champion godfather

Chapter 976

After Diarra blocked one of Gerrard's attacks, he kept looking at Wood on the opposite side provocatively. The meaning was obvious-don't shrink back like a turtle, come up, kid!

George Wood certainly saw what Diarra meant, but he was unmoved and continued to stay in the backcourt to do series work.

Puel was still complaining that Diarra didn't listen to his command at the beginning, but after seeing Diarra intercepting England's offense one after another, he didn't say a word.France's rear has clearly stabilized...

Of course, Tang En couldn't let this happen. Once the French team's defense was stabilized, they would readjust their offensive and it would be their turn to bear the pressure.

Gerrard was obviously at a disadvantage in the fight with Diarra. His age and physical disadvantages made him not as comfortable in physical confrontation as before.Tang En thought about it, and decided to let Gerrard come back to replace Wood, and let Wood advance to participate in the attack.Both of them are midfielders who can attack and defend well, and switching positions will not cause confusion.

Tang En walked to the sidelines and whistled inside.Wood cast his gaze, and he made a gesture of changing positions, which Wood understood immediately.

Then, taking advantage of the dead ball, Wood and Gerrard completed the work handover.

Next, Diarra was delighted to find that the person who rushed up this time was not Gerrard, but George Wood!
Although Wood did not have the ball, Diarra still maintained a high degree of vigilance against him.He knows that Wood is the core of England. Although he doesn't know why he hid in the backcourt in the first half, but it doesn't matter. Now he can't help but get out of the hole.

Sure enough, Abanglahor quickly passed the football to Wood. He encountered some troubles on his side. After the French team's full-backs did not assist, his speed advantage could not be used, so he had to hand the football to Wood for reorganization.

When Diarra saw Wood taking the ball, he stuck it up. Wood didn't seem to want to use his speed to get rid of it. Instead, he turned around to protect the football and waited for Diarra to come up.

The two midfielders faced off head-on, and Diarra lost in strength.

He only felt that when Wood leaned back, his body lost his balance and he wanted to lean backward.At the critical moment, he grabbed Wood's clothes with his hands and regained his balance.

Wood didn't give him a chance to continue pestering him, and leaned back again. While Diarra was focusing all his attention on maintaining his balance, he passed the football to Gerrard who came up to meet him, and then turned around to face him. Forward.Gerrard sent a direct pass just right, and the tacit cooperation of the two midfielders got rid of Diarra.

When Diarra rushed forward to entangle, Wood suddenly accelerated, got rid of him, and went straight into the middle of the penalty area!
"He's going to break through the center! Stop him!" goalkeeper Lloris yelled behind the defenders.

Wood's sudden breakthrough attracted the attention of all French defenders.Sacco was in front of him, and at the same time, Clichy was also moving towards the center.Seeing that the two sides were about to meet each other, Wood flicked his ankle and turned the football to the side!

Although Mitchell and Rooney are still under the close surveillance of the French defenders, there is no one watching Abanglaho on the wing...

After seeing Wood pass the ball to the wing, Mitchell and Rooney went towards the goal in a tacit understanding, but Wood stopped at the edge of the penalty area and did not rush forward.

The central defenders were all attracted by the sudden advance of the two forwards, and they ran into the penalty area one after another.

In front of Wood, a blank area of ​​three to five meters wide appeared.

Diarra was the first to keenly perceive the other party's intentions, and he rushed to Wood who was ten meters away.

At the same time, Abang Lahuo made a cross!The football didn't fly to any England striker, but rolled diagonally towards George Wood!

Diarra was right!

Wood stood still, turned sideways to the ball, swung his right foot, and he wanted to shoot directly!

How can Diarra let Wood get his wish?Even at the risk of getting a card, stop his shot!

Diarra, who made up his mind, flew from the side and shoveled towards Wood's legs. Wood sensed the danger. If it was normal, he would have forced his foot to shoot, but at this moment he thought of his right foot, and also thought of the next step. Two games left...

At this point, Wood gave up his plan to shoot directly, let the football pass by his feet, and jumped up himself.

He was still a bit late. Although he dodged his right foot, his left foot was caught by Diarra, and he lost his center of gravity.

Everyone heard the referee's whistle when Wood fell to the ground.

They became nervous, is this a penalty or a free kick?
The Woodman fell in the penalty area, but was the place of the foul in the penalty area?

The referee ran to the foul spot and stopped. He did not continue to run into the penalty area, nor did he point his finger at the penalty spot.

"It's not a penalty!" The Frenchman breathed a sigh of relief.

The Englishman was a little dissatisfied: "This is a foul enough to be sent off directly!"

The referee only showed Diarra a yellow card, which caused the England fans in the stands to boo him.

Wood was pulled up from the ground by Gerrard, which made Diarra a little embarrassed who was going to show up in person. He stepped forward and patted Wood on the shoulder and walked away.Although the fighting was fierce, there was no need for him to become enemies with Wood.His special affection for Wood was limited to on the court.

"Are you all right?" Gerald asked after waiting for Diarra to leave.

Wood shook his left foot, then shook his head: "It's okay."

It seemed to be all right, because Wood walked normally when he left Gerrard.But he was stopped by Gerrard: "George, stay."

Wood felt strange, but he stopped and looked back at Gerald.

Gerrard stepped forward: "You just stand here. Let's do a free kick..."

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In the absence of Bentley, Gerrard was responsible for taking direct free kicks, and he also scored from free kicks at Liverpool on a number of occasions.The French obviously knew it before, so when they saw Gerrard standing in front of the ball, the wall seemed very nervous-on the one hand, he was afraid of being scored, and on the other hand, he was afraid of being hit by Gerrard's strong goal Shooting in the body...it's not a good feeling.

Wood stood five meters away from Gerrard, but no one cared about him, including Diarra.Everyone in the world knows that George Wood does not take free kicks. No matter whether he is in Nottingham Forest or the England national team, free kicks have nothing to do with him. He is not even qualified to be a screener.

Standing there today, people only think that he is simply standing there. If you think about it a little deeper, he is at most counter-robbing on the spot after Gerrard's free kick hits the wall. regain possession of the ball.

Gerrard carefully placed the football at the penalty spot designated by the referee, just right on the penalty area line!

This position made the French feel scared, and it also made the English feel very uncomfortable-it was almost a penalty!
"The free kick on the penalty area line...is not a good position. Playing here requires better skills, otherwise the probability of the football hitting the wall is very high." Mortensen frowned. It's not good, let alone almost a penalty kick, and it won't work if it's too close to the goal.

Gerrard's free kicks have never won with an arc, and it is really inappropriate for him to take the penalty in this place.

The onlookers didn't have much hope for this free kick, but Gerrard didn't see it that way. Standing in front of the football, he stared at the goal with blazing eyes.After placing the football, he backed away to kick it.

Wood stood five meters away from him, looking at the penalty area.Due to the need to defend this free kick, the people in the penalty area are mainly concentrated on the human wall. In order to block the goal as much as possible and share the pressure for the goalkeeper, the French team lined up seven people in the human wall this time, almost blocking half of the goal. .On the other hand, Loris nervously deployed his defenses.

Most of England's teammates wanted to squeeze into the human wall, but they were all pushed out by the French. They simply stood in front of the human wall. Of course, this aroused the dissatisfaction of the French. He protested to the referee with his hand: Do you see that they are here to play football!

The referee had to signal Gerrard to wait. He ran in to mediate the conflict between the two sides, and warned the cunning Englishman not to stand in front of the wall, but to stand on the side... He also warned the French players not to get involved.Both sides are not allowed to have conflicts, and no pushing and shoving is allowed.

After tossing for a minute, England finally managed to squeeze in a person.Donning got stuck between Sacco and Mexes, although the other party was very upset, but since he managed to squeeze in, there was nothing he could do about it.

After the England players made such a fuss, everyone focused on the direct free kick.In fact, even the players in England think so, thinking that Gerrard will shoot directly.Except Gerrard himself and George Wood.

The referee finally backed out and signaled Gerrard to play.

Counting from the start of Gerrard's run-up, the French team's human wall was extremely tense. They leaned back one by one, protected their chests with one hand, and protected their crotch with the other, ready to take off at any time and worried that the football shot by Gerrard would stick to it. The turf rolled under their feet.While they were struggling, Gerrard ran up to the football, swung his foot...

Are you going to shoot!
The Frenchman cried out inwardly.

Gerrard passed the football sideways!

"This is... George Wood!!"

Whether it was the narrator in England or the narrator on French TV, they all screamed.

As the football rolled, George Wood appeared in the camera. This time he swung his left foot and turned his body slightly, in exactly the same posture as before, but this time no one would come forward to interfere with him...

"...Long shot——!!!"

Wood's left foot kicked the football hard, and the ball flew to the bottom right corner of the goal like a shell fired!
No one reacted to this sudden change.The people who were nervous just now looked at the football flying towards the other goal with a look of surprise.Lloris didn't even make a save, just stood there and watched the football roll into the goal from beside him...

"what?"

This was the first reaction of Lloris and other French players.

Huge cheers came quickly, dispelling their doubts—they fell behind by three goals!

"Beautiful long-range shot! From the set-piece cooperation of Gerrard and Wood! England leads France with three goals!" Mortensen shouted.

After the goal, before Wood had time to celebrate, Gerrard rushed over and hugged him, and then more teammates rushed up to surround the two of them and celebrate the goal.

The goal was scored in a timely manner, completely dispelling the morale and fighting spirit of the French team.In an international competition like the European Cup, few teams can come back from a three-goal deficit.

England's bench was also full of joy, leading by three goals, basically establishing the victory.It is only a matter of time before they reach the semi-finals.

The French could not believe what they saw with their own eyes.In the second half, they planned to fight back from the Jedi, but they did not expect to be scored by England again... Such a blow almost drained all their strength.Watching the English hugging and celebrating the goal, they just want to just fall to the ground and never get up.

Tang En was as excited as his players, but this time he didn't go to dance in front of Puel, because he no longer needed to do that, and the French team was about to become a thing of the past.A loser who has already been trampled in the mud by him, does he need to take another look?

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After the game restarted, the French team was a little absent-minded, or rather distraught. At 0:2, you can still tell yourself that there is a need to fight, but now it is 0:3?

Puel didn't know what to do.Three goals behind, the possibility of reversing the game is too small.And most importantly, in the face of such a situation, does he have any solution?

England is not a philanthropist and will not give France this time.Now that the French team has suffered a heavy blow and looks distraught, it is a good opportunity for England to attack aggressively.There was no need for Twain to remind him on the sidelines, the players in England naturally knew what they should do.

After a gust of wind and rain, England scored again.England fans have even become a little numb, and some French fans even started to leave early when there were more than 20 minutes before the end of the game.

This time it was still Mitchell who scored with a header after receiving a cross from Downing from the wing.From this conceded goal, it is obvious that the central defenders of the French team are absent-minded and out of their minds.So much so that Mitchell, a high center forward, can easily jump up and attack the goal in front of the goal. No matter how good Lloris is, he will be unable to recover.After losing the ball, he didn't even scold his central defender. He just kicked the popped football back to the goal depressedly.

"The game is over, the Frenchman is finished." Dunn opened his arms, turned and said to his partner Des Walker.This game played like this, even Walker didn't expect that England could beat France so easily...

"4:0..." Mortensen couldn't believe his eyes, "The French team, known as the biggest favorite to win the championship before the game, was so vulnerable to England... Is the French team too weak, or Are we too strong?"

No one can answer his question at this point, because even the most die-hard England fans can't believe what's happening before their eyes, and their brains can't understand it...

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Although there are still 10 minutes to the end of the game, it is already obvious that the French are not interested in fighting.Only Diarra is still working hard, but his efforts can't find the target...

After England led 4:0, Tang En replaced George Wood with Michael Johnson.He is still worried about Wood's right big toe. Now that he has won, there is no need to continue to let Wood on the court. If a French player becomes angry and rushes towards Wood with the mentality of destroying everything, it will be too late for him to regret .

Twain's move to replace Wood also meant that the game ended early. In the ensuing games, the French team still had difficulty organizing an effective offensive.The French commentator was a little annoyed and claimed that none of the French team's performance in this game was qualified.

What he said was not bad, especially those touted frontcourt attack clusters, under the George Wood Iron Curtain, all the stars were dim.

From the moment England scored the fourth goal, England fans kept singing in the stands until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. The singing suddenly turned into huge cheers to see the French off. .

"The French team ended their trip to Spain with this humiliating score...England's unexpected victory, the first to advance to the semi-finals! Tony Twain has made the whole of Europe understand one thing - his ball The team is strong! Very strong!"

The Spanish coach who came to watch the game and observe the opponent only wrote this sentence in the notepad for the final summary of the game:
Be careful England.

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