Frankfurt, Germany, Financial Bank Stadium.

Everyone was looking in the direction of the England goal, where the ball was sprinting past Robinson's hands, flying across the goal line and into the net behind him.

The scoreboard then turned to 2-0, with France leading England by two goals just into the 25th minute of the first half.

French fans cheered loudly in celebration of the goal!

England fans watched silently, silently, not knowing what to do at this moment.

This is the semi-final of the World Cup, almost 100,000 English fans poured into Frankfurt, and more than 20,000 English fans entered the stadium, which is basically the same as the number of French fans.

In the group stage, all three games were won, and it was a victory without suspense.

Round of 16, easy victory over Ecuador.

In the quarterfinals, Portugal was eliminated by three goals.

The team's top scorer Zhang Tiehan has scored nine goals so far, surpassing Ronaldo's eight goals in the last World Cup, and hopes to break the record for individual goals in a single World Cup - the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, France's Fontaine's record of 13 goals.

Outside of the attack, England's front line is also in full bloom, with Steven Gerrard being England's second-highest scorer and having scored four goals so far, as well as Frank Lampard, David Beckham and others.

England's table xiàn is quite strong.

In this regard, the confidence of England fans in the team has increased greatly, even against the French team, they do not feel that the opponent has any ability to beat the England team, they came with the mentality of 'the team will definitely reach the final', but they did not expect the current situation.

Just now, Henry received a pass from Zinedine Zidane. With a backward turn and volley, he helped France complete the second goal!

England was somewhat blinded.

Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that England played too smoothly in front of them, after scoring the first goal for France, they were desperate for an equaliser, but they didn't pay much attention to the defense at the back, so France took advantage of the opportunity to score another goal.

World Cup matches. The two-goal lead is too big!

On the field, the English players were a little dazed and helpless, they didn't expect the game to turn out like this, they didn't expect it to be like this before, but now it happened - in just 25 minutes, they were scored two goals by the French team.

How will the next game be played?

All the English players felt helpless and pressured.

Zhang Tiehan is the same.

Before the game, the whole team was full of confidence, they entered the pitch steadily, and even the team had a sense of ease. It was a good form, but now that I think about it, maybe the team is a little too unserious.

This time, the opponent is France!

France is no worse than England, even if the media said 'age problem' before the game, no one can deny the strength of France, because they eliminated the Brazilian team without any suspense, this is the strength of the French team, in this mentality. When the game is on the back foot, the team has no idea how to react.

As a result, the current situation has arisen.

Two balls behind. In the semifinals of the World Cup, even Zhang Tiehan felt helpless with this kind of score, it was two goals, especially against France, which was not weaker than England, or even much stronger.

……

"2-0, France leads by two goals!"

'Thierry Henry and Zinedine Zidane did a brilliant fit. In the face of the French team's attack, England's defense was full of holes, and after only 20 minutes of the first half, England had already lost two goals, which no one expected before the game......"

'Two goals. Thierry Henry and Ribery, but both goals are related to Zidane, in the French team's attack, Zizou played a role in threading the needle, and the French team with him attacked quite smoothly, and England was a little scrambling in the face of such an attack. ”

"After a two-goal lead, France played better."

"For the England team, what they have to do is to stabilize their position first, and they must not let the French team find another chance, otherwise the game will lose suspense early......"

The narrator is constantly on guard.

The game was similar to what the commentator talked about, England's watch was very flustered, in fact, the two teams played fairly steadily in the beginning, attacking and defending each other, England was not passive.

But in the 10th minute, Zidane assisted Ribery to complete a long-range shot in the left penalty area, rewriting the score to 1:0, and the England team's table began to panic a little.

Since the start of the World Cup, England has been playing smoothly, this time it suddenly started behind, the whole team wants to equalize quickly, but the French team is not a weak team, their finishing strength is no worse than England, and the World Series France has always been able to play very steady, on the other hand, England's football is very simple, the French team is easy to defend, England wants to score, it depends on simple cooperation and the play of stars, it is not easy for them to attack quickly.

As a result, in the game, a goal was accidentally scored by the French team again.

At this time, the England players were a little flustered, two goals behind, this situation in the World Cup semi-finals to catch up how difficult it is, in the history of the World Cup, there are only a handful of games to tie two goals behind, England players are a little flustered, the game is even worse.

Sidelines.

England manager Christian Eriksen has long been standing on the edge of the pitch, and he is constantly shouting to remind the players on the pitch to be steady and not to play too panicked, because it is too difficult to score goals in such a disorganized football.

Eriksen didn't expect this to turn out either.

There was not much preparation before the game, as long as there was too little time, but France also did not have time, even less than England, because they played the quarter-finals one day later than England, and they only had two days to prepare for the game.

But Eriksen didn't expect the game to be like this.

He also knows why.

England played too smoothly in the World Cup, but in fact, as many media said, the whole England team is actually not good, that is, with the continuous play of Zhang Tiehan, Gerrard and others, they can easily defeat their opponents again and again.

Now facing a strong French team. When they fell behind first, the players were a little flustered.

This cannot continue.

As long as you can stabilize the formation and play normally with the French team, it is still possible to recover from two goals behind, and if it continues like this, the French team will definitely have to score. Then England won't have any chances.

Domenech, on the other hand, was relaxed.

He didn't expect the game to go so smoothly.

In fact, the French team was not as easy as the England team before, they only qualified in the last game of the group stage, and the qualification was very suspenseful, and then in the round of 16 games, they also fought very hard, they played very hard in every game before, unlike the England team, which has been winning by a large score.

Every victory is hard-won. It also put Domenech under a lot of pressure, and many French media were very dissatisfied with him, until the last game won against Brazil and reached the semi-finals, and the pressure on him was much less.

This is probably called bitterness.

Now playing against the England team, the French team's table is quite good, Zidane is like a god in the midfield, attacking again and again. His needle-threading passing, as well as his amazing technique at his feet. It was very difficult for England to defend, and many times they had to block shots with their bodies to complete the defense.

In just over 20 minutes, France had six shots on goal and had two goals, while England had just three shots and one hit the woodwork. It was also easily saved by goalkeeper Butters.

England was suppressed.

England is not very passive on the field, but the simple offensive tactics have little effect in the face of the French team, and the French team fully plays to the advantages of the team, and their small-scale and subtle attack is played by Zidane. England's defence was like papier-mâché, constantly being breached.

Domenech was quite happy with the situation.

If the game goes on like this, it will be easy for France to win, and he feels a lot more comfortable thinking about the team reaching the final easily.

……

The situation in England is quite unfavorable.

When the game resumed, Beckham hurriedly reminded everyone to defend well, which is not what he means alone, but also what coach Eriksen means, and the current England team is not in a hurry to recover the score, but to do a good job of defending so that the French team can not score again.

If you rush to attack, the game will be even more disadvantageous.

At this time, Zhang Tiehan is also participating in the defense, he is also quite helpless, after more than 20 minutes of the game, he also had to say admiration to Zidane, in fact, before the game started, he didn't think Zidane had anything powerful, he was quite confident in his own strength, in his opinion, Zidane is a player similar to the Italian team's Pirlo, a core midfielder with outstanding skills, that's all.

But now he doesn't see it that way.

Compared with Pirlo, Zidane can definitely do better, his skills are absolutely master-level, few players can grab his ball, Zhang Tiehan defended twice in the past, but he couldn't directly cut off his ball, and he couldn't use 'see through', mainly because Zidane didn't give him a chance to steal at all when he protected the ball, and it was definitely a foul if he used his body directly.

And the football is at the feet of Zidane, Zidane sees that there is no chance, and he will not break through rashly, and he uses constant passing to bring rhythm to the team's attack.

This guy ...... It's so hard.

Now Zhang Tiehan is close to Zidane, after the game restarted, he has been doing this, everyone in the audience knows that Zidane's role in the French team's attack, as long as Zidane is guarded, the French team's attack will immediately drop a notch.

But so far, Zhang Tiehan has only cut off Zidane's ball once.

It was the first time he had encountered such a difficult guy to defend.

……

What he didn't know was that Zidane was also secretly frightened at this time.

As one of the most famous stars in the world, Zidane can be called the ancestor, naturally it is extraordinary, in football, Zidane is very confident, he has always felt that there will be no player in the world who can defend himself, and it is not easy to even make restrictions.

But now when he meets Zhang Tiehan, he feels that his performance has been greatly affected, and even if he was careless just now, the football was directly cut off, and the running position was also affected, although his body was also very flexible. But there is always a crowded 'iron tower' next to it, and flexibility will also be greatly affected.

Ever since this guy stood next to him, he hadn't played anything special at all.

The team's attack was also affected, with no shot on goal for 10 minutes and England counter-attacking once. Almost created a shot on goal.

This guy is Zhang Tiehan?

The guy known as the 'number one scorer' at the moment?

Zidane was secretly frightened.

Whether the other party is the 'first scorer', so far he hasn't seen it, all he can know is that this guy's one-on-one defensive ability is really good, and he has definitely reached the world's top ability, especially when the other party is still a striker, a high-school striker, running over to defend himself closely, and his ability is still very strong...... How is this possible?

He felt helpless.

Thankfully, the team has scored two goals. Otherwise, if this guy had done this from the beginning, I'm afraid it would have been very difficult for the team to score a goal.

On the court, Zidane and Zhang Tiehan have been in a stalemate.

However, in terms of the whole game, England was still in a very passive situation, the French team's attack was quite difficult, even if Zidane was limited, their other players' skills and performance were not comparable to the England team. The French players were very agile at their feet, especially Franck Franck Ribery on the left flank. Opposite him is Beckham, Ribery is not as famous as Beckham, but now on the field, Beckham doesn't know how many times he has been shaken by Ribery, and even Ribery runs forward with the ball, it is difficult for him to catch up.

This situation made England's right flank the main point of attack for France.

As a result, Ribery made threatening passes again and again. In the middle, Henry and Malouda kept looking for opportunities, England's formation was chaotic, and the goal crisis was frequent, but fortunately, goalkeeper Paul Robinson was in good shape at this time, and he saved the goal again and again.

Little by little, time passed.

It's in England's goal crisis after crisis. The first half went into stoppage time, and finally the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and the two teams went to half-time.

Many of the English players let out a long breath when they heard the whistle.

In this first half, their pressure was too great, two goals behind, and they were attacked by the French team in a hurry, this first half belonged to the French team, and they were just defending again and again, the offense was in a panic, and in the end, even Rooney in the front court retreated to defend, this kind of game was really depressing.

……

In the England dressing room, Christian Eriksen was also talking about the first half.

Facing the situation of two goals behind, the Swedes are also very distressed, but as a head coach, even if he is not sure at this time, he can not panic, he summarized the reasons for the passivity of the first half, and asked everyone to pay more attention to interspersed running, and more physical confrontation with the French team, do not always let their players pass easily, and do not be full of past defense, and must pay attention to the defensive position at any time.

In the first half, the loss was due to the failure to limit the French team's 'small offensive penetration'.

This is what the French team is good at!

Even South American teams, such as Argentina and Brazil, are not as good as France in terms of small-area passing, receiving and penetrating, because France has a Zidane, who does an almost perfect offensive connection, while England faces this kind of attack, blindly grabbing the ball is always easy for the French team to find opportunities.

That's why France got the first chance to score.

And the right side of the team is definitely a weakness......

Eriksen glanced at Beckham, and finally decided to replace Beckham for the sake of the game, he knew that this would make Beckham dissatisfied, but everyone could see that Beckham could not make any restrictions on Ribery, the two teams were one-on-one, Beckham did not play well offensively, and he couldn't defend it, which also led the French team to achieve comprehensive suppression along the way.

Beckham is out of form after all......

He didn't say anything directly, but he still decided to replace Beckham in the second half, and then he talked about the tactics of the second half, the team is currently two goals behind, if you want to win, you must attack, and the French team must continue to create pressure on the England team with attack, in this situation, the team can almost fight to recover two goals in the second half.

……

Soon the second half will begin.

A number of media commentators were also talking about the game at half-time, and British radio and television commentator Jove Hodley was also talking about the game, and as an England commentator, he naturally supported the England team, and he was worried about the current scoreline, "Now we are two goals behind. Then in the second half, if the team wants to win, they must first stabilize their position and catch up with a goal. ”

He was joined by Lineker in commenting on the game.

Lineker is a legend in England and has won many honours throughout his career, most notably never receiving a yellow card, which is not easy. He is known as the "gentleman of football" and can be called a good story in world football.

Today, he is also a sports presenter for the BBC.

Lineker is also concerned about the current situation, "We played very passively, mainly because our team was tactically suppressed by the French team. We don't have a technical master midfielder like Zinedine Zidane, and in midfield, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard didn't play the desired role, and the team's attack was relatively simple. This made it easier for France to defend. ”

"If you want to change the situation in the second half, you have to stay steady and slowly seek attack."

"You're right, we have to hold our ground first. In the second half we should try to get the players up front to play individually, that's our strength, like Zhang, who is our main point of attack up front, and his individual ability is outstanding, in terms of individual attack. No one on the field can compare to him, as long as he is given a chance. Then there is a chance to score. ”

"In addition, Rooney is also an attacking point, and after the transition between attack and defence, the players at the back should find Rooney's point as soon as they have the opportunity, and we didn't do a good job in that."

'The right side was our weakness, judging by the first half. Beckham is in bad form, he's very poor defensively and he doesn't have a lot of attacking appearance, so I think Eriksen should consider replacing him......

Finally, Lineker is not the only one who thinks so, in fact, only the fans who have watched the whole game. It can be seen that the French team has been trying to attack on the left side, and Beckham has always been bad.

Quite a few commentators also talked about this.

With the commentator's words one by one, time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the halftime time passed, and the two teams had returned to the field, and with the referee's signal, the second half of the game began.

Three minutes into the second half, when Ribery once again easily broke through Beckham, who could only hang behind him after chasing a few steps, and had no way to defend at all, Eriksen made up his mind and replaced Beckham with Hargreaves.

Taking advantage of a dead ball, Hargreaves came on.

Many commentators praised Eriksen's substitution, although Beckham is the captain of the team and is very famous in the England team, but after all, this is a World Cup game, you are not in good shape, you will definitely be replaced.

Beckham, who was substituted, was not in a good mood, but he still returned to the bench and sat there solemnly watching the game, for Beckham, it doesn't matter what he looks like, with his fame, he doesn't need to compete for any main position, not to mention, he has already considered handing over the captaincy position after the World Cup.

In England, he doesn't need to fight for anything.

He cares more about winning the game.

At this time, all the England supporters are also most concerned about the outcome of the game, Beckham was replaced did not affect anything at all, they were all shouting for the team in the stands, many fans shouted Zhang Tiehan's name, they hope that someone can stand up for the team to score at this time, and the players who can score goals, they will naturally shout Zhang Tiehan.

As for Rooney...... In the hearts of England fans, he is too far from Zhang Tiehan.

At first, only a few fans shouted Zhang Tiehan's name, but soon other fans followed suit, and soon England fans began to shout Zhang Tiehan's name.

"Zhang! Sheet! Sheet! ”

This voice became the mainstream of the stadium.

It can be heard clearly on the field, many people envy Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan also heard the shouts of the fans, he was slightly moved, but this is not the time to be moved, he needs to work hard to score goals for the team.

He was still defending Zinedine Zidane.

It's not that he doesn't want to attack, he is not a center forward in this game, he is a midfielder, he must take care of defense, and others are not good at defending Zidane, he has to defend, but defense does not affect the offense, as long as there is a chance, he will still attack as soon as possible.

At the start of the second half, England played calmly.

Like Lineker, the English players know what to do at the moment, they have to play steady, try to get a goal first, and defend well, it's not easy to do both, but they have to do it, otherwise it's too difficult to equalise.

With a two-goal lead, the French team played a solid game, they were not in a hurry, they just patiently went to the game, and while defending well, they slowly looked for attack, this is the French team's style of play.

At this time, the most attractive thing in the audience is the one-on-one between Zhang Tiehan and Zidane. (To be continued......)