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

On the third day, which was June 2.

Southgate appeared at the National Football Center at St. George's Park.

All the players who didn't come came.

For example, Pickford, Arnold, Bellingham.

And Foden and Stones who participated in the Champions League final.

Bellingham greeted Palmer as soon as he arrived. The two are old acquaintances in England U21.

Then Bellingham greeted and hugged Chen Chen.

As a newcomer to the national team, Chen Chen, like other newcomers, shuttled among the crowd, shook hands and hugged others.

At this time, Ivan Toni found Chen Chen!

The two "fellow countrymen" from Brentford hugged each other tightly.

When the British meet, they don't say "Have you eaten?" "Eat!" or something like that.

Generally, it's "Hey", and if you're close, it's "Asshole".

If you are more intimate, it will be "Damn bastard!"

Chen Chen knew Ivan Tony's personality, so he took the lead and said,

"You damn bastard! Why did you come so late!"

It's a pity that Ivan Tony doesn't watch the Chinese Spring Festival Gala, otherwise he would definitely say,

"You said all my words!"

After a round of greetings, Southgate asked his assistant Steve Holland to lead everyone to change into training clothes and go directly to the training ground for training later.

St. George's Park is really inhumane.

Even the locker room is built very luxuriously!

After changing into training clothes, everyone came to the training ground.

Southgate asked the new players to introduce themselves again.

Then the game was arranged according to the team training match list that had been drawn up early.

Of course, everyone did enough warm-up.

There were 33 people in total, just enough to make up 3 teams of 11 people.

Chen Chen was assigned to the third team, which was the yellow one among the red, yellow and blue.

Blue is the starting team, red is the rotation players.

Yellow?

SONE Park 003?

No, not this.

Yellow means substitutes.

Southgate likes to use the 433 formation very much.

But he has also tried 4231 and 451.

He is not a coach who sticks to one formation.

After all, how can a man who can be the head coach of the Three Lions not have two brushes in his hands?

Chen Chen's forwards are Ivan Toney, Watkins and Bowen.

Watkins and Bowen are a little frustrated.

They also found that the overall strength of the yellow team is indeed very weak.

All of them are a group of middle and lower-level Premier League players. . .

Fortunately, Southgate is more balanced.

In the defender position, Southgate gave them Gomez and Luke Shaw.

It is considered to be the main rotation level.

Gomez can't squeeze Stones and Mings.

Luke Shaw can't compete with Trippier.

In the goalkeeper position, Southgate gave them a big gift package, he let Pickford to keep the goal.

This is also a test for Pickford, after all, the strikers of the top teams in the European Cup are at the level of England's starting midfielders.

If you can withstand the attack of your teammates, you can also withstand the attack of your opponents.

Soon the game started, and Steve was the referee.

The game was divided into three stages, 30 minutes each.

Each team could play for 60 minutes.

Chen Chen is strong, but he can't turn the tide.

The blue team beat the red team 5-2 and the yellow team 8-2.

Chen Chen's performance was pretty good, and several through balls and passes were very critical.

For this reason, Southgate specifically asked Kane and Maguire for their opinions.

Kane said that after a little more running-in, Chen Chen has the strength to start.

Maguire also thinks so.

The next day, a group of new players came to St. George's Park, this is the second batch of personnel.

There are not many players, about a dozen or so.

Among them are Rashford, Sancho, Calvert-Gerwin and Reece James.

Competition is cruel.

After the group confrontation that day, several players confirmed that they had left the Three Lions.

Ivan Toney, Watkins, Gueye and so on.

On June 4, the Three Lions will have a friendly match!

They will play a friendly match with Austria from afar at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough!

After two days of precise refinement, the number of Three Lions players staying in St. George's is still 33.

The number of players has not changed, but in fact it has changed a lot.

[England's starting lineup against Austria is released! Kane leads the team, and Bellingham is the only foreign player on the field. ]

[On standby for the first national team game, Chen Chen: I believe the opportunity to start will come soon. ]

[The only player from the Championship team! Among the 33 players, only Chen Chen is from the Championship team Brentford.(Now upgraded to a Premier League team)]

[Does Southgate also learn from Guardiola? In the starting lineup of England vs. Austria, midfielder Rice played as right center back, defender Coady played as left midfielder, and winger Saka was in the middle. ]

8pm on the 4th, Riverside Stadium!

Middlesbrough's home stadium has a heavy sense of history. They are a team founded in 1876.

Maybe you can try to turn over those thick wooden boards in the corner, and you may find garbage left by fans who watched the game thirty or forty years ago.

The Riverside Stadium, which can accommodate 35,000 people, was full!

All you see is a sea of ​​white!

"Good evening, dear friends watching TV and in front of the live broadcast room!"

"Thank you for staying in our live broadcast room in the early morning of June 5th, China time, to watch a friendly match before the European Cup!"

"The two teams are the England national team coached by Southgate and the Austrian team coached by Foda!"

"I am today's commentator Zhan Jun! Today I will be the only one to comment on this game for you!"

"You in front of the TV must be paying attention to Chen Chen's performance in the England national team."

"Me too."

"But in today's starting lineup, Chen Chen did not start the game, he sat on the bench."

"It is worth noting that in today's game, Southgate only fielded a 22-man roster, and the bench was not full."

"Maybe in the eyes of the Three Lions' helmsman, the other players are still lacking a little strength."

"Okay! Enough of the small talk! Let's look at the starting lineups of both teams!"

"For Austria, Foda arranged a 442 formation."

"The two forwards are Leipzig forward Sabitzer and Kalezic."

"The four midfielders are Baumgartner, Alaba, Schlager and Laimer."

"Bayern star Alaba is the captain of the Austrian team. After confirming that he will not renew his contract with Bayern, Alaba has ended his 10-year career as the king of the south."

"As for where the Austrians will go next? There is no conclusion yet, but according to Bild, the Austrians have been linked with Real Madrid."

"The four defenders, from left to right, are Marko Friedel, Dragovic, Hinteregger and Reiner."

"In the goalkeeper position, Bachmann starts."

"Now let's look at the home team England."