199. Three Lions vs. Polar Bears: St. Igor

Filipe Inzaghi, a former Italian striker, wore the number 9 shirt at Serie A giants Juventus and AC Milan, but he was an atypical number nine.

He's not a traditional centre-forward, he's good at catching chances in the six-yard box. Fans who like him consider him to be a sharp-nosed goalscorer who can often score goals when chances are not opportunities. Fans who don't like him think he is an opportunist, often commenting that he is "either in an offside position or on the way to an offside position" and "a killer living in the offside line".

Thierry Henry was able to take advantage of Thierry Henry's ability to tackle the ball, his ghostly off-ball movement and his point-and-shoot skills. This is very similar to the Italian "Spirit Fox" Inzaghi, of course, this is Qiansheng's natural talent as a shooter, so Henry said that he was born No. 9.

After the goal, Qiansheng ran wildly to the corner kick area, turned his back, held the corner kick with one hand, pointed to the number behind him with the other, and then turned around, opened his arms, raised his head and closed his eyes, and listened to the crazy shouts of the fans in the stands.

"As expected! As expected! Martin Taylor shouted excitedly: "Shortly after the opening, the Russian team attacked from the wing, was cut off by Eric, and then England launched a quick counter-attack, Kyle crossed from the right, Harry grabbed the header and hit the crossbar, Harry missed the opportunity to open the scoring. But he grabbed the spot of the ball, and before the Russian central defender cleared it, he kicked the ball into the empty goal with his toes! Just 2 minutes into the game, England's No. 9 opened the scoring to help England take a 1-0 lead! ”

"It's a pity that it didn't break the record for the fastest goal set by a Russian 12 years ago." Gary Lineker lamented.

In the 2004 Euro Championship finals, in the match between Russia and Greece, Russia scored the opening goal by Kirichenko in only 68 seconds.

However, it was Russia that kicked off first, and as soon as they attacked, they scored. England, on the other hand, broke the ball first and then counter-attacked, and there was a time process. However, the first counter-attack worked, and the early goal took the lead, which was very beneficial for England to win the European Championships.

After Paul Merson and Charlie Nicholas scored the goal, they excitedly shouted to Frank Lampard and Jurgen Klinsmann in the video, pointing to the game screen: "Look, this is Qian's strength, a natural shooting machine!" ”

Looking at the goal replay, when Harry Kane jumped up to head the goal, he saw from the picture that Qiansheng was moving behind Russia's No. 6 Alexei Berezutsky, and the ball hit the crossbar and fell in front of Berezutsky.

This goal reflects Qiansheng's accurate prediction of the landing point of the ball, which amazed the commentators present.

Roy Hodgson seemed to have foreseen this, smiling and clapping on the sidelines, while Gary Neville, as well as members of the coaching staff and players on the bench, jumped to the ground in celebration with excitement.

The fans of the Qianjiu Club, who occupied one-third of the stands, kept shouting slogans and the drums shook the sky.

In a luxurious box in the stadium, Qianzhi applauded with a smile, although the dean and his wife did not understand football, but when they saw Qiansheng score, they looked at each other, and felt heartily happy for Qiansheng to play a piece of heaven. Qiansheng's friends danced happily, Ma Liang and Feng Yuyan were even more tearful, only the two of them knew best, Qiansheng's hardships outside were now bitter, and they had become the focus of everyone's attention, all of which made the two feel that the previous hardships were worth it.

Qiansheng, who pretended to be on the sidelines for less than a few seconds, was crushed to the ground by his teammates, and if it weren't for the constant urging of the Norwegian referee, the audience was worried that Qiansheng would be crushed by these strong English men.

There have been many times in history when players who have scored goals have celebrated, either by killing themselves or by their teammates.

Fortunately, this will not happen to Qiansheng, who is called a little monster by Zlatan Ibrahimovich, which shows how good his physical fitness is.

Leonid Slutsky was only annoyed for a while after conceding the goal, and then took advantage of the England team to celebrate, called the captain of the Russian team, Roman Shirokov, to him, whispered for a while, patted him on the shoulder, and said confidently: "Go, be patient, the turnaround will appear." ”

Shirokov nodded, turned and ran back to the field, inviting a few of his teammates to whisper.

Roy Hodgson, who had been keeping an eye on Slutsky, noticed this scene, his eyes twinkled, he touched his chin, and guessed in his heart what tactics Russia would adopt to equalize the score next.

Qiansheng, who returned to the center circle, patted the turf scraps on his body, his face was no longer excited and joyful after the goal, and when he ran back to the half, he found that the Russian coach called the player over, and then the player returned to the field to convey it to other players, and it seemed that the opponent would make tactical adjustments next.

In this regard, Qiansheng secretly paid attention, the more he knew about football, the more cautious his temperament became, and he always remembered what Henry said: "Football is round, until the last moment, you must wake up your spirit, even if you lead to the last second, or keep the tie until the last second, you may lose the goal because of a moment of laxity, and finally lose the victory." ”

After the restart, the Russian player reversed the ball in the backfield, England used his best high pressing, and soon Eric Dill intercepted Denis Glushakov's pass and passed it to Wayne Rooney, Rooney adjusted slightly, and was about to pass to Qiansheng, and found that there were Russian players standing in front, left and right of Qiansheng, no matter how Qiansheng ran, there were three people forming a triangle to surround him in the middle, just blocking the route he passed to Qiansheng.

Due to the distance, it is impossible for Rooney to send a pick-up pass to Qiansheng, because his skills are not yet able to make accurate pick-and-roll passes from short distances.

From the moment Russia sent three players in turn to besiege him according to the position of Qiansheng's running, in the eyes of everyone, it was believed that Qiansheng alone attracted most of Russia's defensive energy, causing the opponent's defenders to be inferior in numbers, and giving Kane and Jamie Walty the opportunity to score.

And Qiansheng has never touched the ball since then, even if he once ran to the midfield, he was besieged by Russia's two full-backs and forwards.

Some people say that Qiansheng doesn't have strong explosive power and speed, as well as physical strength? Russian players don't have it? Even if it is worse than Qiansheng, but after all, it is three to one, and they are very smart to avoid too much physical confrontation with Qiansheng, just blocking the passing route that Qiansheng's teammates want to pass to him.

In the 7th minute, Kane received Rooney's ball over the top, stopped the ball with his chest, shook off Vasily Berezudsky's right-footed volley, and the ball that flew to the bottom right corner of the goal was saved by Igor Akinfeev with a quick response.

In the 12th minute, Kyle Walker crossed to the front post and used his speed to shake off Alexei Berezouski's Walty header to grab the spot, Akinfeev unbelievably close to the crossbar saved the ball, and Walty put his head in his hands with a shocked expression.

A minute later, Rooney sent a corner, Glushakov's header went out of the penalty area, Deli Ali, who grabbed the landing point, shot hard from a long distance and was beautifully saved by Akinfeev, because Ali's shot was too powerful, the ball was not saved, there was a chaos in the box, Chris Smalling grabbed the ball and stabbed it, and was held by the Russian goalkeeper who had been showing bravery, and pressed to the ground. Smalling yelled in annoyance.

In the 16th minute, Ali steals in front, Qiansheng runs to the right, leading away three players, Ali passes diagonally to the left, Danny Rose soars up speed, breaks through Roman Shishkin, because Vasily Berezutsky wants to look at Kane, the unguarded Rose enters the big penalty area and raises his left foot to shoot, and is hit by Akinfeev with a fish jump, and the ball is knocked out of the bottom line with his right palm.

Rooney took a corner kick, and the ball jumped high and fell to the center of the penalty area, and Qiansheng was caught by three people and couldn't jump, at this time, a tall figure jumped high next to Qiansheng and pushed the ball towards the goal.

This tall figure is none other than the Three Lions defender Deere, although his header is not too tricky, but it is powerful and fast, and everyone thinks that this goal must be scored, and if it is scored, it will be judged that Russia will die early.

It's a pity that in today's game, Akinfeev was like a god, and he was almost reflexively stretched out to the right with his long arm on the goal line, and his right palm just stopped the ball from the goal.

Due to the great power, Akinfeev had limited strength in one arm and did not save the ball far away, and the ball fell not far from the goal line, but fortunately, Shishkin, who was standing at the left post, quickly lifted the ball far away and defused a crisis.

After making a perfect save, Akinfeev stood up and raised his arms and shouted, he felt that he was in very, very good shape today, and he had endless energy.

However, he still has some regrets in his heart, regretting that his state came a little late, he couldn't keep Qiansheng's shot, and now the team is still behind, and he has been pressed and beaten, and he still has to lose in the end.

There was a cry of regret on the field, and more of an exclamation for the Russian goalkeeper Akinfeev. In just 20 minutes, Akinfeev saved 4 or 5 must-goals like a divine helper, and his form was amazing.

Many Russian fans in the stands shouted "St. Igor" and applauded in unison, and those who didn't know it thought that it was the Russian team that was leading.

Hodgson felt a faint uneasiness in his heart, and while he was shocked by Akinfeev's bloody performance, he couldn't help but wonder what Slutsky's adjustment was up to.

"What the hell is this fat man trying to do?" Qiansheng looked at Akinfeev, who was talking to his teammates excitedly, and at the same time looked at Slutsky, frowning, and he also felt a little uneasy in his heart.

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