235. Half-time classics

The French are worried, as hosts, who don't want to be able to brush their stats on Northern Ireland and break the record for goals by their favorite Michel Platini.

"It's a shame to score goals against a weak team." Said a French fan.

"What if it surpasses Michelle? Remember, it's exceeding, not surpassing. His goal has no gold content. A French football expert said.

"Yo yo yo, is Northern Ireland a weaker team?" An England emperor sneered: "The fish belly team in the eyes of the French faced the powerful Poland and Germany, only lost one goal, and won the upset against Ukraine by two goals, such a team is a fish belly?" I don't know what to say, there are no weak teams in the European Cup. ”

"Gold content? Qian's three goals in the group stage are all worth a thousand dollars, especially the equalizer against Slovakia in the last game of the group stage, which helped the team qualify for the top spot in the group, and Gan still came on as a substitute and finally scored with an injury, which has no gold content? An English football expert said.

At half-time, he topped the scorer list with 7 goals, just 2 goals away from Platini's 9 goals, and it was just around the corner to break the French legend's record.

If that happens, the French will have to console themselves with the number of goals scored.

However, the real connoisseur will not be as naΓ―ve as a layman fan, you know, how many countries participated in the European Cup in the 80s, how many games were there in total, in that era, after the group stage appeared, the semi-finals were played, plus the finals, the European Cup in the 80s was only 5 games, and the intensity and density of the games in that era could not be compared with the current football.

After the expansion of the European Cup, three group games, quarterfinals, quarterfinals, semi-finals, finals, a total of 7 games, high-level and high-intensity games led to 1984, the number of goals in the European Cup Golden Boot has not broken 5, and there is even a strange phenomenon that 3 goals can become the European Cup Golden Boot.

Platini's average goals per game of 9 goals in 5 games is 1.8, so far Qiansheng has scored 7 goals in 4 games, with an average of 1.75 goals per game, which is only slightly lower than Platini, and if Qiansheng scores another goal in the second half, the average goals per game will be two.

On the all-time scorer list of the European Cup, counting from 5 goals, in addition to Platini, only Marco van Basten, Savo Milosevic and Milan Barosh have scored a single goal, and the remaining 6 goals or more are accumulated in previous editions.

Cristiano Ronaldo is behind Platini by one goal, but he is the third alongside Alan Shearer for four years, and he has not yet played the European Championship, and no one knows how many goals the terrifying England nine will end up scoring in this European Championship.

Because after this game, no one will doubt that he will not break Platini's record, but there is an infinite reverie about how many goals he will improve this record in this European Cup.

At half-time, the dressing room in Northern Ireland fell silent, with a record record of five bombs in the first half, and the whole team was physically and mentally exhausted.

"How do you play in the second half? Strengthen the defense, the defensive action is big, it will give the opponent a chance to take a free kick, and the hateful number nine will take a free kick as easily as a penalty. The action is small, the abominable power and speed of the nine can't be stopped at all, plus his terrifying shooting skills...... "Michael O'Neal had a headache, especially when he saw the listlessness of the players, simply, directly admit defeat, kick in the second half, and if he kicks again, I don't know how many goals he will concede.

Assistant coach Jimmy Nicol whispered to O'Neal: "Why don't I go and tell Roy that they won this game, and replace the number nine, after all, they are all from one country, and they can't be too bullying." And with our quality, we can't reverse them at all, they can rest assured that without a number nine, at least we won't concede any more goals, or concede less in the second half. ”

O'Neill frowned and groaned for a while, a little tempted, and he asked softly: "There are staff members, will it be considered as match-fixing?" ”

"How can it be match-fixing, anyone with a discerning eye can see that we have lost, and the second half is just a matter of losing more and losing less. We just do that to avoid losing even more ugly. Nichol said: "Besides, I heard that the dry injury is good, and Roy doesn't want him to be injured and affect the quarterfinals." ”

O'Neill nodded and said, "Okay, you go talk to Roy or his assistant coach Gary." ”

Outside the England dressing room, Roy Hodgson and Gary Neville looked at each other and knew the suggestion was quite appealing.

The 5-0 score was enough to ensure that the Three Lions reached the quarter-finals, and the second half was completely routine, even if Qiansheng was not there, England's individual and overall strength was still above Northern Ireland, and there was no fear that Northern Ireland could score six goals in the second half to reverse them.

Today's dry life is the super thigh of the Three Lions, whether England can go further, or even win the first European Cup, a healthy dry life is very important.

Although Qiansheng recovered from injury, for the sake of insurance, I am afraid that if he continues to stay on the field, the players of Northern Ireland will make a black hand, or the injury will recur, it will be more than worth the loss.

Nicol returned to the dressing room with a smile on his face, and after Hodgson and Neville consulted, it was decided to replace the dry boy with Harry Kane and keep the formation unchanged.

However, the sudden replacement of a cadre who is in good shape, without a reasonable explanation, will make the players dissatisfied, and will cause discord among the generals. Especially the status of Qiansheng, that is the boss of their FA begging someone to join the England national team, as the coach Hodgson did not dare to take care of Qiansheng, so whether it was to arrange tactics or arrange personnel, he had to negotiate with Qiansheng. Note that it is a consultation, not an order.

After listening to Hodgson's thoughts, the dry students who were called out by Neville were silent, and Hodgson and Neville were very nervous, deeply afraid that they would cause the dry students to be dissatisfied, and they knew that if they continued to stay on the court, the dry students had a great hope of setting that record. If he is replaced, he will be dissatisfied, especially the fans on the pitch who want to see him break the record, and it will be troublesome.

"Okay, but for one time." Qiansheng said indifferently.

He wasn't really interested in breaking the record or anything, and the reason why he agreed to go down was because the opponent's strength was too weak and he was not interested in playing.

Qiansheng was already struggling with whether to kick it down, but Hodgson's words happened to hit the nail on the head, so he agreed to replace Hodgson with him, and the old man owed him a favor.

In the second half, when Kane sat on the bench and drank water leisurely, Kane was excited to move his body on the field, O'Neill almost cried, and the English fans on the field were in an uproar.

"Well done, Jimmy." O'Neill happily patted Assistant Nichol on the shoulder. In the case of conceding a big goal, he was so happy, such a strange manager, and Northern Ireland was the only one.

"Why are you down?"

"Are you hurt again?"

"Oh my God, I'm waiting to see you break the French record in the second half!"

England fans talked a lot, and they couldn't understand why Qiansheng left the game so early.

Alan Shearer said with some confusion: "What's going on?" Could it be that Qian is injured? ”

Martin Taylor frowned slightly, he was also puzzled, but he couldn't guess that O'Neill did the good thing, and Hodgson and Qiansheng just pushed the boat.

"I kind of know what's going on." After a moment's thought, Gary Lineker smiled.

The eyes of the people present suddenly focused on him, and he felt that he had become the focus of the whole audience, and even the focus of the spectators watching this game, Lineker coughed a few times and said with a smile: "If it were me, I wouldn't want to play when the victory was decided." ”

Glancing at the people present, he continued: "This has nothing to do with the player's work ethic, unless the player asks for it, otherwise, with what I know about Roy's urine, he won't do it." However, it is not possible to ask for the end of the game, so it is obvious that Michael may have done something in it. ”

Taylor suddenly realized: "Oh, I see, the 5-0 score has already announced England's entry into the quarterfinals in advance, and even if it is finished, Northern Ireland is not capable of scoring six goals in the second half to reverse the England team that is much stronger than itself." ”

Hao Dong nodded and said: "I feel the same way, the opponent is so weak, if it were me, I wouldn't have any interest in playing with them." ”

Jurgen Klinsmann in the video said: "More importantly, in order to avoid the risk of injury if the overall situation is decided, in order to avoid the risk of injury if he continues to stay on the field, for the sake of the next game, it is necessary to let the important players go off the field, which is also the protection of the core players." ”

Everything, for the next battle.

Seeing the interpretation of the studio guests on the fate of Qiansheng, the audience also understood and understood Hodgson's approach, and the original dissatisfied mood also became happy as the team reached the quarterfinals and focused on the next game in advance.

Although Qiansheng was replaced in the midfield, England did not score again in the second half, and finally ended the game 5-0, but Qiansheng's magical performance in the first half has become a classic in the hearts of fans all over the world.

And Qiansheng also deservedly was selected as the best player of the game by UEFA, and was selected as the best player on the spot for four consecutive times, and Qiansheng deserved to be the king of records.

After the competition, the guests of Huaxia found Qiansheng under the leadership of Liu Xixi, signed autographs, and took a group photo. And Hao Dong and Zeng Zhiwei invited Qiansheng to dinner, and Qiansheng, who had a good impression of Hao Dong, agreed, and the group went to the best Chinese restaurant in Paris for dinner. (To be continued.) )