national team made roster adjustments. This time, Zhao Xuanming did not play; Li Shuangying and Liu Zhan both took the field. Ecuador Team, being the weakest team in Group D, had some bright moments against the national team, but ultimately failed to score a goal. The national team’s attacks were very fierce, but surprisingly, the Ecuador Team’s defense was unexpectedly strong.

In the end, throughout the match, the national team only scored one goal, which was somewhat surprising. Nonetheless, winning the match with one to zero was still quite good.

With this result,

The national team in Group D has already earned 3 points and is completely confirmed to advance to the round of sixteen.

This achievement made fans back home extremely excited and thrilled. After so many years, the national team is finally sweating on the World Cup field again and has advanced from the group stage, becoming one of the sixteen finalists.

There’s still a long road ahead for the national team, and how far they can go in this America-Canada-Mexico World Cup depends on how powerful an energy this group of young players can unleash.

Ding Yue believes that this group of young players from the national team can go further.

Since it has been confirmed that they will advance from the group stage, Ding Yue is waiting for the upcoming round of sixteen to quarterfinals matches, and he plans to return home once before the quarterfinals start.

Because there is another very important matter that Ding Yue wants to witness personally.

This matter is closely related to aerospace.

On the day the national team finished their match against the Ecuador Team, Ding Yue received a message from his Mist City Arts and Science University School of Aerospace and Feiyue Aerospace, saying that the developed rocket recovery technology was successful and ready for testing.

And the rocket recovery technology testing by Feiyue Aerospace is naturally going to cooperate with the Space Administration because Feiyue Aerospace’s own space launch base center hasn’t been completed and put into use yet.

This news was personally told to Ding Yue by An Yujia over the phone.

"Miss An, this is really good news."

Upon receiving the call and learning of the successful development of the rocket recovery technology, Ding Yue couldn’t help but get excited.