Football: Rebirth 04, I Create a Black Shop in Football

The best time to celebrate the victory was on the 28th.

"Today is a good day~Everything you want can come true~~~"

After parking the car, Li Shiguang returned home humming a cheerful song. In his opinion, today is indeed a perfect day!

The success of Liverpool made the whole Leeds United team immersed in a cheerful atmosphere. While everyone was still celebrating the victory in the locker room, several icing on the cake news made the atmosphere in the locker room even better.

This game was the last game to end in this round of the Premier League. Earlier, several major competitors of Leeds United did not win this round!

Tottenham, the third place, played 1:1 with Sunderland, the second-ranked team, away from home. Now they are only 1 point ahead of Leeds United. A week later, the two teams will directly clash. Arsenal, who was behind Leeds United, was also tied 1:1 by Bolton at home, and the gap between them and Leeds United has widened to 7 points.

Upon hearing these two good news, Li Shiguang's face was almost broken by laughter. He waved his hand and announced that there would be 2 days off this week! Let everyone have a good rest and relax!

Li Shiguang was in a very good mood these two days. Early on Monday morning, he received a call from Chen Guanhai. The young man had a strong execution ability. He called Lao Chen the night he returned to London. When Lao Chen heard that Li Shiguang took the initiative to invite his son to invest in Leeds United, he expressed his willingness to fully support it on the spot. However, Lao Chen would come to England to negotiate with Li Shiguang in person for the specific details in a while.

After hanging up the phone, Li Shiguang breathed a sigh of relief. He had come up with this idea on a whim that day. As for whether it would work out in the end, Li Shiguang didn't think much about it. Now Chen Guanhai's reply at least represents the first step of a long journey. Once the deal can be negotiated, the idea of ​​expanding the Elland Road Stadium can basically be implemented, and maybe there will be some left for the summer transfer.

In addition to this good news, back to the team itself, Leeds United's progress in the league and cup competitions has also reduced the outside world's doubts about him. In addition, Rivaldo and Camoranesi have conquered Leeds United fans in these games, and the occasional criticism of winter signings has disappeared.

In sharp contrast to Li Shiguang's good mood are Benítez and Wenger.

The two old coaches now have their own difficulties.

On Wenger's side, Arsenal strategically gave up the League Cup and FA Cup. Now they only have the Champions League and the league to play. Relatively speaking, the schedule is relatively easy, and they have not completely fallen behind in the league, and they still have hope of striving for the top four. But in the Champions League, their opponent in the round of 16 is the powerful Real Madrid. This is a tough battle. Even though Wenger has started to let the main players rest half a month in advance to prepare for this game, they are still not optimistic about the outside world.

Compared with Wenger, Benitez's situation is slightly better.

Liverpool has been left behind by the teams ahead in the league. Looking at Leeds United's current state, the hope of competing for the top four is getting slimmer and slimmer. Fortunately, Liverpool still has the hope of winning the FA Cup and the Champions League. At least compared with Arsenal's opponent Real Madrid, Liverpool's opponent in the round of 16 Benfica is still weaker, so the English media generally believe that Liverpool can make it to the top 8 of the Champions League.

In various pre-match analyses, the 2005-2006 UEFA Champions League knockout stage officially kicked off on Wednesday night.

Among the three teams that made it to the round of 16 in the Premier League, Arsenal and Liverpool will both play tonight.

After 90 minutes of fierce battle, the final result was shocking!

Liverpool, who were favored by most people before the game, attacked for 80 minutes at the Lisbon Stadium of Light without scoring a goal. Instead, they were penetrated by Benfica's sharp counterattack in the 83rd minute. In the end, they could only return to Anfield with a score of 0:1 to prepare for the next round of competition; on the contrary, Arsenal, who were not favored, took a victory from the Bernabeu with a goal scored by Henry in the first half stoppage time!

Benfica obviously found a way to deal with Liverpool in this game. In the 90 minutes, they successfully controlled the number of times Deisler and Gerrard took shots to a minimum. As for Liverpool's forwards, their ability to seize opportunities was really poor, and several good opportunities were wasted....

Looking at Benítez, whose face was already extremely sour, in front of the TV, Li Shiguang also felt sorry for him.

If Leeds United had the advantage in the normal game but failed to convert it into victory, he would probably feel the same as Benítez now!

The next day, Wenger, who escaped from the Bernabéu unscathed, was naturally praised by the English media. Poor Benítez could only bear the blame and quietly prepare for the second round of the game next week.

However, he was not scolded for too long, because Mourinho helped him share some of the damage that night.

Chelsea, who is unbeatable in the Premier League, lost 1:2 at home to Barcelona, ​​which was eliminated by them last year.

Throughout the game, Chelsea's left side was used as a breakthrough point for Barcelona. Messi, who had already shown great talent, almost treated Chelsea's left side as his own corridor and rushed around on the left side. Of course, Chelsea's tough guys didn't tolerate him. As he kicked, his movements became more and more violent. Finally, in the 36th minute, left-back Del Horno knocked down Messi in a defense that didn't seem particularly dangerous. As a result, he was directly sent off by the referee with a red card. In the end, Chelsea, which played with 10 players, was eventually killed by Eto'o before the end of the game. After the game, Mourinho criticized Messi's "diving" for Del Horno getting a red card, and said: "When 11 people are against 11 people, we have never lost to Barcelona!"

But the English media can't care so much. It's basic operation to praise when you win and criticize when you lose. Especially when criticizing Mourinho, a coach who usually doesn't pay much attention to reporters, it's even more exciting. Various highly offensive news headlines made Li Shiguang, who was eating melons in Leeds, very excited!

Two days after the Champions League ended, the Premier League started again. The opponents of several traditional giants in this round were all teams in the middle and lower reaches of the league, so most of the media focused on the two games between Tottenham and Leeds United and Blackburn and Arsenal.

In the last match, Tottenham lost by one goal. This time, they returned to White Hart Lane and naturally wanted to get back on track. The game was indeed very intense.

Just 9 minutes into the game, Rivaldo broke the deadlock with a long shot, but the good times did not last long. In the 22nd minute, Tottenham equalized the score through a quick counterattack by Keane, and then the two sides entered the second half with a score of 1:1.

In the second half, the two teams still played very passionately, and the rhythm of the game was also pulled very fast. In the 68th minute, Modric took a corner kick, Kompany took the lead in the penalty area, and a powerful header helped Leeds United take the lead again. But Tottenham's counterattack came faster than in the first half. Just one minute later, Keane broke through in the penalty area and caused Kompany to pull him. The referee gave a yellow card and awarded Tottenham a penalty kick. Keane then scored the penalty kick and equalized the score again.

The fans were very excited to see the fierce goal battle. In the end, the two teams shook hands and made peace with 2:2.

After the game, just when Li Shiguang felt that the gap with Arsenal was about to be narrowed, news came from another field that Arsenal lost 0:1 to Blackburn away, and after the draw with Tottenham, the gap widened by 1 point.

This made Li Shiguang's face immediately change from not laughing to laughing!