novelhk Chapter 323
Chapter 323
"September curse, Leeds United falls into a trough again!"
"2:0, Mourinho completes revenge, Chelsea beats Leeds United and advances to the fourth round of the League Cup!"
"Suspected of firing again! Li Shiguang: Outrageous schedule, Leeds United must make a choice! "
"Leeds United VS Liverpool, two consecutive defeats VS two consecutive draws, who will win the next round! ? "
The second day after the end of the League Cup with Chelsea, whether it is traditional media or the Internet, Leeds United's performance yesterday was ridiculed everywhere.
People seem to automatically ignore the fact that Leeds United, which lost the game, played with a substitute lineup.
The most outrageous thing is that even Mourinho bluntly mentioned in the post-match interview that from the moment he saw the starting lineup of Leeds United, he knew that Li Shiguang should want to give up the League Cup.
Li Shiguang didn't care about these.
After giving the team a day off, all Leeds United members were engaged in intensive training again.
September 29th.
Leeds United faced the challenge of Liverpool at home.
Li Shiguang had already used the system to check the overall status of the team before the game.
No matter what.
Two consecutive defeats still had some impact on the morale of the team.
After winning Sporting Lisbon, Leeds United's overall hot state has faded a little, and Li Shiguang did not have a plug-in such as morale card to improve the overall status of the team at this time.
Fortunately, Liverpool, who had drawn two games in a row, was not much better.
The two sides played a dull battle at Elland Road.
In the first half, Leeds United scored the first goal with Ibrahimovic receiving Sneijder's through pass.
But after the second half, Gerrard helped Liverpool equalize the score with a powerful long-range shot from the outside in the 79th minute.
In the end.
The two sides shook hands at Elland Road and each got one point.
After the end of this round of games, the Premier League standings changed again.
Leeds United lost one and drew one in the last two rounds, and has slipped to third place in the standings with 16 points.
Manchester United has swept away the slump at the beginning of the season. After a wave of five consecutive wins, it has surpassed Leeds United with a record of 17 points and climbed to second place in the standings.
The most surprising thing is Arsenal, which was looked down upon because it sold its captain this summer and did not have any strong signings.
Since the start of the season, Arsenal has not tasted a defeat.
Like Manchester United, after a wave of five consecutive wins, they climbed to the top of the standings with a record of 20 points!
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Four days later.
Rome Olympic Stadium.
Li Shiguang led Leeds United to challenge Roma away.
As the only team in the group that can pose a threat to Leeds United in Li Shiguang's eyes.
Roma under Spalletti is in good shape at this time.
At the beginning of the season, they successfully avenged Inter Milan with De Rossi's penalty kick at the San Siro Stadium and won the Italian Super Cup. In the first five rounds of Serie A, Roma also showed a very good competitive state. They won three games and drew two games, accumulating 11 points. With the advantage of goal difference, they surpassed Inter Milan and ranked first in Serie A.
The strength of the two sides was close, and the game was also very tense.
The game was nearing the end, and the score was still 0:0.
Finally, Li Shiguang, who could no longer bear it, finally used a lore card on Torres, who was replaced by him in the second half.
Let's be honest.
The system product is indeed a fine product.
After Li Shiguang used the lore card on Torres, he immediately opened the system to point out Torres' personal attributes.
He found that in addition to Torres' shooting accuracy and shooting power being maxed out, even the player's personal state became hot under the influence of the lore card!
Sure enough.
The game just entered injury time.
Torres received a pass from Kaka on the left, and first used his speed to eat Cicinho who rushed to defend him.
After breaking into the penalty area, facing Juan's defense, Torres pushed the ball to the right with his right foot, and then directly shot the ball despite Juan's harassment next to him!
This shot was so powerful that even though Roma goalkeeper Kurci reacted as quickly as possible, he still couldn't touch the ball. The football rubbed the left post and hit the goal of Roma!
Finally.
With Torres' goal, Leeds United also won 1:0 away from home against Roma and won the second victory in the European group stage.
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Since they had to go to Manchester to play the ninth round of the league against Manchester United in three days, the entire Leeds United team did not return to Leeds, but rushed directly to Manchester from Rome.
From any angle, this game is the highlight of this round of the Premier League.
So when the players of Leeds United and Manchester United who had just finished the Champions League group stage were still on the plane.The media in England and fans of both teams on the Internet have already responded to this match.
Traditional media such as newspapers are fine, and people are more likely to express their own opinions.
For example, Manchester Evening News, the mouthpiece of Manchester United, wrote in their sports column: This round of the Premier League will usher in the long-awaited focus battle, Manchester United vs. Leeds United! It is undeniable that Leeds United showed great strength at the beginning of the season. We must admit that this team has become a strong enemy that cannot be ignored in the Premier League after three years of training by Li! But as time entered September, they seemed to be in trouble. After returning from Portugal, Leeds United has not won a single game, and in the Champions League group match that ended yesterday, Torres scored a goal in stoppage time, and beat Roma by a small margin! On the other hand, Manchester United started low and ended high. Ferguson's team experienced a slump at the beginning of the season, but now they have adjusted and have won five consecutive games in the league. We have reason to believe that in this game, Manchester United will play at home, and Ferguson will definitely take revenge for the Premier League title that was taken away at the last moment last season!
Correspondingly.
Leeds United also received strong support from the Yorkshire Post. Norman Hunter wrote in his column in the Yorkshire Post: Leeds United's slump in the first two games was only because the schedule was too precise. For example, after playing the European League with Sporting Lisbon last week, Leeds United's players did not get any rest time. After taking the plane, they had to play the league with Reading! The League Cup loss to Chelsea was actually a rotation adjustment made by Li Shiguang, and the away victory over Roma is a good proof!