When George. When Wood appeared on the pitch, there was a huge cheer from the English fans in the stands, who chanted Wood's nickname "St. George" over and over again, knocking the French fans to a complete stagger.

They can't help but get excited. It's been more than two months, George. Although Wood came off the bench against Germany and Sweden, it was the first time he started the game. George. What does it mean for Wood to start? St. George's right big toe is totally healed! They don't have to worry about anything for the rest of the game.

However, those opponents who watched the game from the stands and gathered first-hand information were not interested in Wood's comeback, but on Donn's actions. Wood's comeback was to be expected, and Donn brought his proudest disciple to Spain not to keep him on the cold bench, so it wasn't a surprise. But Donn's uncharacteristically low-key style before the game made those opponents very alert.

The opponents watching the match from the stands include Spain and the Czech Republic, which they are likely to face in the semi-finals, as well as Italy, which they may face in the final.

They were coaches on their respective teams and had arrived at the St. Mamés Stadium on a mission to spy on the military. Few of them would believe that Donn was really afraid of the French team, and although the French team did have a good performance in the first few games, no matter how you analyze it, Donn is not the kind of manager who will be afraid of the opponent. On the contrary, when the opponent is stronger, he should be more combative. Let's see how he led a dynasty from the little-known Nottingham Forest...... That's almost a collection of classic examples of defeating the strong with the weak.

They cared so much about Donn's pre-match performances that George was so concerned about his pre-match performances. Wood's start, on the other hand, was considered a trivial matter by them. It's as natural as it gets......

Puel now doesn't think about what Donn said or did before the game. Now his whole mind is on the game – the madness of the Englishman is something he never expected......

At the beginning of the game, it was the French team who kicked off, and it stands to reason that the French team should take advantage of this opportunity to keep the football at their feet and then launch wave after wave of continuous attacks. Threaten England's goal, score the right goal and drag the game into the familiar track of the French.

However, before their attack could get close to England's goal, they were attacked by George. Wood and Gerald teamed up to intercept it. Next, France wanted to take back possession of the ball in midfield - Lassena. Diarra and Flamini played in central midfield, which was closer to the opposition penalty area. The adjustment from this position shows the intention of the French team, who intend to completely suppress England with their attack in this game. The ideal outcome would be for England not to even get out of the half.

This is actually the reason why the French team has been successful so far, Puel is not a fool who only knows how to attack, after two strong interception midfield positions in advance, making the French team's attack more oppressive, convenient to counter-attack on the spot, and meet those teams who are not strong or unprepared, they can really play a decisive role.

It's a pity that they met England today with high morale and good preparation.

After seeing Gerrard get the ball. Flamini rushed forward in a tacit manner. While waiting to enter the field before the game, Diarra found his partner and told him that his target was George. Wood, so let Flamini stay out of the way.

Gerrard saw Flamini lunging towards him and passed the ball to Wood, who was not far away.

Almost at the same time as he passed. Diarra also moved, and he pounced like a panther on Wood, who was about to catch the ball. He was going to break the ball at the same time as Wood received it, and Wood was on a shaky footing at that time, which was an opportunity to take advantage of.

"Diarra stepped forward to defend Wood...... Pretty! ”

Morteson exclaimed excitedly.

Wood pounced on Diarra at the same time. But with his heel Gerrard's pass directly to Terry in the back, Diarra pounced it didn't matter, the important thing is that after he and Flamini rushed up, the French team's midfield was disjointed, and there was a wide empty space in the middle! You must know that the position of the two interception midfielders of the French team is already very forward......

This is obviously what Don specially pulled Wood to tell before the game started: be good at taking advantage of the loopholes in the opponent's formation.

Terry didn't waste any time, and directly passed the long ball to the feet of Mock, who had already rushed to the front!

"England's quick attack!"

Stuart. When Downing stopped the ball, there were only three French defenders in front of him. England's two strikers and another wing-back, Abang Laho, had already rushed to the edge of the box, and Gerrard had rushed up after passing the ball to Wood. Instead, Wood continued to play at the back after passing the ball back to Terry.

The starting lineup for this game was different from the previous two games. Chris. Cohen and Mock did not continue to start, instead ceding their places to Downing and Abang Lajo, who had one thing in common – speed.

Donn expected France to press hard and try to score first, and England's most important attack was not possession, but speed. Cohen has a balanced offense and defense. Good stamina. Mock has excellent ball control and delicate technique. But none of them are players with speed. Downing and Abang Laho are very fast and can be quite useful on counter-attacks.

And this line-up also greatly surprised the French, Puel certainly did not expect that when England's right midfielder was in crisis, Donn gave up the only remaining real right midfielder, and chose to play Abonlaho, who was born as a striker.

Downing didn't stop long after receiving the ball, but passed the ball sideways. Rooney, who was withdrawn later, received the ball and distributed it to Abonlaho. France's left wing-back Klich rushed up to participate in the attack, and he was still rushing back to defend at this time.

Abang Laho is also not polite, after receiving the ball, he cut directly into the penalty area!

The French team's central defenders were originally defending Mitchel and Wayne Rooney, but they didn't expect England to quickly move the football to the other side, and they didn't want to play Abonlaho so firmly into the penalty area, without even the slightest hesitation......

Abonlaho rushed into the goal and slammed his foot to shoot, tricking Sacco into flying to block it, but passing the ball sideways to Mitchel in the six-yard box......

"Aaron. Mitchel is now unmarked...... He shot ......"

The ball flew straight towards the goal. Goalkeeper Lloris flew to save, but the distance was too close, and Mitchel's shot used all his strength, and no matter how powerful the goalkeeper was, he couldn't do anything at this time......

“goooal！ goooooal！ gooooooal！！！ "John. Mortenson, the ace commentator for BBC5, jumped out of his seat.

He was probably the first to react, because when Mitchel's shot hit the net, neither the fans in the stands nor the spectators in front of the TV had their brains come to their senses – what was going on? The opening was just over a point. How is this going on?

Also surprised were all the members of the French team, those who sat in the coach's seat and coached, and those French team players who were still desperately defending on the field just now, all looked at their goals in a daze at this moment. There's a soccer ball spinning, rubbing against the net.

At the same time, in England, large and small bars, on the big screen in the square. On the radio of the taxi, there was only John. Mortensen's voice chanted: "This is the fastest goal of the tournament!" It was also the second fastest goal in the history of the European Championship! At one minute and thirty seconds, Mitchel took the lead for England! We're ahead! It's a surprise lead, but we're ahead! ”

After a few seconds of pause, a huge cheer erupted from the stands at the San Mamés Stadium.

Commentators from all over the world have also announced that England is leading France 1-0 in their own way.

Let's be honest. Even England themselves didn't expect their start to be so smooth, taking the lead just a minute and a half into the opening period. It's Tony. Don reacted as quickly as he could, rushed out of the dugout with open arms, and provoked a butt twisting dance close to the French team's dugout. It seems that Puel is bent on it.

The passing Abang Lajo rushed up to bring down Mitchel, and then more England players pressed on him. Even goalkeeper Joe. Hart came running up from behind, and you could see how excited the English were.

Yes, they are excited. Because they not only led the French team, but also made the leader see clearly what kind of strong enemy the French team he had been afraid of touting! It's so vulnerable!

"Benzema, Gourcuff, Ben. Alpha...... A group of geniuses of the French team is helpless against this ball! ”

They were really helpless, they were still standing in front of them and didn't move, how could they have thought that the first attack failure led to the goal conceded?

Donn walked back from a butt twist dance in front of the French coaching staff to meet Des. Walker's eyes were full of anticipation. "The storm is coming, Des." ”

Yes, the storm came, and the first wind tore over the greenhouse roof over the heads of the French team, and the delicate flowers trembled and crumbled in the storm.

In fact, at this time, the French team was very eager to get support from the stands, but at this time, the French fans chose to remain silent. Even if they want to make a sound. was also suppressed by the singing of England fans. At the St Mamés Stadium, only the singing of England fans can be heard. There can only be the singing of England fans. They turned Deportivo La Coruna's home stadium into a Premier League venue.

Donn's pre-match compliments to France made England angry. It also made England fans angry that their team was ahead of France so quickly, and they were happy to embarrass Donn by singing their own songs.

As the game continued, France could not lift their morale in the midst of the singing of the England fans, and they wanted to attack, only to find that England's defense at the back was impregnable. What's more, they lacked experience in dealing with the situation, and the manager didn't tell them before the game that they would concede the opening minute and a half, so how would they play next? Do you continue to attack as planned, or do you recycle a little bit and focus on defense?

After conceding the goal, Sacco yelled at his teammates in the front court, asking them to actively return to the defense, otherwise they would not be able to defend by relying on the back four, not to mention that there are two full-backs who like to assist among the four defenders. The players up front didn't listen to him, and now their minds are full of equalisers. The front and back of the French team gradually became disjointed.

Puel also lacked the countermeasures to deal with it, and he watched from the sidelines but could not do anything. Because he is also hesitating in his heart - was this lost goal an accident or a premeditated trick by the opponent?

In the end, he decided that it was just an accident and ordered his team to continue attacking and try to equalise early and get the game back on the right track.

But he was wrong.

The winds in England were blowing more and more fiercely, and the torrential rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the bean-sized raindrops hit people's faces like hailstones.

In the 23rd minute, England seized on a chance for France to press heavily in their rush for an equaliser and extended their lead to two goals through a quick counter-attack by Abonlaho himself.

After the goal, Abang Lajo ran to the corner flag with open arms, but he did not escape the fate of being crushed under him.

“2：0！ England have taken the initiative and they are two goals ahead of France! This is something we didn't expect before the game...... The French team, which was previously considered the favorite to win the championship, was unexpectedly scored twice in 20 minutes by England, and there was no way to fight back! ”

'I couldn't believe what I was seeing, our team was two goals down...... What's going on? Why Benzema, Gourkuff, Ben. Alpha, Nasri, they all disappeared? And what about our defensive players? It was surprising that the talented goalkeeper Lloris, who had only conceded one goal before, had conceded two goals in 20 minutes......" The French commentator was very frustrated. He himself couldn't understand why the French team was doing the way they did, and neither did the French players and coaches.

The group of English players in front of them is like lions that have been starved for days, not only did they not lose their strength, but they became more ferocious and dangerous. Even the breath exhaled had a strong smell of blood in it, as if he had just come out of the depths of hell.

They fought hard with the French players in every corner of the field, even if it was not a five-five kick-off, they had to grab it, which made the French very jealous. Not only that, but when they get the opportunity to attack, they must do their best to make the defenders of the French team feel difficult to defend, which is completely irrational play, but the French team has no way to take them.

After England took a two-goal lead, they didn't stop there, but got more and more aggressive. Wave after wave of offensive attacks against the French team can only shrink the defense, and there is no way to threaten the England team's penalty area anymore.

However, because of this, the French team did not concede more goals in the second half of the first half, and when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, all the worried French breathed a sigh of relief - at least for the next fifteen minutes, they were safe.