Chapter 599
Chapter 599
Leeds United's opponents in the last three rounds are Reading, Aston Villa and Manchester United. Not to mention Reading, they entered the Premier League with Leeds United last season, and the two teams performed similarly last season, ranking in the middle of the standings.
However, the performance of the two teams this season has begun to show a gap. Reading is currently the favorite for relegation. Although it is now on the shore, according to historical development, Reading will be relegated this season.
Aston Villa's performance this season is not bad, with 35 points after 56 rounds, the same points as Everton, ranking sixth in the standings due to the difference between wins and losses.
As for Manchester United, the super giants of the Premier League, they surpassed it in the second half of the season and currently rank first in the standings with 79 points. They are the biggest favorites to win the championship this season.
What about Liverpool? No.30's opponent in the sixth round is Birmingham, which is currently second to last. This game is also the weakest of Liverpool's last three opponents, then Manchester City, and finally Tottenham.
Whether it is strong or weak, of course, if it is compared with Leeds United, then Leeds United's schedule is more unfavorable. Aston Villa's record this season is better than Manchester City and Tottenham, let alone Birmingham.
Perhaps because of the difficult schedule ahead, Leeds United's young players actually returned to the club for training spontaneously during the holidays. Li Yi did not expect this, because he was told by the security guard at the training base gate when he returned to the club the next day.
This may be the cuteness of young players. Young people have bottlenecks, pursuits, and even desperate efforts for this pursuit.
Although Li Yi was happy about this, he still criticized it a little on the surface. After all, the reason why Li Yi was on vacation was because he didn't want the players to be under so much pressure.
In fact, it is not only the players who are under great pressure, but the fans are also nervous. The league has entered the final stage, and whether it can enter the Champions League next season will only come down to three rounds.
So Li Yike was very busy in the next few days. Not only did he have to prepare for the league, but he also had to pay attention to the mentality of the players, trying to relieve them of stress as much as possible.
Sometimes decompression also requires the help of competitors. No, Liverpool has done a good job in this regard. When the No.30 sixth round of the league came, Liverpool actually became a good guy.
No, it should be said that Birmingham has a strong desire to survive. At their home stadium, St. Andrews, Birmingham tenaciously drew with Liverpool.
No, it should be said that Liverpool drew with Birmingham tenaciously. No. 306 minutes of the first half, Birmingham took the lead in breaking the deadlock, and Finnish forward Forssell took the lead in scoring.
Then in the opening 10 minutes of the second half, former Arsenal player and Swedish striker Larsson scored another goal to rewrite the score to 2:0.
When Leeds United saw the score, almost half of the city was cheering, but after Birmingham's goal, Liverpool, who had no retreat, launched a desperate counterattack.
England's high center Peter Crouch took the lead to help the team recover a goal. This goal also gave Liverpool hope. After 10 minutes, Benayoun changed the score to 2:2.
At this time, there are still more than 20 minutes before the game, falling from heaven to earth, this is the experience of Leeds United in just ten minutes.
Fortunately, Birmingham withstood Liverpool's crazy counterattack in the last 10 minutes and kept the score of 2:2 until the end of the game.
Excitement, disappointment to rejoice, this is the feeling of Leeds United in the game between Birmingham and Liverpool, but after the game, Leeds United immediately returned their attention to their next opponents.
Birmingham has created a very favorable condition for Leeds United. As long as Leeds United beat Reading next, the point difference between Leeds United and Liverpool will reach 3 points, which is much better than 1 point.
Therefore, there is absolutely no room for loss in the game against Reading, but it is such an important game. When the Leeds United players were announced as the starting lineup, the English media was shocked.
Rotation. In this game, Leeds United's starting players underwent a big rotation. Except for goalkeeper Adler, all other positions were changed.
You know, on Liverpool's side, Benitez's rotation was often criticized by the media, especially after the game just ended, the media and fans' calls for getting out of class became more and more loud.
You know, in recent rounds, Leeds United has always played one game a week. Such a schedule does not require rotation at all, and Leeds United's starting performance has been very good recently.
"That Chinese is playing with fire" This is what the media thinks of Li Yi, and even the fans are questioning Li Yi's decision.
But it's a pity that neither the media nor the fans can influence Li Yi's decision. As the head coach of the team, Li Yi is very clear about the strength of the players under his account, not to mention that Li Yi has a system that cheats against the sky.
Although the players were rotated, Li Yi exchanged cards from the system to ensure the victory, so the final victory in this game must belong to Leeds United.
Of course, no game is [-]% perfect. Even if Li Yi has a cheating device, if the god in the European population really talks to Leeds United, even if Li Yi has a cheating device, it will be useless.
But could Li Yi's luck be so bad?This was known from the beginning of the game, because Leeds United had already taken the lead.
In the 7th minute of the game, Rakitic split to Mata on the right side. The latter broke through and crossed from the side. The ball was cleared by defender Melchiot, but the ball was still at the feet of Leeds United.
Delphi, after Leeds United took control of the ball, they immediately sent the ball into the penalty area and sent it to Olić, who didn't have any defensive players around him at the moment, so all he needed to do was send the ball into the Reading goal.
Reading, who were behind, once again resorted to their foul tactics. Last season, Reading's record was so good because of their fierce foul tactics, but after the game with Chelsea, Reading was regarded as being targeted by the FA.
This is also one of the reasons for Reading's poor performance this season, even now, so Reading's foul tactics were quickly warned by the referee, and they ushered in the death penalty before the end of the first half.
After Royce broke through from the wing, he cut into the penalty area and found the Reading defender's shovel. The referee gave a penalty and drew a red card.
However, Leeds United is not without a price. Although Royce was not seriously injured, he was still injured, so Royce had to leave the game.
Lewandowski replaced Royce, and the penalty was handed over to Olić to take the penalty. Olić lived up to the chance created by Royce and rewritten the score to 2:0 in one fell swoop.
After being 2:0 behind and being sent off, Reading had obviously lost the possibility of a counterattack, so when the whistle sounded at the end of the second half, the score was finally fixed at 4:0.
(End of this chapter)