Chapter 242: Fighting in the rain

In the 34th round of the league, the Leeds City game was played before the Stan Park Rangers.
So this time the football is still at their feet. Whether they can kick the ball back to the Stan Park Rangers beautifully depends on the result of their game.
It's just that it is not easy for them to win this game.
Even if they are at home.
Because this round their opponent is Manchester Athletic, which is currently ranked third in the league.
If Manchester Athletic can beat Leeds City away, and the Stan Park Rangers can beat Burleigh away, then the defending champion will regain a seven-point gap with Leeds City.
With few league games left, this is a slightly reassuring point difference.
This means that even if the Stan Park Rangers lose two more games in the remaining four rounds of the league, they can still maintain their lead over Leeds City.
But how could the Stan Park Rangers lose half of the games in the remaining four league rounds?
In the room where they stayed at the hotel, members of the Stan Park Rangers coaching staff gathered in the room of head coach Brooks and were watching the game between Leeds City and Manchester Athletic through live TV.
They are not just paying attention to the competitors who won the championship, but also paying attention to the performance and tactics of Manchester Athletic.
After all, in the next round, it's their turn to challenge Manchester Athletic.
For Leeds City, Manchester Athletic is the main stumbling block on the road to the championship. For Stan Park rangers, why not so?
In the next round they will go away to Manchester Athletic.
Even if Leeds City loses to Manchester Athletic in this round, if the Stan Park Rangers also lose to Manchester Athletic in the next round, then the difference between the two teams will return to four points, the same situation is critical.
They have to find a way to beat Manchester Athletic from this game.
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Meli watched the live broadcast of the Premier League match on the TV screen, and then glanced at the phone.
Above is the transcript of his chat with Ramon Cantro before the start of the game.
Cantero invited him to watch the game again before the game, and vowed to make Hu Lai's dream of a Premier League champion shattered this time!
"This time you can rest assured, Melly, my old and new hatreds will be with him! He can't even step on my corpse to ascend to the throne!"
This is the last message Ramon sent him before the game.
Not long after saying this, the game began.
So he probably left a message for himself in the visiting team's locker room.
From the description of the last sentence, Melly can fully feel the determination of his friend Cantero.
Fortunately, this round of the Madrid Kings’ La Liga and Cantero’s Premier League matches are not in the same time period, there is no conflict, otherwise he will not see it...
In fact, Meli really hopes that Cantero can successfully prevent Leeds from winning the championship.
But it is definitely not a successful revenge against Hu Lai, as Cantero said.
In other words, if it is revenge, it is also Cantro's revenge. What does it have to do with me, Melly?
I haven't gotten revenge yet!
The reason why I hope Leeds City will not win the league title is because only in this way can he have a great chance of meeting Leeds City in the Champions League next season.
But if Leeds becomes the Premier League champion, then according to the rules of the Champions League, the defending champions of the Champions League, the Champions League last season, and the UEFA top-ranked league champions will automatically become the Champions League seeded teams next season.
The Madrid Kings have been in the league this season. Although they have not won the championship in advance, unless a miracle occurs, neither the Catalan United or the city’s arch-rival pirates will be able to win the league championship from the Madrid Kings.
At that time, Leeds City is the Premier League champion, the Madrid Kings are the La Liga champions, and both teams are seeded teams, and it is impossible to get together when grouping.
It’s hard for me to meet Hu Lai in the Champions League...
This is also the most important reason why Meli pays so much attention to the Premier League championship.
Although he told Ramon Cantero that he was trying to cheer for his friends.
His attitude inspired Cantero, so he said that murderous sentence.
The words can be said to be beautiful, but the game...it is hard to be called beautiful.
The first half of the game is over, and now the second half has started for fifteen minutes.
The two teams are like people fighting each other in a muddy swamp. They can't stand still and can only hug and roll in the mud. Because every action in the swamp requires more power, which makes their fists look like the end of a strong crossbow... There is no sense of beauty in such a fight.
Similarly, this game has so far been nothing to watch.
It may also have something to do with today's weather-it is raining in Leeds today, and the rain is not small.
It really seems to be reminiscent of the melee in the swamp.
Because of the heavy rain, the ground was slippery than usual, and both teams used simple and direct play.
This has little effect on Leeds. They originally had a high center forward, Lorenzo, who had played this tactic.
However, Manchester Athletic is a team that pays more attention to ground cooperation. The team has a strong continental football style and has more foreign aid from Latin. Head coach Heero Gutierrez is a Spanish coach who emphasizes the passing and control tactics of Spanish football.
In the past few seasons, Manchester Athletic used their strong ball-handling ability to wrestle their wrists with other strong teams including the Stan Park Rangers.
You know that the Premier League champion last season was the Stan Park Rangers, but the Premier League champion last season was Manchester Athletic. In the Premier League, Manchester Athletic is a perennial champion contender.
Such a team is affected by the venue and is naturally greater than Leeds City.
But the overall strength of Manchester Athletic is very strong, so even if they are restricted by the venue, they can still play almost five to five with Leeds on the court.
Leeds City has the home court advantage and is more suitable for the current environment in terms of play, but it is still difficult to break the Manchester Athletic goal.
The two teams were in a stalemate until the second half. At present, it is still very difficult to break the deadlock for a while.
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"Today's weather is really good for us!" Stephen Brown, the assistant coach of Stan Park Rangers who saw the second half, said with joy, "Such rain completely hindered the performance of their two teams."
"But tomorrow we might also encounter this kind of weather." Brooks turned his head and looked outside the hotel room, and could see the water drops on the window glass reflecting the light of the street lights outside, like shining pearls.
The rain here is not as heavy as the rain in Leeds, otherwise it would not be a "pearl", but a water curtain—the rain that is now falling in Leeds on the window glass is a water curtain.
Brooks, who withdrew his gaze from the window, continued: "And this rain is really not a good thing for Gutierrez's Manchester Athletic. But it may not be so for Leeds..."
Brown pointed to the TV screen. He disagrees with this: "But they don't have many opportunities to attack."
"Indeed." Brooks didn't object to the assistant coach's view. "But they don't need tons of opportunities like Manchester Athletic. Did you forget who they have?"
Brown froze for a moment, then reacted: "Hu!"
Almost at the same time, the commentator Cox's roar came from the TV: "HUUUUUU!!!"
They looked at the screen at the same time and saw Hu Lai running to the top of the free throw arc, then turned around, turned his back to the attacking direction, and raised his foot to catch the ball. On his left side is Manchester Athletic center back William Nelson, and not far from his right is another center back Sam Hobson.
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Jay Adams noticed that Manchester Athletic’s centre-back combination was slightly overwhelmed and there was time behind him, so he tried to pass the football long directly from the middle circle to the front Hulay.
Hu Lai also ran forward when he passed the ball.
It's just that this pass and a run was also noticed by Manchester Sport's back line, so now it is Nelson and Hobson's two central defenders next to Hulay, one left and one right, forming a trapping defense.
Seeing this scene, Adams rushed up quickly.
He did not stay in the backcourt to prepare for defense, but tried to get closer to Hu Lai to pick up the opponent.
He expected that after Hulai stopped, facing the defense of two central defenders behind him, there should be no way to turn around. As a midfielder, he must actively press forward to support the forward.
This is also the requirement of head coach Tony Clark for midfielders in the game.
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After Hu Lai jumped forward and ran to the top of the free throw arc, he turned around and raised his foot to stop the ball at the same time when he saw that the football had fallen.
At the same time, Nelson quickly moved closer to him, ready to post it, interfering with his possession of the ball. Even if it stopped, there was no way to turn around easily.
At the same time, Hobson was still staring at him, intending to defend against Hulai alone, Manchester Sporting used two central defenders. As for the other Leeds City players, their priority is obviously not as good as Hulai.
Williams also saw the dilemma that Hu Lai was facing, so he, like Adams, hurriedly pressed forward while shouting: "Pass back!"
He wants Hulai to pass the football back to him directly, because he has already seen that the captain Lorenzo next to him is free. As long as Hulai can pass the ball back, he can pass it directly to Lorenzo. side.
But Hu Lai seemed to have not heard Williams' words, and did not respond to his shouts. He slightly raised his head and stared at the football flying from the air through the rain and fog.
The intensive rain fell on his face, his eyes were emptied to protect from the rain dripping in, and he stared at the football intently.
Raise your right foot at the same time.
The football landed precisely on the back of his instep.
Turn around and continue, and send the football forward with your right foot!
In this way, his whole person changed from his back to the goal to face him, and at the same time he drove the football into the penalty area!
"Eh, this ball? Beautiful!!!"
With the exclamation of the commentators, Hu Lai strode and chased the football into the penalty area.
At the same time, Nelson was completely deceived by his unexpected action, and stayed still. However, Hobson, who had been entangled with Hu Lai during the last match, reacted quickly and had already killed him.
But he was still too late.
The moment Hu Lai turned around ~EbookFREE.me~ he was stuck behind him by Hu Lai.
He couldn't take care of that much in a hurry to catch up. He grabbed Hu Lai's shoulder with his hands, and at the same time stretched his feet to try to kick the ball.
He didn't kick the ball, but because inertia couldn't stop the car, he knocked Hu Lai sideways to the ground!
In the pouring rain, thunder rang out from the Flanders stadium:
"Penalties!!!"
At the same time, the referee's hand pointed to the penalty spot clearly and unmistakably!
The cheers in the stands overwhelmed the crash of the heavy rain.
The thunder became a thunderstorm!
(End of this chapter)
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