Frankfurt, Germany, Financial Bank Stadium.

Everyone looked at the direction of the England goal, where the football was rushing through Robinson's hands, flying over the goal line, and plunging into the net behind him.

The score on the scoreboard then became 2:0, France led England two goals, and the time was just the 25th minute of the first half.

French fans cheered loudly to celebrate the goal!

The English fans watched silently, silently saying that they didn't know what to do at this moment.

This is the World Cup semi-finals. Almost nearly 100,000 English fans flocked to Frankfurt. There were more than 20,000 English fans entering the stadium, which was basically the same as the French fans. Before the game, English fans kept cheering, believing that the team would definitely win the final victory, just because the English team in the World Cup has never disappointed them.

In the group stage, there were three wins, and it was a victory without any suspense.

Top 16, easily defeat Ecuador.

In the quarterfinals, three goals eliminated Portugal.

The team has the first striker Zhang Tiehan, who has scored nine goals so far, surpassing Ronaldo's eight goals in the last World Cup, and has the hope to break the individual goal record of a single World Cup - the 1958 Swedish World Cup, French star Fontane's thirteen goals record.

Outside the front line, England's frontcourt is also full of flowers. Gerrard is the second scorer of England. So far, he has scored four goals. In addition, Lampard, Beckham and others have also scored goals.

England's performance is quite strong.

In this regard, English fans' confidence in the team has increased greatly. Even when facing the French team, they don't think the other party has the ability to defeat the England team. They came with the mentality of "the team will definitely reach the final", but they did not expect the current situation.

Just now, Henry received a pass from Zidane and turned around and shot to help the French team complete the second goal!

England was somewhat confused.

Perhaps this is also related to England's smooth playing in the front. After France scored the first goal at the beginning, England was eager to equalize the score, but did not pay much attention to the defense in the backcourt, so the French team took advantage of the opportunity to score another goal.

The lead of the two goals in the World Cup is too big!

On the field, the English players looked a little confused and helpless. They didn't expect the game to become like this. They had never thought it would be like this before, but now it happened - in just twenty-five minutes, they were scored two goals by the French team.

How to play the next game?

All England players felt helpless and stressed.

The same goes for Zhang Tiehan.

Before the game, the entire team was full of confidence. They entered the court steadily, and the team even had a sense of ease. That kind of condition was very good, but now thinking about it, the team may not take the opponent seriously.

This time the opponent is France!

France is no worse than England at all. Even if the media said "age issue" before the game, no one can deny France's strength, because they eliminated Brazil without any suspense. This is the strength of the French team. Under this mentality, when the game is in a passive situation, the team has no idea how to deal with it.

As a result, the current situation has emerged.

Two goals are behind. In the World Cup semi-finals, even Zhang Tiehan felt helpless. Those are two goals, especially the opponent is not weaker than England, and even stronger than France.

...

"Two to zero, France leads two goals!"

"Henry and Zidane completed a wonderful cooperation. Faced with the French offensive, England had frequent defensive loopholes. It took only 20 minutes in the first half and England had lost two goals, which was something no one expected before the game..."

"Two goals. Henry and Ribery, but both goals are related to Zidane. In the French team's offense, Qi Zu played a role in threading the needle. With him, the French team has a very smooth attack. England is a little busy facing such an offense."

"After leading two goals, France will play better."

"For the English team, what they need to do is to stabilize their position first and never let the French team find another opportunity, otherwise the game will lose its suspense early..."

The commentator kept guarding.

The game was similar to what the commentator talked about. England's performance was very panicked. In fact, the two teams played steadily at the beginning, attacking and defending each other, and England did not have any passiveness.

But in the tenth minute, Zidane assisted Ribery to score a long shot in the left penalty area, rewriting the score to 1:0, and England's performance began to be a little panicked.

Since the start of the World Cup, England has been playing smoothly. This time, it was suddenly behind. The whole team wanted to tie the score quickly, but the French team was not a weak team. Their scheduling strength was not worse than that of England. Moreover, France has always been able to play very steadily in the World Championship. On the other hand, England's football is very simple. It is easy for France to defend. If England wants to score, it depends on simple cooperation and the performance of the stars. It is not easy for them to attack quickly.

As a result, in the game, a goal was accidentally scored by the French team again.

At this time, the players of England were a little panicked, two goals behind. It was so difficult to tie this situation in the World Cup semi-finals. In the history of the World Cup, there were only a handful of games that were two goals behind and tied. The players of England were a little panicked, and the game was even worse.

Side by.

England head coach Erikson had already stood on the edge of the court. He was shouting constantly to remind the players on the court to stay calm and not to play too flustered. It would be too difficult to score without any rules in such a football.

Erikson didn't expect the situation to turn out like this.

Before the game, the team did not make much preparations, as long as it was too little time, but the French team also had no time, and they were even less powerful than England, because they were one day behind England and they only had two days to prepare for the game.

But Erikson didn't expect the game to be like this.

He also knows the reason.

England played too smoothly in the World Cup, but in fact, as many media said, the entire England team was not performing well, and it was only with the continuous performance of Zhang Tiehan, Gerald and others that they could easily defeat their opponents again and again.

Now facing the powerful French team and falling behind first, the players were a little panicked.

This situation cannot continue.

As long as you can stabilize the formation and play against the French team normally, you may still be able to recover the two goals behind. If this continues, the French team will definitely score a goal. In that way, the English team will not have any chance.

On the other hand, Domeneck was relaxed.

He didn't expect the game to go so smoothly.

In fact, the French team was not as easy as England before. They only confirmed to qualify in the last game in the group stage, and they qualified very much. In the subsequent quarterfinals, they also fought very well. They played very hard in every game in the previous game, not as smooth as England, and they kept winning the big score.

Every victory is hard-won. Domeneck has also put a lot of pressure on him. Many French media are very dissatisfied with him. It was not until he defeated Brazil in the last game and reached the semi-finals that his pressure was much less.

This may be called the end of the bitterness.

Now playing against England, France is performing quite well. Zidane is like a magical help in the midfield, attacking again and again. His passes like a needle and his amazing footwork skills make England's defense very difficult. Many times, they have to block the shots by blocking the shots to complete the defense.

In just over twenty minutes of the game, the French team completed six shots and two goals, while the England team only had three shots and hit the goal frame once. It was also easily saved by goalkeeper Butters.

England was suppressed.

England was not very passive on the scene, but the simple offensive tactics did not work much against the French team. The French team fully utilized the team's advantages. Their small-scale exquisite cooperation attack was played by Zidane. England's defense was like paper, constantly being broken through.

Domenek was quite happy about this situation.

If the game continues like this, it will be very easy for the French team to win. He felt much more smooth when he thought that the team could easily enter the finals.

...

The situation in England is quite unfavorable.

When the game started again, Beckham hurriedly reminded everyone to defend well first. This was not what he meant by himself, but also what head coach Eriksson meant. At present, England is not about to hurry to recover the score, but to defend well and not allow France to score again.

If you attack rashly, the game will be even more unfavorable.

At this time, Zhang Tiehan was also participating in the defense, and he was quite helpless. After more than twenty minutes of the game, he had to say admiration to Zidane. In fact, before the game started, he did not think Zidane was of any strength. He was quite confident in his strength. In his opinion, a player like Zidane is similar to Italian team's Pirlo, with a core midfielder's outstanding skills, that's all.

But now he doesn't think so.

Compared with Pirlo, Zidane can definitely do better. His skills are definitely at the master level. Few players can grab his balls. Zhang Tiehan defended twice in the past, but he was unable to directly cut off his balls. He couldn't use "see through". The main reason is that Zidane protected the ball and did not give him a chance to steal. Using his body directly would definitely be a foul.

As the football is at Zidane's feet, Zidane will not break through rashly when he sees that there is no chance. He even uses his continuous passes to bring out the rhythm of the team's offense.

This guy...is really hard to deal with.

Now Zhang Tiehan is defending Zidane closely. After the game started again, he has been doing this. Everyone in the game knows that Zidane's role in the French team's offense. As long as Zidane is defending Zidane, the French team's offense will immediately drop to a higher level.

But to the current position, Zhang Tiehan has only cut off Zidane's ball.

This was the first time he had encountered such a difficult guy to defend.

...

What he didn't know was that Zidane was also secretly shocked at this time.

As one of the most famous stars in the world, Zidane is naturally extremely powerful because of his extraordinary strength. In terms of football, Zidane is very confident. He always feels that there will be no player in the world who can defend himself, and it is not easy to make restrictions.

But now when he met Zhang Tiehan, he felt that his performance had been greatly affected. Even if he accidentally stopped the football just now, his running position was also affected. Although his body was still very flexible, there was always a "iron tower" that could not be squeezed, and flexibility would be greatly affected.

Since this guy stood beside him, he has not made any special performance at all.

As a result, the team's offense was also affected. In the past ten minutes, the team failed to shoot once, and was counterattacked by England. They almost created a shot opportunity.

Is this guy Zhang Tiehan?

The guy who is known as the current 'No. 1 shooter'?

Zidane was secretly frightened.

He hasn't seen whether the opponent is the "first shooter" yet. What he can know is that this guy's one-on-one defense ability is really good, and he definitely has the top ability in the world. Especially the opponent is a forward, a high-center forward, who runs over to defend himself closely, and has a very strong ability... How is this possible?

He felt helpless.

Fortunately, the team has scored two goals. Otherwise, if this guy did this at the beginning, it would be very difficult for the team to score one goal.

On the court, Zidane and Zhang Tiehan were in a stalemate.

However, in the whole game, England was still in a very passive situation. The French team's offense was quite difficult. Even if Zidane was restricted, their skills and performance were not comparable to those of the English team. French players were very flexible in their feet, especially Ribery on the left. He was against him. Ribery was not as famous as Beckham, but on the court, he didn't know how many times he had been shaken by Ribery. Even Ribery drove the ball forward and it was difficult for him to catch up.

This situation made England's right the main breakthrough point for France's offense.

As a result, Ribery passed the ball again and again. In the middle, Henry and Maluda kept looking for opportunities. England's formation was disrupted and the goal was in chaos. Fortunately, goalkeeper Paul Robinson was in good condition at this time, and his saves were considered to be a defender.

Time passes little by little.
To be continued...