There is a belief called football

Chapter 281 The Second Half Without Li Qiao
After Zhang Xizhe came on the field, he stood on Li Qiao's left winger position. Stan made a gesture of pressing down on the team. He was afraid that some players would retaliate if they got hotheaded.

Fortunately, the current Chinese team has been well trained by Stan. With a gesture from Stan, the players on the field shrink their positions appropriately to form a more compact defensive formation. Everyone hopes that the remaining minutes of the first half will pass quickly. Now the Chinese players have no intention of fighting. Everyone is thinking about Li Qiao's injury. Judging from the situation just now, the situation may not be optimistic.

The Chinese fans were filled with righteous indignation at this time. Every time the English players took the ball, the Chinese fans booed loudly in response, and many radical fans even raised their middle fingers at the English players.

Now even if you don't look at the screen and just listen to the sound, it's clear who is getting the ball. As long as you hear a thunderous booing, you know that it must be Johnson having the ball.

In the remaining few minutes of the first half, not only the Chinese team was not interested in fighting, but also England was a bit sluggish. Everyone is a professional player who has been injured more or less in his career. Seeing someone on the field being carried off by a stretcher will always feel a little sad.

Rizzoli was also very reasonable, and he blew the half-time whistle just 45 minutes into the first half, although the fourth official gave 2 minutes of stoppage time.

After the half-time whistle blew, many Chinese fans were still very angry. They gathered in the stands above the player tunnel to protest against the English. The security guards quickly escorted the English players to leave the field, while the Chinese players came out to appease their fans. Stan also temporarily found a microphone on the scene to shout to everyone, asking everyone to calm down, otherwise the Chinese team may be punished by FIFA after the game.

"If you really support us, you should respect the referee and the rules," Stan said to everyone.

Under the persuasion of the national team players and Stan, everyone gradually calmed down, and many people returned to their positions.

*****
The players in the locker room were all looking at Stan eagerly. Stan was dialing the phone impatiently, but Dong Zhou on the other end of the phone never answered the phone.

Reluctantly, Stan threw the phone on the table and "cannot be contacted".

Everyone bowed their heads, and no one spoke.

Stan saw that the team members looked like this, but he said: "However, when Dong Zhou left, he told me that Li Qiao's knee was fine, and his tibia was not broken. Whether there is any fracture needs further inspection. Maybe they are doing the inspection right now, so it is not convenient to answer the phone."

These words made everyone’s frowns loosen, because at that time, experienced players would know that the "meniscus" was torn, or the cruciate ligament of the knee was injured when they saw the place where Li Qiao was covering.

Now it sounds like the most serious problem is a bone fracture. Everyone feels more at ease, because the bone fracture doesn't even require surgery, just rest for a month or two.Although in that case, even if the Chinese team breaks into the top 16, Li Qiao will definitely be absent, but at least Li Qiao's career will not be affected.

"Stan, you said this earlier, do you know how worried we are?"Qi Bing said.

Everyone laughed, everyone knew that Qi Bing had the best relationship with Li Qiao, and he was usually like Li Qiao's younger brother.

"Okay, Dong Zhou is watching Li Qiao's injury, we don't need to worry, the most important thing now is not to let Li Qiao get hurt again."

Qi Qi didn't know that Stan had something to say, so he asked, "What, is there anyone else who wants to hurt Li Qiao?"
Everyone couldn't help laughing, but Qi Bing said bluntly, "Fat people are stupid. What Stan means is that we must win England and don't make Li Qiao sad."

Qi led a look of sudden realization, nodded and said, "Yes, Qi Bing, you have to withstand England's attack no matter what."

Qi Bing's face immediately turned red, because in the first half the Chinese team had 4 defensive players, and Qi Bing performed the worst.

Qi Bing thought: "This fat man is slow to respond, but he is eloquent when he satirizes people."

"Okay, stop arguing," Stan said.

He pointed to Li Weifeng, "Warm up, you will play in the second half."

Walking to the tactical board, Stan began to draw and talk, "In the second half, Li Weifeng played man-to-man and stared Gerrard to death."

Li Weifeng asked: "Where is the defense zone?"
"There is no defense zone, it is man-to-man, and Gerrard is bending over to tie his shoelaces, and you are still watching him."

Li Weifeng nodded.

"Zheng Zhi, you are still the same, if you have a chance to fight back, give it to the front, Zhang Xizhe, now you are playing Li Qiao's usual job."

Zhang Xizhe nodded, but he seemed unconfident. He knew in his heart that his sense of the ball was far worse than that of Li Qiao.

Stan doesn't care whether Zhang Xizhe can do it or not, anyway, his tactical system is like this. It was discussed with Milu, and he can't change his tactics for one person.

"Hao Junmin, you mark "Wilshere" and demand the same unconditional mark as Li Weifeng."

Hao Junmin is used to it. Under Stan, his front midfielder always does the work of the back midfielder. This can be regarded as Stan's innovation.

Hao Junmin nodded with a smile, and said, "Stan, I don't seem to have organized an attack before, and I'm tired of doing dirty work."

"Under Stan, besides the goalkeeper, whose position is fixed"?Li Weifeng said.

"Warm up well, no one will treat you as dumb if you don't talk."

Everyone had fun, and Stan continued: "Then let's call this "defensive attacking midfielder"."

"Thank you, coach, I may be the first defensive midfielder in football history",
Stan's tactical arrangement in the locker room swept away the sad atmosphere, which is Stan's ability as a coach.

*****
The second half is about to start and the players are back on the pitch.There are players on both sides standing on the sidelines. England is about to replace "Milner" and "Welbeck" is about to be replaced.

The Chinese team replaced "Li Weifeng" and "Zhang Linpeng".

Before the start of the second half, the players of the Chinese team formed a circle to encourage each other. At this time, Stan on the sidelines suddenly thought of something, and he ran into the field.

The referee saw Stan running into the court, and he stepped forward to block it. Stan pointed to his watch and explained to Rizzoli that the second half hadn't started yet, so his entry was not considered a violation.

"One sentence, just one sentence", Stan repeatedly explained, and finally Rizzoli made an exception and said yes, but only for one minute, "Don't let me send you to the stands", Rizzoli said.

Stan nodded, indicating that there would be no timeout.

Quickly running to the "circle" formed by the Chinese team, Stan said excitedly: "Have you noticed that if the second half ends with this score, then we will be in the top 16."

One word awakened the people in the dream, because of Li Qiao's injury, everyone's attention was temporarily withdrawn from the game, and now when Stan said it, everyone realized, "So we are so close to the top 16."

After speaking, Stan immediately left the court, but the effect of his words will be gradually reflected in the second half. He is like a shot in the arm, with a strong recoil.

*****
In the second half, England changed their formation to 4141 after substitutions. Lampard played a single midfielder, Milner, Gerrard in front of him, Wilshere played a right midfielder, and the others remained unchanged. Rooney was still a single striker.

After England kicked off in the middle circle, everyone deliberately gave the ball more to "Milner" to make his feet feel hotter, so the rhythm was not fast in the first few minutes.

After research, Stan and Milou found that although Hodgson's England had used many offensive players, and even Rooney had played as a midfielder, Hodgson only believed in one person at the critical moment, and that was Gerrard.

And there is no doubt that the second half must have reached a critical moment for England. Stan "gambled" that Hodgson would still bet on Gerrard, so he wanted to stare at Gerrard at all costs.

After the warm-up in the first 5 minutes of the second half, as if Baichuan would eventually fall into the sea, England passed the ball back and forth, and finally it was handed over to Gerrard.

Gerrard takes the ball, Li Weifeng sticks to Gerrard, Li Weifeng has just entered the court, he has a lot of strength, Gerrard sways left and right, but does not get rid of Li Weifeng.

He passed the ball to Wilshere on the right. Facing Qi Bing, Wilshere followed suit and made a breakthrough like "Welbeck".

But this time the situation has changed, Qi Bing's speed does not suffer, but his body is not strong enough, but Wilshere's body is far worse than Welbeck's.

After Qi Bing followed Wilshere, as soon as their bodies touched, Qi Bing immediately felt a difference. Hitting Welbeck was like bumping into a concrete wall, but bumping into Wilshere felt like bumping into rubber.

As long as the physical confrontation is not at a disadvantage, Qi Bing's defensive ability is still good. The two fought together and ran for 30 meters. Until the bottom line, Wilshere still couldn't find a chance to pass the ball.

If they run again, they will be out of the baseline. Both Wilshere and Qi Bing know that there is only one choice for the next step—stopping the ball.

At the moment when Wilshere stopped the ball, Qi Bing poked the ball out of the baseline, because this was Wilshere's only choice, so he had no choice but to face Qi Bing's clearance.

After Qi Bing defended the opponent beautifully, the audience burst into applause, praising Qi Bing's long-distance sprint defense this time, and even Stan ran to the bottom line to high-five Qi Bing.

Hodgson shook his head on the sidelines, and he had no choice. Welbeck's breakthrough ability is relatively strong, but his passing is too unreliable. Wilshere is good at passing, but with a height of 1 meters, he lacks confrontation ability.

Unless you give him the "Royce" of the German team, then this problem will be solved, but England really can't train such a person now.

England got a throw-in, and the work of throwing the throw-in is usually given to the full-back, so the right-back "Johnson" slowly ran towards the ball, and at this time there were thunderous boos from the audience, and the Chinese fans still couldn't forgive Johnson's rough foul on Li Qiao.

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