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

"Let's look at England."

"Southgate deployed a 343 formation."

"Pickford continues to start as the goalkeeper."

"Maguire replaced Mings. He will play as a single central defender. Stones is on Maguire's left and Trippier is on his right."

"The four midfielders are Luke Shaw, Rice, Kalvin Phillips and Newcastle defender Trippier!"

"Chen Chen, who performed well in the group stage, sat on the bench. Grealish, Foden and Mount are all on the bench. (Bench). "

"Three forwards, Sterling, Rashford and Saka."

"Rashford rarely plays this center position, I hope he can have a good performance today."

"Compared with the group stage, Southgate has indeed made a big change."

"Kane's injury made Southgate choose the second set of play, the full-backs are ahead, can go up or down, is England ready to play defense today..."

While Zhan Jun was still doing technical analysis with Zhang Lu, the players of both sides were ready in the player tunnel.

Many players in the German team play in the Premier League.

For example, Gundogan of Manchester City, Havertz, Werner and Rudiger of Chelsea, and Leno of Arsenal.

So in the player tunnel, the players on both sides are quite friendly.

Havertz, who started today, hugged Reece James and then chatted with several other English players.

Gundogan shook hands with Stones and others, and then smiled and joked with his mouth covered.

Leno took the initiative to approach Chen Chen, and after a few words, he turned into Arsenal HR.

Chen Chen just smiled and did not respond to the topic of transfer. Then he followed the pace of his substitute teammates and walked out.

Leno sighed.

That's right.

Ranked eighth in the Premier League, and even without playing in the Europa League, how can it attract others to join?

On the side of the court, Southgate took the initiative to shake hands with Loew, and Chen Chen saw it.

Well, Chen Chen was thinking about whether Loew had ever picked his nose?

Soon, under the leadership of the Dutch referee Danny Markel, the players of both sides came on the field.

Markel was the referee of the opening match of the European Cup in Italy. Because he did a good job in the opening match, he was arranged by UEFA to referee this England-Germany match.

But he also made wrong judgments.

In the 1/4 finals of the Champions League in the 18/19 season, some wrong penalties made by Markel caused dissatisfaction among the Roma people. Roma's star player Dzeko even said in an interview, "The referee lacked courage in enforcing the law, and some of the penalties that should have been made were not (decided)."

Roma's sports director Monchi even said bluntly, "He (the referee) let everyone see his shortcomings."

It's no wonder that Roma is so dissatisfied. They could have taken a draw, but they lost to Barcelona 1-4 away after their hearts were broken.

However, after returning to their home court, Roma defeated Barcelona 3-0 and advanced to the semi-finals with the advantage of away goals.

Coincidentally, Roma also encountered many wrong penalties in the Europa League final in the 22/23 season. Mourinho, the then Roma coach, even criticized the referee for stealing Roma's championship!

However, this time the referee was not Markel, but Anthony Taylor, who was hated by everyone.

Return to the game.

Soon the national anthems of both sides were played, and the battle was about to start!

The broadcast camera also quickly found Southgate and Loew.

After that, the camera was focused on some celebrities who came to the stands to watch the game.

"Beep!"

With a whistle, the game started!

The German team kicked off first.

The England team immediately deployed their formation.

Today, England still wore the traditional home white jersey, which was equipped with a dark blue round collar and a stripe on the side. There were still many elements of the "lion community".

After all, it's the Three Lions!

Of course, they are also called the Three Cats when their record is not good.

Germany is playing away, so they are wearing an all-black jersey designed by Adidas, but there are a little black, red and gold on the cuffs.

Today, white vs. black, it can be said to be a tit-for-tat!

Although Luke Shaw and Trippier played in the midfield, in the opening wave of defense, the two were positioned at the left and right sidebacks to defend.

After the kick-off, Sterling and Saka did not move forward immediately, but occupied two sides first, blocking the opponent's route of rushing.

Looking down from the sky, the Three Lions are actually in a 541 formation.

Germany was not in a hurry either. Loew gestured to the players to stabilize first and test it out.

So the German tank on the field flew both wings in the previous group stage.The crazy bottom tactics turned into a mid-range penetration.

But their penetration was unsuccessful.

The Germans could only fall from the left to the right, and then from the right to the left, to find possible bottom crosses or through passes.

This is a bit like the feeling of Manchester City playing Arsenal in the fifth round of the 24/25 Premier League.

Grealish, Gundogan, B Silva and Foden were passing the ball outside, but they couldn't push it in. It was obviously a strong battle, but it turned into a passing ball possession game.

In the first 15 minutes of the England-Germany battle, the German team gained more possession of the ball, and their possession rate reached 70%.

But it was useless.

Time flew by every second.

The fans at Wembley booed, they were dissatisfied with the situation being so boring.

Many fans also blew wild whistles.

In the Migu live broadcast room, Chinese fans were also shouting that the game was fake!

The number of goals in the first fifteen minutes was more than 0.5, and they were dead!

It was not until the 18th minute that the two sides had a real threatening shot.

This shot came from Germany.

After three or two kicks, the ball came to Muller's feet.

Muller had Trippier and Saka in front of him, and his position was not good.

So Muller passed the ball back to Goretzka in the middle.

Magna passed the ball to Toni Kroos to the right.

Just when everyone thought that the German team was going to play the two sides passing the ball back and forth again, Toni suddenly made a diagonal pass,

Looking for Kimmich who quickly inserted on the right side!

Facing Luke Shaw's interception, Kimmich easily shook it off, and then continued to dribble with the ball!

Kimmich, who was parallel to the penalty area line of the Three Lions, did not choose to continue dribbling forward, but cut inside, adjusted two steps and immediately raised his leg!

Stones determined that Kimmich was going to raise his leg and shoot from a distance, so he immediately put his hands behind his back and stepped forward to block it.

Unexpectedly, Kimmich dribbled the ball to the right, turned around, and fired a lob shot into the far corner with his right foot!

Facing the sudden long shot, Pickford quickly took two steps to the right and flew to save it!

It was too late to save it, and the Everton goalkeeper failed to save it!

But today, the goal of Wembley Stadium was strong.

Kimmich's inward lob shot hit the crossbar and bounced back!

Maguire was quick and cleared the ball quickly!

The German fans sighed at the scene!

It's a pity for this ball!

Damn crossbar!

The Three Lions fans felt very fortunate.

The cheers and applause of the Three Lions fans rang out at Wembley Stadium!

Kimmich was very frustrated after missing a great opportunity.

But there was no time for him to be frustrated. Havertz quickly called Kimmich back to defense.

Southgate on the sidelines looked serious.

Was it because they defended for too long?

How could the left defense make such a low-level mistake?