Chapter 45: The Game Begins
Early in the morning, when Liu Neng went to the training ground to gather, as soon as he arrived at the training ground, he met Vardy and Fud, both of whom looked like they hadn't woken up, and saw Jones coming over and Fude said to Liu Neng: "Ah, I'm so tired, I'm almost dying, I finally understand what you mean by saying that there are only tired cows and no ploughed land." Fude complained to Liu Neng.
"You, today is going to play, you are still going, aren't you asking for hardship, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to run after you play, let's take advantage of the rest now, the coach let us keep in shape, and it's also for our good." Liu Neng said to Fude, who was obviously lacking in energy.
"Hehe, you don't know, that girl yesterday was really amazing, it's really enjoyable, anyway, I'm a substitute, and the chance to play is not great, and it is estimated that it will only be a while to play, no big problem, and I'm still young, the question is Vardy, do you still have the strength." Forde turned to look at Vardy with a wicked grin.
"You can't do it, I'm fine, you're too tender, little doll" Vardy laughed and punched Forde's body, at which point the officers came one after another, and Southgate also came over.
In fact, through the understanding of the coach in the past few days, Liu Neng basically knows the general personality of Southgate, in general, this is a coach who is quite serious about the players, and it can be a stressful situation.
After the disastrous defeat of England's European Championship last summer, the former England coach Hodgson knew that he was to blame, and after voluntarily announcing his resignation, the FA hired former Sunderland coach Sam Allardyce to take over in late July, and only coached the national team for 2 months and only led the team to play 1 game, and Sam Allardyce was dismissed at the end of September because of the "Diaoyugate" incident.
According to The Telegraph, reporters pretending to be wealthy Far Eastern businessmen tricked Sam Allardyce into revealing the inside story of the football industry, and the unsuspecting Sam Allardyce demanded illegal commissions from the fake wealthy businessmen, promising them to circumvent FA regulations and take third-party ownership of the players.
Sam Allardyce's disgrace over the scandal caught the unprepared FA off guard, and he had to temporarily announce then-Under-21 national youth team manager Gareth Southgate as interim manager of the national team.
On the other hand, Southgate was chosen because England was in a hurry to change the manager, and there are not too many idle coaches for England to choose from, although the FA has always had a soft spot for Arsene Wenger, but the professor's contract with Arsenal will not expire until the summer of 17, and the 2018 World Cup qualifiers have already started, and the England team has no time to wait for Wenger's contract to end.
Roberto Mancini, who stepped down from Inter, was also a candidate for the Three Lions position, and he accepted the FA's invitation to watch England's World Qualifiers against Malta in early October '16, but then there was no talk of him coaching England, so in the absence of any better alternative, the FA finally decided to turn Southgate into a regular position.
After Southgate took office on September 27, he led the team to play 4 games, beating Malta 2-0 at home in the world preliminaries, drawing 0-0 away with Slovenia, beating Scotland 3-0 at home, and drawing 2-2 at home to Spain in friendly matches. The England team has significantly improved compared to before, Southgate has passed the FA assessment, and the position of coach has finally been determined.
The coach is determined, but many people think that Southgate can really lead the England national team well, judging from his coaching resume, he really has nothing outstanding, and the coaching level is still questioned, there is no doubt that England was at a low point at that time, and the European Cup was humiliatingly lost to Iceland.
Southgate is also under a lot of pressure, last year's results were okay, and this year's qualifiers were also okay, which shows that Southgate's ability is also quite good, and the remarks about his inability to coach have stopped for the time being.
"Gather here, the seventh round of the first European Yuxuan will start in a while, and they will all show their strengths, don't let go of the water just because they are a weak team." Southgate said as he looked at the players who were standing in two sets.
"Yes, Coach, we're not going to release water." The players said loudly in unison.
"Well, let's go and prepare, we're going to challenge them away in a while, disband."
Fude looked at Liu Neng and said, "I don't know if there is time for us to play, let's see which of us can score." "Forde is trying to lighten up and win the game in a moment."
Liu Neng looked back at Fu and said, "I definitely have a chance to go up and score goals, can you?" I don't know."
"I'll go, say you're fat and energetic, you're very powerful, take a look, maybe you won't have a chance to play if I go up." The two hit each other.
Malta started with a starting formation of 3232 and a starting lineup of No. 1 goalkeeper Juan. Pablo. Hogg, No. 4 right-back Steve. Bolger, No. 5 centre-back Agius, No. 13 left-back Zack. Muscat, No. 3 right midfielder Margery, No. 19 left midfielder Zefara, midfielders: No. 21 Pisani, No. 18 Bjorn. Kerry, No. 6 Ryan Feneckeke, center forwards: No. 14 Farouja, No. 10 Skembry.
Southgate looked at Malta's starting list and said to Holland: "This lineup is not what I expected, and it is definitely their main lineup, it seems that they are going to fight with us hard!"
Holland didn't speak, but he nodded, and he thought so in his heart.
Holland paused for a while and said: "But the strength of our team is a lot higher than theirs, if we don't have a big problem, it won't be a problem to win them." Holland whispered to Southgate.
Southgate turned his head to Holland and said: "Yes, I'm not very worried about this, I'm just afraid that the team will not run in well, and the other game in 3 days will not be good." ”
Holland glanced at him: "Well, yes, but now I can only take one step at a time." ”
Southgate then smiled, reached out and patted Holland on the shoulder, not talking about the issue, but instead of talking about it, he moved the conversation to the tactical discussion.
Let's take a look at England's starting line-up, No. 1 Joe Hart, defenders: No. 3 Portland, No. 6 Phil Jones, No. 5 Gary Cahill, No. 2 Kyle Walker, midfielders: No. 4 Henderson, No. 8 Livermore, forward No. 10 Alli, left winger: Raheem Sterling, right winger: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, forward: Harry Kane, Malta line-up、、、、。
"The game is about to start, welcome everyone to watch the World Cup qualifiers, England away to Malta in the seventh round of the European qualifiers, the top half of the red shirt and the bottom half of the white shorts are the English team."
The race started after a whistle,.................. After the opening kick-off, a few minutes into the game, England attacked fiercely.
"Kane's straight plug outside the arc, Sterling inserted it, faced the goalkeeper's single knife, crossed to Kane, Kane's header hit the goal, was saved by the goalkeeper, straight behind the stopper, Sterling returned to receive the ball, England's attack in the first few minutes was very fierce, and now Malta has become a combination of five defenders, all defending in their own penalty area, there is no chance of counterattack."