Chapter 231: World Preliminary

　　 Lee Chenglong could not get the ball, so the threat on the court naturally dropped a lot.
　　 And no one else in the England team came forward to break the deadlock, so throughout the first half, the England team failed to score goals and ended the first half with Montenegro 0:0.
　　 After observing during the first half, Hodgson, as an old fox coaching for many years, still sees some problems.
　　 But during the intermission, he just blindly asked Li Chenglong to run and intersperse, looking for opportunities to shoot.
　　 The meaning of this old guy is clearly to let Jackie Lee continue to serve as a foil to help Rooney.
　　 Lee Chenglong was upset, but there was no way.
　　 The old guy and Rooney are in the same group, they join hands, and Jackie Lee can never do them.
　　 At this time, Li Chenglong can only curse in his heart, hoping that this old guy will get out of the position of head coach of the national team soon.
　　 At the beginning of the second half, England's play style is still the same, mainly relying on the players' personal ability to find opportunities. Whether they can win or not, I am afraid it depends on God.
　　 But in the 49th minute, England's providence came.
Rooney and Gerrard passed the ball to Welbeck in the penalty area after passing through the midfield. Hebe caught the ball and barely hit the goal. The ball was blocked by the opposing defender Kkojevic sideways, but it happened to fall to the front of the penalty area. In front of Li Chenglong.
　　 Lee Chenglong didn't even think about it, he directly swung his leg to meet the ball and hit a world wave.
　　 The ball went straight to the lower left corner of the goal, hit the inside of the post with a bang, and bounced into the goal.
　　 "Goooooooooal~~~~~~~" The English commentator finally roared out.
　　 "Bruce Lee~~~ It's him again~~~ Very beautiful long shot!!!!"
　　 "This is the third consecutive World Cup for the Bruce to score goals. I have already said that Hodgson should give him more opportunities."
　　 "Super Bruce, he really is a veritable Super Bruce."
　　 Jackie Lee’s goal made the Wembley Stadium completely boiled, and the fans sang and sang the song "Brazil, we are coming".
　　 Anyway, just those few words over and over again-Brazil, here we come, Rio, here we come.
　　 And Lee Chenglong's goal also made the Montenegrin lose the reason to continue defending.
　　 Currently in the group standings, the second-placed Montenegro is only one point higher than the third-placed Ukraine. In this round, Montenegro will play away to England, while Ukraine will play against Poland at home.
The two games were played at the same time. Ukraine and Poland always scored 0:0, and no one broke the egg, so Montenegro can think that as long as they get a draw at Wembley Stadium, they can continue. Suppress Ukraine in second place, and then win the final round, qualify for the play-offs, and continue to fight for a place in the Brazil World Cup.
　　 But now that Li Chenglong scored, they naturally no longer have the need to keep defending, and they began to press out to find a goal opportunity.
　　 Montenegro is no longer defending, and England will be able to play much better. After all, there is an advantage in overall strength.
　　 In the 62nd minute, Gerrard made a cross from the side, Welbeck returned with a header, Rooney followed up with a low left foot shot and also scored.
　　 Then in the 71st minute, Rooney assisted Adros Townsend from Tottenham and scored to help England seal the victory.
　　 As he continued to lose possession of the ball, Lee Chenglong, except for the deadlock-breaking shot, performed mediocre at other times, so he was replaced by Sturridge in the 81st minute.
　　 At the end of the game, both England and Montenegro scored another goal, rewriting the score to 4:1.
　　 It was Sturridge who came on the bench for Jackie Lee who scored for England.
　　 Anyway, England won Montenegro 4:1 at Wembley Stadium, locked in the group's first round in advance, and also locked in next year's Brazil World Cup qualification.
　　 After the game, the Wembley scene was full of joy. 90,000 English fans cheered and celebrated in the stadium, and the stadium was in harmony and tranquility.
　　 Although Li Chenglong played unhappy in the game, he still went to thank the fans with the whole team after the game and signed them two names or something.
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　　 Four days later, the final round of the European World Preliminary Round also kicked off. England played Poland at home.
　　 Poland has completely lost the opportunity to participate in the Brazil World Cup due to the last round of the away game by Ukraine.
　　 Currently in the group, England is the first place with 21 points, Ukraine is second with 17 points, Montenegro is third with 15 points, and Poland is fourth with 13 points.
　　 Poland is 4 points behind second place, and there is no chance.
　　 So this is an inconsequential match. The wins and losses of both sides have little influence, so it can be played as a warm-up match.
　　 Because of this, Jackie Lee did not play in this game.
　　 Hodgson’s explanation at the pre-match press conference was that Stevens communicated with him, and if possible, try to make Lee Chenglong play less.
　　 After all, Jackie Lee was shoveled once in the Bundesliga before. Although it didn't matter in the end, Stevens was still a bit scared, so he specifically called Hodgson.
　　 So Hodgson had a legitimate reason and could arrange tactics specifically to let his lover Rooney perform well.
　　 Lee Chenglong doesn't care about this at all. This kind of irrelevant game can take the opportunity to take a break and go back to play the club game~EbookFREE.me~ that's even better.
　　 In the end, Rooney did not live up to Hodgson's high hopes and scored a goal in the game to help England win Poland 2:0.
　　 The other goal was scored by Gerrard, and Jackie Lee did not play the whole time.
　　The group stage of the European region of the World Preliminaries is all over. England and Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina have become the first in the group and directly qualified for next year's Brazil World Cup.
　　 The eight teams, including France, Portugal, Sweden, Croatia, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, and Iceland, will be paired with each other by drawing lots, and play-off matches will be played in pairs to obtain another four World Cup places.
　　 As far as Li Chenglong is concerned, in the current World Preliminaries, he started three times as a substitute, made a total of 5 appearances and scored 5 goals, which is considered to be his own contribution.
　　 5 goals, this is also in the current world preliminaries, the England team is second only to Rooney's data.
　　 Rooney scored a total of 7 goals.
　　 A few days later, at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, the results of the draw for the World Preliminary Playoffs also came out.
　　 France against Ukraine, Greece against Romania, Iceland against Croatia, Sweden against Portugal.
　　 Such a match, the biggest highlight is probably Sweden against Portugal.
　　 Between Cristiano Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic, one of them will definitely miss the World Cup in Brazil.
　　 Ibrahimovic is very arrogant recently, just let Ronaldo come to treat him.