Chapter 141: The ship is strong and the cannon is powerful

Jero and the Spanish coaching staff both guessed that Donn would use rude fouls to deal with a technical team like Spain, but they did not expect that what appeared in front of them was such a completely unfamiliar England...

Not to mention them, even the English fans and commentators had to rub their eyes. It was not possible to confirm that the eleven players in white jerseys and dark blue shorts in front of them represented England.

When the Spanish team was preparing to kick off, the English players stood in their half, and the formation was obviously 352. This surprised many people who were familiar with England, because England rarely used their traditional 442 formation in memory. If they had broad knowledge and good memory, they would remember that Venables made similar adjustments at the English local European Championships twenty years ago, England vs. Scotland and Gascoin scored that classic goal game.

But apart from that, I can never remember other battle examples.

This change of formation made Espanyol completely unexpected - who would study the battle examples twenty years ago... Their pre-game preparations were all against England at 442. That team had four defenders, and there was a big difference between four defenders and three defenders. And that team did not have the "front midfielder" setting... Now, Gerald is standing in the front midfielder position.

The Spanish players on the court were surprised. Ingra's change made them a little overwhelmed... If they continued to follow the pre-match deployment, they would leave a lot of room for England. But if they wanted to change, how would they change?

what to do?

The Spanish players looked at each other and found the same questions in each other's eyes.

Yero knew that it was not the time to hesitate. Although he was not clear about what Tony Tangen wanted to change the formation like this, he had to do the prevention work first. He walked to the sidelines and shouted to his subordinates: "Be careful of their Gerald! Gerald!"

Jeroti's idea is very simple. Since Gerald appears in the front midfielder, he must be responsible for the organization of England's offense. He has done similar work at Liverpool, which is not unfamiliar to Gerald.

Since the head coach asked to keep Gerald at it, as the only defensive midfielder in the team, Ignacio Camacho, naturally has no choice.

Don En laughed when he saw this change in Spain off the court.

This is exactly what he hopes to see.

Gerald did try to organize the offense several times later, but under Camacho's tight control, no threatening passes were made. This made Camacho and Jero both believe that Gerald is the core of the England team.

Within the fifteen minutes of the game, George Wood defended wholeheartedly and led his teammates to block Spain's offense. He mainly targeted Fabregas. He was slapped twice in the first fifteen minutes of the game, but fortunately he had not received a yellow card. In fact, Done didn't want him to foul so frequently, because George Wood was carrying a yellow card. If he got a yellow card in this game, even if England could eliminate Spain, Wood would miss the final. This is definitely something Done does not want to see. He hopes that his team can enter the finals and hopes that George Wood will not miss it.

In this game, Spain lined up a single forward lineup, with Boyon standing alone at the front. Torres was injured, and in order to ensure he could participate in the final, the Spanish coaching staff decided to let him sit on the bench. Behind Boyon is Iniesta, followed by Fabregas and Camacho. The left side of the two sides is Lago, and David Silva is David on the right. The left back is Aberoa, the right back is Sergio Ramos, the two centre-backs are Pique and Raul Albiol. The goalkeeper is Arsenjo.

Except for Torres who is injured and unable to play, this is already the strongest lineup in Spain.

Jero practiced Spain's dual-core tactics hard and finally achieved results in this competition. Both Fabregas and Iniesta can organize attacks, but there is a difference between the two. Iniesta's excellent dribbling, both short passes and crosses are sharp. The closer to the penalty area, the greater the threat he will be. Fabregas is excellent in passing, good at controlling the rhythm, and is responsible for overall dispatching from the back.

In this way, even if one of them is frozen by the opponent's target, Spain's attack will not be affected too much.

This is the situation now. After Fabregas was frozen by Wood's close-fitting defense, the banner of organizing the offense was immediately handed over to Iniesta.

In this game, Done did not stick to the "regional defense" tactics he used before, but instead used "people-to-people". Wood stared at Fabregas. Michael Johnson's goal was Iniesta. This allocation was made after fully considering the characteristics of the players on both sides. Fabregas and George Wood have been opponents in the Premier League for a long time. They are very familiar with each other, and no one is more suitable to defend the Gunners Captain than him. Iniesta is a little older. He is not physically good and easily injured, making it younger and more endurance Johnson entangled the opponent. It is more appropriate.

As for the two wings... Since the beginning of the game, Rooney and Abanglajo are more like two full-backs, rather than full-backs. At the same time, three strong central defenders have been stocked up in the penalty area, making it difficult for Spain to penetrate short passes and penetrate into the game.

After resisting the Spanish team's offensive in the first fifteen minutes, England began to brew a counterattack.

After Michael Johnson and John Terry joined forces to intercept Iniesta's pass, Terry did not hand over the football to the "front midfielder" Gerald who was retreating, but passed it to George Wood who had already rushed forward.

Gerald and Wood's "double Germans" were misaligned, so the football did not change hands and was still at Wood's feet. After Gerald saw Wood receive the ball, he turned around and ran forward. At the same time, Rooney and Abanglaho both transformed from "fullbacks" to "windbacks" who made rapid progress!

Camacho was hesitating whether to save George Wood or his original target Gerald, and he quickly made a choice - let go of the ball holder first.

But when he rushed to Wood, Wood, who was running, passed the football to Gerald. After completing the pass task, Wood slowed down, while Gerald passed the football to Rooney who cut in from the wing.

The Spanish defenders were all guarding Mitchel and Vaughan who suddenly became active, so that Rooney and Abanglaho who were inserted in the back had a blockbuster space for free movement.

After receiving the football, Rooney cut inward and did not hesitate. He directly shot from outside the penalty area! He who is good at right foot hit the left side, this is what Tang En meant - cut inward and shot!

Rooney's powerful long shot was finally saved by Assenho, and England got a corner kick.

The English corner kick did not go out directly, but played a tactic. Gerrard passed the football to Johnson who came to pick him up, and Johnson passed it to George Wood who was waiting in the middle. After receiving the ball, Wood adjusted it and took a long shot about 30 meters away from the goal. This time the ball was directly above the crossbar. He flew to the stands in the goal defense.

"England has no way to go deep into our penalty area, and can only rely on long shots to threaten the goal guarded by Asenjo! Unfortunately, the accurate head is almost there!" The Spanish commentator optimistically stated that they have no worries in the back.

Many Spanish fans also hold this view. Judging from the scene, Spain obviously has the advantage, with a far superior ball possession rate ahead of England and playing better than England.

They believe that if they continue playing like this, the goal will be a matter of time for the Spanish team sooner or later, and victory is not a problem at all.

Some of the English fans who don’t know the truth are worried. The England team in front of them is really unfamiliar. Of course, they know that this is a strategy that Donn thought of to deal with Spain, but this team has never played 352. The temporary change of the team is afraid that it will not surprise the opponent, but it will make their people at a loss...

Will this happen?

Spain made a comeback and launched another attack.   The one who took the ball this time was still Iniesta.   It was obvious that Spain's teammates all passed the ball to him.

Michael Johnson was deeply "true" from the old fried dough sticks when defending Iniesta... He didn't get the kick first, but started to get the move, grabbed Iniesta's shoulder, then stepped up and pushed the opponent with his body. He didn't let Iniesta turn around easily. Then he kept kicking forward with his feet in the back. He intercepted the ball successfully when the kick hit the ball, and made Iniesta suffer a little. He knew that the Englishman was so powerful that his ankle would hurt him next time he received the ball.

However, this time Johnson miscalculated. He stretched out his foot to intercept the ball, but was used by Iniesta, turned around and plucked away. When Iniesta, who quickly dodged Johnson in a small range, was about to loosen the ball into the penalty area. England's defense suddenly had an overall premise, no one was in command, but they obviously had a good understanding. The three central defenders took a neat step forward. This step made Bo Yang, who was at the front, offside.

The ball in Iniesta passed and the whistle sounded.

The people on the English coaching table below were sweating - it was too dangerous. This was not what they had arranged in advance, it was entirely the judgment made by the three defenders at that moment. Fortunately, their thoughts were highly unified at this moment. Otherwise, if one of them was a little slower, he would be beaten by Bo Yang once and face goalkeeper Joe Hart directly.

Although he escaped, Terry still criticized Johnson, telling him not to swing too hard on the first move of defense and to leave some room for his follow-up moves.

Johnson nodded and accepted the experience of the old senior.

Terry saw the immature place in Johnson's defense, while Wood saw something else - Spain would see from this attack that Johnson is the weakness among the double midfielder, and they would definitely use this point to use Iniesta as the main attack direction. The best solution is definitely not to huddle in the backcourt and arrange heavy troops waiting for the opponent to attack, but... attack and find an opportunity to score goals!

It's time to tear off the disguise.

England's free kick from the backcourt did not directly lead to the frontcourt, but passed it to Wood, who was retreating and receiving.

Since Wood is a midfielder, there is no one to guard against him in Spain. Even Fabregas can only pay a little attention and cannot really run up. Who made Fabregas also a midfielder? The two of them are more than ten meters apart, so what should they do if they run up the space behind them?

In fact, Donn's changes are precisely because it is considered that it is difficult for Spain to defend against Wood immediately. Otherwise, why wouldn't he let Wood's position be more prerequisite? Isn't it closer to the Spanish penalty area? Isn't it more threatening?

Let Wood play the midfielder be responsible for organizing the offense because he has a good overall perspective and vision, and has an excellent long pass, which is not noticeable and has no interference, and is suitable for being an organizer.

Seeing that no one came up to grab his ball, Wood calmly passed the ball to Abanglaho on the wing, and then he stepped forward by himself to prepare to respond. Abanglaho encountered difficulties in his breakthrough, and he quickly passed the ball to Wood who came up to respond. At this time, Fabregas had the opportunity to come up and go one-on-one with Wood. Unfortunately, Fabregas was not good at defense. Wood squeezed him behind with his body, and then ran on the left, but suddenly passed with a diagonal pass while running. This time, Rooney received the ball again.

It was exactly the same as last time, because Mitchel and Vaughan made the intention of receiving the pass, the Spanish defenders were pressed into the penalty area and did not dare to act rashly. Rooney was temporarily unmarked.

In this game, Done's task for Rooney is to score shots and pass the ball and assist the ball to second place. Since there is no one to guard the game now, Rooney, as a striker, naturally chose to come by himself...

With a fake shot, he tricked the full-back Sergio Ramos who rushed up, and then Rooney pulled the football and rushed from Ramos into the penalty area...

Rooney, who rushed into the penalty area, did not hesitate anymore and shot with his right foot.

The football flew straight to the far corner of the goal. Asenho reacted quickly, fell to the ground and rushed to his right. He stretched out his long hand and drove the football out!

"Beautiful save!!" The Spanish commentator shouted. This save made the Spaniard excited. "It's a save comparable to Banks!"

Spanish fans were just about to start cheering, but someone came to stir up their good show...

"Aron Mitcher!" John Mortson shouted.

Pique pulled the tall center forward of Nottingham Forest tightly. He was a little slower in the start and could only use his body to suppress his opponent. Mitcher was determined to win this ball, so how could Pique hold it down? Mitcher lost his balance and swept the football with his foot. This time it seemed that he would definitely make an inch!

but!

With a "bang", the football hit the post and bounced back...

The Spanish heart almost stopped beating at this moment. Just when they thought they had escaped the disaster again and were about to breathe a sigh of relief, their heart was lifted again.

James Vaughan, who was ignored in the series of offensive shots just now, appeared in front of the ball's landing point, and he swung his foot and prepared to shoot directly!

Albiol flew over and planned to use his body to block the opponent's shot.

The football fell, Vaughan swung his legs...

The football rushed through Albiol's legs!

Asenho had already climbed up from the ground, his reaction was already very fast, but the direction Vaughn shot out was completely opposite to the direction he got up...

This time he could only watch the football sticking to the grass, passing through Albiol's legs, and then drilling into the ball net...

"The ball went in! The ball went in! Three consecutive shots, and the ball finally went in!"

England fans leaped up from their seats with their hands raised, and their team took the lead in the game twenty-seven minutes!

Donn's change was effective, and Spain felt uncomfortable with such an England. Their city gate was exposed to heavy artillery from England and was finally lost in continuous bombings.

At this moment, the somewhat pessimistic Spanish seemed to see the scene five hundred years ago slowly taking place. The Spanish Invincible Armada was shaking under the bombardment of the British Royal Navy.
Chapter completed!