LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 171
Chapter 0171 – Selfless Pass! Selfless assist! When Lin Xu wears the captain’s armband, he is an excellent!!
November 15 afternoon.
After pre-match training at the St. George Park training base, the English squad flew to San Marino’s national stadium, home of their final World Qualifier rivals, San Marino.
San Marino is located on the Italian peninsula.
It is a country, China.
The area of the country is only 60.75 square kilometers.
San Marino people also speak Italian and look no different from Italians.
But.
This small country with a population of just over 30,000 does not have the same outstanding football talent as the Italians.
“Out of the 210 member states of the FIFA World Rankings, San Marino ranks first from the bottom, that is, 210th.”
In the live broadcast room.
Colonel Guan is introducing today’s home team.
Compared to Andorra’s standard European belly, San Marino on the Italian peninsula can be said to be not even a fish belly.
Although according to the statistics of the San Marino Football Association in the previous two years, there are a total of 104 teams in San Marino participating in various competitions, but because the country is too small, the league has no promotion system, there is no home-and-away distinction between teams, and all matches are held on the pitches of five villages and towns.
And these teams are all amateurs. Each player has his own official job.
They don’t make money playing football.
Playing football is just a hobby of the players.
Even the San Marino national team is not entirely professional.
“In San Marino’s current national team, only four players are professional, and the rest are part-time, which is probably a world record.”
“Although in the past there were players from the national team who would work part-time in other jobs, such as Iceland, only San Marino, the vast majority of the players were amateurs.
‘San Marino has not won a single match in this year’s World Qualifiers, and before today’s match, they had already suffered nine consecutive defeats.”
“The other fish-belly team in Group I, Andorra, the only opponent to win in the group stage is San Marino.”
“San Marino isn’t just a nine-game losing streak.”
Zhan Jun shook his head, “The last time they won was back in 2004, when they played against another European fishbelly team, Tenstein. ”
Colonel Guan thought for a while, “Ah yes, I remember it should be a 1:0 small victory, since then to now, this should be seventeen years, this middle game has not been won, more often they are experiencing failure, even fiasco, such as 0:10 loss to Poland, 0:10 loss to Croatia, 0:13 loss to Germany, the big score fiasco in the upper double is already a common thing for the team of San Marino.” ”
‘But it’s not surprising that for San Marinos, winning isn’t what they’re playing for, they’re more about having fun with football.’
“Football is more of a social way for them.”
“Yes.”
Zhan Jun also nodded.
“If San Marino really wants to win, they can plan some talented Italians to play for them. After all, their location is located on the Italian peninsula, and it is still convenient to plan some young professional players who cannot play for the Italian national team. ”
“But they didn’t.”
“They’re just playing on their own, with players who are mostly part-time.”
“But they love football.”
San Marino National Stadium.
The San Marino national team players, who are warming up, are not afraid to play against the mighty England team, and they are doing pre-match warm-up training excitedly and seriously.
In the stands on the sidelines, about 600 home team players wearing orange-red home jerseys sat on the sidelines.
Although the home team fans who were present did not seem to be too many, or even filled the entire home fan stand, there was also a field behind the goal where seats in the home stand were empty.
There were not even as many home fans as the away team.
But take into account their population.
The San Marino fans who came to the scene already make up 2% of the population of San Marino.
The fans were excited to sit in the stands.
Not only are they cheering for the San Marino players, but even some San Marino fans are shouting the names of England’s players.
“They’re really enjoying football.”
All the commentators in the live broadcast room are all sighing with the same emotion.
Just like those teams in the lower leagues who meet the giants of the top league when playing cups, fans and players do not feel that they will lose badly at the first time, but feel that they have the opportunity to meet those top stars, which is very lucky.
San Marino fans think the same.
There were even fans of the home team holding the jerseys of Lin Xu and Bellingham to cheer for these young English stars.
The atmosphere between home and away is good.
The England fans who came to the away stadium were also infected by the enthusiasm of the home fans.
“This is real football.”
The narrators sighed.
The players also ended their pre-match warm-ups.
The two teams walked to the San Marino National Stadium, which can only accommodate a few thousand people.
“Okay, the game is about to start.”
“This is the Migu Sports Live Broadcast Room, and I am Guan Zeyuan.”
“I’m Zhan Jun.”
“What is being streamed for you is the final round of the 2021 World Cup Qualifiers Group I match where San Marino hosts England…”
“What is playing on the field right now is England’s ‘God Save the Queen’…”
The national anthem of both teams ended.
Lin Xu and San Marino’s captain Battistini went to the referee and guessed.
In the first half, England attacked from left to right and San Marino attacked from right to left at 8:30 p.m.
The competition officially begins.
“Let’s introduce the starting line-up of the two teams first.”
Guan naturally opened, “First of all, today’s home team, San Marino. ”
‘San Marino coach Varela is in a 352 formation today, with No. 1 Berdetini in the goalkeeper position and three players on the back line being No. 22 captain Battistini, No. 16 Fabry and No. 6 Rosie.
“In midfield, the five are No. 7 Tomasi, No. 5 Lunade, No. 8 Muracini, No. 11 Muraroni and No. 2 Daddario.”
“The two arrows on the front line are No. 19 Nanny and No. 20 Hirsch.”
‘San Marino has been terrible in this World Qualifiers, losing all nine of their matches so far, and is poor offensively and defensively, conceding 36 goals in nine games and scoring only one.
‘Their home quality is also mediocre, with San Marino having only one draw in their last ten home games and losing the rest of their games.
“And in the last 30 games, they haven’t had a single victory.”
“Hmm… How to describe the offensive ability of this team. ”
“Let’s make a statistic, San Marino’s current team all-time top scorer Andi Selva has the same number of goals as Lin Xu’s national team.”
“Andy Selva made a total of 73 appearances for San Marino, scoring eight goals.”
“And in today’s starting line-up, No. 19 striker Nanni scored their only goal in this World Cup against Poland in September, which also made Nanni the third highest scorer in San Marino’s history…”
Fan: “…”
The fans in the live broadcast room all discussed it.
“Scoring a goal and becoming the third in franchise history… Cowhide! ”
“Hearing San Marino’s results, I actually feel that the results of our Dragon Kingdom seem to be okay.”
“Upstairs, you go to the penultimate one…”
Don’t just compare the results, compare the salary, the salary of any person who eats sea cucumbers in the Dragon Country is enough to buy a San Marino national team…
That’s right, it still can’t be compared, the sea cucumber team is a disgrace, and it kicks out this with a high salary.
People San Marino are all amateur players, playing and playing, even if they are abused, Dragon Country, hehe, a group of professional players, with millions of high salaries, the result is the same as a fish belly team abused into dogs, kangaroo country can’t kick, stick country can’t kick, cherry blossom country can’t kick, even fucking Yue can’t kick, there are actually people here to help them wash? What about the face!
“Exactly! Do you want to make a face! ”
“When I think that Lin Xu should have belonged to our Dragon Kingdom, my heart hurts.”
“Don’t be heartbroken, Lin Xu can’t play even when he comes to the sea cucumber team, no one can send him the ball at all, and he can still score an own goal in the backfield hehe… Don’t say it, I especially think of the last game of self-swinging oolong is called a beautiful, I especially want to scold people, into the opponent’s goal did not see such a beautiful play, into their own goal is quite cowhide, to say that they did not buy, I don’t believe it. ”
Okay, it’s all out, what’s there to be noisy, see if Lin Xu is not fragrant.
Watch the game, watch the game.
Dragon Kingdom fans chatted in the comment area.
The narrators also spoke quickly in the live broadcast room.
“On the England side, Southgate is also training with a different squad today, and today’s starters are very different from the starters in previous games, the goalkeeper has been replaced by Arsenal’s Ramsdell, and the three men on the back line are No. 12 Chilwell, No. 5 Cody and No. 6 Mings.”
‘In midfield are No.2 Alexander-Arnold, No.8 Bellingham, No.7 Phillips and No.3 Saka.
‘Foden is on the left wing today, and on the right is Arsenal youngster Smith Rowe, who was only called up to the national team for the first time in November and made his international debut in the last game against Albania, and the central forward position is still captain Lin Xu.
“A standard formation of 343.”
“Harry Kane and Sterling are both on the bench and Southgate is real now…”
Colonel Guan didn’t finish a sentence.
The situation on the field has changed.
The two commentators immediately picked up the microphone, and their tone became impassioned.
“Less than three minutes into the game, England launched a fast attack! Goalkeeper Ramsdell took a long pass from the back and found Bellingham in midfield, at the same time, Alexander-Arnold on the left ran to the front of the box, Bellingham and Phillips made a two-on-one wall-hitting combination, and then handed the ball to Arnold who had run near the bottom line of the box! ”
“Arnold catches the ball and does it back!”
“Lin Xu got the ball, but this ball he did not choose to hit the goal by himself, but a Marseille roundabout, past the San Marino defender Fabry who came up to defend, and knocked the ball to Smith Rowe on the right!”
“All the San Marino defenders are focused on Lin Xu!”
‘The San Marino goalkeeper is also defending Lin Xu and Foden closer to the goal.
“Smith Rowe is in front of a clearing!”
“No one is defending him!!”
“Smith Rowe!!”
“An easy push!”
“Face the empty door!”
“The ball went in!!”
“Goooooooooooooooooooooooal！”
“England!”
“Just three minutes into the game! A wonderful cooperation from the goalkeeper to the midfield! ”
“Lin Xu’s selfless assist in front of goal, Arsenal youngster Smith Rowe, who made his first international debut today, scored his first national team!!!
“0：1！”
“San Marino was already home behind in the opening three minutes!”
“England played a wonderful match!”
“The central midfield of the England national team is now more and more tacit! When goalkeeper Ramsdale passed the ball to Bellingham, Arnold on the wing had already started, and Bellingham’s ball was given quite accurately, and Arnold received the ball and directly found Lin Xu. ”
“Lin Xu was in that position, two steps forward is the small penalty area, completely within his range, but he glanced to the side while receiving the ball, saw Smith Rowe on the right side, or chose to give this ball to the Arsenal youngster, who started for the first time in the national team!”
“Selfless pass!”
“Selfless assist!”
“This is Lin Xu! When he wears the captain’s armband, he is a good captain! ”
“He will be England’s best captain ever!”
“0：1！ England playing away from home is the first city! ”