In early winter, England fans focused on the national team's friendly matches, and the FA's publicity was already spreading through the streets.

In 2000, in this special year, Wembley made the finale of the year, England VS Brazil!

Friendly match to choose opponents, Aldridge suggested to the FA to pick as many strong teams as possible!

The qualifiers themselves are only Germany as a strong team, and the other opponents are weak teams of different grades.

The friendly match is also an image project, especially in the local area, the FA does not want to lose face, and does not want to disobey Aldridge's advice, the two are in the honeymoon period, and the manager's words still have a certain weight.

The FA looked at the international strong teams, and finally selected Brazil, and generously gave the Brazilian Football Association a lot of appearance fees, the FA seemed generous, they just signed a sponsorship agreement with a new sponsor, the national team wants to polish the signboard, naturally need a weighty supporting role, otherwise, England to find an Iceland, Andorra and other teams to play friendly matches, sponsors may not be happy.

This friendly match is full of gimmicks.

Brazil have won two continental tournaments in the past three years, won back-to-back Copa America in '97 and '99, and were runners-up in the '98 World Cup.

But Aldridge felt that the FA was too slippery after being notified that the friendly match had been finalized.

Not to mention the disadvantages of Brazil playing away, after all, many of their players play in Europe, such as Rivaldo. Xiao Luo. Carlos. Cafu and so on.

Not to mention the biggest alien Ronaldo is still recovering from injuries at Inter Milan, which weakens the team's combat effectiveness.

Just the chaos in Brazil in recent times, the fighting power of this national team is really not flattering.

The runner-up of the World Cup in '98 caused a stir in Brazil, and even held a hearing to investigate the game, and the legendary coach Zagallo stepped down and Luxemberg took over.

Luxemburg led Brazil to defend the Copa America title, and for a while he was in power in the Brazilian national team, and was regarded as a mythical figure by Brazilian fans. But after the peak of the Copa America defense, Luxenberg fell into one scandal after another, personal affairs with the secretary, recruiting members of the national team to ask for black gold, illegal transactions, etc., at the same time, the South American qualifiers for the World Cup started early, and the Brazilian national team suffered six consecutive defeats in the World Cup qualifiers, and the hope of participating in the World Cup became more and more slim, and the sound of Luxenberg's dismissal was endless. In an effort to regain his trust, he personally led the Brazilian Olympic team to the Olympics three months ago. As a result, Cameroon was humiliatingly excluded from the last four, and Luxenburg was ordered to step down and Leao took over.

After losing consecutive games in the qualifiers and catching up with the change of coach, such a Brazilian national team with a weak military spirit and even a tactical system that may not be able to talk about it is best described in four words: strong on the outside and capable in the middle.

On paper, they are very strong, but in actual combat effectiveness is the opposite.

The FA's choice of this opponent really made Aldridge cry and laugh, but he thought it was not bad to comfort himself from a different angle.

Either way, the growing England meets the chaotic Brazil, at least the opponent will stir the desire of the whole England team to fight.

In his pre-match interview, Aldridge was still the same "friendly matches don't matter about winning or losing" argument.

The plan was originally closed at Wembley last month, but Aldridge asked for a one-month delay to allow the England squad to play at home this year before moving to another stadium for home games.

During the Wembley remodel, the home stadium of the national team can be hosted on a competitive basis, with Old Trafford, the Lion King Stadium, and many more being strong alternative stadiums.

The fans who came to Wembley today not only carried cameras, but also many of them carried improvised tools, and planned to remove the seats in the stands after the game and move them home as a souvenir

Last month, when the national team first trained in the Aldridge era, the team was mainly trying to run in, and after a little more than a month, the players regrouped and were full of confidence.

Today it was a little more consistent, at least the team's technical and tactical framework was clear, and the football IQ and experience of these players allowed them to integrate into the tactical system as quickly as possible.

Aldridge sat in the dugout and watched the game, his expression was tepid, and the 22 players on the field fought fiercely, and the scene was very exciting, because both teams are very distinctive.

The Brazilian players are strong, very strong!

The unpredictable Rivaldo, like a football dancing on the tip of his toes, like Carlos with an explosive bazooka on his back

When a Brazilian player touches the ball on the pitch, it's enjoyable.

But they are only strong in the individual, the individual players are outstanding, playing samba football on the field, free and romantic and full of poetry and rhyme, but they have not been able to blend into a team, a whole.

England don't have any individual dribbling players who are good on the ball, but they play with a lot of integrity and the speed of their attack is a highlight on the pitch.

The reason why the scene is wonderful and exciting is because the two teams have offensive against each other, and they can quickly play the attack to the frontcourt, and you come and go, so that the fans' heartbeats are also ups and downs.

Brazil relies on individual ability to lead the face, England relies on the overall rapid advancement, Brazil can not prevent England's surprise attack point and then plug in the response to the advance strategy, England is the initiative to retreat the defense area, dare not press too forward, otherwise, the opponent is likely to be broken through one after another The scene is likely to be frequently staged.

"Rivaldo has passed Bart again! Fortunately, Southgate was able to intercept at the right time, otherwise let him pass, and England's gates would be in danger! England's defence was a lot of one-on-one breaks today, but they relied on teamwork to limit Brazil's lethal passes or strikes in the danger zone, Gareth Southgate repeatedly defused the danger, and David Beckham and Frank Lampard were crucial at the back. ”

One-on-one defense wants to completely limit Brazil, this is a dream, or rather. England's defensive player. One-on-one against the top teams of the national team. Basically, there is no advantage, and if you don't rely on the team's strategic joint defense, the defense is a hard injury.

Aldridge pulls out his notebook to record the problems he found during the game.

Irving was on the bench today, and he didn't use Husky, but started Smith, and the effect was almost a waste of a starting spot.

Brazil's offense will quickly give the ball to the frontcourt players, while Smith will defend hard. But you can't rush back from the front line, right?

In attack, after the speed is played, Smith's ability to attack the front of the goal is unsatisfactory, or rather, the huge gap between his running ability and Owen has led to this phenomenon, and England's threatening attack comes from the midfield, inserting a back or two forward midfielders.

In terms of other tactical execution, although there are some problems, they can be solved by further grinding by the players, rather than flaws that cannot be improved.

36th minute of the first half. England counter-attacked, with Frank Lampard's long diagonal ball open on the left side of the Brazilian defence. That's where Carlos couldn't get back in time for the assist, and McManaman made a special run to pick it up when he switched from defense to offense.

He stopped the ball on the sideline, then dribbled the ball down, and when he was close to the bottom line to draw the Brazilian backline deeper, he suddenly passed the ball back, followed up from behind, Xiaobei stopped the ball, adjusted in one step, and crossed with his right foot.

What is called a stunt for Becky's full moon scimitar? One and only?

In addition to the efficiency of scoring from set-pieces, there is also the strange arc of his crosses.

In the picture of his many crosses and assists, an unbelievable phenomenon can often be seen.

The ball is obviously very close to the goalkeeper, why didn't the goalkeeper expand the defensive range at the first time and rush out of the ball to hold the ball or punch it?

It is because of the large arc of Xiaobei's cross, and the speed is fast, especially the visual impact brought by the sudden fall, it is easiest for the goalkeeper to make a mistake in judgment, the first time to see the flight trajectory of the ball, I feel that the ball may be out of bounds, or fall to the back point, but as the arc becomes more and more obvious, and the speed is extremely fast to rotate and fall, the goalkeeper becomes in a dilemma, and then rushes out of the road, the timing is not right, do not rush, and the difficulty of defense increases.

This time, too, Becky's cross looked like it would land in the small box in front of the goalkeeper when it flew out, but the ball fell in an arc and bypassed the area between the Brazilian central defender and the goalkeeper, and landed at the back of the goal, near the line of the small penalty area.

This kind of ball not only puts the goalkeeper in a dilemma, but also interferes with the defender, the defender immediately thinks that it will be the goalkeeper holding the ball, and the sense of protection is lax, but the result is that a ghostly figure appears at the back point, and the ball is directly volleyed into the upper corner of the Brazilian goal from the near corner.

'David Beckham's cross was flanked by Paul Scholes at the back post, a beautiful goal! England 1-0 Brazil, who else now disputes the lack of wide attacking in England coached by Hall? Frank Lampard's long cross down the right flank, McManaman got down and then flicked the ball back to David Beckham, and his cross from the wing set up Paul Scholes' goalscoring pattern, which is a familiar pattern for England. ”

Wembley erupted with earth-shattering cheers, and Becky and Scholes laughed and ran on the sidelines.

Aldridge got up to applaud his team's goal and sat back.

He's glad the players understand his tactical set-up, which requires the midfielders to play with their brains and increase their visibility.

In every attack, the fixed point is only Scholes in the middle, so from the back to the forward advancement, the selection of the ball must require the player to consciously observe the situation in the front, just now Lampard's long pass in the backfield instigated the offensive reflects this, McManaman ran to the biggest vacancy, Lampard's long pass effect is actually just average, forcing McManaman to take the ball on the sideline, it takes time, if you can pass better, McManaman can directly cut in, and then can only go down to attract the opponent's defense, When Carlos came back to wrap him up, he gave the ball back to Becky.

McManaman cut diagonally into the box to get up to the front when Becky crossed, and Smith was also in the middle of the goal, and the two created space for Scholes to flank at the back point. (To be continued......)