Chapter 3: Group Breakout

The second match of the Olympic Games for Great Britain was against the United Arab Emirates. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info?? w?w?w?.? In this game, Arthur hopes that this match against the UAE Olympic team, which is weaker than him, the team can return to London with three points, and it is best to lock up the top spot in the group in advance.

In response to Arthur's demands and fans' hopes, the British Olympic team, mainly Blackburn players and former players, held back their strength and said that they would fight a good battle.

The head coach of the UAE Olympic team knew that the team could not compete with the British Olympic team, and he lined up a 4-5-1 defensive formation for this game, as long as he could score a point, and now that the Olympics are underway, their goal is clear, which is to qualify second in the group.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Wembley Stadium ushered in the second round of Group B of the Olympic Games, and the stadium with more than 90,000 seats was already overcrowded. Fans of the home team, the British Olympic team, were seated in the South Stand reserved for the UAE Olympic fans.

With the whistle of the referee on duty, the first kick-off was the UAE Olympic team, after the first attack was blocked, they honestly returned to their own half, single-mindedly played the defense, and left in the front, only their leading scorer No. 10 Matar.

This is the second time that the British Olympic team has encountered an iron bucket defense in this Olympic Games, with the addition of Lampard and Bale and others, the strength of the British Olympic team is much stronger than other participating teams, and the weak team like the UAE Olympic team struggling in the group has naturally lost the confidence to fight hard with the British Olympic team.

For the trident of the British Olympic team, the UAE Olympic team sent two players to guard Carol tightly, and the other players assisted each other against Bale and Walcott, and for a while, the British Olympic team could not find a chance to break through the goal of the UAE Olympic team.

In particular, the UAE Olympic team understands the power of free-kicks from the likes of David Beckham and Gareth Bale, who started fouling early in midfield and never gave the British Olympic team a direct free-kick in the 40-yard area.

In the first half, the British Olympic team completely pressed the second half of the UAE Olympic team, and conducted a half-time attack drill, but it never reaped the results, and the scene was quite dull.

Lineker, who was in charge of the BBC's commentary on the game, joked that the UAE Olympic team drove their team's bus into the pitch and across the front of the goal.

However, Carroll was also embarrassed for a while under the joint defense of the two players of the UAE Olympic team.

Seeing Carroll's predicament, Bell switched sides and ran over to help Carroll.

In the end of the first half, in the countless attacks and 17 shots on goal of the British Olympic team, the UAE Olympic team held the goal firmly and walked through the field, and the two sides ended the first half of the game with a dull score of 0:0 and walked back to the locker room.

However, compared to the British Olympic team players, who were able to chat and fart briskly, the UAE Olympic team players, who had been overly tight in defence, were all out of breath and were clearly on the verge of reaching their limits, and perhaps if the whistle at the end of half-time did not sound, they would collapse.

At the start of the second half, the players on both sides stood in position, and Bale was quite strangely discussing something with Carol next to him, and then glanced at the goal of the UAE Olympic team with a very slight move.

Carol looked at Bell, then covered her mouth and asked something, seeing Bell take a deep breath and nod to him, Carol nodded with a strange face.

The referee looked at his watch and blew his whistle, and Carroll pulled the ball in front of Bale, who had already rushed up and kicked the ball hard at the stationary ball.

The ball made a "bang" sound, roaring towards the backfield of the UAE Olympic team, straight into the sky.

"Oh, my God! It's a conscious shot! A shot from a long distance in midfield! Lineker exclaimed, staring at the soccer ball that flew into the sky.

The fans in the stadium screamed in unison, and everyone's eyes looked at the ball that flew higher and higher, until it turned into a small black dot, which seemed to pause in the air for a while, and then fell sharply.

The goalkeeper of the UAE Olympic team was still checking his gloves with his head down, and he did not lift his head until his teammates shouted a reminder to him.

Ali, the goalkeeper of the UAE Olympic team, squinted his eyes slightly, trying to look at the ball in the sky with a strong wind, falling faster and faster, and before the ball arrived, he already felt the invisible pressure.

The ball grew bigger and bigger in Ali's eyes, and when he watched the ball step back, he realized that his feet were already in the goal.

Ali had a cold sweat on his face, suddenly roared, stepped forward with his left foot, and jumped up against the falling ball, at this time he could only rely on feeling.

The sharply falling ball with a strong wind sound blew Ali's hair up and fell directly above his head, from between his outstretched hands, into the goal behind him, and then bounced high, bringing the net up into a huge bag, and the whole net shook more than once.

“goooooooooooooooooal! goooooooooooooooooal! Lineker didn't stop breathing, and shouted a series of "goals" one after another!

The other words of praise Lineker could not think of what to say at the moment, and he was obviously so excited that he had forgotten the words.

At this time, all the fans at Wembley Stadium jumped up from their seats, shouted words they didn't understand, and clapped their hands vigorously.

The fans of the British Olympic team are the happiest people at this time, because their heroes are so good.

Bale had already run to the fans in the stands at this time, stretched out his hand and pointed at the fans, indicating that your cheers were not enthusiastic enough, and the fans suddenly burst into earth-shattering cheers again.

Carol, who followed after him, slapped Bale's buttocks in the midst of a burst of laughter from the fans, obviously praising how powerful this guy's lower body is!

The UAE Olympic team, which lost a goal, really lost its assertion and didn't know whether to continue to defend or should attack.

And just before they could make up their minds, the British Olympic team scored again, this time from Frank Lampard, the attacking heart of the British Olympic team.

Frank Lampard combined a one-two with Bale on the edge of Ryan Giggs' pass before a through ball found Carroll, who then sent the ball into the back of the net.

The formation of the UAE Olympic team was even more chaotic, and their coach hurriedly applied for a substitution, adjusted the formation, removed a full-back, and replaced a defensive midfielder, and the situation eased up, but by this time they were already two goals behind.

Although the UAE Olympic team began a reckless attack, their general trend has gone, and the situation is now firmly controlled by the British Olympic team, and the rhythm of the game is also firmly controlled by the British Olympic team, and the UAE Olympic team has no room for resistance.

In the 81st minute of the second half, Frank Lampard made another through ball that penetrated the entire backline of the UAE Olympic team, only to be sent directly into the arms of Ali by Theo Walcott.

In the end, the British Olympic team defeated the UAE Olympic team 2:0 and got three points as expected.

After the game, Bale, who participated in the national team's international competition for the first time, once again became the focus of the media, and his ultra-long-distance hanging shot in the midfield was too amazing.

The goal was played on the TV screen, and the best goal of the Games was probably the lob.

In another game in Group B, Senegal, whose form was really unpredictable, was humiliated after being slaughtered by the British Olympic team in the first game, defeating Uruguay 2:0 cleanly, but became the second place in the group after the British Olympic team with a goal difference, and the British Olympic team, which has six points and a goal difference advantage of six goals, also locked the top spot in the group one round in advance.

After securing the top spot in the group, Benitez finally began to rotate in the final game of the group stage against Uruguay, with three overage players and the Three Lions internationals participating in the European Championship all rested, but Rao was so, and the starting line-up of the British Olympic team was not weak at all.

The British Olympic team tried to control the game after the opening kick-off, while the Uruguayan national team went on the offensive aggressively, but the British Olympic team was cautious in defence.

The British Olympic team took the lead in the 18th minute, the Uruguayan midfielder lost the ball, Cleverley and Oxlade-Chamberlain passed the ball continuously, and Sturridge fired a low shot into the far corner from 12 yards on the right side of the penalty area, 1:0!

The British Olympic team expanded the score in the 44th minute, Chamberlain broke into the left side of the penalty area on the counterattack and was tackled by the Uruguayan defender, and Chamberlain personally took the penalty kick, 2:0.

Uruguay pulled one back in the 62nd minute, but the British Olympic team opened the gap again one minute later, Joe Allen broke through in the middle, and Sturridge stabbed into the net from 12 yards, 3:1, which was also the final score of the game.

In the three group games, Britain defeated Senegal in the first game, defeated the United Arab Emirates Olympic team 2:0 in the second game, and defeated Uruguay 3:1 in the final round, and won the top spot in Group B with a huge advantage to advance to the top 8.

The opponent of the British Olympic team in the quarter-finals of this Olympic Games is the South Korean Olympic team from Asia, the Korean Peninsula team drew 0:0 with Mexico in the first round of the group stage, narrowly defeated Switzerland 2:1 in the second round, and drew 0:0 with Gabon in the final round, and advanced to the second place in Group A.

In the three games of the group stage, South Korea exposed the problem of lack of attack. South Korea have scored only two goals in three group games, not because they can't create scoring chances, but because the strikers are not in good shape. In the final round of the group stage against Gabon, South Korea created a lot of shooting opportunities, but none of the strikers hit, and the main striker Park Joo-young wasted many scoring opportunities, which is a problem that head coach Hong Myung-po needs to solve urgently.

Although South Korea's defense is good, conceding only 1 goal in 3 games, but in the face of the British Olympic team, which has the most offensive firepower in this Olympic Games, not many people are optimistic about the back line of South Korea's Olympic team. (To be continued.) )