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

After getting 3 points from Bordeaux, Leeds United, who had been leading the Champions League, rushed back to England without stopping. Without any rest, they faced Manchester City in the 9th round of the league at home on Saturday night. Since they had decided to give up the League Cup with Manchester United in a few days, Li Shiguang sent all the main players to win all 3 points at home. In the BBC studio, Lineker and Jon were the two commentators today. The two had discussed Leeds United's starting lineup before. Lineker was sure that Li Shiguang might still send out a lineup with substitutes as the main force today to save strength for the next game. But when Jon saw the starting lineup of Leeds United, he turned around and smiled at Lineker who was sitting next to him: "Gary, it seems that you should buy lunch tomorrow. Leeds United is not going to hold back today. Li sent out his strongest lineup. It seems that Manchester City will suffer in this game."

Lineker nodded helplessly. He thought that Li Shiguang would choose to have another head-on confrontation with Manchester United, but now it seems that Leeds United should give up the fight for the League Cup.

While the two were chatting, Dzeko also kicked the ball to Barton in the center circle on the TV screen, and the game officially started!

However, Manchester City did not have the ball for long. They just transferred the ball to the left and were intercepted by the alert Lahm from the passing route. Seeing Lahm intercepting the ball, Bale in front of him and Ribery on the right did not hesitate at all and ran to Manchester City's half at the same time.

After Lahm ran forward two steps with the ball, he passed the ball to Modric who had already run out of space before the Manchester City team behind caught up. Modric then did not stop the ball at all, and directly passed the ball to the right side with a big foot, and cleverly passed it in advance.

Amid the cheers of the fans at the scene, Ribery, who had already run to the position, gently unloaded the ball with a perfect right foot, and continued to accelerate into the Manchester City penalty area.

"Mika, push him to the bottom line, don't let him cut inside!"

Seeing Ribery's speed, Manchester City's goalkeeper James loudly reminded the right back Richards in the penalty area.

After Sun Jihai was bought to Leeds United by Li Shiguang, Richards, who had no competitors, became Manchester City's starting right back this season.

After hearing James' shout, Richards, who was no slower than Ribery, quickly approached and blocked Ribery's cut-in route very skillfully. However, Ribery had no intention of cutting inside. Seeing Richards rushing over, he poked the ball away from his feet and rushed to the bottom line at full speed.

At this time, in Manchester City's penalty area, Ibrahimovic, Torres and Podolski were already in position. At a distance, there was Bale who had already run outside the penalty area. De Bruyne was also wandering at the top of the arc of Manchester City's penalty area. With so many points of contact, Ribery, who had reached the bottom line, just quickly looked up at the situation in the penalty area, and then rubbed the ball with his right foot, relying on his own rhythm to pass the ball out.

Seeing Ribery kicking, the defenders in Manchester City's penalty area hurriedly found the three Leeds United forwards who were ready to jump and compete for the header in the penalty area. After pulling each other, no one could jump up. They could only watch the ball slide over the heads of everyone and fall at the feet of Bale who was standing at a distance.

Bale, who got the ball, saw that there were already many people in the penalty area, and saw that Manchester City's defenders were chasing them again, so he didn't take credit and quickly knocked the ball to De Bruyne who was completely unguarded.

The Belgian youngster stopped and flicked the ball with the outside of his left foot, then quickly swung his left leg and rubbed the ball with the inside of his left foot.

James stood in front of the goal, his sight was completely blocked by the players in the penalty area. He didn't see the shot until the ball flew over Ibrahimovic's head. Even if he had reacted, he couldn't stop the ball from flying into the goal he was holding.

1:0, just 2 minutes after the start, Leeds United took the lead at home!

After Manchester City restarted the game, Leeds United did not slow down their offensive because they took the lead.

With the cheers of the fans, they made a comeback in the 6th minute of the game.

De Bruyne and Alonso, who had just scored a goal, played a beautiful two-on-one match in the midfield, and quickly pushed the ball outside Manchester City's penalty area. Facing the Manchester City defender who came up to defend, De Bruyne sent a beautiful through pass to the right side of Manchester City's penalty area, and Tottenham followed up.

Reis shot from the right side of the small penalty area, but unfortunately the ball went slightly out of the goal range and hit the side net.

But less than a minute later, James, who had just been alarmed, had not yet wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead when he saw that the goal kick he had just sent was taken away by Leeds United.

Alonso headed the ball directly to Bale on the left in the center circle.

Bale ran along the left side and lobbed the ball into Manchester City's penalty area near the bottom line. This time, the person who grabbed the ball was Ibrahimovic who rushed over. He jumped high in the crowd and headed the ball to the upper right corner of Manchester City's goal with a lion's head. Fortunately, James was focused enough and pounced hard, lifting the ball out of the bottom line with his fingertips.

"Oh oh oh oh ~ Ibrahimovic!! Oh, it's a pity for this ball, James's save was very beautiful." Although he was praising James, judging from the regretful expression on Lineker's face, this praise for James seemed a bit inconsistent.

Jon on the side also nodded and sighed: "Looking at Leeds United's current state, Manchester City will probably find it difficult to escape from Elland Road unscathed..."