The Young Lion

The England team is always strong in the midfield, especially the national team lineup has not changed much in the past few years. The national team matches basically use the same main lineup, and everyone cooperates very tacitly.

Portugal's pressure is not excessive, but the speed of returning to defense is not as good as England's forward explosion.

In the 7th minute of the game, Hargreaves grabbed the ball from Deco's feet, quickly launched a counterattack, and handed the ball to Beckham who was running forward.

C Luo pulls the side, but Xiaobei does not pull the side. Xiaobei is in a parallel position to protect the inside line in front of the penalty area, so Xiaobei runs forward. If C Luo chases back, the distance will be farther. On the contrary, if C Luo wants to cut inside If so, Beckham can block him.

Beckham dribbled the ball forward and met Maniche's attack. He quickly distributed the ball to Scholes who followed up in the middle, and then Beckham suddenly stopped and stopped moving forward. How to counterattack, they closed their eyes all know.

Beckham didn't step forward to stabilize the defense, and it was Lampard who rushed forward on the other side.

Lampard galloped forward, almost parallel to Scholes' position with the ball forward.

Scholes passed the ball obliquely in front of Costinha to the front right, Gerrard got the ball on the right side in front of the penalty area, took a step and then crossed!

Costinha turned around just in time to see the ball rolling in front of him. Lampard pressed from his side in the front of the penalty area. At the same time as he touched the ball, Carvalho and Andrade came up one after the other. Rooney ran diagonally through the two central defenders, and Lampard's through ball arrived as expected.

Carvalho raised his hand to signal Rooney offside, but the linesman did not say anything.

Rooney got the ball behind Andrade and Valente's side, and through physical confrontation, he firmly protected the ball towards the goal. It can be regarded as a one-handed ball!

All England fans are ready to cheer. But Rooney kicked the ball on the side net with one kick!

look. It seemed to have been scored, but everyone realized in the next second that the ball was not scored!

Rooney is obviously impatient, and Aldridge can tell even from a long distance. For such a chance that is similar to a one-handed goal, few forwards will hit the goal vigorously. It is fine to calmly choose an angle to push or volley with moderate force. , and Rooney shot the ball. It's not impossible to be strong and heavy. The effect of a confident striker's blast is to make the goalkeeper desperate, but when he deviates from the goal, it can only be said that he is not calm enough.

England missed a great opportunity! Wayne Rooney wasted Lampard's wonderful pass! Portugal should be careful, today the England team is obviously going to use defensive counterattacks to defeat them. Of course, as the game develops,

Sir Hall will adjust England's tactics.

Rooney looked exasperated after missing the opportunity, he wanted to score.

Just one more goal. He will tie Baros's scoring numbers, while relying on scoring efficiency to rank first in the scorer list.

Portugal escaped. Scolari wants to make Portugal more conservative, but this is not the technical and tactical style that Portugal is good at. At the same time, due to local combat, the high fighting spirit of the players will affect them to shape the game situation. In front of the elders, Portugal is unwilling to withdraw like England, and is passively beaten and waiting for a sneak attack.

Aldridge stood on the sidelines with a calm expression, making people feel that he was confident.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that the two opponents England faced in the knockout round were too crucial.

They have faced Greece, which is extremely defensive, and the Czech team, which is ubiquitous in attack and choppy.

They met and defeated two opponents with extreme styles. This is not only important for the team's confidence, but also allows the team to further improve the game reading ability!

Portugal is not as good as Greece in defense, but not as good as the Czech Republic in offense.

They don't have the offensive points that bloom everywhere like the Czech team, and the cooperation is smooth and tacit, especially the team cooperation. The team cooperation makes the ball transfer fast and the game rhythm is fast. Portugal's Ronaldo and Figo, no matter how fast they dribble, they can pass the ball as fast ? Although individual breakthroughs are sometimes more efficient than team passes and cuts, the England team has compressed the space in the danger zone and curbed the opponent's advantage in this regard.

In terms of the final word, Portugal lacks a hidden offensive point. It is clear at a glance who should be guarded and who should be stared at!

Although England has only a few familiar faces in the counterattack, they have the space to pass and cut, which is the natural advantage of offense.

Portugal looked for opportunities to pass the ball into the penalty area. Whether it was Pauleta, who played the center forward, or Ronaldo, who cut into the penalty area, they failed to create a threat under the strict marking of the England team. They shot long shots from the outside, or they were blocked. If you miss the goal, unless you hit a world wave, it is still relatively difficult to threaten England's goal.

Aldridge's mentality is stable, his opponent is not Scolari, but God.

God, if Portugal blasted a world wave and changed the game, then he has nothing to say.

As far as Scolari's formation in this game is concerned, Aldridge doesn't think there are any changes that can disrupt his deployment and thinking, even if Rui Costa really plays, or Portugal weakens the midfielder. Aldridge would be apprehensive at best to activate Pauletta with a striker, but he would not be surprised, because what the opponent can do has been fully conceived in his preparations.

England were menacing on the counter-attack, running the attack quickly and fluidly into Portugal's half and creating chances in front of the box.

However, Rooney's performance was not ideal.

Carvalho steals the ball successfully! Rooney failed to dribble past Carvalho. Beckham ran back and at the same time reached out to indicate that Rooney should pass him the ball just now.

Aldridge tried to signal to Rooney to make him pay more attention to cooperating with his teammates. In fact, England's defense, after hitting the forefront, once the opponent's defense is torn apart, the more threatening is to follow up at two points. The players on the team, Scholes, Lampard, Beckham, and Gerrard, are all more threatening than Rooney, and it is most reasonable for the arrow forward to complete the shot only when it is almost single-handed.

Rooney didn't look towards Aldridge, even if Aldridge yelled a few words, he still didn't get any response.

Aldridge did not continue to try, hoping that Rooney can adjust himself.

Throughout the first half, Portugal did not play an attack that surprised Aldridge. They couldn't get in the penalty area, shot long shots from the outside, and crossed inefficiently. Only corner kicks and free kicks might make people tremble slightly.

Portugal is not good at breaking dense defenses. On the one hand, it is because of their strength. On the other hand, it is also related to the opponents they encountered. In the group stage, they fell at the feet of Greece. In the second game, they played against Russia. It’s meaningless if you don’t know how to learn from Greece’s ultimate defense. In the last game, Spain itself is one of the representatives of offensive football. In the knockout round, they played against Croatia, and later they played against the Netherlands. Portugal’s opponents will give them a certain amount of offensive space, especially individuals. The only thing that didn't give them room to play was Greece, and then, it fell.

Although the England team does not use 5 defenders like Greece, but their overall strength is stronger. The defensive strength of the entire defender line plus the midfielder is a level higher than that of the Greek team. The offense is also stronger than Greece. If it is not the same The tactics cannot be compared yet, but England won the World Cup by counterattack, and the threat of counterattack is very intuitive.

The outside world described this as a pinnacle battle, after all, it was the final.

But in the eyes of Aldridge, this is not the two strongest teams going to the final battleground.

Just like in Japan two years ago, the England team managed to defeat the strongest Brazil team, and the German team joined them in the final. It was not easy for England to win, but it was not difficult.

The situation is similar today.

Greece with the strongest defense and the Czech Republic with the strongest offensive have been eliminated by the England team successively. Portugal, which has not highlighted its strong side, will not bring much trouble to the England team.

But it was still 0:0 in the first half.

When he walked into the player tunnel, Aldridge's face was not very good.

The England team's defense is solid and the offense is smooth, but only when the offense advances to the forefront of the striker, everything becomes very bad.

After Rooney missed the golden opportunity, the ball lost its color at his feet.

If he had a chance, he would shoot. If there was no chance, he would break through. In the last 10 minutes, Carvalho and Andrade, defending him was a piece of cake, effortless.

On the way back to the locker room, Beckham was communicating with Rooney, but Rooney just nodded and didn't speak.

Fleet Street sometimes stoves apart.

After Rooney scored twice in the second game, some media used the picture of Beckham celebrating Rooney as the cover, saying that Beckham was so jealous of Rooney that he was crazy!

It seems that Wayne Rooney has taken the position of England's favorite belonging to Beckham.

For pure football, Beckham may not be perfect, but in this regard, Aldridge can guarantee that jealousy or something will not appear on Beckham, because his role on the field is to make wedding dresses for others , if he would be jealous, why would he go to Real Madrid? Wouldn't that make him more uncomfortable?

Beckham is not a striker, but he has played football for more than ten years. Under Aldridge, he has been in this national team for nearly four years. What kind of offense does the team need to play, and what kind of routine should the offensive change be? , Anyone who has a bit of a golf quotient knows it well.

Beckham is trying to let Rooney handle the ball calmly, cryptically telling him not to squander the team's hard-won opportunities.

Xiaobei's words may be very tactful.

However, Aldrich was not so polite.

After closing the locker room door, Aldridge went straight to Rooney. In the silence, Aldridge looked down at Rooney. When he raised his head, Aldridge said coldly, You will cooperate with your teammates. Is it? Answer me.

Rooney didn't dare to look directly into Aldrich's eyes, and nodded.

Look me in the eyes and tell me out loud.

Rooney raised his head again, took a deep breath, and said loudly, Boss, I will!

His tone was a little irritated, it seemed that Aldridge made him very embarrassed now.

After all, the teammates around him are watching him.

Very well, I hope to see you perform better in the second half. (To be continued..) ()