heir to the red devil

Chapter 1270 How to choose?

The competition in Group H took the lead. In the end, Colombia and Japan joined hands to qualify, while Senegal and Poland were eliminated.

After the game, Jin Taige called Lewandowski to comfort his favorite player, but Lewandowski was in a bad mood, and his World Cup dream was shattered again...

On June 6, the England team is about to play the last group match, which is also the last group match of this World Cup.

Before the game, the coaching staff carefully analyzed the situation of the top sixteen teams in the World Cup, and everyone expressed different opinions.

At present, the strong teams in the upper half include France, Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, etc., while the strong teams in the lower half include Spain, Croatia, Germany, etc., and the distribution is relatively even.

With the current situation of the England team, if they win the first place in the group, they will meet Japan in the quarter-finals. If they win Japan, they will largely meet the powerful Brazil.The Brazil team led by Neymar is not easy to deal with.

But if England can't beat Belgium, they will fall in the bottom half. In this case, their opponent in the quarter-finals is Colombia. If they beat them, the next opponent is likely to be Germany.

This is the situation of the England team in the next few games. As for who they will meet after entering the quarterfinals, no one thinks about it for the time being.Maybe it's because it's early, maybe it's because they simply don't think England will have a chance of reaching the semi-finals.

Faced with this situation, the coaching staff had two opinions.

One opinion is to go all out to get rid of Belgium and then rush into the top half.You must know that the German team plays very steadily and has rich experience. The England team is just very young and lacks experience. When the two teams meet, the England team is very bad.

Another thing is to save strength and perfunctory the last game, and then take the initiative to fall into the bottom half.You must know that Argentina, Brazil, and France are all in the upper half. These teams all have superstars. Whether it is Messi, Neymar or Griezmann, they are all very troublesome players for this England team. .

Now it's Kintag's turn to make a decision...

Regardless of what England thinks, Belgium's starting line-up has been released days in advance.Their starting lineup is very different from the previous two games, almost a new lineup. The previous starting cores are all sitting on the bench, such as Kompany, Vertonghen, Witsel, Hazard, None of the main players such as De Bruyne and Lukaku played.

In this starting Belgian team, there is a player who has a deep relationship with Kintag, and that is Januzaj.

After Kintag entered Manchester United in 2013, Yanuzaj, a genius who had flourished under Ferguson, lost his qualifications for the first team in an instant. He was loaned to Everton by Kintag and used him again the next year. Plus a price of 1200 million euros, in exchange for Everton's talented player Stones.Although Stones left Manchester United in the end, he earned back a transfer fee of 6500 million euros for Manchester United, and also made Kintag's player exchange behavior, which was praised by many people.

But in Yanuzai's heart, he has always had a lot of resentment towards Kintag, and he also has a lot of resentment towards Stones.

Although Jin Taige has cultivated many talented players, he has also abandoned some talents.For example, Yanuzai, and Zaha, the last signing of the Ferguson era.These players are all good, but because of Jin Taige's memory of later generations, he knows the upper limit of these players very well.They couldn't compare with Mbappé, so Kintag finally gave up on them.

In this game, Yanuzai got the chance to start. He is very excited. It is his greatest wish to beat the England team led by Kintag!

The day before the game, England's starting lineup was also released, and this starting lineup also surprised many people.

4-3-3 formation: goalkeeper is Pickford; four defenders from left to right are Trent Alexander-Arnold, Stones, Jones and Trippier; three midfielders are Carrick, Chick and Dier; three forwards Forwards from left to right are Rashford, Rooney and Alli.The main players who performed well in the first two games all sat on the bench.

Like Belgium, England eventually chose to train in the final game.This is the decision made by Jin Taige.The opportunity of the World Cup is really rare. For many young players, this is a good opportunity to exercise.

Kintag is very clear about Southgate's thoughts, and his emphasis on young players exceeds that of all previous coaches.Therefore, Kintag also follows his coaching philosophy to the greatest extent, so that more young England players have the opportunity to play and get exercise.

For this game, Kintag's goal for the team is to win as much as possible, and at least not to lose if they encounter difficulties.

In Kintag's heart, he actually hopes to enter the lower half, because Kintag still has some confidence in facing several teams such as Germany, Spain, and Croatia.Because he is very familiar with the core players in the opponent's team, and often meets in the European battlefield, knowing himself and the enemy, it is easier to deal with.

Even so, Kintag will not take the initiative to seek a loss and will take the initiative to fall into the bottom half.This irrelevant game also represents the honor of the England team and myself, and I will not make unsportsmanlike behaviors.

The game ended up being a second-team show for both teams.

Because they have already qualified for the group stage, the rotation players on the field play very relaxed, and because of this, wonderful offenses are very frequent.

On the England side, the veteran Carrick made his debut again. He never thought that he would be able to re-enter the World Cup stage and put on the England jersey again.

Therefore, in this game, the England team performed very well, and Carrick became the focus of the audience.Although he is old now, in the midfield organization and scheduling, Carrick has become the team's metronome and performed very well.

The first goal in this game is the core of Belgium's game - Januzaj.

He cut inside after a breakthrough down the right to give Belgium a 1-0 lead.

In the 78th minute of the second half, Carrick's midfielder made a precise long pass and found Rooney in the middle of the penalty area. After Rooney stopped the ball, he took advantage of the situation and then stabbed a shot from a close corner. Courtois missed the save and missed the goal.

1 to 1, the England team finally equalized the score!

In the last minutes of the game, the head coaches of both sides adjusted some of the team's personnel again, allowing more players to play to find their feelings.

Because it has nothing to do with life and death, the two sides played very friendly in this game, and the final score of 1 to 1 was within the acceptable range of each.

After this battle, the England team's group stage journey is all over!

The England team won two wins and one tie, and won the second place in the group, and successfully advanced to the top [-]!
(End of this chapter)