Young Football Player

Chapter 404 Advance to the European Cup

During the national team competition, England has two European Cup qualifiers to play.

On September 5th, the whole England team came to the Apennine Peninsula, but the challenger was not Italy, but San Marino, a pocket country surrounded by Italian territory.

San Marino is the third smallest country in Europe, just larger than the Vatican and Monaco.

But neither the Vatican nor Monaco have their own football national team, while San Marino does.

It is precisely because of the small number of people in the country that the overall strength of the San Marino national team is very weak. The international ranking has basically been at the bottom for a long time, and it is a standard team.

So at the San Marino Stadium in San Marino, a country within a country, England encountered no resistance at all.

Vardy made a penalty kick at the beginning, and then Li Chenglong made a penalty.

Then Chamberlain made an own goal, Barkley scored a goal from a long distance, and England took a 3:0 lead without much effort.

Speaking of which, this game is the first time that Jackie Chan and Vardy have fought side by side again after three years.

Because he still had to take care of the club's game, after leading by three goals, Li Chenglong was replaced during the intermission.

This substitution also aroused booing from the San Marino fans at the scene. The reason why they bought tickets to enter the stadium was mainly to watch the Premier League stars, especially Lee Jackie, the most popular star in football at present.

But Li Chenglong only played halftime and stopped playing. They were very dissatisfied.

Although Jackie Lee is off, San Marino is still unable to resist England's offensive.

Walcott scored twice in the second half, and Harry Kane, who came on as a substitute for Jackie Lee, scored another.

In the end, England beat San Marino 6-0 away.

England won San Marino. At the same time, Switzerland and Slovenia clashed with each other in this round. In the end, Switzerland beat Slovenia 3:2 at home.

In this case, after seven rounds of the group stage, England topped the list with seven consecutive victories and 21 points, followed by Switzerland with 15 points and Slovenia with 9 points.

With three rounds left in the European preliminaries, England has locked in the top two ahead of schedule and officially qualified for the 2016 European Cup in France.

England are the first team other than hosts France to qualify for Euro 2016.

It seems that after years of soft-footed shrimp in the big competition, England will start to change the direction of the king of the qualifiers again.

Three days after winning San Marino, the England squad returns to London on September 8 to face Switzerland at Wembley Stadium.

The official qualification for the European Cup has been locked, so the next European preliminaries basically belong to the category of training.

But before the game, Jackie Lee expressed his views.

"It is of course good news to secure the qualification for the European Cup in advance."

"However, we still need to continue to work hard and strive to end the European preliminaries with a record of victory."

In fact, it doesn't matter whether they win all or not. Anyway, the qualifications for promotion have been locked in advance.

But if you can really maintain a complete victory, that's not bad.

No matter to Lee Jackie or to Southgate,

All victories and promotions are impressive resumes.

At Wembley Stadium, England, which had advanced ahead of schedule, did play very relaxed.

In the first half, we couldn't find a good opportunity, and we could only draw 0:0 with Switzerland, and no one in the team was nervous.

With such a good attitude, it is only natural to win.

In the second half, Sterling broke into the penalty area and made a point. Lee Chenglong made a penalty and broke the deadlock for England.

The score fell behind, and the Swiss wanted to counterattack, so soon Lee Chenglong seized the opportunity and sent a second pass in the counterattack to help Kane score a single goal and seal the victory.

In this way, England defeated Switzerland 2:0 at home and continued to maintain its unbeaten record in the European preliminaries.

Lee Sung-ryong scored two goals in the two European preliminaries, and both were penalties.

This is probably the advantage of being the first penalty shooter, there are always more opportunities to score goals.

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The 2016 European preliminaries have gone through 8 rounds, and the appearance of most groups has become clear.

This year's European preliminaries can indeed be said to be unpopular.

The first is the Dutch team. Their performance in this European preliminaries is quite bad. Now there are only two rounds left, and they are only ranked fourth in the group.

You must know that this European Cup has expanded its army, so there will be such an easy schedule where the top two in the group will advance directly, and the third in the group will play in the play-offs.

But now that the Netherlands is like this, I'm afraid they won't be able to win the third place in the group, and they will be sent home directly.

The aging of personnel, lack of success, and turmoil in the coach, these are the good excuses that the media from various countries have found for the Netherlands' elimination in advance.

But no amount of excuses can cover up the sad story of Yellow Tulip's exit.

It is said that the flowering period of tulips is not long, and time is her fatal injury.

With a smile on his face, Xie Zaiye is desolate.

For whom to smile, for whom to be sad.

In addition to the upset that the Netherlands will be out, this European preliminaries have produced two new teams for the European Cup, namely Wales and Iceland.

In European football, it seems that the names of Welsh stars have been heard for a long time.

From Ian Rush in the early days, to Giggs later, to Bell and Ramsey now, Wales has indeed produced well-known stars all the time.

But many people don't know that Welsh football is actually attached to English football in a parasitic mode.

Although Wales has its own professional football league, it is basically at the level of a semi-amateur league, and there are no very useful players at all.

From the past to the present, all the stars produced by Welsh football have been trained by the Premier League teams.

Even the two most famous football clubs in Wales, Swansea and Cardiff City, have long been in the English professional league.

Therefore, although Welsh football has had stars for a long time, it has always lacked a foundation and a large number of low-level players, so it has long been weak in international competitions.

The Welsh national team is the third earliest national team in world football, but they have only scored one international competition so far, that is, the 1958 World Cup.

This year's European Cup is the first time in the history of their team to qualify for the European Cup.

Although Wales' promotion was unpopular, they always had well-known stars such as Bell and Ramsey in their team.

As for Iceland, another team that advanced to the main match, they were really upset.

You know, Iceland was assigned to a group with strong teams such as the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Turkey, but they advanced two rounds in advance as the first in the group. They are definitely the biggest dark horse in this European preliminaries.

In particular, they double-killed the Netherlands in the European preliminaries, which directly led to the latter's current situation, and may not even qualify for the play-offs.

In terms of stars, the most famous player in the Icelandic team is the Icelandic midfielder Sigurdsson who is currently playing for Swansea in the Premier League. He is the number one player in Iceland.

Compared with many well-known stars in the Netherlands, Sigurdsson is simply a nobody, but he led the team to defeat the Netherlands and successfully advanced to the European Cup.

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