Godfather Of Champions

On November 17th, there was no England game on this day, but a game broadcast by an English TV station would attract countless people's attention. Russia challenged Israel in an away game, and the outcome of this game will determine the fate of England's most qualified team.

If Russia wins, then the two teams have the same number of matches and Russia leads by one point. In the final round, England is the first in this group, Croatia, and Russia is the weakest Andorra. No matter how you look at it, Russia wins steadily. In that case, even if England beat Croatia at home, they cannot avoid the misfortune of being eliminated.

That's why Russia's away game against Israel will be the focus of all England.

Dunn also sat in front of the TV on time to watch the game. He is not concerned about whether England can qualify, he has no interest in the fate of the England team. He was just because there were two players from his team in Russia's starting lineup. Anyway, the English TV station wanted to broadcast, so he checked their performance at home by the way.

Although Akinfeev was temporarily Van der Sar's substitute in Nottingham Forest and only played in the League Cup, this did not affect his status as the main goalkeeper in Russia. Hiddink once euphemistically expressed his dissatisfaction with Dunn's placing Russia's number one country on the bench, but Dunn pretended not to hear it and continued to do his own way. He originally planned to righteous Akinfeev this season. Who would have thought that Van der Sar’s condition remained so good. Winning the Champions League last season not only didn’t make him lose his fighting spirit, but instead stimulated his energy. The good condition continued into this season. Because goalkeeper is a position that values ​​experience very much, since Van der Sar is in good condition, Dunn naturally let him, who is more experienced, act as the starter.

Another member of the forest team, Arshavin, is currently the captain of the Russian national team. He is wearing the No. 10 jersey and is the core figure of the team's offensive organization on the field. In the game where England lost to Russia in the away game, Arshavin scored a goal himself and assisted his teammate. The performance of the game was very active, which made England's star defense a headache.

In Nottingham Forest, because Eastwood is always unbroken with injuries, he is luckier than his fellow Russian compatriot Akinfeev. He has a lot of opportunities to play, as well as goals and assists. England fans have gradually become acquainted with him. As a rookie season in the Premier League, his performance so far can be 70 points. It proves again that Tony Dunn has a good vision of people. In fact, Arshavin's technical characteristics are very in line with Dunn's tactics-speed, side assaults, and back row insertion. And Arshavin's playing style is also very compatible with the rhythmic characteristics of the Premier League, but he is not as uncomfortable as Grosso.

With these two Russian players playing in the Premier League, the English commentator also seemed familiar. But he didn't say anything good about Russia. From the start of the game, he hoped that Israel would win.

Although this game is Israel and Russia, but the protagonist seems to be England and Russia.

Before the game, Chelsea’s coach Abramovich promised that as long as Russia can beat Israel, he will reward everyone with 100,000 pounds! After Russia defeated England at home before, Abramovich once walked into the Russian dressing room after the game and handed out a reward of 500,000 pounds to each international on the spot!

Therefore, in the Mourinho incident and Dunn's vulgarity incident, the English media almost stood on the opposite side of the Chelsea boss. It is because of national honor.

The Russians are acting, and the English are also acting. Before this game, the England team launched multi-level public relations activities: the players of the national team have launched lobbying activities for their Israeli teammates in the club, hoping that they will not let go for the sake of friendship. Crouch and Gerrard's Liverpool teammate Benayoun was unable to play this game due to injury, which is a blow to the English. And the Chelsea centre-back Israeli Ben Haim was also "tempted" by Joe Cole. He revealed: "These days, the England teammates in the dressing room have been putting pressure on me. Cole said as long as I beat In Russia, I can choose wherever I want to go on holiday and he will pay the bill. I don’t know if he’s joking, but I want to try it. I hope Israel will get a good result because I also want to save money for Mr. Abramovich. "And another Israeli midfielder Tamir Cohen was also found out about the England complex: "My father Avi used to play for Liverpool. He loves Liverpool and England..."

The English media kept publishing articles urging UEFA to closely monitor the game; UEFA’s official partners, some large British companies, are also constantly busy, hoping to help Israel defeat Russia.

But don't forget, Israel and Russia are really going up in this game.

Israeli coach Kastan said in an interview before the game: "I don't care what the English and Russians say. I just want my team to perform well."

Obviously, he was a bit dissatisfied with the real protagonist becoming a supporting role.

But his words gave England peace of mind.

Sure enough, ten minutes into the game, the Israelis took the lead on their home court. The British commentator was excited as if the England team had scored the goal and kept chanting the name of the scoring player.

Dunn shrugged.

At the 60th minute, Russia finally equalized the score, and the TV went silent immediately. After a while, the voice of the commentary reappeared, and the commentator was very frustrated.

What if Russia and Israel drew? England must beat Croatia to ensure they qualify. If Russia loses to Israel, England will have a better life. They only need to tie Croatia to qualify.

Get out if you tie...

Dunn looked away from the TV screen, he thought of a lot of past events...

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On TV, the game continues at the Ramat Gan National Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, thousands of miles away. After equalizing the score, Russia stepped up the offensive. They also couldn't pin their hopes of qualifying on Croatia's sportsmanship that qualified in the final round. Only when they defeated Israel in away games can they be considered as firmly grasping the fate of qualifying in their own hands.

On the other hand, the Israelis seem to be somewhat satisfied with the result of the draw against Russia. They did not attack fiercely and are still gradually recovering, intending to hold the point. Anxiously, the English commentator yelled: "It's definitely impossible to start defending so early! Conservatism usually does not end well!"

It's a pity that the Israelis couldn't hear his yelling, and they still reclaimed the penalty area to deal with the Russians, as if they didn't want to win the game. Dunn has already begun to imagine that at this time, there will be a lot of England fans who have been drinking too much and swearing that the Israelis have no sportsmanship...

Who knows, the game changed suddenly at the last moment. In the ninety-second minute, the score was still 1:1. The English commentators gave up, and he began to show the audience listlessly about the situation England faced in this situation-"We have to beat Croatia at home in the last game, so that even Russia and Andorra can play basketball. The score will not affect our qualifying...Yes, that's it..."

Before he could say anything, he saw the Israelites suddenly shouting.

"What? This is...Omer Golan!!" The commentator who saw the replay also screamed excitedly, "Omer Goran! Goran, I love you! He did a miracle. This is the last minute goal! The Israeli lore! The lore-the Russians are over!! The Israelis beat Russia at home! They did not live up to the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play! They are the pride of professional football! "

The commentator almost yelled, "They are possessed by God at this moment."

Seeing the excitement of the commentator, Dunn was a little bit acidic. He didn't want to see such a comedy again, so he raised his hand and turned off the TV.

Shania heard the huge roar from the TV upstairs, walked down curiously, but saw a dark screen.

"What's the matter?" she asked.

"It's nothing." Dunn shrugged. "I was watching a movie that was said to be comparable to "Flying in the Madhouse", but I was disappointed when I saw it. There was no leap at all. It was completely "The Madhouse", so it was closed.

Shania looked at Dunn, even more strange: "Aren't you watching a football match?"

"Yeah, the game is over."

"what's the result?"

"The English won." Dunn said grimly.

Shania thought for a while and smiled: "So that means Israel has defeated Russia? England has hopes of qualifying, but why do I think you are not happy at all?"

Dunn stood in the living room and looked up at Shania on the stairs. He spread his hand and waved: "The FA won't pay me a salary. Why should I be happy for their victory?"

Shania only thought that there was a deep conflict between Dunn and the FA, so she did not continue to ask. In fact, where did she know, she was unhappy because Dunn was never a fan of England, nor was he an Englishman. Naturally, there is no need to follow other people's affairs.

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The next day, almost all newspapers that Dunn could see on the market spent a large amount of time on the front page reporting the game that took place yesterday. Omer Golan seemed to have become a hero throughout England overnight, and even some Very seriously suggest that the owners and coaches of Premier League clubs buy this hero. Dunn feels funny every time he sees similar remarks-in fact, most of the time, he does take many remarks from the English media as jokes.

However, it is understandable for the English to be so excited, because the Israelis beat Russia upset. Although Croatia lost to Macedonia, there is still a three-point gap between the second place England and Croatia, and the two teams have played against Croatia. Favorable, so it has been announced that Croatia will qualify early.

In this way, England only needs to tie the pre-qualified Croatia at the New Wembley Stadium to qualify for the European Cup finals as the second in the group. That way, even if Russia wins Andorra, the two teams share the same points, but based on the results of the two teams, England will still be ahead of Russia.

Now it's the Russians' turn in panic.

Dunn watched this play coldly, he was an outsider. It is no loss to him that England can not participate in the European Cup, and the England internationals in his team will have a pleasant holiday next summer.

Before the match, England organized a warm-up match with Austria. Before the match, some media said sourly: "If Russia beats Israel, then this warm-up match is probably the closest England to the European Cup." Yes, the closest geographically...

The warm-up match was held on the 16th. After the warm-up match, the England team flew back to the UK to disband and all the players watched the match at home.

McLaren’s luck was unbelievable. Originally, one foot was still on the cliff. After this game, he was down-to-earth and temporarily safe again.

Now the pressure is on the Russian side, and England can qualify as long as they tie. The English media was full of joy, as if they had already qualified.

Dunn saw this scene and really wanted to remind them: Draw and qualify is the most terrifying and terrifying curse in the world, and it is the sweetest and sweetest trap. He can also give these British guys an example of Chinese football. Of course, these conceited British people will not listen, because the level of Chinese football is completely different from the level of English football. But in the eyes of Dunn, apart from the strength of the team itself, there are many things in English football that are completely the same as Chinese football, such as the media and the FA.

Of course, Dunn is too lazy to do that thankless thing now.

Some media also came to interview Dunn. In the past few days, many people in the English football circle have come out for interviews. They talked about how wonderful the prospects of the England team are. Qualifying in a tie is almost equal to qualifying. Croatia will definitely not end. Do your best, or promote friendship between Britain and Croatia...

Even the French Wenger came out and said that he was optimistic about England winning, and in order to prove that he was not casually perfunctory, he also analyzed in detail the reasons for England's victory from a tactical level. This has strengthened the confidence of many English fans and the media that a bright future is coming.

When asked about Dunn, Dunn said: "If you sing against the tune at this time, will you become the enemy of the whole people?" Then, before the dumbfounded reporter came back to his senses, he put up two fingers: "England can at least enter Two balls!"

He didn't say later that reporters can use their imagination. What does it mean to score two goals at home? The game is basically won! Everyone left Vilford with good wishes.

On the last day before the match on the 20th, Dunn couldn’t help expressing his concerns in his column. He more euphemistically stated how terrifying the idea of ​​“getting out of the tie” is, and this is not the same. Wenger is the same, but Wenger then said that he has confidence in England, Dunn said that he thinks that the English people are so optimistic that they might capsize in the gutter, not to mention that Croatia is not a "gutter".

If he only said these, these remarks may still be very marketable. But then he said that in fact a tie is not bad, but England's midfielder lacks an excellent defensive midfielder. If McLaren really wants to defend, it's impossible to rely on the big-name stars. Hargreaves has been injured in pre-match training and was unable to play in important games. England basically has no defensive midfielder. Such a lineup still want to be tied? Is the Croatian striker that scored 25 goals really a decoration?

Therefore, he thought that since McLaren did not intend to call in George Wood, if he still wanted to defend, it would be a dead end. As for good luck, "When the Israelis defeated Russia, McLaren ran out of his good luck."

By saying this, he gave people an opportunity to take revenge and sell their players. Naturally unpleasant. There have been voices saying that it is inappropriate for Dunn to pour cold water at this time and that he is venting the players. Dunn was too lazy to talk to those ignorant people. After he expressed his opinion, he closed his mouth and quietly waited for the fate of England and McLaren to arrive.

He can't predict the future, but some of the future can be guessed without foreseeing, such as the break between Mourinho and Abramovich, and the mediocre people like McLaren led by the media and the public. The fate of the broken England team... (to be continued, if you want to know what will happen, please visit www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)

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