Chapter 116 The next opponent

Even after a night, some of England's supporters still couldn't believe this reality - their team defeated Portugal 4:2.

The game seemed like a dream, and it was impressive.

Portugal is also a traditional European team, which is logically comparable to England's strength. So it is not a big deal to win Portugal, but it is easy to win. It would be abnormal to win a score of 4:2...

Although England has not taken advantage of it from the beginning to the end, the score says everything. 4:2, it makes people proud.

The English media's analysis of this is very simple, and unexpectedly consistent - it's not that Portugal is too weak, but that we are too strong! England is a world-class strong team, and it is normal to defeat the top European team Portugal 4:2. English fans are used to the fact that the media says they believe whatever the media says. Since the media says that England is strong, then England is really strong.

For a time, the country was filled with various optimism, as if it was no longer a problem to qualify in the group, and even European champions were easy to win.

Later, not only did this kind of thought happen in China, but also some people in the England team thought so.

They thought that without George Wood, the game would be very difficult. Unexpectedly, they could win easily with a strong team like Portugal, which made them very proud.

The atmosphere was very relaxed during the training the next day, and everyone was still talking about yesterday's game, which made people feel excited when they reminisce.

Don Eun didn't care about these things either.                                                                                                                         �

The training lasted only half a day, and Don Ann announced that he would have a holiday, and today and all day will have a holiday tomorrow. Anyway, there is enough time. The Premier League is the league with the most intense schedule, and the players of England are also more tired than players in other leagues. Don Ann seizes every opportunity to give the team a holiday in order to avoid them being too tired.

The players are very happy that they can go shopping.   Relax.

But there was one person who didn't live with them.

George Wood was sleeping in the hotel swimming pool to continue his recovery training. Although the coaching staff told him that he didn't need to work so hard, no one could persuade Wood, who was determined to do so.

Tang En didn't care about Wood. He decided to give himself a half-day vacation and go to find Shania. The European Cup is a job for him, but a vacation for Shania.

After a simple disguise, the two of them wandered around the streets of Barcelona. No one was wearing fans passing by. The English fans did not recognize the person wearing sunglasses and a beautiful woman with him was Tony Donn, and the Welsh fans would not care about him even more.

England's next game is also here. It's still Camp Nou. After playing against Wales, they will move to Valencia to prepare for a focus battle with the German team.

"It's only now that I'm in the mood to go shopping." Tang En sighed at the people around him.

"Are you more pressure going backwards?" Shania held Tang En's arm and snuggled on his shoulder.

“That’s natural.”

"Isn't it because I should come out to relax?" Xianya smiled a little badly.

Tang En stretched out his hand that was not held by Shania and scraped her nose.

"Lying in bed and thinking about it, you will relax." Don En said a pun. Shania obviously thought of what he was talking about. She was generous in the sunny streets of Barcelona, ​​and turned her head and kissed Don En.

After saying goodbye to Shaniya, Tang En slowly walked back to the hotel alone.

Some players have already come back early. They are sitting in the cafe to rest. Seeing that the boss is back, they all get up and say hello to him. Don Eun swept around among them and asked, "Where is George?"

Everyone knows that the boss cares about George very much, which is beyond the coach's concern for the players. So he is not surprised, and looks at each other, then shruggs at the boss: "I didn't see him. Maybe in the room, maybe in the swimming pool, maybe in the gym. "

"Well...you keep playing." Tang En waved his hand and left the cafe. He walked towards the gym.

He thought Wood might be big in the gym.

Sure enough, as soon as he walked around the door, he heard the sound of equipment hitting it. The hotel gym had been booked by the England team, and at this time the only one who could practice inside was George Wood.

Tang En stood at the door and saw the sturdy figure with his back facing the exit at a glance. On his naked back, sweat flashed with dazzling light under the light.

"Go for a break, George." Don shouted with his voice raised.

Wood looked back at Tang En standing at the door, and he obediently got off the equipment.

"How do you feel?" Tang En walked up and handed him a dry towel.

"Very good." Wood ended up with a towel and wiped his face.

"It seems that I'm recovering well. I'm relieved." Tang En looked at his big toe on his right foot. There was no sign of anything unusual there with his naked eyes.

In fact, when Don En came to him this time, he wanted to tell him something.                                                      

Logically speaking, a lineup that can win continuously should not be replaced at will unless there is a special situation like injury. If you are lucky, this lineup without George Wood has been winning all the time, winning the knockout stage, and there are no injuries that bother him. So after Wood recovers from his injury, will the team still have his place?

Although Don En loves Wood, otherwise he would not insist on bringing Wood, whose foot injury has not yet recovered, to Spain. But he is not a personal relationship better than anything else. He is actually a utilitarian head coach. Since this lineup can bring him victory, what reason does Wood have to intervene? Whether in terms of the result or the unity of the locker room, he cannot forcibly break up the lineup that can win, just to make a place for Wood to come back.

This is wrong. If he does this, the prestige he has established within the team will be in danger of disintegration.

But if Wood is not allowed to play, what is the purpose of bringing him to Spain? Wood must be unwilling to sit on the bench all the time. It would be fine if he won the European Cup, what if he lost in the middle? Will Wood hate himself for the rest of his life?

So he wanted to have a good talk with Wood.

"Is there anything wrong with me?" Wood asked when he saw Tang En was stunned.

"Well..." Tang En scratched his hair, "George, do you remember what I told you? It was by the swimming pool in this hotel. I said that even if you waited until the knockout stage, I can't guarantee whether you can play the game. You know what that means?"

Wood nodded, not embarrassing Tang En: "I know. Now that the team has won the ball, we cannot easily change the main lineup."

Tang En breathed a sigh of relief when Wood was so sensible.

Tang En didn't tell him nonsense, "You are the captain, you must set an example." He knew that Woodken said this, which means he accepted this reality.

But Wood suddenly added: "I will try my best to get a chance to play."

Tang En smiled: "Don't work too hard, be careful to hurt your feet again. Go and go and rest. Relax for a while." He pulled Wood.

But Wood shook his head: "I still have a group of sit-ups..."

Tang En shrugged: "Anyway, if you hurt again, you really won't have a chance."

"I know.  " Wood was already busy.

Tang En waved his hand, turned around and walked out.

This kid is in such good health, why is he injured?

God has been unhappy when I saw me being domineering for eleven years. Do you want to cause me some trouble?

You thief!

While England players were still relaxing on the streets and alleys and sunny beaches in Barcelona, ​​Wales were closing down to practice hard. It seemed that they were not preparing for a group match, but the European Cup final.

Gareth Bale has become the focus of the team because the training has been around his expertise in the past few days - set pieces drills.

Toshak designed no less than ten set-piece tactics for Wales, all of which need to be completed by Bale. Now all over Europe knows that Bale is a master of free kicks. As long as he stands in front of the ball, the opponent's goalkeeper will be nervous.

Wales lost to Germany without any suspense in the first group match. 0:3, they were shaved and lost without any power to fight back. Although this result was expected by Welsh fans, the Welsh players did not want to accept such a result. After finally forty years, they reached the European Cup finals again. How could they leave in the group stage? The Welsh players who had never been able to participate in such a world competition had ambitions and wanted to prove their strength.

Toshaq is expected to underestimate the opponent after a big victory over Portugal. Tony Donn is now probably full of his mind against the German team, which is exactly what he can use.

After the team's joint training ended, Bale stayed and practiced directly with free kicks.

According to the original agreement, he came to Spain. But he did not intend to stop. Even when facing his mentor, he would have defeated him as a target.

Toshak appears outside the court: "Garrez."

Bell looked back at his coach, gasping for breath.

"It's time to go back."

This is not in the club, you can go home by yourself after the extra training. They borrowed the Espanyol's home Olympic Stadium (luis_companys). After the training is over here, the whole team needs to take a bus to return to the hotel. Bale's extra training time cannot be too long, otherwise it will affect the team's work and rest time.

Bale kicked the last football placed under his feet towards the goal. The football bypassed the wall. But it finally hit the crossbar and bounced out.

Someone went to clean up the equipment on the court, and Bell left the court with his head down.

The twenty-six-year-old Belle looks much more mature than before.

Toshak thought so as to look at his back.

The English media have begun to hype the Battle of England and Germany. Everyone buys newspapers that Englishmen will remind everyone in a prominent position how many days, hours and minutes there are still in the Battle of England and Germany.

Everyone is on the bus, on the subway, in the office, in their own kitchen, in the bar, in the streets and alleys... wherever they gather with others, they are talking about "Germany".

The grudges between the English and the Germans have been so long that they give people the illusion that their grudges have begun from the day modern football was born?

At the same time, Wales, as the weakest team in this group, is not enough to arouse the interest of arrogant Englishmen.

"We beat Portugal 4:2, do you still need to worry about Wales? A neighbor who is struggling under our noses, the weak can't bear to kill them."

If there are statistics, it is estimated that 100% of England fans will think so.

Not only England's fans and media ignored Wales, but even England's players believed that Wales' game was insignificant.

In an interview, Michael Johnson said that he had no doubts about the team's ability to defeat Wales, and that Germany should be really careful.

Mitcher mentioned Wales, but that was because his friend Gareth Bale was on the team.

"Bell is a very outstanding player. I think we should be careful of his free kicks..." After all, it is said that Bale is very powerful. As for other Welsh players, he probably doesn't know who some people are.

On the contrary, the Welsh players expressed great respect and importance to England. They did not seem to be angry by the English attitude. When talking about England, they all said that England is very powerful and very powerful.

It seems that they are really afraid of the powerful England and dare not have any other ideas.

The Welsh media also said that it was already very satisfied that they could participate in the finals of the European Cup. This was the biggest breakthrough in Welsh football in the past forty years. It was really bad luck to be assigned to the death group, and there was no way to qualify in the group...

The first loss to Germany has shown Wales' strength well. Unrealistic delusions will not help the team. They only need to play three group matches well. At least, when they leave the European Cup, they cannot be in a mess without a single goal.

"We aim to score goals against England," Toshak said humbly. "We want to leave a little proof that we have been here."

So why didn't Tony Don't think about this?

"Welsh is a very powerful opponent, we will deal with it seriously..." He seemed a little absent-minded when he said this.

"Must and wrong!" The Welsh reporters commented on Don En's performance in their hearts. "I'm afraid that all he pretends to be 'German' in his mind now?"

I complained in my heart that England did not respect their opponents, but the Welsh reporters themselves knew that it would be better not to have any hope in tomorrow's game. England is now in a strong morale, and even facing Germany, they have the belief that they will win. Not to mention Little Wales...

Forty years, I finally entered the European Cup finals again, but I just gave the green leaves under the roses and the dishes to serve people...

Although this is a fact, it really makes people feel unwilling to think about it.
Chapter completed!