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

The new season is coming.

Leeds United kicked off their March games with a League Cup title. In the following time, they only need to focus all their energy on the league and strive to get a ticket to the Champions League next season as soon as possible!

Before the home game against Sunderland on Sunday, Leeds United first displayed their newly won championship trophy at Elland Road. In front of more than 20,000 enthusiastic fans, Li Shiguang held the trophy and led the players around the field, and the almost crazy fans shouted the names of everyone in the team.

When Li Shiguang walked to the center circle holding the trophy, amid the fanatical shouts of "Li, Leeds United's savior!", a large portrait of Li Shiguang was unfolded on the south stand of Elland Road. The content of the portrait was the image of Li Shiguang waving his fists and roaring after Ribery scored a goal in overtime!

There is a reason why Leeds United fans are so excited. You should know that the last time Leeds United won the League Cup was 38 years ago in the 1967-1968 season. The arrival of Li Shiguang made the League Cup trophy return to Leeds again after more than 30 years. This is indeed an exciting thing.

And it is foreseeable that Leeds United has a high probability of returning to the Champions League next season, which also gives fans hope for the club's resurgence!

90 minutes later, with the cheers of the fans on the scene, Leeds United scored a goal with Rivaldo's free kick at home and won a small victory of 1:0 over the visiting Sunderland.

After the game, Leeds United surpassed Tottenham, who lost to Chelsea away yesterday, by 2 points and came to the third place in the standings.

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But the good times did not last long. Just a week later, Manchester United came to Elland Road under the leadership of Ferguson.

The game between the two sides seemed to be a replica of the final half a month ago.

Shortly after the game started, Falcao headed in the penalty area after receiving Bale's cross from the bottom. This goal seemed to pour a pot of hot oil on the burning fire of revenge in the hearts of Manchester United players. In the rest of the first half, Manchester United's offensive was like a machine gun and never stopped, pressing Leeds United in their own half. Fortunately, Schmeichel played bravely and made Leeds United keep the score of 1:0 until the halftime break.

15 minutes later, the two sides changed sides and soon, Li Shiguang found that something was wrong!

In the 49th minute of the game, Ronaldo and Giggs suddenly switched positions. Ronaldo, who was in good form today, broke through the defense of Alonso and Maicon on the left, and finally rushed into the penalty area of ​​Leeds United despite the defense of Pique. In desperation, Schmeichel could only rush out to try to block the angle of Ronaldo's shot, but Ronaldo, who was still playing independently at this time, did not shoot in the face of this opportunity, and lifted the ball to the back point. Rooney, who had already been in position, lightly tapped the ball with his head at the back point and headed the ball into the empty goal.

1:1, Manchester United equalized the score!

Realizing that there was a problem with the situation on the field, Li Shiguang quickly called Simeone and asked him to arrange Silva to warm up and prepare to replace Pique.

Pique's condition is not very good so far. He made several mistakes in the first half, which almost led to big mistakes. As a result, he was still used as a breakthrough point in the second half. He could have cooperated with Maicon to help defend Ronaldo and squeeze Ronaldo to the sideline, but he chose to stand in the penalty area and watch. As a result, it was too late for Ronaldo to come up to defend after passing Maicon.

But before Silva warmed up, Leeds United lost the ball again, and Pique was used as a breakthrough point!

It is estimated that Ferguson scolded the whole team after the last game. After Leeds United kicked off, Manchester United did not relax because of the equalization. They still maintained a high-intensity pressing, especially for Modric and Alonso. This made Leeds United very uncomfortable. During this period, even Falcao had withdrawn to his own half to receive the ball.

But just 2 minutes after Rooney's goal, Pique's low-level backcourt cross was intercepted by the sharp-eyed Scholes. In order to stop him from shooting, Pique had no choice but to use the foul tactic to rush forward to steal the ball. Not only did he receive a yellow card, but he also gave Manchester United a direct free kick in an excellent position.

Ronaldo, who was in explosive form in this game, naturally would not miss it

This was a great opportunity. Although Schmeichel had stretched his body to the maximum extent in the process of saving, he still couldn't block the powerful shot, and the football still went into the upper right corner of the goal.

1:2, this time it was Manchester United who completed the reversal!

Then the two coaches deployed their troops and showed their magical powers. Li Shiguang sent Kompany, Rivaldo and Dzeko one after another, trying to reproduce the big reversal half a month ago, but Ferguson completely changed the substitution strategy after suffering a big loss. All three places were used on the attack line. Even if they were leading, they still maintained their suppression of Leeds United.

40 minutes later, Leeds United did not replicate the miracle half a month ago. They lost 1:2 to the visiting Manchester United at home. Just one week later, they were overtaken by Tottenham, who won this round, by 1 point and returned to the fourth place.

Li Shiguang doesn't really care about third or fourth place, but after Arsenal won all three points with a 4:0 victory over Fulham in this round, they narrowed the gap with Leeds United to 5 points again, and still maintained a considerable deterrent to Leeds United.

Perhaps the closer it gets to the end of the season, the harder it is to play.

In the next two rounds of games, Leeds United only won one game, while Arsenal won one and tied one, once again narrowing the gap with Leeds United.

And Li Shiguang knew very well that Leeds United really benefited from the Champions League.

You have to know that Arsenal played against Portsmouth, which ranked second from the bottom in the league, in the 31st round. Wenger only sent some of his main players in this game because he had to prepare for the Champions League quarter-finals match against Juventus in the middle of the week. In the end, they were tied 1:1 by Portsmouth and only got 1 point. Otherwise, based on Arsenal's recent form, Leeds United should only be 2 points ahead of Arsenal after this round...

It seems that whether Leeds United can get a place in the Champions League next season will not be known until the last round of the league when they challenge Arsenal away.