Young Football Player

On June 24th, in the afternoon of local time in Brazil, the two matches of the final round of the World Cup Group D group stage will start at the same time.

The game between England and Costa Rica is scheduled to be played in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's fourth largest city, in the southeast of Brazil.

At the Mineiro Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Lee Chenglong once again saw his Schalke teammate Keylor Navas.

"Boss, I won't lose to you this time." During the warm-up before the game, Navas came over and challenged Lee Chenglong.

"Anyway, you have already advanced, can you just let me do it once?"

"No, we must also strive for the first place in the group and prepare for the quarter-finals."

Li Chenglong was joking with Navas when a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes came over.

"Bruce, nice to meet you, I'm Eduardo Lee."

This guy is the chairman of the Chinese Football Association of Costa Rica. It is true that from the appearance, he is a very standard Chinese, but his skin is a bit yellowish. Maybe the sunshine in Costa Rica is more abundant. starter

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Chairman."

As two Chinese-Americans struggling in the football industry, they shook hands with each other and met for the first time.

At this time, the Chinese reporters on the sidelines were snapping snaps. Maybe tomorrow, the photos of the two of them shaking hands will appear on the pages of many Chinese media.

The two teams were friendly to each other before the game. After all, in the current group, England and Costa Rica have basically advanced together. This game is just to decide who can become the first in the group.

As long as Costa Rica remain unbeaten, they will be the top of the group.

For England, it needs to win to win the first place in the group.

After warming up and returning to the locker room, Prince Harry of the British royal family also appeared here. He came to cheer for England.

"Guys, as long as we win this game, then we have a good chance to meet a simple opponent in the top sixteen, giving us a better chance to advance to the top eight..."

Harry is also a cliché, nothing new.

But in the end he specifically mentioned Jackie Lee: "Bruce, you are the leader of the team, and you should lead England to victory."

Harry's words can be regarded as recognition of Li Chenglong's status in the team.

Most members of the British royal family are Arsenal fans, and Prince Harry is no exception.

And Jackie Chan has the hat of a loyal fan of Arsenal, which is what they have in common.

The time came to 2 pm, and the game between England and Costa Rica officially started.

England's formation has not changed, it is still the same 4231, but two personnel adjustments have been made.

One is that Sturridge got the chance to replace Welbeck as the starting left midfielder.

The second is at the central defender position, Smalling replaced Jagielka and started with Gary Cahill.

On the Costa Rica side, they followed the 541 formation that had previously defeated Uruguay and Italy.

At present, the biggest star in the Costa Rica team is Keylor Navas. He is the latest Champions League goalkeeper and undoubtedly the top card of Costa Rica.

In addition to Navas, the most famous Costa Rica is the striker Joel Campbell. He is an Arsenal player, but he has been loaned out by Arsenal for training.

Before Costa Rica defeated Uruguay 3:1, Campbell became famous in the first battle, and his outstanding performance with one pass and one shot was generally recognized by everyone.

Speaking of it, Costa Rica's tactics are actually very simple, defensive counterattack.

But this simple tactic is very practical. As long as you can't break through the opponent's defense, you will always be threatened by counterattacks.

After the start of the game, the Costa Ricans maintained their consistent characteristics, solid defense.

Costa Rica's defensive integrity is indeed doing well. Like a mixer, it has been constantly disrupting the England midfielder, making England's offense unable to play as effectively as it should.

That's what they did before, dropping Uruguay and Italy.

So throughout the first half, the two teams did not have much highlight performance.

In the 24th minute, Li Chenglong passed the opponent's midfielder Boggs and defender Dias consecutively on the wing, and completed a small-angle volley in the penalty area. This was a rare highlight in the entire first half.

However, Navas, who is more familiar with Li Chenglong, was well prepared and blocked the goal in time, blocking Li Chenglong's volley from the bottom line.

England can't break the opponent's defense, but fortunately, the opponent's counterattack is not very threatening. Joel Campbell, the core point of their counterattack in this game, seems to be in poor condition and has been walking on the court all the time.

So, the two teams ended the first half with 0:0.

During the intermission, Hodgson did not blindly ask everyone to win the game.

After watching Costa Rica's defensive performance in the first half, Hodgson already knew that this dark polo team was able to get out of this death group one round ahead of schedule, which is definitely something unique to them.

England's current goal is to keep a tie and win, and a draw can guarantee England's qualification for qualifying.

In another game played at the same time, Italy and Uruguay also temporarily drew 0:0, but no one can guarantee what will happen in the second half.

If England lost the game because they fought too hard, and Uruguay scored three goals in the second half, then England would face an embarrassing exit.

So Hodgson arranged for everyone to be more conservative in the second half, to stabilize the defense first, and to ensure the qualification for qualifying is the first priority.

So after the start of the second half, the fans found that the game was still as boring as the first half, and neither team's desire to attack was strong enough.

So the commentators from various countries also talked about some digressions.

"If the score of 0:0 is kept to the end, we can only qualify as the second in the group, and we will face the first in the group C in the top 16. According to the current situation of the C group, the high probability will be Colombia." The England commentator was most concerned about the opponents in the top 16.

"Although Colombia's performance in the World Cup has always been mediocre, they are in a very good state this year and have a tendency to become a dark horse..."

The final rounds of Group C and Group D of the World Cup are scheduled for today, but Group D is in the afternoon and Group C is in the evening, so it is unclear how the final situation of Group C will be.

At present, in Group C, Colombia is thriving, while the other three teams, Côte d'Ivoire, Greece and Japan, all have the opportunity to compete for a second place in the group.

This is why the English media has always emphasized the need to win the first place in the group.

If you get the first place in the group, you can face the second place in the group C. No matter who it is, there is a good chance to pass the test and advance to the quarterfinals.

And if it is the second place in the group, the top 16 will face Colombia, which has dark horse attributes, and that game will definitely not be easy.

In the commentator's discussion, the game time also passed quickly.

When the game time entered 80 minutes, both Costa Rica and England used up their three substitutions.

This almost shows that both teams are relatively satisfied with the current score and only hope that the game will end quickly.

As for the players who were replaced, this was to give them a chance to make their World Cup debut.

But in this case, opportunities appeared on the court.

In the 83rd minute, Jackie Lee hit Costa Rica defender Duarte with a casual long shot in the frontcourt and bounced off the bottom line. England got a corner kick.

Facing such a solid defensive team, set kicks are often a good means of scoring goals, and England has also paid a little more attention to them.

Wilshere, who came on as a substitute for Sterling, went to take a corner kick, and then Lampard, who came on as a substitute for Henderson, received the ball into the penalty area, and Milner, who came on as Rooney, was very hard in the penalty area and was defended by the opponent When the player was pulling, he reached his feet and poked and shot.

Navas also reacted quickly, lowered his body and crossed his legs to block, and blocked the ball.

But his luck was not very good, the ball happened to be blocked to Li Chenglong's side.

So Li Chenglong forcibly squeezed the Costa Rica defender Roy Miller in front of him, stepped forward and raised his foot to push the ball into the opponent's goal.

"Goooooooooooal~~~~~~~~~~" England's commentator finally vented his depressed roar for most of the time.

"Bruce Lee~~~~Super Bruce~~~~Beautiful follow-up shot~~~~ He scored again!!"

"When the game was dull for most of the game, we relied on a corner kick and Super Blues made a supplementary shot, and finally broke the goal of the Costa Rican!!"

"This is basically a lore goal. As long as the score is maintained until the end, we will be the first in the group, and we will have an easier opponent in the top sixteen."

Amidst the cheers of the commentator, Li Chenglong rushed to the sidelines to accept the applause of the fans.

There are only about 55,000 people in the Mineiro Stadium with a capacity of 60,000. This is the first time that the England team has not been able to fill the seats. It is probably because the importance of this game is not high.

However, there were still quite a few England fans at the scene. They were all standing up and cheering for Jackie Lee, who scored three goals in a row.

Since Jackie Lee's goal occurred in the 83rd minute, there was not much time left in the next game. Costa Rica launched a wave of counterattacks that failed to bear fruit, so they gave up.ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм

For a team like Costa Rica, it is a great honor to be able to advance to the knockout round. It doesn't matter whether the group is first or second.