Young Football Player

At 6 pm local time in Brazil on July 5th, the quarter-finals of the World Cup between England and the Netherlands officially started at the New Water Stadium in Salvador, Brazil.

England is still in a 4231 formation, but Gerrard was suspended because of a red card in the last game. In this game, Lampard and Henderson will partner with double midfielders.

When the team captain Gerrard was suspended, Rooney took the captain's armband, which was Hodgson's arrangement.

In the Netherlands, they arranged a 343 formation.

Goalkeeper: Cillessen;

Defenders: Indy, Vlaar, De Vrij;

Midfielders: Blind, Sneijder, Wijnaldum, Dirk;

Forwards: Depay, Van Persie, Robben.

"England and the Netherlands have fought 18 times in history, and England has a slight advantage with 5 wins, 9 draws and 4 losses."

"However, the two teams have only met three times in the finals of international competitions, and all of them took place in the group stage. The records of the two sides are completely equal."

"Netherlands beat England 3-1 in the group stage of Euro 1988, van Basten scored a hat-trick, then tied 0-0 in the group stage of the 1990 World Cup, and then tied 0-0 in the group stage of the 1996 European Cup , England beat the Netherlands 4:1 to complete revenge, Alan Shearer and Sheringham both scored twice."

"So this time, it is the first time that the two teams have met each other in the knockout stage of an international competition..."

Before the start of the game, commentators from various countries talked about the historical records of the two teams as usual.

As the runner-up of the last World Cup, the Netherlands completed their revenge on Spain in the group stage, and directly pressed the opponent to death in the group stage.

Now, of course, the Dutchman wants to attack the championship again.

But they also know that the current strength of the Netherlands is not as good as that of four years ago. After all, the two cores of Sneijder and Robben are both older.

So after the game started, the Dutch played very conservatively.

They are also somewhat afraid of England. After all, England also came out of a difficult group and killed the two champion teams, Italy and Uruguay, in the group stage.

And England is also more afraid of the strength of the Netherlands.

In the first game of the group stage, the Netherlands directly came to a 5:1 massacre of Spain, which was refreshing for many teams.

In this way, both teams played very conservative tactics.

In the first 20 minutes of the game, neither side actually completed any shots.

In the 21st minute, Robben sent a pass through a counterattack, and Van Persie completed his first goal in the penalty area, but the ball was directly hugged by Joe Hart.

It was only in the 25th minute that England got the first kick.

Li Chenglong returned to the midfield to get the ball, and after a two-for-one cooperation with Lampard, he completed a long shot in front of the penalty area, but the ball was directly hit the stands.

In this way, both the England and the Netherlands teams mainly played in a shrinking formation and played quite conservatively.

So at the end of the first half, the score was a logical 0:0.

During the intermission, Hodgson seemed to be quite satisfied with the current situation, and he did not make any adjustments.

Perhaps in Hodgson's view,

Reaching the quarter-finals of the World Cup has already overfulfilled the task, so now he only wants to focus on stability.

At present, the main threat to the Netherlands team is the counterattack. Spain was defeated in the group stage because their pass and control style of play could not open the situation, so they were defeated by the Netherlands with continuous counterattacks.

Now Hodgson just does not want to repeat the mistakes of Spain, and cannot give the Netherlands too many opportunities to fight back.

As for whether he can win the game, Hodgson probably doesn't care too much.

It's best if you can win, and it's not a big problem if you can't win, as long as you don't lose a big score.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, the two sides finally sped up the rhythm a little bit.

In the 67th minute, the Netherlands cooperated with a free kick in the front court. Sneijder volleyed in the penalty area and the ball hit England's crossbar.

In the 75th minute, Li Chenglong also responded with a free kick. His free kick in the frontcourt directly hit the goal and hit the bottom line close to the post.

In such a situation where both sides intend to lower the offensive and defensive rhythm, set kicks have indeed become a good means of scoring goals.

However, both sides failed to seize the opportunity, so after 90 minutes, the scoreboard was still 0:0, and the two sides were about to play overtime.

"It's the sixth extra-time game in this World Cup, and it's really an extra-time World Cup this year."

In the first half of overtime, both sides still did nothing, and the game was about to go straight to a penalty shootout.

But in the second half of extra time, in the 109th minute, England finally had a great chance.

Along with Henderson, Lee intercepted Wijnaldum's ball in midfield and then immediately launched a fast break.

After passing Blind and De Vrij in a row, Lee Chenglong was tripped by the opponent's black defender Indy in the penalty area.

The referee Irmatov from Uzbekistan immediately blew his whistle and pointed to the penalty spot.

"Penalty~~This is a penalty!!"

"Bruce, Super Bruce!! He did it again, he saved England again!!"

The England commentator immediately shouted excitedly.

Everyone on the earth knows that England's penalty shootout is unreliable, so of course the England commentator does not want to play a penalty shootout.

Jackie Chan made a penalty, he just got up, at this time Rooney had already walked to the penalty spot with the ball in his arms.

"Let me..." Li Chenglong walked over, and before he could finish speaking, Lu Xiaopang interrupted him directly.

"Don't worry, leave it to me."

"You bastard!" Li Chenglong was on the verge of scolding, but he forcibly held back, and did not turn his face on the court directly.

Li Chenglong felt that he had done his best.

He had given that dead fat man a penalty before, allowing him to complete his first goal in the World Cup.

But now this kind of key penalty, you still have to come out to grab it.

This penalty is not only related to promotion, but also very important to Lee Chenglong.

As long as he scores this penalty, Li Chenglong will basically lock the golden boot of this World Cup.

Currently on the World Cup scorer list, Ronaldo, Li Chenglong's biggest competitor, has been eliminated, but he is temporarily overpowering Li Chenglong by virtue of the advantage of assists.

If Jackie Lee came to score this penalty, his number of goals would reach 7, once again overtaking Ronaldo.

Ronaldo has already been eliminated, so it is naturally impossible to come back and compete with Li Chenglong.

Among the other players who have not yet been eliminated are Messi, Neymar and Thomas Muller, but they all only scored four goals, and Neymar was still injured and reimbursed.

If Jackie Lee scored this penalty, Messi and Muller really want to compete with Jackie Lee. They must score at least 3 goals in the next two games, so that they can match the number of goals scored by Jackie Lee. Then hope to overwhelm him with the advantage in assists.

But in the semi-finals of the World Cup, it is not so difficult to score three goals in two games.

So as long as Li Chenglong scores this penalty, he can basically lock the World Cup Golden Boot.

Li Chenglong was really quite angry, he resisted to stay on the court and watched that guy kick a penalty.

Lu Xiaopang set up the penalty kick full of confidence, and then kicked the ball into the stands.

The Dutch fans behind the goal jumped up like crazy to grab the ball that flew into the stands. Their mood at this moment may be the same as the ball, and they flew into the sky with joy.

"Oh~~ Rooney, he kicked the penalty away?!!"

"Unbelievable, this should have been a winning penalty."

"I thought this boring game would be ended by the penalty kick made by Bruce Lee, but Rooney seemed to disagree. He still wanted to keep the suspense of the game."

The commentators all over the world were amazed, and the Dutch commentary cheered Rooney directly.

"Wayne Rooney, this cute little fat guy, from today, he is a member of our Dutch team, he definitely belongs to the flying Dutchman."

"Look at this penalty, how well Rooney played, the ball seemed to have grown wings and flew straight into the sky."

Taking advantage of the replay of the shot of Rooney missing a penalty kick in the TV broadcast, the Dutch commentator continued to taunt.

"Wayne Rooney!! This bastard!! What is he doing? Such an important penalty, he actually kicked it away."

"And why did Hodgson arrange for him to take a penalty kick, why not let Bruce go?"

"Bruce has played 14 penalties since his career so far, and he has successfully hit each of them."

The England commentator immediately reversed the wind direction and began to criticize Rooney.

In fact, if Rooney hit a penalty just now, they would definitely be the first batch of people who crazily boasted.

However, Rooney missed it.

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