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Chapter 612 Semifinals

Li Rui turned his head and saw Cesc Fabregas standing next to him. He offered to extend his hand to his friend: "I hope it will be a wonderful game."

Fabregas froze for a moment, then smiled and stretched out his hand, "It will be a wonderful game!" The two held hands together.

At this time, the referee Brickley from Belgium began to take steps, and it was time to enter the field.

The teammates in front of him ran forward, and Li Rui hurriedly followed. As soon as he walked out of the player tunnel, there was a bang, cheers and applause filled his ears, and a fiery feeling rushed over his face.

The fanaticism of English fans is world-renowned. In terms of momentum, Spanish fans are far inferior to English fans. There was once a Liverpool fan who mocked Real Madrid fans, saying that the most spectacular thing in the stands at the Bernabéu is the white handkerchiefs waving... …

As soon as he entered the stadium, he heard deafening singing.This made Li Rui feel a burst of enthusiasm, which made him feel as if he was on the battlefield, and the blood in the man's bones was burning at this moment.

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The two sides line up, shake hands, captains exchange team flags, guess sides, and line up.

The referee Brickley's whistle was in his mouth. He looked down at the time on his wrist watch again, then looked at the players on both sides standing in the middle circle, and blew the whistle in his mouth.

Spain kicks off first.

Torres knocked the football to Villa, Villa moved the ball laterally, and Silva, who got the ball, took two steps forward, facing Beckham's interception, suddenly accelerated and tried to force Beckham with speed, but , Beckham followed Silva closely, Silva kicked in desperation, Hargreaves and Harvey gained the upper hand in fighting for the header, and he ferried the football to Richard hereby.

England immediately launched a counterattack.

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This is Mourinho's tactical arrangement before the game. In about 10 minutes after the start of the first half, he exerted his strength to disarm Spain, disrupt Spain's position, and try to score a goal. If these 10 minutes After a few minutes, if you don't score a goal, start to recover the formation properly, pay attention to pressing in the midfield, don't worry.

The knockout round is different from the group stage. Neither Spain nor England should be too risky. After all, once a mistake occurs and a goal is conceded, it will be fatal.

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Richards passed the ball to Lampard. After Lampard took two steps, he made a small cooperation with Hargreaves and then split the football. Ashley Cole rushed up. After dribbling the ball along the sidewalk for a certain distance, a big foot suddenly crossed the football. After Gerrard got the ball in the midfield, he faced Capdrera who was defending him. Gerrard suddenly accelerated and forced a breakthrough. Capudrera was going to stretch out his hand to pull it, but he was half a beat late, but his reaction was quick, and he followed closely behind Gerrard.

Gerrard suddenly cut inside near the baseline, lifted his foot and pretended to shoot, but knocked the football back. Beckham made a round with his right foot and kicked a cross!

In the middle of the penalty area, Li Rui suddenly stepped in and jumped ahead of Marchena with a header!
Casillas kicked the football out of the baseline with a diving leap.

"Ah! It was less than 2 minutes into the game. England had an extremely threatening attack after stealing the ball in the backcourt. Before the game, it was analyzed that neither Spain nor England would be as open as the group stage All attacks will be based on a solid defense, but now it seems that that analysis is wrong, England seems to be quite proactive after the start, so Mourinho still wants to play against Spain in this game?"

The camera is on the sidelines on the coach's bench, Mourinho is chewing his gum in his mouth, his eyes never leave the field.

Instead, the camera switched, and the Spanish coach Aragones appeared in the camera with a pensive look on his face, looking a little surprised.

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Aragones was indeed a little surprised. He didn't expect England to put on a desperate attack as soon as it came up.

However, the Spanish coach was unmoved, the game had just begun, he needed to observe again, and then consider whether to make adjustments.

The corner kick was taken, and Beckham took the corner kick into the penalty area. The arc of the corner kick was very strange. Li Rui and Lampard jumped up one after another. Neither of them touched the football, but the football spun directly towards the goal. , Casillas did not dare to be careless, jumped up and lifted the football over the crossbar.

Still England's corner kick!

"The game has just started, and England has won the second corner kick. Is Mourinho's England really going to attack with all its strength?" The Spanish commentator said a little surprised.

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This time, Beckham kicked the football to Ashley Cole who came up to meet him. This time it was a tactical corner kick.

Ashley Cole paused the football, pulled it horizontally, and then saw an opening and passed the football.

Hargreaves got the ball in the middle, but then he pushed the ball with his foot and split the ball. Amid the exclamation of the fans, Beckham kicked the ball into the penalty area with his right foot.

Ramos jumped high in the penalty area and pushed the ball out of the penalty area in front of Gerrard.

Hargreaves rushed up, jumped up and ferried the football to Richards behind him, and the ball was still controlled by England.

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Richards then transferred the football to Beckham's feet.

"Well, England seems to be planning to use back and forth back and forth to open up Spain's current dense defense...to find the right time to pass the ball." The Austrian commentator said.

Beckham slid the football forward, raised his eyes to look ahead, and suddenly made a long pass. His goal was Li Rui, who was cruising in front!

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In the stands of the Ernst Harper Stadium, there was a huge cheer, which was dedicated to Li Rui.

Li Rui is not only the number one scorer in England, but also the number one star and idol in this European Cup. It can be said that he is the most popular star now. Not only England fans like him, I believe that in this game, apart from Spanish fans Many of the neutral fans are Li Rui's fans.

Li Rui started and sprinted towards the landing point of the football. Obviously, Aragones paid attention to Li Rui to a considerable extent. As soon as Li Rui started, there were two more bodyguards beside him, Fabregas and Ramos.

The reason why Li Rui is a world-class star is that he stopped the ball and controlled the football well, which made many people applaud him.

Although being double-teamed by Ramos and Fabregas, Li Rui blocked Fabregas behind with his right hand, preventing Fabregas from destroying the incoming ball. After catching Ramos, the football fell. Li Rui stretched out his right foot and beautifully removed Beckham's long pass. At the same time, he turned around beautifully and controlled the football under his feet, facing the direction of the goal.

huh huh huh~~
There was a burst of cheers from the stands, for Li Rui's beautiful stop of the ball under the double-teaming of Cesc Fabregas and Ramos. It is also difficult to turn around successfully after stopping the ball steadily.

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Ramos reacted quickly, and immediately moved his steps, lying in front of Li Rui.

Li Rui was surprised by Ramos's quick reaction, but his feet were unambiguous, the football knocked back and forth between his left and right feet, confusing the opponent.Then suddenly take the football to the baseline.

Ramos thought that Li Rui was going to make a bottom pass, and he wanted to make a pass.So he ran along, but Li Rui suddenly stopped, stepped on the ball, and pulled the ball back. This tricked Ramos into rushing too fiercely, and rushed out of the sideline. When he turned to look, Li Rui had already Dribbled the ball again and cut inside the penalty area.

"Beautiful breakthrough!!"

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Li Rui, who broke into the penalty area, caused chaos in Spain's defense. Marchena saw that Ramos was broken, and immediately came up to make up for it. With his action, Rooney's defense in the middle was empty.

Puyol is defending Gerrard, he yelled, let Capudrera to stare at Gerrard, he immediately ran over to stare at Rooney.

Li Rui glanced at the situation in front of the goal and saw Marchena pounced towards him, so he decisively chose to pass the ball.

The ball was passed neither to Rooney nor to Gerrard.

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This is a ground ball, which flew obliquely to the outside of the penalty area!Li Rui noticed that there was no one guarding Lampard on the penalty area line, and he passed it to Lampard! !

It can be said that Li Rui passed the ball very well, and Lampard bent his bow and set an arrow. When the ball reached him, he immediately swung his foot and volleyed. After a pounce, he hit the outside of the post, and it was still a corner kick!
There was a sound of sighing in the stands. For the England fans, this was a sigh of regret. Of course, for the Spanish fans, it was a sigh of fear.

Lampard looked very annoyed. He scratched his hair randomly, jumped up, and then glanced at the direction of the goal unwillingly, then turned his head and gave Li Rui a thumbs up in the penalty area, indicating that this pass was very important. Great!

Beckham's corner kick was taken. This time, Puyol jumped up first and pushed the football out of the penalty area. Fabregas drove the football to the front field with a big foot. James came out and hugged the football, which was considered to be the start of the game. Finally, England's series of attacks came to an end.

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Mourinho looked at the time on the sidelines. After England's offensive has passed, the game has now started for 8 minutes. It should be said that England's offensive after the opening is still good. They played with momentum. , I believe that in the next game, Spain will be afraid when attacking.However, the only regret is that no goals were scored.

At this time, Mourinho made a gesture on the sidelines, which meant that the players should pay attention to controlling the rhythm of the game.

In the next game, the aggressiveness of England after the opening seemed to disappear all of a sudden. The two sides started to compete in the midfield 'very friendly', and the Spaniard, who gradually entered the game state, also began to control the field. The situation, the Iberian Matador, even in the 20 minutes of the game, for a few minutes, almost surrounded the half of the England team indiscriminately.In addition to Rooney, England, even Li Rui retreated to the half court to help the team defend.

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"The game has entered a normal track. Now Spain is attacking and England is defending. After the start of the game, England's offensive is just a flash in the pan." The Spanish commentator spoke with a proud look. At this time, he seemed to have forgotten the group stage. England 5:3 Spain game.It can be said that in the eyes of the Spaniards, the England team is the kind of long pass, defensive counterattack...

On the coaching bench in Spain, Aragones glanced at his colleague not far away. He was not as simple as the commentator thought. Aragones knew that England not only had the strength to attack, but also attacked The strength is strong, even higher than that of the Dutch team, and Aragones does not dare to be careless.

However, there is one thing that the Spanish coach knows very well, that is, unlike the Dutch team's multi-point attack, more than half of England's offensive firepower is related to Li Rui. It can be said that as long as Li Rui can be frozen, Then England's offensive power will be greatly affected. This is not to say that without Li Rui, they should not be able to score goals, but that England, which has become accustomed to Li Rui's strong offensive power, will have a moment without Li Rui. The son was very uncomfortable and didn't even know how to score a goal.

This situation is a bit like AC Milan's dependence on Kaka.Once Kaka's condition is not good, or Kaka is frozen, the performance of the Rossoneri will drop a notch.

However, the crux of the problem is, is Li Rui so easy to freeze?
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Xavi dribbled the ball in the frontcourt, with a push of the arch, the ball reached Fabregas' feet, Fabregas passed the ball to Iniesta, Iniesta suddenly crossed, and the ball returned Harvey's feet.

Harvey suddenly kicked the ball through, and then people saw Silva getting the ball, but in the next second, Silva and Hargreaves entangled together, Silva fell to the ground, The football goes off the touchline.

Sitting on the ground, Silva raised his hand to indicate that Hargreaves fouled, but the referee Brickley didn't think it was a foul. He waved towards Silva and signaled the Valencia star to get up quickly.

From the stands where the Spanish fans were seated at the Ernst Happel Stadium, harsh boos rang out.This is the booing of the Belgian referee Brickley's penalty.

However, the England fans gave the referee applause to express their support and appreciation. At this moment, in the eyes of England, Brickley is simply the best referee on the planet.

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However, in the next minute, Capdreira threw the ball from the sideline, Fabregas got the ball, and Li Rui succeeded in counter-stealing the ball. Li Rui fouled when he countered.

This time, the boos and applause sounded again, the ones booing the referee were replaced by England fans, and the ones applauding were Spanish fans...

This is the view of the fans who love and hate clearly, very simple and direct!

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The game was deadlocked, and despite Spain's dominant possession, this did not give them many threatening opportunities to attack.

Faced with England's intensive defense, Spain began to frequently use long-range shots to threaten England's goal.

In the 31st minute of the game, Iniesta dribbled the ball in the front court. After cooperating with Torres, he knocked the football to Villa with his heel. Villa controlled the football and saw that there was no chance to break into the penalty area. I had no choice but to take a long shot from outside the penalty area. The ball was shot suddenly, fast, with a good angle and high quality. England goalkeeper James could do nothing.

This time, though, Spain's goal was denied by the crossbar.

"Dangerous! The crossbar blocked Villa's long shot! It's fair. At the beginning of the game, the post denied Lampard's long shot. This time the crossbar blocked Villa's long shot. God stood up tonight. On the balance point of the scale."

James was taken aback by Villa's long-range shot. He got up and shouted at the back line, "Take care of your people! Don't let them shoot so comfortably again! There won't be a next time!"

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After 2 minutes, England also got a very good chance to score.

Beckham sent a wide-range pass with strong penetrating power. After Li Rui stopped the ball in the chest, he broke into the penalty area. Marchena came up to intercept, but he lost his center of gravity due to Li Rui's fake upper body movement. .

At this time, Iker Casillas made a decisive attack. Li Rui turned his eyes to the direction of the goal and chose to lob. After the football was flicked by Casillas, it still flew towards the goal. Everyone looked at the arc The England fans were already looking forward to the goal and cheering for the goal. Unexpectedly, the football landed in front of the goal. After hitting the ground, it missed the goal and went out of the baseline. beard……

Annoyed, Li Rui hopped on the ground three times in a row. He thought he had the ball, but unexpectedly, Casillas still touched it. It was a hair's breadth away!
Like Li Rui, there are countless England fans who are as regretful and disappointed. They hold their heads and breathe in regret.

Mourinho was standing on the sidelines, staring at the trajectory of the football falling, but saw that after the football bounced off the ground, it rubbed against the post and rolled out of the baseline. The madman punched the ceiling of the coach's bench.

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England's 6th corner of the game.

Beckham's corner kick entered the penalty area, Li Rui made a point in front, the football flew to the middle, Lampard once again topped the ball, in the back point, Rooney grabbed ahead of Puyol, and used his knee to pad , The football hit the crossbar, rolled back to the penalty area, and was hugged tightly by Casillas.

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