Nine goals in five games is a record set by French legend Michel Platini in a single European Championship in France 32 years ago, and it has not been broken to this day.

32 years later, also in France, a 15-year-old England No. 9 striker Qiansheng also scored 9 goals in 5 games, and became the all-time top scorer of the European Championship on a par with this great French superstar.

However, in the 1984 European Cup, there were only five games, and the game in which Qiansheng caught up with the record of his predecessors was only the quarterfinals.

There are still more than 20 minutes before the end of the game, and if Qiansheng can score another goal in the remaining time, he will dominate the European Cup scorer throne alone.

Even if they fail to score, if England beat Belgium to reach the semi-finals, there is still a good chance that Qiansheng will break this record. He specializes in breaking records and never disappoints.

I don't know who was prepared, when Qiansheng scored the second goal to equalize the score and ran to the front of the fans to open his arms, a huge image appeared in an area where England fans were, and on the image was a huge white England national team jersey, with a number of 9 on it, which looked like Qiansheng's No. 9 jersey, but under the number, there was a series of English written on it.

"Congratulations to Qian for becoming the all-time goalscorer in the European Cup!" Into the microphone, Martin Taylor read the English aloud with tears in his eyes.

"As I expected, Qian is a genius who specializes in creating miracles!" Gary Lineker said excitedly.

Alan Shearer, who has always been serious, quipped: "If Gan scores another goal, it will be a record-breaking, and I guess the fans must have prepared another image with words like Gan dominating the top scorer." ”

"Haha......" The three of them looked at each other and laughed.

While paring with the legend, he also helped the team miraculously equalize when they were two goals behind, so the best of both worlds, how can it not be happy.

Roy Hodgson saw Qiansheng's goal, "Yay! He screamed and jumped up with excitement like a child.

The coaching staff and substitute players behind him also celebrated excitedly on the sidelines, and Gary Neville excitedly secretly thought: "Calling Gan to join the national team is the most correct and greatest decision made by the FA!" ”

Mark Wilmots shook his head with a wry smile, people are not as good as heaven, blame Jordan Lukaku for his mistakes? This kid almost cried under the comfort of his brother Romelu Lukaku, what's the use of blaming him at this time?

Luckily, it was just an equaliser, not a deficit. It's just a pity that I was so unlucky that I couldn't score more goals.

Wilmots thought regretfully, the limit has been reached, and at this time he can no longer attack, so he can only change his tactics.

He immediately called in three players who had been warming up since the second half: No.15 centre-back Jason Denayer, No.18 centre-back Christian Kabasele, and No.8 midfielder Marouane Fellaini, and replaced Laurent Seaman, Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard in one go before kick-off, with Hazard wearing the captain's armband on Toby Alderweireld's arm before coming off the pitch.

Wilmots's substitution was targeted, with Denayer and Kabasele joining Alderweireld in a central three, Marouane Fellaini playing in the back, Yannick Carrasco dropping back and changing to 541, with Romelu Lukaku being removed from the task of withdrawing to help defend and staying in England's half, waiting for an opportunity to counter-attack.

Don't look at Wilmots's large number of defenders, the four backs are all highly mobile, offensive and defensive, flexible players, once there is a counterattack opportunity, Carrasco and Witsel can accelerate to participate in the counterattack.

Seaman and the other three went off the field, except for the captain Eden Hazard, who was repeatedly injured, the other two had physical problems. What's more, Wilmots is ready for extra time and even for the final penalty shoot-out.

In contrast, Roy Hodgson, who was indifferent to Belgium's troop deployment, seemed to feel that a good situation was just around the corner, and that it was the best choice to respond to all changes.

Picking up Belgium's squad materials, Lineker and Shearer looked at each other, and saw gloom and unease in each other's eyes: Belgium was going to drag on to the penalty shootout.

Not long ago, the Centennial Copa America, the old rivals Argentina and Chile who met in the final after a year, the two sides exchanged blanks after 120 minutes, Argentina's captain, absolute superstar Leao Messi missed a penalty, Argentina fell on the penalty shootout again, and the disheartened Messi announced his retirement from the national team.

You know, Messi is only 29 years old this year, which is the golden age of professional players, but people think of Argentina's three consecutive finals of the major tournament, especially falling on penalties for two consecutive years, no wonder Messi is so desperate for the national team.

No one wants to bet on penalties, it's a game of pure luck and God forbid.

You can solve the battle in 90 minutes, you can solve the battle in extra time, you can't solve the battle with a penalty, God knows if your physical strength and psychology can withstand the huge pressure of not scoring a penalty.

Penalty shoot-outs are undoubtedly brutal, the debate about them never stops, and in the words of the famous Italian star Roberto Baggio, losing the game in a penalty shoot-out is unacceptable to him in any way. In the 1994 World Cup final, his penalty missed became a classic picture in the history of the World Cup.

Among the European powers, which team is the most unreliable in penalty shootouts? Yes, the Three Lions and the Azzurri both missed a total of seven penalties in the penalty shoot-out.

Of course, in terms of shooting percentage, England was certainly worse, with 7 of 14 penalties and a 50 per cent success rate, while Italy were 13 of 20 penalties, slightly better than England.

Belgium, Paraguay and South Korea all hit 100 per cent from penalty shoot-outs, all hitting 5-of-5 from the penalty shoot-out.

From this point of view, if the game dragged on to the penalty shoot-out, England would definitely be unlucky, and it seems that Hodgson did not specifically train for penalties.

Taylor muttered, "I hope I can score another goal, don't kick a penalty." ”

Sometimes, what you are afraid of, what comes, the Belgian team is united, it seems that there are five defenders and four backs, but it is not very passive defense, but seizes every opportunity to counterattack.

Nine-on-seven, facing an enemy with superior defenders, Qiansheng, who used passing dispatch near the center circle of the Belgian half to find the opponent's flaws, felt for the first time what it means to be alone. (To be continued.) )