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"The players from both teams are on the pitch, so let's take a look at their starting line-ups......

With the frantic cheers and applause from the stands at the Stadium of Light, the star-studded 22 players of the British and French teams appeared on the field!

"There was hardly any suspense in England's start! The traditional 442 formation, the goalkeeper position is sent out of the veteran James, the back line Gary Neville, Leo Ferdinand, Saul Campbell, Ashley Cole are lined up, and there are world-class central defenders like Terry on the bench, and the England team's defensive lineup is dazzling! ”

'With England's old and new generations of heartthrobs on the flanks on the flanks Beckham and Thomas Edison, and Gerrard partnering Paul Scholes in the middle, Frank Lampard, like his club team-mates, has to wait on the bench for his chance!

"Up front, the two new and old generations of England's golden boys, Owen and Wayne Rooney, will be tasked with breaking the French team's record of not conceding a goal for more than 11 months! At the same time, the 18-year-old Rooney also became the youngest player to make an appearance at the European Championships. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Of course, if he scores, he will become the youngest player to score in the history of the European Championship! ”

Paul Mortensen began to introduce England's starting line-up, while Lineker was responsible for introducing France's starting line-up.

"The French team also lined up a four-four-two. The goalkeeper position is still the famous bald goalkeeper Barthes, although he has had a few bad seasons with Manchester United, but in the national team, he is still the most powerful guarantee in front of the French team! ”

'Desailly has been replaced by Hilvert injured at the back, and Thuram will play his 100th game for his national team. Galla and Lizarazu will defend both flanks for France! ”

"France's midfield is the most reassuring, Vieira and Makelele will be a barrier at the edge of the French penalty area, Pires's assault on the flanks will create opportunities for the two strikers, Zidane's position will be the same as when he was at Real Madrid, operating on the wing, but also shouldering the team's organizational responsibility!"

"France have Thierry Henry and Trezeguet, who have played alongside Monaco in the early line, both of whom have been top scorers in their respective leagues, and their characteristics are very complementary, and Thierry Henry's speed and Trezeguet's header will be a huge test for the England defence!"

When the commentator introduced the lineups of the two teams, there was no pause in the stands of the Stadium of Light!

Especially the crazy England fans, who gave the Three Lions the loudest applause and cheers!

The French fans also gave up their elegance at this time and cheered hard for the French team from the stands!

…… Honk!!!

After Beckham and Zinedine Zidane, two Real Madrid teammates, finished guessing the coin, the German iron whistle Merck blew the whistle to start the game!

The much-anticipated Anglo-French war is just starting!

The French team took the lead in serving, and after serving, the French team did not show aggressive momentum, but relied on strong midfield control ability, patiently looking for opportunities!

Several players in the midfield of the England team are pressing hard!

Yes, even Chen Xi, who was never asked to return to defense in the club, also shouldered the responsibility of pressing in the midfield!

Chen Xi has no complaints about this, he knows the strength of the French team, and he and his teammates must spare no effort!

Even though the England team is very aggressive, the French team's passing is still unhurried, even the blue-collar Makelele, who is known as the blue collar of the stadium, can also play the ball in time and in place when facing the sandwich of Gerrard and Scholes!

Santini stood on the sidelines with his hands on his chest and a confident face, his French team has been tested by several major tournaments, and the players' tacit understanding and experience are not to worry!

However, Eriksen on the sidelines looked a little nervous, as the world's highest-paid manager, it means that he is under the most pressure!

Before this European Cup, he had been exposed to several scandals under the excavation of the English media, although the FA supported him in front of the public, but he also knew that if he really wanted to stay in this position, he needed to show results!

A sudden burst of cheers from the stands pulled Eriksen's attention back!

It turned out that just now Vieira suddenly dribbled the ball to the front, and after attracting the defense, he sent a penetrating pass, and the ball reached the feet of Zidane at the front of the penalty area!

What's even more deadly is that Zidane has no defenders around him!

The England team did not set up a special back malaise, which was unreservedly reflected at this time!

Zidane received the ball and turned around in one go, without giving the England defenders in the penalty area a chance to block, directly picked up his right foot and hit the goal vigorously!

"Zidane shoots straight at goal!"

The ball flew straight into the far corner of the goal with a strong external spin!

James reacted quickly and flew to the side, but couldn't touch the ball!

"Wow! Zidane's shot almost grazed the post and went wide! ”

"Just three minutes into the game, Zidane made his first threatening shot on goal!"

There were also regretful sighs from French fans and exclamations from English fans from the stands!

Soon, the French team made a comeback again!

Lizarazu provided the assist on the left and Zidane also pulled to the left, and the two continued to pass the ball together, but the tacit cooperation between Gary Neville and David Beckham, the former Manchester United pair on the right, did not get much good chance.

At this time, Vieira suddenly killed, and Zidane decisively passed the ball over!

Patrick Vieira took the ball back and crossed it with his right foot at a 45-degree angle!

The ball was passed a little back, but Trezeguet, who was already outflanking, came back and flicked his head after a sudden stop!

The ball grazes the crossbar and goes high!

"Oh~~~ Trezeguet's header is a little bit off! The Ballon d'Or killer in the last European Championship final is clearly in good form! ”

Just ten minutes or so into the game, France had two dangerous shots on goal, which put the English fans in the stands under tremendous pressure. This is the defending champion!

This is the king who has won the World Cup and the European Cup in two years!

Even if they experienced a fiasco in the World Cup, their kingly spirit does not seem to have faded at all!

Compared with the French team's attack, the England team seems to have not been able to find their form, Chen Xi and Beckham each sent a cross, but Owen and Rooney did not take advantage of Thuram and Sylvestre!

Chen Xi faced his old league rival Gala on the left side today, and Sagnol has faded out of the starting lineup due to his age. Of course, knowing that Gala can't withstand Chen Xi's attack alone, Vieira and Makelele's two big backs will also support him from time to time!

In the twelfth minute, Chen Xi, who took the ball on the left side, was sandwiched by the Chelsea players of Makelele and Gala!

Chen Xi did not blindly seek a breakthrough, but after continuous shaking, he suddenly stabbed the ball to the middle!

Gerrard, who was responsible for more defensive tasks in this game, suddenly stepped into the front, and when Makelele and Vieira were attracted away by Chen Xi and Scholes respectively, he was temporarily unguarded!

After catching the ball and taking two steps forward, Gerrard directly pulled the bow and shot the arrow, and shot hard!

The quality of the shot was excellent, and the ball went straight into the far corner of the goal!

At this time, the England fans in the stands all turned their expectant eyes to Butters.

The bald goalkeeper had a terrible performance during his time in the Premier League, and at one point he was even approached by a butter company as an endorsement, known as the butter hand, and England fans clearly hoped that he would make a low-level mistake!

It's a pity that Butters' performance in the national team and the performance of the club are like two people, and he flew to the side to scoop this shot out of the bottom line!

"Brilliant save! Butters of the national team can almost be the face of the security door...... Very reliable! ”

The English fans in the stands sighed with regret, especially some Manchester United fans, who really wondered if the bald goalkeeper thought that Manchester United had given him too little salary, otherwise how could he behave so badly at the club?

Gerrard also scratched his head regretfully, he does not have full freedom in the national team like in the club, and there are not many opportunities for such long-range shots!

Of course, England got a corner!

In fact, this is a huge test of the French team's air defense capabilities!

Although the two central defenders of the French team, Thuram and Silvestre, are both good heights, they are all fullbacks who have changed to central defenders, and they are not as good as "professional" central defenders in the handling of high-altitude balls!

Especially today they have to face England's pair of central defenders who are dominant in the air!

Chen Xi also came to the penalty area, and it was Gala who defended him, although this guy was not tall, but his header ability was good, even slightly stronger than the two central defenders.

When the enemies see each other, they are very red!

The two are bitter enemies in the Premier League, and before this game, another war of words broke out between the two.

Therefore, at this time, when the two are competing for position, they will do everything!

Especially Gala, who is not physically dominant, can write an "Encyclopedia of Small Actions of Football Defenders" with the means he uses!

Although such a small action could not bring Chen Xi any substantial difficulties, it made Chen Xi very uncomfortable!

Chen Xi glanced at Gala in disgust, feeling that this guy was very annoying!

Gala felt very useful, in his opinion, Chen Xi's eyes seemed to be an affirmation of his small movements!

Honk!

The referee's whistle blew, and the handsome guy also started his dashing run, and then hit the ball out with his right foot, and the ball flew into the penalty area in a wonderful arc in the air!

Chen Xi and Gala, who were still obsessed with fighting for positions before, also paid attention to the ball at this time!

After judging the landing point, Chen Xi rushed over at an accelerated speed!

At this time, Gala's hand pulling Chen Xi's jersey had not yet let go, and the jersey was pulled out of an exaggerated shape, but even so, it still failed to stop Chen Xi from running to the landing point!

Rio Ferdinand and Campbell were both centre-backs at the back post, making it the most densely defended area for France, while the area near the near post was a little empty in the middle!

Beckham's passes are delivered to this area, and sometimes, the pass doesn't have to go to the top of a team-mate's head, but can guide the team-mate's movement!

Chen Xi and Beckham don't cooperate much, but the judgment of the landing point is his strength.

Before the crossing, with a height of about 1.8 meters, he was often able to score a lot of headers. After crossing over, Chen Xi has this domineering body, and he also has the potential to become an air tyrant!

Gala was still chasing after Chen Xi, and the hand holding Chen Xi's jersey didn't have any intention of letting go!

Even so, Chen Xi was still outflanked in place, and his arm drove over Gala, who had already chased after him, but was half a head above him, and jumped high!

Gala also jumped up, and Sylvester, who was not far from Chen Xi, also jumped up!

The two of them were like sandwiching hamburgers, sandwiching Chen Xi in the middle!

It's a pity that there is obviously a lot of salad oil on these two pieces of bread, and as soon as they squeezed it, Chen Xi's "filling" was squeezed out...... His jump height was a head higher than the two next to him!

Beckham's pass also seemed to be wide-eyed, bypassing Silvester who was blocking Chen Xi and falling in front of Chen Xi's head, all he had to do was to shake his head and push the ball towards the goal!

In the face of Chen Xi's header at such a close distance, even if Butters is in the "super god state" of the national team, there is nothing he can do, the ball bypasses him and flies far away!

The 1.69-meter-tall Lizarazu stood at the far post to block the goal, and in the face of the incoming ball, he jumped up with all his might, but still could not block the ball. Because the ball flew into the goal almost against the underside of the crossbar!

Perhaps Lizarazu could only blame God for not giving him a few centimeters taller!

Boom~~~ The fans of the England team, who had been suppressed by the performance of the French team for more than ten minutes, broke out!

Their enthusiasm is like a long-stored volcano...... Erupt out!

The white ball stirred up a wave of white ripples in the white net, and the white belonging to the England team in the stands was also full of passion!

“gooooooooooooooooooooal！！！ Edison ~~~~~~~~~~~ Chen !! The youngster, who was playing in the European Championship for the first time, scored England's first goal of the tournament! Helped England get off to a perfect start! It was an assist from captain David Beckham! Before the game, the media broke the news that there was a set-piece battle between Beckham and Edison, and although Edison narrowly won, Beckham still retained the right to take the set-piece. This combination between the two proves that they don't need to hurt the harmony for the right to take the set-piece, and the two of them can work together to deliver a fatal blow to the opponent! "Paul Mortensen burst into passion the moment he scored!

In the stands of the Stadium of Light, which can accommodate more than 60,000 fans, the cheers of 40,000 England fans resounded throughout Lisbon and also spread all over the world through TV screens!

In England, in countless bars and squares, England fans are cheering!

...... "The ball is in!" The ball is in! Chen Xi!! Chen Xi scored his first goal in the European Cup! It was also England's first goal of the tournament! Chen Xi also ended the French team's record of 11 months and 1,056 minutes of game time without conceding a goal! In the case that the scene was not dominant, Chen Xi's goal helped the England team score first! At this moment, the supporters of the England team all over England and even the whole world are cheering for a Chinese! Duan Xuan's penetrating voice also appeared on the TV sets of Chinese fans!

At this moment, almost everyone in every corner of China's 9.6 million square kilometers is cheering for this goal!

At this moment, England fans all over the world are cheering for that Chinese!

In the stands, the flamboyant "wives group" of England finally realized that the team had scored, and while cheering for this goal, they may also regret why it was not their husband or boyfriend who scored the goal!

But in the stands, the vast majority of female fans will not have any regrets, because just now it was the cooperation between the two most handsome men on the field!

On the court at this time, these two handsome guys also hugged each other!

After the goal, Chen Xi rushed directly to the corner flag area and gave Beckham a big hug, and then the two rushed to the stands where the English fans were on their shoulders!

Almost at the same moment, both of them raised their arms and waved wildly, signaling the fans in the stands to be a little more enthusiastic!

England fans also bought it, and the cheers in the stands ushered in a new wave of climax!

England fans in all corners of the world are also cheering for these two!

Soon, their teammates joined in the celebration!

When the team is in a bad situation, being able to score a goal can definitely boost morale!

On the sidelines, Eriksen and the bench of the England team were also boiling for a long time!

In front of the other coach's bench, Santini's face was very ugly!

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that in the first ten minutes of the game, it was actually his French team that really had the advantage, but the opponent seized the weakness of the French team's weak air defense and scored a goal with a corner kick!

This made Santini a little helpless!

Of course, he still kept the block he deserved, and he didn't go to the sidelines to shout, because the French players on the field are all seasoned superstars, and they will not be affected too much by this start!

Indeed, after a brief period of frustration, the French players were already in the centre circle and ready to start the game again!

What is conceding a goal?

What is backwardness?

In the last European Championship final, France were still one goal behind Italy until injury time, and they didn't give up at that time, when they all completed an incredible comeback, how could they back down?

There are still more than 70 minutes, which is enough for them to tie or even overtake the score!

As a double champion of the World Cup and the European Cup, the French team has such confidence!

At this time, Chen Xi and his teammates also returned to their own half at the urging of referee Merck.

The excitement of scoring did not make them lose their cool, they knew that the game had just begun, and the French team was not so easy to deal with!

Honk!

The game is back!

After the French team served, they were still looking for opportunities unhurriedly, as if they were not the ones who were behind!

But if England take France's seemingly careless inattentive inverted passes, they're in for a woe!

In fact, the England team is fully armed, but it still can't stop the French team's advancement!

After nearly ten passes, the ball reached the feet of Zidane, who was pulled to the left.

David Beckham and Gary Neville have packed the midfield maestro. It seems that Zidane has no way out but to pass the ball back!

However, Zidane, who was sandwiched between the two, still calmly controlled the ball at his feet. His flamboyant artistry has not diminished in any way.

Zidane's ball-handling skills are not as fancy as Xiao Luo and Xiao Xiao Luo, but every time he touches the ball, every time he plucks the ball, he can make people feel a graceful and luxurious temperament!

His deceptively simple possession of the ball also kept David Beckham and Gary Neville at bay.

Even so, after a few flicks of the ball, Zidane suddenly shook off an angle and sent the ball into the box!

Thierry Henry, the king of Highbury, came running to pick him up, but behind him was Rio Ferdinand, who was the club's opponent, and Paul Scholes, who had returned to the box.

Both Manchester United players knew about Henry's threat, so they withstood Henry behind him, not daring to give him a chance to turn around!

In fact, Henry didn't intend to turn around, only to see him meet Zidane's pass with a light pick, the ball flew up in front of him, and then he leaned on the two defenders behind him, squeezed a small gap, and suddenly turned his body upside down, head down, feet up, and came to a barb on the spot!

This difficult maneuver thrilled the French fans in the stands, while the England fans felt a panic!

Even though Ferdinand risked being kicked to top the ball, he still couldn't stop Henry from kicking it first!

James in front of the goal obviously didn't expect Henry to finish the shot when he couldn't turn around after being pinched, so he didn't react to Henry's shot at all!

Fortunately, the ball finally grazed the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line!

Even so, this ball still shocked the English people in a cold sweat!

(To be continued)