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On the final day of the Group B group stage, the overwhelming headlines were that apart from Spain returning home, England became a hotly discussed team even though they were left out in the pre-match interview.
The French are warning England not to abandon competitive sportsmanship!
The general meaning is that even if you have locked in the qualification, this is the European Cup, you must go all out in every game and don't let Croatia down.
Croatia coach Baric complimented Aldrich in a controlled manner, but the main tone of his remarks was still internal, encouraging the Croatian to give everything in the game!
Destiny is in their own hands.
The Swiss team still has hope of advancing, but the outside world is not optimistic about them at all. No matter how bad the French team's performance is, no matter how unsatisfactory the state is, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, the heritage is still there. In other words, no matter how bad the first-class top team performs
, and there will only be a small chance that the second-rate team will dominate.
The chaos in this group is focused on the fight for the second qualifying spot. Croatia controls its own destiny. As long as they defeat England, they will advance to the top eight.
If Croatia cannot defeat England, then the winner of the match between Switzerland and France will advance to the quarterfinals.
The more confusing possibility is that Croatia loses and the Swiss team draws with the French team. Then, if the three teams share 2 points, it depends on the draw between the French team and the Swiss team, because the Swiss team and the Croatian team are in the third.
The first round ended in 0:0, and the French team and the Croatian team tied in the second round at 2:2. As long as there is a 1:1 draw and Croatia loses to England, the French team can advance.
If it really is 0:0 and Croatia still loses, it may eventually develop into data that competes with other conditions.
On the one hand, Fleet Street reminded the England team not to fall for the French's "aggressive method". They have already qualified safely and there is no need to fight with Croatia!
On the other hand, I have too much time to think about the possible second place qualifying situation for this group.
There is a possibility that has been widely publicized, that is, this group may have a team that only scored 2 points in three games but advanced to the top 8 of the European Cup!
Fleet Street used this to make the public laugh. The English people who have nothing to do with themselves really hope that such a scene will happen. It must be very interesting.
Aldridge has always ignored the media, and the preparation time for the game is not long. There is no time to change strategic arrangements on the fly. This is completely different from on-the-spot command. Changes and decisions of on-the-spot command cannot shake the foundation of the team. The team's preparations change day and night, even more so.
How to self-destruct the Great Wall.
June 22, Stadium of Light, Lisbon.
Aldridge shook hands with Croatia coach Baric after entering the stadium and exchanged greetings. Although the Croatian fans in the stands were nervous, they still showed favor to Aldridge at this moment.
Why?
Because England is in trouble!
Of the 23-man roster, England has made a 10-man rotation!
If Southgate had not retired from injury, I am afraid England would have made the first substitution of the 11-man team!
"England seems to have set its sights on the knockout match against Greece in four days' time. After the final ranking of Group A came out yesterday, England's top 8 opponents were also announced. Portugal escaped death and Spain returned home.
The England team successfully avoided the host country on the way to the knockout rounds, but the Greek team should not be underestimated. Today, except for Terry who continues to play, the England team has a 10-man rotation of players in other positions. As long as Croatia beats the England team, it will
We can successfully advance to the top 8 with second place in the group!"
Aldridge is still standing on the sidelines. There are frequent European Cup matches. If there is a big battle every three days, it will be a very severe test for the players' physical fitness. The England international team has heavy tasks during the season. In addition, in the technical and tactical system of this competition,
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, this is also based on physical fitness. They won two games in the group stage and the opponents in the same group had two draws in the first two rounds. Like an unexpected blessing from God, the main players of the England team got a week to recuperate.
Be prepared for the big battle with the Greek team.
Goalkeeper: James.
Defenders: Phil Neville, Carragher, Terry, Bridge.
Midfielder: Dyer, Butt, Carrick, Joe Cole.
Forwards: Rooney, Alan Smith.
Except for Terry, all substitute players in other positions made their appearances.
After the game started, although the England team still responded to the game with their mainstream tactics, their efficiency was greatly reduced.
In the midfield and frontcourt, perhaps only Rooney and Alan Smith's defensive runs and large-scale interceptions are relatively optimistic.
Joe Cole, Dyer, Carrick, and Butt, these four midfielders are combined together. The system is very clear. Butt defends the midfielder, Carrick sorts out the midfield connection, and Joe Cole is on the left
On the road, Dyer moved forward to the right. Compared with England's main lineup, the wing combination was reversed. On the main team, Beckham moved to the right and Lampard moved to the left, but in the middle of the penalty area when he inserted.
The decline in defensive efficiency stems from the lack of good team chemistry in this lineup, which lacks long-term coordination. Secondly, the decline in the players' running and defensive abilities is most intuitive.
Therefore, although Croatia's paper strength still cannot be said to have an advantage over England's starting players today, its team chemistry and overall combat strength are slightly stronger than England's.
Another decisive influence on the trend of the game is fighting spirit!
This group of substitutes in England also want to perform well, and there will definitely be no problem with their attitude.
However, compared to Croatia's determination and courage to risk one's life and death, it is obviously inferior.
Therefore, the Croatian team put a lot of offensive pressure on the England team after the opening. The England team's midfield and frontcourt encirclement and suppression strategy was full of mistakes in the execution, especially Joe Cole and Dyer's defensive problems. Carrick was faced by the opponent.
The weakness of lack of competition experience was also exposed during the impact.
If Butt hadn't been relatively calm and kept returning to the penalty area to make up for the holes in the defense, the England team might have conceded the ball soon after the start of the game.
The partnership between Carragher and Terry also lacked tacit understanding. Carragher himself had not played in the center back position for a long time. Suddenly he moved to the center back position. It was such a fierce battle, and there were dangers in the cramped situation.
This is different from Aldridge using Gerrard to play forward.
Defenders cannot make mistakes.
Forwards have a very large fault tolerance rate and a higher degree of freedom. In a 90-minute game, they can feel, observe the situation, assess the situation, and adjust themselves. But for defenders, one mistake within 90 minutes is fatal, and two mistakes will be fatal.
disaster!
Aldrich was supervising the game from the sidelines, frowning from the beginning of the game, obviously dissatisfied with the team.
Putting aside the defensive issues, the offensive performance was not ideal because each of these substitutes wanted to perform their own performance and eye-catching performance.
Joe Cole, Dier, and Rooney, these three either stick to the ball too much or shoot when they get the ball.
The frontcourt offensive system is fragmented. After the offense reaches the opponent's backline, there is not even a triangle pass. Strong breakthroughs, long shots, stray shots...
The situation on the field is really "there are no tigers in the mountain", a group of monkeys are fighting for supremacy!
Aldrich wanted to scold them, but thought better of it and held back.
Rooney's four shots were not good opportunities. When he could pass the ball and handle the transition, he chose to do it himself. As a result, none of the shots hit the target.
If he was in the main lineup, he would not do this, because the players around him are more famous than him, and he would not dare to "misbehave."
In the 31st minute, the Croatian team advanced the attack to the middle of the England defense zone. Kovac, the core No. 10, made a back-and-forth pass with Pulsho on the striker, playing a deep threat to the England team. Butt's position was delayed to shrink the penalty area.
With the idea of replacing the ball, the penalty area was empty again. Kovac fired a threatening long shot. Goalkeeper James made a save and missed the ball. The ball bounced in the penalty area and was shot into the goal by Croatian forward Sokota.
"Croatia scored! Sokota helped Croatia take the lead. At this time, the match between France and Switzerland was 1:1. Croatia was in a very comfortable situation. As long as France and Switzerland were tied, Croatia would not lose.
Give it to the England team, then they will lock in the second place in the group and advance to the knockout rounds!"
Aldridge tapped his forehead with a fist and then encouraged the team's morale.
He felt a little helpless in his heart.
When James saved a long-range shot, it felt very stable before he touched the ball, but after he touched the ball, it made people nervous.
It cannot be said that this was an absolute mistake, it can only be said that he did not do his best in saving the ball.
This is England's flaw.
After veteran goalkeeper Seaman left the national team, the England team's goalkeeper position became the biggest flaw.
In fact, apart from the fact that Seaman's technical ability in other aspects is still top-notch in history, except for his late position, which was exposed by his late decline and was easily exploited by opponents, he would not be Arsenal's famous "five veterans in defense".
"one.
However, the goalkeeper after Seaman.
The main and backup goalkeepers currently used by the England team, Robinson and James, are not strong enough to be stable in the middle and upper reaches of the first-class.
To put it bluntly, they have no particularly outstanding advantages. They can do some of the things that first-class goalkeepers can do, but they are not outstanding. However, they occasionally make low-level mistakes that others will not make. Forwards who are nervous, that is
The nerve knife, the goalkeeper's nerve, is the butter hand colander.
The concern about the goalkeeper's position is also one of the considerations for the Three Lions' tactical reform in this European Cup. The defense must be pushed into the opponent's half to reduce the number of opponent's shots as much as possible.
After the Croatian team took the lead, it became utilitarian and wanted to hold on to the victory, so the offensive momentum was not so fierce. After all, their position was very comfortable. Now if they want to eliminate them from the European Cup, they need two changes.
First, there are score changes between Switzerland and France.
Second, England equalized the score.
Both changes must be true at the same time.
The pressure on the England team was reduced and the situation was gradually stabilized, but the offense was still not ideal.
Aldridge didn't scold the players, he just had a sullen face and was obviously dissatisfied with the team's performance.
At the end of the first half, the score remained unchanged.
After returning to the locker room, Aldrich did not comment on the team's performance. He directly reiterated the request from yesterday's pre-game preparation meeting. This time, he explained it in a slow and heavy tone. In the locker room, the players on the field listened quietly. The atmosphere was impressive.
Don't dare to breathe, everyone knows that Aldrich is unhappy and dissatisfied.
It's just that this game has nothing to do with life and death, so it's not about getting angry and angry.
But if he continues to be dissatisfied, I'm afraid these substitutes will have little chance of getting a star in the following games.
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again.
The England team looks like a team on the court, but Croatia has a more hard-working attitude. At the same time, they have to avoid conceding the ball, shrink the defense and rush to grab the midfielder. The England team's offensive team has limited ability to attack tough battles, and it seems to have regained the midfield.
Control, but it is difficult to penetrate the opponent's dangerous areas. They lack a passer with passing penetration, or more.
Carrick is not as good as Scholes, Alan Smith is not as good as Gerrard, Dyer's crosses from the wing are not as good as Beckham's, Joe Cole's footwork is more delicate than Lampard's, but in the overall view
In terms of impact and impact, he seems to be inferior to Lampard.
However, England continued to attack and luck favored them.
In the 63rd minute, Rooney failed to compete with the opponent's defender for a pass, and the pushed ball fell at the feet of Joe Cole outside the penalty area. He dribbled the ball horizontally and hit a long shot, which was touched by the opponent's defender.
Refracted and flew into the goal!
"Joe Cole equalized the score for England! This is a lucky goal, because you can see from the camera replay that if no one blocked this long shot, it would have slightly deviated from the goal range, but with the help of the Croatian
It flew into the goal!"
France and Switzerland are still 1:1, and Croatia is still second in the group in the real-time standings. However, they dare not gamble and leave their destiny to others for almost half an hour. If they maintain a draw, Switzerland and France
Whoever scores the goal will advance to the top 8!
Coach Baric was like a wild beast on the sidelines, encouraging the team to fight back!
The Croatians fought hard!
The English, it seems, are a little timid!
What is particularly obvious is that Joe Cole's defense is useless. When Croatia desperately presses forward with crazy attacks, the England midfield is in danger.
Aldridge kept signaling to the frontcourt offensive players on the sidelines to step back, step back, and participate in defense!
He doesn't really care who gets second place in this group, but he cares about the players' attitude towards the game.
Strategically, you can relax in this game, but in battle, you can't relax at all!
The England team retreated completely and was indeed unable to stop the opponent. When it came to the team's chemical reaction and tacit understanding, England had no advantage over Croatia. Croatia was forced to a 2:2 draw by France, which shows that their overall combat was poor.
The will and strength are still very good. If Trezeguet is whistled for handball, maybe they only need 1 point to definitely advance!
The game came to a turning point in the 76th minute, when the French team scored!
Henry finally broke out and scored his first goal in this European Cup, and 8 minutes later, the second goal also came.
At this time, the match between England and Croatia is still 1:1.
France leads Switzerland 3:1.
The Croatians were completely ruined. In the 80th minute, Aldrich replaced Rooney with Gary Neville, and asked Phil Neville to fill in the backline and partner with Butt to withstand the pressure. Croatia also immediately made a substitution, and Baric withdrew.
Two defenders, replaced by a forward and a midfielder!
Croatia's entire army pressed against the empty backcourt, and England got a good chance to counterattack in the 87th minute.
Alan Smith went to the meeting alone. Forty yards away from the goal, he dribbled the ball forward alone!
However, perhaps because he stopped playing as a striker at Leeds United for a long time, his shooting feeling was really bad. After the opponent's goalkeeper abandoned the goal and ran out of the small penalty area, Alan Smith's drop goal unexpectedly went too far.
It flew out from above the beam, but two meters away from the pillar...
Aldrich saw this scene and sighed while stroking his forehead.
Helpless!
Croatia wasted no time in attacking. After 3 minutes, they made a cross from the wing. The area in front of the goal was crowded. Carragher and James incredibly scrambled for the ball at the same time. James was attacking, while Carragher was planning to head the ball to clear the siege. The two collided.
, he didn’t hit the ball when he attacked, and he didn’t make a strong header to clear the ball. He unloaded the ball in disguise and let the ball fall in the small penalty area. In the chaos, Croatian forward Olic cleverly swept the ball into the goal!
Aldrich lowered his head, feeling that he should be very angry and unhappy at this moment.
However, I feel it is not necessary.
What's there to be angry about when unreliable goalkeepers and unfamiliar and inexperienced defenders make mistakes?
If England's main force makes such a mistake, he should be furious.
Olic became a Croatian hero!
The commentator shouted his name passionately, and the Croatian fans in the stands went crazy.
Croatia coach Baric still roared at the players on the sidelines like a beast, but this was the guidance and encouragement of victory.
He asked the entire team to return to defense, including all forwards, and stop attacking, and prepared the last substitution to delay time.
The England team has removed the arrow forward, and the offensive attack after kick-off is not too strong.
After the attack was frustrated and the ball was controlled by Croatia, Croatia began to reverse the ball in the backcourt. Alan Smith grabbed it twice and then stopped, and the time passed by one minute and one second.
When the buzzer blew at the end of the game, Aldridge walked over to shake hands with Baric and congratulated the other team on advancing to the top eight. Then he turned and walked towards the tunnel.
On another venue, the French team was hit by a bolt from the blue at the Coimbra Municipal Stadium. The players stood on the court in despair after the game.
"Although the defending champion France defeated the Swiss team 3:1, after the Croatian team defeated the England team in the final stage, the final ranking of this group was settled. England had 6 points, Croatia had 5 points, and France had 4 points.
, the Swiss team has 1 point, and the defending champion France, after being eliminated in the World Cup group stage as the defending champion in 2002, today was also eliminated in the European Cup group stage as the defending champion and missed the quarterfinals!"
After the final match of the European Cup group stage begins.
On the first day, Spain in Group A went home.
The next day, the defending champion French team in Group B also went home. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
