champion godfather

Chapter 944

"George Wood!! YES! Beautiful counterattack! Wood initiated the attack, and he ended the attack again! England led Argentina 1-0! Well done!"

Goals in friendly matches may not make England's commentators so excited, but scoring Argentina's goal means something different.

Seeing Wood's goal, huge cheers erupted from the Crimson Stadium, rumbling and rolling over the stadium, stirring everyone's heart.

After Tang En and his surrounding colleagues finished embracing, they turned around and applauded Wood.

Today, Wood's offensive talent is fully revealed. He can not only be the initiator of the offense, but also the finisher of the offense. He is completely different from the reckless boy who only knew defense ten years ago.

After becoming the captain of England, he has scored many goals, some of which are still very important key goals.Of course, this had to do with Dunn being familiar with him and knowing how to use him well, but more importantly, Wood himself had that belief—he wanted to use his best performance to prove that he was worthy of the captain's armband of the Three Lions.

After scoring the goal, Wood was no longer as indifferent as before. He waved his fist vigorously and greeted the hugs of his teammates.

Tang En hoped that he would not look so stern and not approachable, so he did so.After the goal is a great opportunity.

It seemed that Wood had matured a lot since Twain left the forest team.

It's time to mature... He's 30 years old, not too young.

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Looking at George Wood celebrating his goal, Messi clenched his fists.Although the two did not have a direct dialogue, he still believed that Wood's goal was a challenge to himself.

He took it.

After the game restarted, Messi became active and tried to force a breakthrough many times, but unfortunately there was not much time left for him... The first half is over!
Messi's face fell when the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.He remembered what Guardiola had told him before he set off, that he could only play half of this friendly match...

The England players walked into the tunnel excitedly, while he stood outside for a while before bowing his head and walking back.In this short 1 minute, he made a decision.

In the locker room of Argentina, Maradona is making adjustments in the second half. First of all, he needs to replace the players who have been clearly told that they cannot play the whole game. Fortunately, there are not many players with such special treatment, otherwise he will be distressed -Although this is a friendly match, the number of substitutions is still three.

"Messi." Although one goal behind made Maradona very unhappy, he still had to abide by the agreement between himself and Guardiola, and replace the treasure shared by the two teams to rest.La Liga has entered the final sprint stage, and the Barcelona club does not want Messi to waste his energy in such a friendly match.

Messi shook his head: "I want to continue playing, coach."

All eyes in the locker room were on him, this sentence was really beyond everyone's expectation.

Maradona didn't expect either, he looked up at Messi.

"We have an agreement with Barcelona," Maradona said, looking at him.

"I know." Messi nodded, but his eyes did not back down. "I will call Mr Guardiola after the game and explain."

Maradona knew why Messi was so persistent-his performance in the first half was mediocre. Although he was the core of Argentina's offense, he did not help Argentina score goals and did not create a few threatening opportunities.England's defense was too successful.

He wants to prove himself, at least to prove that he is not bad when Wood scored a goal.

Maradona was a rebellious figure in the player era, and after retiring, he showed his unique personality even more.After becoming the head coach, he restrained himself, but he stopped threatening to kill reporters with a shotgun.

Although we have an agreement with Barcelona, ​​but... since the players insist on it, I can't stop it, right?

"Okay." Maradona finally nodded, "But you only have 15 minutes. I don't want to freeze the relationship with Barcelona because of your personal grievances with Wood..."

His last sentence was really redundant.He doesn't care about that at all.

Messi laughed, and he sat down again.

Since Messi doesn't have to be replaced, there is nothing to adjust, and everything is business as usual.

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In the England locker room, Twain did not praise the performance of the England team in the first half, but asked the team to continue doing so.

Of course he also made adjustments.He knew that Messi would not be able to play in the second half. After this biggest threat was lifted, England's defense would not have to be so tight, and England could invest a lot of troops in the offense more often.

But in the second half he and the England players were stunned.

Argentina's No. 10 is standing squarely on the pitch...

"Didn't Guardiola only allow him to play half-time?" Dunn asked Walker next to him. "Could it be a smoke bomb from Argentina? Damn, playing a friendly match and colluding with Barcelona to play this trick?"

Walker didn't know why this happened.A few days before the game, the media reported that the Barcelona club did not want Messi to play the whole game in this friendly match. Guardiola further shortened this time to 45 minutes in the half.

So when they saw Messi starting in the first half, they didn't care about the second half.I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it...

Wood was also taken aback when he saw Messi on the opposite side.At the same time he found that Messi was staring at him.As an old opponent, he obviously knew what that look meant.

He was just surprised, but not afraid.

Come on, boy.

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After the start of the second half, Messi once became the focus of attention.The commentator is also wondering why Messi is still on the field. It is estimated that Guardiola at this time can't wait to fly to Nottingham to drag him off the field...

Messi, who was holding the ball, faced England's two-person defense. He quickly knocked the ball and turned around, and got between the two people, breaking through!
"It's really beautiful! He is the elf on the football field!" The Argentine commentator exclaimed.

Unfortunately, in the next second, Messi's elf-like figure stagnated.

Because Wood slammed up mercilessly and staggered under his feet, Messi was knocked off track and the threat to the goal was greatly reduced.

Faced with Wood's close defense, Messi tried several times but couldn't get rid of it, and seeing that the English players who had just been thrown away by him were about to surround him again, he had no choice but to pass the football to the side.

"Aha! Don't think that Wood, who scores goals frequently, can't defend! 'St. George' has both offense and defense. It is guaranteed to be every opponent's nightmare!" England's commentator was very proud of this result.

Messi was unrelenting and soon made a comeback.

This time he did not meet Wood head-on, but was forced to the outside of the penalty area by three England players and could only kick a cross.There was no suspense about the result of the cross, and it was pushed out by England's tall central defenders.

But it doesn't matter, the football fell to the feet of the Argentine player Higuain.

Seeing that Messi was still in the penalty area, Higuain sent the football over with a direct pass!

Terry raised his arm to signal Messi offside, but the linesman did not raise the flag.

"Offside!" shouted the England commentator angrily.

"Beautiful! Onside! Beautiful direct pass!" The Argentine commentator stood up excitedly from his seat.Six minutes into the second half, Argentina finally ushered in their best chance of the game so far!

Messi received the ball sideways, and England's right back Glenn Johnson was dragged in the back. He was indeed onside!
Now there is no defensive player around Messi, he is completely unmarked!

Terry, who realized that he had made a mistake in his judgment, quickly turned around and rushed towards Messi.

Messi can shoot directly as long as he swings his foot, but he glanced at Terry out of the corner of his eye, and he decided to choose a safer way-he made a fake shot and made a real dunk, and easily replaced Terry who jumped up.Then swing your feet again, it's real!
Although Terry did not prevent Messi from shooting, he bought valuable time for those behind him.

When Messi's supporting foot is a little far away from the football and his shooting leg is swung up at the same time, the football is completely out of control.At this moment, George Wood took advantage of the void and shoveled in like a tiger descending the mountain. He shoveled the football out of the baseline before Messi kicked it, and Messi's powerful volley just hit the ground. the outside of his thigh.

Messi felt as if he had kicked an iron plate, and the inertia caused his body to fall forward, which happened to be on Wood.

"Penalty!!" The Argentine commentator stood up and leaned out, wishing he could grab the referee by the collar and spit at him.

The England commentator hesitated.He couldn't see it clearly from the high stands, and the small TV screen in front of him hadn't replayed the scene just now. "Messi fell in the penalty area, maybe Wood tackled the ball first?"

It's not that the TV broadcast is deliberately not replayed, but that it's too late for the audience to watch what happened just now.Messi fell in the penalty area, the Argentine players raised their hands to ask for a penalty kick, while the English players desperately waved their hands to indicate that it was definitely not a foul just now, and they even thought it was Messi diving.

The referee made the final penalty at the next moment. He stretched out his right index finger and waved it in front of the Argentine players. The meaning was obvious-George Wood did not foul!

Then he made a gesture of a corner kick, completely cutting off the Argentine's thoughts.

Messi hasn't woken up yet. If Guardiola was watching the TV broadcast at this time, he must have scolded Maradona, George Wood, the referee, and Tony Twain in his heart—"Do you know Know what Messi means to Barcelona!! If he gets injured, our season will be over! Who of you can take the responsibility!"

Fortunately, Messi quickly got up from Wood, and his expression was normal, and he seemed uninjured.

At this time, the TV broadcast finally got the opportunity to replay the moment just now.Everyone can see from the TV screen that although Wood's tackle is fierce, it is clean, shoveling past Messi's toes, shoveling the ball away, and not even bringing it to anyone.If Messi did get hurt, it must have been because he kicked Wood himself on the outside of the thigh.

Both Guardiola and Maradona were worried about whether Messi would be injured, and Twain was also worried about whether Wood would be injured. Messi's kick was really ruthless... It was a forceful volley, just like that. Would it not hurt to kick on the outside of Wood's thigh?

Wood followed Messi to stand up from the ground and looked fine.

Terry also came over to care: "How is it?"

Wood knew what he was asking: "It's okay." He rubbed the part kicked by Messi with his hands. It was a little sore, but it didn't affect his playing.

When he tackled the ball, his thigh muscles were naturally tense, so Messi felt as if he had kicked an iron plate.

Wood looked at Messi beside him, he was rubbing his toes with his head down.

Aguero came up and asked a few words in Spanish, Messi shook his head, it is estimated that the content was similar to the conversation between Terry and Wood.

Although Messi shook his head to indicate that he was fine, there was still some pain in the arch of his foot.He squinted at Wood beside him, who happened to be rubbing his legs.

He suddenly felt that this scene was a little funny, and no one was pleased.

It was the first time I saw Wood suffered a loss in front of me and was injured—although it was only a traumatic injury—Messi was in a good mood, and the tense atmosphere before dissipated at this moment.

He took the initiative to reach out his hand to Wood and waved it in front of him.

Wood was rubbing his thigh when he looked down and saw a hand came into his field of vision and was shaking, so he looked up at the owner of the hand.

Messi is having fun with him.

Wood put down his shorts and held up his hand.

The two people's hands patted lightly and separated.

This may be the only physical contact they have had without gunpowder in the years of fighting... You must know that even when the two of them shook hands before the game, they were secretly competing.

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Messi finally failed to help Argentina equalize the score within the 15-minute period. He did not score a goal himself, nor did he create too good opportunities for his teammates.Perhaps it was because of the recent continuous battles that made him physically tired, and he always staggered and felt a little weak after barely passing two people.

In the No. 15 minute of the second half, Maradona replaced Messi on time. Watching him walk off the field in good health, Guardiola in front of the TV was relieved.

The core was replaced, and the strength of the Argentine team was affected. England still defended and counterattacked like in the first half, but their counterattacks became more and more sharp.

The Argentine loves an equalizer and that was an opportunity England could exploit.Taking advantage of the Argentine's overwhelming pressure, in the No. 207 minute of the second half, England used a quick counterattack to make another victory. Rooney scored his No. 40 goals in the national team.

Maradona obviously has no good tricks to deal with this kind of defensive counterattack, he is not a master of tactics.Half of the credit for being able to lead Argentina to the world championship is because his players are so good...

What's more, the head coaches in the world who can break the defense and counterattack quickly can be counted on one hand, and Maradona is obviously not among them.This is a worldwide problem. The scene is not good, but you can win.

What Tang En wanted was the result.

As long as he can beat Argentina, he can silence those who still question his ability.

Not to mention that this is a friendly match, Messi, Aguero, Higuain, and Tevez are all four attackers in the frontcourt, which shows how much the Argentine team attaches importance to this game.

However, the former world champion with such a luxurious attacking lineup was unable to break through England's defense, and England counterattacked and scored two goals by taking advantage of their pressure.

Judging from the ball possession ratio and the number of shots, Argentina is dominant, and they deserve to win.The result is indeed like this now, and the arrogant Maradona is really upset.Seeing how anxious he was for Argentina's attack on the sidelines, it seemed that he wished that he would be 30 years younger and play in person. Regardless of how many people in England were blocking the goal, he would also stage a solo ride for thousands of miles, passing five people in a row !
In addition to Messi who has already left the field, Aguero and Tevez who are now on the field were once known as the successors of Maradona, but they are not the real king after all. There is nothing to do with the windy wall...

Towards the end, the Argentine commentator no longer expects them to beat England, but only hopes that Argentina, with Higuain, Aguero and Tevez, can score a goal, which can be regarded as saving a little face for the former world champion.

Twain will not let them get what they want. The defensive formation has not relaxed because of the two-goal lead. He wants to make the Argentines completely desperate.In the last 10 minutes of the game, Argentina came out in full force, and the English still did not forget to counterattack, which made the Argentine very angry.

The Forest fans who were cheering for the England team in the stands were a little dazed. Is the team that made the Argentine team at a loss in front of them their national team or the Nottingham Forest team?

In today's game, Argentina wore their blue and white sword-striped jersey, while England wore a red jersey, which was somewhat similar to Nottingham Forest's home jersey.

Later, even Forest fans sang Nottingham Forest's team song collectively.

"Forest Forest!... The world is in our hands, we are the best team in England! We are invincible, we are invincible! We fear nothing! Because we are the best team! Because the world is in our hands... "

The familiar singing voice appeared in the sky above the Crimson Stadium. When Tang En heard it, he couldn't help moving his eyes from the stadium to the stands.

The singing became louder and clearer.The Nottingham Forest players in the England team were inspired by such singing, and their performance became more and more active.The Argentine became more and more impatient amidst such singing, hastily shot long shots, made mistakes in stopping the ball, and dribbled the ball out of bounds...it was simply horrible.

The game ended with singing. The powerful Argentina team did not take advantage of England's defensive counterattack. Maradona was a little unwilling to lose. When he was interviewed by reporters after the game, he said that he did not expect England to choose such a team. Tactics, because this is not the World Cup final, there is no need to care about the result so much...

This is ironic that Tang En didn't even want his face for the result.

Tang En didn't care, he just liked the result, what's the shame?After scraping one layer and another layer, he has more of those things.

In fact, today's set is also the tactic that England will use in the face of strong enemies in the future. Today is just a preview.

Bully the weaker team, let go of the attack, play beautiful offensive football to please the fans.Facing a strong team, he shrank back and yelled at others, just like he yelled at Argentina today.

Tang En was cunning.

"We won, that's enough, I'm happy!"

The only regret is that Messi played too early. He also wanted to test whether he could stand up to this set when Messi played the whole game.

After the interview was over, Tang En walked towards the corridor.At the entrance of the corridor, an enthusiastic Forest team fan handed a red scarf to Tang En. Tang En thought he wanted to sign it, but unexpectedly, the other party just waved to him: "Here, Tony! Keep it as a souvenir!"

After speaking, he ran away.

Tang En was holding the red Forest team scarf in his hand. This scarf was very common, and one could be bought for fifteen pounds at the souvenir shop outside the Crimson Stadium.

The magnificent singing voice at the final stage of the game still seems to be lingering in his ears. The 11 years have been engraved in his heart like a brand, and it has been mentioned over and over again. Every time he thinks he doesn’t care about the past During his 11 years, someone always came out to remind him in different ways—don’t forget the forest, don’t forget the forest...

Tang En hung the red scarf around his neck and walked into the corridor.

How can we forget the forest?
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