It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 246 Daily Transition
June 6, after dinner.

"Charles, have you seen my razor?"

Benzema searched through the cupboards for his razor, but couldn't find it.

"Razor? Go look for it in my bag. I might have put it in the wrong place."

Charles didn't look up, but was studying the email Mueller sent him: how to make mouse bait with 7-Up and Lafite.

Benzema opened the closet door. "Is it the black bag?"

"Yes, take a look, it might be on the second floor. By the way, Karim, do you have 7-Up?"

Charles read the entire email and roughly understood the specific process of making mouse bait.

The only regret is that he doesn’t have any 7-Up or Lafite with him now.

"7-Up? There might be some in the vending machine downstairs. If you want some, we can go buy some together later."

Benzema was still looking for the razor, but the light in the closet was not bright enough for him to see what was in the bag.

"Char, what is this? Did you put it in the box?"

As he was talking, Benzema took out a box from his bag.

Ciel also came over from the computer, "Oh, this was left in my bag by Ana."

In yesterday's match, the French Football Association allowed the wives of the players to come and watch the game.

As he spoke, he took the box and looked at it carefully. "It's eyebrow tint, golden in color."

"Let me see," Benzema put the bag back into the closet, "So this means I can dye my eyebrows blonde?"

"That should be the case. I haven't seen Ana use it either."

"Can I open it?"

"Tear it down."

After saying that, Benzema quickly opened the box and saw that it was divided into two parts.

One quarter of the space is occupied by a small eyebrow tint, and the rest of the space is occupied by an instruction manual for the tint.

"How do you use this?"

Benzema handed the instruction manual to Charles.

This and the eyebrow tint are made in the UK, and the instructions are all in English.

Charles took the instruction manual of the eyebrow tint and read it slowly.

In the end, he had to admit that he couldn't understand the instruction manual at all.

"How about I call Ana and ask? Do you want to use it?"

Benzema scratched his head embarrassedly, "Don't call, I'm just curious."

After that, Benzema pointed to his calves and said, "I wanted to shave my legs, but I couldn't find the razor."

Charles understood immediately.

"I'll help you dye it!"

"Come on, I'll go turn on the light."

After saying that, Charles opened the eyebrow tint directly, took the small brush and carefully dipped some of the golden eyebrow tint.

Benzema moved a stool over, sat on the bed, and put one leg on it.

Ciel sat directly on the ground, "I'm starting now."

"bring it on."

As soon as Benzema finished speaking, Charles held the brush steadily in his right hand and brushed the leg hairs one by one.

Half an hour later, Charles had patiently applied eyebrow tint to all the hair on Benzema's right calf.

"How is it, is there any change?"

Charles asked.

Benzema looked at it carefully for a long time but didn't see any changes.

"This eyebrow tint doesn't work well. I can't see anything. It's still the same as before."

"How could this happen?" Charles stood up from the ground, "Move aside, I'll try it too."

After Benzema made room, Charles also applied eyebrow tint to his calves.

"You see, there really isn't much change."

"Well, really not," Charles pursed his lips, covered the eyebrow tint, and threw it into the trash can along with the packaging.

Benzema moved the stool back and said, "Let's go buy some 7-Up."

After coming back from shopping, the two of them no longer had the heart to study mouse bait.

After washing up, go to bed and rest.

midnight.

Benzema was woken up by the heat in a daze. He wanted to reach out for the remote control, but he couldn't stretch out his hand, as if he was imprisoned in a cage.

The more irritated you become, the less likely you are to leave the "cage".

In the end, Benzema, who was extremely annoyed, rolled over on the bed, punching and kicking, trying to break this "cage".

After several minutes of struggle.

With a "hiss", a hole was torn in the mosquito net.

Benzema, who broke free from the cage, successfully got the air conditioner remote control. After lowering the temperature in a sleepy state, he fell asleep directly.

the next morning.

As soon as Charles woke up, he suddenly felt as if something was wrong.

When he turned his head towards Benzema, he finally understood what was wrong!

My goodness! There was a big hole in the mosquito net on Benzema’s bed, and the torn gauze of the mosquito net was dangling in the air.

"Karim, what happened last night? How did your mosquito net get torn? Who did this?"

Benzema woke up from his sleep in a daze.

"It was a mosquito bite."

Charles was stunned.

"That mosquito is pretty fierce."

Benzema nodded.

"Yes, there are still many good mosquitoes in the world."

After breakfast, Charles and his teammates gathered and began to prepare for training.

It's a sunny day today.

The two had just walked out the door and were heading towards the locker room when the sunlight had already impatiently penetrated through the treetops and hit their calves.

"Char, Karim, your leg hair is glowing, golden!"

"Brother Monkey, is there something that bothers you guys?"

The two of them quickly looked down, and sure enough, the originally ordinary leg hair was actually sparkling in the sun.

That's right.

Their leg hair is glowing!
Charles and Benzema looked at each other.

"I'm going to the physiotherapist to shave my hair. Please tell the coach when he comes—"

After saying that, Ciel rushed into the therapy room.

Benzema waved his hands and shouted, "Wait for me, I want to shave my legs too!"

Gala and Henry looked at the two people who disappeared on the spot and laughed.

Soon, the locker room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

While the French team was training happily, the results of the Group C, D and E matches came out one after another.

Among them, England in Group C unexpectedly drew 1:1 with the United States and ranked second.

After the game, all the media were mocking England's traditional butter hands and blasting England's forwards for not being able to shoot.

But some media in England argued: "Don't criticize England's forwards. If England had a midfielder like Charles, then the shooters would become Benzema, Anelka and Ribery. A striker, playing on the same team with Charles, is a blessing!"

Currently, Slovenia is at the top of Group C, having defeated Algeria 1-0 in this round.

In the three groups that have already finished playing, there have been upsets of varying sizes in each group.

However, Germany's Group D is in very stable form. Germany beat Australia 4:0 and topped the Group D.

The second place is Ghana which defeated Serbia 1:0.

Serbia came third, and Australia came last.

At present, Group D is also the group with the clearest qualifying situation.

If nothing unexpected happens, Germany will advance with Ghana or Serbia, and Germany will definitely be the first.

In Group E, Netherlands 2:0 Denmark, Japan 1:0 Cameroon.

However, compared to the games, what attracted more attention in this World Cup was Japan's off-field news.

The off-field news of other teams is basically the same, such as English players inviting female fans to discuss football skills late at night.

But Japan is different.

Their gossip is "Japan's women's restroom becomes the national team's locker room, Nakamura's No. 10 stall is the most popular."

In fact, in order to promote the World Cup, Japan specially painted the public women's toilets in Tokyo subway stations blue, the color of the Japanese national team's jerseys.

In addition, the names and jersey numbers of the Japanese national team players are sprayed on the doors of each cubicle.

I don't know what they think.

What’s even more amazing is that in the female restroom cubicle with “Nakamura Shunsuke 10” written on it, there are also some cheering slogans hoping that Nakamura will cheer up and score with his golden left foot.

The matches from Group F to Group H have not started yet.

That night, Pele was interviewed because tomorrow was the day of Brazil's first round match.

Charles turned on the TV devoutly, hoping not to hear the name of the French team from Pele's mouth.

Pele is famous for his bad mouth.

Before the recent World Cups, Pele would make some predictions, but the results of his predictions were always different from reality.

In the 1990 World Cup, he favored Italy and Yugoslavia.

But the final result was that Yugoslavia and Italy lost to Argentina on penalties in the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively.

In the 1994 World Cup, he was optimistic about Colombia because Colombia swept Argentina 5-0 in the World Cup qualifiers.

But in the end Colombia was eliminated directly from the group stage with 1 win and 2 losses.

Even Escobar, who scored an own goal against the United States, was shot dead by domestic radicals.

The prediction has failed twice. As the saying goes, three times is the limit, so the third time should be right, right?
So, in the 1998 World Cup, he was optimistic about the Brazilian team.

This time Bailey's prediction seemed to come true.

But Zidane's two headers directly stunned the Brazilian team.

In the final, the Samba Army suffered a crushing defeat of 0:3, and the French team stepped on the corpse of the Brazilian team and won the World Cup championship for the first time on their home soil.

Entering the new millennium, there should be some new developments, right?
In the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, Pele was optimistic about Argentina and France.

In fact, before the World Cup in Korea and Japan, Argentina and France were the biggest favorites, so Pele believed that one of these two teams would win the World Cup.

But what’s funny is that Argentina and France didn’t even qualify for the group stage, and the team that won the championship was his least favored home country - Brazil.

The Brazilian team won the championship. No matter what, Pele was still happy.

Although he has predicted four World Cups incorrectly.

Undeterred, Pele predicted that the 2006 World Cup champion would be either Brazil or England.

In his eyes, Brazil was the strongest team at that time, clearly a level above the other teams, and England had a good chance of reaching the final.

This time, both teams advanced from the group stage.

However, not surprisingly, both England and Brazil were eliminated in the quarterfinals.

The show will start soon.

"Pele, Argentina, coached by Maradona, won the first match of the group stage, beating Nigeria 1-0. What do you think of this?"

This reporter is clearly looking for trouble.

During every World Cup, "cursed dolls" are very popular in major stores in Brazil.

Moreover, the "cursed dolls" sold in these stores are basically all wearing Argentina jerseys.

People can buy any "cursed doll" in these stores, and then poke it with pins when they get home.

The cursed dolls that exist in Brazil are naturally also found in Argentina.

However, they are not as dedicated as Brazil, and only make cursed dolls wearing Argentina jerseys.

Their cursed dolls basically come from various national teams.

Among them, Germany, Italy and France sold the best.

But Pele, who was standing there watching, would not say anything good about Maradona.

"Diego coaches the Argentine national team, and his only goal is to make money. He performed very badly during the qualifiers, but this is not Maradona's fault alone, it is the fault of a group of people who put him in the coaching position!"

After getting the answer he wanted, the reporter continued to ask questions.

"So, Pele, who do you think will be the final champion of this World Cup?"

In an instant, almost all the fans in front of the TV put their hands together.

Bailey pursed his lips, thought about the previous predictions, and finally sighed in his heart.

"In my opinion, Spain and France are the best teams in the world right now and should be the favorites to win the World Cup."

The reporter's eyes lit up.

"And what about Brazil?"

Pele thought for a while and said, "Brazil is one of the strongest teams, but not the strongest team will necessarily win the championship."

Thousands of Spanish and French fans who were watching the show in front of their TVs all wailed.

The show continues.

The reporter asked: "So Bailey, can you tell us what you think of Charles and Yoshi?"

Since this problem does not involve the Brazilian team, Pele can rest assured and not worry about bad luck.

"I said before that his personal ability cannot be compared with mine. Now I think Yosi's personal ability is the best, but the first place in the South American region in the qualifiers was Brazil."

"As for Charles, I see the shadow of Garrincha in him, and he is much more self-disciplined than Garrincha."

"He is not only extremely talented, but also outstanding in other aspects."

"Whether in club or national team, his role and performance are hard to ignore."

On the second day, the Group F competition officially kicked off.

At the same time, the biggest upset of this World Cup was also revealed.

Last year's World Cup champion Italy drew 1:1 with Paraguay.

Logically speaking, the defending champions should have been full of momentum, and the characteristic of Paraguayan football is not its offensive power.

However, due to the aging of the players, the Paraguayans took the lead in the 39th minute of the game.

After the half-time break, main goalkeeper Buffon was injured and left the field.

It wasn't until the 63rd minute that Italy equalized the score.

At the same time, New Zealand and Slovakia in this group drew 1:1.

At present, the qualifying situation in Group F is the most confusing.

Because all teams have the same score and goal difference.

In Group G, apart from North Korea, any of Cote d'Ivoire, Portugal or Brazil could qualify.

Currently, Cote d’Ivoire is tied with Portugal 0:0;
Brazil 2:1 North Korea.

The focus of this group is who will qualify as the second between Côte d'Ivoire and Portugal.

Group H also produced a big upset.

Honduras 0:1 Chile;

Spain 0:1 Switzerland.

I don’t know if this can be considered as the result of Pele’s bad luck, because the value of the Swiss team is only 1/7 of that of the Spanish team.

At present, the complexity of the qualifying situation in Group H is second only to that of Group F, where the defending champions are located.

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