Chapter 653: Leiden East is success, and Leiden East is defeat

Crouch climbed up from the ground with a smile, ran towards Daniel, and hugged Daniel, and the other English players rushed forward. At this moment, they were full of confidence in this game - this confidence was brought to them by Xiao Ming using his past achievements, and the goal they scored also strengthened their confidence again - this was a virtuous cycle.

Xiao Ming waved his fist, and with this goal, there was a bowl of wine at the bottom. What made Xiao Ming more happy than this goal was that this offense was completely the result of the drills during this period.

When the opponent's return to defense was very fast, Gerrard would hand it back to Barry to organize. When the opponent relaxed a little, Barry immediately gave the ball to Beckham in time. Beckham made a beautiful pass, and Daniel, who inserted it, completed the wing breakthrough, forcibly broke through the opponent's slightly slower full-back and then completed the assist - Barry organization, Beckham passed the ball, the full-back inserted, and the forward grabbed the point - the players all completed several key elements arranged before the game, which was Xiao Ming's happiest.

"Offset on the side! Grab the point in the middle! Beautiful goals, beautiful ground cooperation! I seem to see Leiden East being transplanted to the national team!" Motson shouted excitedly: "In the sixth minute of the first half, England led 1-0! A beautiful start!"

Hiller laughed and said nothing.

With the goal just now, England's offense is obviously more flexible and closer to the ground attack. The ball rarely flies in the air, but it rolls more on the ground. Barry, Beckham, and Gerrard. Although they are not those players with very delicate skills, their passing awareness and cooperation in running are good. This is also the factor that has been opened in the Premier League in the past decade to absorb more European continental play. You should know that before the establishment of the Premier League and the introduction of a large number of foreign players, players such as Gascoin and Hodel have excellent skills and good passing awareness have always been considered "continental players" and have been distinguished from the unique "island players" in England.

If it weren't for the players who had excellent technical skills, Xiao Ming's tactics wouldn't have been implemented in such a short time.

Xiao Ming off the court immediately slapped the players after the celebration. The game had just begun, and it was not the time to get carried away.

On the other side, Bilic held his chin and looked at the court calmly. Croatia is not a team that wins the ball by defense. There are big loopholes in their defense. Without an excellent full-back, it is the biggest loophole. Bilic also knows this, so he is not worried about this goal. If England wants to compete with them, then they will compete with England to see who can score better!

This is a kind of arrogance. Of course, it also has the fact that the outcome of this game is actually not related to Croatia...

The game started again and Croatia began to organize the offense.

Kranica, Modric, and a midfielder-born Nick Kovac, Croatia's offense is basically completed by the middle, with the two full-backs lacking assist capabilities, and the attack on the flank is more reliant on Serner and two forwards who pull the side. Although Modric is a left forward, he is more involved in the attacking in the middle.

Xiao Ming sent a formation that was actually closer to 4312, and this is what he considered.

Croatia's offense was immediately blocked by England in the midfield. Patton ran back and forth to intercept the opponent's attack, and Barry and Beckham also participated in the attack. Gerrard's position was a little further ahead, but his defense was also quite outstanding.

The four English midfielders running wildly immediately made Croatia's offense seem a little difficult to move forward, but the Croatian midfielder's transmission was still quite smooth. Although it was difficult to hit the opponent within 30 meters under England's defense, it did not give England the opportunity to launch a quick counterattack after stealing.

In the next few minutes, although England intercepted the ball in the midfield, it was unable to launch a fast break smoothly and eventually became a positional battle. Beckham ran out of the gap and made a cross. Rooney headed the ball without being able to top the ball under Kovac's interference and was confiscated by the opponent's goalkeeper.

"Although Xiao Ming used the full-back assist to make up for the shortcomings in the attack on the wing, he made a big discount in counterattacks. Leiden East is a comprehensive team, which is a player they have more comprehensive and various characteristics, which allows them to deal with any situation in the game. Obviously, England still lacks such players now." Motson couldn't help but sigh.

"If there is a Lennon or Downing on the field..." Hiller couldn't help but say.

"But who should I replace? The defense line must not be moved. Among the four midfielders, Beckham's long passes and running are necessary, Barry's midfield dispatch and help in defense are necessary, Patton's sweep in the backcourt is necessary, and Gerald's connection to the midfield is also necessary... None of these four people can be won, and the strength of one midfielder is a fraction of the difference..." Motson sighed. The English national team is not as strong as a club. Motson does not want to admit this, but he has to admit it.

Xiao Ming on the sidelines was relieved. Although the effect was not very good in the counterattack, it was still difficult to block England's attack when fighting the position and Croatia's defense line. Now he has a leading advantage in his hands, so just slowly get it done. The more he goes, the more beneficial it will be to England.

Bilic frowned. England's intensive defense has indeed made Croatia's offense unfavorable. Even if England's counterattack threat is not too great, the one-high and one-fast combination of Crouch and Rooney is also an excellent combination of counterattacks. At this time, the Croatian players were in good shape and did not give England much chance to intercept the ball and then launch a counterattack. However, when the physical fitness declines, the pass mistakes will increase, and England's opportunities will also increase.

Croatia does not have much advantage in physical fitness. England's players have nothing else, but their physical fitness is quite excellent. What's more, Croatia only played a real qualifier four days ago, and then rushed from Macedonia to the UK. The journey is hard work, while England is at home. The only consumption is to play a friendly match. In terms of physical fitness, England definitely has an absolute advantage.

Time flies quickly. England seems to be being beaten by Croatia, but in fact it is not under much threat. Croatia is spreading around the periphery but cannot find too many opportunities. The English players in the stands kept shouting to cheer for the team, and the fans of Leiden East were even more full of pride.

The coach who directed the game was from our Leiden Oriental! Beckham who dispatched the pass was from our Leiden Oriental! Daniel from our Leiden Oriental assisted the first ball! Because there were not many players in England, and Leiden Oriental was considered a nouveau riche among British giants, British players from Leiden Oriental have always been not very popular in the national team. Now, the fans of Leiden Oriental all felt a little proud.

Twenty minutes passed in a flash, and the game was a bit dull. This situation was very common in Leiden East games. Although they played the most gorgeous offensive football, they slowly grindled in time for most of the time, and only burst out attacks from time to time. Unless they were forced to the dead end, they rarely made such a storm-like attack, mainly to save some energy.

Nick Kovac distributed the ball to Serner who was inserted from the right. He was also very angry during the period of time. Although there were many attacking players in the frontcourt, England's defensive formation was very good. They had almost no chance of breaking through. If they crossed the wing, there was no high point in the middle to be able to handle it. If they continued to play like this, they were on the initiative, but they were like stepping on a landmine. I don't know when they would bite the opponent back.

When Serner was about to break forward, he met Cole. Relying on his physical advantage, Serner slowly moved forward, but he could not get rid of Cole who was faster than him. Cole, who was a forward, had some experience in the one-on-one defense on the wing. In the 2004 European Cup, he once made Ronaldo, who had already begun to show off, without any temper, let alone Serner, whose physical fitness might be able to catch up with Ronaldo but whose speed and technology were far behind.

Seeing that there was no way to get rid of the opponent, Serna had no choice but to stop helplessly and pass the ball across to Kranica in the middle.

Kranica took the ball and turned around. Patton immediately rushed over. Modric came to pick up the ball. Kranica passed the ball to him. Then Modric did not stop the ball and directly shot with a long shot!

Modric had to do this, because Beckham was only less than half a meter away from him, which Modric threw away with his sprint. If he stopped the ball, he might be entangled by the opponent. If he was not careful, he might even lose the ball.

This long-range shot was very powerful. Modric had been in Leiden East for more than a year. Leiden East had many heavy gunners. Gerald and Daniel were among the best. Ronaldo's long-range shot was also excellent. Modric was good at long-range shots, and his progress in the past year has been faster.

This long shot was also very good in a hurry. Modric pressed well, and the ball did not float upward. However, after seeing the direction of the ball flying, Modric sighed in his heart - the angle was really too straight, and he was heading for Green standing in front of the goal. If there is no angle in professional football, no matter how powerful the shot is, it will be difficult to break the goalkeeper's fingers. The situation of pulling the goalkeeper into the goal with one person will probably only appear in comic books...

Green made a move to hold the ball, and everyone's eyes fell on him, but this was a subconscious action. No one would think that Green could not catch such a shot.

However, when everyone didn't think he would be unable to take it, Green made a very bad mistake.

Green judged that there was a deviation when he held the ball. The ball came faster than he thought. Then his position was also a little off. After all, the ball was not aimed at his chest. Without holding the ball, the ball hit his left upper arm, then flew out obliquely, slowly flew into the England gate...

The whole audience was silent, and all the English fans looked at the ball that fell into the goal in a daze. It took a long time to let out a collective moan of pain!

Even Modric was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect his hasty long shot to score. Looking at the group of England players around him who looked incredible, Modric suddenly felt like he wanted to laugh.

Boss, you're so lucky...

After reacting, the Croatian players cheered and rushed towards Modric. They also thought they were lucky. When the offense was helpless, the opponent's goalkeeper actually gave him a big gift...

"Damn, this fool..." Xiao Ming grabbed his hair and let out a weak moan.

Venables and Pierce were beside him looking at the field helplessly, then looked at Xiao Ming.

He calculated almost all possible situations and made arrangements. He could not remedy this only if he calculated it. - Can the goalkeeper make a mistake? Even if you know that he was going to take it off at that time, how would you remedy it?

There were mistakes in the midfield and the defender made up the seat, there were mistakes in the defender made up the seat, and the goalkeeper made up the seat, and the goalkeeper made up the seat - the old house was on fire, and there was no help...

The position of the goalkeeper is the biggest cancer in England now. Even if Xiao Ming is a god, it is difficult to change this cancer.

In fact, this goal loss is not a fatal blow. The game is just a draw. A draw is enough to qualify for England - however, this is a huge blow to the psychology of the English players. It is not that they are too fragile. In fact, most of the players among them are famous iron men in the club. However, in an environment where people are always unlucky, even the players with a firm will be affected by others, not to mention that the English goalkeeper does not draw the brain once or twice...

Before, because of his opponent's loss and his high morale that was inspired by Xiao Ming, he immediately fell down, and he fell even harder.

"Just forget it if the ball is lost! Don't worry too much, it's just a draw!" Xiao Ming shouted to the court: "Let's play well! There's still a long time left for the game!"

However, because of his great joy and sorrow, the morale that had fallen to the bottom was not solved by shouting a few words on the sidelines.

To put it bluntly, it was because Xiao Ming had joined the England national team. Not everyone would be extremely convinced by him. What's more, most of the people in the England national team were previously members of Xiao Ming's mortal enemy team. In addition, Xiao Ming announced that he would let Daniel, the direct line of his own line, serve as the captain. To say that everyone is convinced, that is a myth.

Xiao Ming was actually gambling and successfully won the game. With the absolute power promised by the FA, no one could shake his authority in the national team, and no one could question the decision he made, but he also had to risk this situation.

The game started again, and the attitude of the English players in the game was obviously much worse than before. Although Patton was still running wildly in the midfield, Barry was still constantly dispatching in the midfield - they were also the least affected players except for the four players from Leiden East on the court. However, the other players were either weak or even more impatient on the court...

Rooney dribbled the ball and rushed left and right in the frontcourt but couldn't break through the opponent's defense line. Crouch couldn't beat the opponent's defense. If England's midfield performance was not quite outstanding, they would probably appear more passive on the scene.

Even the midfielder who performed best was not satisfactory. Beckham and Gerald are teammates this season. Patton has never cooperated with these people around him before. Barry has cooperated several times, but it is definitely not a tacit understanding.

After all, England is not Leiden East, nor is it the team that Xiao Ming only needs to stand up and walk forward two steps to make everyone nervous.

Before the end of the first half, a Croatia attack left the entire Wembley Stadium silent.

After receiving the pass from Kranica, Eduardo beautifully got away from Patton, who had been overly swept, and then dribbled the ball to the front of the penalty area. Two central defenders in England made mistakes in cooperation. They both rushed up at the same time, leaving two full-backs who returned to defense behind. Eduardo sent a beautiful straight pass, and the ball flew past the two, Olic behind them took the ball. The shooter who played for Leiden East was completely unpredictable. He took the ball into the penalty area with one click. Then, facing Green, who was attacking, he just made a fake shot and real button to get rid of the opponent, and then easily pushed the ball into the empty goal...

"Two to one! Croatia overtakes the score! This goal happened in the 44th minute, and the goal was Olic, the striker who played for Leiden East... The first goal was also the player of Leiden East. After Leiden East's chairman Xiao Ming brought us hope. After Leiden East's captain Daniel assisted the first goal, two Leiden East players brought us back to hell..."

Motson said in a low tone that if he was familiar with Chinese culture, he might have said, "Success is Leiden East, failure is Leiden East..."

Amid the cheers and celebrations of the Croatian players, Bilic stood up and waved his fists vigorously.

Although the current situation is more from luck, Green's mistake made the situation turn around instantly, it is still a victory for Croatia!
Chapter completed!