Chapter 101: Quit early

The new season has begun for half a month, and it is the national team game day again.

Tang En is now worried about the team's roster.

The league started with three rounds, but many people were injured. Wayne Rooney had to rest for a week, Michael Carrick had a sprained knee joint, and optimistically they would have to rest for two weeks. Bentley was injured again not long after he recovered from injury. Like last time, the old problem - a leg ligament strain, which would not be cured for at least one month. Downing was in a calf strain in the game with Wales on August 24, and was absent for two weeks. In addition, Terry also received a red card in that game and would be suspended for two games.

All those who are injured will be replaced and need to find a suitable substitute.

So Chris Cohen received the first call from the national team, asking him to pack up and go to London to report, and meet with the national team to Macedonia.

Although he was a first-team player when Nottingham Forest won the triple-tall championship, he had a stable chance of playing. But he has never been selected for the England team. After all, there are Downing and James Milner in this position, while he is relatively mediocre and has a balanced ability in all aspects. His only advantage may be that he is active in defense and does not hesitate to exercise physical strength.

Don En recruited another Forest player and continued to be nepotism. But now he is criticizing him a little less because his team continues to win. As long as he can win, who cares if he plans to replace the England national team with Nottingham Forest?

Cohen was a little flattered, and then he was sure that he was not dreaming. This was not a reality show for slapping people. Because after the FA called him, Tang En's phone number also came.

"Chris. I mentioned you from the reserve team to the first team, and now I transferred you from the Forest team to the national team. To be honest, I am under a lot of pressure. If you don't perform well, I will be scolded to death. I don't care about this. But if your performance is not good, it will definitely make the English team disunity..."

Cohen knew what Tangen meant, and he replied: "Don't worry, boss. I will definitely not embarrass you!"

Cohen is replacing Tang Ning, who left the team with an injured person, but Tang An cannot guarantee him a chance to play because the competition is quite large in the same position.

James Milner and Walcott can both play on the left-handed forward. If you want to play for England for the first time, you need to show all your strength in training to impress Don.                                         

Mock envied Cohen for being selected for the national team. You should know that his position in the Forest team is relatively strong now, but the boss never called him once. Even if Bentley was injured twice, he used Walcott to replace him.

Terry was injured, and Manchester City's Micha Richards replaced him for the national team. Previously, due to his ups and downs in his condition, he had been hovering at the door of the national team. Although he was very talented, he had a high call for the national team. But Don Enning would offend half of the Manchester people, but he would not recruit Richards to join the national team.

As a young star, Richards has long become famous in the Premier League and even in European football. He was often selected for the national team during the Capello era. In addition to not receiving any decent honors in the club, he is considered the best among his peers. This experience makes him a little arrogant. Sometimes he is not focused on playing football.

Don't believe in evil, so he wants to kill the majesty of the Manchester City vice captain. So since he joined the England team, Richards has never been selected for the national team. Manchester media analyzed whether Don't have any conflicts with Richards.

Don N has never admitted this matter, and Richards occasionally complained. Now it's OK. He was summoned to the national team. Although he replaced Terry, he finally bought this goal, and was selected for the first time since Tony Donn coached the national team.

There will be a second time when there is a first time, as long as he can seize the opportunity.

Michael Carrick was unable to participate in the national team due to injury, and Tottenham Hotspur’s Delphi reinforcements were on the spot. The substitute of Rooney was Everton’s top scorer James Vaughan. Bentley’s replacement was Matt Derby Sher from Blackburn.

With such a team, Don flew to Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.

Even at home, Macedonia cannot pose any threat to England. This is the idea of ​​all England fans.

The English players think so too.  The previous ten qualifiers.    England achieved an impressive record of nine wins and one draw, and qualifying in the group was not a problem at all.   They have long since taken the opponents in the group game seriously.

After the competition began, it seemed that the same development was also developed.

Just seven minutes into the kick-off, Walcott made a cross from the wing after breaking through, and Mitcher easily jumped up and headed the ball. England led 1:0.

After taking the lead early, England's players began to relax and absent-mindedly.

This made Tang En very dissatisfied. He kept walking around the sidelines, shouting with his teeth and claws to continue the attack.

Macedonia performed much better than they did when they played away against England. They threatened England's goal many times in the middle of the game.

It was not until 72 minutes lower. England took advantage of a corner kick opportunity and scored by Richards, who replaced Terry, who scored a header. The score was locked at 2:0, which basically ended the game.

After scoring the goal, Richards was very excited. He ran to the camera of the TV camera and yelled. After being "neglected" by Don En for a year, he finally used this goal to prove his worth.

After the game, Don Eun did not praise the team's performance, but instead sarcastically mocked them in the locker room.

"You only had three kicks in the game with sixteen shots!" How could he not be angry about this statistics? " Should I be happy that we were so efficient and scored two goals within the three-legged goal frame? Or are you sorry for the other nine-legged goal that you missed? And four-legged ones were blocked... This is your statistics, gentlemen! When facing a small Macedonian, you can play like this, how can you face a stronger opponent?"

A group of players were silent by Tang En. They also knew that they played very ordinary in this game. The boss said it was also good because when they faced Macedonia, they could not cheer up.

Tang En looked at the group of players. He knew in his heart that no matter what he said about playing against a team that was too weak, the players would definitely underestimate the enemy. They also had their own small calculations and could not listen to their own everything. They were living people, not puppets in their hands.

"I don't want to see any more competitions like today."

Tang En threw down this sentence and left the locker room.

A group of players looked at each other, but they still didn't understand that even if they underestimated the enemy, they won the game after all. There is no need for the boss to be so angry, right?

How could they know that Tang En valued the most is the team's spiritual will. He could lose but shake his will. It is not scary to underestimate the enemy, but what is scary is the casual game attitude. Once he develops the habit, he will give the team a fatal blow at the critical moment.

Only the players of the Forest team understand why the boss is dissatisfied. Because this is how the boss asked the team when he was in the Forest team.

England won Macedonia, although the process did not satisfy Donn, the result was good. Now they have accumulated twenty-five points and firmly ranked first in the group, as Denmark, ranked fifth, and Ireland, 1:1 in this round of the match. Only 20 points were accumulated. The gap between the first and second widened to five points.

As a result of the next round of the game, England will go to challenge Denmark away, which is a six-point game, so as long as England can defeat Denmark, they will advance with two rounds left.

In the eyes of the English media, the England team has already obtained tickets to Spain. Because it is not a problem to play Denmark away, they have played a cycle in the qualifiers and found that there is no team in this group that can cause trouble for Tony Don't.

Whether it is Denmark or Serbia, they were previously considered to be a strong team. But they are vulnerable to the powerful England team.

The English media started to clamor for the strongest England team in history, and they will surely sweep across the European continent. Serbia and Denmark cannot stop the team's progress at all. Tony Donn's unbeaten game since leading the team will continue.

Tang En was tired of hearing such arguments.

However, Don Ng did feel a little nervous about the next game. The media's overly optimistic will definitely affect the team's mood, look at what happened in Skopje. Fortunately, their opponent was only Macedonia in that game. What would happen if it were Denmark? The Pirates would not easily miss such an opportunity at home.

What made him even more worried was that this kind of pride would probably bring more terrifying results when the European Cup was in the future.

Since criticizing the team's performance in Skopje, the players have found that the boss's smile has decreased significantly.

When being interviewed, the boss was much more cautious when talking about Denmark. He kept emphasizing that Denmark is a strong team. He respects Denmark very much and his posture is so low that he can't be any lower. The most arrogant head coach actually takes the initiative to show weakness, which is really shocking.

The players were talking about this.

"The boss's performance is abnormal..."

"What's wrong with it? He's showing it to us!"

"Do it for us to show?"

"I don't want us to underestimate the enemy."

"What kind of enemies do we lose against Denmark?"

"It's hard to say... the team won consecutively, and I think the match against Denmark is no longer a problem..."

"It's all, it's not a problem to qualify. I don't know what the boss is worried about..."

"I really can't get any excuse for the opponent who can win if you kick it."

"Look at you underestimate the enemy!"

"ah……"

Such comments happen frequently among players.

The day before the game started. In the hotel where the England team stayed. Done summoned the entire team to a tactical meeting. As a result, he did not talk about tactics, and the first sentence scared the players.

"I'm wondering. Should we deliberately lose to Denmark?"

Tang En touched his chin and spoke without looking like he was joking. Everyone was shocked and widened his eyes and opened his mouth to look at their head coach. I wonder why the boss said that.

"Anyway, we will definitely be able to qualify. It doesn't matter if you lose a game. I don't care much about the record of unbeaten. It doesn't make much sense. Compared to this, I hope to pour cold water on those dizzy media... But are you willing to do this?"

He asked at the players.

As the captain, Wood stood up: "I don't like doing this, boss."

"reason?"

"I don't like losing, and I don't like losing intentionally."

Wood's words were approved by many players, and they all agreed.

"In fact, boss..." Mitchel also stood up: "Don't worry that we are being tempted by the media. We are not children. We don't know anything."

His words also received the approval and echo of many players.

Don En spread his hands: "Am I worried? I've seen that emotion among you. Some of you must think that Denmark is a team that can win if you play casually, right?"

Some of the players shrank their necks and lowered their heads.

"Since you don't want to lose, then I need to make some adjustments to the starting lineup..."

In this way, Donn put all the players in Nottingham Forest in the starting lineup. Joe Matok, Chris Cohen, Mitcher, Abanglaho, and captain George Wood.

He shouted at the starting lineup where Nottingham Forest players is the majority, "You know what I want!"

"victory!!"

Denmark once tried to resist, so they scored a goal.

However, the counterattack storm in England was too fierce, and the storm was so heavy that the Danes could not raise their heads.

2:1. They defeated Denmark away and won the game, thus obtaining the right to qualify two rounds in advance.

When the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, England players rushed into the court and hugged his teammates who had run on the court for ninety minutes. They knew that no matter what other teams played, they had successfully entered the European Cup finals in Spain.

Tang En also breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and clenched his fists and waved it, and then he was hugged by his colleagues in the coaching team. The first goal on the contract was achieved.

The only place he has to consider is the European Cup.

Sean Barclay, CEO of the FA, stood up and applauded on the rostrum at the stadium. She smiled and showed off his keen eyes to the people next to her: "If I hadn't called him, how could this be today?"

"Everyone says Tony Tangen is unruly, but under the leadership of Mr. Barclay, I can't see this at all." Barclay's flattery made Barclay "very happy".

In the eyes of these people, Tang En actually honestly for a year. If it weren't for Mr. Sean Barclay's personal charm, who could have done it?

The news that England has qualified early must have stimulated several other teams in this group that want to qualify.

In a battle the next day, Wales, which was originally ranked fourth, defeated Serbia 2:1 away. Taking advantage of Denmark's chance of losing, he jumped to second place in the group and led Denmark by two points, and he was very likely to advance to the European Cup directly as the second place in the group.

It is worth mentioning that Wales' two goals all came from one person.

Gareth Bale broke through Serbia's goal with two direct free kicks in the game, and almost sent Wales to the second place in the group alone.

The whole country of Wales was full of joy because their team finally had the opportunity to participate in the international competition. Bale, who scored two goals for the team, rose to a very impressive height, and the sound of praise was overwhelming. But he only remembered the agreement he made with Don Endi on the sidelines.

I must go to Spain!
Chapter completed!