Football: The king of midfield, Guardiola is crying with envy

It rained a little in London today, and it was very cold and wet, with a temperature of only 14 degrees.

After coming out of the locker room, Chen Chen put on a thick jacket and trousers with the Three Lions logo.

The game on the field was still fierce, but it had nothing to do with Chen Chen.

Seeing Chen Chen sitting on the bench, the fans behind the bench were no longer paying attention to the game on the field, and stretched their necks to greet Chen Chen!

Chen Chen waved his hand, which was considered a response to them.

And just as Chen Chen was interacting with the fans in a friendly manner, the goal in the second half came!

Grealish, who came on as a substitute, dribbled the ball inside, and then a clever heel knocked the ball, and Rice, who followed up, shot directly!

4-1!

3 goals ahead!

But maybe it was too careless after the goal.

In the 66th and 73rd minutes, Scotland scored two goals in a row, and Southampton midfielder Stuart Armstrong, who came on as a substitute, scored twice!

The game situation became tense again!

Fortunately, Luke Shaw's long-range shot hit McTominay and was refracted, and Rashford followed up and scored twice!

After scoring, Rashford made a number "10" to pay tribute to the team captain, Harry Kane, who was injured and left the field.

Finally, under the whistle of the referee, England defeated Scotland 5-3!

8 goals, this game has also become the most goals scored since the start of the group stage of this European Cup!

Chen Chen performed very well today, but the MVP was awarded to Harry Kane, who scored twice and created a penalty but left the field early due to injury.

Chen Chen and Rashford had no objection to this, which Kane deserved.

After applauding and thanking the nearly 90,000 fans at the scene, Chen Chen followed everyone on the bus back to St. George's Park.

Kane was not on the bus, he left first during the halftime break.

On the bus, Southgate announced a good news to everyone. After further treatment and inference by the team doctor and sports rehabilitation experts, Kane is expected to return before the quarter-finals!

Of course, the England team needs to get through the quarter-finals first before considering the quarter-finals, semi-finals, etc.

Kane's absence is definitely bad news for the Three Lions, after all, the top scorer in the history of the England national team can't play in consecutive games.

For Southgate, now is the time to test his ability to deploy troops.

After returning to St. George, Chen Chen, Sterling and Grealish visited the captain of the team.

Harry Kane is in a good mental state, and he still has the mind to make some dirty jokes with Sterling.

Southgate asked Kane to pay attention to rest, and then he went to have a post-match analysis with the coaching staff.

Southgate is like this, the players in the team only need to devote themselves to the game, follow orders, and try to score goals, but Southgate has a lot to consider.

Shortly after the match between the Three Lions and Scotland, the match between Croatia and the Czech Republic also started.

With Schick's penalty and Perisic's long-range shot, the two teams tied 1-1.

Currently in the Group D standings, England ranks first with 6 points after two wins in two games, while the Czech Republic ranks first with 4 points after one win and one draw.

Croatia has one point, but their goal difference is still negative.

Scotland has 0 points.

England has already qualified, just because of the first and second place.

It is difficult for the Czech Republic to be eliminated with 4 points, and the Plaid Army has the possibility of theoretically overtaking the Czech Republic and occupying the second place.

As for Scotland?

They can only qualify if they get three points and as much goal difference as possible.

The third round of Group D was scheduled for the evening of June 22, and the start time was unified.

The day after the match with Scotland, Southgate gave the players a half-day holiday.

The Three Lions players couldn't go anywhere, so they could only drink coffee and take a walk in St. George's Park.

Bellingham is quite pleasing to the housekeeper, and a few jokes made these girls laugh.

Rashford prefers to play with club teammates Luke Shaw and Maguire, and the three of them are shooting tiktok short videos at the training ground.

Chen Chen wanted to find Grealish and others to play table tennis, but now everyone knows that this guy is very strong in table tennis, so no one dares to abuse him.

So Chen Chen and Sterling and others went to St. George's Park together, and then returned to the room to play games.

In the afternoon, because it was cloudy and stuffy and it might rain at any time, Southgate put the training ground indoors.

Foden is the one who works hardest in training.

After all, you can't not work hard!

Originally, only Grealish was competing with him, but now Chen Chen has appeared!

And looking at SouthgateMeaning, Chen Chen will get a lot of playing opportunities, isn't that a disguised way of squeezing out his own playing space?

Southgate was very happy to see this.

Competition will lead to progress, so that the team's performance can be improved!

Time flies.

Soon it came to June 22.

This day is the third round of Group D.

However, it should be noted that the third round of the game starts from the 20th, and some strong teams have confirmed their qualification early.

Like England, Italy in Group A also confirmed that they have qualified in advance after two wins in two games. They need to play the third game with Wales to decide who will be the first in the group.

In the end, Italy easily defeated Wales and qualified after three wins in three games.

There is no suspense in Group B.

Belgium qualified in advance after two wins in two games, and finally qualified after three wins in three games.

The latter few guys have won and lost against each other. Denmark qualified as the second in the group with a goal difference advantage. Finland has three points, but the goal difference is -2. They need to see the results of other teams.

Many people may not understand, how can the third place in the European Cup qualify?

That's because there are only 24 places for the European Cup, and 16 will enter the knockout stage.

These 16 teams are composed of the top two in 6 groups and the four third-place teams with the best results.

In 2024, Croatia fell into this kind of scoring problem, and they were unfortunately eliminated with only two points.

The top of Group C is the Netherlands, and the focus is on the competition for the second place. Austria will directly compete with Ukraine for points.

In the end, Austria was slightly better and they became the second in the group.

Ukraine has three points and a goal difference disadvantage. Like Finland, it depends on the situation in other groups.

Now it's Group D.

The situation in England's group is not complicated. As mentioned earlier, the biggest highlight is whether Croatia can defeat Scotland and qualify with 4 points.

In the match against Czech Republic, Southgate made some personnel adjustments and replaced some substitute players.

Players like Saka, Maguire, Henderson and Coady got the chance to play.

In fact, these players are not really substitute players, after all, they are the leaders of their respective clubs.