Chapter 307: Advance to the Final Four!

"Wayne Rooney scored the second goal for England, and the score became 2-0 and England opened up the gap!"

"It's unbelievable......"

"Almost everyone thought before the game that it would not be easy for the two teams to decide the winner, and both England and Italy had emergency training on penalties, but now it seems that there is no need for ......"

"England led by Wan Sheng, in the face of Italy, calmly, they have maintained the advantage in the second half of the difficult game, this goal seems to be a reflection of England's advantage, Italy's passivity has not been reversed, manager Prandley must have made some adjustments to the tactics, but now, this adjustment has not worked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

"Against a strong England, the Italians don't have a good solution."

"After leading by two goals, the suspense of the game is not much, and it is too difficult for Italy to tie the score at the last time......

"Looking back at the previous England team, it's really hard to imagine what this Chinese did to make England so strong......

With the words of the various commentators, the cameras on the game field also pointed to Wan Sheng, and Wan Sheng was seen waving to the English fans in the stands.

The moment he looked back, his face was full of confidence.

With this confident and youthful face, it is hard to believe that he has achieved results in the professional coaching industry, which is difficult for most other coaches to achieve.

"This is Wansheng, he is always full of confidence!"

"Now he has proven himself in the Euros, England is not a good team to lead, even Capello resigned before the Euros, but he took over on a temporary basis and led the team to play such a good result......"

"Although many people say that the results of the England team are related to Capello's previous coaching, how much does it matter? Perhaps only the English players know. ā€

"Anyway, at least so far, Wansheng's interim coaching has been very successful and the FA has made a successful deal."

In fact, England have achieved their goals.

FA official Brooking was one of the four FA executives responsible for deciding on the appointment of Wansheng.

After England qualified first in the group, he admitted in an interview with the media that he had thought about England's plans to compete in the European Championship in early May, a month before the European Championship. Do you leave after playing the group stage? After the match against Ukraine, should England go back to the hotel to check out and pack up and say goodbye to the European Cup? ā€

"I have this concern," Brooking said. The manager was late in making the appointment, and then all of a sudden, Frank Lampard, Barry, Gary Cahill were injured again. And the hopefuls Smalling, Walker, Rodwell, and Wilshere did not come. It makes people think that we will be out after the group stage. Initially, we all thought so. But now we're the first in the group. ā€

Brooking went on to say that the low expectations may also help England to perform.

'Questions about the quality of the squad have been plaguing England. Is the team strong enough? Can you score goals? Rooney will miss the first two games......"

Now Brooking has a sense of flatness: "Now, we're in the knockout rounds. Now you're starting to wonder what else this team has to offer? If you had told me a month ago how the team is going, I would have grabbed your hand and shook it! ā€

Brooking's statement also represents the general attitude of the FA.

Most FA officials think that the team will reach the quarterfinals at most, and then they can prepare to leave, even if they invite Wansheng, they are just looking for a life-saving straw, and they can't be sure if they can save their lives.

England's three-game win in the group to finish first gave the FA a huge amount of confidence, for which they came up with a large prize money.

This was revealed by The Sun.

'If England win the title, it will be historic and we don't care about giving more bonuses to the players. Brooking said.

In fact, England have already won quite a few prize money.

England have already received £8.2 million in prize money from the FA after reaching the finals of the European Championship with a clean record, and a further £2.2 million in prize money to encourage the team to move forward before the match against Italy, and a further £1.7 million if they can beat Italy to reach the last four.

If England can beat Germany in the semi-finals and continue to win in the final, they will take a further £2.5 million and £6.2 million more, bringing the jackpot closer to £21 million.

It's just an FA bonus.

Other England sponsors will certainly have similar rewards, and each player in the England team will receive a lot of money.

England have such fighting spirit, the encouragement of the prize money is also very important, everyone needs money, and they don't dislike having more money in their pockets.

For ordinary players, the prize money of more than one million pounds is undoubtedly very attractive.

Wan Sheng didn't say anything about it, he didn't care about the money, as long as he was the head coach for one day, he would continue to lead the team forward.

That's all that matters.

Now that the semi-finals have beckoned to the team, Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines, applauding the goal, and the English fans in the stands were even more excited.

The Italian players are not in a good mood.

They didn't expect the game to turn out like this, two goals down? How can it be! They had no idea that such a situation would arise.

Before the start of the game, they thought a lot about the situation and how to play when they were behind, but they didn't think that the opponent could lead by two goals at all, and it was at a crucial moment in the last 80 minutes.

It's a score they can't accept.

So when the game restarted, the Italian players seemed a little impatient, several frontcourt players were a little bit of a solo player, Cassano is one of the representatives, is a 'single-handed' fighter, he has been trying to find opportunities, do whatever it takes.

And then...... He's got a card!

In the 83rd minute of the game, Cassano directly hit his head when he was fighting with Terry, which was a deliberate foul, Terry fell to the ground, holding his stomach and grinning, and the referee did not hesitate to show Cassano a red card.

Cassano also argued with the head coach, seemingly trying to prove that he didn't commit a foul on purpose, but the referee simply ignored it.

Eventually, Cassano was sent off.

Terry lay on the ground for a while, which was not too much of a problem, but to be on the safe side, Wan Sheng replaced him and let Alfred play.

Alfred was in the England squad eight years ago and has been called up by various managers for a long time, but it has been difficult for Alfred to play in a defence with excellent centre-backs such as Rio Ferdinand, John Terry and Lescott.

In this European Cup, Alfred also played for the team for the first time.

Wansheng's expectations for Alfred are still quite high, the only regret is that Alfred's talent is limited, in professional football, which means that he cannot become the world's top defensive player, but as a substitute for the England team, he is also better than most players.

has not played under his own hands, Alfred can stand in the position on his own, and Wan Sheng also feels very relieved.

Then Italy became a 10-11 situation, and some of the small advantages they had just played were immediately wiped out in the case of a numerical disadvantage.

By this time, it was clear to everyone that the winner had been decided.

Italy coach Prandelli made the final gamble, bringing on two attacking players in a row in the hope of a last-minute miracle.

It's a pity that it is too difficult for a miracle to happen, and it is even more difficult here in Wansheng.

Wan Sheng has never liked miracles, that kind of game is beyond his expectations, his team creates a miracle, it is just a small surprise, the opponent creates a miracle is not very comfortable, his purpose has always been to 'stifle miracles'.

At the end of the game, after seeing Italy make substitution adjustments, Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and personally guided the team's defense.

The Italians pressed as much as they wanted, and the team defended well, leaving one player up front was enough to threaten the Italian defence.

Italy don't have the ability to break down England's defence head-on in a short period of time, and with the fact that they play with 10 men in the game, their attack is even less threatening.

Up front, Balotelli has been the focus.

All the media and fans pay attention to Balotelli's play, if there is a miracle in the end, Balotelli will also be a key point, but unfortunately throughout the game, Balotelli disappointed the Italian media and fans, he was defended very dead, and there has been no performance worth mentioning.

By the end of the game, Balotelli had no more shots on goal.

In the final minute, Italy had two shots on goal, both of which were forced to kick and did not pose a threat to the England defence.

In the last three minutes of stoppage time, Wan Sheng simply asked everyone to retreat to the defense, anyway, the team led to lead the ball, Italy 'created a miracle' to score one, and the team was able to win 1-0, under the tight defense, Italy with 10 people wanted to score, it was too difficult, or rather, it was impossible in a short time.

In the anticipation of many media and fans, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

England beat Italy 2-0!

"It's over, England beat Italy 2-0 thanks to goals from Maurice and Wayne Rooney to reach the last four of this European Championship, where they will meet Germany in the semi-finals!"

"England played very well throughout the game, especially a couple of front-court players, Wayne Rooney, Morris, Ashley Young, who posed a huge threat to the Italian defence and scored two goals to decide the game!"

"It's a big battle to remember!"

"A lot of people thought that the two teams would decide on penalties, but Wan Sheng did what he said, 'try to decide for 90 minutes', and he said, 'England will be the winner', and he did it, England did it!"

"Congratulations!"