Full-Level Pass, Please Call Me The Boss Of The Three Lions

Chapter 255

The first time, the second time.

Chapter 255 Conquer the young lions, strike with dimensionality reduction!

In a blink of an eye, Ling Feng completed his first training session with England U21.

After a simple warm-up, the team conducted passing training.

In this session, Ling Feng’s passing skills convinced all teammates who didn’t know him well.

Every pass, whether short or long, is directed to the point!

And the force is moderate, the receiver doesn’t need to be too strong to easily stop the ball.

In the following team group competition, everyone witnessed the terrifying vision of the core midfielder of the Three Lions, which is comparable to a monster!

It was as if he had opened his eyes to the sky on the field. He could see the running positions of his teammates and the empty spaces in the opponent’s formation at a glance!

He could see and pass the ball, and it was very comfortable.

With him in the midfield to organize the offense, the main team wearing orange vests attacked very smoothly.

The substitute team had no power to fight back and could only be pressed to the ground and rubbed wildly, and the goal was penetrated again and again.

What’s more terrible is that everyone can see that Ling Feng is reserving his strength!

He did not show his Premier League speed, nor did he use his personal explosive ability to frequently attack the opponent’s defense line with the ball.

Just as a midfield commander, he took the initiative to run to the empty space to receive the ball and pass it, and connected the midfield and frontcourt, which made the main team’s offense more than a level higher!

It is worth mentioning that the main team’s tactics were the first to adopt 4231, with Ling Feng as the starting front midfielder and Kane as the starting single striker.

The substitute team used the 442 parallel formation commonly used by England U21, with Danny Ings and Berahino as the two forwards.

Originally, there was no position for a frontcourt organizing core in Southgate’s tactics.

He mainly used the traditional English 442 side cross play, allowing two fast wingers to cross from the bottom to create opportunities for the two forwards in the middle.

The two central midfielders mainly passed the ball to the sides, occasionally inserted assists, and then defended.

Such a tactical play consumes a lot of physical energy for the two midfielders.

Now, Ling Feng’s performance on the field is obviously a level higher, so he immediately decided to abandon the original 442 tactical formation and change to 4231!

With Ling Feng connecting and organizing the offense in the frontcourt, the two defensive midfielders can focus on defense and protecting the back line without inserting assists.

And this set of tactics is also the tactics established by the Three Lions and Leicester City around Ling Feng!

Southgate is not afraid of being accused of copying tactics.

The reason why he invited Ling Feng to participate in the European Youth Championship is to win the championship!

A great man once said that no matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat!

The same principle.

As long as the tactics can win the game, it is a good tactic!

As long as this set of tactics can make the team win the championship, the doubts and ridicules from the outside world will naturally disappear.

In sports competition, the winner is the king!

The winner has the final right of interpretation!

It only took half an hour for Ling Feng to convince the arrogant young lions with his own strength.

In professional football, the strong are respected.

Ling Feng, who is obviously higher than them in terms of qualifications and strength, is fully qualified to be the captain!

Even many players who are familiar with Ling Feng, such as Lingard, Maguire, Moore and others, all look proud:

“I told you a long time ago that under Ling’s leadership, we will definitely win the championship!”

In the locker room, Berahino found that other teammates’ attitudes towards Ling Feng changed during the halftime break, and his jealousy became even worse.

So, in the second half of the competition, Berahino, who was on the bench, came to Ling Feng’s side and pressed him because he couldn’t get the ball in the frontcourt.

His movements were very big, even rough.

Not only did he pull with his hands, but he also used a sweeping kick.

Unfortunately, after gaining muscle, Ling Feng is not a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch.

After several confrontations, he did not lose the upper hand at all, and he was able to use his body to squeeze Berahino away, and then directly kicked!

In an instant, there was a bang, and the ball shot out, turning into a cruise missile, cutting through the air!

In the blink of an eye, just as the ball was about to fly over the crossbar, it fell rapidly in the air and hit the junction of the crossbar and the goalpost.

With a “clang” sound, the goalpost made a sharp sound.

trembling sound.

The goalkeeper standing on the goal line did not react at all.

The players on both sides were stunned and stood there, some of them swallowed their saliva involuntarily.

Just imagine how painful it would be if this shot that could make the goal post scream hit someone.

“Damn, it hit the post again”

Muttering in his heart, Ling Feng turned around calmly, and then deliberately walked past Berahino who looked dazed.

When the figures crossed, he did not forget to glance at the black guy who was obviously dissatisfied with him with great contempt.

That look seemed to say;

I, the Premier League and European assist king, who the hell are you? !

At this time, seeing that Berahino’s action was a bit too big, Southgate, who was afraid that he would hurt Ling Feng, immediately replaced him with another striker Bamford.

Berahino, who was replaced, was stunned at first, then his mind got hot, and he took off his jersey and threw it on the sidelines.

Then he walked straight into the base without looking back.

And this scene was seen directly by Southgate.

Although Southgate’s tactical ability has been criticized by fans in later generations and is often considered the weakest link of the Three Lions.

However, his personnel management ability is absolutely world-class.

In the future, the talented British stars who are praised by the media are willing to listen to him, and the unprecedented unity is enough to see how well he has done in controlling the locker room.

Moreover, as the future helmsman of the Three Lions who is being trained by the English Football Association, he holds great power.

Therefore, after seeing Berahino’s move, his expression did not change, and he had already sentenced Berahino, the thorn, to death in his heart.

. . .

June 12.

It was only the third day of Ling Feng’s training with the young lions, and they had the last warm-up match before the European Youth Championship.

Their opponent was Belarus U21.

The reason for choosing such a weak opponent was very simple.

It was to allow the young lions to practice new tactics, bully the weaker opponents, and find confidence on the eve of the European Youth Championship!

The venue of the game was, of course, England’s home stadium, Wembley Stadium.

When the young lions stepped into Wembley Stadium, they were surprised to find that the attendance rate of today’s game was not low!

Compared with only a few thousand people watching the game in the past, today’s entire main stand was almost full of people!

At least more than 10,000 people!

And at a glance, most of the fans and spectators were wearing the No. 7 jersey of England or Leicester City.

Obviously, these extra spectators and fans came for Ling Feng!

This was Ling Feng’s debut in England U21, and it was also the first game in his career where he served as the captain of the team.

For Ling Feng, being the captain of the team was also his first time.

So, before going on the field, he even forgot that as the captain, he had to wear the captain’s armband and exchange team flags.

It was only after the assistant coach reminded him that he belatedly put on the armband on his left arm and picked up the team flag.

When he walked into Wembley Stadium with his head held high and the young lions in white, the English fans at the scene immediately burst into warm applause and cheers.

“Come on! Ling!”

“Captain Ling, go for it!”

After wearing the captain’s armband for the first time and taking a memorable photo with his teammates in front of the camera, Ling Feng came to the referee team, exchanged team flags with the captain of the opponent, and tossed a coin to decide the kick-off right.

After completing the pre-match ceremony, Ling Feng turned around and saw that the other starting teammates were all gathered in a circle, as if waiting for him.

Seeing this, he hurried over and stood between Lingard and Maguire, shoulder to shoulder with his teammates.

Facing the gazes of the crowd, Ling Feng’s expression suddenly became serious, and then he made his first pre-match mobilization as captain:

“Guys, follow the coach’s arrangement, play to your level, and we can win this game!”

After that, he stretched out his hand, overlapped his hands with his teammates, and pressed down hard:

“Go, Three Lions!”

The result of this warm-up match was no surprise.

Wearing the No. 7 jersey and the captain’s armband, Ling Feng showed his undisputed super dominance at this age in the first half.

In just half an hour, he completed an assist hat trick, helping the team lead the opponent 4-0.

At the end of the game, the scoreboard showed a score of 7-0!

Throughout the game, England showed the style of a strong team.

The ball possession rate was as high as 70%, and the number of shots was as many as 23!

And at Wembley

After beating the Belarus U21 team with seven goals, Ling Feng also achieved a not-so-small achievement – [First time serving as captain of the national youth team]

This achievement awarded a few free attribute points.

After the game, the media and England’s famous players praised Ling Feng’s captain’s debut.

Even if the opponent was very weak.

However, the changes that Ling Feng led to the entire team were also obvious.

On the offensive end, with Ling Feng, the midfield master, the team’s offense is no longer limited to flying on both wings and passing from the wing.

Instead, it can play a more layered and varied offensive routine.

After Ling Feng became the core of the team, the biggest beneficiary was naturally the starting center forward Harry Kane.

With Ling Feng delivering ammunition for him, the White Hart Lane supernova does not need to retreat to get the ball, nor does he need to fight with the central defender. He only needs to focus on the final (eating) cake in front of the goal and give full play to his steady and superb shooting skills.

In this game, he easily scored a hat trick, completing his first hat trick in England U21.

Moreover, with Ling Feng’s rhythm control in the midfield, the team can attack slowly or quickly as they want.

Ling Feng often gets the ball in the middle, and suddenly makes a long diagonal pass over the top, which hits behind the opponent’s defense.

The forward winger directly crosses the ball from the bottom, which is a very standard attack routine combining the side and the middle!

On the defensive end, the team firmly suppressed the opponent in the half court, and even the counterattack could not be launched, so the defensive pressure in the midfield and backcourt was naturally reduced a lot.

And these changes are only because of Ling Feng!

Of course, the bloodbath of Belarus, a bottom-ranked team in Europe that is not ranked at all, has no reference value.

However, at least a victory can make the young lions have a good mood on the plane to the Czech Republic.

Two days later, the young lions arrived in Prague, Czech Republic.

Just a few days later, this young lion team, which was highly expected by all English fans, ushered in the first game of this European Youth Championship.

Before this Czech European Youth Championship, England defeated Croatia in the play-offs and won the 13th opportunity to participate in the finals of the tournament.

England, Italy, Portugal and Sweden were in Group B, which was considered the group of death.

This year’s European Youth Championship is of great significance, because it will produce the quota for the 2016 Rio Olympics, and the top two teams in each group will qualify for the Olympics.

Of course, England, which specially recruited Ling Feng to join the team, has more than just an Olympic quota!

And the opponent in the first game of this European Youth Championship is the biggest competitor in the group, Portugal, which has many monster stars!

There are many future stars familiar to Ling Feng in the Portugal U21 team.

Led by Bernardo Silva, known as the “Portuguese Messi”, there are also Guerrero, William Carvalho, Joao Mario, Jose Sa and other new generation of Portuguese players who have shown their talents in the five major leagues.

Before the game, many media and fans believed that Portugal’s overall strength was not inferior to England.

Especially the attack in the frontcourt, it is a big test for England’s defense.

Many people think that this will be a evenly matched contest.

However, after the game started, they found out that they were wrong.

Very wrong!

Ling Feng, who can compete with international players from major European football powers in the Premier League, came to the European Youth Championship like a fisherman holding a torpedo into a fish pond.

In addition, Southgate made him the core of the team and built tactics around him, allowing him to maximize his strength.

In this game, everyone saw what dimensionality reduction strikes are!

Just five minutes into the game, Ling Feng passed the ball accurately to Kane’s head through a front-court set-piece, and then smashed it into the Portuguese goal.

Then, ten minutes later, Ling Feng played a wonderful wall-to-wall match with the retreating Kane in the middle, then dribbled the ball to the penalty area line, and with a tricky low shot, sent the ball into the Portuguese goal for the second time.

At that moment, all the Portuguese fans who came to support the team were silent.

In the entire stadium, only the cheers and applause of the English fans could be heard.

After scoring the goal, Ling Feng came to the stands, raised his head, and opened his arms.

For the first time, he made his signature celebration at the European Youth Championship!

I came, I saw, I conquered!

(End of this chapter)