Chapter 284: Blanco

Before the opening ceremony of the European Championship, the news about the England team in the media was not only criticism of Wan Sheng, but also a lot of negative news about the England team. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

If it's 'fabricated' suspicious news, of course, it doesn't have any impact, and the key media reports are the real news.

The situation of the team in recent days has made Wan Sheng feel that God is not against the England team.

England were so unlucky.

As the Sun described, "There is such a team: every time it is a popular candidate for the championship in the World Series, but it always fails early, it is a collection of thousands of favorites, but it breaks people's hearts again and again." It's England. ”

The England team can be said to be full of stars, Wan Sheng is worried about the technical level of the team, but the ability of each player in the team is definitely not bad.

But as one thing happened, the England team seemed to be full of tragedy.

During the week's preparation, there was a player in the team who was injured and determined to be unable to participate in the European Championship, that is, Scott Parker, who had nothing to worry about, Parker was only a fringe player in the midfield, and it was difficult to say whether he could play, and the impact of being injured and not being able to play was not great.

However, on the morning of 8 June, during the team's warm-up training, Frank Lampard was injured again.

Frank Lampard's injury is not serious, but he will certainly not be able to play in the European Championships.

After Frank Lampard announced his withdrawal from the European Championship due to injury, Wan Sheng also began to have a headache, two players were injured, it seemed that it was nothing, but Lampard and Parker were both midfielders, and there were two less midfielders at once, and it became a problem for the midfielder to send defensive players.

If only two backs are injured, Wan Sheng will not be so worried, the forward line is also a place to pay attention to, Rooney is considered a 'talented striker', but it was not until a few days after preparation and training that Wan Sheng did not know that Rooney said that UEFA was banned and could not play in the first two games of the group stage.

Le Monde Sport jokingly commented, "Could there be such an extreme assumption that by the time Wayne Rooney returns, England will have been eliminated early......

The first game of the European Championship group stage has not yet begun, and England have already had three confirmed unavailable, with Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard considered to be the absolute mainstay.

That's England's bad luck.

Some of the biggest names in English football said, "This is the weakest England team in history." ”

Some media outlets have also begun to criticize the squad that has been called up, with Rio Ferdinand being questioned being the exclusion and Barry's failure to make the squad.

'If it had Rio Ferdinand and Barry, the England squad wouldn't have been as tight as it seemed.

Some media reporters analyzed.

England has players injured in the team, and the outside news is not very good, the opening ceremony of the European Championship was supposed to be supported by members of the royal family and government cabinet members as guests, but the British government announced that all cabinet personnel will boycott Euro 2012 as a way to protest the Ukrainian government's imprisonment of Tymoshenko.

The Ukrainian government's imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine from 1999 to 2001 and Prime Minister from February to September 2005, is a political event.

After the parliamentary elections in September 2007, she was re-elected as Prime Minister of the Government.

Last year, on October 11, 2011, Tymoshenko appealed after being sentenced to seven years in prison for opposition prosecutions, and on December 30, Tymoshenko entered the Kachalovsky Women's Prison in Kharkiv Oblast to serve her sentence.

A spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said: "All cabinet members will not be attending Euro 2012, but the UK government is backing England to play at the tournament and we want all fans to enjoy the tournament." ”

At the same time, the British royal family, Prince William and Prince Harry, will not attend the opening ceremony in Poland.

These members of the government, the royal family, because of the political pressure, do not participate in the opening ceremony to support the team, in fact, it doesn't matter much, Wansheng doesn't care at all.

But before the most unlucky time, it was the next thing that made Wan Sheng lament that the England team was 'ill-fated'.

Just as the opening ceremony of the European Championship was completed and all the players were about to leave by plane, striker Defoe received a news that instantly brought tears to his eyes - Defoe's father passed away forever.

Defoe could only return to England with grief.

Although Defoe said that he would return to the team, most people believe that Defoe will definitely not be able to make it to the first round of the group stage.

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After so many unlucky events, Wansheng asked the whole team to actively prepare for the game and no longer care about anything outside world.

The news was always bad for England.

On the evening of June 8, after the England team checked into the hotel in Donbasque, Ukraine, Wansheng opened the 'players' room, so that the 'England wife group' could have a night of 'cheerful' time with the players, and the players who were continuously abstinent could also relax their bodies a little, but the next morning, the whole team entered a tense period of preparation.

They don't even care about the other competitions, they are all preparing for the first round of the group stage.

England's first round was played on the 12th, and there were still two days to prepare, which was relatively sufficient, but the first game was not easy to play, and the opponent was France, one of the strongest teams in the group.

France's path to European Championship qualifying was not easy, they conceded a goal in the final round, and finally drew 1-1 with Bosnia and Herzegovina with a penalty, thus beating their opponents by one point to win the group and qualify.

However, as a European giants and a traditional powerhouse, the smooth qualification of the French team can be said to be expected.

France have won the European Championship twice in 1984 and 2000 and are one of the favourites to win the title.

The current French team, like the England team, is in a 'low period' of strength, since the "golden generation" Zidane, Djokaeau, Deschamps, Henry and Vieira gradually faded out of people's sight, the French team began to decline.

In the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the French team was directly out of the group stage because of the irreconcilable contradictions within the team, which affected the overall combat effectiveness of the team.

"French Football" analyzed, "In terms of lineup, whether it is Nasri, Gourcuff or Cabaye, etc., they have never been able to really take over the class of Zidane and Djokaeff back then, and the overall strength is still far from that year." ”

So France, like England, "has no doubt that the first task at the moment is to qualify from the group." ”

'Luckily, France's encounter with England coincided with Wayne Rooney's ban, and the Three Lions without Rooney are missing a pair of teeth.

However, Nasri, the big player in the team, said in a low-key interview with the media, "We are a young team, unlike England, they have Gerrard, Rooney, Terry and other famous stars to lead the team, and a young and energetic player like Welbeck." ”

French striker Karim Benzema has a different view.

In the entire French team, Benzema is definitely one of the most famous stars, on the eve of the European Cup, Benzema has attracted much attention, in the face of the transfer situation in the European market, Benzema broke the news, "Manchester United's Ferguson has been trying to sign me for the past four years, but I have been refusing, and in the near future, I will not consider a transfer to Old Trafford." ”

On June 11, just as England and France were about to play a big game, Benzema was interviewed again and talked about two points, one is that he turned down Manchester United's invitation, and the other is that he will beat England on behalf of France.

"It's normal to have rumours about my future," Benzema said, "and it's the same every summer, it's rumoured that I'm going to go to this club or that club. ”

"But I've had a great time at Real Madrid and I've never thought about leaving. I know that for the last three or four seasons Manchester United have been trying to sign me and when I was at Lyon they and a couple of other Premier League clubs wanted me but couldn't agree a transfer deal with Lyon. And I wanted to play in Spain at the time, and I can say that I never regretted that decision. ”

"I'm still young, I'm under contract until 2015 and I still want to achieve something at Real Madrid."

'I wouldn't say I'll never go to the Premier League, to be honest, I don't have any particular preference in terms of teams, but the future is far away and that's something I won't think about at the moment.

Then Benzema spoke about the European Championships, where he scored 15 goals in 45 games for France.

"We're in a very tough group and our first goal is to qualify for the knockout rounds and then see how far we can go. Anything can happen on this stage, but we are not afraid. ”

Finally, Benzema spoke about the upcoming 'big game between England and France', "Against England we can't drop points, it's not an easy game because England are always one of the favourites in the tournament. ”

'People always talk about Wayne Rooney being out but England have replacements and their players have experience. But we also have some very experienced players, some very talented youngsters and our coach knows England well, so we will be well prepared. ”

'If we play form, we are confident of winning, we don't want a draw, we want to start the tournament with a win. I can say that we have studied England's style of play very carefully, the scouting reports have been very detailed and we have prepared to the extreme. ”

'In general, the performance of the team is more important and I think France will surprise a lot of people this time, I know Spain, the Netherlands and Germany are all more favourable, but it would be a big mistake to underestimate us.

The French players are so high-profile that the media hopes to interview the England players, but unfortunately there is no news about the English players being interviewed.

England don't seem to be in France's claim at all, they just stay at the training ground or in the hotel, as if they are 'keeping a low profile'.

As a result, some remarks began to appear in the media, such as "the England team is not confident", "the England coach is not confident", and almost did not directly say, "The England team has admitted defeat".

The day passed quickly.

At noon on the day of the game, a media reporter finally saw Wan Sheng, they immediately asked about the 'Anglo-French battle', Wan Sheng smiled slightly and replied, "I saw a lot of reports yesterday, it seems that many people think that the French team will win, and we will lose, I think, this pre-match situation is good for us, people are saying that this game will be difficult, they think that France has a better chance of winning, which will make our players play more relaxed." ”

'When the outside world says that, I say to the players: we just have to win the game in peace.'

As soon as Wan Sheng's words fell, a French reporter immediately questioned, "You mean, England will win?" Can you explain why?"

All the reporters around looked at Wan Sheng, expecting how he would answer this sharp question.

But Wan Sheng said something very stylish, he pointed to the reporter, and wondered, "Is there something wrong with your brain?" England are title contenders and our goal is to win the title and if we want to win the title we have to go to the final, so is the group stage difficult for us? If we lose in the first round of the group stage, we don't have to aim to win the championship......"

The surrounding media reporters were dumbfounded.

They turned their minds for a long time, but they couldn't turn this corner, and when they understood that Wansheng was in '-light', Wansheng had disappeared from sight.

That's the only thing Wan Sheng said before the game.

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The 'Anglo-French War' was about to begin.

It was not a good day, the temperature in the Donbass stadium in Donetsk reached 34 degrees, and the players of both teams entered the stadium to adapt to the field, and they were constantly disturbed by countless small flying insects.

Many people are complaining about the weather conditions in Ukraine, and even some media reporters are not comfortable with it.

But that didn't affect the heat of the game.

The pre-match press conference was full of reporters, and hundreds of people could be seen at a glance, and many reporters made the venue look lively.

While all the reporters waited, Wan Sheng and French coach Blanco entered the venue together, as if they had agreed.

Blanco had a glorious playing career, having been a former France international, a veteran defender with a lot of experience and a well-rounded game, and as a 65-year-old veteran, he was impressively explosive.

Although playing at centre-back, Blanco was a strong attacker with a variety of ways to score and helped France win the World Cup in 1998.

During his career, Blanco won many accolades, such as the French Footballer of the Year, World Cup Defender of the Year, etc., and after retiring as a player, Blanco became a coach, and in the 2008-2009 season, he led Bordeaux to the sixth Ligue 1 title in the club's history.

On December 15, 2009, the authoritative media "French Football" magazine selected the best coach of French football in 2009, as the coach of Bordeaux, Blanco beat Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger to be elected, and after leaving Bordeaux, Blanco began to coach the French national team.

The media believes that one of the advantages of the French team is also in the coach.

Blanco's accolades can't be compared to Wan Sheng, but he has been in charge of the French team for two years, Wan Sheng has only been the coach for a week, and Blanco has a big advantage compared to two years and one week.