Chapter 641
Chapter 641
Leeds United's winning streak continues. In the sixth round of the league, Leeds United will be a guest at the Emirates Stadium. Everyone originally thought that Leeds United's winning streak will end in this round. After all, there will be a Champions League group stage in the next week.
Although Arsenal also has the Champions League group stage in the middle of the week, it takes many years for Leeds United to return to the Champions League. Arsenal participates every year, so in terms of experience in dealing with double matches in a week and the Champions League, Arsenal can be said to be a complete victory.
The subsequent games also proved this point, Leeds United almost all substitutes, but at the same time, Arsenal also almost all substitutes, but the final result was somewhat unexpected.
But when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score was fixed at 1:2, with the home team at the front and the visiting team at the back. Leeds United won their sixth victory of the season.
The thickness and strength of the substitutes, in this game, almost all of the players on both sides were substitute players, but the final winner was Leeds United in the away game.
What does this mean?It shows that Arsenal's bench is not as thick as Leeds United, Arsenal's substitutes are not as good as Leeds United's substitutes, and compared to Arsenal, Leeds United's substitutes are younger.
The potential is unlimited. After the game, almost all the media expressed their optimism towards the young substitute players of Leeds United, but soon, the media discovered a very cruel fact, that is, the players in the main lineup of Leeds United are actually not very old.
Especially Leeds United's striker is simply speechless. Suarez's performance can be described as excellent, and after the game with Arsenal, Cavani also officially entered the world's field of vision.
In this game against Arsenal, Leeds United's victory was entirely due to the strength of Cavani alone. The Uruguayan scored Leeds United's two goals in this game.
Facing a giant goal is definitely the fastest way to prove your strength, let alone Cavani scored twice, and the two goals fully demonstrated his ability.
The first goal was when he dribbled the ball through Arsenal's defense and then shot. The second goal was a spot in the penalty area, a powerful header.
With this victory, Leeds United has further expanded its advantage in the standings, because this game is a battle for the first and second places in the standings.
After the current six rounds, Leeds United has won 18 points, followed by Chelsea and Liverpool with 14 points. With Arsenal losing this game, they fell to No.5, fourth is Aston Villa, and Manchester United is currently ranked seventh.
However, the current league points don't mean much. Looking at last season, Arsenal was overtaken by Manchester United, so there is no problem for Manchester United to fall out of the top four at this moment.
There are 38 rounds in the league, almost a year. The team actually has enough time to make mistakes and adjust. Compared with the league, the Champions League is different. Although the Champions League runs through the entire season, the total number of games in the Champions League is so small.
Take the Champions League group stage as an example, there are only six games played in half a season, but these six games are carried out for half a season, and the results of these six games directly affect the knockout rounds in the second half of the season, so it is no wonder that both Leeds United and Arsenal have sent substitutes.
The season is long and mistakes are allowed, but if they make mistakes in the Champions League, they are likely to be eliminated. In this case, the choices of both sides are understandable.
With a victory, Leeds United returned to Leeds to prepare for their opponent PSV Eindhoven in the second round of the Champions League group stage. In this game, Leeds United will sit at home.
Eindhoven and Li Yi had experience playing against each other, but at that time they were different from now. At that time, Eindhoven's head coach was Hiddink, and Park Ji-sung, who is now playing for Manchester United, was also in that Eindhoven team.
Eindhoven is no longer the Eindhoven team they used to be, and Li Yi is no longer in Cagliari. From Cagliari to Real Madrid, he returned to Leeds United after resting for nearly two seasons. During this period, four years have passed.
Although there were many differences, one thing remained the same, that is, the team led by Li Yi was the final winner of this match.
With all substitutes in the league, it has already shown that Leeds United is determined to win this Champions League group stage, and there is also a big gap in the strength of the doubles.
As for the so-called experience?After Leeds United defeated Marseille in the last round, the players have initially adapted to the Champions League, so in this match against PSV, the Leeds United players showed their true strength.
Coupled with the home game, Leeds United launched a strong attack from the start of the game, and scored a goal in just 5 minutes of the opening, which directly beat the Eredivisie giants.
Gareth Bale opened the scoring for Leeds United. Bell staged a pass to himself three seconds later, tearing through PSV's defense with his own strength, and broke through the player guarded by Isaacson with his last shot.
This goal was just the beginning. When the game came to No. 201 minutes, Leeds United expanded their lead, and Mata on the right rushed into the penalty area with the cooperation of Owen to complete the goal.
However, Eindhoven is not without the ability to retaliate. In the No. 306 minute, Eindhoven relied on a defensive counterattack to move back a goal from Kubermans.
The one who provided the assist for Cubermans was the new generation of talented Dutch player Afelé. For this player, Li Yi certainly knew that Afelé's starting point could be said to be quite good, but unfortunately, he did not grasp it.
And this goal was also Eindhoven's last goal in this game. Although Eindhoven was still looking for opportunities patiently, Leeds United did not give Eindhoven another chance, and even expanded their lead in the second half.
No. 609 minutes, Owen scored another goal. The old golden boy of England has completely recovered his former form after coming to Leeds United. Even though he did not play in the league, he showed his former style in the Champions League.
This also made the media start to complain about Owen. Of course, the media did this more to cause trouble for Li Yi. Although there are some people who really help Owen, it is definitely not much.
Regarding this situation, before Li Yi said anything, Owen took the lead to stand up and express that he was very satisfied with the current situation, and praised Suarez and Cavani, expressing his optimism for the future of the two.
In fact, Owen knew very well that if it wasn't for the relationship he used to work with, even if he offered Li Yi, he wouldn't want Li Yi, because Leeds United had too many young talents in the team, not to mention Suarez and Cavani, even Newcastle United's Lewandowski performed quite well.
Although Newcastle United has been kneeling recently and has lost four consecutive games, in these four consecutive losses, Lewandowski is one of the few bright spots in the Newcastle United team.
(End of this chapter)