Chapter 269 Red Card

June 24, Brussels, Belgium, Imperial Stadium!

Almost all English fans carried a bouquet of flowers with them when they came to this stadium, and solemnly placed the flowers under the monument to the Heisel massacre near the stadium. Although none of the fans who died in that tragedy were English fans, most of them were Juventus fans and some neutral fans in Belgium, everyone had the same respect for life. It was also after that tragedy that the English team was banned from participating in European competitions for as many as five years, which directly led to the collective despair of the English team that once ruled Europe for ten years.

Kelly was also among the English fan group. After presenting a bouquet of flowers, she straightened her waist and sighed slightly.

At this moment, a commotion occurred in the crowd. Kelly looked up and a bus caught her eyes.

"The bus in England is here!" someone shouted loudly.

Fans thought that the English bus would directly enter the special passage of the stadium, but when approaching the monument, the bus stopped, and the door was opened, Keegan jumped out of the car, and followed him were all England players.

In such a hot weather, they were all wearing formal clothes, black suits and tie, and each of them was holding a bouquet of flowers in their hands.

Seeing them like this, all the English fans calmed down and automatically gave up a road to the monument.

Keegan bent down and placed the flowers in front of the monument, and then moved away. The English players walked up one by one, and with a gentle expression, they placed the flowers in their hands under the monument. There were already many bouquets of flowers, one by one, covering the ground.

It was not until after all this that the entire England national team turned around and walked towards the bus. A burst of applause suddenly sounded in the crowd, and then everyone exclaimed warm applause!

Tiger saw Kelly in the crowd. Tiger smiled slightly, nodded at Kelly, and then walked onto the bus with his teammates.

Feeling the confidence in Tiger's smile, Kelly began to be confident about the next game - her man is the best player, Kelly believed in this.

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"Everyone is almost done warming up, right?" Keegan asked, looking at the players returning to the locker room.

The players nodded one after another. They had just completed the twenty minutes of warm-up, which was completely enough.

"Remember what we said during our training... Turkey played well this time, and they have made rapid progress in recent years. However, they do not have excellent foot skills like Portugal and Romania. Their strength and body are still their best places. However, we should not be afraid of such opponents."

Keegan smiled and said that the players in England also burst into laughter. The two games against Portugal and Romania made the players in England know where their flaws were. However, those two games ended up achieving good results, which made their confidence not disappear. Teams like Turkey are obviously not the type they are afraid of. They are not afraid of their opponents than physically fighting them, and their opponents will not have a technical advantage when facing them.

"They run very actively and the confrontation is fierce, but they don't have any central midfielder. The main offensive player is their center Hakan Suk... This is a center with a strong impact, Thor, he will leave it to you in this game."

Hearing Keegan say this, Campbell nodded immediately - he is really not afraid of such a striker.

"Reduce their crosses from both wings, pay attention to their long shots at the front of the penalty area... Just pay attention to these points. As for the others, we have to attack and use offense to tear their defense line... They are used to playing three defenders, so we have to play more flexible on both wings. Tiger, today your position is the attack midfielder, but I hope you can move more on the wing. When you move on one side, Michael will move on the other side, grasping their weaker defense on the wing to complete the attack. We must win this game!"

Keegan shouted with fists, and Tiger nodded. Keegan's approach is much better than asking him to play a full-length forward directly - at least it only appears on the wing at the right time, which Tiger feels that he can do, and there is no problem.

With this tactical arrangement, England's lineup has become four, three, three, and Tiger's position is infinitely close to the forward, and behind them are three players, Gerald, Beckham and Scholes. In this game, Keegan enabled the young Gerald to serve as the defensive midfielder and placed veteran Ince on the bench.

As for the goalkeeper, because Heyman's injury has not healed, Keegan still sent Leeds goalkeeper Martin - and Martin has a very high desire to participate in this game. His Leeds player alone is enough to treat this game with the highest enthusiasm!

"Winning them and entering the semi-finals is our most basic goal, and this game is something we must win for us. Tens of millions of fans are paying attention to us and hope we can win this game. Now, what do we do?"

"Kill them! Step on their bodies to enter the semi-finals!" The English players shouted loudly!

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"The players from both sides have played... This game has special significance for the English national team. This is the first time they have returned to this place that made them extremely sad in fifteen years... Although this place has been rebuilt, although it is no longer called Heisel Stadium... Before the game, all members of the English national team went to the Heisel Massacre Monument to offer flowers. This action has also been unanimously praised by countless people. Before this game, many people were worried about whether there would be a conflict between England and Turkey fans. However, at least now, such a thing has not happened. The confrontation between the fans of both sides in the stands is very fierce, but under the barrier of a large number of police forces and neutral fans, nothing will happen."

"The game started, and the first one to attack was Türkiye. They attacked from left to right, and England launched a fierce press in the midfield!"

Tiger met Yarsin who was holding the ball, but Yarsin did not dribble the ball, but directly divided the ball to the side.

Hakan Yunsal took the ball and broke forward, Gary Neville met him, Yunsal forced a breakthrough and made a cross, Campbell rushed to the ball in front of Suke.

"Counterattack!" Martin shouted loudly, with high fighting spirit.

The ball was picked up by Gerald, and the young Liverpool midfielder protected the ball and handed it over to Beckham. Beckham looked up and saw that Tiger had run to the right and immediately passed the ball.

"Tiger broke through on the wing! Now in the national team, his position is getting more and more alive... Breakthrough! Get rid of one player... Oh, another Turkish player rushed over and shoveled the ball out of the sideline."

Gary Neville ran up and threw the sideline ball, Beckham took the ball, and then hit the ball across to Tiger at the front of the penalty area. Tiger saw that the opponent's players had basically returned to defense, and was not in a hurry to attack, but passed the ball back, and England began to organize the attack in the frontcourt.

Scholes got the ball on the wing, and Tiger ran to the left to meet again. After receiving the ball, he looked up and observed the situation in the penalty area. Then he passed a curve ball with his right foot outside the back of his foot and into the penalty area. Hiller beat the opponent's defender and headed the ball. The ball was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Rustu, and the defender immediately cleared the ball.

Turkey launched a counterattack, and England's return to defense was very timely. In no way, Turkey's midfielder Abery made a long shot at the front of the penalty area. The long shot hit the ball high, which caused a booing from the English fans in the stands.

"Oh, fortunately, there were no planes flying over the field, otherwise an accident might have happened." Leinker mercilessly mocked the poor attacks of the Turkish players - the relationship between the two countries is now freezing point.

"Attack slowly, don't worry." Tiger retreated and passed the ball out, and then he shouted loudly.

From the contact with Tiger just now, we can see that the Turkish players have average foot skills and good basic skills, but their level is far from Portugal, whether it is dribbling or passing.

England began to cooperate on the ground. Although their feet were not very skilled, with the adhesive Tiger, their short pass attack began to become somewhat similar. After all, the opponent's feet were not very skilled.

After passing it back and forth for a while, England pushed the ball to the midfield. They did not speed up the pace, but instead consciously spent it in the midfield and the opponent. The Turkish players were more impatient than them. Their running was very active, but more often they were consuming physical energy. The English game ended one day earlier than Turkey. They had the advantage in physical fitness. Since they had this advantage, they would continue to expand this advantage!

This situation made everyone unexpected. The Premier League has always been known for its fast pace. Turkey also played very fast in the first three group matches. However, when two such teams met, they played a slow-paced game, which really made people feel a little depressed.

The English players also played a little depressed, but because of Tiger's threading needles in the midfield, they were not particularly depressed. After all, their pass success rate was relatively high. Although they made some mistakes, they did not give the opponent too many opportunities.

On the contrary, after playing for a while, the Turkish players began to become impatient. They tried to speed up the pace, but they were always unable to do so. When they attacked, England pressed in the middle and backcourts very fiercely, forcing them to make mistakes, while when England attacked, they deliberately slowed down the pace and lured them out to press.

The game continued until the fifteenth minute, and the first corner kick appeared in the whole game - it can be seen how dull the game was...

This corner kick belongs to England, Tiger passed the ball to Irving, and Irving broke through the side and was tackled out of the baseline by the opponent.

Beckham took a corner kick, and Rustu made a timely attack and intercepted the ball in the middle, but when he landed, he sprained for a while. The game ended and the team doctor began to enter the field to treat Rustu's injuries.

There were sporadic booing in the stands, which were made by neutral fans - such a boring game is inevitable that they would boo...

However, then, England's offensive rhythm began to accelerate suddenly!

In the next attack, after receiving the ball, Tiger did not organize the attack as slowly as before, but suddenly dribbled the ball into Turkey's half!

When he dribbled the ball and started sprinting, Irving changed to the right, Scholes on the left, and Shearer in front immediately started the Turkey half-time with three arrows at the same time!

The sudden acceleration of the pace made the Turks a little uncomfortable. Their defense began to be in chaos. Tiger shouted, and then passed it straight. After Irving received the ball, he broke into the penalty area and shot. Rustu, who was attacking, saved the ball.

"Okay!" Although there was no goal, Reinkell still applauded England's attacking festival. England's experience was shown at this time, and the Turkish players were obviously a little impatient.

Next, the Turkish players' movements on the court began to grow bigger. Tiger just got the ball at the front of the penalty area when he was directly knocked to the ground by the opponent's defender Alpay.

"Damn it, be careful!" Tiger jumped up and yelled at Alpay. Alpay was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that this guy was not afraid of himself...

"What ball does a coward play? This is a man's sport. Go home and have a breastfeed?" Alpay said disdainfully.

Tiger bit his lip and then smiled at Alpay: "Okay, do you think you are fierce? Next I want to let you know that the orangutan with insufficient IQ can only be a big shot on the court!"

"I will ruin you, boy?" Alpay said viciously.

"That depends on whether you have the ability!" Tiger replied lightly.

Beckham's free kick was high, but Tiger didn't care. Instead, he said to Beckham: "David, remember to pass the ball to me later... I want that bastard to know that big guy is useless on the court!"

"Don't go too far, Tiger." Beckham reminded Tiger.

"It's okay." Tiger said indifferently.

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"Teger got the ball, and Alpay came up. He just fouled against Tiger. It seems that the two of them are getting on..."

Amid the commentator's shouts, the two approached quickly. Tiger raised his right foot and made a forced breakthrough to the right. Then he quickly retracted his right foot, pulled the ball behind him, then quickly turned around and rushed over from Alpay's left!

Tiger has almost tried this action in high-speed running. Except for a few top defensive players such as Nesta Redondo, there are few defenders who can not be shaken by him. Alpay? What is that!

The tall Alpay was indeed shook by Tiger like a pillar. He turned around and wanted to foul, but Tiger pulled the ball out and dodged his feet, as if he was sprinting forward inadvertently and swung his right hand, just passing by Alpay's face...

Alpay was stunned for a moment, then immediately felt a slight pain on his face - when Tiger shook his hand, he stretched his middle finger, and his nails just scratched his face...

The furious Alpay was about to catch up with Tiger to settle the score. Tiger was approaching the front of Turkey's penalty area at this time. Before the defenders could come up to defend, they swung their right foot, which was a powerful long shot!

Rustu took a lot of effort to barely lift the long shot with a strong and heavy shot from the crossbar and a corner kick.

Tiger shook his head and sighed. As soon as he turned around, he saw Alpay running towards him angrily, and then pushed his hands towards him...

Tiger's thoughts were lit up, and then he waited for Alpay's hand to push it up. After the other party's hand was pushed up, he immediately screamed and fell backwards.

Alpay looked at Tiger lying on the ground in amazement. He was just blinded by anger and wanted to go up and teach Tiger a lesson. It seemed nothing to push him, but before he could use force, Tiger immediately fell down like that, as if he was hit by a hammer...

"He is pretending to fall!" Alpay roared, but the referee had already blew the whistle in his mouth at this time, ran up with a blue face, and then showed Alpay a red card.

"I didn't push him at all, he fell down by himself!" Alpay distinguished himself: "And when he broke through just now, he grabbed my face with his hands!"

The referee shook his head firmly. Even if Tiger fell a little too much, who asked you Alpay to do this? And he caught up from such a distance and pushed him. This was an extremely bad behavior, no worse than fighting on the court. As for you, he said he grabbed your face... Sorry, Tiger's move that shook his hand just now was very normal...

Alpay walked down the field helplessly. When he looked back unwillingly, he saw that Tiger, who was still humming just now, had already climbed up from the lawn, and grinned at him with his teeth.

Alpay almost rushed to the court again to beat Tiger. Fortunately, there were many others around him at this time, so he pushed him and pulled him off the court.

"Red card! Turkey lost one person in the 28th minute of the first half, which was a big blow... Let's take a look at slow motion... Alpay's action was really self-defeated. He ran from such a distance to push Tiger. This action was deliberately provoked, and there was nothing to say about taking a red card. Turkey's movements on the court today are very big. I hope this red card can calm them down."

"Calm down? Let them get crazier, then our game will be easier." Tiger said to Beckham with a smile.
Chapter completed!