novelhk Chapter 350
Chapter 350
The chat with Florentino ended happily. After hearing that Li Shiguang agreed to sell two stars to him to support him, the old man readily agreed to cooperate with Li Shiguang's plan.
And Li Shiguang was also very happy.
Although it was not yet time to discuss the price, he remembered very clearly that in the previous life, when Florentino came back to power, he spent 261 million euros in the transfer market to build the second phase of the "Galaxy Battleship".
With such a friend who is not short of money, Li Shiguang is not worried at all that his players cannot be sold at a high price!
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The next day.
After a satisfactory trip to Switzerland, Li Shiguang and his three friends returned to England. The players in the team who were not called up by the national team had ended their vacation and returned to Leeds one after another.
Leave the training to Simeone and Rivaldo.
Li Shiguang also gave himself two days off, and spent two days comfortably with Shakira. Then he returned to work at Thorp Arch and began to prepare for the next game.
On October 20, Leeds United played against Portsmouth at home.
Since most of the main players had just played for the national team on the 18th, considering that Leeds United would fly to Ukraine and Dynamo Kyiv to play in the Champions League group stage after this game.
After weighing the pros and cons, Li Shiguang decided to let the main lineup rest more and sent a group of substitutes to face Portsmouth, which had a very good performance this season.
Although most of the players sent were substitutes.
Before the game.
Whether it was Li Shiguang himself, or the outside media and fans, they all believed that Leeds United, which had just won three points from Manchester United, could easily beat Portsmouth at home.
But less than 20 minutes after the game started, Li Shiguang was so angry that he cursed on the sidelines!
Because Portsmouth was already leading Leeds United 2:0 away from home.
Not only that, Portsmouth's second goal was a penalty!
Cannavaro, who was not called up by the national team this time, fouled in the penalty area by shoveling from behind, giving Portsmouth a wonderful red card.
After the start of today's game, Li Shiguang felt that Cannavaro was in a bad state. Facing the impact of Portsmouth forwards, Utaka and Benjani, two fast horses from Africa, he seemed a little powerless.
He was eaten alive by the opponent several times.
The first goal was also caused by Utaka eating Cannavaro alive and then crossing from the bottom.
As a result, when Li Shiguang was considering whether to replace Cannavaro during the halftime break, he was directly off the court in advance...
Li Shiguang saw it clearly on the sidelines.
Cannavaro, who was directly shown a red card by the referee, wanted to argue for himself, but he spread his hands and took back the words when he was about to speak. He could only shake his head with his hands on his waist and walked to the sidelines with his head down.
I don't know why.
At this moment, Li Shiguang suddenly felt that the mainstay of the defense line that he had personally dug from Juventus was a little tired.
Cannavaro walked to the sidelines and looked up at Li Shiguang, his tone full of apology: "Sorry, boss, I... I thought I could tackle the ball."
This regretful sentence made Li Shiguang's heart tighten, and the scene of Rivaldo coming to the office to chat with him last time suddenly appeared in his mind.
But at this time, the game was still going on, and the team was two goals behind and received a red card.
How to adjust the next tactics is what Li Shiguang has to consider first.
So he didn't blame Cannavaro, but just patted the Italian veteran on the shoulder and whispered: "It's okay, Fabio, everyone makes mistakes, you go change your clothes first."
Next, Li Shiguang replaced Reus with Hummels, and then asked the players to stabilize the defense first, leaving only Podolski on the front line.
Leeds United, who had been thinking of equalizing the score by bombarding after falling behind by one goal, also completely switched to a defensive counterattack after the opponent scored a penalty.
Fortunately, in the next 20 minutes, the Leeds United players kept their minds steady and did not let Portsmouth expand the score again.
During the halftime break, Li Shiguang, who returned to the locker room, was furious and scolded the performance of the players who started today in the first 20 minutes. Then he replaced Podolski, who was mediocre in the first half, with Adriano.
Fifteen minutes later, the two sides changed sides and fought again.
Leeds United still maintained a defensive posture.
Perhaps they wanted to kill the game early, or perhaps they had the advantage in numbers. Seeing that Leeds United could not attack the half, in the 70th minute of the game, Adriano finally found an opportunity for Portsmouth's defense.
Utaka in the penalty areaAfter De Gea seized the long shot from the outside, the Spanish goalkeeper who started today directly threw the ball to Adriano who was waiting in the center circle.
The strong Adriano carried the Portsmouth central defender Campbell to grab the first point, then turned around and used his personal ability to fight for a single shot!
Finally, he easily dribbled past the attacking goalkeeper James and sent the ball into the empty goal.
1:2!
Leeds United scored a goal back.
After the game resumed, Portsmouth coach Mousinho seemed to realize that playing like this might ruin the good situation, so he quickly instructed the players to pay attention to defense and not to press forward like before and bombard Leeds United's penalty area.
In this way.
A very strange scene appeared on the Elland Road stadium.
Portsmouth, who was leading and had one more player, huddled in their own half and parked the bus, while Leeds United, who was behind and had one less player, became the besieging party.
But it is an objective fact that there is one less person on the court.
Facing Portsmouth's impenetrable defense, Leeds United could not find a solution.
Finally, when the game was about to end, Li Shiguang weighed the pros and cons on the sidelines for a long time.
It was decided to use the [Lore Card] on Adriano. If he could overtake the score and win the game, it would be the best. Even if he could not overtake, it would be a blessing in disguise to get a point.
Facts have also proved that the things produced by the system are indeed easy to use.
The score went into the stoppage time.
Leeds United got a corner kick.
Camoranesi's corner kick had a very clear target and directly found Adriano at the front point.
This time, Portsmouth's victim became another central defender Distin.
Under Distin's interference, Adriano jumped high, overpowered the veteran, and with a powerful header, he broke through the door guarded by James again.
The last moment of the game.
Leeds United finally tied the score to 2:2!
After Adriano scored, the referee did not let Portsmouth kick off again, but blew the whistle to end the game.
After another chance of [Lore Card].
Li Shiguang finally got this precious point at home with great difficulty!