Chapter 187: Strategic weapon

Listening to the shouts of the Leeds City fans from the visitors stand, and watching Hu Lai's celebration, many of the London Bridge fans stood in a daze.
They really didn't expect their team to overturn at home!
It was like watching a boxing match. Leeds faced the stormy fist attack of London Bridge and could only hold their heads to dodge and passively defend.
It looks like London Bridge will win by points.
How can I think of Leeds City but grabbed the gap of a punch in London Bridge, opened the space, and then it was a clean... straight punch!
Fist hits the London bridge door!
There was a bang.
London Bridge fell to the ground, and was directly by Leeds!
Anyone who supports London Bridge will be shocked to see this scene.
London Bridge coach Stodd did not kick the air to vent his anger and dissatisfaction after losing the ball this time. He just raised his head and looked at the sky and choked silently...
He knew that pressing on the offense with all his strength would risk being counterattacked by the opponent.
But he never thought that the same thing would happen in this game...three times!
The first goal was also because after the lead, London Bridge pressured the attack and was counterattacked by Leeds...
This Leeds City counterattack is too efficient, right?
Especially their main striker Hu Lai... this frontal sense of smell is simply top-notch!
With this ball just now, most players will be reluctant to run forward until the end of the game. Anyway, teammates have already scored a single-handed goal... If the ball doesn’t score, it doesn’t matter to him. If he tops the football, it’s already considered a goal. I have achieved the ultimate in what I can do, and no one will blame him.
But Hu Lai turned around and rushed forward immediately after landing, without hesitation at all.
Therefore, when Laski missed a single-handed shot, Hu Lai appeared in the most critical place, as if a descended to the world, to make up the goal.
If he is a little bit late for half a second, the ball may be cleared by Tim Martin...
Stodd is also helpless when facing such an opponent.
In the league, he has actually seen Hu Lai's efficiency once-in the eleventh round of the league, London Bridge played against Leeds at home. In that game, London Bridge defeated the opponent 3:2, Hu Lai scored a goal in the game.
At that time, Hu Lai had not many opportunities. He was under the key care of the London Bridge defensive line throughout the game.
Stodd still attaches great importance to the World Cup golden boots and the last Premier League golden boots.
As a result, under such tight defense, Hu Lai grabbed a point and scored a goal.
That was one of his few shots in the entire game.
But for the second time the two teams met, Hu Lai's performance was not so good.
The whole game was played in a mediocre state and no goal was scored.
At that time, Stodd thought it was normal. Everyone had times when they were in poor form during the game, so don't worry too much.
But now Stodd understands-that kid has kept his form in the League Cup!
Because in the eleventh round of the league, Leeds City was still playing in the Champions League and did not completely give up the league, so Leeds City still has room to deal with the league.
But in the second half of the league, after Leeds clearly shifted their focus to the Europa League, the league played more and more perfunctory-as long as they could not be relegated.
Now that Leeds has reached the semi-finals in the Europa League, all fools know that they are definitely going for the final championship.
Thinking about it now, maybe at that time Leeds had already made up its mind to hit the Europa League. That's why they behaved so casually in the league...
If Leeds City brought their status in the Europa League into the league, it would be hard to say whether London Bridge could retire in the away game in that league.
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While London Bridge coach Stodd was speechless to ask the sky, Leeds City coach Clark and his colleagues in the coaching staff hugged excitedly.
"Clark and his coaches hugged each other and they were very excited! Before the game, few people could have imagined that Leeds City could win away games! Although the game is not over yet, Leeds City is indeed getting closer and closer to victory. That's it!" Matthew Cox said.
He is a British commentator and his attitude towards this civil war is strictly neutral. Whoever can enter the final represents British football.
The only pity is that the two teams met prematurely. If they could meet again in the finals, then his mentality would be more peaceful.
Cox thought Clark and the others were simply happy to lead.
But this is not the case.
Being ahead of course makes people happy, but more importantly, it verifies the feasibility of their plan to transform the team in the future.
Defensive counterattacks can be done!
The outside world always thinks Clark is a lunatic, as if he is irrational and all activities follow his instinct. Remember that one is one.
But in fact, he is a very cautious person, especially when it comes to choosing a direction.
Last season, on whether to win the league title or not, he first tested it on the Stan Park Rangers and found that Leeds City could beat the Stan Park Rangers on the road, and only then did he have the confidence and determination. Going to grab the league championship.
This season, when he was eliminated from the Champions League, he decided to use the Europa League to complete the "curve to save the country" strategy, which was also verified by Catalonia. Finding that this team can beat Catalonia in the away game is capable, he decided to show his ambition to the whole team.
So in fact, every step he made was a deliberate decision.
The game against London Bridge is now used by him as an opportunity to verify his tactical thinking for the new season.
Hu Lai's goal gave him hope.
Because of an efficient shooter like Hulay, the pressure on the Leeds defense line is actually much less than people think-they don't need to defend until the eighty-ninth minute before letting the forward sneak a goal.
This is the biggest tactical function of Hu Lai.
Because the ultimate goal of all football games is to score goals.
In order to score goals, countless coaches in history have tried their best to think about various tactics.
And Clark's possession of Hu Lai means holding a strategic nuclear weapon.
From this perspective, those critics are right. Hu Lai has no tactical role, he just has a strategic role...
After the celebration, Clark withdrew from the excitement and began to tell assistant coach Randyll: "Next defend, but to give London Bridge the impression that we are still capable of countering them..."
Randy nodded to express his understanding, and ran to the sidelines to whistle and gesture to the Leeds City players who had finished the celebration.
In front of the coach next door, Stodd was also doing his last fight. He replaced the exhausted Park Chun-tae with William Sutton, who was only 18 years old.
This is the last substitution. He originally intended to delay time after taking the lead...
Now it has become a dying struggle.
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After the game restarted, London Bridge launched a crazy offensive towards Leeds City's goal from the kick-off.
Leeds retreated across the board, and even Hu Lai went back to participate in the defense.
London Bridge fans booed them in the stands: "What about the good ‘offensive or death’?! What about the good ‘offensive mania’?!"
In the end, London Bridge could only hang the football from the side to the penalty area again and again~EbookFREE.me~ or simply long shots.
The high ball went into the penalty area, and was basically knocked out by Leeds' high school guard Ben Grist.
There are basically no long-range shots that can be hit within the range of the goal frame. Either the shot is high and missed, or it is blocked by the Leeds players desperately.
There was even a long shot that hit their own teammate Aiken and deflected out of the baseline-they didn't even give them a corner kick.
Five minutes later, the score was still 3:2, and the fourth official held up a four-minute stoppage time sign from the sidelines.
This is the last four minutes of London Bridge.
But in fact, even if they evened the score in these four minutes, they had already missed their best chance-they failed to take advantage of the home court to win Leeds, and planted a mine for the second round of the game.
Originally in the plan of the London Bridge fans, the opponents who won and tied in the league this season have never lost at home. In this game, a small win is a pass, and only two goals can be satisfied.
As a result, not only did he fail, but he also overturned the car.
2:3 and 3:3 are actually not much difference...
Four minutes of stoppage time passed quickly.
London Bridge failed to break the goal of Leeds City.
"The game is over!!" Cox announced loudly as the whistle sounded. "In the two rounds of the Europa League semi-final, Leeds defeated London Bridge 3:2 in the away game to advance them. The final laid a solid foundation! It is also worth mentioning that this is the first time in Leeds City’s history that they have defeated their opponents at London Bridge’s home stadium at Southfield!"
The Leeds City players off the court rushed onto the court, while the Leeds City players on the court cheered and celebrated the victory.
Although the semi-finals are two rounds, they are all confident of returning to home in the second round.
The most difficult level has been stepped on by them!