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As the game was about to begin, Sky TV commentator Graham began to introduce the starting line-ups for both teams. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There were no surprises in England's line-up, but there were a few changes in the backline and midfield: first goalkeeper Thomas. Clarke is still the starting goalkeeper, and the defenders are Gary. Neville, John. Terry, Ashley. Kerr and Hargreaves, midfield captains David Beckham, Wang Li, Steven. Gerald, Joe. Cole, striker Wayne Rooney and Owen were partnered.

Due to Rio Ferdinand's injury, Ashley. Cole had to move from the wing to the middle to act as the team's central defender, while the balanced Hargreaves acted as a full-back, and McClaren was given Hargreaves' good attacking power and was able to support the team's attacking line on the wing, and he also acted as a winger in England's attack.

And in this game, Rooney also became a starter, and his partnership with Owen has been talked about by the English media, and the pair's attacking ability in the World Cup qualifiers is also very good.

Since Wang Li became famous, the England team has been a good partner for Rooney and Owen, because Wang Li will occupy a forward position.

However, in this game, McLaren still put Wang Li in the middle position, and after four World Cup games, McLaren also found that Wang Li's performance in the middle position is the best. Especially when it comes to technical teams, the brunette can make a huge difference in the middle of the pitch because it's not easy for other players to get the ball up front.

And Portugal's starting lineup did not surprise everyone: the goalkeeper was Ricardo, and the defenders were Miguel, Meira, and Ricardo. Carvalho and Valente, with C. Ronaldo and Maniche in midfield as the two forwards, Petit and Thiago Mendes as the other two, and Luis Figo and Pauletta in the forwards.

Not surprisingly, despite the fact that the Portuguese press officer had been stressing that C. Ronaldo's recovery from injury was worrying before the game, C. Ronaldo still appeared in the starting line-up, and it was clear that it had been a smokescreen for Portugal before, and they just wanted England to let their guard down.

It's a pity that this clumsy ploy has no effect on McLaren, and even the most ordinary fans don't believe what Portugal has released.

"This game is about to start, according to many fans, this game will be England's revenge game, and Portugal also said that they want to get back the shame of 40 years ago, both sides are more angry, I think the game will be very exciting, we look forward to the wonderful game."

Following Graham's words, the referee also blew the whistle for the start of the game in due time

England kicked off first, and Rooney played a kickback pass to Wang Li to interlude towards the Portuguese half, and Owen also ran forward.

After receiving the pass, Wang Li did not rush to bring it, but slowed down, waiting for his teammates to run forward and then launch an attack. At the same time, Portugal's attacking players also ran towards the England half, and as England won the ball, their formation dropped back slightly, with Pauletta and Figo all rounding up towards Wangli.

Wang Li smiled at Figo, who had been teammates for half a month, and now they were rivals on the field.

However, it didn't matter, Figo and Pauletta wanted to force Wang Li to pass the ball, so they ran directly from both sides to close the door, while Wang Li simultaneously put the ball forward on his toes, took a Lingbo micro-step 'Kun' footwork, and jumped directly from the two.

Everything seems to be easy.

But

"Oh! Pretty! Allen had just started the game and had passed Figo and Pauletta with the ball, and it looked like he had renewed confidence in his quality and he was in good form today, which is great news! ”

The good news or bad news didn't matter, Wang Li seemed to ignore Figo and Pauletta at all after passing the two, and slowly drove the ball towards the Portuguese half.

At this time, the rest of England's teammates were almost in their own positions.

Seeing Wang Li slowly dribbling the ball, Figo ran back and wanted to grab back, but before that, Wang Li picked up the ball and handed the ball to David on the side. At Beckham's feet, the horn of England's attack was sounded.

After a couple of back-to-back kicks, the ball was picked up by David Beckham on the left side of the box, and after glancing into the box, he curled the ball into the box before the opposition full-back Valente stepped forward to steal his foot.

Rooney!

At this time, Rooney was targeted by a Portuguese defender, he jumped up to head the ball, but his body was not balanced, and after a moment, Rooney headed the ball out of the penalty area, and Wang Li ran up from the outside to get the pass.

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound, Wang Li chose to shoot the moment he received the ball!

"Long shot! Oh a pity."

The speed of the ball was not bad, but because the shot was too hasty, the power of the foot was not well controlled, and the football flew out of the bottom line from the top of the crossbar, but this also shocked the Portuguese players in a cold sweat, knowing that the game had just started less than a minute!

"Just opened, England played a wave of excellent cooperation, from the middle to the wing, after a few passes, Beckham accurately created a chance for Rooney, Rooney passed back to Allen, so that Allen had a chance to shoot, only a little bit of England scored, but unfortunately the ball was still out of the bottom line."

"From this attack, the English players are in good shape today, the whole attack looks very fluid, the players play well together, I think it's not easy for Portugal to deal with this kind of attack."

The game was also developing as Graham said, after England's attack, Portugal played two consecutive advances, but due to a mistake by the opening player, both attacks ended in the middle of the game, and England took advantage of the opportunity to play two more wonderful combinations.

With all the going on, Portugal are in a very passive position and it looks like England are only a matter of time before they score.

Seeing the situation on the pitch, the Portuguese coach Scolari outside the field was a little worried, he focused on the England team before the game, in Scolari's opinion, the team's tactical play is simply a mess, it should be said that the tactics are too simple, which leads to the need to rely on the individual ability of the star to score more often.

For example, Wang Li, David Beckham and others, most of the England team's offense relies on the individual play of these stars to bring this simplistic offensive routine to the extreme.

However, simplicity also serves a simple purpose.

For example, when all the players up and down the England team are in good shape, this simple attacking routine often becomes extremely threatening, because although the Portuguese team knows the way England attack, and even when the England midfielders get the ball, they know which direction the football will pass, but they know it, but they can't stand the accuracy of the pass and the smooth coordination!

It is precisely because of the simplicity of England's attacking routines that when the simple routines are played very smoothly, they can pose a deadly threat! And this threat is very fast.

It's so fast that the Portuguese team can't react at all!

The most important thing is that the England team also has Wang Li, a super scorer inside and outside the penalty area, and it is too difficult for Portugal to win against the England team that plays smoothly.

Scolari knew this very well, so after seeing the performance of both teams in the first few minutes, his heart sank.

What now?

The Brazilian coach panicked, he thought about this question before the game, but he never came up with an answer, because if the England players play well and Portugal do not perform well, the two will become two teams of two grades, and any change in tactics will not be obvious in the face of strength and performance gaps.

At this point, Scolari can only hope that the players can find their form as soon as possible.

But it didn't take long for the Brazilian coach to worry.

Taking advantage of Portugal's poor performance in the opening game, England's attack became more and more violent, and the players wanted to take Portugal by surprise at the beginning, and scoring early was of course the best result.

In the 7th minute of the game, Joe. Kerr completed a diagonal pass on the left side and accurately sent the ball to the feet of the old golden boy Owen outside the penalty area.

At this time, Wang Li was next to two Portuguese defenders, namely Carvalho and Thiago. Mendes, both of whom are familiar with Wang Li, they are both Wang Li's teammates at Chelsea, and now the two are planning to give Wang Li a clearance outside the box to grab the ball.

Wang Li attaches great importance to the defense of these two people, because they are both former teammates, they are very familiar with Wang Li's skills, and it is impossible to make reckless steals.

Wang Li knew this, so when he saw the two of them suddenly stepping forward, he immediately woke up in his heart.

Sure enough, Carvalho rushed from his flank, sealing the angle from Wangli's position to the goal, followed by Thiago. Mendes posted from behind, he didn't intend to steal at all, just followed the position, so that Wang Li did not have the space to pass to the right, at this time, as long as Wang Li chose to pass, then his ball was likely to be directly cut off by one of Thiago and Carvalho.

Although Wang Li has Ling Bo's micro-stepping method, his body method is not a way to dribble the ball, and it is not easy for him to take the ball out of the encirclement.

But Wang Li has already been vigilant.

He did not directly dribble the ball, but the first to protect the ball, to ensure that the ball was not directly stealed, after that, he kicked on the lower edge of the football, and used the internal martial arts, the basic 'sticky' word, the football violated the laws of mechanics like Wang Li's right foot, directly rushed out of the encirclement, and then Wang Li lightly put the ball forward, and he followed with Ling Bo's micro-step.

This scene shocked all the fans in the audience.

"Oh my God! Allen's dribbling was so beautiful" Even Graham was shocked by the pass.

Of course, this is not the point, the point is that after rushing out of the bag of Carvalho and Mendes, Wang Li has space to shoot, but he does not choose to shoot directly.

This angle deviates too much from the goal, the direct shot is saved, or the probability of flying out of the bottom line is too great, Wang Li does not want to take risks, in the process of dribbling the ball towards the bottom line, he aimed at the direction of the penalty area, but kicked the ball in the direction of the small penalty area.

The ball was so fast that it crossed the flanks of the two Portuguese defenders and appeared on the line of the penalty area almost instantaneously.

There is no doubt that in the face of such a fast pass, Owen and Rooney couldn't react at all, and by the time they turned around to chase the ball, it was already too late. But Wang Li didn't pass the ball to them, but - Joe. Cole!!!

Compared with Rooney and Owen, Joe. Cole and Wang Li have a much more tacit understanding, when the Chelsea team is often training, he and Wang Li practice on the court, when he sees Wang Li towards the bottom line with the ball, Joe. Cole's first reaction was to rush into the box from the left, and sure enough, Wang Li's ball came to his feet in the next moment.

Eventually, Joe. Cole slotted the ball into the Portuguese goal with an easy push, and goalkeeper Ricardo, who was still on the left, could only watch as the ball rolled close to the goal.

“goooal！！！ Joe. Cole opened the scoring for England!! Pretty!! ”

"Allen's pass is beautiful, Joe. Cole and Allen also work together quite tacitly, let's watch the big screen replay, when Allen is running towards the baseline, Joe. Kerr also rushed to the penalty area at the same time, and the whole process of scoring was quite smooth, and the rolling route of the ball was as precise as it had been originally set. ”

"England are ahead! Perhaps the credit for the goal should be attributed to Chelsea, as Alan and Joe. Cole was a former Chelsea team-mate and their combination was developed that year, and McClaren should be grateful to Jose Mourinho. Although the latter has now joined Inter Milan"

In the 8th minute of the game, Joe. Kerr opened the scoring for England and the score became 1-0.

After the goal, Joe. Kerr was very excited, he thought it would be great to score a World Cup goal before the World Cup, but now that he has scored another goal, it makes him feel like he is in a dream.

You know, the top scorer in the World Cup only has 5 or 6 goals a year. Cole has scored 4 goals, which is too efficient!

However, considering that Wang Li scored eight goals with one less game, Joe. Kerr has completely lost all hope for the title of top scorer in the World Cup.

Want to compete in the scorers' charts with that brunette who brushes the scoring machine? That's self-inflicted.

And this goal was also passed by Wang Li, Joe. Even if Kerr has this mind, he still has to curry favor with Wang Li, otherwise it will be difficult for him to score goals again in the future

The goal lifted England's momentum even more, and after a brief celebration of the goal, the two teams were back on the pitch, and when the game resumed, England's attack was still very fast.

Portugal seems to have become defenseless.

At this time, the whole stadium really became the world of England fans, and the number of England fans was already much larger, and they all shouted and cheered for the England team players, and every English player would make an earth-shattering cry when they got the ball, shouting the player's name.

And when Wang Li gets the ball, he will get almost the whole stadium's voice, and even many, many neutral fans have joined in shouting Wang Li's name - "Allen! Allan! Allan! ”

This clamor filled the entire Schalke stadium.

As the game progressed on the field, gradually the players of both teams got into the game, and in the England team, the most outstanding performance was Joe. Cole and Hargreaves have been so good that the left flank has been able to penetrate the heart of the Portuguese defence.

Hargreaves and Joe. Cole is a fast, high-level player, they are both good at playing on the left, they are one of the few players in England who are heavy on the left side, and their performance on the left side makes England's left side much stronger than the right side.

And the right side is weak.

In England's attack on the right side, most of them rely on Beckham's passes, but Beckham did not perform too brightly in this game, except for a wonderful cross in front of him, and his form is obviously not good, at least not as good as when he played against Ecuador, and right-back Gary. Neville's attacking prowess is negligible, and although the United right-back has been involved in attack, his role has been too small.

As a result, England's attack gradually skewed to the left side, and when Wang Li cooperated with his teammates, most of them chose the left side.

On the other hand, the Portuguese team, as the game progressed, their players' condition also improved, just like the media commented before the game, C. Ronaldo became Portugal's brightest player.

His frequent dribbling breakthroughs on the left side of Portugal underlined his technical mastery.

However, under the pressure of the England team, C. Ronaldo did not have many opportunities to perform, most of the time, he was still involved in defense at the back, otherwise Portugal was likely to be easily scored by England, and then the situation was different, and it would be too difficult for Portugal to win the game.

Portugal have that concern, but England don't stop scoring because of their concerns.

When the game reached the 27th minute of the first half, Wang Li received Joe in the penalty area. Cole's lobbled cross, after squeezing the Portuguese defender through the air, slotted the ball into Ricardo's wicked goal with a beautiful upside-down hook.

This goal made the fans even silent for an instant, but a second later - "Ula" was noisy all over the stadium.

Then, Graham got excited: "goooooooooal!! ”

He yelled at the top of his voice, "Allen!! Allen, it's a barb shot! Beautiful, so beautiful! Perhaps this can only be described as a masterpiece of God, and I couldn't have found a better word! ”

'Allen scored the second goal for England with a brilliant barb shot, it was a fantastic start!'

"2:0, maybe this game, England will easily win."

(To be continued)