Young Football Player

After the game officially started, England played very confidently.

Only 90 seconds into the game, England completed a threatening shot.

Li Chenglong received Sterling's breakthrough goal in the frontcourt, and then crossed into the penalty area. Full-back Leighton Baines inserted a completed volley.

However, the Greek goalkeeper Kanesis was very focused and threw the ball sideways.

The entire England team is very confident and believes that winning the game is basically guaranteed.

And everyone does have the capital of self-confidence. England has never lost to Greece in team history, and the current Greek team is not considered strong.

Among the 16 teams that reached the knockout stage in this World Cup, Greece can basically be said to be the weakest.

They lost 03 to Colombia in the first round of the group stage, then tied with Japan in the second round, and beat Côte d'Ivoire with 21 in the third round, thus qualifying for the group stage.

Only 2 goals were scored in the group stage, which is the least number of goals among the top sixteen teams.

And their goal difference is negative, and they are also the only team in this World Cup with a negative goal difference but reached the knockout round.

In fact, in the history of the World Cup, there have only been two situations where the goal difference was negative but the knockout rounds were reached.

Facing such a weak team, England is of course very confident and launched continuous attacks.

In the 8th minute, Li Chenglong broke through the right rib and entered the penalty area to complete the shot, but it missed the post.

In the 13th minute, Rooney fired a long shot from the outside and hit the ball into the stands.

Although England is setting off a wave of offense, Greece's defense is doing well.

Relying on overall coordination and tenacious will, they did withstand England's offense.

In the 25th minute, Greece relied on a counterattack to create a chance to push in the penalty area. This was their only shot on target in the first half.

On the England side, the teenager Sterling broke through the opponent's defender consecutively in the 37th minute and got a good chance, but his position in the corner of the small penalty area still missed the ball without interference.

It was England's best chance to score in the first half, but it failed to take advantage.

In this way, the two sides showed a standard battle in the first half, with Greece defending and England attacking, but after 45 minutes of play, the score was still the same.

At this time, the entire England team no longer thought the game was easy to play.

After all, it is the knockout round of the World Cup, no one will give up lightly, not to mention the overall spiritual attributes of the Greeks are still very good.

During the half-time break, Hodgson did not make any changes, but asked the whole team to continue to strengthen their offense and strive to break the opponent's tortoise shell as soon as possible.

When playing in the second half, Li Chenglong heard fans shouting his name from the stands next to the aisle.

"Bruce, come on, kill the Greeks!!"

"It's time for your presentation, Bruce!"

While shouting, one of the fans held up a sign in his hand, which said "Second Half Bruce", and there was a Superman wearing underwear next to him, but his profile picture was that of Jackie Chan.

The team suffered a little setback on offense, so almost all fans immediately thought of Lee Chenglong.

It's also a coincidence to say,

Lee has scored 5 goals in the World Cup, but all of them were scored in the second half of the game without exception.

Recently, Jackie Chan has been very popular, and the British tabloids have made various news about him, and all five of his goals were scored in the second half, which has also been repeatedly hyped.

And with the upsurge of the World Cup, these news are also reproduced by the media of other countries, and the reputation of Lee Chenglong as good at playing the second half has spread.

Therefore, Jackie Chan inexplicably has some nicknames such as "the man who only plays the second half", "Superman in the second half", "Bruce in the second half" and so on.

Perhaps because of the buff bonus from the fans, England really broke the deadlock at the beginning of the second half.

In the 51st minute, Li Chenglong returned to the penalty area to get the ball. Facing the opponent's midfielder Karagunis, Li Chenglong skillfully changed direction and faked, first pretending to break through the penalty area. accelerate.

After completing the breakthrough, Li Chenglong kicked a diagonal pass into the penalty area from the right corner of the penalty area immediately before the opponent's full-back Hollebas rushed over.

"Bruce~~~ Nice pass!"

"Sturridge~~~Great opportunity!!!"

This time, Li Chenglong mastered the strength of the oblique pass very well, and successfully bypassed the heads of the opponent's two central defenders, but he was not too close to the goal, just preventing the opponent's goalkeeper from getting out.

So Sturridge, who was at the back point, rushed up and shook his head, and put the ball into the opponent's goal.

"goooooooal~~~~~~"

"Sturridge~~~Beautiful header!!"

"England finally broke the opponent's goal, the first goal of the game finally happened."

"Although it was Sturridge's goal, Bruce Lee's pass was beautiful, it was a well-placed pass."

"Also, it's Bruce Lee's first assist in a World Cup."

"Even the assists have to come in the second half. Lee is the real second-half Superman, and Bruce is the second half."

Sturridge scored a goal and became the third English player to score in this World Cup after Jackie Lee and Wayne Rooney.

However, he still knew the importance of Li Chenglong's pass, so he rushed over excitedly and hugged and celebrated with Li Chenglong.

England broke the tortoise shell of the Greeks, so the next game should be easier to play, because the Greeks have no meaning to continue to defend.

Next, England can look for opportunities to continue to expand the score.

But at this moment, an accident happened on the field.

In the 59th minute, Greece, which was behind, made a substitution first. Forward Mitroglu came on and replaced midfielder Samaris.

Obviously the Greeks are not willing to admit defeat, they want to continue fighting to the end.

But no one expected that the effect of this substitution was very good. Mitroglu gave England a heavy blow as soon as he came on the field.

Mitroglu accelerated past Gerrard on his first possession of the ball.

Then Gerrard was not reconciled to being passed, and stretched out his hand.

So the two fell together in the midfield, and the Portuguese referee Proenka came over and gave Gerrard a yellow card.

"Damn Portuguese, damn bastard, that's an ordinary foul, definitely not a yellow card!!"

The England commentator immediately cursed loudly.

Because in the first half, Gerrard received a yellow card while defending.

This is good, just got the lead, and immediately faced the unfavorable situation of playing one less player, and it was the captain of the team who was sent off.

Speaking of it, this game is still a battle for Gerrard to tie Beckham's team history appearance record, but now it will end with such a red card.

But Gerrard is indeed old and is declining in all aspects.

Speaking of which, this time it was indeed the Portuguese who gave the sentence a bit harshly, but Gerrard himself has to bear most of the blame.

The pull just now was completely unnecessary, and it wouldn't be a big problem to let him go.

This can be regarded as time is not forgiving.

The famous Premier League Double Virtues at the time is now old.

Gerrard has been unable to do what he wants, and Lampard has become a substitute.

Gerrard's mistake put the team in an embarrassing situation. Although they lead by one goal, they will have to play one less player next.

However, Li Chenglong went there with a few teammates to comfort the old captain. This kind of thing is definitely not what he wants.

Unexpectedly, after the past, Gerald took Li Chenglong's arm first instead.

"Bruce, it's up to you next, you must help the team win this game."

While speaking, Gerrard untied the captain's armband from his arm, wrapped it around Li Chenglong's arm, and patted him on the shoulder vigorously.