novelhk Chapter 213
Chapter 213
"Mr. Wenger! Can you talk about Lehmann and Adebayor's performance in the first half? Do you think Arsenal's defeat today is directly related to their mistakes?"
Huh...
Wenger, who had just sat down, exhaled lightly and looked in the direction of the voice.
Well! Reporter from The Sun, I'll remember you!
Wenger originally wanted Patles to attend the press conference on his behalf, but this guy didn't even go back to the locker room after the game and didn't answer the phone. In desperation, Wenger, who didn't want to be fined, still came to attend today's post-match press conference in person.
But he didn't expect these reporters to be so aggressive! The first question was so sharp! Adebayor had already been punished by himself. If he sprayed him in public at this time, it would probably cause conflicts in the locker room!
After thinking for a while, Wenger stared at the reporter with a bad face and said, "Mr. Reporter, you can say that our lag in the first half is related to their mistakes, but you can't say that their mistakes led to the team's defeat! The team's defeat is closely related to me, my players, and even everyone in Arsenal. It's not fair to force the cause on a certain player!"
The reporter from The Sun seemed unwilling to let Wenger go. He continued to ask, "Then how do you explain that Adebayor was replaced at halftime? As far as I can remember, Walcott, who replaced him, seems to have never played in an official Premier League game?"
"What's there to explain?" Wenger almost laughed out of anger and refuted bluntly, "Have you forgotten who scored the equalizer so quickly? As the head coach of Arsenal, do I need to explain my tactical intentions to you again before arranging them?"
After the reporter from The Sun, who looked a little ugly after being sprayed by Wenger, sat down.
Lind from the Yorkshire Post got the chance to ask questions. He stood up in a neat suit and read the questions he had prepared in the notebook word by word: "Hello, Mr. Wenger, I am a reporter from the Yorkshire Post. Leeds United got 3 points today. Now as long as they can win the game against Watford in three days, they will top the Premier League standings with the advantage of goal difference. This also means that the competition between Leeds United and Manchester United for the league championship will enter a fierce competition! I would like to ask you, which of these two teams do you think will win the final championship?" Wenger frowned after listening to the question, even though he was very dissatisfied with Lind's statement. But he also had to admit that with 12 rounds left in the league, the league championship would almost certainly be between Leeds United and Manchester United. Maybe Chelsea still had a chance, but he and Arsenal had indeed gone far after losing today's game...
"Mr. Reporter, to be honest, your question stumped me." After thinking it through, Wenger responded to Lind's question lightly, "Both teams have strong strength, but they are still facing the UEFA Champions League schedule. Manchester United even has the FA Cup to play, and there are Chelsea and Arsenal behind. It seems a bit too early to say who will win the final league championship now! But if I have to choose, I should prefer Manchester United. After all, Li and Leeds United are still too young, and they don't have much experience in competing for the championship."
10 minutes later.
Still at this venue, Li Shiguang sat in the position where Wenger had just sat and heard the same question raised by Lind.
But from his mouth, the reporters only heard a short sentence.
The final league championship? That must belong to Leeds United!
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Three days later, Hertfordshire, Vicarage Road Stadium.
22 players from both teams were already standing on the football field, waiting for the referee to blow the whistle to start the game.
Today's game was originally just an ordinary league game, but it attracted much attention because of Li Shiguang's remarks a few days ago and whether Leeds United could surpass Manchester United to occupy the top of the standings!
Before the game, Watford's head coach Andy Bosroyd accepted an interview with the media, and one reporter asked whether Watford would do its best to stop Leeds United in today's game.
When Bosroyd saw that the logo on the chest of the reporter asking the question was the Manchester Evening News, he carefully sorted out his thoughts and slowly said: "Of course we will do our best to win this game! But this is not to stop anyone's pace. Don't forget, we are also working hard to escape the relegation zone. And there was alsoThere are more than 20,000 fans cheering for us, and these are the key reasons for us to strive to score points in this game! "
That is, Li Shiguang did not hear Bosloyd's talk.
Otherwise, he would have jumped out to complain, you are a deputy squad leader of Watford, where do you get the confidence to snatch points from me?
And the progress of the game was exactly as Li Shiguang thought.
Just 7 minutes into the game, Leeds United got a corner kick. Modric's corner kick passed over the heads of the crowd in front of the goal, and Alonso, who was quietly inserted from behind and completely unguarded, found an opportunity. Alonso jumped high and hit his forehead, directly hitting the ball into the Watford goal. In the near corner of the goal, the perfect connection between the two Leeds United midfielders gave them the lead!
After the game resumed, Watford tried to press forward and counterattack, but the gap in strength between them and Leeds United could not be eliminated by an invisible home advantage.
In the 30th minute of the game, Sun Jihai, who started today, intercepted the ball in the backcourt and drove straight to the edge of Watford's penalty area. Then, in front of the defensive players, he passed the ball to Rivaldo, who had been waiting at the top of the penalty area for a long time. The latter stopped the ball and shot it. , the football made a perfect arc and hit the upper left corner of Watford's goal.
2:0, Leeds United expanded their lead!
In the second half, although Bosroyd made some adjustments to the team's tactics during the halftime break and gave the players a boost for more than ten minutes, there is a reason why they became the second-to-last team this season.
In the 63rd minute, Leeds United organized an attack from the middle, and Alonso only used a simple through pass to pass the ball directly from the right rib of Watford's defense.
This kind of extreme ease The through pass was so intense that even Ibrahimovic, who successfully caught the ball after offside, didn't react at first! However, Ibrahimovic's surprise was only temporary. Five seconds later, Ibrahimovic, who rushed into the penalty area with the ball, pushed the ball to the right of the fans with a light push from the goalkeeper.
3:0, Leeds United completely killed the game!
In the remaining garbage time, Watford did not score a goal to save face.
As the referee blew the whistle, they lost at home and sent Leeds United to the top of the Premier League...