The personality of the head coach often affects the team more than the impact of tactical changes on the team.

For example, Alex Ferguson's passion, Arsène Wenger's elegance, José Muñerio's arrogance, Josep Guardiola's talent...... The team in their hands often sees the shadow of their manager very clearly.

Roy Hodgson is the quintessential old-school English coach, and with the popularity of modern football pass-and-control tactics, Spain won three consecutive major titles, and Germany, who had a good pass-and-control reform, won their fourth Hercules Cup in Brazil in 2014.

Hodgson is not stubborn, and continental play is the mainstream of European football today, so since 2014, he has been working on the reform of the pass-and-control style of play in the national team.

Any reform is a cyclical process, and the world champion German team has not succeeded overnight.

China attaches great importance to youth training and has cultivated many good seedlings, especially technical midfielders, and the technical geniuses represented by Mesut Ozil and Tony Kroos are the cornerstone of the German team's transformation of passing and controlling play.

In recent years, England, which has begun to pay attention to youth training, has gradually emerged a lot of young talents, and this England national team can become the youngest team in this European Cup, with half of the players under the age of 25.

But Hodgson seems to have forgotten that every country has its own characteristics, and no matter how much the English polish their skills, they will not be able to practice the outstanding small skills of the Spaniards.

Looking at the midfielders selected for the European Championships, except for 30-year-old James Milner and 28-year-old Adam Lallana, the remaining six midfielders are all under the age of 25, and among these people, the most skilled is the relatively unknown Lallana, and he is not the main player in the England national team.

Even the most skilled players in the England national team are far inferior to Germany's Mesut Ozil and Kroos, and Spain's Andres Iniesta, David Silva, Thiago Alcantara, and Koke.

Hodgson, who wanted to become the father of England's transmission and control reform, wasted two precious years, and it was not until the current war with Belgium that he discovered what "skills are not as good as others".

Changing formations on the spot, has always been a taboo, since the tournament has been the main trident of the Three Lions in the quarterfinals such a key game, it suddenly became 4321, although the single arrow is a powerful nuclear weapon, but modern football is no longer the era of individual heroism, Diego Maradona's feat of single-handedly pulling Argentina to win the World Cup is already a thing of the past, the 1994 American World Cup Italy team relied on Robert Baggio to reach the World Cup final but lost, This is the last afterglow of individualism at the national team level.

As the only two world-class duo in the past 10 years, Cristiano Ronaldo and Leon Messi, although they have a soft hand in the club trophy and a monopoly on the Ballon d'Or, have no embarrassment of winning the championship at the national team level, which truly reflects the situation of individualism in modern football.

Even in the club, whether it is Real Madrid's BBC combination or Barcelona's MSN Trident, without the support of star teammates in the midfield, it is difficult for the Mero duo to achieve today's achievements.

Abandoning the more successful trident, the conservative duo (Milner and Lallana), who did little to help Qiansheng, and the decisive and bold Belgian coach Mark Wilmots, were clearly a cut above the older Hodgson.

Belgium's two-goal lead, which they played against England in half an hour, was not luck, but tactical cleverness and courage. In the half-hour contest between the two sides, Hodgson had already lost and had no way back.

Romelu Lukaku celebrated with excitement and frenzied after scoring the second goal against his old Premier League rivals, as if his team had advanced to the semi-finals.

After his goal, the England fan base fell silent except for the frantic celebrations of Belgian fans in the stands.

This is the first time since Qiansheng represented the national team in the competition, as the main force, did not open the scoring, but fell behind by more than one goal.

Except for the last round of the group stage because of the rotation did not play, England was only one goal behind, and after Qiansheng came on the field, he controlled the situation and equalized at the last moment.

But at this moment, Qiansheng, who had no support and could not counterattack, did not stand up to equalize the score when the team was behind as usual, and watched passively being beaten, and the England team, which was incarnated as a three-meow, conceded another goal.

It's not that he doesn't work hard, it's not that he doesn't perform well, if it weren't for his physical assistance in the backfield, so that the Belgians don't dare to attack wantonly, Joe Hart's door is afraid to be blown to slag.

To the England fans who have been silent, Gary Lineker pointed out that they are unhappy with the manager.

It's not terrible to make mistakes, but it's terrible to know that you're wrong, but you don't correct them right away, so that people don't see hope.

Assistant coach Gary Neville repeatedly reminded and pleaded, and Hodgson finally made a substitution to correct the mistake without losing face.

Before kick-off, England used up two substitutions early.

No.11 Harry Kane and No.15 Jamie Walty replaced Milner and Lallana, and the trident finally came out.

Seeing England's substitution, Wilmots immediately waved the flag, retreated across the board, set up buses, and held the results.

Including Romelu Lukaku, Belgium's third line is very compressed, crowding the defensive third, and the increasingly able to read the game knows that the front court is overcrowded and it is difficult to find openings, so he retreats to the midfield position and works with Wayne Rooney to find the opening of the bus through passing.

People all over the world know that the three treasures of breaking the bus, long-range shots, crosses and set-pieces, although everyone in England's midfield has a good long-range shot, but first, there is no shooting angle, and second, a good long-range shot does not mean that it will hit the goal.

As with basketball, the closer you are to the basket, the easier it is to score a goal. The farther away from the goal, the less likely it is to hit the goal, not to mention that the big penalty area is full of people.

Nathaniel Klein and Danny Rose had decent crosses, with the tall Kane moving to the centre after Dryson dropped back to midfield, and Valty looked like a fox for points and spots.

But are the tactics of high and high and crosses useful in the face of the bus-dense defence of modern football?

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