[Gorani:] A major shocker at the World Cup right now. Just minutes ago, Argentina lost to Croatia three nail. That would make it extremely difficult for Argentina to advance out of their group. On the pitch today, France beat Peru, one nail. Yay. Which moves them into the knockout stage of the World Cup. Russia and Uruguay, so far, are the only other teams to advance. Russia's success certainly is a surprise. They came into the cup as the lowest rated team in the tournament. They have something called a home advantage though, I think Fred Pleitgen has been following the Russian national team and he's in Moscow. Fred.
[Frederik Pleitgen, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Hala, we visited their training camp earlier today and what we saw there was a very confident team, obviously bolstered by those two win that they got and a team that believes that they could do great things at the World Cup. And so now does this nation. Here's what we saw.
[Pleitgen:] It's not often that you see Russians this emotional. But the country's been in a football frenzy ever since the World Cup started. Thanks to Russia's Cinderella squad, a team most experts thought would fail miserably, but has outscored its opponents Eight to one so far. Defender Andrei Semyonov told me the team always believed in itself. Nobody believed in us, he says, now everyone does and they're starting to put medals on us. But we don't look at it. We studied our opponents really well and predicted everything. But few observers could have predicted their success. Russia is the lowest ranked team at the World Cup. Wouldn't have even qualified if they weren't the host nation. And many feared the mood at the World Cup would sour and the home team performed poorly. Now, the squad, led by striker Artem Dzyuba is on a roll. Team Russia has already proved all of its critics wrong, well, in all of its matches and already qualifying for the next round. And now both this nation and this team believe they can do great things at the FIFA 2018 World Cup. And with a successful squad, Russians are embracing their nation's role as hosts of the tournament. Striker Fyodor Kudryashov telling me, home field advantage has also helped elevate the team's performance. The fans are the 12th player on the field for us, he said. We feel their overwhelming support and our team goes forward. If there is a knock on the Russians, it's that they haven't played any of the really strong teams so far. But for now, Russia is enjoying the winning streak, hoping their World Cup fairy tale doesn't end any time soon. And, Hala, of course the next game they have will be against the stronger team, it's against Uruguay. And after that, of course, we get to the knockout stages and it's really going to be there that the Russians are going to show whether they are for real or not, Hala.
[Gorani:] Yes, we will be watching. Thanks, Fred. For Shakespeare, it was the sonnet, for Rembrandt and Picasso, a masterpiece painted in oils. But in this day and age, there seems to be only one way to truly honor the special moments in our life.
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