247. The Legend Part II

Although after conceding two goals in a row, Hodgson replaced two strikers in time to correct the error, and finally let go of the three lions who pressed the attack on all fronts You Qiansheng pulled a goal back at the last minute of the first half to narrow the score, but the England players still had thoughts about whether this person could do it.

How could the experienced Hodgson not see what the players were thinking, he was cheeky, looked around, and said slowly: "I did make mistakes in this game, but now we need to focus on the second half, Qian," looking at the indifferent Qiansheng, Hodgson said: "In the second half, you led the team's tactical changes, hoping to equalize as soon as possible." We only have one substitution now, so we have to be careful not to get injured in the second half, so as not to lose too many players and have no substitutions. ”

Qiansheng bowed slightly, he didn't have anything to say, there wasn't much time at halftime, wasting energy to pursue the head coach's mistakes, that was not Qiansheng's style, he would only think about how to play in the second half.

In the second half, it was the England team that kicked off first, and when Qiansheng passed the ball back, he was about to run forward, but found that the Belgian team was frantically pressing forward.

High pressing? Qiansheng frowned slightly, he still has little experience in the competition, he didn't expect Belgium, which was leading by one goal, not to continue to swing the bus, but to implement high-position pressing tactics, obviously to attack.

Belgium's high-pressing tactics also target the weaknesses of English players: poor skills, difficult to continue with one kick, difficult to control the ball under tight pressure, and prone to mistakes.

Yes, that's where England players are. Even if they have been training for many years and have made technical progress, the technical ability of the English has always been difficult to reach that of Germany and Spain, and they can resolve the opponent's pressing tactics with quick kicks and delicate small skills under the pressure of the opponent.

Sure enough, within five minutes, the England players made a number of passing errors, and the Belgian players broke the ball up front and attacked quickly, causing a lot of threats to Joe Hart's goal.

Fortunately, the two centre-backs and Hart were focused and had a thrilling effort to keep the goal intact.

Qiansheng had to retreat to the backfield to assist the defense, and Vardy and Kane also retreated to their own half to help defend.

In the 49th minute, Eden Hazard was tripped by Dil Dill and Kevin De Bruyne hit the wall with a free-kick.

In the 52nd minute, Kevin De Bruynella crossed low from the side, Romelu Lukaku pretended to grab a shot to take away Chris Smalling, Hazard rushed forward to tackle ahead of Gary Cahill, Hart made a world-class save, he reacted quickly to save Hazard's must-score goal, Cahill took the opportunity to grab the landing point and cleared the ball.

This scene saw bursts of exclamations from England fans, and even the commentator trio broke out in a cold sweat.

Qiansheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, it's so dangerous, damn, it's not okay to be beaten so passively.

But Qiansheng can't find a solution, defense is not his strong point, the Belgian's technology and midfield attack power is already higher than England's, and the high-pressing tactics just hit the weakness of the Three Lions, for a while, England's door is crumbling, and can only defend desperately.

Football is a very physically demanding game, no team, a player can maintain a rhythm for 90 minutes, endlessly running, which is why the pace of football is fast and slow, it is impossible to run at high speed all the time.

Wilmots said that he could only attack in the first 20 minutes of the second half, that is, he knew that the physical strength of the players could only last for this time, although it was impossible to exhaust the physical strength of the players in 20 minutes, but the defense also consumed physical strength, didn't it? So, you have to save some of your energy, and if you can't score in the first 20 minutes, they will be the ones who will defend desperately.

However, football games are not arranged by human will, Wilmots said that the strong attack for 20 minutes is just an ideal situation, in fact, a long time to attack, will make the player's psychology, mentality a little change, these will affect the player's action, resulting in players to make mistakes.

In a big tournament, mistakes are terrible, and sometimes one inadvertent mistake can lead to a total loss.

Whether it's a seasoned veteran or a newborn calf's genius, it's hard to keep body and mind in line with each other in high-speed movements, and mistakes are inevitable.

With just five international appearances, 21-year-old Belgian left-back Jordan Lukaku, with no major tournament experience, made one of the biggest mistakes of his life.

Belgium's players are strong, but the huge gap between the substitutes and the main team is experience. There is an interesting polarization between Belgium's main players and their substitutes: the main players are extremely experienced, and the number of international appearances is basically more than 45. However, not only did they make few appearances on the bench, but they also had no international tournament experience at all.

The lack of experienced substitutes is the biggest shortcoming of the European Red Devils who have struggled to win in a strong dialogue with the main players injured.

The younger brother of the Belgian monster Romelu Lukaku, when running down the left flank, did not immediately cross when he was half a position ahead of Nathaniel Klein, but slowed down and shook the England right-back to the sudden stoppage, Klein saw through everything in a rare way, he leaned towards Jordan Lukaku unmoved, then pushed him behind him, intercepted the ball, and then quickly passed the ball to Wayne Rooney not far away.

Immediately after the ball was broken, a counterattack was launched, and at the moment when the ball turned from defense to attack, England suddenly looked sharp and decisive, and after receiving the ball, Rooney immediately made a long pass in the backfield, and the ball quickly fell behind the two Belgian central defenders who pressed forward to the halfway line.

When Tobey Alderweireld and Laurent Seaman turned to chase after them, they were horrified to find a white coat passing between them like lightning, and when they chased to the arc of their own center, they finally saw who was the one who single-handedly killed the top of the arc of the penalty area.

Behind the white clothes, there is the black number 9 of the bean, I saw him enter the big penalty area and calmly shake the attacking Thibaut Courtois, push the ball into the empty goal with his left foot, and rush towards the stands with open arms.

In the 62nd minute, three minutes before Wilmots said 20 minutes, Jordan Lukaku was cut off, Rooney launched a counterattack with a beautiful long pass, and Qiansheng used his speed to insert and catch the ball and single-handedly entered the penalty area to dribble past the attacking Belgian goal and score.

At 2-2, when England was down by two goals, the savior stepped up and scored twice to equalize.

At the same time, Qiansheng surpassed Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored 8 goals in the European Championship, and tied the legendary French superstar Michel Platini, the all-time goalscorer of the European Championship, with 9 goals! (To be continued.) )