Chapter 670: I'm here

To be fair, Van Basten's decision was quite correct. First, it gave the players a backbone and knew what to do at this time. Second, England was pressing up, and the defense line would definitely not be as airtight as before. If you take the opportunity to equalize the score, it would be quite beneficial to the next game in the Netherlands.

However, the players had already withdrawn just now. Can the hasty arrangements have such good results?

In Xiao Ming's view, Van Basten's biggest weakness is that his level as a head coach is not first-class. There are always only a few top head coaches, and most head coaches can only be considered qualified. Although Van Basten is not the best, it is definitely not good. However, before the start of this European Cup, he announced that no matter how the Dutch national team performed, he would leave the position of the Dutch national team head coach, which was a complete fool.

Under a head coach who will leave after the game, how many players are still interested in fighting for him? If Van Basten is a head coach who has made outstanding achievements and has led the Dutch national team for a long time and plans to retire after this game, the players may also fight to play to leave a perfect impression, just like the Spanish head coach Aragones, but Van Basten is not! His reputation is very high, but it has been accumulated in his career. The results of leading the team in the 2006 World Cup were average. Van Nie also made the Dutch national team complain about him without having to do so. In addition, he will leave after playing this European Cup - in this case, the instructions he made will definitely not be implemented by the players as soon as possible.

In this case, even Xiao Ming, who has just taken office, will be more skillful in commanding the players. Even if the members of the England national team are dissatisfied with Xiao Ming, they know that Xiao Ming will not leave in this position if they do a big competition. In order to qualify for the national team in the future, they have to follow them whatever Xiao Ming said.

The Netherlands launched a counterattack, while England slowly retreated, bullying the Netherlands and there was no player who could break through quickly. However, this time the Netherlands did not entangle with the opponent in the midfield. Sneider and Van der Fate made consecutive short passes and quickly broke through from the right, almost directly entering the penalty area. Fortunately, Daniel returned to defend quickly and took a risk of flying tackle to drive Sneider away from the baseline. The Netherlands was a foul in the **, but the referee only gave a corner kick.

Seeing that there was not much time left in the first half, most of the Dutch players pressed forward, trying to seize the last few opportunities to equalize the score, but Xiao Ming made several gestures on the coach's seat, allowing Geraldhusky and Rooney to stay in the frontcourt and not return to defense.

Van Basten ignored Xiao Ming's move, which also caused him to swallow the bitter fruit after one minute.

Sneider took a corner kick, and was cleared by Daniel at the back point. The ball fell to Beckham's feet. England immediately launched a counterattack. Barry, who was inserted at high speed, received a long pass from Beckham, and then immediately passed the ball to Ashley Cole, who was also firmly inserted from the left.

Cole's forward speed was very fast. Kuyt competed for a header in the penalty area, and De Jong was also in the front position. Because both central defenders had already reached England's penalty area to compete for a header, Oye, who was guarding this side, was also defending in the middle, so he was not at all obstructed when rushing forward. After receiving Barry's pass, no one came up to defend him. However, Cole did not break forward directly, but looked up and observed the situation in the penalty area. Seeing that the three attackers in the frontcourt had rushed to the opponent's penalty area, there were only three people defending them. He immediately raised his foot and directly passed the ball into the penalty area.

While observing the landing point of the pass, Husky ran forward. Kerr's pass was a little bigger, but it was still in the penalty area. Husky rushed to the place near the baseline before the ball began to fall. Husky blocked Van Bronhorst, who had rushed back to defense, and then jumped up high, swung the ball hard, and flew into the penalty area.

Rooney rushed forward, got rid of Oye's defense, and then easily pushed the ball towards the falling one before Van der Sar hit him and blocked it!

Push shot four meters in front of the door!

"gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Wayne - Rooney! 2-0! England expanded its lead!" Mortson raised his hands and jumped up in the showroom: "Beautiful quick counterattack! The Dutch defense line is like paper!"

This quick counterattack also stunned everyone. No one expected that from the process of the first half, the Netherlands, which had the upper hand, was actually two goals behind. It was said that England's counterattack was not very fast. Beckham and Barry even controlled the ball back and forth for a while in the midfield and waited for Kerr on the wing to press, but the Netherlands just pressed too far ahead and the gap left in the backcourt was too large...

"I really don't know what happened to the Netherlands just now. Suddenly, I pressed so far, leaving three players in the backcourt, with such a big gap in the middle..." A commentator shook his head and sighed.

Van Basten looked at the scene in a daze. He just asked the team to press the opponent and beat the opponent back, but he didn't ask them to press the opponent like this. In the backcourt, two full-backs and one De Jong were left behind. The others rushed into the opponent's penalty area. It looked like he waved his hand, and then the members of the Dutch national team rushed forward with a "hula"...

"The coach has no prestige and can't do it for too long. How could the players execute your order so seriously..." Xiao Ming looked at Van Basten, who was standing there with some pity, turned around and high-five with Venables, then waved his fists at the field.

For a moment, he suddenly felt that he valued the first game so much. Is it a bit too much? England has many problems, while the Netherlands has more problems. Although England's problems cannot be compensated for in a short period of time, such as defects in certain positions, the Netherlands' problems are only caused by the head coach. As long as a head coach who has better coaching skills and can make the team aligned, they can immediately achieve good results.

However, in this game, England's disadvantages can be compensated to some extent, while the disadvantages of the Netherlands cannot be compensated.

"We did a good job in the first half! But there are still 45 minutes left in the game. Don't forget how we lost to Portugal eight years ago. The Dutch national team's offensive ability is no worse than that of Portugal! Continue to defend like in the first half, start to disrupt their offensive rhythm from the midfield, and then use counterattacks to involve their offensive energy!"

Xiao Ming's voice sounded firmly in the locker room, and then he sneered: "Also, in the midfield, even if it is a foul, it will disrupt their offensive rhythm. It doesn't matter if you can pick them up and eat cards together, then you have made contributions! Don't say that there will be an ugly game in this way. What I want is the victory of this game, no matter what kind of victory it is!"

The players were all shocked when they heard this - they were very familiar with this scene. Just in the World Cup quarter-finals two years ago, Portugal encountered the Netherlands. After taking the lead, Portugal kept using fouls to stir up the anger of Dutch players, and finally made the referee start killing. Four red cards and countless yellow cards made the second half extremely chaotic, and the Netherlands had no energy to attack. In the end, Portugal successfully entered the semi-finals in this way - it is obvious that the head coach now wants to use this method to protect the victory.

But thinking about it, this is indeed a good idea - this is just the first game of the group stage. As long as you can appear in a group, even players who are sent off will probably continue to play after the knockout starts. At that time, the players who have just finished the ban will be innocent and will not be suspended if they receive a yellow card.

This approach is not authentic, but it is impeccable in terms of rules.

Pierce looked up at Venables, but the old guy smiled and said nothing.

After the second half, the Netherlands began to attack violently, while England continued to block the midfield like in the first half. What they bullied was that the Netherlands' attack speed was not fast. Even if they consumed physical energy with the opponent, they would not be able to succeed smoothly. When the opponent occasionally created opportunities through personal breakthroughs, they would not hesitate to use fouls to block the opponent's attack - because the entanglement between the two sides was more in the midfield, so even if they gave the Netherlands a free kick, they could only take it out and continue to attack, and could not use the free kick to create too good scoring opportunities.

The Englishman's movements are not small, but they don't seem too excessive. After all, the Premier League fight has always been very fierce. Although their foul actions are big, they have no malicious intentions. However, from such frequent fouls, Van Basten's face became even more ugly - the scene in front of him is too familiar. At the World Cup two years ago, the Dutch national team he led was suffocated to death by the Portuguese with such despicable means!

"Damn!" Van Basten cursed silently, then slapped the lawn heavily.

Afelle, Van Persie and Hunteral were sent out to warm up by him. Now the Netherlands lacks good players who break through the wing and lacks strong centers. Van Nie is getting more and more experienced, but his physical ability to compete is on the decline. Moreover, the Dutch national team midfielder has too little support for him in this game, which has forced Van Nie to constantly pull out of the penalty area to ask for the ball, but was eaten by those opponents who are extremely familiar with him.

Soon Van Basten changed two people in a row. Van der Fate and Kuyt were replaced by Afelle and Van Persie. One of them had the ability to break through the wing, and the other had excellent personal skills. In this case, they were good players to open up the situation.

However, Afelle is too young and his physical fitness can only be said to be average. Although he is 1.81 meters tall, he weighs only 65 kilograms. After being entangled by Daniel, there was no sound. Van Persie is indeed excellent in personal abilities. However, his personality flaws make him destined not to be the kind of coach who can observe calmly and lead the team's attack after playing. After playing, his several breakthroughs had a lot of effects, but he soon fell into a single fight.

"It seems that the personnel defects of the Netherlands are not worse than ours." Venables said next to it. Although England has used intensive defense tactics, especially after leading two goals, the so-called strong teams are always bound to face the opponent's intensive defense. They are sure to break through the opponent's iron barrel formation from the side. From the side, the strength of this team can be explained. Although England is also a strong team, the Netherlands has not even had a more effective attack until now. Most of the attacks are just passing back and forth, but there is not much threat.

"It's not a matter of personnel." Xiao Ming shook his head: "The Netherlands' offense has never been bad, but this time they are not lucky. They break through intensive defense, personal breakthrough, grab points in front of the goal, and break through the wing, Robben is not there, there is a lack of Dutch winger candidates, and we have made it difficult for them to break through by our intensive defense in the middle. As for grab points in front of the goal... few forwards can grab points on Ferdinand and Terry's heads while we recover our defense."

Speaking of this, Xiao Ming smiled: "What's more, we are lucky. We seized three good opportunities twice, and their mentality has also changed. Otherwise, if they attacked patiently, we might not be able to defend so easily."

"That's right." Venables immediately changed his words, Xiao Ming glanced at him deeply, and then laughed.

"This old fox wants to compete with me." Xiao Ming muttered in his heart.

When the Netherlands was unable to break into the opponent's penalty area in a row, their offense began to appear even more impatient. Sneider's long shots posed a threat to England's goal, but Hart's performance was very steady. If the opponent's shooting strength was strong, he would rather hit the ball than take the risk of receiving the ball.

Seeing that the second half had almost half an hour passed, but he still had no way to defend the opponent's strict defense. Van Basten used the third substitution, Hunterlaer replaced the midfielder De Jong and let it go and strengthen the attack. At this time, Xiao Ming was free to change the first person. He replaced Rooney, who scored the second goal, and strengthened the counterattack speed in the frontcourt.

After making this substitution, England players further retreated, Husky returned to the midfield to participate in defense, and Gerald moved from attacking the midfield to the midfield. The spectacular scene of nine people participating in defense on the field made the Netherlands so angry that they still couldn't hide England.

Faced with the overwhelming booing of the Dutch fans, the English fans responded with disdain to sing: they already have two goals ahead, and the fool is fighting against you!

Although he did not suppress the attack, England's counterattack was still continuing. After replacing Rooney, Xiao Ming quickly replaced Beckham with Lennon and continued to increase the speed of counterattack. Although his appearance had some impact on England's overall defense, he did not know how much the counterattack efficiency was improved. Gerrard returned to the right midfielder to participate in the defense, and the overall defense did not weaken too much.

Facing Pierce's strange look, Xiao Ming shrugged: "Anyway, he is already leading two goals. Even if they are lucky enough to score one, as long as we counterattack and get another one, we can completely defeat them..."

Pierce was completely speechless. He found that he was becoming more and more unable to guess Xiao Ming...

In the 79th minute, England completely secured the victory.

Another quick counterattack, the Netherlands obtained a direct free kick 28 meters away from the goal. Sneider's free kick was blocked by Joe Hart with one hand. Daniel took the ball from the side and handed it to Barry. Barry dribbled the ball forward and passed it straight to the left of the penalty area. Cole inserted into the foot and made a cross. Lennon at the back point received the ball and shot 16 meters away from the goal was blocked by Van der Sar. However, the ball flew back to Lennon's feet. Tottenham's young player immediately made a cross again, and Difoe, who followed in the middle, scored a close-range goal!

"Three to zero! England completely locked in the victory! There will be no suspense in this game. Perhaps what the Netherlands has to do is to score a goal in the next game, breaking the rule that only one side scores goals in a single game in the final stage of this European Championship..."

Motson teased the Dutch national team, while Van Basten sighed disappointed and then sat back in his position.

Twelve years ago, the Netherlands lost to England a four-to-one, this time, they lost three-to-zero... So what if they scored a goal? The disastrous defeat was already unstoppable...

However, the Dutch national team was unable to break the rule that only one side scored goals since the beginning of this European Cup. In the next ten minutes, both sides were completely caught in a tug-of-war. The Netherlands' offensive efficiency became worse and worse. In the remaining time, their shots were either biased or blocked by the defender with their bodies. Finally, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the score was frozen above three to zero!

Three goals defeated the Netherlands! England left a brilliant victory in the first European Championship!

Van Basten did not stand up until the end of the game. He lost nothing in this game. England performed very well and had good luck. However, his team was unable to show their true strength...

I lost the game and I also lost to this hateful Xiao Ming. This bastard actually made a game for me more than ten days ago, no, maybe it was the beginning of the draw. Except for the more than ten days before the start of the European Championship, Husky, England's first few training sessions, did not even make the roster...

On the other side, Xiao Ming smiled and brimmed with the English players one by one. After winning this game, he would become more at ease in the group stage.
Chapter completed!