Chapter 0269: A God-like Man
When you put on the national team jersey and set foot on French soil, everyone has only one belief, and that is to win the Delaunay Cup.
For England, which prides itself on being the birthplace of modern football, and for England, which considers itself a strong team, it is a great shame that 60 years after the birth of the European Championship, they have never touched the Delaunay Cup.
Therefore, the expectations of many English people for the Delaunay Cup even exceed the expectations for winning the Hercules Cup again.
After all, although England has not won the Hercules Cup many times, they have always won it, but in the European Cup, their best result is only the third place!
This is absolutely unforgivable!
Under the general intention of seizing the Delaunay Cup, everyone consciously or unconsciously put it on the back burner.
Especially now that England have reached the brink of defeat at the European Championships. Before Marcus Rashford replaced Wayne Rooney, many players were even thinking about waiting for the whistle to blow at the end of the game, and the tour of this European Championship would be over.
Some players who have performed poorly on the field are even already thinking about how they will face the pressure of the coming public opinion after the game is over and when they return to China.
Once again in the European Championships, and with all aspects very optimistic, everyone knows very well that Hodgson is not alone in paying for the national team's poor results.
However, at this critical juncture, Marcus Rashford came out of nowhere, scoring twice in five minutes to pull England back off the cliff at the last moment of England's descent into the abyss, dragging the game into extra-time and buying time for the team to turn things around.
Then, with only five minutes of extra time, the score was again overtaken.
Such a crazy thing makes every English player unable to put excitement in their hearts, excitement from the depths of their souls.
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Although there are still about 25 minutes to go before the final end of the game, the morale of the English players is boosted, but there is no suspense in advancing to the quarterfinals.
Because in front of them, stood Marcus Rashford, this god-like man!
Even, many members of the England national team feel that with such a teammate with super goalscoring ability, the Delaunay Cup seems to be just around the corner.
It's hard to find a better word to praise Marcus Rashford, who has conquered everyone with his performances.
once staged a big four in the warm-up match with Australia, but the opponent's strength was too weak to be convincing.
In the quarter-finals, when England desperately lacked finishing ability, Marcus Rashford proved himself to be the top scorer in the game with a 10-minute hat-trick and no one could stop him.
Hodgson was so blind that he had to substitute Rashford
Scored 42 goals in 12 rounds of the Premier League, won the Premier League Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot, and the terrifying goal rate is far less than even the peerless duo of Melo.
He scored 23 goals in seven games in the Europa League, was named the top scorer in the Europa League, and strongly occupied the position of the most goals in a single season in the Europa League, and even left Falcao's record almost out of sight.
Coupled with eight goals in three games in the FA Cup, Rashford officially entered the ranks of top scorers in the first season of his career with a super record of scoring 73 goals in 22 games.
Last season, Marcus Rashford's goal stats were unsurpassed by anyone in the whole of Europe.
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What's more, this statistic was only achieved after Rashford played almost a third of the season.
Many people wonder what Rashford's final goal stats would have been like if he had played a full season
Messi's annual record of 91 goals will not be like the previous Premier League single-season goal record, and Falcao's Europa League single-season goal record, and he was thrown out of sight of the taillights
Before Marcus Rashford's debut, two records in football were considered to be the most difficult to break, one being Messi's annual 91 goals and the other being Robert Lewandowski's record of five goals in nine minutes.
But now, the 95 supreme, which was once considered unique, has been surpassed by Rashford, so the next thing to be surpassed is probably Messi's annual record of 91 goals.
After all, with the warm-up game against Australia and today's game, Rashford's tally has reached 80.
What's even more terrifying is that Rashford only scored these 80 goals in 24 games!
It can be said that Rashford, a footballer, has turned a goal in a football game into a goal in a basketball game.
After all, for most basketball players, it is very rare to be able to score three or four goals in a game and score seven or eight points.
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Hodgson, on the other hand, has made such a super-killer the pitch a three-game ban for ridiculous reasons, allowing Rashford to not get a minute of playing time in the group stage, and at the same time kicking England from a very easy half to a dead half where they will now face the strongest opponents such as Germany, Italy or Spain, as well as the host country's France.
Then after Rashford's suspension expired, in the life-and-death battle against such a life-and-death enemy as Germany, he continued to press him on the bench for his own personal face.
Do you think England striker is Ronaldo!
Even if Sturridge is Ronaldo, Rashford's ability to score goals and finish games is still clearly superior, and he is still a starting striker who doesn't think twice.
But Hodgson doesn't even seem to give Rashford this opportunity.
Originally, England's difficult defeat to the mighty German team should have been celebrated by the fans, but now, the fans in the stands are chanting in unison - Hodgson get out.
Hodgson's dismissal is already doomed, after all, even if there is no Rashford, he will be out of class after the European Championship in his previous life.
But the fans can't bear it anymore, if Hodgson still insists on going his own way and not letting Rashford play in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and even the final of the European Championship, which is even more difficult later, then England will still play a hairy game
This may not be nothing, but a high probability.
Even, as long as Hodgson continues to do the same today, and lets Rashford come on after the game goes into garbage time, England could be tragic.
After all, Rashford can't be expected to turn the tide in every game like he did today.
I'm afraid that even God can't do that kind of thing.
Why don't you let Hodgson fuck off now!