i am beckham

Chapter 338 Old John's Advice
"At the end of the first half, the Colombian players looked very tired. They probably didn't expect the England team to be so aggressive! David played differently, haha!"

During the half-time break, Martin Taylor was in high spirits and couldn't suppress his joy at all. He even fiddled with his tie during the live broadcast, which was a far cry from the image of that rational, cold, and spicy football commentator.

"Cough cough!"

Lineker reminded him several times in a row, seeing that the other party ignored him completely, he simply let him torment.

The Felix Boralt Stadium, which can accommodate 35000 people, turned into a sea of ​​joy at this time. A large number of England fans who poured into the stadium and the shellfish fans in the neutral stand joined together and were playing a chorus.

But England's dressing room was a different scene. Keegan and Hoddle didn't speak. The players were still laughing silly when they first came in. They didn't realize something was wrong until they completed a series of actions such as replenishing water, taking a rest, and clearing the memory.

Keegan wanted to say a few words, but it always felt a little bit of a villain to steal the limelight when he first arrived. He was a straight person and didn't like the feeling of a vested interest.

Moreover, his technical and tactical ability is worse than that of Hoddle. Compared with the opponent's longboard, he is a little unconfident.

Hoddle wanted to talk more, especially when he found that he was not squeezed out by imagination, the heart of "restoration" secretly grew over time.

But the English players don't have the heart of Mary, and it is impossible to get him back to his original position by taking him down.

On the contrary, Neil Bright chatted with Adams about wine, Shearer about playing cards, and everyone about women, as if he was about to go to the big health care.

Seeing that the two coaches were silent, Shearer simply spoke first: "David, the coaches seem a little shy, and they are embarrassed to go, so let's appoint someone to come up and explain the tactics to us, and the right to choose the man will be handed over to you."

As soon as Shearer's words fell, there was a burst of laughter in the locker room, and the faces of the coaching staff were a little embarrassed.

Especially Hodl, his face turned white and red.

As the former head coach of the team, he has the biggest psychological gap and is the most difficult to adapt to the status quo.

But things are obvious, it is no longer possible for him to get the right to speak before.

Beckham didn't hesitate either. He ordered John Gehman. After all, the other party was the key figure in getting rid of Hoddle, and it was most appropriate for him to show his face now.

When Beckham called out John German's name, the locker room burst into laughter again, and now all coaching staff members are classified as service industries.

John German writes and draws on the tactical board placed in the locker room, and he is very familiar with it.

Obviously, this is an ambitious person, and he has thoroughly understood Hoddle's tactics in private.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ince nodded in satisfaction, and then said: "By the way, stop letting the staff circle the court. If this works, we won't lose to the Romanians!"

After Ince finished speaking, the England players laughed to themselves.

It can be seen that the impression of the coaching staff in their hearts has dropped by more than one grade, and there has been an obvious gap between the two groups.

Now it is said that it is joint coaching, and when difficulties are encountered, joint decisions are made. In fact, the players make up their minds and the coaching staff agrees. At least this is the rhythm of this game.

The second half of the game was about to start. Neil Bright and the players high-fived one by one and walked back to the court talking and laughing. Beckham felt that he saw some shadows of Venables in him, and some in Keegan.

The game resumed and Beckham felt the Colombian hadn't recovered much.

With just 10 minutes to go in the second half, the Colombian's footsteps were getting heavier, ceding control of the midfield to England.

"The statistics show that England's ball possession rate has exceeded 50%. It is hard to imagine that our ball possession is better than a South American team! Gary, do you think this phenomenon is normal?"

Lineker smiled and said: "Yes, we have the advantage in possession rate. In fact, when the difference in strength is not large, the possession rate is not necessarily the key factor in winning or losing. Sometimes a team with a high ball possession rate will have a lot of invalid ball possession, which is not very helpful for victory.

But judging from today's game, we did control the rhythm of the game. The running ability of England players is far better than that of Colombia.At this pace, we only need to score one more goal and the game will be over. "

In the 58th minute, Valderrama, the core midfielder of Colombia, took the ball and observed the situation on the field slowly.

He pretended to make a cross pass, but as soon as Beckham came up, he played a crotch piercing.

Valderrama walked around Beckham and looked down, only to find the football stuck between Beckham's feet.

I took off my crotch for fun.

Valderrama still wanted to turn back and fight back, but Beckham rushed forward quickly, leaving him no chance at all.

Another midfielder of the Colombian team, Lozano, posted up immediately after Beckham started, trying to intercept him directly in the midfield.

He slams into Beckham, and he's good at that foul all these years with Valderrama.

Just when he was slamming in front of Beckham, the heartthrob flicked the ball out, then jumped up and braked in the air, and even flashed past the Colombian midfielder.

Seeing that Beckham used such a clever move to clean up the Columbia midfielder, the fans in the stands cheered again.

Beckham accelerated towards the front court, but Valderrama couldn't catch up with him at all, and was gradually thrown out of the broadcast screen.

Seeing that Beckham had a one-stop trend, Colombian central defender Palacios made up in advance. This kind of moment is the eternal pain of a central defender.

Just when he ran out of the restricted area just now, Beckham took a small curve ball with his right foot, bypassed the Colombian central defender just right, and bounced into the restricted area.

Amid the cheers of the fans, Anderton made a successful shot ahead of the defender.

2 to 0!Anderton's second goal essentially sealed the victory for England.

With the England team leading by a large score, the coaching team began to deploy troops. They replaced Scholes with Robert Lee, Heskey with Owen, and Ince with Batty.

After some adjustments, England's formation became 4-4-2, Beckham adjusted to the right midfielder, and Anderton switched to the left midfielder, which made Lineker couldn't help complaining.

"The coaches of the England team are trying to let the players get the chance to play. I am afraid that this is one of the few opportunities for Robert to play. I am thinking, instead of this, why not keep Nicky Butt. His role in this system may only be the 'Paul combination' in the midfield.

In addition, if we choose a 4-4-2 formation, it will be embarrassing to find that there is only Le Saux as a genuine left back.I'd love to know what Glenn's intentions were in getting rid of the two left-backs."

The England team has many problems, but it is still not something Colombia can resist.

England's attention was now on the other side of the game, with Tunisia leading Romania 10-1 with a goal in the opening 0 minutes.

If this score continues, the England team will return to the upper half where the French team is located, while Romania can only compete with Brazil to qualify for the quarter-finals.

This is the best result for the English. It can avoid the dead half zone, and it can make Romania and Argentina, the old and new "enemies", beat each other's brains in the first round of the knockout round.

At this time, the stadium has become a chorus performance for England fans. Everyone is singing "Hey, Judy", and the lyrics are quite appropriate at this moment.

The fans sang joyously, and the players played more and more easily.

In the 70th minute, Beckham and Batty completed a two-to-one cross from the wing. Shearer grabbed the first point in the penalty area and gave the ball to Owen with his head.

The 18-year-old Liverpool striker was like a boy chasing the wind. He got rid of the defense in an instant and rushed to score before the goalkeeper.

3 to 0!The mentality of the Colombian players has collapsed at this time.

If they want to advance to the top 16, they have to score 20 goals in the next 4 minutes. This possibility obviously only exists in theory.

England's celebration had just ended, and there was bad news from the radio. Romania had leveled the score, and they now had 7 points in real time, which meant they had taken the lead again.

The morale of the England team has not been greatly affected. After the match with the Romania team, their ability to resist pressure has improved a lot. Besides, the initiative is not in their hands now.

The former Newcastle midfield combination of Robert Lee and Batty is still powerful, and the two are about to overwhelm the Columbia team's midfield combination. These two people have always been obsessed with this feeling.

Beckham on the right side can only be responsible for the organization of the team at the same time. Robert Lee and Batty next to him have become rhinos when they lead by a large score.

In the 80th minute, Beckham got another chance on the right side. He continued to move in and cut in, attracting the entire defense line of the Romanian team.

Watching Romania's defense finish shrinking, Beckham made a decisive cross, and Robert Lee scored with a strong shot, finally fixing the score at 4-0.

In another match that started at the same time, Romania and Tunisia ended up 1-1.

At the end of the game, the England team went to the stands to thank the fans, and everyone sang "Hey, Judy" again.

As a result, someone took the lead in changing the "Judy" in the lyrics to "David", and spoiled his own heartthrob again.

The three rounds of Group G came to an end. Romania ranked first in the group with two wins and one draw with 7 points, England ranked second with two wins and one loss with 6 points, and Colombia and Tunisia ended their respective World Cup journeys.

This result is obviously not satisfactory to the English, but they can only admit that once they make a mistake, they have to pay the price.

Although there is a high probability of meeting Argentina in the 16-to-8 match, many people are still lucky.

Although Argentina was in good form in the first two rounds, Croatia also performed well.

If Croatia wins, then England will avoid Argentina.

In this way, the quality of the half of hell suddenly weakened a lot, and the England team should not have much problem playing Croatia.

Later, the cruel reality once again extinguished the last sliver of luck for the English.

In the game in Group H, Argentina scored early and maintained its lead until the end of the game, ranking first in the group with three victories.

For such a result, Beckham can only express helplessness.

After a long circle, I still asked Hoddle to make a move. The England team, which had a delicate relationship in the locker room, lost to Romania immediately, and suddenly lost the initiative.

The final facts once again prove that the World Cup does not believe in tears and cannot let fate be pinned on others. This game is the best proof.

Even if Hoddle hired a witch doctor to toss hard every game, it was useless for the staff to keep spinning counterclockwise around the court during the game.

In the highest level of competition like the World Cup, no one has the opportunity to make mistakes.

Especially when the England team abandoned Beckham, it was like breaking their arms.

The World Cup group has thus come to an end, and the 16 teams that have advanced to the group will decide the top 8 by fighting against each other.

The eighth-final matchups are: Italy vs. Norway, Brazil vs. Chile, France vs. Paraguay, Denmark vs. Nigeria, Argentina vs. England, Germany vs. Mexico, Netherlands vs. Yugoslavia, and Croatia vs. Romania.

The England team successfully embarked on a thorny road through the head coach's deadly operation.

Their game against Argentina became the highlight of the first knockout round.

Sure enough, it's not that enemies don't get together, the national feud and past grievances make this game full of highlights.

The hatred between Britain and Argentina begins with an archipelago called the Falklands.

In the 16th century, both British and Argentine historians claimed that the Falklands belonged to them.France and Britain both left a small amount of garrisons on the island in the 18th century. The island was later colonized by Spain, and was independent by Argentina many years later.

Britain believed that the archipelago had always belonged to Britain, so it occupied the island.The two countries started negotiations in the 60s, but they failed to reach an agreement until the 80s, and could only use force to resolve the issue.

The war ended with a British victory, and the two countries have taken over from then on.

The time came to 1986, and Argentina led by Maradona met the England team, which was aiming to win the championship, in the quarter-finals.

The king of the ball performed the "Hand of God" first, and then scored another goal with a strong performance of one-stop performance. The British were worried about that handball, and the political hatred between the two countries continued to football.

The round of 16 match had just been released, and the Argentine team stated that they must beat the England team in the knockout round, while the English media ridiculed that their championship was stolen in an improper way.

The two teams have expressed their intention to kill each other after a few tricks in the media, and this game is destined to become the focus of this World Cup.

After Beckham played, the England team performed strongly. First, they chased two goals in a row when they were three goals behind, and almost reversed Romania.Then came a clean 4-0 victory over Colombia.

After three group matches, the England team scored 10 goals and became the most aggressive team in the group stage.

At the end of the group stage, the England team got a precious 4-day rest time.

And Beckham also got advice from Old John: "David, the next game is crucial to your career. The Argentines will irritate you in various ways, and some of their actions will make you feel very angry.

Take my advice, if someone provokes you, don't overreact, especially don't take any revenge, especially for Simeone.

Do take my word for it! "

(End of this chapter)