The Chinese team is an Asian team, and England is a European team, so the chief referee of this game is John Pitty from Panama, a country in Central and North America and the Caribbean.
A total of 36 referees and 63 assistant referees from around the world have been recruited for this World Cup, but not everyone has the opportunity to step onto the front desk. Today is the first time that Pitti will referee. He blew the whistle happily, and the game started. here we go.
The Chinese team's 4-3-2-1 lineup has completely changed. Only four players, including captain Zhuo Yang, can be considered the main players.
The defense line has Ma Luo on the right, Jiang Zhipeng on the left, and the middle partners Zheng Zheng and Li Xuepeng. The three midfielders Li Ke, Wu Xi, and Hao Junmin are lined up, Wu Lei and A Lan are on the wings, and Zhuo Yang is at the front. The goalkeeper Wang Dalei.
Except for the third goalkeeper Zeng Cheng, 22 of the 23 players of the Chinese team have played this time. If there are no major changes, Zeng Cheng will also replace Dalei in the second half, which will be a complete success.
It’s not that the Chinese team is frivolous, and it doesn’t use the third place as food. There are simply too many injured players. In addition, Xiao Feng is red-carded and suspended and has ambitions of self-exile. The Chinese team will always be a substitute lineup no matter how they make up the team. It is better to simply provide welfare.
England's situation is much better. Although they have less than 40 hours since the end of their last game, the team has no injuries or suspensions and is completely finished.
England is known as the 'Three Lions', named after the three lions on the shield of the jersey.
There were no local lions in ancient China, but lions symbolize official authority in China. There are no lions in Europe now. There used to be lions, but they were all in Greece, and they became extinct long ago.
There has never been a lion in the UK, but to make up for what is missing, the lion has become the totem of the UK, and the three lions are also the symbol of the entire UK and the British royal family. In fact, the first two lions standing opposite each other are quite beautiful, but I don’t know why. Ninety years ago, Charles I insisted on adding a third lion to the royal coat of arms.
There is no generally accepted statement about what the "Three Lions" represent, and even the royal family themselves cannot tell clearly.
Some say England, Wales and Scotland represent Great Britain, but now that we have Northern Ireland, is it discriminatory not to add a fourth lion?
Some say it represents wisdom, strength and courage, but if this is true, then where do you put the loyalty and trust that the British pretend to talk about all day long?
Some people say that Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy represent the three major branches of Christianity. In fact, Britain is the birthplace of Protestantism. They have a confrontational attitude towards the traditional Catholicism of the Holy See and regard the Orthodoxy as heretics. Besides, the British now There are more and more non-black and Middle Eastern immigrants. What do you think of them as inappropriate people?
Maybe 900 years ago, Charles I simply thought that three lions were more powerful than two. It was the same as fighting in a group, and there was nothing profound about it. Anyway, the king was also a second-rate man in the past, and he did things as he thought.
The England team inherited his Three Lions, and also inherited his Second Team. As the national team with the most jokes in the world, the Three Lions and the Three Meows are stupidly indistinguishable.
In the three games after entering the knockout rounds, England's starting lineup is completely fixed, and it is exactly the same in the three games. But perhaps due to schedule fatigue, or perhaps also welfare considerations, the rotation of the Three Lions today is not small.
Southgate is extremely obsessed with the 3-5-2 formation of three central defenders and two wing-backs. The right central defender of Manchester City Walker in the defense was replaced by Manchester United's Phil Jones today, and the other two 'stones' Stones and Maguire remained intact. Not moving.
The two forwards are Harry Kane and 'Maggot' Sterling. The goalkeeper is also Everton's Jordan Pickford who has performed very well this year.
Right wing-back Trippier was retained, and Tottenham Hotspur's Daniel Rose replaced Ashley Young as left wing-back. All three midfielders were changed: Manchester City Delph, Tottenham Dier, and Crystal Palace Loftus-Cheek replaced Lin Huang and Henry.
Dessen and Ali.
England 4, China 1, Brazil 4, Argentina 2, Belgium 2, Spain 1, France 1, Germany 1, Portugal 1. This time Manchester City contributed 17 players to the World Cup.
Except for the unlucky Regent Bravo, the only players who can make a name for themselves in the first team are Germany's Leroy Sane and France's Aymeric Laporte who were not selected. Zinchenko, Foden and the like cannot be regarded as human beings yet.
The Premier League champions only contributed four players to the England national team, which seems a bit small, but there are only four Englishmen from Manchester City's first team, and none of them are missing a lot.
We have a good relationship, and we haven’t seen each other for more than a month. Before the game, Zhuoyang greeted his club teammates affectionately, and even chatted with Delph for a while.
Fabian Delph's selection into England's squad this time is also quite uncertain. Southgate's first choice substitute in the midfield wing is Wilshere.
Last season Tai Ziwei returned to Arsenal and performed well in the first half, but at the end of the season he suddenly became tired, and really tired. The examination showed that the muscle tissue was highly fatigued. Taking him on was like bringing a thunderbolt.
Therefore, with the bonus of Manchester City's championship halo and the ability to play on the left, left back and central midfielder, substitute Delph got on the Three Lions Express.
Walker, Stone, and Sterling are all the team's absolute main players. Delph only came on as a substitute twice in the second half in the 6:1 match against Panama in the group stage and the 2:0 match against Sweden in the quarterfinals, replacing Lin Huang and Ali.
During his time at Aston Villa, Delph was an important member of Hodgson's England team, but today is his first official start under Southgate.
Zhuo Yang didn't talk to him about this.
After three games in the group stage, England ranked second and successfully qualified. Before the top 16 match against Colombia, Delph's wife Natalie was about to give birth. Solskjaer immediately approved the leave, and Delph rushed back to Manchester overnight to accompany the birth.
England defeated Colombia with a penalty kick. Delph had his third daughter and didn't waste anything. To be honest, the humanistic care in this aspect of European sports is indeed worth learning from.
Zhuoyang asked Delph what he planned to name the third princess of their old family. He said: Bu Lu, Bu Lu Delph, how about it?
What the hell is that calling someone by his name? But Zhuo Yang said it was fine, fine.
Commenting on the quality of other people's children's names is the most disrespectful behavior. Chinese Zhuo Yang would not be so tasteless.
Bu**lue, blue, is the color of Manchester City. Delph's eldest daughter and second Ya are called 'Villa' and 'Claret' respectively, because the two younger sisters were born in the city where his father worked for him.
During the time at Villa, Villa was Villa, claret was the color of Villa's home jersey.
If Delph has another fourth child, if he doesn't transfer, the fourth girl can only be called 'Moon' or simply 'Ittihad'.
Sterling felt that Delph was full of wisdom and admired him very much. He said: "Brother Zhuo, you and your sister-in-law should hurry up and have children. In the future, the children will be called Zhuo Milan, Zhuo Basa, Zhuo Mancheng, etc. They are very majestic."
If this guy hadn't immediately changed his name to daddy on the spot, Zhuoyang would have strangled him to death.
Sterling has not scored or assisted in this year's World Cup, but he is England's main striker. His speed and dribbling ability make him a treasure for the team. Anyway, England has Kane and Lin, who is very popular this year.
Gard, no one lives by pointing to Sterling’s goals.
In terms of the number of goals scored, Zhuo Yang belongs to another group. His 13 goals are only one less than the entire England team. In fact, Zhuo Yang's number of goals alone has exceeded 28 of the top 32 teams in Russia and is only one lower.
in China itself, as well as France, Belgium and England.
However, after entering the knockout rounds, the power of England's forward line was greatly reduced. Kane and Lin Huang, who had previously destroyed everyone in the group stage, only scored a penalty kick from Kane.
Relying on the skills of defenders such as Maguire, Stone, and Trippier at set pieces, England passed Colombia and Sweden, but was finally defeated by Croatia, which defended extremely tenaciously.
Today's opponent, the Chinese team, is not good at defense. It scored 21 goals and conceded 14 goals in the previous six games. It scored the most goals and conceded the most goals in the top 32. On average, it conceded one every 45 minutes. This statistic is also the 8th lowest among all teams.
Especially today, the Chinese team's defense is almost pure replacement. Except for Maro, Jiang Zhipeng, Zheng Zheng and Li Xuepeng, they are considered to be the second-rate players in Asia. This is good news for Kane who is eager to score again.
Sir Zhuo Yang, please do it! Not only Kane, but wherever there is Zhuo Yang, shooters have become accustomed to fighting for second place, so the target of England's top striker is Scar Ribery, who also scored six goals.
Being born in the same era as Zhuo Yangsheng, the World Cup Silver Boot is also a great honor.
Zhuoyang is not here to increase the number of goals scored today. He is here to find the answer to the question. Should he discover a new kind of football and tell a new football story? Or should he stop here and let the monument be frozen from now on. Everything will be revealed in ninety minutes.
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Chapter completed!