England is ready for free throws.

Melbery's foul was on the left, 3 meters away from the penalty area line, and the goal was at a 45-degree angle.

This position is not very good, mainly because the angle is a bit off, but it is only about 23 meters away from the goal. In terms of distance, it is quite suitable for direct free kicks.

After a brief discussion, Morris stood in front of the ball.

A few years ago, England's main free throwers were Gerald, Lampard and Milner. As Morris performed better and better, he firmly sat on the throne of the number one free thrower, and even Gerald could not compete.

Generally speaking, a free kick with a slightly further position requires Gerald to take the penalty. A ball with a closer distance and skill requires complete belonging to Morris.

In England, Morris has become very important.

The competition among England is still very fierce. In many games, free throw rights need to be fought for. Morris is a good-looking guy and doesn't like to compete with other teammates. When he represents England in the game, there are not many times when he directly scores, but Morris can score a good ball every time he makes a free throw.

In the past three years, including the European Cup qualifiers and the warm-up matches before the European Cup, as former coach Capello has not recruited Morris in several months, Morris has only played nine times for England and scored five goals. As a core of the organization, his goal performance is excellent.

Of Morris' five goals, two of them were direct free kicks, while he only took 4 free kicks, with 50% scoring efficiency.

Although the number of penalty times is too small and cannot be used as a criterion for judgment, Morris's free kick scoring efficiency can be seen.

In the official competition, teammates naturally won’t compete.

When Morris stood in front of the ball, all the cameras were worth it.

Morris is the most popular player in England, even no one, even Rooney is a little worse, because Morris just led Atletico Madrid to win the "triple crown". He is the core midfielder of Atletico Madrid and is also considered one of the best performers in the past season.

This evaluation is because Messi and Ronaldo scored too many goals, which is not something that a midfielder can compare, otherwise they would not be able to compare with Morris at all.

Morris has attracted all the attention now.

The English commentator looked forward to it, "Morris is already the absolute core of the England national team, completely replacing Gerald's role. In front of Morris, Gerald can only hand over the core position."

"Morris's foot skills are recognized as the best in the world. He is a genius who was discovered by Wan Sheng from Derby County. Before the age of 25, Morris was still unknown. After that, he jumped up and showed his own dazzling light in Derby County and Manchester City. Now he represents the world's top football. We are proud of having such a veteran!"

"Unfortunately, Morris is already 34 years old. All veterans of this age are about to retire. Morris will definitely not be able to play for England for too long. This European Cup is likely to be Morris' last European Cup. Whether Morris' name can appear in the 2014 World Cup is still uncertain."

"Now he is standing in front of the ball and helping England take a free kick, we can look forward to his performance..."

Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and asked Gary Neville next to him, "Do you think Lee can score?"

"It's hard," Neville shook his head, "that position is a bit too far."

"Get a bet!"

"oh?"

"I said a bet." Wan Sheng smiled, "I believe Li Neng scored the ball directly. If I win, you will stay here and not understand when the game is over. Let everyone lift you up to celebrate the victory, otherwise it would be me, what would happen?"

Neville thought for a while, "Yes. But are you sure you will win?"

"You don't even have this confidence?"

"……All right."

Neville looked at Morris who was preparing for free throws and felt that he had taken a big advantage.

How likely is the direct free kick score in the top European leagues? This question is difficult to judge, and few media will do a complete statistics. However, the Milan Sports Daily conducted a statistics at the end of March last year. The number of free kick shots in the three seasons of 2008 to 2011 was 882,794,795, respectively. However, there were only 340 shots in the first 19 rounds of the 2011-2012 season, while the number of direct free kick scores in the three seasons of 2008 to 2011 was 43, 30, 35, and there were only pitiful 9 rounds of the first 19 rounds of the 2011-2012 season.

Based on this data, the chance of scoring a goal with a direct free kick is only about 5%.

Different players and players, the efficiency of scoring free kicks is definitely different, but even a world-class free kick master will not exceed 30% of the efficiency of scoring directly with a free kick.

Is Morris a world-class free kick master?

This is hard to say.

Gary Neville is not sure, but even a world-class free kick master, the chance of scoring in such a position will not exceed 30%.

After all, Neville felt that he was sure to win.

He didn't have much doubts about whether England could win, so he began to imagine the embarrassment of seeing Wan Sheng thrown into the air after the game.

But what Neville didn't know was that Wansheng had already started to "cheat".

The moment he saw Morris standing in front of the ball, Wan Sheng opened the football training master system and added the "Haven of National Tournament Honor" to the "setting ball" in Morris' personal attribute ability.

In the official game, Morris's set-piece ability evaluation is '97'.

This data is already outstanding. Coupled with the effect of the "national competition honor halo", his set piece ability evaluation has reached '106', which is definitely an unexpected value, only higher than that of Beckham's full victory.

If this is the case, it is difficult to improve the efficiency of scoring too many free kicks. After all, the evaluation value is one aspect. The performance on the field and the position of the free kick are more important. "Shot technique" and "long-range shooting ability increase" can also be used for scoring at free kicks.

With the bonus of these two skill effects, as long as Morris does not make personal mistakes, he is still confident in playing a free kick in this position.

Wansheng didn't know the specific chance, but he estimated that it would be at least 50%.

On the field.

The Swedish team was 'slowly' lineup of people's walls, and the slow speed was really a bit anxious. Gerrard protested to the referee that "they are delaying the time". The referee immediately went over and asked the Swedish team to speed up.

Swedish players were thinking about delaying the time and ending the first half soon, without realizing that the goal behind them was facing a huge crisis.

Finally, the referee signaled that he could make a free throw.

At everyone's attention, Morris took two steps back and trotted forward.

In the running rhythm, Morris waved his right foot and rubbed the ball with his inner instep!

Football rushed from the grass!

Under the camera lens, the Swedish wall jumped up, and neat waves of people crossed the penalty area line, as if they could block everything, but the football rotated around the wall and turned straight to the far corner of the goal!

The Swedish team didn't care about this free kick at all.

In their opinion, although the free kick position is close, the angle is very bad. They always feel that even if England wants to score, they will use tactics, such as Morris kicking a high ball and allowing other teammates to compete for the top.

If Morris chooses to have a straight free kick, they are nothing to be scary because the chances of scoring are too low.

When they were standing in the wall just now, Swedish players paid more attention to the positions of Lescott, Gerald and others to prevent them from suddenly entering the penalty area to grab the spot.

The Swedish player guessed wrongly!

They still don’t know Morris and England. If there is a tactical free kick, Morris will almost never take the penalty. He doesn’t want to go to the front to grab the spot, but also sit in the back and deal with the possible counterattack of the Swedish team at any time.

Morris stood in front of the ball and would almost certainly choose to shoot directly.

This shot was pretty!

The football rushed up on the grass, drew an arc of the inner instep, flew less than half a meter above the human wall, and then quickly rotated and fell, rushing straight to the far corner of the goal with a blade-like arc.

Swedish goalkeeper Isaxon stood in front of the goal.

He had been paying attention to Morris just now, but like other teammates thought, he also thought Morris would not choose to shoot directly, but as a goalkeeper, he had to consider comprehensively. Even if Morris did not shoot directly, he still needed to observe Morris' movements and judge the football route in advance. What he did not expect was that Morris' direct free kick would be so sharp.

When Isaxon reacted, it was too late.

With his past experience, Isaxon knew that he could no longer save. At that moment, he was anxious and desperate because England scored two goals, and Sweden became even more unfavorable.

Other Sweden were also desperate. They followed the football route and turned to see goalkeeper Isaxon standing in place and moving without moving.

The only hope for Sweden is that the football hits the post.

"Bang!"

A muffled sound was like a wonderful note, but the Swedish team had no time to breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the football bounce inward across the goal line.

“goooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!”

The English commentator roared a long time, "The ball was scored! goal!! 2-0! Morris' direct free kick helped England score the second goal!"

"I dare say that this goal is better than Beckham's scimitar arc! It's so wonderful! It's so wonderful! In the last time of the first half, England scored another goal!"

“2 to 0! 2 to 0!”

"Beautiful job! Morris! His effort makes the Swedish team helpless!"

The Dynamo National Stadium in Kiev has been filled with cheers, and every English fan is cheering. Faced with such a wonderful free kick, even local Polish fans shouted together to celebrate the goal.

Amid the cheers, Morris raised his single fist and ran towards his half.

Several English teammates followed behind them, and they waved excitedly and ran excitedly, as if they had won the game.

Wansheng stood on the sidelines and celebrated with the others.

Looking at Morris who was excited, Wan Sheng was also proud of him, and then he turned to Neville and said, "How is it, I won!"

Neville also smiled, not caring about losing his bet at all.

"How do you know he'll score?"

"He's my player, I know him very well, just like, I understand we'll win."

Neville shook his head with a wry smile.

Although he has been working with Wansheng for more than half a month, Neville still can't stand Wansheng's excitement. He knows that Wansheng is an excellent head coach, but sometimes he just feels difficult to communicate.

"It's like knowing we will win?" What is the answer?

What game can you win?

Neville completely didn't understand why Wan Sheng was so confident in every game.

"Maybe this is the world-class head coach? Or, that's why he can succeed?"
To be continued...