Chapter 27: Solid 1 step

When Kamara equalized, Clark and Randy hugged and cheered in front of the coaching bench of the away team on the sidelines.
"We still have to attack! Sure enough, we still have to attack!" After the celebration, Clark emphasized to Randyll. "Offense is the temperament of this team!"
Randy had to admit: "Indeed. When you talk about the offense in the second half, many players in the locker room have their eyes brightened... and in the game, after changing the style of play, everyone also played well..."
When Clark first coached Leeds, he was often scolded for defending his hips.
The media is full of criticisms of the poor defense of Leeds City every day, and Leeds City fans also complain that the team's defense is almost at the level of the League — not even the Championship, which shows how bad it is.
Clark's first season coaching Leeds was indeed suffering from poor defense. Almost downgraded.
At that time, no one would have thought that he would lead this relegation team to the Premier League title in his second season as Leeds.
Now thinking about coming to last season is like a dream, like a dream.
After that season, there was much less criticism from the media and fans about Leeds’ poor defense. There is still there, but it hasn't completely disappeared. After all, Leeds's defense is really not good.
However, there are fewer critics and accusations as before, and more people regard this as a "stalk."
For example, Matthew Cox forwarded Clark's remarks at the press conference after the game. Is he really criticizing Leeds' defensive crotch? Are you mocking Clark's football style? Maybe there are, but more meaning is probably still a joke.
Everyone said that Leeds City's defense is poor, and Leeds City's defense is indeed poor, but they have a strong offensive!
No matter how bad the defense is, and the offense is against the sky, it can make up for it.
How did Leeds win the league title last season?
Relying on a solid line of defense?
of course not!
It's a sharp offense!
Clark's football philosophy is really implemented thoroughly-as long as we can score more goals than our opponents, we can win the game.
When Leeds City showed their strong offensive firepower, naturally no one cared about their defense.
There are also people who have written articles to analyze the various benefits of Leeds City doing this, praising their offensive football as pleasing to the eye...
But to put it bluntly, the reason why everyone's attitude has changed so much is entirely because Leeds City won the league championship last season.
The world of football is very realistic. If you have a championship, you can prove your strength.
What you do is a necessary condition for winning the championship.
Now that you have won the championship, it means that you have done everything right.
As the old saying goes, "offensive wins the fans, defense wins the championship", then Leeds tells you that "offense can win both fans and championships"!
Even within Leeds, there is such a change in mentality.
In the beginning, both players and coaches worried about Clark's football style.
Sam Randyll is not Clark's direct line, he has been a coach for this team before. Although he was promoted to assistant coach after Clark came, he still argued with Clark about defense.
There are also people in the coaching staff who are worried that if the team continues to play like this, the team will definitely be downgraded...
Now...
Of course no one cares about poor defense anymore.
They will say:
"Our defense is not bad, but not as good as offense."
This is actually true. After all, Leeds' defense has improved from the past two seasons, and one season is better than one season. Last season’s forty-two goals conceded, although ranked first in the bottom of the top four, but in the entire league’s twenty teams, this number of goals conceded is not an exaggeration-only seven teams They conceded fewer goals.
It's just that compared with Leeds City's offense, the defensive stats are not so impressive, and the inherent impression left by people in the past is difficult to change.
But the Leeds City coaches who know the inside story will naturally not care about this.
This is especially true for the players. They enjoy the benefits of the boss' offensive football and it is really difficult to go back.
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After Leeds City evened the score, it seemed to have stabbed a hornet's nest, and the home team fans at the Bay Stadium booed and roared louder.
The Bay Lighthouse team was also enraged, and they continued to attack Leeds City goal in an attempt to take the lead again.
Generally speaking, the team that scores the goal will perform better and be more threatening.
But the game was reversed, and the bay lighthouse that lost the ball was even more fierce.
Because in their original plan, defeating Leeds at home, getting three points was part of the plan.
As the Turkish Super League champions, the Bay Lighthouse often participates in the UEFA Champions League, and the team is also ambitious.
Even if they are assigned to this group, it does not mean that they will give up the idea of ​​qualifying for the Champions League knockout.
If you want to compete with Catalan United and Vesuvius for the right to qualify for the group, then facing Leeds City, the weakest seeded team in the Champions League, the Gulf Lighthouse must take all three points at home, otherwise there is little hope.
The Bay Lighthouse team actually knows very well that although it is expensive for the local super giants, in fact, when facing the European giants, their biggest reliance is home court advantage.
So these three points against Leeds at home, they are bound to win.
As a result, a fierce attack failed to expand the lead in the second half, instead allowing Leeds to steal a ball.
The Bay Lights fans were angry, and the Bay Lights players were also angry.
This is our home court!
When is it your turn to run wild? !
Really think the "Devil's Home" at the Bay Lighthouse is just for fun? !
"The Turks are coming up..." Sam Randyll reminded Clark.
Clark smiled: "That's good, so that they are all empty behind! Sam, let the team continue to attack."
Randyl glanced at him: "Do you want to win?"
"Now I see the hope of winning."
Randyll went to the sidelines, first blew a whistle to attract everyone's attention, then raised his right hand, curled up the ring finger and little finger, and raised the three fingers of thumb, index finger and middle finger.
Tell all Leeds City players: "Keep on attacking, the boss will win!"
So Leeds hit the bay lighthouse just like that.
The two sides collided like the tides of the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea in the Bosphorus Strait of Istanbul.
On the whole, the Bay Lighthouse has the advantage of the home court, and it is indeed more dominant on the scene.
But Leeds City is not without fight back.
"Hu! Ah!" Matthew Cox let out a loud cry. "Arslan made a wonderful save. He blocked Hu's header! But before it was over, the football fell into the small penalty area... Laski!!!"
The Polish striker finally stabbed the football this time, but under the interference of Manteguru, he stabbed it to the wrong side...
The football slipped out.
Although he didn't score a goal, Cox praised Leeds' performance during this period of time: "It should be played like this! That's right! You are dignified Premier League champions! Even if you go away, you shouldn't be afraid of you! What are you doing? Shrink your defense... Now this is your best way to play! You should use your best way to appear in the Champions League!"
Although Matthew Cox once mocked Leeds City's poor defense.
But at this time, he uncharacteristically supported the Leeds attack.
After all, this is a foreign war.
In the face of foreign enemies, he hopes that Leeds City can show what they do best, knowing that they are the Premier League champions, representing the image of the Premier League and English football.
As a Premier League champion, if someone is looked down upon, it is not a Leeds family business...
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Camara was extremely active after scoring, and he felt like he couldn't stop him when his state came.
He succeeded in making two consecutive breakthroughs from the left in five minutes, and once was destroyed by a bay lighthouse guard who came near the bottom line. Once he failed to pass his cross and flew directly to the other side.
Because of such an active performance, coupled with scoring goals, Camara has become the focus of attention by the Bay Lighthouse players.
Some Chinese fans may wonder-since Kamara has attracted so many defensive forces, does it mean that the pressure around Hu Lai is reduced?
No, not really.
The Gulf Lighthouse was fully prepared for this game, and even so, they still did not relax their defense against Hulay. After all, their opponent scored three goals for Brazil in the World Cup and became the striker of the World Cup Golden Boot.
As long as Leeds hits the offense near their penalty area, there must be someone in the Gulf Lighthouse formation with Hulai, even if the two central defenders are thrown out, someone will quickly make up for it.
Always put Hulai in the team's highest defensive goal.
Under such circumstances, it is really difficult for Hu Lai to get rid of defense and get a chance.
"Damn! This is with Hu Lai Mao!" On the Internet and in front of the TV, I don't know how many Chinese fans are worried about Hu Lai.
But Hu Lai himself did not have this kind of self-consciousness.
He still sighs in his heart: It is the Champions League!
It is said that the UEFA Champions League is the most technical football event on the planet today, even better than the World Cup.
I only heard this kind of evaluation in the past, and now I have a personal experience to know that it is really awesome.
It stands to reason that the Premier League champions are very powerful, right? The level of the Premier League must be higher than that of the Turkish Premier League, right?
Based on this comparison of strengths, isn't it a matter of course that the Premier League champions win the Turkish Premier League champions?
In the game, I realized that even if it was a championship game with the Turkish Premier League, it was completely different from the usual Premier League.
The tempo of the Premier League games is fast, and the Champions League games are faster.
And this is a relatively low-level group stage in the Champions League.
Going to the knockouts, the level is higher, the pace is faster, and the difficulty is more difficult.
Sure enough... I still have to play in the Champions League!
Although he was unstoppable by human defense and booed by the home fans, Hu Lai was not frustrated. On the contrary, he was very excited.
I understand why so many players who have the pursuit of talent and ability, when transferring, will regard the new team's participation in the Champions League as an important reference.
After all... Since he is an ambitious player, why would he not want to participate in the Champions League?
Only here can you play against strong teams from all over Europe!
The level of the World Cup is actually not low, but it takes four years. How can it be fun to participate in the Champions League every year!
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Camara once again succeeded in breaking through the wing, and then rushed to pass the football into the penalty area before the opposing defender came up to block him.
This time he passed a grounder, which was faster but more difficult.
Hulai still ran towards the football under Mantegulu's close defense.
He can feel the collision from Manteguru, constantly squeezing his body, trying to squeeze him out of the receiving route...
Hu Lai's strength is indeed not as good as that of the opponent, but he still gritted his teeth and did not let the opponent squeeze him away.
But he spends almost all his energy on physical confrontation like this, and it is difficult to have a chance to shoot again-because once his feet are off the ground, he may be squeezed away by the opponent...
If you want to support your body with only one foot as normal, and then pick up the other foot to shoot, it is difficult to do in today's circumstances.
Not to mention that Camara passed the ball from the left. Hulai wants to shoot, it is best to use his left foot, but he is not very good at it. If there is no interference, the accuracy will drop sharply if the left foot is used to shoot the goal while fighting the opponent's center back physically...
Obviously, the players at Bay Lighthouse also understand this, so they specifically attacked Hulai’s weakness and forced him to handle the ball with his left foot.
Just when Mantegulu was concentrating on wrestling with Hulai, he suddenly felt that the power that blocked him had disappeared!
He was stunned for a moment-could it be that he squeezed Hu Lai away?
Then he worried again-this kid won't fall again, right?
He lowered his head again, only had time to see Hu Lai's right foot stretched out... He used the outer instep of his right foot to poke the football towards the goal!
Before Mantegulu had time to stop him, he could only watch the football flash past his eyes, and then disappeared-out of his field of vision.
"Hu Lai... Hu Lai! Beautiful!!"
Accompanied by He Feng's sudden increase in volume, everyone saw Hu Lai suddenly withdraw from the fight against Mantegulu, and then did not use his left foot, but used his right foot outside the instep to stab!
Mantegulu did not expect that the goalkeeper of the Gulf Lighthouse, Arslan, did not expect Hulai to shoot such a thief!
He fell to the ground and saved half a beat~EbookFREE.me~ When the football flew across the goal line, he made the save...
"Goal scored! Seventy-ninth minute! Leeds took the lead!" Matthew Cox shouted.
"Pretty!! Hu Lai! Beautiful!! The first goal of the Champions League! His first goal in the Champions League! The first goal of the Chinese player in the Champions League! It was born in his first Champions League match!!! Even if there is not a good chance, Hu Lai still caught with a beautiful blow...just a blow... fatal!"
He Feng's excited roar echoed in thousands of households past four o'clock in the morning.
All of them, once again witnessed the birth of history!
Hu Lai took a solid step and stepped on a deep footprint in his career!
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PS, during the double monthly pass period, use Hu Lai’s Champions League first ball to ask everyone for a monthly pass~!