After a week of training, the French players were in good shape, and at this time, Fan Shang also used the system to improve some players who were not in good shape, and by the way, he also improved the tacit understanding of the lineup.

The 2000 European Championship in the Netherlands and Belgium was the first time in the history of the European Championship that two countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) were co-hosted.

France have been drawn in Group D, against the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Denmark, in a strong group with all four teams having won the European Championships.

Group D is known as the Group of Death, along with Group A, and the four teams in Group A are Germany, Portugal, Romania and England.

In fact, none of the 16 teams participating in the European Championship are weak, they are all at the top level in the world, and it is equally difficult to be divided into any group.

France's first match was played by Jan. Brugge of Belgium. The match against Denmark at the Bredel Stadium was just the first time France had met Denmark in the group stage of an international tournament after the '98 World Cup.

In 1992, the Laudrup brothers, the representatives of the Danish fairy tale, withdrew from the national team, leaving only Schmeichel to struggle in front of the goal, so their strength has declined compared to 98.

Vincent was a little glad that France missed the warm-up match due to Vincent's kindness, and it was quite strange for a team that did not play a warm-up match before the tournament.

However, Fan Shang is not worried, playing warm-up games is nothing more than for the state and run-in formation, and now these two tasks are directly done by the system, which can completely allow the players to rest better.

After a week of training in Clairefontaine, France went straight to Club Brugge for the match against Denmark.

In this game, Fan Shang directly adopted a strategy of pressing on the offense, France should actually continue to play defensive counterattacks, and this is what Fan Shang is best at, but the offense must not be practiced, after all, if there is no problem with the historical trajectory, then France will definitely attack on all fronts in the last game.

France's attack did not disappoint Vincent, nor did it disappoint the fans and media throughout France, as they won the first game against Denmark with a score of 3-0, scored by Thierry Henry, Wiltord and Blanco.

France's group stage schedule is actually really good, as their first and second matches are played on the same field, which saves them the pain of travel.

After this game, France stood by and waited for the second game four days later, this game was against the runner-up of the last European Cup, the Czech Republic, and now the Czech Republic can really be said to be strong, Nedved, Rosicky, Yankulovski, Poboski, Smitchell, Jankoller and other famous players are mostly in the year of play, although they lost 0:1 to the host Netherlands in the last game, but the Netherlands scored a penalty in the last minute, So that the moisture of this game is very large.

It was a game of ups and downs, with France scoring in the opening seven minutes through Thierry Henry, but in the 35th minute, the Czech Republic stubbornly equalised with a penalty.

The two teams then locked in a stalemate until the 70th minute, when Djokaeau, who had been substituted in the second half, took the lead again for France, and the score remained 2-1 until the end of the game.

After the end of this game, the form of qualification for this group has been clear, France and the Netherlands also won two in a row, and at the same time got the opportunity to appear, depending on the collision of the two teams in the last game, who can win the group.

The final match between the Czech Republic and Denmark will be a thorough friendly match.

Vincent also comforted his veteran Nedved after the match against the Czech Republic. Speaking of this European Cup, there are many Bordeaux or former Bordeaux players who have entered various national teams, not to mention France, among other teams, Spain has Mendieta and Belleron, Germany has Ballack and so on.

Fan Shang had the same dilemma as Yakai this time, whether to win the first place in the group or the second place in the group, he was the same as Yakai at that time, and gathered several coaches together to study this matter.

In fact, Fan Shang already has a draft in his heart, he hopes to follow the trajectory of history, take the second place in the group, and let Italy go to the Netherlands to fight hard, but this approach has to be agreed by the people under him, so it is still necessary to hold a meeting.

"Now we have a difficult problem, maybe after 98 years, a few of you have already understood," Vincent pointed to Le Maire and a few others. "It's whether we're going to be first or second in the group."

"Jacques, let's analyze the difference between the two positions first" Vincent gestured to Santini again, in fact, these two people have also passed the gas before, and the second place in the group is the best destination for France.

Santini stepped forward, stating the difference between the two, and finally said that he felt that finishing second was more likely than winning the group to reach the final.

Vincent applauded Santini first, he spoke very indemgently, and several members of the coaching staff below also nodded their heads, except for Lemaire and Jorhart, everyone else was talking about it at this time.

Why do you want to other than the two of them, because these two will support no matter what Fan Shang says, and this meeting theoretically has nothing to do with the two of them, just let them be a trust.

'I think Jacques has a point, I think the last game is about training and giving the players with yellow cards a break. Le Maire did not disappoint Vincent.

"Yes, the goalkeeper can also let Rama play, then Barthez will guard the gate in both tournaments, and it will be time to change his face." Joel Hart chimed in.

There are only a few coaching staff members who already have three of them agreeing, so it is difficult for the others to say anything, and this kind of thinking of focusing on training and supplementing results will be unified.

So in the arrangement, Fan Shang put the players who did not play in the previous two games into the starting lineup, of course, the number is not enough, so he used the players who did not get yellow cards in the previous two games to make up, and finally made up for the 11 people who started.

However, the Netherlands sent all their main players at the Amsterdam Stadium, and their goal was to win three consecutive wins in the group stage, after all, they are the hosts, and it is not possible not to show some domineering.

However, although France sent a combination of the main team and the substitutes, they did not lose to the Netherlands in terms of momentum.

Less than 10 minutes into the game, France scored the Netherlands through Trezeguet.

However, in the 14th minute of the game, the Dutch team played the score to a 1-1 draw through their center forward Kluivert, and this score lasted until halftime.