Chapter 137 Beware of England

After Diarra blocked a attack from Gerald, he kept looking at Wood opposite him provocatively. The meaning was obvious - don't hide behind like a turtle, come up, boy!

George Wood certainly saw what Diyala meant, but he was unmoved and continued to stay in the backcourt to do tandem work.

Puel was complaining at first that Diara did not listen to his command. After seeing Diara intercepting England's attack one after another, he stopped saying a word. The rear of the French team obviously became stable...

Of course, Don En can't let this happen. Once the French team's defense is stable, they will readjust the offensive, and it will be their turn to bear the pressure.

Gerald was obviously at a disadvantage in the fight with Diyala. His age and physical strength made him less at ease in physical confrontation than before. Tang En thought about it and decided to let Gerald come back to replace Wood, and let Wood step forward to participate in the offense. Both of them are midfielders who can attack and defend, and swap each other will not cause chaos.

Tang En walked to the sidelines and whistled inside. Wood turned his eyes and made a gesture of changing positions. Wood immediately understood.

Then, taking advantage of the dead ball, Wood and Gerald completed the handover at work.

Next, Diyala was very happy to find that the person who rushed up this time was not Gerald, but George Wood!

Although Wood did not get the ball, Diyala was still highly vigilant about him. He knew that Wood was the core of England. Although he didn't know why he hid in the backcourt in the first half, it didn't matter. Now he finally couldn't help but get out of the hole.

Sure enough, Abanglaho quickly passed the football to Wood, and he encountered some trouble. After the French full-back did not assist, he could not play his speed advantage. He could only hand over the football to Wood to reorganize.

When Diyala saw Wood get the ball, she put it on. Wood didn't seem to have the intention to get rid of it with speed. Instead, she turned around to protect the football and waited for Diyala to come up.

The two major midfielders faced each other head-on, and Diyala lost in strength.

He only felt that as soon as Wood leaned back, his body lost balance and had to lean back. At the critical moment, he grabbed Wood's clothes with his hands and maintained his balance again.

Wood did not give him a chance to continue to pester himself. He leaned back and took advantage of Diara's attention to maintaining balance and passed the football to Gerald who came up to pick him up, then turned around and rushed forward. Gerald made a straight pass just in time. The tacit cooperation between the two midfielders got rid of Diara.

When Diyala rushed up and got involved, Wood accelerated suddenly and got rid of him. He also penetrated straight into the middle of the penalty area!

"He wants to break through the center! Stop him!" goalkeeper Loris shouted behind the defenders.

Wood's sudden breakthrough attracted the attention of all French defenders. Sarco was standing in front of him, and Krish was also moving closer to the middle. Seeing that the two sides were about to meet, Wood shook his ankles and drove the football to the side!

Although Mitchel and Rooney are still under the close surveillance of the French defender, no one on the wing Abanglahoko is watching...

After seeing Wood pass the ball to the side, Mitcher and Rooney tacitly penetrated the goal, while Wood stopped at the edge of the penalty area and did not rush forward.

The central defenders were all attracted by the breakthrough of the two forwards and followed them to the penalty area.

In front of Wood, a blank area of ​​three to five meters wide appeared.

Diarra was the first to keenly realize the other party's intentions, and he rushed to Wood ten meters away.

At the same time, Abang Lajo made a cross! The football did not fly to any England striker, but rolled obliquely towards George Wood!

Diyala guessed it right!

Wood stood there, turned sideways towards the ball, swung his right foot, and he wanted to shoot directly!

How could Diyala make Wood get what he wants? Even if he risked his card, he would stop him from shooting!

Diyala made up his mind and flew from the side toward Wood's legs. Wood realized the danger. If it were normal, he would have forced a shot, but at this moment he thought of his right foot and two more games...

At this point, Wood gave up his plan to shoot directly and let the football pass by his feet, and he jumped up.

He was still a little late. Although he dodged his right foot, Diyala was hooked to his left foot. He lost his center of gravity.

Everyone heard the referee's whistle when Wood fell to the ground.

They became nervous. Is it a penalty or a free kick?

The Woodman fell into the penalty area, but was the foul spot in the penalty area?

The referee ran to the foul spot and stopped. He did not continue to run into the penalty area, nor did he point his hand at the penalty spot.

"It's not a penalty!" The Frenchman breathed a sigh of relief.

The Englishman was a little dissatisfied: "This is a foul that was enough to be sent off directly!"

However, the referee only showed Diarra one yellow card, which caused booing from England fans in the stands.

Wood was pulled up from the ground by Gerald, which made Diara a little embarrassed when he was about to come and show his favor in person. He stepped forward and patted Wood on the shoulder and walked away. Although the fight was fierce, he did not need to make enemies with Wood. His special relationship with Wood was limited to being on the court.

"Is it okay?" Gerald asked after Diara left.

Wood shook his left foot and shook his head: "It's okay."

It seems that it's really okay, because Wood's walking posture when he left Gerald was normal. But he was stopped by Gerald: "George, stay."

Wood felt strange, but he stopped and looked back at Gerald.

Gerald walked forward: "You're standing here. Let's make a free kick to cooperate..."

When Bentley was not playing, Gerald was responsible for taking the direct free kick, and he also scored with free kicks many times in Liverpool. The Frenchman obviously knew about it, so when he saw Gerald standing in front of the ball, the wall seemed very nervous - on the one hand, he was afraid of being scored, and on the other hand, he was afraid of being shot by Gerald's powerful shot... It felt bad.

Wood stood five meters away from Gerald, but no one cared about him. Including Diyala. Everyone in the world knew that George Wood would not give a free kick. Whether in Nottingham Forest or in the England national team, the free kick had nothing to do with him, and he was not even qualified to serve as a cover.

When he stood there today, people just thought that it was just standing there. If he thought about it further, he would at most counterattack on the spot after Gerald's free kick hit the wall. He regained the ball possession.

Gerald placed the football seriously at the referee's designated free throw location, just in the penalty area!

This position made the French feel scared and the English feel very unhappy - it was almost a penalty kick!

"Free kicks on the penalty area line... are not a good position. Playing here requires better skills, otherwise the probability of football hitting the wall is very high." Motson frowned. This position is really not good. I won't say it's almost a penalty kick. It's not OK to get too close to the goal.

Gerald never won a free kick in a arc, and it is really not appropriate for him to come to the penalty area.

The bystanders did not have much hope for this free kick. Gerald didn't see that. Standing in front of the football, he stared at the goal, his eyes were like a torch. After putting the football on, he stepped back and prepared to play.

Wood stood five meters away from him. He was looking at the penalty area. Because he wanted to defend this free kick, the people in the penalty area were mainly concentrated on the wall of the man, in order to block the goal as much as possible and share the pressure for the goalkeeper. This time, the French team's man wall lined up with seven people, almost blocking half of the goal. Loris was nervously deploying defense on the other side.

Most of England's teammates wanted to squeeze into the wall, but they were pushed out by the French. They simply stood directly in front of the wall. This of course caused the French to be dissatisfied. While pushing hard, they raised their hands to protest to the referee: Look, are they here to play football?

The referee had to signal Gerald to wait a little longer, and he ran in to mediate the conflict between the two sides. He warned the cunning English not to stand in front of the wall, but to be on the side... In addition, he warned French players not to get started. Both sides are not allowed to have conflicts or push.

After a minute of tossing, England finally successfully squeezed into someone. Downing was stuck between Sarco and Mexses. Although the other party was very unhappy, since he successfully squeezed in, there was nothing he could do about him.

When the English players made such a fuss, everyone focused on the direct free kick. In fact, even the English players thought so. They thought Gerald would shoot directly. Except for Gerald himself and George Wood.

The referee finally withdrew. He signaled that Gerald could play football.

Since Gerald started running, the French team's walls were particularly nervous. They leaned back, protecting their hearts with one hand and crotch with the other, ready to jump at any time, and worried that the football that Gerald shot would roll over under their feet against the grass. Just as they were struggling, Gerald ran to the football and swung his feet...

Are you going to shoot?

The French screamed in their hearts.

But Gerald passed the football horizontally!

"This is... George Wood!!"

Both the commentator from England and the commentator from French TV stations were screaming.

As the football rolled, George Wood appeared in the camera. This time he swung his left foot and his body slightly sideways, in the same posture as before, but this time no one would come to interfere with him...

“…Far-range shot—!!!”

Wood hit the football with his left foot, and the ball roared and flew to the lower right corner of the goal like a cannonball!

No one reacted to this sudden change. The nervous wall of humans was watching the football flying towards the other goal with surprise. Loris didn't even make a save, and just stood there and watched the football rolling into the goal from him...

“Huh?”

This is the first reaction of Loris and other French players.

Huge cheers came quickly, rushing their doubts without a trace - they were three goals behind!

"Beautiful long shot! The set-piece cooperation between Gerald and Wood! England leads France with three goals!" Motson shouted.

After scoring the goal, Wood had no time to make a celebration move, but Gerald rushed over and hugged him. Then more teammates rushed up to surround them to celebrate the goal.

The goal was scored in a timely manner, completely dispelling the morale and fighting spirit of the French team. In international competitions like the European Cup, few teams can still reverse when they are behind three goals.

England's bench was also full of joy, leading by three goals, basically setting the victory. It was only a matter of time before they advanced to the semi-finals.

The French could not believe what they saw with their eyes. They planned to fight back in the second half, but they didn't expect England to score another goal... Such a blow took almost all their strength. Seeing the English hugging each other to celebrate the goal, they just wanted to fall to the ground and not get up again.

Donn is just as excited as his players, but this time he didn't go to Puel to dance as he didn't need to do that anymore, and France is about to become a past. A loser who has been trampled in the mud by him. Do you need to take a look?

After the game started again, the French team was a little absent-minded, or in a daze. At 0:2, he could still tell himself that he had to fight. Now it is 0:3?

Puel didn't know what to do.   The three goals were behind, and the possibility of a reverse game was too small.    The most important thing is, in the face of such a situation, does he have any solution?

England is not a philanthropist and will not give the French team this time. Now the French team has suffered a heavy blow. It seems to be in a dilemma, which is a good opportunity for England to launch a large-scale attack. Don't need to give more reminders on the sidelines, the English players naturally know what they should do.

After a storm, England scored again. The English fans were even a little numb, and some French fans even started to leave early with more than 20 minutes to finish the game.

This time, Mitcher was still the one who scored the goal. He received a cross from Tangning on the wing and scored a header. From this concealment, it was obvious that the French central defender was absent-minded and absent-minded. It was so much so that Mitcher, the high center forward, easily jumped up and headed the ball in front of the goal. Even if Loris was so powerful, he would be unable to make a comeback. After conceding the ball, he didn't even scold his central defender, but he was depressed and kicked the ball back to the goal.

"The game is over. The French are finished." Donn opened his arms and turned to his partner Des Walker. "The game was played like this, and even Walker didn't expect that England could defeat France so easily...

"4:0..." Motson couldn't believe his eyes, "The French team, known as the biggest favorite to win the championship before the game, was so vulnerable in front of England... Is it because the French team is too weak, or are we too strong?"

No one can answer his question at this time, because even the most hardcore English fans couldn't believe what was happening in front of them, and their brains couldn't understand...

Although there are still twenty minutes left before the end of the game. It is obvious that the French are not interested in fighting. Only Diyala is still working very hard, but his efforts are somewhat unable to find the goal...

After England led 4:0, Donn replaced George Wood with Michael Johnson. He was still worried about Wood's big toe on his right foot. Since he was sure to win, there was no need to continue to let Wood on the court. If a French player was angry and rushed towards Wood with a burning mentality, it would be too late to regret it.

Donne's move to replace Wood also means that the game ended early. In the subsequent game, the French team has always been difficult to organize an effective offensive, and the frontcourt attack lineup that was highly anticipated before the game. It has not played any role at all. The French commentator was a little angry and claimed that none of the French team's performance was qualified in this game.

He said it was not bad, especially those front-field attack clusters that were praised, all of which were dimly starry under George Wood's iron curtain.

Starting from England's fourth goal, England fans kept singing in the stands until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, and the song suddenly turned into a huge cheer to see the French off.

"The French team ended their trip to Spain with this shameful score... England won unexpectedly and was the first to advance to the semi-finals! Tony Donn has made one thing understand throughout Europe - his team is very strong! Very strong!"

The Spanish coach who was responsible for coming to watch the game and observing his opponent only wrote this sentence in his notepad for the final summary of the game:

Be careful England.
Chapter completed!