After leaving the hotel, Zhang Tiehan didn't think about so many things. The most important thing at the moment is the World Cup game, which is not something that the team came to Germany. Although he felt that this World Cup was similar to the vacation, and the days of England were really comfortable, in fact, this was the World Cup.

There are players to relax, and more importantly, the game.

To win one game after another, you need daily training, keep in good shape, etc. In short, in the days when there are no games, the England team still needs various training.

During the World Cup, there are a few days between the group stages, but no team will have holidays. Every team is training intensely, and the same is true for England. This morning, it was only because of the victory yesterday. No players were allowed to drink. So after the morning of the morning, everyone had a good rest. By the afternoon, all the players had returned to the stadium for training.

Ordinary training is still mainly restorative.

However, head coach Eriksen attaches more importance to tactical training. Tactical training is not a small cooperation training, but Eriksen himself is considering how the team can play better.

This World Cup is also the last day for Eriksen to coach England. No matter how good the team leads, Eriksen knows that he will definitely step down, and even finds to go out. Because of this, he hopes to lead the team to achieve better results.

As the head coach of England, Eriksson is under great pressure.

Now he is the world's number one coach with an annual salary of 5 million yuan, leading the most valuable team in the world. If he cannot achieve good results, it is useless to make any excuses. He is leading a team that can compete for the championship. Even if he can't win the championship, he must at least reach the semi-finals. This is the bottom line of the England team.

The semi-finals are not easy.

It is not difficult to appear in the group, but we will encounter strong teams in the knockout stage. Eriksen knows that judging from the current situation of the England team, they really have no advantage in playing against world-class teams. The reason is that the simple football team of England is that compared with teams such as Brazil, Germany, Italy, etc., England's skills seem too rough.

He has tried to improve this for several years, but the effect is not very good.

There is a Chinese saying that "a good cook cannot cook without rice." This is the case that Erikson encountered. There are many big-name stars in the team, but it is really a bit of a picky pick among those who are outstanding in it. Beckham and Joe Cole have good skills. So they are full-time forwards, and then... no matter whether they are in the frontcourt or midfielder Gerald and Lampard, their skills are not very good, but Beckham is old after all, Joe Cole's skills seem immature. If you want to win, you have to rely on players such as Gerald, Lampard, and Rooney.

Of course, there is also Zhang Tiehan.

When Eriksen was considering it, he automatically ignored Zhang Tiehan. In his opinion, Zhang Tiehan is a special player, and this player can perform well no matter where he is placed.

But it is difficult for him to perform well alone to lead the team's excellence. Zhang Tiehan is not a player with extremely excellent skills like Ronaldinho. He also relies on his body to play football.

In this way, England's real main force cannot find a talent that can be used in technology.

Erikson has always hoped to make England more technical. In traditional football, some modern football colors are incorporated to make the team's tactics more flexible. However, the efforts of several years are not very effective. Now facing the last World Cup, what he had thought of before suddenly became powerless.

This is how Eriksen felt after the match against Paraguay.

The six superstars in the frontcourt want to play excellent technical football, but are suppressed by a group of ordinary South American players who are not well-known. This feeling is not very good. It also proves that the group of stars under him cannot work if they want to play technical football.

That's equivalent to fighting against opponents with weaknesses.

unreasonable.

So just play simple football?

Thinking of this, Erikson could only shake his head and smile bitterly. Many media criticized the England team for its roughness. Of course, there is a reason. He also knows this. He hopes to use more technology and use technology to play with his opponents, which is equivalent to exposing his weaknesses to the opponents.

The team still cannot do this, so why are they trying to do technology?

Just play simple football!

Erikson decided to try it, and he tried it in the match against Trinidad and Tobago, playing the simplest football and using the simplest tactics. No matter how the media criticizes it, as long as you can win, it is the best result. After all, victory is the most important thing.

So the English players are somewhat surprised in the past few days of training.

Eriksen no longer requires small-scale cooperation, small tactics and other things like before. He just allows everyone to adapt to the traditional middle-lane playing style: long passes and rushes, and attacks mainly centered on the middle. Simply put, it is divided into two points. One is to use the passes from the two sides and the middle to find opportunities for the forwards, and the other is to use long shots to score.

As for using pass penetration to find good opportunities, Eriksenti doesn't mention this. To be honest, the cooperation between England players can't even play Paraguay. If they really do that, if they play against teams like Brazil and Italy, England doesn't have to compete for control of the midfield at all, and they can just defend and counterattack in the backcourt, because they can't compete for these teams at all.

So they have to play simple football.

The players also discussed Erikson's changes in training in private. Next, Erikson asked everyone to play like this in the next game. Many people understand that the head coach just wants the team to play simple football. Since that's the case, then play like this.

Many people think so.

Maybe some people have different ideas, but no one will question anything. Erikson still has a strong say in the team, and even Zhang Tiehan did not question it because he felt that Erikson's approach was correct for the first time.

After several seasons, Zhang Tiehan also has a good understanding of tactics and other things.

He will think by himself.

When he started joining the team, he also considered how to make the team perform better. As a result, he thought of trying to be the core himself. Erikson gave him a chance, but the last game proved that such a style of play was not very good. He performed well himself, and others could not adapt at all, and they were all out of shape.

He, Gerald, Joe Cole and Beckham, formed a midfielder of four, and they could not catch up with Paraguay's midfielder without a famous balloon star in cooperation, which was very frustrating.

But it is undeniable that this is the fact.

Gerald is very famous. Lampard is also very famous, not to mention Beckham, but in fact, a player's value is not much related to technology. Their high value is because of performance, not because of his excellent skills. Performance is often not much related to technology. For example, Gerald and Lampard both have excellent long-range shooting ability and can do a good job in defensive interception. They have a good overall view and can also be qualified in other aspects of abilities.

That's all.

In comparison, the foot skills of ordinary players in Paraguay are actually better than theirs. Perhaps this is related to the players' growth environment. English football pays more attention to the body, while South American football pays more attention to technology.

They are not as valuable and famous as English players because they have a gap in their overall strength, rather than their skills.

In short, the overall skills of the England team are not very good, so it will be more than worth the effort to play technical football. On the contrary, simple football, relying on personal abilities to fight, grab, and actively strive for offense, so that the whole team may perform better.

Gerald and Lampard all have the ability to shoot a long shot.

Beckham's scimitar arc free kick. One move can last for ten years and always makes the opponent helpless.

Rooney has excellent personal abilities and strong dominance in the penalty area. As a second striker, he performed better than the first striker.

Own……

In short, Zhang Tiehan believes that Eriksen’s idea is correct.

These days, England has started simple tactical training. This has made the training much easier. Erikson had always asked to strengthen the pass, but now it really makes everyone feel free to play. Whether it is Zhang Tiehan, Gerald, Lampard, or two wingers, or other players, there are no rigid requirements in tactics, and the training is very active and relaxed.

England has been doing these tactical exercises to prepare for the second game.

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At this time, the English media also began to analyze the next opponent for the team. For the English, praise or analysis of the team's advantages is no longer important. No matter whether they play well or not, they must face the next opponent. What they hope is that England will win this opponent and win two games in three games, and the England team can qualify steadily, just because in the past match between Trinidad and Tobago and Sweden, the two teams played 0:0, and Trinidad and Tobago broke out the biggest upset in this World Cup so far!

In an almost completely unbalanced game, Trinidad and Tobago, who had no advantage at all, completely defeated the Swedish team with tenacious defense and steel will.

From Radbeck's frowns to Larson's bewildered expression; from Hislop's fabulous save to Glenn's goal on the post.

All of this is doomed to have an imbalanced Swedish team that must accept a bitter fruit that is difficult to swallow - being taken from them by the weak Trinidad and Tobago! The consequence that is even more difficult for them to accept is that they have to fight England in the last round of the group!

The Swedes had the advantage throughout the game, but they were unable to open the doors of Trinidad and Tobago. Although the magical performance of the opponent's goalkeeper Heathlop, media analysis pointed out that the monotony of the Swedish team's playing style and the ultimate imbalance in mentality are the biggest factors that cause this upset!

In the first half, Sweden's fast-paced offense and defense and violent impact made Trinidad and Tobago's defense difficult for a while. But 15 minutes later, Trinidad and Tobago began to adapt to the Swedish style of play.

Too many 45-degree long passes allowed Central American teams to gather enough manpower in the center of the penalty area, while Ryonberg on the left did not have enough form to break through and pass the ball, causing enough threats, perhaps this has a lot to do with his poor form. Trinidad and Tobago successfully defended the first half.

At the beginning of the second half, the Swedish team player broke through from the right and caused a serious foul by the opponent's defensive player and was finally sent out.

This is also the first red card of this World Cup.

In terms of the nature of the foul, there is no problem with the red card, but the mentality of the Swedish players began to change, with one more person than the opponent. They had a huge advantage in the scene and believed that it was only a matter of time to score. In fact, the game did develop in a favorable direction with them, but goalkeeper Heathlop made the Swedish dream a bubble again and again, and the irritability began to spread among the Swedish team.

Benhack's gambling style replacement with a forward gave Trinidad and Tobago players a clear signal: fight hard to the end!

Therefore, in a quick counterattack, the newly replaced striker Glenn shot hard in the penalty area and hit the post, which made the Swedish goalkeeper sweat. Compared with Benhack's decisive decision, Swedish coach Radbeck's choice seemed slow and insufficient to respond.

Larson and Ibrahimovic were surrounded by the opponent in front, while the midfielder continued to attack with a long pass and rushing 45-degree angle. The only few mid-lane cooperation ended in failure.

The gradual disappearance of time further exacerbated the impatient psychology of the Swedish players. Loneberg never could cut inward on the wing, and no other midfielder wanted to try to use personal breakthroughs to tear open the opponent's defense line.

Perhaps the overall cooperation of the Swedish team is quite good, but facing the opponent's intensive defense, what is needed is the tactic of pulling after a personal breakthrough and pulling the opponent's defense line.

From this point of view, the Swedish team is undoubtedly unsuccessful. In other words, not having enough work is also a key to hindering the improvement of Swedish team’s grade!

This game gave England a lot of warnings!

In fact, the England team is very similar to the Swedish team. Both teams are teams with rough playing styles. The English team's skills are also not delicate and the playing style is also very monotonous. The only difference is that the individual players of the England team are good. In comparison, England relies more on the players' personal abilities to solve problems, rather than the monotonous attack of the whole team.

But despite this, Erikson still felt very stressed.

After all, Sweden's monotonous offense has led to being restricted by Trinidad and Tobago's defense. This is an obvious problem. What if England were replaced? He knew that England would definitely not be as unscoring as Sweden, but if monotonous football meets a strong team, wouldn't it be completely restricted to death?

But Erikson knew that he actually had no more choices, and there was no need to worry about gains and losses.

It is easy to say how to play a weak team. The suppression of the team's overall strength is enough to win. When facing a strong team, everyone in the England team will not perform well. In such a game, it really depends on God to win.

It's totally imaginable.

But in the end, England still has to prepare for the match against Trinidad and Tobago. The name of this team is really unfamiliar. Not only is the national football team unfamiliar in the World Cup, but the national name is unfamiliar to most people.

Trinidad and Tobago?

How many people didn't know about this country before this World Cup...

This is the World Cup rookie like Ukraine. It is the first time they have reached the World Cup in history. For such a small country, it is really not easy to enter the World Cup. You can imagine how complete the qualifiers are to be able to qualify for such a small Caribbean country.

In fact, the same is true.

In the North American and Caribbean qualifiers, in the third stage, Trinidad and Tobago won 4 wins, 1 draws, 5 losses, scored 10 goals and conceded 15 goals and 13 points. Only in the final stage did they beat Guatemala to enter the playoffs and won the only qualification to compete with Bahrain, which ranked fifth in the Asian region, in the final circle.

Finally, Trinidad and Tobago defeated Bahrain 2-1 in the two-round playoffs and successfully advanced to the World Cup finals.

Entering the World Cup final circle itself means strong strength, but Trinidad and Tobago are about to be ignored by the media. When talking about Group B, everyone will only talk about England, Paraguay and Sweden to fight for the second qualifying right, Trinidad and Tobago? They are traveling to Germany.

This is not something that is underestimated, their overall strength is really poor.

They also have stars.

The leading stars of Trinidad and Tobago are undoubtedly the former Manchester United main striker York. Unfortunately, this forward is old and has already declined. Before the World Cup, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association also accurately judged the bottleneck of their own football development, that is, the lack of tactical awareness. The arrival of Dutch coach Ben Hack has made a group of talented but lacking tactical discipline internationals find their direction, but this cannot bring great progress to the team.

Even coach Ben Hack said in an interview with the media after coming to Germany. "We are here to learn more advanced football and participate in the World Cup. Every player will learn something, which is a good learning stage for them, especially those young players."

But the draw against Sweden made people have to look up to them.
To be continued...