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After picking sides, the Spanish team won the kick-off.

The strongest players of this generation in Spain, Casillas, Portillo, Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Busquets, the tacit cooperation and the familiar back-and-forth tactics make people uncomfortable If you don't admit it, such Spain is almost incomprehensible.

From the first second, Spain tried to keep the game firmly under their feet, they had more than 7% of the ball and kept trying to launch surprise attacks.

In the 4th minute, Harvey sent a direct pass from the right side. His cross was well placed, but it was a pity that Portillo was in an offside position.

In the 9th minute, Iniesta broke into the penalty area after a forced breakthrough from the left. When he was about to cross the ball, he was harassed by Terry. There were some mistakes in the placement of the pass, but Harvey did not give up and still tried to grab a shot. , Ashley Cole rushed to rush to grab the ball in front of Harvey to block the ball out of the penalty area.

"The Spanish team is full of desire for victory. From the beginning of the game to the present, every Spanish player has been very active and active. This can be seen from their eager attacking rhythm. Mentally, and technically, they have a strong advantage, but they can't create a lot of scoring opportunities in the English penalty area... No, it is difficult for them to get close to the English penalty area."

On the field, the England team did not resort to such unfathomable tactics. They were just running, running all the time. The running route seemed useless, but they had a hidden edge.

A city wall was built in front of England's penalty area, so that no matter how high the possession rate of the Spanish team was and how amazing their skills were, they could not form a very effective breakthrough shot for a while.

Karl has studied many matches of the Spanish team and found that the Matadors always habitually crush their opponents with their feet and techniques.

Technology, ball control, and coordination are undoubtedly the biggest advantages of the Spanish team, and their shortcomings are also obvious, physical fitness and stamina.

There are too many teams that will deliberately imitate them when playing against Spain, and want to use Spain's tactics to defeat Spain.

But imitation can never achieve surpassing, and those teams that fell under the iron heel of Spain have proved this with their own bones.

Give full play to your best strengths, and then the long board will face the short board, and the short board will fight against the long and short boards with real swords and guns.

The advantage of the England team is precisely that everyone is as strong as a bull and has plenty of energy.

Using the absolute advantage in running to offset the opponent's absolute advantage in ball possession, Spain and England temporarily drew.

However, is it possible that the whole game has been stalemate like this?

Carl looked towards the Spanish coaching bench.

I happened to see the Spanish coach Bosque gesturing toward the field frequently.

Looking at the time, Carl smiled slightly: The old tricks didn't work, and Bosque was about to change his team in just 15 minutes of the opening game. I don't know how many new tricks the Spanish team has to show him next?

On the field.

The Spanish players gradually adjusted the distribution of the ball in the team, and more passes began to be redistributed from Xavi and Iniesta to Portillo in the frontcourt.

Portillo moved very quickly after getting the ball. He would drive the ball directly towards the England half without a single pause.

Portillo is like a sharp knife, cutting into England's half from the right!

England's defense immediately slanted to the right, and the first to intercept Portillo was Beckham.

Although since he became famous, many people have ridiculed that "among the active world-class wide players, Beckham has the best physical fitness and the best footwork, and Beckham is also the slowest and worst interceptor", but recently For the past two years, Karl has arranged for him to conduct special training, so Beckham does not say that he has excellent interception ability, at least because of his physical advantages and calm and accurate judgment, he has always maintained a high success rate in the competition with opponents .

Especially in dealing with young forwards, Beckham is very experienced. As soon as he saw Portillo rushing towards him with the ball, Beckham went up to him, and he was going to lean on Portillo and squeeze out , blocking the possibility of the opponent's inside breakthrough, forcing the opponent to pass the ball back!

But just when Beckham was about to face Portillo, Portillo, who was dribbling the ball, seemed to be able to predict Beckham's movements in advance, and suddenly dunked the ball under his feet, avoiding Beckham intercepted, then turned around, suddenly accelerated and dribbled the ball laterally!

Beckham was stunned for a moment, and so were the other England players: Portillo's pass was too fast and too easy!It looked as if he could predict all of Beckham's moves and know all of his weaknesses!

The commentator was also surprised: "It seems that although he hasn't been a club teammate for a long time, Portillo still has a deep understanding of Beckham. Beckham's interception has no effect on Portillo. Didn't the Spanish team know this well before the game, so they deliberately let Portillo break through from the right?"

The camera swept to the Spanish coach's bench, and coach Bosque really showed a satisfied smile on his face.

On the court, England's penalty area suffered the biggest impact since the opening.

Joe Hart's nerves tensed, Ferdinand and Cole blocked Portillo's possible shot path, and Terry stepped forward to intercept.

At this time, Spain's Iniesta and Pedro also cruising near the penalty area to assist, the England team had to separate another person to stare at these two, and the defense suddenly seemed a bit stretched.

With the help of teammates to attract firepower, Portillo successfully broke through into the penalty area!

Terry swooped and shoveled Portillo from the side!

Portillo adjusted his center of gravity and avoided the interception from the side!

Joe Hart was in full swing in front of goal.

Portillo glanced to the left of the goal, lifted his right foot, and kicked the football with his toe to the left!

The football flies to the goal like lightning!

Everyone who saw Portillo on the big screen of the stadium thought that the ball definitely flew to the left of the goal!

But England goalkeeper Joe Hart did not hesitate to pounce to the right!

"Joe Hart misjudged it, what a pity, the ball - God Jesus Christ! Oooohhh Hart was right!"

"Seal it! Hart saved the shot!"

"Portillo was just trying to confuse the England goalkeeper. Although he deliberately glanced to the left of the goal before shooting, and the direction of his toes is also facing the left, but the real power of his shot is the arch of the foot! He is in the Deliberately tricked Hart! And Hart, the amazing Hart, he saw it all and made the right choice when he made a save! Joe Hart, he saved England's goal again!"

In front of the goal, seeing the England goalkeeper save his shot accurately, Portillo felt a little disappointed.

The expression and movements point to one side of the goal, but the real target is on the other side of the goal. In addition, he is as fast as lightning and chooses a tricky angle. Portillo's signature shot is almost invincible in La Liga. I don't know how much experience he has. The goalkeepers fell at his feet in despair.

But Joe Hart, a young goalkeeper playing for a Premier League club, has only had one experience against himself, how can he make such a precise save?

Could it be that he, like Koch, also has the god-given ability to predict against the sky?

It doesn't seem to be the case again.

Facing the goal directly, the only goalkeeper who can make Portillo feel uncertain before shooting is his former teammate Koch.

The strong sense of crisis that shooters can feel even if they are just training can directly stimulate the nerves and calm people down from the mind to the body.

To be honest, Hart's aura has never made Portillo feel very threatened.

But he happened to block Portillo's shot accurately every time...not once, but twice in the 19th and 27th minutes.

In the 28th minute, Hart got up from the ground, patted the grass clippings on his body, and showed off to Portillo, who was standing not far from him, with a puzzled expression on his face: "I'm wondering why I would shoot at you. The way is so familiar?"

Portillo looked at Hart immediately.

"Because the boss asked David to imitate your footwork and posture to shoot, and gave me special training."

At this moment, Portillo really loved and hated his former mentor.

After thinking about it, Portillo ran back firmly.

Portillo is going to tell other teammates that the England team has made a lot of preparations to defend against him, and Spain may have to transfer the ball again. Of course, he will play as hard as before, but in the future for the Spanish team In the offense, he will serve his teammates more.

Spanish players do not have to listen to the head coach’s orders at every step. They have a high degree of autonomy on the court. After realizing the reasons for the ineffectiveness of the previous attacks, they quickly adjusted. The center of gravity of the ball shifted to Harvey again.

Of course, Bosque in front of the coach's bench outside the court noticed the changes of the players. After thinking about it for a while, he quickly understood the reasons why the players did so.

Bosque couldn't help but glanced at the England coach's bench.

Karl seemed to feel something, and looked back.

During this short eye contact, both of them caught the same sentence from the other's expression: We are all prepared.

……

The first half quickly ended in a stalemate between Spain and England.

Players from the two teams walked into the channel one by one, and the big screen in the stadium played close-up shots of these world-class stars.

The Spanish players are already sweating, and the English players seem to be able to handle it with ease.

The fans in the stadium are talking about the picture on the big screen:

"Puyol and Xavi look tired, hopefully their midfield strength will be replenished."

"England seem to be in good spirits?"

"Compared to England, the Spanish players seem to be drained."

"It's unscientific to run for a full 45 minutes and still look so easy."

"It's very unscientific. Although the statistics of the first half have not yet come out, I dare to use my 30 years of experience in watching football to bet that England will definitely run more in the first half than Spain. Maybe they can reach 5000 on average. more than one meter."

"If it's true, then England's players are really against the sky. How fierce is the Premier League, and will it produce such good physical stars?"

"In my memory of England, the previous physical strength didn't seem to be so great."

"But they are very good now."

"The average age of the England team seems to be two years older than the Spanish team?"

"The stamina lasts so long, no wonder the English wives in the box look radiant."

Maybe it's because of being too surprised or adored?The fans' discussions were very loud, and some words even drifted into the ears of England players who were queuing back to the dressing room from the stands near the stadium passage.

All the English players who heard these comments showed strange expressions.

They exchanged one with the other, their complex gazes cannot be expressed in words.

There are some things that cannot be known by the public.

For example, the secret training of the England team and the punishment methods for lagging players.

"Your body is your greatest asset." When the boss decided to carry out special physical training for them, he used this sentence as the opening line: "Especially in the face of people who are delicate and weak, but can use their feet to pull When playing violin-type teams, we can’t despise them technically, and we can crush them physically.”

For the Hercules Cup, England stars almost without any hesitation, firmly agreed to all the high-altitude training and physical growth programs designed by the head coach for them.

Physical training is a must, and high altitude training, in addition to helping the Three Lions adapt to the climate of several high altitude football fields in South Africa, can also improve the oxygen delivery capacity of the players' blood, so that when they return to the lower altitude arena, they can Can withstand higher competition intensity in a relatively relaxed state.

More than half a year before the opening of the World Cup in South Africa, the Three Lions had already carried out secret high-altitude training and physical training. When they stayed in the national team training camp, they did not sleep in beds but in special tents. These tents can stimulate The production of red blood cells in the human body, wearing a special mask to extract oxygen during daytime training, can also achieve the same effect as living and training on a plateau.

In addition to secretly sleeping in a tent and wearing a mask, the England team also went to Austria to experience the plateau climate on the spot. Other training included mountaineering marathons, adding lead weights to the training suits, going in and out of the hotel every day can only climb stairs, push-ups with one hand, etc. There is nothing impossible, only unexpected projects.

From the perspective of England players, Karl seems to want to increase their physical fitness by at least one-third in a short period of time.

Horrible goals, terrifying perseverance, and... terrifying execution.

For a period of time, England players almost thought that the boss was possessed by Magath.

Magath is a well-known "devil coach" in football. He loves training and is known for often tossing players until they vomit during training.

Many players lived under Magath's command. They secretly gave Magath ugly nicknames such as "tyrant" and "Saddam".

During the training camp, the members of the Three Lions felt that they and Magath's players had the same disease.

Although Karl promised that the additional training of the England team is temporary, and it will be temporarily suspended until the end of the World Cup, and will not restart until the next major competition is approaching.

But after a long time, the England players still found it unbearable and tortured.

Training is for their own good, everyone understands, but everyone is a star who has been famous for a long time, no longer a boy in his teens and 20s, who can sacrifice his life to train for a first chance. The most common problems are squeamishness and stinginess: the character becomes squeamish, and the body is very stingy.

But they still dare not call the boss a nickname, and of course they dare not resist.

But they will be lazy, they will let themselves relax for a while when the coaches forget to press the man...

England's coaching staff were quick to notice the passive resistance of their stars.

Then the boss decided to formulate a punishment program to punish the person who dragged the team the most in daily training.

Recalling this, the vast majority of England players have tears of humiliation in their eyes——

No!Know!road!yes!where!indivual!Destroy!Absolutely!people!sex!of!Home!Partner!

...Actually slipped a small note to the boss saying that it would be better to punish the last one in the training to dance Tintin in public.

The boss showed the little note that he highly praised in the locker room.

The handwriting on it is unrecognizable.

That guy precipitously wrote with his left hand!

This suggestion was adopted.

The last three who train every day have to dance Tintin in the locker room, and also bring their own soundtrack and choreography-yes, it is three!The boss said that jumping alone is too good to let go, so why not choose three people to come together so that the team's enthusiasm for training can be stimulated to the greatest extent!

Then this punishment method, which should have never appeared in world football, just made its grand debut in the England national team so openly.

Tintin dance

Tintin

Tintin

Ding

Time is like water, how many England internationals have torn their face, integrity, lower limit and glass heart into the long river of time in the day-to-day training. In short, there are many people in that process. Once you experience it, you don't want to experience it a second time.

And the best way to avoid reviewing black history is to train hard.

This is how the England national team has grown considerably in stamina.

Pain and happiness are the biggest feelings of the Three Lions players after the training camp. Pain is the feeling of their own experience, and happiness is because they think of the dark history of other teammates...

Then the scene of so-and-so and so-and-so shaking penis together, just thinking about it is very exciting.

Truly a memory to cherish for a lifetime.

……

I don't know what Bosque said to the team during the halftime break. After the start of the second half, the rhythm of the Spanish team slowed down more and more.

They no longer launch surprise attacks, but instead use a fixed rhythm to back and forth in the backcourt, as if they have no other desire except to control the ball.

Cautious kicks, careful kicks, tricky kicks...boring kicks.

The fans watched drowsily.

The commentators from various countries are also secretly covering their mouths and yawning.

Karl on the sidelines looked dignified.

He was thinking about Bosque's ultimate purpose.

What is Bosque's idea to let Spain play the seemingly gorgeous but boring inverted tactics, and make the rhythm so slow?

Is it playing tricks to lure the entire England team out, and when the Three Lions' defense is empty, they will create a chance to attack again?

Are you still recuperating, because you know that Spain's physical strength is not as good as that of England, so you are trying to use the slow pace of the game to recover your physical strength quickly?

Or, is the Spanish team just stalling for time, trying to drag the game into a penalty shootout?After all, since Iker Casillas started guarding the country, Spain's penalty shootout rate has remained at the forefront of the world, so they are confident that they can beat England on penalties?

Many speculations, many possibilities, and none of them are good for England.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and Carl was not going to wait any longer.

No matter what the Spanish team wants to do, they must go through the process of "mastering the rhythm of the game and stably controlling the ball".

Then disrupt their rhythm and make the ball precarious.

Anyway, with the current physical state of the England team, it is no problem to maintain high-intensity running until the end of the game.

Carl made a few gestures from the sidelines.

The players who saw his action immediately greeted their teammates. After just a dozen seconds, the order had been firmly remembered in the hearts of all England players.

The positions of the English players near the middle circle became more and more loose, but the atmosphere of the game in the whole stadium suddenly became tense.

Because the rhythm of the Three Lions suddenly became very fast, so fast that it formed a sharp contrast with the Spanish team in the opposite half.

As opponents in the same field, Spanish players sensed this change immediately.

Players with possession of the ball became more and more cautious.

The scene gradually became more intense.