The strength of the England team has always been the midfield, especially in recent years, the national team lineup has not changed much, and the national team games have followed the basic same main lineup, and everyone has cooperated very tacitly.

Portugal's pressure is not excessive, but it is not as fast as England's forward explosion.

In the 7th minute of the game, Hargreaves snatched the ball from Deco's feet, quickly launched a counterattack, and handed the ball to Xiaobei, who was running forward.

Ronaldo pulled the side, but Xiaobei did not pull the side, Xiaobei is in a parallel position to protect the inside line in front of the penalty area, so Xiaobei runs forward, if Ronaldo chases back, the distance is farther, but if Ronaldo wants to cut inside, Xiaobei can block him.

Becky dribbled forward and encountered Maniche's top grab, he quickly distributed the ball to Scholes who followed up in the middle, and then Becky suddenly stopped and stopped coming forward, how to counterattack, they all knew with their eyes closed.

Becky's failure to step forward was to stabilize the defense, and it was Frank Lampard who rushed up on the other side.

Frank Lampard was racing forward, almost parallel to Paul Scholes' position as he dribbled forward.

Scholes crossed the ball diagonally in front of Costinha to the right front, and Gerrard won the ball on the right side in front of the penalty area, took a step and crossed it!

Costinha turned just in time to see the ball roll in front of him, Frank Lampard pressed the ball in front of the box, and at the same time, Carvalho and Andrade stepped up and Rooney ran diagonally past the two centre-backs, and Lampard's through ball came as expected.

Carvalho raised his hand for Rooney offside, but the linesman said nothing.

Wayne Rooney was behind Andrade, Valente got the ball next to him and defended it with Guò facing goal. It can be seen as a one-knife ball!

All the fans in England are ready to cheer. But Rooney kicked the ball into the side-netting!

Look. It seemed to be in, but the next second everyone reacted and the ball didn't go in!

Rooney was obviously impatient, Aldridge could see even from a long distance, the kind of opportunity that was close to a single goal, few strikers would hit the goal vigorously, calmly choose the angle to push or volley with moderate power, and Rooney shot the ball. The momentum is strong, it's not impossible, the effect of the confident striker is to make the goalkeeper desperate, but the situation of deviating from the goal happens, it can only be said that he is not calm enough.

"England missed a great chance! Wayne Rooney wastes Frank Lampard's brilliant pass! Portugal need to be careful, England are clearly trying to break them down with a counter-attack today, and of course, maybe Sir Hall will adjust England's tactics as the game develops. ”

Wayne Rooney looked frustrated after missing the chance and wanted to score.

Just one more goal. He will equal Baros's goal tally, while ranking first on the scorers' charts with goal efficiency.

Portugal escaped. Scolari wants Portugal to be more conservative, but this is not the technical and tactical style that Portugal is good at, and at the same time, because of the local battle, the high morale of the players will affect them to shape the game, in other words, in front of their hometown parents, Portugal is not willing to take back like England, and a passive attitude of waiting for a sneak attack.

Aldridge stood on the sidelines with a calm expression, which made people feel that he was in the chest.

At this point, he suddenly realized that the two opponents England faced in the knockout round were too crucial.

They have faced both Greece, who defended extremely well, and the Czech Republic, who were attacking everywhere.

Two opponents with extreme styles, they met and won against each other, which is not only important for the team's confidence, but also for the team to further improve their ability to read the game!

Portugal, defensively, is not as good as Greece, and offensively, not as good as the Czech Republic.

They don't have the attacking points that bloom everywhere like the Czech team, and the cooperation is smooth and tacit, especially the team cooperation, the team cooperation makes the ball move quickly, the pace of the game is fast, Portugal's Ronaldo and Figo, no matter how fast the dribbling speed is, is it fast to pass the ball? Individual breakthroughs, although sometimes more efficient than team passes, were curbed by England's ability to compress the danger zone and curb the opposition's advantage in this area.

In the final word, Portugal lacks a hidden attack point, who to defend and who to target, at a glance!

Although England only have a few familiar faces on the counter-attack, they have the space to pass and cut, which is the natural advantage of attack.

Portugal looked for opportunities to pass the ball in the box, whether it was Pauletta playing in the center or Cristiano Ronaldo cutting inside into the box, they failed to create a threat under the close attention of the England team, they played a long shot from the outside, either blocked or off target, unless a world wave was blasted, it is still more difficult to threaten the England team's goal.

Aldridge is in a steady state of mind, his opponent is not Scolari, just God.

God would have nothing to say if Portugal had changed the game with a world wave.

As far as Scolari's line-up for this game is concerned, Aldridge doesn't think there is anything that can disrupt his deployment and change of thinking, even if Rui Costa does come on or Portugal weakens a striker in the back to activate Pauleta, Aldridge will be jealous at best, but he will not be surprised, because what the opponent can do is already well thought out in his preparations.

England's counter-attack was dangerous and could move quickly and fluidly into the Portuguese half and create chances in front of the penalty area.

However, Rooney's performance was not ideal.

"Carvalho broke the ball successfully! Wayne Rooney couldn't dribble past Carvalho and Beckham reached out as he ran back to signal that Rooney should have just passed the ball to him. ”

Aldridge tried to gesture to Rooney, so that he paid more attention to the cooperation with his teammates around him, in fact, the England team's defense, after hitting the front, once the opponent's defense was torn apart, the more threatening was the players who inserted after the two-point follow-up, Scholes, Lampard, Becky, Gerrard, are all more threatening than Rooney, and it is only when the arrow striker is close to a single knife to complete the shot is the most reasonable.

Rooney didn't look at Aldridge, and even though Aldridge shouted twice, he still didn't get any response.

Aldridge didn't try any further, hoping that Rooney would adjust himself.

Throughout the first half, Portugal did not play the attacking style that surprised Aldridge, unable to score in the box, long-range shots from the perimeter, inefficient crosses, and only corners and free-kicks could make people's hearts flutter slightly.

Portugal is not good at breaking dense defense, on the one hand, it is because of strength, on the other hand, it is also related to the opponents they encountered, the group stage was planted at the feet of Greece, the second game played Russia, because Russia must also attack and score if it wants to qualify, so Russia will not learn Greece's extreme defense on the field, that is meaningless, the last battle, Spain itself is one of the representatives of offensive football, the knockout game played Croatia, and later played the Netherlands, Portugal encountered opponents, will give them a certain amount of offensive space, Especially the space for individuals to play, the only thing that did not give them was Greece, and then, planted.

Although the England team is not like Greece will use 5 defenders, but their overall strength is stronger, the defensive strength of the entire back line plus the back waist line is a notch higher than the Greek team, and the offensive aspect is also stronger than Greece.

The outside world describes this as a battle for the pinnacle, after all, it is the final.

But in Aldrich's eyes, this is not the two strongest teams that have reached the final showdown.

Just as England narrowly beat the strongest team in Japan two years ago, and they will be in the final against Germany, England won't win easily, but it won't be difficult.

Today's situation is similar.

Greece, which has the strongest defense, and the Czech Republic, which has the strongest attack, have been eliminated by the England team one after another, and Portugal, which has not highlighted its strong side, can not bring much trouble to the England team.

But the first half was still 0:0.

When he walked into the players' tunnel, Aldridge's face was not very good.

England defended solidly and attacked fluidly, but it was only after the attack was pushed to the front of the front line that it became terrible.

From the moment Wayne Rooney missed a golden chance, the ball lost its colour when it reached his feet.

When he had a chance, he shot, if he didn't have a chance, he broke through, and in the last 10 minutes, Carvalho and Andrade, it was a piece of cake to defend him, and it didn't take much effort.

On the way back to the locker room, Becky was communicating with Rooney, who just nodded and didn't speak.

Fleet Street also sometimes "sows discord."

After Rooney scored two goals in the second game, some media took the picture of Xiaobei surrounding Rooney as the cover, saying that Xiaobei was jealous of Rooney and went crazy with jealousy!

It seems that Rooney has snatched the position of the "darling of England" belonging to Becky.

For pure football competition, Xiaobei may not be perfect, but in this regard, Aldridge can pack a ticket, jealousy or something, will not appear in Xiaobei, because his own role on the field is to make wedding dresses for others, if he is jealous, why should he go to Real Madrid? Wouldn't that make him feel worse?

Xiaobei is not a striker, but he has also played football for more than ten years, under Aldridge, in this national team, and has been in the team for nearly four years, what kind of attack the team needs to play, what kind of routine the offensive change should be, but anyone who has a little ball quotient knows it in their hearts.

Becky tried to get Wayne Rooney to handle the ball calmly, and veiled him not to squander his team's hard-won opportunities.

Xiaobei spoke very tactfully.

Aldrich, however, was not so polite.

Closing the door of the locker room, Aldridge walked straight to Rooney, in the silence, Aldrich looked down at Rooney, when he raised his head, Aldridge said coldly with a blank face: "Will you cooperate with your teammates?" Answer me. ”

Rooney didn't dare to look Aldrich in the eye and nodded.

"Look me in the eye and shout out to me."

Rooney raised his head again, took a deep breath, and said loudly, "Boss, I will!" ”

His tone was a little irritable, and it seemed that Aldrich had made him very faceless now.

After all, his teammates around him were watching him.

"Very well, I hope to see you have a better table in the second half." (To be continued......)