The new season has begun for half a month, and it is time for the national team to compete again.

Donn is now worried about the team's squad.

The league started three rounds, but there were quite a few injuries, Wayne. Rooney suffered a contusion in his thigh and had to rest for a week, Michael. Carrick sprained his knee and is optimistically rested for two weeks. Bentley was injured again not long after returning from injury, and just like last time, the old problem - a leg ligament strain, which did not get better for at least a month. Downing was sidelined for two weeks with a calf strain against Wales on 24 August, and John Terry was also sent off with a red card in that game and will be suspended for two games.

Those who have been injured will need to be replaced, and suitable replacements will need to be found.

So Chris. For the first time, Cohen received a call from the national team, asking him to pack his bags and report to London and join the national team for Macedonia.

Although he was a first-team player when Nottingham Forest won the treble, he had regular appearances. However, he was never selected for the England squad. After all, there are Downing and James in this position. Milner, on the other hand, is mediocre and well-balanced in all aspects, and his only advantage may be that he is active in defending and sparing his physical strength.

Donn has recruited another Forest player to continue cronyism. But now he is a little less criticised because his side is winning consistently, and as long as he can win, who cares if he plans to replace the England national team with Nottingham Forest?

Cohen was a little flattered, and then he was sure he wasn't dreaming, and it wasn't some kind of reality show for the whole guy. Because after the FA called him, Done's call followed.

"Chris. I was the one who moved you from the reserve team to the first team, and now I'm the one who has transferred you from Forest to the national team. To be honest, I'm under a lot of pressure. If you don't behave well, I'll be scolded. I don't care, but if you don't play well, it's going to make England feel disunited......"

Cohen knew what Donn meant, and he replied, "Don't worry, sir. I won't disgrace you! ”

Cohen was replacing Downing, who left the team injured, but Done couldn't guarantee him a chance to play, because there was a lot of competition for the same position.

James. Both James Milner and Theo Walcott can play as left wing-backs and will need to give their full strength in training to impress Donn and convince other doubters if they want to make their first appearance for England.

Mock was very envious of Cohen's selection for the national team, you must know that his position in the Forest team is relatively strong now, but the head did not call him once, even if Bentley was injured twice, he was replaced by Walcott.

John Terry injured, Manchester City's Micha. Richards replaced him and was selected for the national team. Previously, due to his ups and downs in form, he has been hovering at the door of the national team. Despite his talent and high demand for a selection in the national team, Don would rather offend half of the Manchesters than recruit Richards for the national team.

As a star who rose to fame at a young age, Richards has long been famous in the Premier League and even European football, and he was often selected for the national team during the Capello era. Apart from not receiving any decent accolades at the club, he is one of the best of his age. This experience makes him a little arrogant, and sometimes his mind is not on playing.

Don doesn't believe in evil, so he wants to kill the prestige of this Manchester City vice-captain. So since he joined the England team, Richards has not been selected for the national team once. So much so that the Manchester media analyzed whether Donn had any contradiction with Richards.

Donn never admitted it, and Richards complained occasionally. Well, now he's called up to the national team, albeit in place of Terry, but he finally bought the door, in Tony. Donn was selected for the first time since taking charge of the national team.

With the first there will be a second time, as long as he can take the opportunity.

Michael. Michael Carrick was unable to play for the national team due to injury, and Tottenham Hotspur's Delphi reinforcements were on the line. Replacing Wayne Rooney is Everton's top scorer James. Vaughn. Bentley's replacement is Matt from Blackburn. Derbyschel.

With such a team, Donn flew to Skopje, the capital of Macedonia.

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Even at home, Macedonia could not pose much of a threat to England. That's what all England fans think.

The England players thought so too. In the previous ten qualifiers, England had an impressive record of nine wins and one draw, and qualifying from the group was not a problem at all. They have long since stopped looking at their opponents in the group stage.

After the start of the game, it seems to have developed like this.

Just seven minutes into the kick-off, Walcott broke through and crossed from the wing, and Mitchel jumped up with ease to head home. England lead 1-0.

After taking the lead early, England's players began to slacken and were a little absent-minded.

This made Donn very unhappy, and he kept walking around on the sidelines, shouting and shouting to the team to continue the attack.

Macedonia were much better than they were away to England, threatening England's goal on a number of occasions midway through the game.

It wasn't until the 72nd minute that England took advantage of a corner kick opportunity and Richards, who replaced John Terry, scored with a header to lock the score at 2-0 and basically end the game.

Richards was so excited after the goal that he ran to the TV camera and yelled. After being "snubbed" by Donn for a year, he finally proved his worth with this goal.

After the game, instead of praising the team's performance, Donn mocked them mercilessly in the dressing room.

"Of the sixteen shots on goal, you only got three kicks in the frame!" With this statistic, can he not be angry? 'Am I supposed to be happy that we were so efficient and scored two goals in the three-legged frame? Or are you sorry for the other nine you missed? Four more feet were blocked...... That's your stats, gentlemen! Against a small Macedonia, you can all play like this, how can you face stronger opponents? ”

A group of players were silenced by Donn. They also know that they played a very average game. The leader is not bad, because when they face Macedonia, they just can't cheer up.

Don looked at this group of players, he also knew in his heart that no matter what he said about playing against a team that was too weak, the players would definitely underestimate the enemy in their hearts, and they also had their own little calculations, and it was impossible to listen to them for everything. They are living people, not marionettes in their own hands.

"I don't want to see any more games like today."

Donn dropped the sentence and left the locker room.

A group of players looked at each other, still not quite understanding that even if they underestimated the enemy, after all, after winning the game, the boss didn't need to be so angry, right?

How did they know that what Donn values most is the team's mental will, which can lose but waver. It's not terrible to underestimate the enemy, but it's the casual attitude of the game. Once you get into the habit, you can give the team a fatal blow at the crucial moments.

Only the Forest players understand why the boss is upset. Because that's what the boss asked of the team when he was in Forest.

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England won against Macedonia, and although the process was not satisfactory to Donne, the result was good. They now sit top of the group with 25 points, with only 20 points after a 1-1 draw between second-placed Denmark and fifth-placed Ireland. The difference between the first and second places widened to five points.

As England travel to Denmark in the next round, it is a game worth six points, so as long as England can beat Denmark, they will advance with two games remaining.

In the eyes of the English media, the England team has been given a ticket to Spain. Because playing Denmark away was not a problem at all, the qualifiers played a round and they found that there was no team in this group to give Tony at all. Don's team causes trouble.

Whether it is Denmark or Serbia, they were previously considered a strong team, but they are vulnerable to the strong England team.

The media in England are making noise again. Begin to shout that this is the strongest England team in history, they will sweep the continent, Serbia and Denmark will not stop the team's progress, Toney. Donn's unbeaten run of games will continue.

Don was tired of hearing such arguments.

Don did feel a little nervous for the upcoming match, though. The media is overly optimistic and will definitely affect the mood of the team, look at what happened in Skopje. Thankfully, their opponent in that match was only Macedonia, so what would happen if they were to Denmark? The Vikings don't take that opportunity lightly at home.

What worries him even more is that this pride will bring even more terrible results when it comes to the European Championship.

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Since criticising the team's performance in Skopje, the players have noticed that the smile on the boss's face has significantly decreased.

In an interview, the boss talked about Denmark a lot more cautiously, he has been emphasizing that Denmark is a strong team, he respects Denmark very much, and his posture couldn't be lower. It is really surprising that the most arrogant head coach would take the initiative to show weakness.

There was a lot of talk about it among the players.

"The boss's behavior is abnormal......"

"What's so abnormal? He did it for us! ”

"Did it show us?"

"You don't want us to underestimate the enemy."

"What kind of enemy are we against Denmark?"

"It's hard to say...... The team has won back-to-back games and I don't think it's a problem against Denmark......"

"Originally, it was not a problem to qualify. I don't know what the boss is worried about......"

"I can't really lift up an opponent who can win with any kick."

"Look at you've underestimated the enemy!"

"Ah......h

Discussions like this happen all the time among the players.

The day before the game, at the hotel where England were staying, Donn called the team together for a tactical meeting. As a result, he didn't talk about tactics, and his first sentence scared the players.

"I'm wondering, should we deliberately lose to Denmark?"

Don touched his chin and didn't look like he was joking, and everyone was shocked, staring at their head coach with their eyes wide open and their mouths open, wondering why the boss was saying that.

"We're definitely going to qualify anyway. It doesn't matter if you lose a game, I don't care much about that unbeaten streak, it doesn't make much sense. Rather than this, I would rather pour cold water on the dizzy media...... But are you willing to do that? ”

He asked, staring at the crowd of players.

As captain, Wood stood up, "I don't like that, chief. ”

"Why?"

"I don't like to lose, and I don't like to lose on purpose."

Wood's words were echoed by a number of players, who echoed them.

"Actually, the chief......" Mitchel also stood up: "Don't worry about us being encouraged by the media. We're not kids, we don't understand anything. ”

His words were also echoed by many players.

Don spread his hands: "Am I worrying?" I have seen that sentiment among you. Some of you must think that Denmark is a team that can win by playing casually? ”

One of the players craned his neck and lowered his head.

"Since you don't want to lose, then I need to make some changes to the starting lineup......"

In this way, Donn put all the Nottingham Forest players in the starting line-up. Joe. Mattok, Chris. Cohen, Mitchel, Abonlahoe, and captain George. Wood.

Against Nottingham Forest's majority-majority starting line-up, he yelled: "You know what I want! ”

"Victory!!"

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Denmark tried to resist before, so they scored a goal.

However, the storm of England's counterattack was so fierce that the Danes could not raise their heads at all.

2:1, they defeated Denmark away to win this game, and thus won the right to qualify two rounds early.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match, the England players rushed onto the pitch and hugged their team-mates who had been running on the pitch for 90 minutes, knowing that no matter what the other teams were playing, they had made it to the European Championship finals in Spain.

Don also let out a sigh of relief, stood up and clenched his fist and waved, and then was embraced by his fellow coaching staff. The first objective on the contract was achieved.

The only thing he has to think about is the European Championships.

Shawn, CEO of the English FA. Barclays gave a standing ovation on the rostrum, smiling and showing off his insight to the people next to him: "If I hadn't called him in the first place, how could he be where he is today?" ”

"People say Tony. Donn is unruly, but under Mr. Barclay's leadership, I don't see that at all. The sycophants of his subordinates slapped Barclay's "Dragon Face Dayue".

In the eyes of these people, Don was uncharacteristically honest for a year, if it weren't for Sean. Mr. Barclay's charisma, who can do it?

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The news of England's early qualification must have spurred on several other teams in the group who are hoping to qualify.

In a contest on the second day, Wales, who were originally fourth, won a hard-fought 2-1 away win over Serbia, taking advantage of Denmark's loss, to jump to second in the group, two points ahead of Denmark, and have a good chance of qualifying directly for the European Championship as group runners-up.

It is worth mentioning that both of Wales' goals came from one man.

Gareth. Bale scored two direct free-kicks past Serbia and almost single-handedly put Wales second in the group.

There was jubilation in Wales as their squad finally had the chance to play in an international tournament. Bale, who scored two goals for the team, has risen to a remarkable height in Wales, and the praise has been overwhelming. He only remembered the agreement he had with Don on the sidelines.

I definitely want to go to Spain!

(To be continued)