Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chapter 411 30+20, is it the era of double arrogance or three-body?

After B Fee's shot was refracted, Newcastle goalkeeper Pope blocked the bottom line and Manchester United's left corner kick.

The corner kick taken by B Fee was not of high quality, and the opponent's defender Schar took the lead to take it away. Timber received a penalty kick from the outside, and Manchester United reorganized their attack.

As recognized as the weakest part of the England national team, coach Southgate continued to appear in the stands.

There have been a lot of rumors about the FA recently. The first is Eddie Howe. Many people believe that as an English coach of the Mesozoic generation, his coaching ability is far higher, more systematic and more targeted than Southgate.

In the face of the upcoming European Cup in Germany, as the last runner-up, this year's English players have a reasonable age match, talent and strength coexist, and they will have a good chance of competing for the final championship.

Therefore, many people proposed to let Eddie Howe take over the team to play in the European Cup.

The FA has publicly expressed its support for Southgate, but privately it is using another brain.

They wanted to naturalize Chen Xiaoliang.

The 19-year-old Chen Xiaoliang has never played in any first-level national team. According to FIFA rules, he can be naturalized by the country where he is located, and then participate in international competitions on behalf of the naturalized country.

In terms of ability, any national team that gets Chen Xiaoliang will greatly increase its strength, and before the English Football Association, the Italian Football Association and the German Football Association have also used their brains accordingly.

The history of naturalized players in European countries is very long. Even before the word "naturalization" was used, the naturalization movement had already begun.

For example, Germany, as early as 1979, had naturalized the Czech midfielder Mirko Votava;
Oliver Neuville, who represented Germany twice in the World Cup in 2002 and 2006, was originally Swiss;

Gerald Asamoah, who also participated in these two World Cups, is a naturalized from Ghana;
Similar are Brazilian striker Kevin Kuranyi and Cacau, who is also a Brazilian.

And Jorginho, who helped Italy win the European Cup in 2020, is well known as a Brazilian born and raised in Brazil, and a native Brazilian. He didn't come to Italy until he was 15 years old when he was picked up by the Verona club.

In 2012, at the age of 21, he got an Italian passport and began to play for the Italian national team.

Later, he not only became the main midfielder of the Azzurri, but also became the captain of the national team.

In this championship team, there are also Emerson and Toroy, who are also naturalized players from Brazil.

Sterling of England is also a naturalized player born in Kingston, Jamaica.

The main difference is that the laws of some countries allow dual citizenship, and their operations and procedures for naturalizing players are more convenient and simpler.

This is especially evident in France and Belgium.

Lukaku and Thielemans are of Congolese descent, while the 11 main starters of the French team all have second nationalities and none of the black players is of French descent.

Although not every fan in a European country welcomes naturalized players, especially those who obviously hold foreign blood, even Figo took the lead in resisting the naturalization of Brazilian Deco to the Portuguese team. As time goes by, this has become a common status quo in world football.

Football, basketball, track and field, winter sports, and even table tennis national teams in many European countries are all from the Red Country.

Although the UK's immigration policy requires six years of permanent residence in the UK before you can apply for naturalization, in order to attract top talents, the government has long established a "global outstanding talent introduction plan", such as technology, medical, humanities, Art, as long as it is in the world's leading or well-known position in the relevant field, can apply for immediate permanent residence or naturalization.

Golden Globe and World Footballer of the Year winners like Chen Xiaoliang, nod today, tomorrow the British government will expedite the delivery of passports, and then fans across the country rejoice.

Even if according to FIFA rules, you need to live in the naturalized country for 5 years to qualify for the competition, then Chen Xiaoliang can represent England in the 2028 European Cup and the 2030 World Cup.

However, the FA sent officials to contact Riise tentatively after making a calculation, and the response they received was the same as Riise's reply to the Italian Football Association, that is, "Chen has no plans in this regard at all. ".

Many media from various countries are also puzzled. Could it be that Chen Xiaoliang has always planned to only participate in professional football matches and not try to play in the national team?
What's more, if he joins any of the three countries of England, Italy, and Germany, he has a great possibility of winning the European Cup and the World Cup.

Don't you see that his career is as brilliant as Messi, and he finally established his historical status as the world champion after he won the World Cup.

Sky Sports also released a poll on social platforms: "Which country do you think Chen Xiaoliang should represent?"

The answer to this kind of knowingly asked question is naturally obvious. The English want him to represent England, and the Italians want him to represent Italy. In the end, under the "expedition" of the vast number of red fans, the voting results were overwhelmingly hopeful. Play for the Red Country.

But what is interesting is that the vast majority of Red Country fans chose "later" instead of "now" under the question of "when do you want Chen Xiaoliang to participate in the national team competition".

But how do these media know that the sports authorities of the Red Country have put aside the football association that has accumulated in a short period of time, and directly asked Chen Xiaoliang to draw players from the Red Country youth training camps of Manchester United, Rangers and Rome to participate in the Asian Games that will start this summer. The U16 Championship (commonly known as the Asian Junior Championship), and the U2025 World Championship (commonly known as the World Junior Championship) will start in 17 next year.

As for the dissatisfaction and protests raised by some domestic clubs and youth training institutions in the Red Country, the sports authorities ignored them and asked the Football Association to come forward to resolve them.

According to the meaning of the above, "How many years have the common people been dissatisfied with you, who has been trained one after another, and has the face to express dissatisfaction?"

However, this does not mean that these echelon national teams have been contracted by Chen Xiaoliang's youth training camp. The higher-ups are also trying to figure it out. Let's see how different the children who have trained in Europe for three or four years can make.

To this end, Chen Xiaoliang spent a sky-high annual salary of 100 million euros and hired Oliveira, a famous Portuguese youth coach known as the godfather of youth training, who is also the youth training coach of Figo and Ronaldo, and asked him to take charge of the youth training. The affairs of the college, building the overall structure and training and competition plan.

In the final analysis, this is not something innovative. In European football powerhouses, the youth training system from childhood to adulthood is complete and has been polished and tested by decades of professionalization. You only need to follow these professional processes and structures. up.

On the contrary, to engage in "innovative" work such as training camps, selections, etc., or even to change the age and force the younger players to train their bodies to get results in the youth team competitions, that is to encourage the development of the seedlings, as the folks say, "If you don't The professional aspect is the most professional".

However, this is an extremely long-term project, and Chen Xiaoliang also knows that it cannot be solved by relying on the existing more than 1000 children.

Southgate knows that he has no hope of getting Chen Xiaoliang, but it is still necessary to observe Eddie Howe's tactics on the spot. When the time comes to learn a trick or two, he may be able to keep his job after the European Cup .

How comfortable it is to be the head coach of the national team. There are major competitions every two or four years, and there are only four or five friendly matches a year. The qualifiers are played by rookies like Northern Ireland, Estonia, and the Faroe Islands. There are no games in normal times. When I get my salary, I can go around watching football in the name of scouting players. It’s not like the head coach of a club who has to worry about losing his job if he doesn’t perform well for a period of time.

However, Southgate likes Eddie Howe's tactics quite a bit. As coaches from British central defenders, both of them play with a strong defensive style. On the contrary, Ten Hag, who also plays central defenders, Adhering to the football philosophy of the Dutch, he advocates fast break and pressing.

On the field, Manchester United continued to attack, while Newcastle waited for an opportunity to defend. One attacked very methodically, and the other countered very efficiently. The game did not become ugly because of the clear offense and defense.

In the 18th minute, Chen Xiaoliang received a cross from B Fee on the right near the third offensive area. Before Caesedo approached, he directly kicked the ball and made a 45-degree cross. Nick Pope, the Newcastle goalkeeper who was attacked, blocked it with his right upper arm.

Newcastle counterattacked, Rafinha advanced with the ball, and after being approached by Casemiro, it was passed to Almiron in the middle. Almiron advanced for a while, facing Timber's defense, and continued to pass to the left. opened San Marco Cimin.

The characteristic of this French winger is one word, fast, if there is another word, it is fierce.

After receiving the ball, he sprinted forward on the turf like flying on the grass. Wan Bissaka, who has top tackle ability, dislikes this kind of winger the most, such as dribbling in freestyle football and rugby players. The speed is that the left and right feet change direction for a while, and the speed is suddenly accelerated for a while.

To put it bluntly, it is not easy to find the opportunity to make a tackle.

Wan Bissaka could only follow San Maximan back and forth, trying to push him into a narrow area with a tight press to increase the success rate of the press.

However, after Saint-Maximin made a fake move with his left and right feet, a flower-arranging foot and a feint, he swayed Wan Bisaka away from the sideways and missed Timber with a continuous movement. , came to the top of the restricted area arc.

Zhan Jun: "Consecutive passes! In the middle, Saint-Maximin... hit the goal!"

Zhang Lu: "Hey, this ball..."

Even fans who took their eyes off the screen for a while and heard Zhang Lu's iconic "Hey Hey" sound knew that the goal was missed, and the miss was quite outrageous.

Zhan Jun: "The slash in the counterattack and a series of wonderful shots, but I didn't expect that Saint-Maximin's last shot hit the ball directly into the stands!"

"This is also the reason why Eddie Howe prefers to use Joe Linton instead of him as a left winger in many games. It is too abrasive to handle the ball. It's lacking."

"The fans also gave him an embarrassing nickname, called 'passing people', which means that after passing someone, the ball will be lost instead."

Saint-Maximin turned around in embarrassment and raised his hand to Almiron in apology, and Almiron spread his hands, indicating that he could pass back to allow himself a long shot.

Eddie Howe on the sidelines was not surprised by such a situation. Let St. Maximin start today, and he is ready for this to happen.

But what he gambled on was an opportunity. As long as he seized one opportunity, even if the other times were wasted, it would be enough to help the team get closer to victory.

Those who also raised their hands to apologize to their teammates were Timber and Wan Bissaka. They also felt that they had been made too easy.

But something interesting happened soon.

In the 25th minute, Rafinha did not choose to pass the ball to Saint-Maximin in the counterattack, but directly kicked the ball with his left foot. Although the angle was not tricky, it was full of strength. After being blocked, Saint-Maximin, who had already rushed into the penalty area, got a chance to make a supplementary shot. He simply dragged up and out of the baseline, giving Newcastle a right corner kick.

Trippier drove out, and Maguire, who had successfully lost weight in the middle, lifted the ball out of the penalty area like an air bully. B Fei immediately pushed forward after receiving the ball, and then passed it to the middle before Guimarães chased him. Cesko is running forward.

Cesko, who is 195 tall, took a few steps with long legs, but counterattack with the ball is not his strong point. Tiantou glanced at it, adjusted the step point, and immediately passed the ball to the left front, giving it to Kwa who was plugging in. .

Facing Longstaff who was staying behind, Kewa shifted his left and right feet and swayed for a while, but he didn't make any extra fake moves. Instead, he took advantage of the timing of the opponent's center of gravity change, and used a simple deep-fried ball to kill Langstaff. Stav made a pass and rushed towards the top of the penalty area in front of the right.

It was almost like a replay of Saint-Maximin's counterattack and passing route just now, and Kwa made a sudden stop and feint on the left side of his ribs, throwing away Taggart who was defending.

Now, in front of Kwa, there are only the goal and Kesedo who is defending Chen Xiaoliang on the right.

Seeing that his hometown was about to be lost, Caicedo had no choice but to turn around and pounce on Kwa, who immediately stopped and pulled the ball back, then lightly flicked to the right, passed over Caicedo's head, and passed Chen Xiaoliang, who was unmarked.

As soon as Chen Xiaoliang received the ball, everyone around who could pass rushed towards him.

Outside the penalty area on the right side of the arc top of the penalty area, he gently parked the ball in front of him with his chest, then adjusted a step, directly facing the ball with his left foot and volleying vigorously, the ball flew out without an arc, almost aimed Hitting the left side of the goal.

Zhan Jun: "Xiao Liang! Left foot...the goal is scored!"

Zhang Lu: "Good goals, good goals, this is where Manchester United is now. You spend a lot of money to defend Xiaoliang, but other players will stand up, just like this ball, which is almost exactly the same as Newcastle's counterattack just now, but Seth The ball-handling ability, tacit understanding, and final shot grasping ability of Ke and Kwa are judged by each other."

Zhan Jun: "Indeed, as Zhang Zhi said, if Saint-Maximin's shooting skills were better just now, or if he passed to Rafinha more selflessly, the current game may be a different situation."

"Congratulations to Xiaoliang for scoring another goal! Helping Manchester United lead Newcastle by one away goal!"

Zhang Lu: "What ball is this?"

Zhan Jun: "The 31st goal in the league! A total of 40 goals have been scored in all competitions! There are also 19 league assists, and a total of 27 assists in all competitions!"

Zhang Lu: "Hey, this is terrible. Xiao Liang is now in Europe, no, he is a well-deserved number one brother in world football."

Zhan Jun: "Including this, in total this season he played 27 league games, 2 FA Cup games, 4 League Cup games, and 8 Champions League games, a total of 41 games, almost averaging 1 goal and assisting at the same time. Added together, they averaged 1.63 goals per game! This statistic is also the highest among the five major leagues.”

"However, compared with last season, while the league exploded, the statistics in the Champions League have declined. Currently, there are 8 goals and 3 assists in 5 games. Compared with last season's double-double data of 13 goals and 12 assists, the gap is not small. "

Zhang Lu: "The next round of the Champions League will be against Barcelona. Xiaoliang will face Messi. This match is definitely highly anticipated. If Xiaoliang plays in midfield, there should be a lot of opportunities to play against Messi, who plays the midfielder. Let's see what kind of sparks will be sparked then."

0 to 1, Newcastle fell into a dilemma after losing the ball.

And that's where Southgate really wants to look today.

The basis of Eddie Howe's tactics is "don't lose the ball". Once the ball is lost, if you want to recover the score, you have to press out to attack, but the problem is that facing teams like Manchester United and Manchester City, the cost of pressing out is very high. It may be that the gap in the defense is exposed.

For France, which is about to face the new Europa League champion Spain in the European Cup and has always been at the top of Europe, England also faces the same problem-how to play after falling behind.

But this is a problem that must be solved for Newcastle, who is going to the rich, and Eddie Howe, who is going to be the head coach of the rich.

I have seen which giants are beaten by people every game, and then win by counterattack.

Rome can do this kind of thing, but Real Madrid absolutely can't do it. This is the real reason why Mourinho may return to Real Madrid no matter how rumored it is, but in fact there may not be one at all.

With a big wave of Eddie Howe's hand, Newcastle began to enter Plan B, from intensive half-court defense, to entering the midfield pressing and intensive strangling that are commonly used against mid-lower teams.

The two sides came and went, but entered a fierce midfield competition mode.

But today's Chen Xiaoliang is no longer in the state of relying on one person to carry the team's midfielder when he was in Rome. He has excellent teammates around him, and these people have gone through actual battles one after another. In the core tactical system.

Just like Kwa's one-stop goal assist just now, the full cooperation of his teammates gave Chen Xiaoliang more chances to make the final decision.

In the 71st minute of the second half, he reciprocated and sent a wonderful pass to Kwa.

At this time, B Fee had already left the field, and Ten Hag replaced Anthony. After failing to advance from the right, Anthony cut the ball back to Chen Xiaoliang on the right rib.

Chen Xiaoliang kicked up directly, rubbed the instep of his right foot to pass the ball in a large diagonal arc, the ball produced a strong inward rotation as it flew to the penalty area, and then fell to the left side of the penalty area, 2 meters inside the penalty area line In front of Kwa!
Kwa skillfully stepped on the ground ball lightly, stopped the long pass in an instant, and then used the instep of his right foot to rub a very wonderful arc shot to the upper right corner of the goal!
Nick Pope tried desperately to save, but the ball had already crashed into the corner before he could fly out.

Zhan Jun: "In the 72nd minute, 0 to 2! Manchester United scored another goal!"

"Congratulations to Xiaoliang, in the 27th round of the league, he has already tied the historical record of 20 assists in a single season held by Henry and De Bruyne since the Premier League has statistics!"

"As for the remaining 11 rounds of the league, it is conceivable that Xiao Liang will definitely break this record by a large margin. This is also another event in another of the five major leagues after he created a single-season assist record in Serie A. record!"

"At the same time, he is also the second player in the history of the Premier League to achieve 20+20 data in a single season. The last one was Henry. He has maintained this honor for 21 years!"

"But he also officially became the first player in the five major leagues to reach 30+20 points in a single season!"

"Borrowing a word that Mr. Jin Yong likes to use in his novels, it is called Zhen Gu Shuo Jin!"

"In the 2002-03 season, Arsenal scored a total of 84 goals in the league. Henry scored 24 goals and 20 assists. One person made 44 goals, accounting for more than 50.00%!"

"And in this season, Manchester United has scored 27 goals in 76 rounds. Xiaoliang has 31 goals and 20 assists. It is a terrifying 51 goals! Almost every 3 goals scored by the team are directly related to him. !"

"It's no wonder Henry the Great said in the media that the current Premier League is experiencing an era of unprecedented terror!"

"Don't forget! Haaland next door scored another hat-trick in the ongoing match between Manchester City and Bournemouth. In 28 rounds this season, he has scored an incredible 42 goals!"

Zhang Lu: "This is the new era of double pride. Of course, Mbappe is also very strong, but the attention in Ligue [-] is far from that of the Premier League. If he can go to Real Madrid this summer, Real Madrid can build a team around him. Then these three people will be interesting, a bit like a tripartite confrontation."

Zhan Jun: "It is very likely that we will enter the three-body era from the era of double arrogance that fans have become accustomed to!"

(End of this chapter)