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Chapter 626 Volume [-] Red McLaren's Good Luck
On November [-]th, there is no game in England on this day, but a game broadcast on English TV will attract countless people's attention.Russia is away to Israel, and the outcome of this game will determine England's fate in the middle.

If Russia wins, then both teams will play the same number of games, with Russia leading by one point.The opponent England in the last round is Croatia, which is the first in this group, and Russia is the weakest Andorra.No matter how you look at it, Russia is sure to win. In that case, even if England beat Croatia at home, they cannot avoid the bad luck of being eliminated.

That's why Russia's away game against Israel will attract the attention of the whole of England.

Tang En 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 only had two players from his own team in Russia's starting lineup. Anyway, England's TV station was going to broadcast it, so he checked the performance of the two at home by the way.

Although Akinfeev was still Van der Sar's substitute in Nottingham Forest for the time being, and only played in the League Cup, this did not affect his status as the main goalkeeper in Russia in the slightest.Hiddink once euphemistically expressed his dissatisfaction with Twain putting Russia's number one national team on the bench, but Twain pretended not to hear and continued to go his own way.He originally planned to support Akinfeev this season. Who would have thought that Van der Sar's condition was so good. Not only did he not lose his fighting spirit when he won the Champions League last season, but it stimulated his energy. The good form continued into this season.Because goalkeeper is a position that values ​​experience a lot, since Van der Sar is in good condition, Twain naturally let him be the starter with more experience.

Arshavin, another member of the Forest team, is currently the captain of the Russian national team. He wears the No. 10 jersey and is the core figure of the team's offensive organization on the field.In England's away game against Russia, Arshavin scored a goal himself and assisted his teammates. His performance was very active throughout the game, causing headaches for England's star defense.

In Nottingham Forest, Eastwood was luckier than his Russian compatriot Akinfeev because of his constant injuries. He got a lot of opportunities to play, as well as goals and assists.Fans in England are also getting familiar with him. As a rookie season in the Premier League, his performance so far can score [-] points.It proved once again that Tony Twain has a good eye for seeing people.In fact, the main reason is that Arshavin's technical characteristics are very in line with Twain's tactics - speed, side attack, and back row insertion.Moreover, Arshavin's playing style fits well with the rhythm characteristics of the Premier League, and he is not as uncomfortable as Grosso.

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

Although this game is between Israel and Russia, the protagonists seem to be England and Russia.

Before the game, Chelsea's head coach Abramovich promised that as long as Russia can beat Israel, he will reward everyone with 50 pounds!After Russia defeated England at home before, Abramovich once walked into the Russian locker room after the game and gave each international player a reward of [-] pounds on the spot!
So during the Mourinho incident and Twain's swearing incident, the English media almost overwhelmingly stood on the opposite side of the Chelsea boss.It is because of national honor.

The Russians are on the move, and the English are on the move.Before this game, the England team launched multi-level public relations activities: the players of the national team have launched lobbying activities to their Israeli teammates in the club, hoping that they will not release water for the sake of friendship.Crouch and Gerrard's Liverpool team-mate Benayoun will not be able to play this game due to injury, which is a blow to the Englishman.And Chelsea centre-back Israeli Ben Haim was also "tempted" by Joe Cole, revealing: "These days, my England teammates in the dressing room have been putting pressure on me. Cole said as long as I beat the Russia, I can choose to go on vacation anywhere and he pays. I don't know if he's joking, but I'd like to try it too. Hope Israel gets a good result, because I want to save money for Mr. Abramovich too. "And another Israeli midfielder Tamir Cohen was also found out about his England complex: "My father Avi once played for Liverpool, he loves Liverpool and England..."

England's media kept publishing articles urging UEFA to closely monitor the game; UEFA's official partners, some big companies in the UK are also constantly busy, hoping to help Israel defeat Russia.

But don't forget that the real players in this game are Israel and Russia.

Israeli coach Kashtan 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 little dissatisfied that the real protagonist became a supporting role.

But his words reassured England.

Sure enough, 10 minutes into the game, the Israelis took the lead at home. The British commentator was as excited as if England scored a goal, and kept shouting the name of the goal scorer.

Tang En shrugged.

No. 60 minutes, Russia finally equalized the score, the TV immediately fell silent, and it took a while for the voice of the commentary to reappear, and the commentator was very frustrated.

What if Russia and Israel draw?England must beat Croatia to secure their place.If Russia loses to Israel, life will be easier for England, they only need to draw with Croatia to qualify.

If you draw, you will qualify...

Tang En looked away from the TV screen, he thought of many past events...

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On TV, the game is still going on at the Ramat Gan National Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, thousands of miles away.After Russia equalized the score, they stepped up their offensive. They also cannot pin their hope of qualifying on the sportsmanship of Croatia, which qualified early in the final round.

The Israelis, on the other hand, seem to be somewhat satisfied with the result of tying with Russia. They did not attack hard and are still gradually recovering, intending to hold on to this point.Anxiously, the England commentator yelled: "If you start defending so early, you will definitely not be able to defend! Conservatism usually has no good end!"

It's a pity that the Israelis couldn't hear his yells, and they still took back the penalty area and dealt with the Russians, as if they didn't want to win the game.Tang En has already begun to imagine that at this time, there must be a lot of England fans who are too drunk to scold the Israelis for being unsportsmanlike...

Who knows, the game changed suddenly at the last moment. No. 90 two minutes, the score is still 1:1.England's commentator gave up, and he began listlessly to introduce the situation England faced in this situation-"We have to beat Croatia at home in the last game, so that even if Russia and Andorra play basketball The score will not affect our qualifying...yes, that's it..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the Israelites suddenly raise their arms and shouted.

"What? This is... Omer Golan!!" The narrator who saw the replay also roared excitedly, "Omer Golan! Golan, I love you! He created a miracle !This is the goal in the last minute! The Israelis' lore! The lore - the Russians are finished!! The Israelis beat Russia at home! They lived up to the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play! They are the pride of professional football! "

The narrator came close to yelling "at this moment they're god-possessed".

Seeing the excited look of the narrator, Tang En felt a little pantothenic.He didn't want to see such a comedy scene again, so he raised his hand and turned off the TV.

Shania heard a huge roar from the TV upstairs, and walked down curiously, but saw a pitch-black screen.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"It's nothing." Tang En shrugged. "I was watching a movie that was said to be comparable to "Leap Over the Cuckoo's Nest", but after watching it, I felt very disappointed. There was no Leap at all. It was completely "The Cuckoo's Nest", so I closed it."

Shania looked at Tang En, and became even more strange: "Aren't you watching a football match?"

"Yeah, the game is over."

"what's the result?"

"The English won." Dunn said angrily.

Shania thought for a while and said with a smile: "So it means that Israel defeated Russia? England has hope to qualify, but why do I think you are not happy at all?"

Tang En stood in the living room and looked up at Shania on the stairs. He waved his hand and said, "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 Tang En and the Football Association, so she didn't continue to ask.In fact, how did she know that the reason for her displeasure was that Twain had never been an England fan, nor was he an Englishman, so naturally there was no need to meddle in other people's affairs.

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The next day, almost all the newspapers that Dunn could see in the market were reporting on the match that took place yesterday on the front page. Omer Golan seemed to have become the hero of the whole of England overnight, and some people even I seriously recommend that the owners and coaches of Premier League clubs buy this hero.Tang En would find it funny every time he saw similar remarks—in fact, most of the time, he really took many remarks made by the English media as jokes.

However, it is understandable that the English are so excited, because the Israelis beat Russia in an upset. Although Croatia lost to Macedonia, there is still a three-point gap between No.2 England and Croatia. Favorable, so it has been announced that Croatia has qualified ahead of schedule.

In this way, England only needs to draw with Croatia, which has qualified ahead of schedule, at the new Wembley Stadium to qualify for the European Cup finals as the second in the group.In that way, even if Russia wins Andorra and the two teams have the same points, but based on the results of the confrontation between the two teams, England will still be ranked ahead of Russia.

Now it's the turn of the Russians to panic.

Tang En looked at the play with a cold eye, he was an outsider.It is no loss for him that England cannot participate in the European Cup. The England internationals in his team can also get a pleasant holiday next summer.

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

The warm-up match was held on the [-]th. After the warm-up match, the England team flew back to the UK and disbanded on the spot. All the players watched the game at home.

McLaren's luck is unbelievable. Originally, one foot was still on the cliff. After this game, he regained his feet on the ground and temporarily came down safely.

Now the pressure is on the Russian side, and the England team can qualify as long as they draw.The English media was jubilant, as if they had already qualified.

Seeing this scene, Tang En really wanted to remind them: qualifying after a tie is the most terrifying curse in this world, and it is the sweetest and sweetest trap.He can also give the example of Chinese football to these British guys. Of course, these conceited British people will not listen, because the level of Chinese football is completely different from that of English football.But in Tang En's eyes, apart from the fact that the team itself is strong enough, there are many things in English football that are completely the same as in Chinese football, such as the media and the Football Association.

Of course, Tang En is too lazy to do such thankless things now.

Some media also came to interview Twain. In the past few days, many people in the English football circle have come out to accept interviews, talking about how wonderful the future of the England team is, and qualifying after a draw is almost equal to qualifying. Croatia will definitely not try their best. Do your best, or advocate the friendship between Britain and Croatia...

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

When asked Tang En, Tang En said: "If you sing the opposite tune at this time, will you become a public enemy?" Then before the dazed reporter came back to his senses, he raised two fingers: "England can at least enter the country." Two balls!"

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

On the last day before the game on the [-]th, Tang En still couldn't help expressing his worries in his column. He euphemistically stated how terrible the idea of ​​"drawing and qualifying" is, which is in line with Wenger was the same, but Wenger said afterwards that he had confidence in England, while Twain said that he thought that the English people might capsize in the gutter if they were so optimistic, not to mention that Croatia was not a "gutter" yet.

If that's all he said, the remarks might still be very marketable.But then he said that it is not impossible to draw, but England's midfielder lacks an excellent defensive midfielder. If McLaren really wants to defend, it will not be possible to rely on those big-name stars.Hargreaves has been injured in pre-match training and cannot play in important games. England basically has no defensive midfielders at all.Such a lineup still want to hope for a tie?Is it true that the Croatian striker who scored 25 goals is a display?
Therefore, he thought that since McLaren did not intend to recruit George Wood, then if he still wanted to defend, it would be a dead end.As for good luck, "McLaren used up all his good luck when the Israelis won against Russia."

When he said this, he gave people the idea of ​​taking the opportunity to avenge himself and sell his players.Naturally not to please.There were already voices saying that it was inappropriate for Tang En to throw cold water at this time, and he was trying to discourage the players.Tang En was too lazy to argue with those ignorant people. After expressing his views, he shut up and quietly waited for the fate of England and McLaren.

He can't predict the future, but some futures can be guessed without prediction, such as the break between Mourinho and Abramovich, such as the mediocre people like McLaren who are used to by the media and the public. The fate of a broken England team...

(End of this chapter)