Chapter 129 Very relaxed

There is not much time left for England. Three days after the group stage, England ushered in the quarter-finals opponent Sweden at the home court of La Liga club Sevilla.

Before this game, the English media did not want to publicize the grudges between the two teams as much as the German team. They just mentioned the embarrassing record of Feng Rui's unwind for 48 years, hoping that Don't have the opportunity to end the record.

There is no way to end without ending. If you don’t win, you will be eliminated... No Englishman wants Sweden to be eliminated.

From the entry of the fans of both sides before the game, it can be seen that the two teams do not have the kind of endless hatred. The fans of the two teams can even hug each other and enter the game together. There is no sign of a banner with a provocative flavor. The media only thinks it is an ordinary game, at most it is compared with Ibrahimovic and Aaron Mitchel. Both of them have proud heights but excellent skills under their feet. Mitchel also has the title of "Ibrahimovic II" in England.

Before the game, the players in England did not have their eyes wide open like in the last game, as if they were enemies who killed their father and wife, and they wanted to rush up and slash them to the ground immediately, and then step on hundreds of millions of feet, so that the other party would never turn over.

Donn also paid special attention in the locker room before the game that he did not mention the "stigmatizing" record of England's 48-year defeat to Sweden. He was just worried that the players' minds would always think about that.

The grudges between England and Sweden are different from the feud between England and Germany.

When England plays Germany, Donn can also use the feud between the two sides to stimulate the morale of English players. But the best way to face Sweden is to not mention the grudges between them at all.

The reason is very simple. It is hatred with Germany, and it is fate with Sweden. When it comes to England forty-eight years, there has been no England and Sweden for the first time. The English players will have bad idea of ​​qualifying in their minds - is this God what God means? Otherwise, we are so different from Sweden, why can't we win them? Especially the World Cup group stage ten years ago. After scoring the goal in the 85th minute, we were about to win, and in the last minute, the opponent used an out-of-field ball to tie the score... This is simply too amazing and cannot be explained by common sense!

The more players think about this, the more they can only stir their brains into a ball. This kind of mysticism is a bad thing, which will affect the players' mentality and directly lead to their abnormal performance. Tang En cannot guarantee that no one among his players will think so:

Anyway, no matter how hard I try, the final result must be like that...

So I won’t mention it at all. Avoid some people’s random thoughts.

Tang En also made corresponding arrangements for this special competition.

Chris Cohen, who started the last game, continued to start in this game, and Downing still had to keep the bench. As Bentley and Walcott were injured one after another, Adriano Mock made his first start in this European Cup.

Don Neng arranged as many players from Nottingham Forest as possible to play because compared with players from other clubs, he believed in the psychological qualities of the players he brought out.

In fact, many people in the English national team don’t have any special feelings for Sweden, because they have basically never experienced the match against Sweden. If the media had not used the grudges and hatreds between England and Sweden to bomb the players before the game. Don Ng was not worried about anything at all, just considered it an ordinary eighth final.

Now, he has to be more careful.

At the beginning of the game, England took the initiative. It threatened the Swedish team's goal many times.

After all, in terms of strength, England is far beyond Sweden. The only star in the Swedish team is Ibrahimovic. The Inter Milan striker is 33 years old, his skills are becoming more and more pure, but his physical fitness has declined.

He was in the front and did not pose any threat to England's defense.   Because the Swedish team had no way to send the ball to his feet.

The England midfielder suppressed the Swedish midfielder. It was not easy to send the ball out.

The Swedish team cannot find a good offensive method, but England's offense is exciting. When George Wood was unable to play, Gerald became England's midfield hub. Although Gerald is old, his skills and consciousness are still there, and the decline in physical fitness will not prevent him from being one of the top midfielders in the world.

In view of the general tall situation of Swedish defenders, Donn did not arrange the team to cross from the wing to Mitcher. He knew very well that Mitcher's body would not be able to gain any advantage in the Swedish defender group. He hanged the ball to him only a waste of opportunity. So the ball under his feet became the offensive direction that Donnn had to demand in this game.

Anyway, Mitcher's skills are also excellent at the foot, and he can also use his skills when attacking the ground.

Gerald passed the football straight from the midfield to Mitcher in front.

Mitcher leaned against Sweden's central defender Jonas Orsson (jonas_olsson). He stepped on the football under his feet. Olsen stretched out his long legs to break the ball, but asked Mitcher to push him with one hand, and he couldn't reach it. Just as Olsen raised his hands to signal Mitcher to push the referee, Mitcher's feet pulled the football backward and knocked it to Wayne Rooney from his side!

"Rooney received a wonderful pass from Mitcher! Breakthrough!"

Fortunately, another Orsson - left-back Martin Orsson (martin_olsson) stepped forward at this critical moment. When Rooney just dribbled the football, he rushed out from the side, and kicked the football out of the sideline with a clean and neat tackle!

When England throws the ball outside the border, Mitcher did not wait in front of the goal. Instead, he ran to the sideline and made a gesture to receive the pass.

Right back Richards threw the football to him. He licked the football forward with his chest and turned around to break through! Martin Orsson was slightly careless and Mitcherka was behind him, and he pushed Mitcher from behind. Unexpectedly, this helped Mitcher a favor - he knocked the football forward and rushed over. Then he stretched out his long legs and dunked the football that was bounced in the air.

The defense line of any team is a whole, and it will affect the whole body with one move. Lustig's run like this will knock the center of the penalty area away.

Cohen saw the opportunity and passed the ball directly. Mitchel and Rooney were both letting go of the Swedish defenders. His pass was not passed to them, but...

Gerald inserted from behind. Suddenly appeared on the edge of the penalty area. Cohen's football had just passed to his feet. Gerald shot directly towards the football! The football flew to the Swedish team's goal.

Isaxon didn't expect that the person who completed the attack would be Gerald, and he was a little unprepared for Gerald to shoot vigorously. He waited until the football hit the net and saved it.

"What a beautiful goal!" Motterson shouted, "Stephen Gerrard's powerful volleyball can't be stopped!"

"It seems that our players are not affected by the grudges of England and Rhein. So far, Sweden has not received any chance, and England has taken the overall advantage!"

After scoring the goal, Gerald waved his fists excitedly. He participated in the last game when England lost to Sweden in the World Cup and scored England's second goal, but it did not save England's fate. They were eventually tied by the Swedes.

This time he was unwilling to let such a thing happen again!

If two goals are not guaranteed to beat Sweden, then we will score three goals, four goals, five goals! More goals!

Gerald waved his fists hard, venting his depression.

The Swedes seemed a little numb when facing this goal. They had no chance for nearly thirty minutes, and they were all hit by their opponents. It would be a matter of time before they could concede the goal...

Tony Donn stood up and applauded the team's performance. He was not excited because he had a similar idea to the Swedes - our performance was perfect in these thirty minutes. If we couldn't score again, it would be a hell. This is the gap in strength, and the team attached great importance to the opponent from beginning to end, and did not leave any fatal loopholes for the opponent, so it was normal to take the lead.

The Swedes must have never expected England to hold up the banner of attack so resolutely, which can be seen from their helpless reaction. The Swedes must have never expected that this England seemed to be completely unaffected by forty-eight years of fate.

"The performance of England has given us hope and hope to end that joke-like fate!" Motson expressed the voice of the majority of English fans.

After leading, Don En did not relax. Instead, he stood up from the coach's seat, stood on the sidelines, and kept signaling the players to continue to strengthen their attacks and not give the Swedes a chance to rebound. The players on the England team faithfully implemented Don En's tactical intentions, robbed Sweden in the midfield, defended the Swedish team strictly in the backcourt, not giving Ibrahimovic too many opportunities to get the ball, and at the same time he did not allow him to turn around easily. In this way, the space for Ibrahimovic to play was compressed to the minimum, so that the commentators doubted whether the Swedish God Tower had played...

Faced with the England offensive, the Swedes could only shrink their defense and avoid the front line for the time being. Swedish head coach Ragbeck's idea was to be considered a victory even if he fell behind in the first half. As long as the score gap is not widened, he could make adjustments at halftime and compete with England with all his strength. Based on his understanding of the England team, the team's psychological quality is not satisfactory. Good performance in the first half does not mean that such performance can be maintained in the second half. As long as they put a little pressure on them, they will lose their composure.

Think about the World Cup group stage ten years ago. England's performance in the first half was also perfect, what's the result?

Ragbeck sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, as if everything was under his control.

He also heard the whistle at the end of the first half as he wished. Sweden fell behind England 0:1.

Ragbeck, who left the court, could not see any dissatisfaction with the team's backwardness on his face. He glanced at Tang En and found a smile on his face, as if he was satisfied with the team's lead with a goal.

Ragbeck smiled in his heart.
Chapter completed!