Chapter 292: World Cup opening

　　 Lee Chenglong came to Wales to train with the assembled England team.
　　 Jackie Lee may not be the biggest star in England, but he is definitely the most popular star at the moment. After all, he has just led Schalke to win the Champions League, which is when the heat is the highest.
　　 As soon as Li Chenglong arrived at the training base, a large number of reporters came to interview him.
　　 "Bruce, is your injury serious? Can you come back in time for the first group match?"
　　 "Bruce, this is your first World Cup trip. Are you confident to perform well?"
　　 "Are you confident to help England win the championship, Bruce?"
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　　 England reporters are always pissing. As long as England participates in the game, England is definitely the favorite to win.
　　 Fortunately, they are still a bit conscious. They only say that they are one of the favorites. They didn't say that England is directly the first favorite to win.
　　 England is currently in a phase of disagreement, but the main core players are still those veterans, including Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard, etc.
　　 When they were young, none of this group of players could help England get any dazzling results. Now that they are getting older and their state is declining, do you still expect them to lead the team to win the championship?
　　 Although there are legends about the immortality of veterans in football, they are only a minority.
　　 Most of the veterans were eventually shot to death on the beach by the back waves.
　　 And this year, England had bad luck again and was placed in a death group.
　　 In general, let alone win the championship, England is afraid that it will be exhausted even to qualify.
　　 The foreign media's evaluation of England is relatively objective. They think that England's strength ranking is about tenth, and it is basically impossible to compete for the championship.
　　In fact, the meaning of this ranking is that England's ability to reach the quarterfinals is considered to be overfulfilled.
　　 Checked into the training base, the team captain Gerrard led a group of teammates over to welcome Jackie Lee.
　　 "Welcome to our new Champions League final player." Gerrard was the first to come up to embrace Lee Chenglong.
　　 "Captain, you are reminding me, are you the first?"
　　 "Haha, I like to deal with smart people..."
　　 The Champions League Finals Player of the Year award was selected from the 2001 Champions League finals, when the Lion King Kahn became the first player elected.
　　 After that, although the Premier League team won the Champions League three times, only the native England player Gerrard was elected in 2005, and the other two were elected by players from other countries. First release https://https://
　　 The Dutch goalkeeper Van der Sar was elected in 2008, and Drogba, the first coach in Africa, was elected in 2012.
　　 Therefore, Jackie Lee is the second England player to be elected as the best player in the Champions League final.
　　 After meeting his teammates, Lee Chenglong's next step is to quickly integrate into the team and prepare for the World Cup.
　　 In England’s 23-man World Cup roster, there are four forward players, namely Jackie Lee, Rooney, Welbeck and Sturridge.
　　 And Hodgson prepared a 4231 formation for England. According to Hodgson's arrangement, Jackie Lee served as a single striker, Rooney as the midfielder No. 10, is still the team's offensive core.
　　 No way, the old guy Hodgson just likes Rooney.
　　 After training with the team for more than ten days, on June 9th, the entire England team departed from London Airport and flew to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second largest city, where the English team was based during the World Cup.
　　 Brazil, as a football kingdom, naturally has fans.
　　 The entire England team reached Rio de Janeiro and immediately received a large number of enthusiastic fans.
　　 But for safety reasons, Brazilian military police with live ammunition soon came to escort.
　　 The law and order in Brazil is not good, especially in big cities like Rio, where the personnel situation is quite complicated.
　　 Under the of the military and police, the entire England team entered the Royal Tulip Hotel booked in advance.
　　 The Royal Tulip Hotel is quite famous and the environment is good, but next door to this hotel is a slum of hundreds of thousands of people. I don’t know how the British football always chooses hotels. Maybe it’s a kickback.
　　 In this World Cup, there are four teams that set their base camp in Rio de Janeiro. In addition to the host Brazil, there are three European powerhouses, namely England, Italy and the Netherlands.
　　 On the afternoon of June 12, the opening ceremony of the World Cup was staged in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, which also announced the official start of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
　　 At the Sao Paulo Arena that night, the opening match of the World Cup officially kicked off, with the host Brazil facing the European powerhouse Croatia.
　　 With Neymar's brace, Brazil won a 3:1 reversal and successfully won a good start.
　　 It is worth mentioning that Marcelo became the first goal scorer in this World Cup, but what is more embarrassing is that he scored an own goal.
　　 This is also the first time in previous World Cups that the first goal was an own goal.
　　At this time, the England team has come to the northwest of Brazil and will play its first match in Manaus, a city in the Amazon jungle. New 81 Chinese network update the fastest mobile terminal: https:/
　　 At 8 o'clock in the evening on June 14th, at the Amazon Arena in Manaus, England's strong battle against Italy officially began.
　　 In Italy, Prandelli arranged a 4321 inverted Christmas tree formation.
　　 Goalkeeper: Siligou;
　　 Defenders: Chiellini, Paletta, Balzali, Matteo Damian;
　　 Midfielder: Verratti, De Rossi, Marchisio;
　　 Vanguard: Pirlo, Candreva;
　　 Forward: Balotelli.
　　 Italy's Wannian goalkeeper Buffon missed the game because of a sprained ankle in training, and the Paris goalkeeper Siligou started.
　　 and England arranged the long-trained 4231 formation,
　　 Goalkeeper: Joe Hart;
　　 Defenders: Leighton Bynes, Jagilka, Cahill, Glen Johnson;
　　 Midfielder: Gerrard, Henderson;
　　 Vanguard: Sterling, Rooney, Welbeck;
　　 Forward: Sturridge.
　　 Lee Chenglong was temporarily sitting on the bench due to a nose injury.
　　 At least facing the media, everyone said so.
　　 Actually, Jackie Lee’s nose is almost as good as it is, and it’s perfectly fine to play.
　　 But Li Chenglong felt that he had better take a break first. UU reading www.uukanshu.com asked the old guy Hodgson to try it.
　　 The current overall strength of England is not very good. Li Chenglong feels that his strength is definitely the most outstanding one in this England. In addition, he has the result of leading the team to win the Champions League to prove himself.
　　 But Hodgson still blindly emphasized Rooney's core position, which made Jackie Lee very upset.
　　 Since my heart is upset, and there is an excuse for a nose injury, Li Chenglong will take a break first.
　　 "In another match of the same group that was held earlier, Costa Rica unexpectedly defeated Uruguay 3:1, causing a big cold."
　　 "But this upset is good news for England. Uruguay, a leading competitor in the group, accidentally lost a three-pointer. England and Italy are more likely to qualify together."
　　 "But Bruce Lee's injury is still not healed, this may be a hidden danger..."
　　 Amidst the comments of the English commentary, the game began.
　　 After a few minutes of testing in the opening, Italy began to control the situation on the court.
　　 The Italian used his best at counterattacks and set-pieces to easily destroy England's defense.
　　 In the 30th minute, Italy passed a tactical corner kick and Marchisio scored a long shot.
　　 In the 42nd minute, Italy passed by Candreva through a counterattack opportunity and Balotelli scored with a header.
　　 In this way, Italy led England 2-0 in the half.
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