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45 minutes, England VS Japan, 3:0.

The bright red numbers on the scoreboard announced to the world that at the end of the first half, the Japanese team's goal was scored three goals by the opponent.

When he left the field, Takeshi Okada's expression was a little dazed.

Japan played against England, more losses than wins - Okada Takeshi, who had made such mental preparations before the game, did not expect that his team could concede so many goals so quickly!

The Japanese team's tactics were completely seen through by the England team from the very beginning!No matter what kind of tricks they use on the court, the England team always seems to be able to respond in a targeted manner!

Whether it is an attack or a counterattack, as long as the core players of the Japanese team have the ball at their feet, there will always be a few English players around them for the first time, until they harass Japan and lose the ball.

Especially England's shots, there were 7 shots in the first half, 6 of which were high-altitude shots!It was a shot aimed at the weakness of Japanese goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima!

The England team definitely did a detailed investigation on the Japanese team before the game!They may be familiar with the information of every core player in Japan, and even know the weaknesses of these players!

Takeshi Okada was on edge throughout the intermission: Damn it!How did England know us so well, as if they knew all the shortcomings of the Japanese team?Although this is just a friendly match, but in the second half, we can't lose the ball. Japanese football has developed rapidly in recent years, and the results in major competitions are getting better and better. If a warm-up match is kicked out 0:4 or 0:5 If it is, even if the opponent is England, it is too embarrassing!It will definitely anger the people!

Thinking about it carefully, Takeshi Okada hurriedly took remedial measures before the start of the second half: changing formations to defend and counterattack, large-scale substitutions, letting the main goalkeeper Masaki Masaki appear on the field and so on.

He also gave a death order to the players of the Japanese team: they must play desperately in the second half, and the honor of Japanese football must be maintained!

The sense of mission inspired the passion in the hearts of the Japanese players to a point. They gritted their teeth, their eyes were red, the wind was blowing under their feet, and they vowed in their hearts that they would bring the score back!

After the start of the second half, the Japanese players moved more and more, and the fight in the midfield became more and more intense.

Although they can't beat the English players in terms of physical fitness, the frenzied momentum of the game is indeed very dreadful.

Carl saw that the Japanese team was going crazy in order to equalize the score, and quickly gestured towards the field, asking the England players to minimize physical confrontation with the opponent.

Although Karl is determined to let England win a big victory for the upcoming World Cup, it would be bad if a player is injured in such a warm-up match.

On the pitch, England players obeyed the head coach's order and reduced their physical contact with Japanese players. However, due to their huge technical and tactical advantages, they still firmly controlled the rhythm of the game.

They tried their best to restore the decline, but there was no effect. Gradually, the Japanese players became a little anxious.

In the 56th minute, Japanese striker Shinji Okazaki got a one-handed chance, but before he got rid of the fight with Hart and shot, the linesman raised the flag to signal him offside.

Japan's only and best chance to attack since the opening game was wiped out.

Shinji Okazaki explained to the referee with an excited expression that he was not offside.

Japanese coach Takeshi Okada also stood outside the stadium to protest strongly.

However, the slow-motion replay of the stadium told everyone that Shinji Okazaki was indeed offside just now.

Takeshi Okada's yelling disappeared immediately as if the pause button was pressed.

On the field, the game is still going on.

In the 60th minute, Beckham made a pass from the right at a 45-degree angle. Rooney accelerated to the landing point and stopped the ball in the chest. He dribbled past Yuki Abe who was defending and broke into the penalty area. There was only one left between the goal and the goal. A goalkeeper, Aizaki, just blocked.

"Masaki Masaki, the save success rate in the middle of the goal is 80.00% one, the save success rate in the four dead corners is extremely low, only 20.00% three..."

Thinking about the information about the Japanese goalkeeper that he saw before the game, Rooney silently adjusted his posture and volleyed the football towards the upper left corner of the goal!

"Dangerous! Dangerous—"

With the exclamation of the Japanese commentator, the football crossed the goal line of the Japanese team again.

"4:0!" The England commentator clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "There are still 10 minutes before the game, and the England team has scored four goals. It seems that the boys of the Three Lions want to use a big victory in a friendly match to serve as a support for the team." Warming up for the World Cup!"

In the 63rd minute, England scored again!

After receiving Ashley Cole's through pass in the backcourt, Gerrard dribbled the ball across the midfield and then passed the ball diagonally at 45 degrees, sending the ball to Owen's feet at the front of the penalty area!

This is an extremely exquisite pass, whether it is speed, strength or timing, it is just right!

At this time, only more than two minutes had passed since the fourth goal of the Japanese team. The defenders of the Japanese team never thought that another attack from England would come so quickly!

Owen stopped the ball and then accelerated, passing Nagatomo like a sports car with a full motor!

In the restricted area, single-handedly!

The defenders reacted slowly, and the goalkeeper Masaki had no choice but to attack!

Although he saw that the goalkeeper had come up to meet him, Owen still ran forward with the ball at high speed!

When the distance between him and Masaki Masaki was only two or three meters away, the order to shoot appeared in Owen's mind. In the next second, the instep of his right foot had already hit the football!

"Oh!"

The black and white elf soared into the sky, passed over the head of Chief Qi, and flew towards the empty gate!

This is a [-]% goal!

After a single shot, he tricked the goalkeeper and shot directly at the empty goal. Is there any reason not to score such a goal?

The England commentator has already begun to celebrate in advance: "GOOOOOAL! 5:0! Michael Owen scored twice!"

On the court, the referee just pointed his finger at the middle circle of the court, indicating that the goal is valid!

……

People are so unlucky that they can stuff their teeth with a sip of cold water, and they are talking about the current Japanese team.

In the first 65 minutes of the game, there were many holes in the defense, allowing England to score five goals in a row.

In the 71st minute, Joe Cole sent a through pass, Lampard inserted a pass into the penalty area, and Japanese central defender Tanaka Kazuo wanted to clear the siege with a header, but made an own goal and mistakenly shot the football into his own goal!

An oolong gift!

Japanese goalkeeper Masaki Masaki was completely unprepared for the actions of his teammates. After Tanaka Doha Wang headed the ball, Masaki Masaki turned his head back and saw the football rolling in the net. His expression was almost demented!

6: 0!

The English players looked at the scoreboard with the score changing immediately above the pitch, and they couldn't help laughing.

Takeshi Okada was so angry that he immediately went to the fourth official and replaced King Tanaka!

But this is not over yet!

I don’t know if it’s because King Tanaka infected all the Japanese players with the virus of “misreading the goal” before leaving the field. In the 83rd minute, Holtby crossed the penalty area on the right. Welbeck, Rooney and other English players and Japanese players When fighting for the ball in the penalty area, Nakazawa Yuji went forward to grab the ball, and actually shoveled the ball towards his own goal again!

Goalkeeper Aizaki was just being cautious and had been vigilantly observing all the English players in the penalty area, guarding against their sudden attacks.

Suddenly a white shadow hit him!

It's a football flying at high speed!

I didn't see any English players kicking at all. Who made this shot?

This idea flashed across his mind like lightning, and Yazaki Zhenggang's body was dispatched before his consciousness, and he quickly rushed towards the football!

But he was still a step too slow. When his body touched the turf, the football had already rolled behind him and crossed the goal line!

Getting up from the grass in frustration, Aizaki just turned around to pick up the ball in the net.

After he picked up the football and turned around again, he suddenly found that the whole stadium was eerily quiet.

Silent.

Not only the arena, but even the stands were dead silent.

Yazaki Zhenggang was puzzled, his eyes scanned the faces of his teammates in the penalty area, and immediately found his teammate Yuji Nakazawa with a pale face and a desperate expression.

Is it...

Chief Qi just looked down at the ball in his hand.

Could it be that this ball was shot by Yuji?

As if wanting to tell Masaki Masaki the answer, boos and laughter suddenly erupted in the UPC arena!

Hush.

Japanese fans booed their own players loudly.

Laugh wildly.

Both the England fans and the neutral fans bent over with smiles.

“7：0！7:0！7:0！”所有英格兰球迷一边笑，一边大喊，一边鼓掌。

The loud noise erupting from the stands set off the deathly silence on the court.

The referee did not allow the players of the two teams to be in a daze. He urged the Japanese goalkeeper to return the football and continue the game quickly.

You must know that there are still more than 6 minutes before the end of the game.

The Japanese players returned the football in a daze and continued the game.

The English players looked at their expressions, and for the first time since the start of the game, they thought: "This group of guys is really pitiful".

But there should be no sympathy on the football field, let alone release water.

Although I feel that the Japanese team is sad and unfortunate, but after the game continued, the England team still played the ball wholeheartedly according to their original rhythm.

In the end, Gerrard scored the eighth and final goal in the 2nd minute of stoppage time, which brought an end to the battle between Britain and Japan.

"What's wrong with the Japanese team, are they cursed?"

That was the thought of all the Japanese coaches, players, fans and media when the referee blew the final whistle.

……

After the game, the coaches and players of the Japanese team did not leave the field for a long time.

Sent two own goals to the England team, which led to the tragic and shameful loss of the Japanese team today, Tanaka Yuji and Nakazawa Yuji, before the fans in the stands were all gone, they first bowed at ninety degrees to the Japanese fans in the stands, and then He bowed deeply to head coach Takeshi Okada and apologized for the mistakes he made during the game.

Takeshi Okada didn't even look at them, turned around and walked into the player tunnel.

And the Japanese fans who hadn't left the stands, after seeing the behavior of these two people, continued to boo without the slightest bit of forgiveness. go.

Because the head coach of the Japanese team was late, the England team first held a post-match press conference.

When the media asked Carl how he felt about England's performance in this game, Carl replied happily: "I am very satisfied with the team's performance. I think this is a perfect warm-up match. A good start to the World Cup."

A reporter from South Korea asked: "Then what do you think of the Japanese team's performance in this game?"

“英格兰已经有整整23年没有取得过8:0这样的比分了，上一次还是在1987年一场对土耳其的热身赛里，那场比赛的比分也是8:0，这是一场久违的胜利。”

There were quite a few Japanese journalists at the press conference, and they all heard the questions from the South Korean journalists and Karl's answers.

Although Karl did not directly comment on the Japanese team, his reminiscences of England's past honors are almost equivalent to saying: "Thank you Japanese players for helping us set the biggest score victory in 23 years."

This made many Japanese journalists almost explode their lungs.

Because England really won the game against Japan, and there was nothing in the victory that could be criticized, the Japanese media could not vent their anger on the England team, so they had to save all their anger and wait for Japanese coach Takeshi Okada After entering, he bombarded the other party with a brain.

The media from other countries were also very "curious" about the two own goals in the game. They asked Takeshi Okada one after another: Why did the Japanese team give such a big gift to the England team?

Okada Takeshi only stayed in this harsh atmosphere for less than 10 minutes, and left in a hurry under the guard of security guards.

When the Japanese team's bus drove out of the stadium, it was also blocked by fans from its own country.

They traveled thousands of miles to follow the national team to watch the game, but they only got a stomach full of sad Japanese fans. They surrounded the national team bus and refused to let them leave. They angrily criticized the performance of the Japanese team through the window, which made all the people feel ashamed. , Japanese football also lost face on this day!

The forums in Japan have already exploded. Many fans said sharply: "Fortunately, this is a friendly match. If the Japanese team also played such a shit performance in the World Cup, Takeshi Okada and Tokata Tanaka Both Wang and Nakazeyou deserve a seppuku apology!"

Just as Karl believed that such a big victory before the World Cup was good luck and courage for the England team, more Japanese fans felt that before the World Cup in South Africa was about to kick off, the national team had achieved such a humiliating defeat, which was bad luck. In the lead, it may be difficult for Japan to get any good results in South Africa...

On June 6, the FA announced on its official website the 1-man roster for the national team to compete in the World Cup in South Africa.

Goalkeeper position: Joe Hart wears the No. 1 jersey of the national team, James, who is older but experienced, and Green, who has been playing steadily in the league, as a substitute.

Although people have already guessed that the young goalkeeper will start since Auston decided to start Joe Hart in the world preliminaries, but it has only been a little over a year since he became popular overnight, and he can be the representative of the main goalkeeper. England's World Cup campaign has caused a lot of discussion in the British Isles.

Not many people questioned the strength of this young international player. After all, Hart's outstanding talent is seen by everyone, but the goalkeeper position has always been England's weakness in the competition. Hart has never participated in a competition before. Most of the discussions among media fans focus on whether Joe Hart can bravely shoulder the burden under heavy pressure.

Defensive line: Rio Ferdinand, although he is getting older and making more mistakes, he is still a top central defender ranked among the top in the world.

John Terry, the captain of Chelsea, has staged a self-salvation drama in the past six months. The outbreak of the "friend wife scandal" at the beginning of the year made him notorious and lost his position as the captain of the national team-the word "captain" is against the British It has a special meaning to people. British fans believe that the players wearing the captain's armband are not only the core of the team in terms of strength, but also can play a moral role model. The team's performance was not good, and they resigned from the captaincy under the pressure of public opinion after the competition.

The other protagonist of "Friends' Wives", Bridge, the player who was cuckolded by Terry, has never been called up by Karl and is not an active England national team player, so the scandal will not affect Karl's current national team. Fortunately, this is the case, otherwise Carl under the rage may not be as simple as depriving Terry of the captain's armband-character is very important to Carl. He has strict management of the locker room. Players are not allowed to go out to nightclubs. If the "friend wife scandal" happened under his nose, and if the protagonist of the scandal were two of his players, it would be absolutely intolerable.

After the "friend wife scandal" broke out and the swarming media lingered outside the FA building, Karl once wanted to suspend Terry's national team training. When Ferguson called him and had a long talk, he told him : "If the scandal is just a player's personal scandal and the team has not been affected by it, then we might as well look at the player's personal morality and competitive value separately. The standard for the coach to select players is to help the team win games, not to find moral Model, Karl, it’s okay for you to demand more from yourself, but don’t expect everyone to be as self-disciplined as you are…”

Ferguson's words made Karl realize that he was indeed a bit of a dead end, so he let go of his personal emotions and started to deal with Terry business.

As for Terry, he was probably really afraid that he would be excluded from the squad for the World Cup in South Africa. Although he stepped down as captain, he performed more diligently in the national team training games. It was one person who propped up England's entire defense line, and showed no regrets about the treatment of himself for doing all the dirty work on the defense.

Although there are indeed stains on Terry's image, his performance on the court is unmistakable, so he is destined to have a place in the England team for the World Cup in South Africa.

Glenn Johnson has a tough style of play and outstanding physical fitness.

Ashley Cole, Chelsea's main force, has been the starting left back of the Three Lions for ten years.

Philip Jagielka, an all-around player, can play multiple positions on the field, even as a guest goalkeeper.

Gary Cahill, a low-key and capable player, Karl Oston's favor made him selected for the national team for the first time, and it also made the outside world focus on this central defender for the first time. The media discovered that Cahill may be the most difficult central defender in the Premier League.

Leighton Bynes, not tall, has outstanding skills and great long-range shooting ability. He is also a new star of the national team discovered by Karl.

In the midfield position, the England superstar shines.

David Beckham, the direct descendant of the Three Lions coach, is the most famous football player in the world.

Frank Lampard, Chelsea vice-captain, master of midfield control, the midfielder with the most goals in Premier League history.

Steven Gerrard, double captain of Liverpool and England, a banner of the Premier League.

Joe Cole, a midfielder magician, is a rare player in England with outstanding skills and awareness of one goal.

Gareth Barry, a talented player who worked hard and worked hard, did all the dirty work in the game without complaining.

Michael Carrick, Manchester United's main force, the old face of the national team.

Ashley Young, a winger with outstanding offensive power, was the king of transfer bids in the Premier League in 07.

James Milner, the PFA rookie of the year, contributed 34 goals and 7 assists in 12 league games, second only to Lampard and Cesc Fabregas.

Lewis Holtby, the sensational dual-nationality player, moved to Tottenham Hotspur last year.

In the choice of striker, Michael Owen, another direct descendant of Oston.

Wayne Rooney has been hailed by fans as "the hope of England's football revitalization" since he was a teenager.

Daniel Sturridge, since Carl gave him the opportunity to make his national team debut, has also secured his main position in the club.

Danny Welbeck, who was born in Manchester United's youth training, is affectionately called Heibei by the Red Devils fans. He is extremely fast. Although his performance is not stable at present, sometimes he will perform astonishingly in the game when he comes off the bench.

From the perspective of the English media, Carl's South Africa World Cup roster has some bright spots in the overall stability, and the age group of the players is also very scientific. Apart from making people feel sorry for the loss of individual players, there is nothing worth complaining about.

Released together with the World Cup roster is another decision of the FA: After "Friends' Wife Gate" took over the captain's armband after Terry, Gerrard, who took on the captain's position temporarily, was finally converted before the World Cup and became a member of the third team. Captain of the Lions Legion.

As soon as the FA's decision was announced, Gerrard stood up and accepted an exclusive interview with the "Liverpool Echo": "Today is the most special day in my life. I feel excited and unbearable for the official appointment of the national team. The glorious responsibility of the captain It will inspire me to bravely shoulder the responsibility on my shoulders and strive to make England go further in the World Cup, so as to live up to the trust of Mr. Alston."

The media fans in the British Isles are discussing Gerrard's regularization. What they see is not just a captain's armband, but the metaphor behind the captain's armband being officially entrusted to Gerrard.

After Terry was forced to step down, Gerrard temporarily took over the captain's armband according to the England captain's abdication and the vice-captain's position.

But at that time, not many reporters believed that Gerrard could secure this position, and many British media continued to select the six superstars who were most likely to be the new captain, except for Gerrard who already had the label of interim captain on his head. In addition, there are Beckham, Owen, Ferdinand, Lampard and Rooney.

Among them, Beckham and Owen are the most popular, because they are well-known direct descendants of Auston, and the former has many years of experience as a national team captain.

Ferdinand is second, the Manchester United veteran is the most experienced player in the national team.

However, in the heated discussion among media fans, the two most popular candidates for captain jumped out one after another and accepted media interviews.

"Daily Mail": "Laughing that I am no longer suitable to be the captain, Beckham: Gerrard is doing very well" "Liverpool Echo": "Supporting Gerrard's regularization, Owen: He is the most suitable candidate" What does it mean for the two big men in the dressing room, who are also the superstars of Auston's direct line, to stand up and support Gerrard together?

Not only does it mean that Gerrard's regularization has been approved by Orston - the statement that Gerrard accidentally revealed in the interview after the official conversion also shows that he himself deeply understands this point.

It also means that in the current England dressing room, not only did the various forces not fight over the change of captain, but they reached a consensus, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

The locker room is unprecedentedly united, and everyone from the captain to the players respects and obeys the head coach from the bottom of their hearts. For the World Cup in South Africa, England fans may have great expectations.