20demayo Chapter 310
Chapter 310
Compared with last year, Leeds United's luck in this year's Champions League group stage is relatively not so good. Under Li Shiguang's watch, Leeds United was drawn into Group F in the third to last round.
In the same group with them are Roma, the runner-up of Serie A last season, Sporting Lisbon, the runner-up of the Portuguese Super League, and Dynamo Kyiv, the champion of the Ukrainian Super League. These three opponents are not weak teams, and Roma spent a lot of money on a lot of reinforcements this summer.
However, in Li Shiguang's opinion, given the strength shown by Leeds United since the start of the new season, this grouping is just like that, except for Roma, which is likely to pose a little threat to Leeds United.
After the draw ceremony, a discussion about this year's Champions League group stage grouping immediately started on the Internet.
[This year's luck is pretty good. It feels like it's a sure thing for four teams to make it to the round of 16! ]
[Leeds United, Chelsea, and Arsenal should be no problem, but Manchester United is in this state now, and it is estimated that they will not be able to beat Porto and Marseille. 】
【Believe in Ferguson, Manchester United has adjusted since the last round of games! In addition to Porto, the other two opponents in Group A should not pose a big threat to Manchester United! 】
【Looking at this grouping, this year is really the most promising year, Arsenal please don't be a jerk, please!! 】
With the end of the Champions League group stage draw, the summer transfer window also came to an end.
As Li Shiguang had expected before, Leeds United became the absolute protagonist of the European continent this summer, and Kaka became the highest bidder in the 2007 summer transfer window with a value of 45 million euros!
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After September, Leeds United's game tasks gradually increased.
This month Leeds United will play a total of four league games, one Champions League group match and one League Cup game.
The most important thing is that there will be an international match day in between these games.
This is what Li Shiguang is most worried about.
He still remembers that he let Sun Jihai go back to participate in a friendly match last year, but the Chinese Football Association sent him a seriously injured player.
Leeds United is no longer the Leeds United of the past. Now when it comes to international match days, Leeds United's main lineup is basically emptied, and even the substitutes can be taken back by more than half!
This is not good news for Leeds United.
But before the international match day comes.
In the fifth round of the Premier League on September 1st, Leeds United challenged Newcastle United away, and this "magpie" stepped on the brakes for Leeds United, which was already driving on the road at high speed!
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"Oh! Cannavaro's timing of the tackle was not right, he tackled Viduka's foot firmly!" Lineker kept staring at the referee who was running towards the place where Cannavaro committed the foul, his face full of worry, "It's not good news, I have seen the referee touching his trouser pockets!"
"It is most likely a red card... As expected! The referee directly showed a red card and sent Cannavaro off the field!" Jon analyzed very rationally, "We saw Li standing on the sidelines with a sullen face and said nothing, but there was nothing he could do. Law, Newcastle United has formed a quick counterattack for this ball. Once Viduka breaks through Cannavaro's defense, he will directly threaten the goal guarded by Neuer! It would be fine if Cannavaro shoveled the ball, but unfortunately, he shoveled directly on Viduka's feet, which the referee saw clearly! "
Jon's statement made Lineker, who wanted to struggle, give up resistance. Even Li Shiguang did not run to the fourth official to protest after seeing Cannavaro was sent off. It would be useless for him to protest sitting in the studio.
The two commentators were right.
Li Shiguang, who was standing on the sidelines, saw Cannavaro's foul clearly and there was no need to protest.
Although Li Shiguang immediately made adjustments and replaced Ibrahimovic with Silva.
But Newcastle United is not a small-time team after all.
The two teams fought for nearly 90 minutes on the field. Michael Owen finally helped the home team knock on the door of Leeds United with a cold shot outside the penalty area in the 87th minute.
In the end, Newcastle United also ended Leeds United's unbeaten record since the start of the new season at home with Owen's goal!
Watching the slightly disappointed Leeds United players on the field after the referee blew the whistle to end the game.
Jon was also full of emotion in the studio of Sky Sports: "September seems to have a curse for Leeds United. Last year, they suffered a large-scale injury wave after entering September, and their points once fell outside the top ten! And this year, they suffered a defeat on the first day of September. In fact, inBefore Cannavaro left the field, Leeds United had an absolute advantage on the field. Whether it was ball possession or number of shots, they were far higher than Newcastle United! But there was no way, this was football, anything could happen in a 90-minute game! "
And Li Shiguang on the field also sighed slightly.
He knew that his disciples had tried their best. Kaka had made a single breakthrough several times with his strong strength, but he was not lucky in the final shot and never scored a goal!
But as the backbone of the team, even if he was disappointed, Li Shiguang could not show this emotion in front of the players.
Pulling Simeone and Rivaldo out of the bench and giving some instructions, the three of them went to the field separately to comfort the Leeds United players who were in a bad mood.
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After the first defeat of the season.
Leeds The entire Leeds United team was disbanded on the spot in Newcastle, and the players who were called up by the national team took a plane back to their home country to report. Several young players who were not called up were granted three days of precious vacation by Li Shiguang.
Li Shiguang, who returned to Leeds, originally planned to spend a few days of happy life with Shakira at home.
But on the second day of vacation.
A call from the scout director Ron summoned him to the Thorp Arch training base.
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When Li Shiguang arrived at the door of his office.
Simeone, Ron and Rivaldo were already waiting at the door.
"Boss! Aren't you taking three days off? You have to calculate our overtime pay today!"
As soon as he walked in front of the three people, Simeone started yelling.
"Get out!" Li Shiguang chuckled and kicked Simeone's butt.
Simeone jumped lightly to avoid Li Shiguang's attack, but he didn't stop talking: "Look! Look! Ferreira, this is what I just told you, the face of a capitalist, he actually wants us to work for free! ”
“Okay, get in now!” Li Shiguang took out the key to open the office door, pointing at the stack of papers in Ron’s arms, “So many scout reports, you plan to let me read them alone? Selecting good seedlings is also your job as an assistant coach, okay! ? ”