Everyone was puzzled by Lippi's substitution, and unceremoniously questioned his substitution adjustment.

But the protagonist who was so questioned sat calmly in the coach's seat, as if Balotelli was not replaced by him.

Or maybe he didn't see that mistake from Balotelli at all...... Actually, of course he saw it, he knew it in his heart. It's just that he can't express his dissatisfaction with the player who just came on the pitch. He sat on the sidelines, his face calm, but he was sending a message to the players - don't worry, we still have time and opportunity, don't mess with ourselves.

The players saw such a calm manager on the field, and they all relaxed their hearts.

The head coach didn't panic, why are we panicking?

Even Balotelli, who had just made a mistake, thought so.

In fact, Balotelli knows what this tournament means to him. Before the European Championship, his agent told him that if he wanted to leave Nottingham Forest smoothly, he had to put in a convincing performance at the European Championship. So that he has the means to lobby around.

Two seasons at Nottingham Forest have already made him lose his reputation in European football. At this time, you have to work hard like a newcomer.

Balotelli, who had this idea, was very positive. Although he made mistakes, he didn't take it to heart and only thought about scoring goals or assisting his teammates.

Balotelli played as a striker for Forest, but in this game he went up and played as a right wing-back. His main task is to help the team attack on this flank, with crosses and Foti up the middle for the ball. However, this is not enough to bring out his best characteristic.

Giovinco of the Italian team suddenly cut inside on the left side, he flashed Walcott who was caught off guard, and when he was about to break further, he was defeated by George. Wood took it down.

The referee blew the whistle to award Italy a free-kick on the left side of the box and gave Wood a verbal warning. Wood was smart enough not to come forward and defend himself. He didn't go for Giovinco, but Giovinco was so thin that he almost fell down as soon as he hit him, and he didn't bother to explain anything to the referee in the first half.

Seeing that the Italian team won a free kick, Balotelli hurriedly ran over from the other side and held the football in his hand. His team-mates were aware of Lippi's latest arrangement, with Balotelli officially taking over the charge of all set-pieces up front.

England are no strangers to Balotelli's free-kicks, which are usually taken by him and Bale in the Forest team, and Balotelli has often used free-kicks to break the door of those Premier League teams.

Now seeing him put the football on the ground and look like he was about to take the penalty, the English fans in the stands booed him in distraction.

Amid the boos, Balotelli's shot went over the crossbar.

The England fans cheered in triumph, while Balotelli looked at the turf beneath his feet with some chagrin. There seemed to be some injustice there, and he kicked it when he got up.

Judging from this free-kick, Balotelli still did not find his form, which gave the commentators another opportunity to attack and criticize Lippi.

Fortunately, there is no TV commentary in the coach's seat, otherwise I don't know how many managers would have to throw the game and rush to the commentary bench behind to find those who only know how to talk about it.

Balotelli underperformed twice in a row, and Lippi remained unmoved. He has already made up his mind, since everyone has been replaced, what is there to regret? As long as it's not a major mistake, he can't replace someone else, right? Precious substitutions are not so wasted.

Balotelli's performance was poor, but England did not dare to take it lightly. Because they took advantage of Italy's disdain for the underperforming Abonlaho in the first half to blow the door open to this reinforced concrete defence. At half-time, Don also warned them not to underestimate the enemy and to be cautious.

So when Balotelli got the ball on the wing, Joe. Mattok didn't let up in the slightest. Although they are teammates in the same club, they are now their own masters.

Balotelli was about to force his way through, although he passed Joe. Mattok, but was blocked by Downing, who caught up from behind. This was a slight delay, Joe. Mattok caught up again, and the two men worked together to keep Balotelli out and press towards the corner flag.

Seeing that there was no way to complete the cross, it seemed difficult to break through, Balotelli retreated to a corner kick. The result was kicked out of the ball and hit Joe. After Mattok's body, he didn't bounce directly to the baseline, but ghostly rebounded back and hit Balotelli's calf headbone and then popped off the baseline...... This time he didn't even get a corner kick, and the linesman pointed the flag directly at the small penalty area, which was the meaning of a goal kick.

In the second half, the stands behind the England goal were full of England fans. Seeing that Balotelli failed to take a corner kick and instead gave a goal kick, the fans in that area burst into laughter.

※※※ "He was completely seen dead by our people......" Des. Walker sighed. The England coaching staff has studied the Forest player thoroughly. Thanks to Forest's poor performance in the past two seasons, Balotelli's form has also become bad.

If he hadn't known about Done, he would have wondered if it was all a conspiracy...... What a coincidence!

Before the game, England's coaching staff analysed each individual in Italy and made arrangements for their different characteristics, regardless of how many of them are talented.

Balotelli was naturally among them. At that time, the team's coaching staff analyzed two possibilities. First of all, Balotelli certainly won't start, but he will probably come off the bench because he is a very characteristic player with excellent set-pieces. And if England are to use a solid counter-attack against Italy, breaking down the dense defense is something Lippi needs to consider. This is where Upper Balotelli comes in.

Then he could play as a striker or as a right wing-back, because Balotelli can play in both positions. So there are two different arrangements that need to be made – what do we do when he's a striker? What do we do when he's a full-back?

When he was on the wing, Donn asked both the full-backs and the wing-backs to be aggressive in defending to minimise Balotelli's crosses, while cutting off the link between him and the rest of the team and trying to leave him alone.

Judging from this letting go just now, Joe. Mattok and Downing did a good job of doing this, and they blocked Balotelli's line with a back-and-forth pack.

For this final, Don Enke has done a lot of work, and now it is all reflected one by one.

Balotelli was average in athletic play, and after being caught by England a few times, he started passing more than breaking through with the ball himself. He knew he was being targeted by Donn. When he played for the Forest, he had heard a lot of legends about that man, and he always referred to him as if he was not a football coach, but a medieval legendary wizard with the power to deceive people. Every staff member at the Wilford training base always had an adoring look on their face when they talked about Donne, and they were very appreciative of the club's president, Evan Brown. Mr. Dogetty didn't feel anything.

Although frozen in the athletic battle, Balotelli was not too worried. Because he had a weapon, and that weapon the English could never freeze. It's just that he's going to try to warm up his feet now...... Face Joe. Mattok's block, Balotelli's forced cross, and although the ball bypassed his team-mate in the Forest team, it was also a little too high...... Even if Foti is two meters and three zeros tall, he can't reach such a "cross".

"Looks like he's in really bad shape...... "This time, even the Italian commentator couldn't help but shake his head.

Balotelli then tried a long-range shot from outside the box, and this time the shot was quite accurate, but it was too good to be hit by Joe. Hart in his arms.

"Aha! It was his best performance since he came on the pitch! Mortenson scoffed.

In fact, Balotelli is not the protagonist, and Lippi did not ask everyone else to pass the ball to him in the Italian attack, opening the gap from him. De Rossi is still in charge of the arrangement, he is the heart of the Italian team, and Giovinco is also active on the edge of the box, causing a lot of headaches and tension for England's defenders.

In the second half, the Italian team also became more and more aggressive as the game went on. There is a great posture to come out of the nest.

Lippi also noticed the time. This is when time is of the essence. There are now 20 minutes left until the end of the 90-minute game. Twenty minutes may seem like a short time, but in fact, it can be passed in the blink of an eye. If they don't hurry, the Italians will only get more impatient as time goes on, and the balance of victory will tip in favor of the English.

Something had to be done.

Lippi thought about it in his heart for a moment and said a few words to Ferrara, the assistant coach sitting next to him.

Ferrara nodded as she listened, then got up from her seat and walked to the sidelines, waving at the opposite side. Then, the two Italian full-backs started to step in and provide assists.

Italy's full-backs were in the attack, and England immediately felt the huge defensive pressure, especially Joe. Mattok's side.

While Lippi allowed the full-backs to assist, he also switched positions for Giovinco and Balotelli. Balotelli doesn't play much role on the right side, anyway, it's better to switch to the left, face the stronger defensive Richards, don't seek to break through the cross, just drag the opponent. Italy's main attack shifted to their right and England's left.

Paroski also ran to the right to pull the side to join in the fun, and this time three arrows were fired at the same time. Mattok and Downing couldn't stand it.

Downing is not the kind of player who is good at defense, and it is not good to ask him to defend full-time.

Donn looked down with a frown and then he turned back to assistant coach Des. Walker said, "Go and call back Cohen and Vaughn who are warming up." ”

Walker knew what he was going to do, nodded and ran away without saying anything.

Vaughn was a little surprised when he heard that Donn wanted him to go back. It's just a routine to come out to warm up, and the coaches always regularly pick up a group of players to go down to warm up, and he is naturally among them. But the next second he remembered what Donn had said to him at halftime.

He looked down at the T-shirt inside the collar.

It's already soaked with sweat, and I hope the handwriting on it won't be blurred.

Vaughn and Cohen appeared in front of Don at the same time, and Don glanced at the two of them, didn't say anything, and began to lay out specific tactics.

For Chris. Cohen, Donn's demand is focused on defense, asking him to go up to help Mattok, reduce the pressure on his defense, and always let Wood go to fill the wing, because there are Aquilani and De Rossi in the middle.

As for Vaughan...... Before assigning him the task, Don glanced up at him.

"James, are you still angry that I didn't start you?" He asked.

Vaughn wasn't stupid, and if he honestly said, "yes, I still can't figure out why," then he's screwed. He just shook his head, "I listen to you, sir." ”

This was said a little reluctantly, how could Don not hear it? But he didn't care, he wanted this effect. "Regardless of why I'm doing this, I just want to know, are you still passionate and ** enough to play? Now that I'm letting you play, are you going to surprise me, or are you going to mess around until the end of the game? ”

"Nobody wants to mess around, boss." This sentence James. Vaughn was not reluctant at all. "It's a European Championship final."

Vaughn felt that it was an insult to Donn to ask such a question. What professional athlete wants to be the last in such a big competition?

Who wouldn't want to score a goal or two in a game like this to go down in history? Wouldn't it be better if he could be the hero who saved the team from danger?

Don looked at Vaughn, who had an unkind expression, and was happy.

That's what he wants. Holding Vaughn for seventy minutes, if he hasn't been able to hold back some anger, it will be too much of a failure.

"Alright then, don't say I didn't give you a chance, James." Done's current appearance fell into Vaughn's eyes, which was somewhat "cheeky". Just give twenty minutes, is that a chance?

However, it's like this now, not to mention twenty minutes, ten minutes Vaughn too. He didn't say any other nonsense, just nodded, unwilling to delay any longer.

Don saw what he was thinking, and didn't say anything else, and told him the task directly: "Your mission is simple, Vaughn. Just like in the semi-finals, goals. When you are at this time, it is the time when the Italian defenders are the least physical and mentally concentrated, and they press hard, and there must be a lot of space behind them, so I caught it. ”

Vaughn nodded.

Donn nudged him again, knocking him off the sideline. Then he slapped him twice on the back, hoping that he would grasp the deep meaning.

※※※ "England request a substitution!" ”

Steven Gerrard tripped Aquilani on the pitch and Italy won another free-kick on the edge of the box.

The referee signaled Balotelli to wait for another penalty and England had to make a substitution.

Tang Ning, who was building a human wall, glanced at the sign in the hand of the fourth official in the field, then got out of the human wall and walked slowly to the sidelines. Chris. Cohen replaces Downing.

Then Abang Laho also turned around and walked to the sideline at the reminder of his teammates. James. Vaughn was going to replace him.

Both men got the latest instructions from Donn on the sidelines when they left the game - "Slow down! Walk down! Don't run! ”

So the two of them slowly moved to the sidelines amid the disgruntled protests of the Italian players. and Cohen and Vaughn completed the handover.

Don first shook hands with Downing, and then gave Abang Laho a hug: "Well done, boy, ha!" ”

Abang Lajo was the one he insisted on starting and he scored the only goal so far in the game, which was not a shame for him. Of course, it's a good thing to praise.

If this were ancient China, Abang Laho would have said, "The last general will be fortunate to live up to his mission!" But now he just happily asked, "Boss, we're going to be champions, right?" ”

Don nodded vigorously: "That's right, who else but us?" ”

As he said this, he looked at the pitch, where Vaughn and Cohen had just come on the pitch, and both of them were drilling into the human wall, and the English and Italians were fighting around the human wall.

There are twenty minutes left in the game, and I just hope that this is the end of the game, and there will be no more trouble......

(To be continued)