Euro 2020 is a complete miracle in Li Mudi's opinion, because it has no real host country, and all 51 matches will be held in 12 cities in 12 countries (Brussels, Belgium lost the original selection to host due to venue problems), which is still a test of the physical fitness of each team.

Although the area of the whole of Europe is only a little more than 1,000 square kilometers (calculated according to the 48 geographical member states), it is only a little larger than the Celestial Empire, and the transportation is still relatively convenient. However, this time the time spent on the journey between each match has increased exponentially compared to the previous campaigns in one or two host countries, which is certainly not good news for players who have already endured a difficult season.

Fortunately, UEFA's arrangement in the group stage is relatively humane, and the venues of these three matches are not too far apart, which can slightly reduce the burden in this regard, but it is still more difficult to hold a match in a European country (non-Russia) than before.

In Group D, for example, Russia's three matches will be played in London and Glasgow, the two cities on the same island, making him the lucky one to fly closest of all 24 teams.

But even with this convenience, the outside world is not very optimistic about the prospects of the fighting nation to qualify, because there are two strong teams in this group: England and Sweden. If the normal trend continues, even if the Russian men's football team can defeat Serbia, which is similar to them in the world ranking but still not to be underestimated, their final points are likely to be only 3 points, and it seems that they will not have any advantage in the competition for four out of six promotion places.

So before the curtain of this European Cup was opened, judging from the odds of winning the championship announced by the bookmaker, the Russian team, which ranked fourth from the bottom of the 24 teams, was obviously still a strong contender for the fish belly that would be eliminated after three games.

However, Li Mudi used the performance of the Swedish team, which narrowly defeated the Nordic powerhouse and the World Cup quarterfinals Sweden in the first game, fiercely countered the contempt of the outside world for him and the team he led, and let European football once again see the power of a fighting nation.

Facing Sweden, who beat Portugal to win the group in the qualifiers, Li Muddy copied his defensive counter-attacking tactics when he was in charge of the Torino team, giving up the strategy of competing for high-altitude balls with tall opponents, and only five attempts to get high balls in the opponent's key defensive area in 90 minutes, all of which came from corners and free kicks, which can be said to be the ultimate in ground coordination.

However, opposition coach Jane Andersson is not a coach who likes to press forward, and he often adopts a solid defensive strategy against some good opponents, such as Roma goalkeeper Robin Olsen, captain and veteran Granqvist and Manchester United's Victor Lindelof, the Swedish defence led by these stars has been a key factor in the team's success in the last three or four years.

The likes of Forsberg and Guidetti in midfield are also good, but Sweden's tactical play is still biased towards solid defence, making it difficult for several Russian attackers to find an advantage in terms of skill and speed.

In the end, neither side was able to achieve anything in the attacking end that was not fully committed, and with the consistent performance of the defenders on both sides, a 0-0 draw would not have seemed abrupt, but from the perspective of the field, Russia did have the upper hand.

Although a point in the opening game was a bit of a disappointment for the Nordics, who were looking to build on the excellent results of two years ago, their head coach Andersson was a big part of the day's praise after the race. He believes that Russian players have far stronger strength than the outside world evaluates, and they are not inferior to any top teams in terms of fighting spirit. Teaching and on-the-spot command, the probability of advancing to the top 16 should never be as low as the outside world previously believed, and there is a possibility of a big upset if it is not done well.

It's just that his comments didn't attract too much attention at the time, because in addition to the deliberately low-key posture of the Russian men's football team after the game, there are also people who think that the reason for this draw is mainly due to the fact that the Swedish team has suffered a serious decline in attack power after Markus Berry and Ula Toivonen, two veteran strikers, faded out of the national team, and failed to create enough threat to the Russian team, so the latter's evaluation of strength has not been improved.

However, when the results of the second round of the group were decided four days later, there was a clear reversal in the comments.

Sweden, who were considered weak in attack, beat the favourites England 2-0 to avenge their defeat at the World Cup two years ago.

The 21-year-old Borussia Dortmund striker Alexander Isak scored a brace in the game, especially the second goal, which tricked the two Premier League stars of John Stones and Harry Maguire with a series of feints, giving the talented talent, who has been regarded as a super monster boy in the football manager game of the past, find a golden opportunity to prove his name as "Ibrahimovic II".

At the same time, Li Mudi made bold changes in line-up and tactics against Serbia, who lost their opening game, and Dzyuba started to restore the impact of the opponent's box at the World Cup on home soil two years ago, with crosses from both sides and the veteran striker's style of play with his back to the ball putting huge pressure on the opposition defence. In this case, Serbia's two central defenders, Milenkovic and Velicovic, who are far from reaching the world's first-class level in terms of ability, are caught in a bitter battle.

Thankfully, Nemanja Matic, who started as a central midfielder, often came back to help the defence, so that the Eastern European side's backline was not completely disrupted by a 32-year-old veteran.

However, due to the excessive pressure on the backfield, Serbia's number one star Damilkovic Savic did not dare to press forward more frequently, resulting in the center of the front court Mitrovic and the two wingers Zhivkovic and Tadic could not get strong support, except for the use of individual ability to occasionally play alone, there is no team cooperation at all. In this way, the attack power, which originally appeared to be relatively strong on paper, could not play its due effect at all.

Before the end of the first half, the Russian team, who were firmly in control of the situation on the field, took advantage of a free kick opportunity and central defender Semyonov knocked on the goal guarded by Stojkovic with a hammer, making the score on the field 1-0.

After the rematch, the Serbian team, who could not accept the result of two consecutive defeats, hoped to strengthen their attack in order to create more scoring opportunities and reduce the opponent's attack, but a delicate return by Dzyuba in the 54th minute gave Golovin a good chance to calmly get his feet on the edge of the penalty area, and as a result, a powerful but extremely accurate shot once again penetrated the opponent's city. 2-0, victory is already beckoning to Li Moodi and his team.

After that, Serbia, who had to fight to the death, changed to former Torino veteran Rajadzic and Eintracht Frankfurt striker Luka Jovic to change the formation to 4-2-2-2 and launch a strong attack. However, substitute Smolov's counter-attacking goal in the 84th minute put an end to the suspense of the game, and even if Aleksandar Mitrovic scored a slight face-saving goal in stoppage time, it could not change their fate of an early exit from the group.

After the first two rounds of battles, the Russian men's football team won 1 and drew 1, accumulated 4 points, scored 3 goals and conceded 1 goal, ranking first in this group, which blinded the titanium eyes of many experts. Behind them is Sweden with the same points and goal difference, while England, who were considered to have no suspense before the game, are in third place with 1 win and 1 loss and 3 points.

Due to the relationship between victory and defeat, even if they beat Sweden in the final round, Sevilla, who could not surpass the Three Lions, were the first to exit the competition, so they should not be trying their best against the Viking pirates, and will focus on training new recruits. In this way, Sweden, with 2 wins and 1 draw, almost locked the top spot in the group. Considering the current situation of the other five groups, Russia with four points can be said to have secured the right to qualify, even if they lose to the English.

But the British, who are once again cognitively impaired by the Three Lions or Three Meows, must be particularly apprehensive at the moment, as their teams must score at least one point in the final round to secure a place in the knockout rounds. But in that case, the opponent of 16 and 8 will undoubtedly be a top team, which is definitely a huge difficulty for the England team, which is in a bit of a bad form at the moment.

So in order to avoid the favourites such as France, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands, Southgate and his disciples must win a duel against Russia, which means they have a reason to die.

Moreover, these two countries are now in a critical period similar to the Cold War because of the spy poisoning incident that broke out two years ago, and the hostile mood between the two sides, from high-level politicians to ordinary people, has shown an increasingly fierce trend. Even though the slogan of the football has nothing to do with ZZ has been popular around the world for decades, for the most part, football has never been able to stay away from ZZ.

Not to mention the penalization of Swiss players for their celebrations at the World Cup two years ago, or the fact that Mesut Ozil became the number one sinner in the entire German sporting world for a photo with the president of his country of birth, there are many examples of this argument from the past record at the national level.

At the beginning of the 1992 World Cup cycle in the United States, the powerful Yugoslavia had just experienced the historic event of disintegration, but the newly formed Yugoslavia men's soccer team was denied the qualification to participate in the European qualifiers by FIFA, which became the focus of international controversy at that time.

In the 1998 World Cup in France, the United States and Iran because of the introduction of the "Iran Sanctions Act", the relationship between the two countries that had been bad for nearly 20 years into a state of complete hostility, which also made the group stage of the two national teams at the Stadium Gérland, the home of the Lyon club at the time, lose its original football elements, and simply became the best platform for the Persian people to take revenge. In the end, the result of the Iranian team's 2-1 victory caused a huge sensation in the former's country, but it had nothing to do with football itself, and it has to be said that it is a deep regret.

Of course, the most talked-about pair of ZZ rivals in football history can only be England and Argentina. The Falklands War of 1982 had brought the two countries to a feud, and four years later at the World Cup in Mexico, Maradona helped the Pampas Eagles win back on the football pitch with an unrepeatable supernatural performance at the Estadio Azteca. But both in terms of the pre-match and post-match atmosphere, it is clear that the ZZ factor has had as much impact as football itself. Lao Ma was able to be promoted to God in Argentina, in addition to the reason for leading the team to win the World Cup, the hand of God and the two miracles of the five people in a row also played an immeasurable role.

In the two consecutive World Cups in 1998 and 2002, Beckham, the number one idol in football history, experienced an unimaginable process from hell to heaven precisely because of his performance in the two games with Argentina, which has the additional huge bonus of the ZZ factor.

Now that the British people's most hated opponent has become Russia, how can you say that this life-and-death battle in the final round of the group stage will not be unduly disturbed.

In the first two wars, Russian President Comrade Vladimir, who did not make any statement on the performance of the national team, suddenly made a condolence call after the team had just checked into the hotel in Glasgow, the center of Scottish football. Although there are no words between the lines that must win, as far as the leader Smirnov personally understands, their leader still hopes to achieve a desired result. (Isn't this nonsense)

So these non-football professional team officials found Li Mudi at dinner and proposed to hold an impromptu meeting to "cheer up" the players, but the coach of the team rejected it on the grounds that it could not increase everyone's mental pressure.

Although this is the case, Li Mudi himself also attaches great importance to this game, since it has come to this point, it is natural to hope to encounter a relatively weak opponent in the first round of elimination, so a victory or a draw is a necessary condition to ensure that the Russian men's football team can meet the second place in the other groups. Although judging from the situation of the various groups, those second places are not so easy to deal with.

Therefore, judging from the starting lineup announced before the game, the Russian side obviously used its full strength, and in the face of the England team, which also played the main team, a Mars collision with the earth-style battle instantly ignited the emotions of fans around the world. Everyone wants to know how the newly formed sworn enemies will behave on the green field to respond to the expectations of their respective countrymen.

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