Chapter 308: Flying Dutchman

At 6 pm on July 5th, local time in Brazil, England and the Netherlands' World Cup quarter-finals match officially kicked off at the new water source stadium in Salvador, Brazil.
　　England is still 4231 formation, but Gerrard was suspended because of a red card in the last game. Lampard and Henderson partnered with double midfielders in this game.
　　 When the team captain Gerrard was suspended, Rooney put on the captain's armband, which was arranged by Hodgson.
　　 On the Dutch side, they arranged a 343 formation.
　　 Goalkeeper: Silesin;
　　 Defenders: Indi, Fraal, De Vry;
　　 Midfielder: Blind, Sneijder, Wijnaldum, Kuyt;
　　 Forwards: Depay, Van Persie, Robben.
　　 "England and the Netherlands have fought 18 times in history. England has a slight advantage with 5 wins, 9 draws and 4 losses."
　　 "However, the two teams have only met three times in the finals of international competitions, and all of them took place in the group stage. The records of both sides were completely equal."
"The Netherlands defeated England 3:1 in the 1988 European Cup group stage. Van Basten completed a hat-trick. Then in the 1990 World Cup, the two sides tied 0:0 in the group stage, and then in the 1996 European Cup group stage. , England defeated the Netherlands 4:1 to complete their revenge, Alan Shearer and Sheringham both scored twice."
　　 "So this time, it is the first time the two teams have met each other in the knockout stage of an international competition..."
　　 Before the start of the game, the commentators from various countries talked about the historical record of the two teams as usual.
　　 As the runners-up of the last World Cup, the Netherlands completed their revenge against Spain in the group stage and killed the opponent directly in the group stage.
　　 Now, of course, the Dutch want to attack the championship again.
　　 But they also know that the current Netherlands is not as strong as four years ago. After all, Sneijder and Robben are both older.
　　 So after the game started, the Dutch played very conservatively.
　　 They are also somewhat afraid of England. After all, England also came out of a difficult group and killed the two championship teams of Italy and Uruguay in the group stage.
　　 And England is also more afraid of the strength of the Netherlands.
　　 In the first game of the group stage, the Netherlands directly came to a 5:1 massacre to Spain, which refreshed many teams.
　　 In this way, both teams play very conservative tactics.
　　 Twenty minutes before the start of the game, neither side actually completed any shots.
　　 In the 21st minute, Robben sent a pass through a counterattack. Van Persie made his first goal in the penalty area, but the ball was directly hugged by Joe Hart.
　　 England had the first kick in the 25th minute.
　　 Li Chenglong returned to the midfield to take the ball, and after a two-to-one match with Lampard, he completed a long shot in front of the penalty area, but the ball was hit directly into the stands.
　　 In this way, both England and the Netherlands have a shrinking formation and play quite conservatively.
　　 So at the end of the first half, the score was logically 0:0.
　　 At halftime, Hodgson seemed to be quite satisfied with the current situation. He did not make any adjustments.
　　 In Hodgson’s view, reaching the World Cup quarterfinals is considered an over-fulfillment task, so now he just wants to stabilize.
　　 At present, the main threat of the Dutch team comes from counterattacks. Spain was beaten in the group stage because their pass-and-control play was unable to open the situation, so the Dutch continued to use counterattacks to defeat them.
　　 Now Hodgson just doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of Spain and can't give the Netherlands too many opportunities to fight back.
　　 As for whether he can win the game, Hodgson probably doesn't matter too much.
　　 It's best to win, and it's not a big problem if you can't win, as long as you don't lose a big score.
　　 The second half of the game began, and the two sides finally accelerated a little bit.
　　 In the 67th minute, the Netherlands passed a free kick in the frontcourt. Sneijder completed a volley in the penalty area and the ball hit the England crossbar.
　　 In the 75th minute, Li Chenglong also passed a free kick to return the color. His direct free kick in the front court was against the bottom line of the post.
　　 In such a situation where both sides intend to lower the rhythm of offense and defense, set shots have indeed become a good way to score goals.
　　 However, neither side was able to seize the opportunity, so after 90 minutes, the score board was still 0:0, and both sides had to play overtime.
　　 "This is the sixth overtime in this World Cup, and this year is indeed an overtime World Cup."
　　 In the first half of the overtime game, both sides still did nothing. Seeing that the game is about to go straight to the penalty shootout.
　　 But in the second half of overtime, in the 109th minute, England finally had a perfect opportunity.
　　 Lee Chenglong and Henderson interrupted Wijnaldum's ball in midfield and then immediately launched a fast break.
　　 After successively losing Blind and De Vry, Li Chenglong was tripped by the opponent's black defender Indi in the penalty area.
　　 The referee Irmatov from Uzbekistan immediately blew his whistle and raised his finger to the penalty spot.
　　 "Penalty~~This is a penalty!!"
　　 "Bruce, super Bruce!! He has done his work again, he has saved England again!!!"
　　 The English commentator immediately shouted excitedly.
　　 Everyone on the earth knows that England’s penalty shoot-out is not reliable, so of course the English commentator does not want to play a penalty shoot-out.
　　 Li Chenglong made a penalty kick, he just got up, at this time Rooney had passed and walked to the penalty spot with the ball.
　　 "Let me..." Li Chenglong walked over. Before he could finish his words, Xiaopang Lu interrupted him directly.
　　 "Don't worry, leave it to me."
　　 "You're a bastard!" Li Chenglong's cursing words came to his lips, but he forcibly held it back, and he didn't turn his face on the court directly.
　　 Li Chenglong felt that he had done his best.
　　 had already given the fat man a penalty before, allowing him to complete the World Cup first goal.
　　 But now this kind of key penalty kick, you have to come out to grab it.
　　 This penalty kick is not only related to promotion, but also very important to Lee Chenglong.
　　 As long as he scores this penalty, Jackie Lee will basically lock the golden boot of this World Cup.
　　 Currently on the World Cup shooter list, Jackie Lee’s biggest competitor, J Luo, has already been eliminated, but he still overwhelmed Lee Chenglong with the advantage of assists.
　　 If Li Chenglong comes to score this penalty, his number of goals will come to 7, once again overtake Ronaldo.
　　 J Luo has been eliminated, naturally it is impossible to come back and compete with Li Chenglong.
　　 Among the other players who have not been out, that is, Messi, Neymar and Thomas Muller, but they all have only four goals, and Neymar is still injured.
With Lee Chenglong scoring this penalty, Messi and Mueller really have to compete with Lee Chenglong. They must score at least 3 goals in the next two games so that they can equal Lee Chenglong’s goals. Then I hope to overwhelm him with the advantage of assists.
　　 In the World Cup semi-final stage, if you want to score three goals in two games, the difficulty is not ordinary.
　　 So as long as Jackie Lee scores this penalty, he can basically be regarded as a World Cup golden boot.
　　 Lee Chenglong is really quite hot, he resisted staying on the court and watched the guy kick a penalty kick.
　　 Lu Xiaopang confidently placed a penalty kick and kicked the ball into the stands with one kick.
The Dutch fans behind the goal jumped up crazy to grab the ball that flew into the stands. Their mood at this moment may be like this ball, and they are so happy to fly to the sky~EbookFREE.me~oh~~~Rooney , He kicked the penalty kick? ! ! "
　　 "Unbelievable, this should have been a lore penalty."
　　 "I thought that this boring game would be ended by the penalty made by Bruce Lee, but Rooney seemed to disagree. He still wants to keep the game suspense."
　　 The commentators all over the world were amazed, and the Dutch commentary cheered Rooney directly.
　　 "Wayne Rooney, this cute little fat man, from today, he is a member of our Dutch team, he is definitely a flying Dutchman."
　　 "Look at this penalty kick, how well Rooney played. The ball is like wings and flies directly into the sky."
　　 Taking advantage of the televised replay of Rooney's penalty kick, the Dutch commentator continued to mock.
　　 "Wayne Rooney!! The bastard!! What is he doing? He actually kicked such an important penalty."
　　 "And why did Hodgson arrange for him to take a penalty kick, why not let Bruce go?"
　　 "Bruce has taken 14 penalties since his career so far, every time he has successfully scored."
　　 The English commentator also reversed the direction of the wind and began to criticize Rooney.
　　 In fact, if Rooney hits a penalty just now, they will definitely be the first people to fantasize.
　　 But, Rooney lost his kick.
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