Chapter 639 Lin Quan scored twice, killing the game!

At halftime, the British dressing room was filled with gloom.

Almost everyone, including the head coach and players, is thinking hard about how to reverse the disadvantage.

Although they are only one goal behind their opponents, for them who mainly focus on defensive counterattacks, this one goal will kill them.

With only three substitutions available, it is very difficult to make drastic adjustments to the team's existing personnel and tactics. After all, they had previously added five defenders in order to strengthen their defense.

The help these five defenders can provide in the offense is quite limited. If you pursue offense, you must replace some of them and replace them with offensive players.

There are actually many offensive players sitting on the bench of the England team, such as Leicester City forward Vardy, Manchester United winger Rashford and others.

Substituting these people on the field can effectively improve the England team's offensive power, but the substitution quota is limited. If all the substitution quotas are used up too early, if something unexpected happens later, they will have no substitution quota to use. .

And Southgate is still very worried. What if their defense is empty after they attack in the second half and their opponent takes advantage of the situation and scores another goal?

The probability of this happening is quite high, after all, their defense in the first half was accomplished by piling up defensive players in the backcourt.

Once the players are involved in the offense and the number of defenders decreases, their defense will definitely be significantly weakened.

Unless they can play the ultimate pass and control like the Spanish team and firmly control the ball at their feet, otherwise, they will have to face the Spanish team's frequent and extremely threatening counterattacks.

Southgate hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to observe and see the situation first.

Substitutions must be made, but he did not dare to use all three substitution places in one go.

Instead, only one was used, replacing Ashley Young and replacing him with Rashford.

As for the vacancy after Ashley Young left, Southgate chose to advance Stones' position in the defense and let him cooperate with Henderson as a double midfielder.

Stones and Lin Quan are teammates in the club, and they occasionally played as a defensive midfielder when they were in Manchester City. His understanding of this position and Lin Quan's teammates will help him achieve good performance.

This is Southgate's real idea in making such an arrangement. It's hard to say whether it will work.

Compared with the adjustments made by the England team, the Spanish team has not made any substitution arrangements.

They are still the same lineup as in the first half, and even their playing style has not changed.

After the start of the second half, fans quickly discovered that England's offensive attempts increased.

This change can be seen from their active attack in the midfield and their active push forward after successfully stealing the ball.

The English were obviously well prepared. They must have practiced against the Spanish midfielder's sweeping and pressing before the game, so at the beginning of the second half, they took advantage of their opponent's lack of preparedness and caught the Spanish team off guard.

The Spanish team was really a little careless. They had warned that the opponent would strengthen their offense in the second half, but they obviously underestimated the power of their opponent Youth Storm.

The overall age of the England team on the field is very low. It is the team with the lowest average age in this World Cup, even younger than the French team.

After Ashley Young was replaced, all 11 England players on the field were born in the 1990s!

Harry Kane who is under 25 years old, Sterling who is 23 years old, Lingard who is 25 years old, Rashford who is under 19 years old, Ali who is 22 years old...

This England team is a bit too young, so it's no wonder the outside world has such high expectations for them.

After they reached the semi-finals of the World Cup, they were dubbed the Super Platinum Generation.

Maybe it will be difficult for them to make further progress in this World Cup, but in the next World Cup, when these young players grow up, it is simply unimaginable how strong the England team will become.

Young players may not have as much experience as older players, but their physical fitness and impact are obviously not comparable to those of the old players.

What's more, the England team also has tall players like Kane and Alli in the midfield, especially Alli, who has an absolute advantage in the physical confrontation with the Spanish midfielder.

Thanks to Ali's outstanding performance, the England team gained many offensive opportunities during this period.

But because of the lack of a stable passer, England's offense was unable to pose a threat.

Neither Lingard nor Ali is the kind of person who can deliver the final pass, and their intention to pass forward to the forward players is too obvious, so that the Spanish team can always complete the interception and defense first.

Sterling and Kane on the front line could only return without success again and again.

The attack in the middle was fruitless, but the attack on the wing actually improved.

After Rashford came on, the threat from the left wing of the England team increased sharply.

At this point in time, Rashford is not the coach of the future, and his attitude on the court is still fine.

Moreover, Rashford is very fast, has good skills with his feet, and has good dribbling ability.

With his presence, England's attack on the left wing is flourishing.

Rashford made tireless passes time and time again, selflessly delivering passes to his teammates.

But his teammates on the front line were really not very good, wasting his 'wonderful passes' time and time again.

Well, this pass was something Rashford himself made up in his mind.

In fact, Harry Kane and Sterling on the front line had strong opinions on his passing. They thought Rashford's passing was too formulaic, so they just dribbled the ball down to the center and finished it.

After playing a few times, the opponent's defender was prepared. Harry Kane was tightly guarded and could hardly get the ball.

Although Sterling can find opportunities because of his short stature, the balls passed by Rashford are all high balls. He, who is only 170cm tall, cannot grab the landing spot at all, and is completely reduced to a decoration in the penalty area.

Southgate's nose on the sidelines was so angry that he was crooked. Rashford is really a guy who makes people love and hate him at the same time!

He can break through and cross from the wing, which is great, but you are a winger, not a full-back. Why do you always pursue crosses from the bottom, but can't you cut inside to the penalty area to cooperate with your teammates?

If you dribble the ball into the penalty area, even if you don't rush in, you can still be on the outside of the penalty area, distracting the opponent's defender and reducing the pressure on your teammates in the penalty area.

What's more, the closer you are to the goal, the higher the threat of passing the ball. If you can pass the ball directly to Kane's feet, wouldn't Kane score a goal long ago?

In fact, it's not that Rashford doesn't want to do it, but that he simply can't do it.

Spain's defense is very targeted. When England attacks, Lin Quanhui comes from the center to help defend, and cooperates with David Silva on the wing to drive Rashford to the wing.

And Spain's right back Carvajal is also very experienced. He blocks Rashford's route to the penalty area and gives you the outside line.

You want to dribble the ball down or cross the ball, whatever you want, but if you want to cut inside, that won't work!

Although Rashford has good breakthrough ability, he is still very reluctant to fight one against two. Facing the defense set up by these two people, he does not dare to rush forward and can only be forced to dribble the ball down and pass according to the opponent's intention. bingo.

But in front of him, Carvajal's defense was not out of position. In the case of interference, the quality of his crosses can be imagined.

The England team's offensive lasted for seven or eight minutes, and the Spanish team, which gradually got used to it, began to turn around.

In the 57th minute of the second half, Cork completed a steal in the backcourt and then split the ball to David Silva on the wing.

David Silva evaded Sterling's attack and then passed the ball diagonally to Lin Quan's feet in the front left.

Lin Quan changed direction and spiked the ball, passing Lingard who was blocking him. Then he looked up and observed the position of his teammates, and made a long pass to move the ball to the left side of the court.

Over there, Isco has already charged.

The ball was passed a little ahead of time, and combined with his speed, when the ball hit the ground, Isco just happened to catch up.

England's right back Walker was sprinting, trying to match Isco's speed.

But seeing that the opponent had successfully taken the ball at this time, he had to slow down and prepare to intercept Isco's breakthrough.

Upon seeing this, Isco took the ball and walked towards the center. After attracting Walker to follow up, Isco passed the ball back to the wing.

A red figure rushed past. Alba, the left back of the Spanish team, had already passed the two people, received the ball on the wing and quickly sprinted towards the baseline.

Walker hurriedly chased back, but the opponent's speed had already increased, and he would not be able to catch up for a while.

As soon as Walker left, Isco came alive again. He quickly accelerated and walked straight along the rib area, preparing to reach the edge of the penalty area to cooperate with his teammates.

Alba's name is very similar to Bayern's Alaba, except for one word.

But in fact, the two are players with different styles. Alba's offensive ability is greater than his defensive ability, much like Real Madrid's Marcelo.

As the number one left back in the world, Alaba is a true all-around fighter, capable of both offense and defense. While his offensive ability is outstanding, he also has strong defensive ability.

In addition, Alaba has comprehensive skills at his feet and has a good long-range shot. In the Austrian national team, which is lacking in talent, he is even used as the core of the midfield.

Guardiola has always wanted to introduce him before, but he always failed to get what he wanted. Bayern simply refused to let him go.

Alba did not make a pass like Rashford did, but passed the ball back to Isco. He chose to cut inside and rush towards the penalty area.

Isco understood it and immediately passed the ball to him again.

Spain is already very proficient in this set of pass-and-cut coordination tactics from the wing. Coupled with Alba's distinctive personal characteristics, the offense on this side was what Del Bosque emphasized before the game.

The continuous passing and cutting cooperation between the two is very tacit and very fast.

Walker was running the whole time, but how could a person's speed be compared to the speed of the ball?

Although he tried his best, he still couldn't achieve any effect. He could only watch Alba take a shot.

England's goalkeeper Pickford reacted quickly. When Alba shot, he immediately moved laterally and then flew to save the ball. He narrowly missed the ball over the crossbar.

Alba saw the ball saved by the opponent's goalkeeper and shook his head helplessly.

He felt that he had exceeded his ability with this shot just now, but it still didn't go in.

Spain got a corner kick opportunity, and Lin Quan discussed the corner kick tactics with David Silva.

They took a lot of corner kicks and set kicks in the first half, but with the opponent's obvious height advantage, these set kicks failed to pose a threat.

So Lin Quan tried to change his tactics and no longer played directly into the penalty area.

"Let's play like this... first like this... then like this..."

After Lin Quan finished speaking, David Silva and Busquets nodded repeatedly.

"I think it's feasible!"

David Silva had no objections.

"Don't worry, I will definitely deliver the ball to your feet accurately!"

Busquets patted his chest and said he would complete the tasks assigned to him.

Seeing the two people expressing their opinions like this, Lin Quan nodded and chose to believe them.

It doesn't matter if this tactic doesn't succeed, it's just a waste of a corner kick.

So far in this game, the Spanish team has received 9 corner kicks.

The previous eight attempts were all unsuccessful, so even if it was wasted this time, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Of course, if it can succeed, that would be the best.

Seeing the opponent's players discussing tactics and pointing at the penalty area, the England players also became a little suspicious, wondering what medicine was being sold in their opponent's gourd.

But they all increased their vigilance, because they knew that the other party must have bad intentions.

Soon, David Silva came to the corner kick area.

He took a few steps back, looked toward the penalty area, and made a gesture.

The players of the England team did not understand what this gesture meant, but when they saw Ramos, Pique and other Spanish players running back, they followed suit and moved back.

At this moment, David Silva kicked the ball to Busquets, who was not far away from him.

Tactical corner kick?

The players of the England team saw that the opponent did not directly hang into the penalty area. After being stunned for a moment, the players in the frontcourt immediately rushed over, preparing to interfere and intercept Busquets.

Busquets was overjoyed when he saw that the opponent's formation was rushing out as Lin Quan expected, and he continued to pass the ball calmly. This time he passed the ball to Lin Quan who was ambushing outside the penalty area.

Lin Quan saw the ball coming, and without hesitation, he shot directly at the ball and took a long shot.

Because he was far away from Busquets, most of the opponent's players rushed in Busquets' direction, so no one on his side came up to interfere immediately.

This gives Lin Quan a safe shooting space to shoot long distances without interference or threats.

After completing this long-range shot, Lin Quan felt something in his heart.

Facts have proved that the players' intuition is very accurate.

Lin Quan's long-range shot hit the world. The football drew a beautiful arc in the air at extremely fast speed and hit the dead center of the goal.

England's goalkeeper Pickford tried his best, but there was really nothing he could do about this kind of long shot that hit the dead corner.

The score became 2:0. Lin Quan, who scored twice, almost killed the England team by himself!