The morning after a big victory, Zlatan Ibrahimovic opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling for two seconds, and then turned his head to the bed the next second, only to see that the quilt had been crumpled and flattened on the bed, and the bed was empty. Eevee realized something instantly, and threw his arm on the bed, the spring bed swayed up and down, and Eevee pulled the quilt high on his face and was very annoyed.

There was a knock on the door of the room, and Ibu didn't have any intention of opening it, but yelled, "I'm awake!" and then with the sound of swiping the door open, Francisco Álvarez walked in with a plate full of breakfast. He looked at the annoyed Eevee and grinned, the more angry Eevee was the more angry Fran became, the more smug he became, and he didn't even bother to restrain this smugness, "Your breakfast!"

"I bought it with money, do you like it or not, if you don't eat it, I'll eat it." Fran placed the plate on the table and picked up the perfectly toasted slice of bread, picking up which one to go with. Eevee snorted, "You've already finished eating, haven't you?" Fran shrugged and didn't speak, but how could he calm Eevee's anger if he didn't speak, "I set the alarm clock! I definitely set the alarm clock! Zlatan definitely set the alarm clock!"

"Ah, your alarm clock woke me up," Fran innocently spread his hands and looked at him, "I saw that you didn't react when you rolled over, so I pressed it." - Don't forget to eat breakfast, I won the game yesterday and I owed you the meal I owed you. ”

Ibrahimovich glared at him with indignation.

It's a long story, as agreed when we first met, as long as there are goals scored and goals conceded in a game, all of them are Forlan's bets lost, and the bet is a meal that Forlan owes Ibrahimovic. Later, Ibrahimovic put aside his initial prejudices and had to admit that Francisco Álvarez was a guy to his liking, but the bet went on and didn't go away. At the beginning of the qualifiers and friendlies, Ibrahimovic won one bet after another, sometimes winning - so he decided to reward himself with a good meal, sometimes he lost - so he decided to have a good meal to encourage himself. Fran also obediently paid for a few meals for him, and Francisco Alvarez was the walking 'Zlatan boss' in the Swedish team at that time.

But it seems that one of the times Ievee caused Fran to bleed profusely, and Fran suddenly realized that he could not continue like this. On the morning after winning the next game, Ibrahimovic woke up to see Fran grinning at him with a steaming breakfast. The first time he encountered this situation, Ibu glanced at the food in his hand, which seemed to be better than the food prepared by the team, and listened to the person being complacent, "This is also a meal, right?" Ibu smacked his tongue, "Why are you so shrewd?"

The first meal was quite satisfying, but once or twice was okay, and when Ievee woke up the next morning after losing every bet, he could see the kid grinning at him with big white teeth, and at first Ievee thought "Ah, this teammate is quite cute" and later developed into a temper tantrum and wanted to punch him over. It's okay when I'm at the base, and it's convenient to take breakfast with me. When he was in the hotel, he refused to take out breakfast, so this guy paid for it and brought it to him, as if he was telling Yibu directly, "What my brother lacks is not money, he just wants to tease you." A group of people in the team watched the play and treated Fran as if he were serving his teammate and roommate like an uncle a few mornings, and although the uncle tried to get up in the morning and go to breakfast by himself every time, he ended up with "every morning when I opened my eyes and saw my teammates holding breakfast and smiling".

But he would do it the day after the bet was won, otherwise it would probably be Ibrahimovee himself who owed food.

There was still some time before the morning meeting, Fran opened the curtains and looked out the window, suddenly remembered something and turned back to Ievee, "What kind of goal celebration did you design for yourself?" Ievee shoved the sandwich into his mouth, and said vaguely without swallowing, "I didn't deliberately design it to come as I wanted." Fran touched his chin, feeling as if some stubble was time to shave again, "That, that's it, Brolin's most classic celebration!" he said and made a one-legged jump and spin three hundred and sixty degrees on the spot, Ibu chewed the food in his mouth dryly, looking at his sudden energetic appearance, "You said that you are not likely to score goals, why are you so positive?" Ievee thought that this action was actually good, but it was to look at the person in front of him on the floor abruptly doing it and looking extremely silly. It's just that when he scored, he actually forgot about it, and only ran to the corner flag to cheer frantically.

"There is still the final round of the group stage in Group C, and in the standings, Sweden has 4 points and a goal difference of 5, Denmark has 4 points and a goal difference of 2, Italy has 2 points and a goal difference of 0, while Bulgaria has 0 points. Sweden and Denmark both beat Bulgaria, Italy and Denmark played five or five games, Italy and Sweden matches, Italy had the advantage, but Sweden equalized in the back. That's the result of Group C so far, with Sweden theoretically the closest to qualifying from the group, while the situation for Denmark and Italy is unclear. ”

In the Swedish national team, Lagerbeck is making tactical arrangements. Sweden's next match will be against old Nordic rivals Denmark, while Italy's opponent will be Bulgaria, the group's giveaway. Italy will come as a surprise to get a win, so it seems that the match between Sweden and Denmark will be particularly important and directly affect the final result of the match.

In terms of Lagerbeck's personnel set-up, the starting position of the central defender was not Francesco Alvarez, and Forlan was put on the bench by the manager. Forlan's first reaction was to step on Ibrahimovic next to him, who said that the No. 5 jersey represents the starting position? Ibrahimovic took a dull loss, ignoring his provocation and looking straight ahead. Sitting behind the two of them in full view of this qiē was Mjallby, who still hasn't played but carries the title of captain, Mjallby first raised his eyebrows for the always unruly Ievee who actually suffered a loss silently, and then raised his hand on Fran's shoulder and pressed it, signaling that there was a problem and going back.

Even without Mjallby's hints, Forlan had no intention of questioning the manager in front of everyone. He listened to Lagerbeck's assignment and wondered if he had made a big mistake in the first two games, and Fran, who had felt good about himself since the start of the game, confirmed the phrase 'think about it'. So Lagerbeck glanced at his players while explaining, and found that Forlan's face was getting paler and paler, and the coach sighed in his heart, and the team knew that this kid was just intervening in order to destroy the kissing of the football and the net, and it was not an earth-shattering close contact with the goal. But didn't the examination say that he had recovered? the previous two games and the team training showed no signs of weakness.

Set aside time for him to rest, and the illness he talked about to the outside world was mainly a perfunctory way to change the topic, but he didn't really think he was sick.

Lagbeck successfully made eye contact with Mjallby, who was sitting behind Fran, and Mjallby looked at his teammates who were listening carefully to Lagbeck's analysis, and lowered his voice to the point that only two people could hear it, "Look at this. As he spoke, he handed Fran a wad of materials in his hand, and on the first page there were only three terms that belonged to the country, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy.

And in the position after Italy, it was a big cross.

Fran wasn't sure what this meant at first, as he and Mjallby didn't have the same skills as they knew. But the next second, he thought of the current position in Group C, and stared back at Mjallby. Mjallby took the pile of paper back, and saw that the boy had an epiphany without clicking on it, and the smile that was habitually raised on one side of his mouth looked particularly ill-willed—Mjallby knew that this kid was indeed as Lagerbeck said, not as stupid and sweet as he used to be—of course, looking at his appearance, he seemed to know that this was an established fact.

"The two teams that qualified from Group C confirmed that while Italy beat Bulgaria to accumulate five points, Sweden and Denmark drew and with five points, the Nordic two countries qualified together on goal difference. ”

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"In the quarter-finals of the European Championship, our opponent was the Netherlands. The Netherlands, which eliminated Germany and was squeezed to the second place in Group D by the Czech Republic, is the next opponent of the Swedish team, and in the face of this opponent, everyone in the Swedish team is a little eager to try, including captain Mjallby and the assistant coach, all began to brainwash and fool Lagerbeck, "Let's play against the attack, let's play against the attack! How good is it to play against the attack! Why not play against the attack?"

Lagerbeck, however, would not do that.

"Is it a penalty shoot-out to defend blindly? Yes, the Netherlands have not won penalty for many years, but why not expect regular time?" The advantage of not being too famous is that the temper is not too big, but Lagerbeck didn't think it was pointing fingers at himself, otherwise Sweden wouldn't have been able to do the kind of magical thing that the two coaches did, he replied very calmly, "It's not just defense." "He's saying that defense is important, but he doesn't say that offense isn't important.

The still stubborn Lagerbeck can only make everyone a little dissatisfied in the end, and the outside world has criticized Sweden under the leadership of Lagerbeck, and the team can't show no support after all. Since this is the case, everyone can only accept this as a fact and continue according to the previous training arrangement. Who's to say that even if they are mainly defensive, they will definitely lose, not to mention that the Dutch national team does not seem to be as offensive and defensive as it boasts, and their defense is still worse than attack, so maybe they may score a goal to win?

Over and over again, the Swedish team gave themselves positive hints in their minds.

"- But watch out for the Dutch goalkeeper. ”