Chapter 307 Entering the Top Four!

"Rooney helped England score the second goal, the score became 2-0, England opened the gap!"

"It's unbelievable..."

"Before the game, almost everyone thought that it would not be easy for the two teams to decide the outcome. Whether it was England or Italy, emergency training was carried out on penalty kicks, but now it seems that they are not used..."

"England, led by Wansheng, took it easy when facing Italy. They maintained their advantage in the difficult second half of the game. This goal seems to be a reflection of England's advantage. Italy's passivity has not been reversed. Leigh definitely made some tweaks to the tactics, but now it doesn't seem to work."

"Faced with a strong England, the Italians don't have a good way."

"After taking a two-goal lead, the suspense of the game is not big. It is too difficult for Italy to tie the score at the last time..."

"Looking back on the previous England team, it's really hard to imagine what this Chinese did to make the England team so strong..."

Following the words of the commentators, the cameras on the field also pointed to Wansheng, and Wansheng was waving to the England fans in the stands.

When he turned around, his face was full of confidence.

With this confident and young face, it is hard to believe that he has achieved results that most other coaches cannot match.

"This is Wansheng, he is always full of confidence!"

"Now he has proved himself in the European Cup, England is not a good team to lead, even Capello resigned before the European Cup, but he took over temporarily, but led the team to play such good results..."

"Although many people say that the performance of the England team is related to Capello's previous coaching, how big is the relationship? Maybe only English players know."

"Anyway, at least so far, Wansheng's interim coaching has been very successful, and the FA has made a successful deal."

In fact, the England team has reached the set goal.

FA official Brooking is one of four FA executives responsible for the decision to appoint Wan Sheng.

After qualifying for the first round of the England group, he admitted in an interview with the media that at the beginning of May, a month before the European Championship, he had thought about the England team's plan to compete in the European Championship. "Which day is the day to leave? Is it the end of the game?" Leaving the group stage? After the Ukraine game, should England go back to the hotel to check out and pack up and say goodbye to the Euros?"

Brooking said: "I have this kind of apprehension. The manager is late to appoint, and then all of a sudden Lampard, Barry, Cahill are injured again. And the hopefuls Smalling, Walker, Rodwell , Wilshere didn't come again. It made people think that we would be out after the group stage. At first, we all thought that. But now we are first in the group."

Brooking went on to say that due to the low expectations of the outside world, it may also help England play.

"Doubts about the strength of the team have been haunting the England team. Is the team strong enough? Can they score? Rooney will miss the opening two games..."

Now Brooking has a sense of peace: "Now, we are in the knockout round. Now you are starting to wonder what potential this team has? If you told me the current progress of the team a month ago, I will grab your hand. Dump!"

Brooking's statement also represents the general attitude of the FA.

Most FA officials believe that the team can at most reach the quarter-finals, and then they can prepare to leave. Even if Wansheng is invited, they are just looking for a life-saving straw. They are not sure whether it can save lives.

The England team won three games in the group and qualified first, giving the FA great confidence, for which they took out a large amount of money to win the championship.

This is the news disclosed by The Sun.

"If England can win the title, it will be historic and we don't care about giving players more money," Brooking said.

In fact, the England team has already received a lot of bonuses.

After reaching the European Cup finals with a complete victory, the England team has already won the 8.2 million pounds bonus from the FA. Before the game with Italy, in order to encourage the team to move forward, the FA took out another 2.2 million pounds bonus, if they can beat Italy to advance to the semi-finals, the team will get another 1.7 million pounds.

If England can beat Germany in the semi-finals and go on to win the final, they will take another £2.5m and £6.2m and the jackpot will be closer to £21m.

It's just an FA reward.

Other England team sponsors will certainly have similar incentives, when each player in the England team will be able to get a lot of money.

The England team has such a fighting spirit, and the encouragement of bonuses is also very important. Everyone needs money, and they will not dislike having more money in their pockets.

For ordinary players, a bonus of more than one million pounds is undoubtedly very attractive.

Wansheng didn't express his opinion on this, and he didn't care about the money. As long as he was the head coach for one day, he would continue to lead the team forward.

This is the most important.

Now that the semi-finals have waved to the team, Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines, applauding the goal, and the England fans in the stands were even more excited.

The Italian players are not in a good mood.

They didn't expect the game to turn out like this, two goals behind? how is this possible! They never thought about this situation.

Before the start of the game, they thought about a lot of situations and how to play when they were behind, but they never thought that the opponent could lead by two goals, and it was at a critical moment of nearly 80 minutes.

This score is unacceptable to them.

So when the game restarted, the Italian players seemed a little impatient. Several players in the frontcourt seemed to be fighting alone. Cassano is the representative of them. He is a fighter who fights alone. He has been working hard Look for opportunities and do it by all means.

And then... he took the card!

In the 83rd minute of the game, when Cassano was fighting with Terry, he directly bumped into it. It was a deliberate foul. Terry fell to the ground, covering his stomach and grinning. The referee did not hesitate to check the card. Sano shows a red card.

Cassano also argued with the head coach and seemed to want to prove that he did not foul intentionally, but the referee simply ignored it.

Eventually Cassano was sent off.

Terry lay on the ground for a while, but there was no big problem, but to be on the safe side, Wansheng replaced him and let Alfred play.

As early as eight years ago, Alfred entered the England national team. He has always been called up by various managers. Reid is difficult to hit the main force.

This European Cup, Alfred is also the first time to represent the team.

Wansheng has high expectations for Alfred. The only regret is that Alfred's talent is limited. In professional football, it means that he cannot become the top defensive player in the world, but as an England team The bench is also stronger than most players.

He has never played under his own hands, and Wansheng is also very relieved that Alfred can stand firm on his own.

Next, Italy turned into a 10-on-11 situation. Some of the small advantages they had just played were immediately wiped out in the case of a disadvantage in numbers.

By this time, everyone knew that the outcome had been won.

Italian coach Prandelli began the final gamble, he replaced two consecutive offensive players, in order to win the last minute miracle.

Unfortunately, it is too difficult for a miracle to appear, and it is even more difficult here in Wansheng.

Wansheng has never liked miracles. Such games are beyond his expectations. His team's miracles are only a small surprise. It is not very comfortable for opponents to create miracles. His purpose has always been to 'kill miracles'.

At the end of the game, after seeing Italy make substitutions and adjustments, Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and personally guided the team's defense.

The Italians pressed on if they wanted to press hard, the team defended well, and leaving a player in the frontcourt was enough to threaten the Italian defense.

Italy does not have the ability to break through England's defense in a short period of time, and with ten players in the game, their offense is even less threatening.

Balotelli in the frontcourt has always been the focus.

All the media and fans pay attention to Balotelli's performance. If there is a miracle in the end, Balotelli will also be a very important point. It's a pity that during the whole game, Balotelli disappointed the Italian media and fans. , he was defended very deadly, and there has been no performance worth mentioning.

Until the end of the game, Balotelli did not shoot again.

In the last time, the Italian team had two shots, both of which were forced to kick, and did not pose a threat to the English defense.

In the last three minutes of stoppage time, Wansheng simply let everyone retreat to defend. Anyway, the team took the lead and led a goal. Italy 'created a miracle' and scored one. Under the defense of 10 people, it is too difficult for Italy to score goals, or it is impossible for a short period of time.

In the expectation of many media and fans, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

England beat Italy 2-0!

"The game is over. With the goals of Morris and Rooney, England defeated Italy 2-0 and successfully entered the semi-finals of this European Cup. They will meet Germany in the semi-finals!"

"In the whole game, the England team performed very well, especially the frontcourt players, Rooney, Morris, Ashley Young, they brought a huge threat to the Italian defense and also scored two goals. The game is won!"

"This is a battle to remember!"

"A lot of people thought it would be a penalty shootout, but Wan Sheng did what he said, 'Try 90 minutes,' and he said, 'The winner will be England', he said. Did it, England did it!"

"Congratulations to them!"