After leaving the hotel, Zhang Tiehan didn't think about so many things, the most important thing at the moment is the World Cup, and the team came to Germany not to enjoy it, although he felt that this World Cup was really similar to a vacation, and the England team's days were really comfortable, but in fact this was the World Cup.

There is relaxation in the players, but more importantly the game.

If you want to win game after game, you need to train every day, stay in good shape, etc., in short, on days when there are no games, the England team still needs all kinds of training.

During the World Cup, there are a few days between the group stage games, but no team will have a holiday, every team is training intensively, and the England team is the same, this morning was only rested because of yesterday's victory, no players were allowed to drink, so everyone had a good rest after a morning, and by the afternoon all the players had returned to the stadium for training.

Ordinary training is still based on restorative sex.

However, head coach Eriksen pays more attention to tactical training, which is not a small coordination training, but Eriksen himself is thinking about how to make the team play better.

This World Cup is also Eriksen's last days in charge of the England team, no matter what the results of the team, Eriksen knows that he will definitely step down, and he even has to go out, because of this, he hopes to lead the team to achieve better results.

As England manager, Eriksen is still under a lot of pressure.

Now he has an annual salary of 5 million as the world's No. 1 coach, leading the world's most valuable team, if he can't play well, it's useless to make any excuses, he leads a team that can compete for the championship, even if he can't win the championship. At least a semi-final, that's England's bottom line.

The Final Four is not easy.

It is not difficult to appear in the group, but the knockout stage is to meet strong teams, and Eriksen knows that with the current situation of the England team, they really have no advantage against the world's best teams. The reason is that England's simple football is too rough compared to teams such as Brazil, Germany, and Italy.

He has been trying to improve this for several years, but with little practical effect.

There is a saying in China that 'it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice', and this is the case with Eriksen, who has a lot of big stars, but it is a bit of a bit of a bone to find a bone in the egg to find outstanding skills among them, Beckham and Joe Cole have good skills. So they are the wing-backs, and then ...... No, whether it is Rooney in the front, or Gerrard and Lampard in the midfield, the skills are not very good, but Beckham is old after all, Joe Cole's skills are immature, and it is Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney and other players who want to win.

Of course. and Zhang Tiehan.

When Eriksen was thinking about it, he automatically ignored Zhang Tiehan. In his opinion, Zhang Tiehan is a special player, a player who can perform well no matter where he is placed.

But he alone is outstanding, it is difficult to lead the whole team to excellence, and Zhang Tiehan is not a player with excellent skills like Ronaldinho, he also relies on his body to play.

Such. England's real workhorse simply can't pick out a single usable talent in terms of technology.

Eriksen has always wanted to make the English team more technical, to incorporate some modern football colours into traditional football, and to make the team more tactically flexible. But the effect of several years of hard work has not been great, and now in the face of the last World Cup, the things he thought of before are suddenly a little weak.

That's how Eriksen felt after the game against Paraguay.

The six superstars in the front court want to play excellent technical football, but they are suppressed by a group of ordinary South American players who are not well-known, this feeling is not very good, and it also proves that this group of stars under his command wants to play technical football at all.

That is tantamount to using weakness to engage the opponent.

Irrationality.

So just play simple football?

Thinking of this, Eriksen can only shake his head and smile bitterly, many media criticize the technical roughness of the England team, of course, there is a reason, he also knows this, he hopes to have more skills, and he can use techniques and opponents to play, which is tantamount to exposing weaknesses in front of opponents.

The team still can't do this, so what are you trying to do with technology?

Let's just play simple football!

Eriksen decided to give it a try, just to try it against Trinidad and Tobago, to play the simplest football, to use the simplest tactics, no matter how much the media criticizes, as long as you can win, the best result, after all, the football game is the most important thing.

So in the past few days of training, the English players have been somewhat surprised.

Eriksen no longer asks for small-scale coordination, small tactics or anything like before, he just asks everyone to adapt to the traditional style of play in the middle: long passes, rushing and hanging, attacking mainly in the middle, in short, it is divided into two points, one is to use the pass on the two wings and the middle to find opportunities for the striker, and the other is to use long-range shots to score.

As for the use of passing penetration to find good opportunities, this point Eriksen did not mention, really speaking, the cooperation between the players of the England team, even can't play Paraguay, if you really do that, and play with teams like Brazil and Italy, England don't have to fight for any midfield control at all, just directly defend and counterattack in the backfield, because they can't compete for these teams at all.

So they're going to play simple football.

The players also discussed Eriksen's changes to training in private, and then Eriksen asked everyone to play like this in the next game, and many people understood that the manager just wanted the team to play simple football, so let's play like this.

A lot of people think so.

Maybe some people have different ideas, but no one will question anything, Eriksen still has a lot of say in the team, even Zhang Tiehan did not question it, because for the first time, he felt that Eriksen's approach was correct.

After a few seasons, Zhang Tiehan also has a good understanding of tactics and something.

He will also think for himself.

When he started in the team, he thought about how to make the team play better, but he thought about trying to be the core of his own team, and Eriksen gave him a chance, but the last game proved that that style of play was not very good. He himself was good, but the others couldn't adapt at all, and they were all a little out of shape.

The midfield four-man team of him, Steven Gerrard, Joe Cole and David Beckham can't match up with Paraguay's midfield without a famous balloon star, which is very embarrassing.

But there's no denying that it's true.

Gerald is famous. Frank Lampard is also famous, let alone Beckham, but in fact, a player's value is not very related to technology, their value is high because of the table, not because of how good the skill is, the table is often not very related to technology, such as Gerrard and Lampard both have an excellent long-range shooting ability, and can do a good job of defensive interception. And they have a good view of the overall situation, and they can also be qualified in other aspects.

That's all.

In comparison, the average player in Paraguay is actually better at the foot than them, perhaps this has something to do with the environment in which the players grew up, with English football focusing more on the body, while South American football is more about technique.

They are not as valuable and famous as English players, because of the difference in their overall strength. Rather than having a gap in the technology under the feet.

In short, the overall skill of the England team is not very good, so it is worth the loss to play technical football. On the contrary, it is simple football, relying on individual ability to fight, to grab, to take the initiative to attack, so that maybe the whole team can play better.

Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, both have the ability to shoot from distance.

Beckham's cutlass curling free-kick. One move can eat for ten years, and it can always make the opponent helpless.

Rooney's individual ability is quite good, he is very dominant in the box, and he is even better as a second striker than a first striker.

Myself......

In short, Zhang Tiehan thinks Eriksen is right.

These days, the England team has started simple tactical training. This also makes the training a lot easier, before Eriksen has been asking for more reinforcement passing, and now it really means that everyone is free to play, whether it is Zhang Tiehan, Gerrard, Lampard or the two wings, or other players, there are no hard requirements in the tactics, and the training is very active and relaxed.

England have been doing these tactical drills and preparing for the second game.

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At this time, the English media also began to analyze the next opponent for the team, for the English, it is not important to sing the praises or analyze the team's strengths and weaknesses, no matter how good or bad they play, they must face the next opponent, what they hope is that England wins this even, three wins and two games, and the England team can qualify safely, just because in the past Trinidad and Tobago and Sweden match, the two teams fought 0:0, Trinidad and Tobago broke out the biggest upset of this World Cup so far!

In an almost completely unbalanced game, Trinidad and Tobago, who had no advantage at all, completely crushed the Swedish team with a stubborn defense and a steely will.

From Radbeck's furrowed brows to Larson's bewildered expression; From Hislop's fabulous save to Glen's shot to the post.

This qiē phenomenon doomed the unbalanced Swedish team to accept an unpalatable bitter fruit - to be taken a point from them by the weak Trinidad and Tobago! Even more difficult for them to accept is that they have to fight England in the final round of the group!

The Swedes had the advantage in the whole game, but they were never able to open the door of Trinidad and Tobago, although there was a magical performance factor of the opposing goalkeeper Hislop, but the media analysis pointed out that the monotony of the Swedish team's playing style and the final imbalance of mentality were the biggest factors causing this upset!

In the first half, Sweden's fast-paced attack and defense and fierce impact once made Trinidad and Tobago's defense quite difficult. But after 15 minutes, Trinidad and Tobago began to adjust to the Swede's style of play.

Too many long balls from a 45-degree angle allowed the Central American team to have enough men in the middle of the box, while Ljungberg on the left was not in enough form to break through, distribute the ball and pose enough threat, which may have a lot to do with his poor form. Trinidad and Tobago managed to hold on to the first half.

At the beginning of the second half, a Swedish player broke through from the right and caused a foul on the opposing defender Yan Zòng, and was finally sent off.

It was also the first red card of this World Cup.

In terms of the nature of the foul, red cards were no problem, but the mentality of the Swedes began to change, with one more man than their opponents, and they felt it was only a matter of time before they scored. In fact, the game did go in their favour, but goalkeeper Hislop made the Swedes' dreams come to naught again and again, and the impatience began to spread in the Swedish team.

Ben Haque's gamble on a striker gave Trinidad and Tobago a clear signal: fight to the end!

So, in a quick counterattack, the new striker Glenn hit the post with a powerful shot from inside the penalty area, which made the Swedish goalkeeper break out in a cold sweat. Compared to Ben Hack's decisive decision. Sweden coach Radbeck's choice has been slow and inadequate.

Larsson and Ibrahimovic were surrounded in front of each other, while the midfielders continued to attack with long balls at a 45-degree angle, and their few few central combinations ended in failure.

The passing of time only exacerbated the impatience of the Swedes, with Ljungberg unable to cut inside on the flanks and none of the other midfielders trying to break through the opposition with individual breakthroughs.

Maybe the overall coordination of the Swedish team is quite good, but in the face of the opponent's dense defense, what is needed is the tactics of pulling after the individual breakthrough and pulling away the opponent's defense.

In this respect, the Swedish team was undoubtedly unsuccessful. In other words, the work under the feet is always not detailed enough, which is also a key to hindering the improvement of the Swedish team!

This game gave England a lot of warnings!

In fact, England and Sweden are very similar, both teams are rough teams, England's foot skills are also not delicate, and the style of play is also very monotonous, the only difference is that the individual players of the England team are good. In contrast, England rely more on the individual ability of their players to solve problems. Instead of a monotonous offense of the whole team.

But despite this, Eriksen was feeling pressured.

After all, the Swedish team's attack is monotonous and the defense of Trinidad and Tobago is rigidly limited, which is an obvious problem, what about the England team? He did know that England would certainly not be able to go without scoring like Sweden, but monotonous football would not meet a strong team. Isn't it completely confined to death?

But Eriksen knew that he didn't have any more options, and there was no need to suffer from gains and losses.

It's easy to say how to play when you encounter a weak team, and the suppression of the team's overall strength is enough to win, and when you encounter a strong team. With the previous half-baked technical football, everyone in the England team will not play too well, and it really depends on God for the team to win in that kind of game.

Totally conceivable.

But in the end, the England team still has to prepare for the game against Trinidad and Tobago, the name of this team is too unfamiliar, not only the national football team in the World Cup, but even the name of the country is unfamiliar to most people.

Trinidad and Tobago?

How many people didn't know there was this country before this World Cup......

This is the same World Cup newcomer as Ukraine, they are the first time in history to enter the World Cup, for such a small country, it is really not easy to enter the World Cup, you can imagine such a small Caribbean country, how completely the qualifiers have to play to qualify.

In fact, this is also true.

In the North American and Caribbean qualifiers, in the third stage of the semi-finals, Trinidad and Tobago scored 10 goals and conceded 15 goals in 10 games, 4 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses, accumulating 13 points.

In the end, Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the World Cup finals with an aggregate score of 2-1 against Bahrain in the two-legged play-offs.

Entering the World Cup finals is a sign of strength in itself, but Trinidad and Tobago are about to be ignored by the media, and when it comes to Group B, everyone will only talk about England, Paraguay and Sweden fighting for the second right to qualify, Trinidad and Tobago? That's what they came to Germany for.

It's not to underestimate anything, it's really their overall strength is really poor.

They also have stars.

Before the World Cup, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association also accurately judged the bottleneck of the development of football in their country, that is, the lack of tactical awareness, the arrival of Dutch coach Ben Hack has made a group of talented but lack of tactical discipline to find the direction of the Tenidad and Tobago internationals, but this is not likely to bring great progress to the team.

Even coach Ben Hack said in an interview with the media after coming to Germany. 'We're here to learn more advanced football, to play in the World Cup, and every player learns something, so it's a great learning stage for them, especially the young players.

But a draw with Sweden. Make people have to look up at them.

Now they have England and no one is expecting them to draw against England, which is a bit of an incredible.

Although Eriksen is still worried about his team's tactics, which should not have been in the World Cup for a long time, there is still little pressure on England against Trinidad and Tobago, and they are one of the few teams in the eight groups without pressure to qualify from the group.

The World Cup has only been going on for less than a week, and each group has only played one round. But Germany's Kicker has already made a list of 'must-qualify' teams, with England at the top of the list.

That's the way it is in Group B, with England needing just one win in the next two rounds to qualify.

Of course, it is certainly not so easy to win the group, but qualifying is a certainty, and the English media have begun to analyse how England will qualify as group winners, with a win over Trinidad and Tobago giving England six points. If Sweden beat Paraguay, then England will want to fight for top of the group. It's inevitable that we're going to fight Sweden too.

However, whether the first place in the group is crucial depends on the shape of Group A, but no one wants England to meet Germany in the round of 16, which is why many people will discuss the issue of group first and group second.

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On this day, all England arrived in Nuremberg by bus.

Nuremberg was the city where many German emperors were born and lived in the Middle Ages. There is a strong sense of history. Once Germany's toy manufacturing center, known as Europe's "Toycapital", the city still has a unique toy museum, and the annual Nuremberg International Toy Fair is one of the most important trade fairs for the toy industry.

Nuremberg has two sister cities: Fürth and Erlangen.

The railway from Fürth to Nuremberg was the first railway section in German history. This opened a chapter in Germany's industrialization and became the starting point of Germany's industrialization. For this reason, the railway museum of the Deutsche Bahn is located in Nuremberg, but a fire last year almost wiped out the museum's collection.

Nuremberg was one of the central cities under the direct rule of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. It is also for this reason that the Nazi Party tried to use the historical tradition of Nuremberg to smear it with a layer of hypocritical gold, so that Nuremberg became the site of the annual party congress of the Nazi Party in the era of Nazi Germany.

It was here that the Nuremberg Trials, which were held after the Second World War to liquidate Nazi war crimes. After the war, Nuremberg gradually fell into a state of decay and reverted to its role as a regional centre.

England arrived at Nuremberg in the morning of the day before the game, so the team was not in a hurry, and the players were free to move around from morning to noon, also because there were many fewer media who came to visit the game, leaving Munich, the focus of the World Cup, to play against a lesser-known team like Trinidad and Tobago, and there would be a lot fewer reporters.

However, the players still encounter reporters on the street.

In order to reduce the trouble, Erikson still advised everyone not to go out for activities, and everyone also listened carefully to the arrangement and rested in the hotel where they settled, but Zhang Tiehan still went out, because Zhang Dabao and Jiang Chen were going to watch the game, Zhang Tiehan and Zhang Zhenren wanted to make some arrangements for them, so that they could be with Zhang Meiling and others, and at the same time, Zhang Tiehan also felt a little weak, because Lucia was also with Zhang Meiling.

It's good that Lola wasn't with them...... It's a bit messy.

However, this big family came to see their own games, Zhang Tiehan also felt very warm, usually, almost no one cared about football, even his mother Jiang Chen, not to mention Zhang Dabao, now they came to see their World Cup game, Zhang Tiehan was still a little happy, but he didn't have much time to spend on trivial matters, and when he met Zhang Dabao and others, he returned to the hotel and trained with the team in the afternoon.

Training before the game is much simpler.

Eriksen only arranged some fitness training and banned the England Ladies from entering the hotel in the sky, so that everyone could be fit and energetic enough to cope with tomorrow's game.

The next day was fast approaching, and as the clock ticked by, the atmosphere at the Frankish Stadium in Nuremberg was already on fire. (To be continued......)