Lisbon, Stadium of Light.

In the first round of Group B of the European Championship group stage, the match between France and England came to the final stage of the second half, England temporarily led 1-0, and a substitution was underway on the field, and England replaced the excellent Rooney with striker Heskey.

When the eighteen-year-old Rooney came off the field, he won the applause of the audience, just now the England youngster received Beckham's clearance, stopped the ball near the midfield and leaned on the French defender Thuram, and then jumped, turned, and accelerated in one go, running dozens of meters to the French team's penalty area, and was finally tackled by French defender Silvestre, winning a penalty for England.

If a penalty is scored, France will be sentenced to death. As a result, England captain David Beckham's penalty was correctly judged by French goalkeeper Barthez and sealed the ball with both palms.

'Eriksen is too conservative, the Everton kid is physically fit enough to hold up the whole game, there is no need to replace him.' George Lee in the stands couldn't understand this substitution.

"He wanted to keep the 1-0 scoreline, let Husky be a fulcrum up front to counter-attack, and the others defended desperately." Chris Casper, next to him, spoke up.

"Do you think so?" George Lee said sarcastically.

"Uh......"

On the pitch, Heskey did not stay up front to press the French backline when England defended, but it was Vassell, who came on as a substitute for Owen, who stepped forward alone, and Heskey was involved in defending in his own half.

"Scholes also went down, and it didn't make much use to replace Hargreaves, the ball couldn't go out at all, the ball could only go to David's side, the French strangled David's side, and the counterattack couldn't be played at all." George Lee seems to have a lot of complaints about the England manager's line-up.

"Well, Wayne Rooney really can't buy it?" Jordi Cruyff is still thinking about the team's reinforcements up front.

"No way, the old man is determined to win him."

"Isn't it okay to raise the offer a little more?"

"It's not just the transfer offer, we need a higher weekly salary, a higher signing fee to compete for teams that can play in the Champions League and the Europa League. But if other players do this, should I give a salary increase to 20 or 30 players in the team? ”

"Well......" Cruyff Jr. still felt pity.

"Jordi, we are rebuilding, not reinforcing." George Lee comforted Cruyff Jr., "Unity in the dressing room is more important than anything else, and only a united team can get us back upstream." ”

"I'm X, look at George." Casper exclaimed.

With 89 minutes to go, injury time was about to fall.

Makelele was brought down by Huskey before France attacked England's penalty area, winning a free-kick on the right of the top of the box.

'Although he was ahead, it was the Frenchman who took the initiative throughout the game, and the only goal was scored by David's set-piece. George Lee saw that England was beginning to line up the wall, and spoke again.

"Although France discharged a 442, Zidane would always move closer to the middle, giving up the left to Henry, and the attack was mostly launched from Zidane and Piret on the right."

"When will we have a phenomenal player like Zinedine Zidane and a world footballer?" Caspar on the side suddenly asked.

"There will come a day when if we can't buy one, we'll cultivate one ourselves." George Lee laughed.

"Lee Winter?" Casper knew about Vanessa.

"Of course, this is Vanessa's greatest wish."

'I would say Lee Winter is an Ajax player now. Cruyff Jr. poured cold water on Lee.

"Jordi, you...... I X...... The ball went in......" Casper interrupted the conversation of several people again.

France scored.

After two steps, Zidane curled a curling ball with his right foot straight into the left side of the goal.

England goalkeeper James commanded the wall for half a day, but could only watch the football fly into the net.

At 1-1, France equalized just before the break.

"He's amazing." Cruyff Jr. told Lee.

"What do you say......"

The cheers of the fans made George Lee unable to hear what Cruyff Jr. was saying.

"I said, he's amazing."

George Lee did not respond to him, but waited for the audience to calm down.

Two minutes later, the celebration of the French team was over and the spectators were seated.

George Lee saw the audience stop and continued to talk to Cruyff Jr. about what happened on the field.

"Behind Zidane, there are Makelele and Vieira as his wingmen, Zidane can completely let go of his hands and feet, and has no worries at all."

"yes, I found out too. That's why you insist on buying Davis and Gravison. Cruyff Jr. replied.

"On the other hand, you look at England here, the midfield has Gerrard and Frank Lampard, the ability of the two to move forward is enough, but the defense, no sequence, no priority, so that England's backline is completely exposed to the French team, if it weren't for Eriksen has been shrinking, facing the impact of Zidane, Pire, Henry and Trezeguet."

'I don't ask Alan Smith to be like Zinedine Zidane, but can he reach the heights of Steven Gerrard and Lampard?'

"How do you know if you don't try, maybe one day there will be a shortage of people in the back, and I want him to play in the back."

"What a situation! Again......" Casper interrupted the conversation between the two again.

The audience, which had just stopped, was boiling again.

Penalty kick! France won a penalty!

Just half a minute after kick-off, Gerrard made a mistake in the backfield return pass, and when a long return pass to the goalkeeper, the ball was passed to Henry who was ambushed in the penalty area, and England goalkeeper James made a mistake and brought down the French striker, and the referee decisively blew a penalty.

"Don't go in, don't go in...... Casper said silently, staring at the field.

As an Englishman, Casper is definitely rooting for the England team.

It was still Zinedine Zidane who came to take the penalty, he swung the ball back, and with a flick of his right ankle, he successfully deceived James and hit the bottom left corner safely.

2 to 1!

The game ended directly after the goal, and the French team dramatized two goals in the final time to turn the tide and complete the comeback.

"Let's go."

George Lee got up and patted Caspar, who was still in a daze.

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A day later, the same Lisbon, the difference was at the Alvared Stadium.

The pitch was boiling again, and it was not known how many times it had happened at Alvared Stadium today.

"The third one?" George Li put down the notebook and pen in his hand, raised his head and asked Cruyff next to him.

It was only the two of them who came to the stadium today, Chris Caspar went to Guimarães and went to the Enrique Stadium to watch Denmark play against Italy, so he didn't appear with them at the Alvared.

"Fourth, George, are you watching the game seriously?"

On the pitch, Sweden's number 10 celebrates his goal. Ibrahimovic raised his arms high as his team-mates gathered around him in celebration.

Just now, Ljungberg, who played well in the game and scored a goal, burst into the penalty area and was fouled and fell to the ground, and the referee blew a penalty.

Ibrahimovic took the penalty and fired a powerful low shot into the bottom left corner, but the goalkeeper judged the right direction but the ball was too fast to save.

4 to 0!

The Ajax striker scored Sweden's fourth goal of the game in a completely one-sided affair.

"What's the point of this one-sided game." George Lee was not at all interested in this match.

"We're here to inspect the players, what do you think of Sweden's forwards?"

"Ljungberg Arsenal will not be sold, Larsson is said to be signing for Barcelona." George Lee continued to start scribbling in his notebook.

Morten-Pedersen, Tromsø

Daniel Braten, Rosenberg

Ernest Derwig, Spartan Sappsburg

Cruyff Jr. glanced at George Lee's notebook and found that it was all players he didn't know, and continued to ask him.

"No, I mean to say the number 10, the one who scored just now, he was very active in this game, the Ajax striker you joked about last time you wanted to pack with Van der Vaart, Sneijder......"

"Talked, 15 million. Ajax agreed. George Lee interrupted Cruyff Jr.'s introduction.

"Whew~, that's great." Cruyff Jr. breathed a sigh of relief, and finally George Lee bought some players in the transfer market that he liked.

"The club has negotiated, but the players don't agree." George Lee didn't raise his head and continued to write in his notebook.

"Ah~, what?" An exclamation.

'The Swede said he didn't want to join a club that didn't play in the Champions League.

"This~, okay." Cruyff Jr.'s YY was shattered again.

George Lee flipped through the pages of his notebook, and little Cruyff saw that a name had been crossed out.

Edu Goodjohnsen

The Chelsea Icelandic striker's name was crossed out by a few lines and replaced with another name that a young Cruyff didn't recognize.

Ori Oscarson, Tremso

Who are these people, little Cruyff clutched at his hair frantically.

In the end, Sweden beat Bulgaria 5-0 in this match.