Chapter 196: Full stop of the league

Latest website: When Xie Lan came home from work, she met Li Ziqiang who had just parked her car in the underground parking lot, so she enthusiastically extended an invitation to Li Ziqiang:
"Hey Lao Li, come to my house to watch the Europa League finals!"
"I won't bother you..." Li Ziqiang wanted to refuse.
"Ai no trouble, no trouble! There are so many people watching the game in the middle of the night, and there is nothing to be troublesome!" Xie Lan waved his hand again and again.
"That's what I say, Sister Xie. But every time I go to your house to watch a game, you all have to invite me to dinner..."
"That's not troublesome. It's just an extra pair of chopsticks. Besides, our two families, the children are not around, and we don't walk around often. The days are so deserted, don't you think?"
The two of them walked into the elevator while talking.
Li Ziqiang knew that he would not be able to push off the enthusiastic invitation of Sister Xie, so he nodded: "Then I will disturb you. But it's too early..."
Xie Lan shook his head: "It's not early, it's not early. It's only twenty days, this time will pass in the blink of an eye, but it's almost!"
Li Ziqiang bowed his head and said nothing, he still called fast in twenty days?
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Twenty days are really fast.
For Leeds, it was just two games.
On Monday, May 10, in the 37th round of the Premier League, Leeds City challenged Thorpton away.
Although he has just experienced the Europa League final with London Bridge, Clark did not arrange for the main players to rest in this game.
After all, there will be no more competitions, and the opportunity to compete at this time is very expensive.
Because it is necessary to avoid that the main players cannot find the state after they have not played for too long.
This is what the Leeds City players hope for-there are three games left before the end of the season, and Laski has not yet completed the task set by his boss Clark.
The second leg of the Europa League semi-final scored twice, bringing Laski's season total number of goals to 18.
There are two goals short of completing the goal.
In order to ensure the completion of the task, of course, the sooner the goal is scored, the better.
Can't it be delayed to the Europa League final to complete this task, right?
So playing Sopton and letting all the main players start on the field will help Laski complete the task.
In this game, the whole Leeds City team are trying to create opportunities for Laski.
But perhaps because he wanted to score too much, Laski's performance in this game was not as easy as the last Europa League semi-final.
His teammates created many opportunities for him, and he wasted many opportunities.
Until the end of the game, he failed to score.
Leeds finally relied on Hulay's score to score twice and defeated Thorpton 2:1 in the away game.
After the game, everyone comforted the depressed Lasky in the locker room and asked him not to care too much about not scoring a goal in this game.
The last round of Leeds City was at home against the relegated Sandwell, he still has a chance.
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On Sunday, May 16, the 2026-2027 Premier League season will finally come to an end.
At this point in the league, the suspense of winning and relegation has ended-the league champion belongs to Manchester Athletic, and the three relegated teams are also determined.
They are Helmer at 18th, Sandwell at 19th and Northumbria at the bottom of the list.
Among them, Northumbria performed well in the Premier League last season, and even almost qualified for the European war.
As a result, this season's performance has plummeted-thirty-seven rounds of the league have only six wins, two draws, and 29 losses. Scored 19 goals, lost 63 goals, accumulated 20 points, and was relegated early.
Helmer, who ranked 18th, had 28 points, 11 points away from Burleigh, who was ranked 17th in the league, and was relegated very early.
At present, the only suspense in the league is the qualification for the European war.
The most competitive is the Champions League qualification.
The top four in the league are Manchester Athletic with 89 points, Stan Park Rangers with 70 points, Vijayston with 69 points, and London Bridge with 68 points.
The fifth place in the league, Tramed has 67 points.
It can be said that in addition to the league champion Manchester Athletic, whoever of the other four teams will qualify for the Champions League next season is very likely.
In order to ensure fairness and justice, the last round of the league kicked off at the same time.
But these have nothing to do with Leeds.
They only care about one thing, that is whether Laski can complete the league goal of twenty goals in this game.
Captain Pete Williams even wants to talk to Lasky specifically, hoping to relieve his pressure and let him not have too much psychological burden.
But he was persuaded by Hu Lai: "The more you do this, the pressure on him will only increase! A professional player, can't even bear such a little pressure?"
"Then what do you say?"
"You can play as you should. Rather than avoiding the pressure, it is better to face the pressure. I believe Dominic can withstand this level of pressure." Hu Lai looked at Pete, who seemed to be a little hesitant, and asked: "Why? , Don’t you trust your teammates?"
Pete shook his head quickly: "No, I believe it."
Hu Lai spread both hands: "Isn't that over?"
Then he patted Pete on the shoulder: "Pete, you are going to be the leader of this team in the future. In any case, you must trust your teammates. This is very important."
Pete was lost in thought.
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From the first minute of the game, Leeds, who played at home, launched a fierce attack on Sandwell's goal.
Sandwell, who has been relegated early, lacks morale.
So the game completely entered the rhythm of Leeds City.
Eleven minutes after the whistle kick-off, when Camara broke into the penalty area from the wing, he was dragged to the ground by Sandwell's defender. The referee decisively whistled and imposed a capital punishment on Sandwell.
Hulai, who was originally the team's number one penalty shooter, put the football directly into Laski's arms.
"Come on, Dominic."
This scene surprised the commentators.
They do not understand the inside story really hard to understand why Hu Lai gave up this penalty.
Could it be that after missing the Premier League Golden Boots this season, he broke the pot and fell?
Before this round of the league, Hu Lai basically bid farewell to this season's Premier League Golden Boot competition. His 20 league goals are seven goals away from Stones' 27 goals. How can he not score eight goals in this last game?
Pete saw that Hu Lai put the football into Lasky's arms so casually, then he didn't care about Lasky's surprised expression, waved his hand, and turned around and exited the penalty area.
He remembered what Hu Lai said to him before the game.
Trust your teammates...
So he shouted to Lasky, who was still in a daze, "Dominic!"
Lasky was called back to his senses by him and looked up.
"Come on, you can do it!" Pete clenched his fist and waved.
He noticed that the expression on Lasky's face had changed little by little, and finally he nodded vigorously towards him.
Then he turned around to put the football.
After Laski set the football, he got up and backed up and looked at the goal again. He felt unprecedented pressure.
He felt as if he was facing the most crucial goal in the penalty shoot-out of the Europa League final.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Remembering that Hu Lai didn't say anything, he gave the penalty to himself.
I think of Pete's encouragement to himself.
Thinking about the help the whole team has given him since this season...
How can there be no pressure?
But how can you be afraid of pressure?
The whistle sounded, he opened his eyes, exhaled, approached, kicked!
The football was severely drawn by him...in the middle!
Sandwell's goalkeeper pounced to the right!
In the great cheers, the football flew into the goal!
"Pretty! Only twelve minutes into the game, Leeds took the lead! Laski scored his twelfth league goal of the season! Second only to Hulay and ranked first in the Leeds team. two!"
After scoring, Laski did not rush to celebrate, but raised his head and roared on the spot, venting the pressure of not scoring a goal in the last round of the league.
Immediately after him, he was overwhelmed by the flock of Leeds City players.
Everyone cheered loudly in his ears.
The Leeds City players on the bench were even more excited. They were yelling: "One short! One short!"
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After Laski opened the scoring for Leeds City, Leeds scored again in the 36th minute.
This time it was Hu Lai who scored the goal.
He suddenly shot a cold arrow at the front of the penalty area and shot through Sandwell's goal with a long shot.
Leeds City leads 2:0!
After leading by two goals, Leeds won the game basically without suspense.
The players began to feed Laski constantly, hoping to help him complete the goal of 20 goals in this game.
Their actions were so obvious that the commentators were a little bit confused-they didn't understand why the Leeds City players were desperately trying to create opportunities for Laski.
If they create opportunities for Hu Lai, it is more or less understandable. Although Hu Lai has no hope of winning the Premier League Golden Boot, what if it is to make him rank higher in the Premier League shooter list?
What is the picture to create opportunities for Laski?
Can Laski still hit the Premier League Golden Boot?
Or is Laski's popularity in the Leeds City team so good?
You must know that not only the other players in Leeds City are creating opportunities for Laski, even Hulay is also doing it-Leeds City’s first goal in this game, Laski’s first goal, but It was the penalty that Hu Lai gave him!
Everyone can’t understand it, and it’s normal. After all, no one would have thought that the Leeds City players would fight like this for a meal...
The actions of the Leeds City players deeply stimulated Sandwell's players, which they regarded as a "provocation" to themselves.
So they strengthened their defense against Laski.
Even though they don’t even know why Leeds is so obsessed with letting Lasky score...
In the 72nd minute, Hu Lai pulled out of the penalty area and took the ball. He rarely sent a through ball!
This is so big that Sandwell was caught off guard-after all, when did you see Hu Lai organizing an offense outside the penalty area?
Laski moved to the empty position, and after receiving the pass from Hu Lai, he directly kicked and shot!
The football rolled into the net from Sandwell goalkeeper's feet!
"Laski! Laski finally scored again! After the goal, he looked very excited~EbookFREE.me~ ran to Pete Williams who passed the ball to him, hugged him, and then again Surrounded by more Leeds City players... All Leeds City players looked very excited and excited, which made us a little puzzled... But anyway, Leeds City scored again! They are 3:0 at home. Leading Sandwell! A clean victory is the end of this season's league!"
Matthew Cox shouted, but also puzzled.
Because after Laski scored, the Leeds players were very excited, it felt like they had won the league championship...
On the court, even the Leeds City players on the bench rushed out, rushed to the teammates on the field who were celebrating, joined with them, and continued to celebrate.
Sam Randyll touched Clark with his elbow. "It's going to bleed again!"
Clark did not speak, but answered him with a hearty laugh.
(End of this chapter)