Chapter 662: Legend of Stream

England's friendly match against Argentina attracted countless attention.

Even in a friendly match, the English-American battle is enough to attract everyone's attention.

The grudges between England and Argentina football have been entangled. Last year, the Argentine national team, which was released by the elite last year, lost 0-3 to most of the main players in the Copa America final, which has caused controversy. This also allowed England fans to see the hope of their team defeating this old enemy at home, especially in the last friendly match, which made them have higher expectations for this game.

"I have always liked the Argentine style. There are many players in the Argentine team that I admire... This game is just a friendly match. Winning and losing are not the most important thing. They are mainly for preparations for the European Championship. However, I really hope to give two newborn children to my two newborn children, one by one." Xiao Ming said in an interview.

"Xiao Ming's wife gave birth to twins? That's a really gratifying thing, but we have to win this game," said Basilé.

Although it was a friendly match, Brazilian still didn't want to lose the game - his current position is no longer very stable. Losing the Copa America last year made Argentina very dissatisfied with him, the new head coach. At the same time, the factional dispute within the team is also obvious. Although Solin has withdrawn from the national team, it is no secret that Heinze and his team have a bad relationship with Sanetti Cambiaso's Inter Milan Gang. In 2006, it was Solin and others who had the upper hand that made Sanetti and Samuel miss the World Cup. The first thing Brazilian did after taking office was to recall Sanetti and Samuel again. There was no problem for the time being, but after the performance was not good, it began to appear.

If he could beat England in a friendly match, his life would be better.

On March 28, the English-American War kicked off at Wembley Stadium.

Xiao Ming sent a 442 team in this game, with Joe Hart as the goalkeeper, defenders Daniel, Ferdinand, Terry and Ashley Cole, midfielder Hargreaves replaced the injured Joey Patton, and the other three were starting against Croatia, Gareth Barry, Beckham and Gerald. Crouch was in poor form on the front line recently, Xiao Ming decisively activated Michael Irving and Rooney, the partners of Manchester United.

Argentina also showed all the elite this time, goalkeeper Abondenceri, defenders Zanetti, Samuel, Demikelis and Heinze, midfielder Mascherano and Cambiaso formed two midfielders. Riquelme, who returned to the national team, broke in the frontcourt, and Messi, Tevez and Aguero's trident - Argentina is now missing a center, and Higuain was unable to be selected due to injury.

"Their short forward combination is very flexible, but there is a fatal flaw, that is, their strong offensive ability is average. They need to break through and get the ball, so we don't give them the opportunity to cooperate in detail! They start strangling from the midfield and kill them through counterattacks!"

Xiao Ming's words in the locker room echoed in the minds of the English players. During this period, they had almost understood the tactics that the new head coach was preparing to use - defensive counterattack...

You should know that when you notice this, most English players seemed surprised. After all, when Xiao Ming was in Leiden East, he always appeared as a head coach who insisted on playing offense. When he arrived at the national team, he actually made such a big change...

In fact, they still don’t understand Xiao Ming. Xiao Ming has never been a head coach who has a set of tactics to death. Recently, they have been practicing defensive tactics because Xiao Ming plans to solve England’s defensive problems first. There are really many problems in England’s defensive problems. Many times, they do not lose in offense, but in defense.

There are attacking teams like the Netherlands in the group. If you don’t defend well, you will be able to achieve good results in the European Championships.

In Xiao Ming's mind, with the current configuration of the English national team, it is actually not suitable to play defensive counterattacks. Gerrard is the only one in the midfield who has the ability to quickly penetrate, and there is only one in the forward line, Rooney has the ability to constantly attack the opponent's defense line. Irving is very good, but he is already quite old, and too many injuries have caused his condition to drop a lot. If he simply fights back, the effect will not be too good.

This is also the reason why he would rather sacrifice the impact of the two wings to allow Barry and Beckham to appear in the main lineup. Barry not only has excellent dispatch, but also has good long passes. Beckham's long pass is even more iconic. With both of them sending good balls at any time, the efficiency of counterattack in the frontcourt will become higher.

Among the four defenders in Argentina's game, there are three defenders with average back-chasing ability. Even Zanetti's sprinting speed is not as good as when he was young. Although he has become better in other places - Demikelis is a standard colander at Bayern. Xiao Ming has always believed that he is more suitable to play the back midfielder than to play the central defender. Samuel is known as a rock, but it is not particularly outstanding in dealing with the opponent's counterattack. Otherwise, he would not have been shaken continuously by Kaka's rapid counterattack in last year's Milan derby and broke his ligament. Heinze was even more frizzy and lacked stability, otherwise Ferguson would not give up on him.

To deal with such Argentina, perhaps only one or two counterattacks are needed - the one that is better than Argentina now is Argentina led by Maradona two years later...

Argentina has been pushing forward with a large-scale attack from the beginning of the game. They are never afraid to attack with any team. Two Argentine players, including Mascherano and Messi, also believe that their boss will lead England to a refreshing attack with them at home.

However, they were disappointed. At Wembley Stadium, England recovered extremely well. Hargreaves, Barry and Beckham, were equivalent to three midfielders defending, completely blocking the area within 30 meters ahead of the penalty area, making Argentina's offense difficult in this area.

Argentina's frontcourt offense is a small lineup, so such a lineup naturally prefers to play on a wider field, with enough space for them to pass the ball and attack. However, now that the three England midfielders defend in this area, their offense cannot be smoothly developed, and the three forwards' speed advantages cannot be played. Even if Riquelme passes the ball behind him well, it will not be of much use to face the entire England defense line.

Argentina's direct pass was repeatedly destroyed by England, and the attack on the wing could only be scratched through the shoe. It seemed to be pushing England into its half, but it was not practical at all.

Seeing that Argentina's wing attacks were often passed to the middle and were easily jumped by the opponent's tall defender and pushed the ball out comfortably, Argentina fans were lamenting that in 2002 and during that time, the competition in Argentina's center position was so fierce! God of War Batistuta, killer Crespo, and no one dared to ignore even a low-key scoring machine Cruise! In addition to a lunatic Palermo, the Argentina head coach's choice in the center position was the most difficult.

And now? There have been a large number of "Maradona's successors", from Saviola, Amar, to Messi, Tevez, Aguero, who is about 1.68 meters tall, and his figure is similar to Maradona, but he still lacks the ability to turn the tide. There are many choices in the second striker and winger position. Even Palacio is an extremely outstanding second striker, but what choice does Brazilian have in the center position?

Palermo, who is in his thirties, is Kavinagi who is lost when he goes to Russia? Or is the super substitute Cruise who is about to retire?

Basil's has no choice but to send such a trident with an average height of less than 1.7 meters...

When Argentina attacked the tiger and ate the turtle and could not sip, England's counterattack began to gradually become fierce.

While defending, Barry and Beckham did not give up the opportunity to counterattack. They both made excellent long passes, and Argentina was very pressing. Rooney and Irving alone were enough to drink a pot of it.

This practice of hiding behind and putting cold guns made Argentina uncomfortable. After all, Barry and Beckham both took the ball very far behind, and it was difficult for them to interfere even if they wanted to interfere. After almost being counterattacked by Irving, Basilé yelled to make Mascherano and Cambiaso a little further ahead, and directly pressed Barry and Beckham.

So after a cross from Argentina was pushed out by Terry. After Beckham got the ball, Cambiaso and Mascherano immediately rushed towards Beckham at the same time.

They snatched up in time. Cambiaso and Mascherano had this confidence that he could not move before Beckham's long pass. After all, although Beckham's long pass was excellent, the range of movements before was also very large. This is also why Beckham's running before passing is always one of the biggest factors - just like in magic novels, the magician cannot be disturbed when he sends the forbidden spell, if someone interferes with Beckham's long pass, the effect will be much worse. His wonderful assists are basically completed without anyone defending them.

However, when they pounced on it, Beckham immediately transferred the ball to Barry.

At this time, the Argentine player closest to Bari was Riquelme, but the "last classical midfielder" did not interfere with Bari, but was slowly walking back.

Barry didn't have a long pass either. He knew that there was a huge gap between his long pass and Beckham, but dispatching and short passes were what he was best at.

With a straight stab, Barry stabbed the ball cleanly and neatly to Gerald in front.

Because of the snatch between Mascherano and Cambiaso, there was only three players in Argentina's middle area immediately, and Gerald's position to catch the ball was in this blank area.

Samuel began to prepare to retreat, but at this time, Demikelis rushed towards Gerald...

"This idiot..." Samuel just cursed in his stomach, and immediately saw Gerald catch the ball and passed it with one pass!

The ball flew over Demichelis' head and flew straight to Argentina's half!

Because Demikelis shook it for a moment, Samuel, who was dragged behind, didn't have time to return to defense. At this time, two figures wearing white English jerseys had already rushed up from the half of the team like lightning, and two ghosts slapped the goal!

Two generations of golden boys in England, the wind-chasing boy Irving and the magical boy Rooney!

The ball fell in front of Rooney, and Irving tacitly slowed down his forward speed, allowing Rooney to run in the front.

Seeing the two forwards rushing towards him, Abangdancheri knew that this time he was falling into his crotch with yellow mud - either dead or dead...

After he attacked, Rooney easily knocked the ball to the other side, and then Irving followed and easily flew up, and the ball flew into the Argentina goal...

In the 31st minute of the first half, England scored the first record through a lightning-like quick counterattack!

Xiao Ming stood up and applauded with a smile on his face. The English fans waving their arms wildly in the stands.

Defensive counterattack - a very simple tactic, but no matter how simple the tactic is, it has its best aspects.

It is not only a long pass to complete the counterattack. The efficiency of the counterattack is often very low. However, this kind of counterattack formed by fast ground passes can often kill with one blow!

This goal only implemented one word from beginning to end, that is "fast"!

After conceding the ball, Argentina went crazy and launched a crazy attack. However, England began to continue to shrink its defense, leaving Argentina almost no chance to enter the penalty area. In desperation, Argentina could only continue to use long shots to launch an attack. The opponent's goalkeeper was a young goalkeeper, and he might make mistakes...

However, when they pin their hopes on the opponent's goalkeeper's mistakes, they have already lost 80% - even if the opponent is the England goalkeeper.

Joe Hart is better than in history.

Two years of training in the English Championship have allowed him to accumulate a lot of experience. Although he was playing substitutes for most of the games after returning to Leiden Oriental, Leiden Oriental's excellent goalkeeper training mechanism and system have made him develop significantly on the technical level. After being loaned to Birmingham, he gained valuable experience in top league games - Birmingham is not very strong, and he has many opportunities to face various shooting in the game, which has allowed Joe Hart, who was already talented, to make rapid progress.

At this time in history, Joe Hart was still playing as a substitute at Manchester City, and he was definitely not as good as Joe Hart now.

Xiao Ming is even considering letting Joe Hart return as the main goalkeeper next season, allowing Jass Kleinen to play a substitute for him, but Jass Kleinen is still in good shape now. Perhaps it is a good idea to let Joe Hart play for another year in Birmingham.

In this game, Joe Hart showed his outstanding personal abilities.

Although he is young, his cheerful and calm personality makes him rarely make mistakes. At the same time, his physical fitness is also quite outstanding. In addition to his excellent goal line skills, he is no worse than any English goalkeeper in terms of comprehensive ability. Perhaps all he lacks is a little experience - his physical fitness is really excellent, and even his speed is amazing. Xiao Ming once watched a video in his previous life. In the Manchester derby, he joined the offensive mistake at the last moment, and then ran 80 meters to save the air goal successfully. It is impossible to do this without excellent physical fitness.

Argentina had several long shots with high quality, but was blocked by Joe Hart one by one. Even Messi's shot hit Ferdinand and changed the line, but he still made the second reaction and held the bottom line with one hand.

Xiao Ming is more proud of his appearance off the court. It is nothing to let a young player play the main player with a strong performance. As long as he performs well, people will only say that you are keen on your abilities, and will not say that you are nepotist.

Based on Hart's performance so far, Xiao Ming knew that he would have another hat to look at people with keen eyes...

Before the end of the first half, Leiden East scored another goal through a counterattack. Rooney broke through and was knocked down by Samuel. Beckham scored a wonderful direct free kick to expand the score.

After the start of the second half, many people were replaced by both sides. Xiao Ming almost changed the main lineup, sent Rooney, Abanglaho and Lennon's trident to play offensive football. Several new players, Heddlestone and Kevin, all played. Even Bentley went up and played for more than 20 minutes. Naturally, no one would value the score in such a game in the second half. Mainly, it was just to examine the status of the new players. In the end, both sides scored three goals in the second half, and England won with a big score of five to three.

Xiao Ming won all three friendly matches and one official match after taking office, with an average of more than four goals per game - even if it is mostly friendly matches, this result is enough to be amazing.

"Xiao Ming's transformation of England is gradually taking shape, what are the fears of the Death Group"

Even the Times began to report on the England national team in an extremely high profile. Because of its previous brilliant achievements and its winning streak after taking office, England has begun to develop some superstition about Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming did not think about stopping this. In fact, in his opinion, the superstition of the whole team towards him is a good thing, at least it can be implemented without reservation, which is very important for a head coach.

As for the club's situation, Xiao Ming no longer cared about it. The so-called miracle of winning streak was earned by him after sacrificing a lot of things, including the neglect of the club's game - it was not that he deliberately ignored it, he really couldn't take care of it.

"Damn Mourinho, it's okay if you come and help me for half a season..."
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