Chapter 307 Entering the top four!
"Rooney helped England score the second goal, and the score became 2-0, and England opened the gap!"
“It’s incredible…”
"Before the game, almost everyone thought that it was not easy for the two teams to decide the winner. Both England and Italy conducted emergency training for penalty kicks, but now it seems that they can't be used..."
"England led by Wan Sheng was calm when facing Italy. They maintained their advantage in the difficult game in the second half. This goal seemed to be a reflection of England's advantage. Italy's passiveness did not reverse at all. Head coach Plandley must have made certain adjustments to the tactics, but now, this adjustment has not played a role."
"Faced with a strong England, the Italians have no good way."
"After leading two goals, the game is not very suspense. It is too difficult for Italy to tie the score in the last time..."
"Recalling the previous England team, it is really hard to imagine what this Chinese did to make the England team so strong..."
As the commentators said, the cameras on the field also pointed at Wan Sheng, and Wan Sheng was waving to the English fans in the stands.
The moment he turned around, his face was full of confidence.
This confident and young face makes people believe that he has achieved results that most other coaches cannot achieve in professional coaching.
"This is Wansheng, he is always full of confidence!"
"Now he has proved himself in the European Cup. England is not a good team. Even Capello resigned before the European Cup, but he took over temporarily and led the team to achieve such a good result..."
"Although many people say that the performance of England is related to Capello's previous coaching, how much is it? Perhaps only English players know it."
"Anyway, at least so far, Wansheng's temporary coaching has been very successful, and the FA has made a successful deal."
In fact, England has achieved its set goals.
FA official Brooking is one of four FA executives responsible for the appointment of Wansheng.
After qualifying for the first place in the English group, he admitted in an interview with the media that he had thought about the plan for England to compete in the European Cup in early May, a month before the European Cup. "When is the day to leave? Should we leave after the group stage? After the match against Ukraine, England should go back to the hotel to check out and pack, and say goodbye to the European Cup?"
Brooking said: "I have such a concern. The head coach was delayed and then suddenly, Lampard, Barry, and Cahill were injured again. And the hope stars Smalling, Walker, Rodwell, and Willshere didn't come. This made people think that we would be out after the group stage. At first, we all thought so. But now we are the first in the group."
Brooking continued to say that due to the low expectations of the outside world, it may also help England perform.
"The questions about the team's strength have been plaguing England. Is the team strong enough? Can you score a goal? Rooney will miss the first two games..."
Now Brooking feels like a smooth race: "Now, we are entering the knockout stage. Now you are starting to wonder what potential this team has? If you told me the team's current progress a month ago, I will grab your hand and swing it!"
Brooking's statement also represents the general attitude of the FA.
Most FA officials believe that the team will reach the quarterfinals at most and then be ready to leave. Even if Wan Sheng is invited, they will just find a life-saving straw. They cannot be sure whether it can help.
England won three games in the group and qualified as the first, giving the FA great confidence, and for this they gave them a large prize for winning the championship.
This is the news disclosed by The Sun.
"If England can win the championship, it will be historic, and we don't care about giving players more bonuses," Brooking said.
In fact, England has already won a lot of bonuses.
After reaching the European Cup finals with a complete victory, England had already won the FA's 8.2 million pounds prize. Before the match against Italy, in order to encourage the team to continue moving forward, the FA took out another £2.2 million. If it can defeat Italy and advance to the semi-finals, the team will get another £1.7 million.
If England can beat Germany in the semi-finals and continue to win the finals, they will get another £2.5 million and £6.2 million, and the jackpot will be close to £21 million.
This is just a FA reward.
Other England sponsors will definitely have similar rewards, and each player in England will be able to share a lot of money.
The English team has such fighting spirit, and the encouragement of bonuses is also very important. Everyone needs money and will not dislike the amount of money in their pockets.
For ordinary players, the prize of over one million pounds is undoubtedly very attractive.
Wan Sheng did not express his opinion on this, and he didn't care about the little money. As long as he served as the head coach for one day, he would continue to lead the team forward.
This is the most important thing.
Now the semi-finals have waved to the team, Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and affirmed the goal with applause. The English fans in the stands were even more excited.
Italian players are not in a good mood.
They didn't expect the game to become like this, falling behind two goals? How is that possible! They never thought of such a situation.
Before the game started, they thought about many situations and how to play behind, but they never thought that the opponent could lead two goals, and it was at a critical moment in the past 80 minutes.
They couldn't accept this score.
So when the game started again, the Italian players seemed a little impatient. Several frontcourt players were a little bit fighting alone. Casano was the representative of it, a fighter who was "single alone". He was always trying to find opportunities and did everything he could.
Then... he took the card!
In the 83rd minute of the game, Casano hit his head directly when he was fighting with Terry. It was a totally intentional foul. Terry fell to the ground, covered his stomach and grinned. The referee showed Casano a red card without hesitation.
Casano also argued with the head coach, as if he wanted to prove that he did not intentionally foul, but the referee ignored it at all.
In the end, Casano was sent off.
Terry lay on the ground for a while, but there was no big problem, but to be on the safe side, Wan Sheng replaced him and let Alfred play.
As early as eight years ago, Alfred entered the England national team. He has always been recruited by various head coaches, but with excellent central defenders such as Ferdinand, Terry, and Lescott, it is difficult for Alfred to play as the main player.
This is Alfred's first appearance for the team in this European Cup.
Wan Sheng has quite high expectations for Alfred. The only regret is that Alfred has limited talent, which means that in professional football, it means that he cannot become the world's top defensive player, but as a substitute for the England team, he is also better than most players.
Wan Sheng felt relieved that he had never played for himself.
Next, Italy became a situation of 10 to 11, and some of the small advantages they had just played immediately became vanished when they had a disadvantage in numbers.
By this time, everyone knew that the outcome had been decided.
Italian head coach Plandley started his final bet - Beau, who replaced two attacking players in a row in order to fight for miracles at the last time.
Unfortunately, it is too difficult for miracles to happen, and even more difficult here in Wansheng.
Wan Sheng never likes miracles. Such a game was beyond his expectations. It was just a small surprise that his team created miracles. It was not very comfortable for his opponent to create miracles. His goal has always been to "kill miracles."
At the end of the game, after seeing Italy make substitutions, Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and personally guided the team's defense.
If the Italian wants to push forward, he will press forward. If the team does a good job of defense and leaves a player in the frontcourt, it will be enough to threaten the Italian defense line.
Italy does not have the ability to break through England's defense line in a short time, and with the match ten players facing each other, their offense is even more threatening.
Balotelli has always been the focus of the frontcourt.
All media and fans pay attention to Balotelli's performance. If a miracle happens in the end, Balotelli will be a very critical point. Unfortunately, Balotelli disappointed Italian media and fans throughout the game. He was defended very much and had no performance worth mentioning.
Until the end of the game, Balotelli did not shoot anymore.
In the last time, the Italian team shot twice, both forcibly and did not pose a threat to the English defense line.
In the last three minutes of stoppage time, Wan Sheng simply let everyone retreat to the defense. Anyway, the team led the lead and Italy scored one, and the team was able to win one by one. Under the strict defense, it was too difficult for Italy to score with 10 people, or in other words, it was impossible for a short period of time.
Amid the expectations of many media and fans, the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game.
England beat Italy 2-0!
"The game is over. England defeated Italy 2-0 with the goals of Morris and Rooney, and successfully entered the semi-finals of this European Cup. They will meet Germany in the semi-finals!"
"The England team performed very well throughout the game, especially several frontcourt players, Rooney, Morris, and Asheri Young. They posed a huge threat to the Italian defense line and scored two goals, which determined the outcome of the game!"
"This is a great war worth remembering!"
"Many people think that the two teams will decide the winner with penalty kicks, but Wansheng did what they said, 'try to decide the winner with 90 minutes'. He also said, 'The winner will be England'. He did it, and England did it!"
"Congratulations to them!"
Chapter completed!