At the Walder Stadium in Frankfurt, the World Cup Group B match between England and Paraguay is about to begin, and players from both teams are warming up.

In the stands, George Lee ended his Nordic tour and came to Germany to watch the 2006 World Cup.

"Didn't you say you couldn't come?" Chris Casper, who was sitting next to him, asked Lee.

"When I first went there, it was fine, but then I got tired of playing, the island is so big, and it's this thing every day."

"I still want to go." Casper grumbled on the side.

"What are you going to do, isn't it time for you, the technical director, to inspect the players after the World Cup?" George Lee said on the side.

"Helen, didn't they come?"

'She took Winter and the others to Leipzig to see tomorrow's Group C game.

"Hey~"

Casper also thought it was funny, except for George Lee, who was the father, none of the other members of the family were England fans.

My girlfriend's family is Welsh, her biological son is Dutch, and her two adopted sons are Norwegian and Scottish. It's weird.

It would be hilarious if one day George Lee became the head coach of the England national team and met his family on the international stage.

The more Casper thought about it, the funnier it became, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"What are you giggling at all by yourself?" George Lee arched his colleague.

"It's okay, it's nothing ......"

"Did Alan really not start?" George Lee began to ask Casper.

"Judging by the information I got before the game, no."

'Is a midfield combination like David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole really viable?'

"Although Alan is his own person, I still have to say that this midfield combination is very strong, don't you think?"

George Lee wanted to tell him that this midfield combination seemed to be only strong on paper.

There is no thickness in the whole midfield, there is no primary and secondary. England will have been encountering the problem of using the "double German" in recent years, stubbornly using the 442 formation, putting the G4 and L8 in the position of parallel midfield, with Beckham on the right and random personnel on the left.

And that damn striker position, what age is it, it's still a combination of two strikers and one high.

It's hard to win against a weak team, let alone against a strong team.

"If we don't get results this year, Eriksson will be out of class." George Lee suddenly spat out a sentence.

At first, this sentence shocked Casper, but after thinking about it, it really made sense.

England scored as soon as the game started.

Just three minutes into the game, Beckham's set-piece from the left side was driven into the Paraguayan penalty area, and the Paraguayan player accidentally headed the ball into his own goal

Casper arched George Lee, indicating that what the other party said was not accurate.

"Isn't that the lead?"

"Indeed." George Lee didn't say much, after all, England still has an advantage in hard power.

George Lee originally didn't want to watch this game, but he couldn't stop Smith from letting him watch his national team World Cup debut, but Smith didn't start today.

Leeds United have three players named in the England squad this year: Smith, Parker and Mills. None of them got a chance to start today, except for two former Leeds United players on the pitch, goalkeeper Robinson and defender Rio Ferdinand.

The game on the field, after England took the lead, did not have a good chance to extend the score.

You can only use long-range shots to threaten the opponent's goal, but the effect is not good. Beckham took set-pieces, while Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard both hit the ball and even the tallest Crouch was pulled outside the box.

"What ...... kick" George Lee sighed after England kicked the ball high again.

"You can't just say that just because Alain didn't play." Casper thought George Lee was sorry that he didn't see Smith play.

"It's useless for Allan to play, it's still what I said, the whole midfield is a mess, no one is delaying, no one is organising. Don't you see? ”

As the technical backbone of the team, George Lee didn't believe that Casper couldn't see it, after all, he still knew his assistant.

"Is there any good idea?"

"Either Hargreaves and Parker come up and play at the back and free up the two central midfielders. Either go up to Carrick and come up to organize the combing. ”

"You're so optimistic about that Tottenham Hotspur midfielder?"

"England's rare technical midfielder, it's not that it's optimistic, it's that England has too few players like that."

"Then buy it." Casper also knows that his team is rich now, and since George Li is so optimistic, it is better to buy it.

"First of all, we have enough Gravisen in the team, and it's a bit of a waste to buy him as a substitute. What's more, people are going to wear red autumn coats next season. ”

"Liverpool...... No, is it ......" Casper thought that Liverpool already had Alonso, and now they mainly want to bring in another midfielder to strengthen Sissoko's rotation.

"That's right, the old man has already done it, 18 million, he has made a lot of money."

"Oh~, generous, but it's also his style."

The two of you said a word, chatted and chatted for half the game and passed.

At half-time, they even talked about their team's style of play next season.

Glenschal is gone, Romerdal wants a lot of people, and Delwig's big injury wants to leave the Premier League.

Leeds United were missing a couple of wide players all of a sudden.

Now there are only Milner and returning Lennon left as serious wide players, and Van Persie cannot be considered a wide player, after all, he focuses on attacking the goal, not breaking through on the wing to cause damage.

"If it doesn't work, change the way you play, don't break through on the side, try something else?" George Lee offered a different view.

"How?" Casper is clearly impressed, and what he likes most is that George Lee is constantly pushing new ways of playing in the team, and he can expand his database with a lot of new material.

"The wing is no longer dominated by breakthroughs, but has become a style of play that penetrates layer by layer after holding the ball as the primary condition."

"Uh~" Casper began to gnaw his fingers and think about it.

"In this way, if we lose the ball, we can form a counter-attack faster, press a little more thoroughly, and the defense can go forward. Everyone has to participate in attacking, organizing, sorting, infiltrating ......"

"It's not one carrick that is needed, it's eleven carricks." Casper took what George Lee had just said.

'It takes all the players to be versatile, the attacking players have to defend and the defenders have to attack. Even though we've been doing this for the first two seasons, it's probably better to do it a little bit better. ”

"Listen to Benitez, almighty." Casper immediately thought of the fat man in Spain.

"No, his all-round is the all-round player in a fixed position, and I'm here in all positions."

Caspar nodded thoughtfully.

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At the start of the second half, Christian Erikson replaced Owen with Downing and sent Joe Cole up front, with Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard retained in midfield.

George Lee and Chris Casper looked at each other with disdain.

In the end, through an own goal from Paraguay, England narrowly won 1-0.