Max-level burst damage at the start, the British Empire arrives!

England vs. USA is like a father-son game; no matter how many goals England wins, it won't make a big ripple in the hearts of England fans.

England's style of play during the match also drew much criticism from the media.

Having experienced the chaotic online atmosphere of some websites in his previous life, Sun Ke felt that the current English media was just so-so.

If we push back ten years and let them see the world's online environment again, they will realize how clear the mental world was ten years ago.

Ten years later, the image of a certain major power as a beacon of the world suddenly collapsed, leaving spiritual converts around the world without their spiritual support.

What these people firmly believed in for the first half of their lives was eventually discovered to be severely inflated.

Their mental world is as if they have suffered a severe shock. In real life, they appear to be human, but in the online world, they are like stray dogs, like a source of pollution, creating mental pollution everywhere.

Some people have even become contrarians, opposing anything that benefits the country.

These people generally share a common trait: they have not received proper education since childhood, lack the ability to distinguish right from wrong, and are particularly susceptible to brainwashing.

These people generally struggle in real life, boasting all day long that they can earn tens of thousands of yuan a month washing dishes abroad, but they avoid talking about high consumption, living in doghouses, and being second-class citizens.

In a world where daily life in various countries is largely transparent, they still believe that the air of freedom is incredibly sweet, but when they arrive there, they find that they can't even go outside to feel the air.

You might wander into the wrong block and be knocked down on the street like a stray dog ​​with a "bang".

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The online environment for England fans is actually not too bad right now.

Although some of his teammates felt a lot of pressure, Sun Ke didn't feel that much pressure.

Even when they criticize, it's based on facts. There are people who criticize without thinking, but the proportion is not high.

Most fans are tactical enthusiasts and possess basic football knowledge.

Most importantly, with the ubiquitous league system, the vast majority of people have a considerable amount of playing experience.

People who have played football and fans who have never been exposed to football have vastly different understandings of certain moments in a game.

Those fans who immediately call it trash either lack the necessary knowledge and experience, or they lack understanding of the world.

Their most distinctive characteristic is that, although they don't play football, they always feel that no one else knows as much about football as they do.

Sun Ke has recently developed a particular fondness for reading world classics. The feeling of slowly savoring and repeatedly appreciating them is simply a kind of... self-torture.

Of course, reading classic works definitely has its benefits.

According to Sun Ke, the biggest benefit of reading classic works is that it helps with sleep.

On days without books to keep her company, Sun Ke would toss and turn on her phone for a long time before finally falling asleep.

Once she puts down her phone and picks up a book, Sun Ke can guarantee that she will fall asleep before finishing a single page.

However, this is all in the context of the upcoming World Cup.

If it weren't for the upcoming competition, Sun Ke could usually fall asleep within half a minute.

If you can't fall asleep within three minutes, it's considered insomnia.

This mixture of excitement, anticipation, fear, repression, and dread keeps popping into my mind all day long, like a swarm of flies.

In Sun Ke's view, players who are completely relaxed during major competitions are one in a million.

Normal people are all about the same level of tension, but the strong can control it, while the weak lose control and let their fear amplify infinitely.

There is no endless suffering in this world, nor is there endless happiness.

An adult can perceive pleasure because they have experienced pain.

This is why many people dislike long-distance running when they are young, but suddenly develop a liking for it at a certain age.

Long-distance running is a process of repeated cycles of joy and pain, ultimately leading to self-acceptance.

Despite the intense scrutiny from the English media and fans, English players have entered a period of high pressure.

However, most of the England players are thick-skinned and can easily put the pressure behind them.

At this point in time, the England team is certainly not the team under the most pressure.

They only reached the round of 16 in the last World Cup, so what's there to be nervous about? Their room for decline is already very limited; at worst, they'll just go home in the group stage.

If anyone should be nervous, it should be the defending champions, Spain.

As the defending champions, Spain's performance in this World Cup will be a failure, no matter what results they achieve.

Another team that should be nervous is the Netherlands. In the last World Cup, they had the chance to kill the game before Spain, so they are very unwilling to accept their defeat.

If they lose to Spain again in the same group this time, they'll be out of options and will simply be considered weak.

The arrogant Dutch were not going to be bothered by this. Even if the World Cup didn't go well, they were determined to crush the Spanish team.

As the runners-up in the European Championship, the Italian team is also under considerable pressure.

Two years ago in the European Championship group stage, they went toe-to-toe with Spain, and were evenly matched. They are one of the few national teams in recent years that have been able to put up a tough fight against Spain.

Although they were blown out in the final, the game still had a lot of suspense before Motta's injury forced Italy to play with one less player.

But to their dismay, England, their groupmate, suddenly rose to prominence and remained unbeaten for the past two years.

Since England's dominant performance in the World Cup qualifiers, with Son Heung-min averaging 3 goals per game, both Spain and Germany have announced that they will not play friendly matches against England before the World Cup.

The Spanish team is well aware that their control of the game has waned, and their decision not to play against England is a way to maintain their intimidation factor.

But in fact, it can be seen from the world competitions that the Spanish team's control is not as good as it seems.

A record of 6 wins and 2 draws in 8 matches is indeed impressive, especially considering that France was also in the same group.

However, a closer look at their matches reveals that their advantage is not as obvious as it seems.

They won 6 games but only managed a goal difference of 11, averaging less than 2 goals per game.

This is enough to show that the Spanish team won by only one goal in three games, and was even held to a draw by Georgia at home.

Their tactic is to control the game, passing the ball around in every corner of the field.

Italian fans have given Spain's possession-based tactics a name: "concrete attack".

This nickname is really disgusting.

Although the Spanish players were generally dissatisfied, they did indeed lack a certain amount of confidence.

England, Germany, and the Netherlands dominated their qualifying matches, securing first place in their respective groups with unstoppable momentum.

In other words, the French team has too many young players, too much respect for the Spanish team, and lacks a speed-type attacking player.

If Mbappe had been born five years earlier, the defending champions would probably be playing in the playoffs.

Among the 32 teams in the World Cup, the team under the most pressure is undoubtedly the host team, Brazil.

Sun Ke experienced the pressure of being a host firsthand two years ago.

That feeling was truly indescribably oppressive.

When things are going well, it's fine, but when you encounter setbacks, it feels like you're wearing shackles.

That was just the Olympics; the pressure at the World Cup would be ten times greater.

If you were to randomly interview 1000 Brazilians at this point, probably 950 of them would believe that the Brazilian team must win the World Cup, and that any other outcome would be a failure.

For the Brazilian team, there is only one goal in this World Cup.

Brazilian fans believe their national team will definitely be world champions; winning the title is only a matter of time.

Brazil not only wants to win, but they want to win beautifully, to win with lightning speed, and even a narrow victory would leave fans in disbelief.

Under these circumstances, it would be difficult for Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari to get his players to dance the samba in bulletproof vests like they did in 2002.

The public opinion environment no longer allows him to do this.

In addition, he once led the Brazilian team to win the World Cup, so his mindset when he takes the reins again this time is definitely different from that of twelve years ago.

After their second warm-up match against the United States, the US team returned home to prepare for a warm-up match against Cameroon, which can be seen as preparation for the match against Ghana.

The England team has moved to New Jersey in the United States, where they need to find a European team to play against before the World Cup.

The opponent was decided months ago: England will face Switzerland from Group E, a purely defensive team that perfectly mirrors Italy.

Although the Swiss team also qualified for the World Cup, they don't share the same dream as South American teams of stunning the world on the American continent.

Based on the strength distribution of Group A and Group E, for England to meet Switzerland, both teams would need to reach the semi-finals.

If it really comes to that point, whether or not a warm-up match has been played doesn't really matter much.

Every team will undergo a qualitative change if they can reach the World Cup semi-finals.

Upon arriving in New Jersey, Sun Ke heard that the Portuguese team and the Mexican team had also played a friendly match.

Portugal played Mexico like the United States, while Mexico played Portugal like Croatia.

Sun Ke also saw on local news that American fans expressed their dissatisfaction with the national team's subservience to the England team.

They argued that since the England team would eventually come to the United States for training, why not let the England team come to the United States to play, and why should the American team have to travel back and forth?

Besides, no one has ever seen Sun Ke's match live. Why not hold it on home soil? Is it because they can't afford the appearance fee?

In an interview, they even invited a member of the US team to explain the process.

The staff member said righteously, "Dude, do you guys have some kind of misunderstanding about the world of football?"

"In the field of football, we have no advantage whatsoever."

"We not only lack advantages, we're not even the best in North America!"

"We finished first in the qualifiers, but in their eyes, the best team in North America is still Mexico."

"In their view, there is no difference between the United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Jamaica."

"The England team staff called us and invited us to play a friendly match at Wembley."

"Their staff were very polite, and their emails were very formal, but they only gave us two days to respond."

"We contacted the team's head coach, and he told us that if we didn't agree, the players would go crazy!"

"Their staff told us that, apart from Costa Rica, all the other North American teams wanted to play against England."

"Our players all want to experience what it feels like to be beaten by the best player in the world."

"After the game, a player who used to play basketball in his school days told me that Sun Ke's advantage in the world of football is greater than Jordan's advantage in the world of basketball."

"Of course, the United States cannot be the standard for crossover stars. Many of our players want to work hard to support their families."

New Jersey Giants Stadium.

England and Switzerland have scheduled a match.

Switzerland has a strong squad, with more than half of its players playing in Europe's top five leagues, and the country also boasts strong teams like Basel and Grasshopper Zurich.

Swiss players are under the watchful eyes of scouts across Europe from a very young age. Salah and Elneny were poached by Chelsea and Arsenal early on because of their outstanding performances in Basel.

Sun Ke looked through the list of Swiss players and found that those who could make it had all reached the top five leagues.

Xhaka, Djourou, Saric, Dzemaili, Rodriguez, Inler, Barnetta, Senderos, Lichtsteiner, and Sommer—these players have all delivered the performances they were meant to have.

Before the match, Sun Ke discovered that he was half a head taller than Sommer, while Xhaka was Switzerland's starting attacking midfielder.

As expected, the Swiss team parked the bus after the match started, using the English team to simulate the French team.

As long as they can withstand England's offensive onslaught, France will be a piece of cake.

In the 15th minute of the first half, Walcott pushed the ball into the penalty area.

After receiving the ball, Sun Ke executed a Cruyff turn, easily getting past Centeros.

Centross tried to use his body to block Sun Ke, but Sun Ke slammed into him and made him stagger, completely losing his ability to defend.

Sun Ke easily broke through the net with a low shot, opening the prelude to his dominating the weaker teams.

The Swiss players continued to focus on defense, having been the only team to defeat Spain four years ago, demonstrating their formidable defensive capabilities.

However, even with Sun Ke on the team, their defense was still not strong enough.

In the 29th minute, Rooney and Walcott played a one-two. The moment Walcott entered the penalty area, he did not choose to pass the ball into the penalty area, but instead decisively chose to cross it.

Inside the penalty area, Sun Ke leaped high, easily heading the ball past the 1.83-meter-tall Lichtsteiner.

2: 0!

Switzerland's defensive tactics were indeed excellent, with all three lines positioned within 35 meters of the goal, making it very difficult for any team to score the first goal against them.

Against England, the Swiss team has been simulating a defensive posture under heavy pressure.

So even though they were down by two goals, they still focused on defense.

At halftime, Hodgson substituted Lambert for Sun Ke.

After seeing Sun Ke leave the field, the Swiss team began practicing their normal attacking system, simulating their performance against Ecuador and Honduras.

Old manager Hitzfeld seemed somewhat disrespectful to the other England players besides Sun Ke, but he didn't expect that the England team would turn into an Atletico Madrid-style team in the second half.

This time, "Gladio" didn't play, but Gerrard did, and Hodgson paired Gerrard with Jagielka, thus creating the "Moxiese double pivot".

Anyone familiar with English football knows that this combination is even more difficult to reconcile than the "Gardenio and Gerrard" duo.

Although Liverpool and Everton's home grounds are only one kilometer apart as the crow flies, the level of animosity between the two teams' players is no less than that of the "North-West Derby," the Manchester Derby, and the North London Derby in England.

However, Gerrard and Jagielka were very cooperative and focused during the match.

During the match, the team suddenly passed the ball to the opposing midfielder. Just as the opposing player was about to make a long run, Jagielka came from the side and made a tackle that left the player unable to stand up for several minutes.

After the match, Jagielka said in an interview that Gerrard was the greatest player in Liverpool's history, and Gerrard said that Jagielka made him feel very safe.

After the interview was published, fans across England thought the two of them were disgusting.

Some people even asked what had happened to the England team these days.

6 month 10 day.

The England team traveled to Brazil, and English media outlets believe this team could be the strongest England team in football history, including the one that won the World Cup.