Fox in the Penalty Area

When Kamara tied the game, Clarke and Randyll hugged and cheered in front of the away coach's bench.

"We still have to attack! Sure enough, we still have to attack!" After the celebration, Clark emphasized to Randyll. "Offense is the temperament of this team!"

Randyll also had to admit: "Indeed. When you mentioned the offense in the second half, the eyes of many players in the locker room lit up...and in the game, after changing the style of play, everyone played more easily..."

When Clarke first coached Leeds City, he was often scolded because of his defensive hips.

The media is full of criticism of Leeds City's poor defense every day, and Leeds City fans also complain that the team's defense is simply at the level of the League One-not even the Championship level, which shows how bad it is.

Clark's first season in charge of Leeds City was indeed suffering from poor defense. Almost downgraded.

At that time, no one could have imagined that in his second season in charge of Leeds City, he would lead the relegation team to the Premier League title.

Thinking about it now, last season is still like a dream, like a dream.

After that season, there was much less criticism from the media and fans about Leeds City's poor defense. There are still some, and they haven't completely disappeared. After all, Leeds City's defense is really not good.

But there are fewer people who criticize and accuse like before, and more people regard this as a "meme".

For example, Matthew Cox retweeted Clarke's remarks in the post-match press conference. Is he really criticizing Leeds City's defensive hips? Are you mocking Clark's football style? Maybe there is, but I'm afraid it's more of a joke.

Everyone says that Leeds City's defense is poor, and Leeds City's defense is indeed poor, but their offense is strong!

No matter how bad the defense is, the offense is against the sky, and it can still make up for it.

How did Leeds City win the league title last season?

Relying on the impregnable line of defense?

of course not!

It's a sharp attack!

Clarke's football philosophy was really carried out - as long as we can score more goals than our opponents, we can win the game.

When Leeds City showed their powerful offensive firepower, naturally no one cared about their defense.

There are also people who write articles to analyze the benefits of Leeds City's doing so, and praise their offensive football as pleasing to the eye...

But in fact, to put it bluntly, the reason why everyone's attitude has changed so much is entirely because Leeds City won the league championship last season.

The football world is very realistic. If you have a championship, you can prove your strength.

Whatever you do, it is a necessary condition to win the championship.

Since you won the championship, it means that you did all the right things.

As the old saying goes, "Offense wins fans, defense wins championships", then Leeds City will tell you that "Offense can win both fans and championships"!

Even within Leeds City there is a shift in mentality.

In the beginning, both players and coaches were worried about Clark's football style.

Sam Landier is not a direct descendant of Clark, and he was a coach on this team before. Although he was promoted to an assistant coach when Clark came, he still argued with Clark about defensive issues.

Some people in the coaching staff are also worried that the team will be relegated if they continue to play like this...

now...

Of course no one cares about poor defense anymore.

They will say:

"Our defense isn't bad, it's not as good as our offense."

It is actually true to say that, after all, Leeds City's defense has improved in the past two seasons, and it is getting better every season. The 42 goals conceded last season, although ranked last among the top four, but in terms of the 20 teams in the entire league, this number of goals conceded is not an exaggeration-only seven teams They conceded few goals.

It's just that compared with Leeds City's offense, the defensive data is not so impressive, and the inherent impression left by people before is difficult to change.

But the Leeds City coaches who know the inside story naturally don't care about this matter.

Even more so for the players, who have enjoyed all the benefits of the boss's attacking football and it's really hard to go back.

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After Leeds City equalized, it seemed that it had stabbed a hornet's nest, and the home team fans booed and roared even louder at the Bay Stadium.

The Bay Lighthouse team was also irritated, and kept attacking Leeds City's goal, trying to take the lead again.

Generally speaking, the side that scores goals will perform better and be more threatening.

But this game was reversed, and the Bay Lighthouse who lost the ball was even fiercer.

Because in their original plan, defeating Leeds City at home and getting three points was part of the plan.

Gulf Beacon, as the champion of the Turkish Super League and a team that often participates in the UEFA Champions League, is also ambitious.

Even if they are assigned to this group, it does not mean that they will give up the idea of ​​​​competing to qualify for the Champions League knockout rounds.

If they want to compete with Catalan United and Vesuvius for the right to qualify for the group stage, facing Leeds City, the weakest seeded team in this year's Champions League, the Bay Lighthouse must score all three points at home, otherwise there is little hope.

The Bay Lighthouse team is actually very clear that although they are expensive as a local super giant, in fact, when facing European giants, their biggest reliance is home court advantage.

So they are bound to win the three points against Leeds City at home.

As a result, an onslaught in the second half failed to expand the lead, but instead allowed Leeds City to steal a ball.

The Beacon fans were outraged, and the Beacon players were outraged.

This is our home field!

When is it your turn to play wild? !

Do you really think that the "devil's home field" of the Bay Lighthouse is just a joke? !

"The Turks are coming..." Sam Randyll reminded Clark.

Clark smiled. "That's good, so there's room behind them! Sam, go get the team going."

Randyll glanced at him: "You want to win?"

"Now I see the hope of winning."

Randyll went to the sidelines, first whistled to attract everyone's attention, then raised his right hand, curled up his ring finger and little finger, and raised his thumb, index finger and middle finger.

Tell all Leeds City players: "Keep attacking, the boss wants to win!"

So the city of Leeds slammed into the Bay Lighthouse like this.

Like the tides of the Black Sea and the Sea of ​​Marmara, the two sides collided fiercely in the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul.

Generally speaking, the Bay Lighthouse has the advantage of the home field, and it is indeed more advantageous on the scene.

But Leeds City is not helpless.

"Woo-! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Matthew Cox yelled. "Arslan made a great save as he blocked Hu's header! But before it was over, the ball landed in the wicket... Laski!!"

The Polish striker finally hit the ball this time, but under the interference of Manteguru, he missed the foot...

The football slides out.

Although he didn't score, Cox praised Leeds City's performance during this period: "It should be played like this! That's right! You are the Premier League champions! Even if you go to the away game, you shouldn't be timid! What are you doing? Shrink the defense... Now this is the way you are best at playing! You should use your best way to appear in the Champions League!"

Although Matthew Cox once mocked Leeds City's poor defense.

But at this time, he uncharacteristically supported Leeds City's attack.

After all, this is a foreign war.

In the face of foreign enemies, he hopes that Leeds City can show their best side. You must know that they are the Premier League champions and represent the image of the Premier League and English football.

As the champion of the Premier League, if he is underestimated, it is not the Leeds family's business...

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After scoring the goal, Kamara was extremely active, and he felt unstoppable when his state came.

He made two consecutive breakthroughs from the left in five minutes, and once was destroyed by the Bay Lighthouse defender who rushed near the bottom line. One time his cross failed and flew directly to the other side.

Because of such an active performance and scoring goals, Kamara has become the focus of attention of the Bay Lighthouse players.

Some Chinese fans may think—since Kamala has attracted so many defensive troops, does it mean that the pressure around Hu Lai has been reduced?

No, it doesn't.

Bay Lighthouse was fully prepared for this game, even so, they still did not relax their defense against Hu Lai. After all, their opponent scored three goals for Brazil in the World Cup and became the striker of the World Cup Golden Boot.

As long as Leeds City hit their offense near their penalty area, there must be someone in the Gulf Beacon formation who is by Hu Lai's side. Even if both central defenders have thrown out, someone will quickly come to fill the position.

Always put Hou Lai among the highest-level goals of the team's defense.

Under such circumstances, it is really difficult for Hu Lai to get rid of the defense and get a chance.

"Damn! This is with Hu Laimao!" On the Internet and in front of the TV, I don't know how many Chinese fans are worried about Hu Lai.

But Hu Lai himself did not have this kind of self-awareness.

He is still feeling in his heart: It is indeed the Champions League!

It is said that the UEFA Champions League is the most technologically advanced football event on earth today, even better than the World Cup.

In the past, I only heard such evaluations, but now I experience it personally, and I know that it is really awesome.

It stands to reason that the Premier League champions are very powerful, right? The level of the Premier League must be higher than that of the Turkish Super League, right?

Based on such a comparison of strengths, isn't it a matter of course for the Premier League champion to win the Turkish Super League champion?

It was only during the game that I realized that even if it was the championship game against the Turkish Super League, it was completely different from the usual Premier League.

The game pace of the Premier League is considered fast, and the Champions League game is even faster.

And this is still a relatively low-level group stage in the Champions League.

Going to the knockout round, the level is higher, the pace is faster, and the difficulty is more difficult.

Sure enough... still want to play the Champions League!

Although being guarded every step of the way and being booed by the home fans, Hu Lai was not frustrated, on the contrary he was very excited.

I understand why so many talented and capable players will take whether their new club can participate in the Champions League as an important reference when transferring.

After all... Since he is an ambitious player, why would he not want to participate in the Champions League?

Only here can we play against strong teams from all over Europe!

The level of the World Cup is actually not low, but once every four years, how can it be fun to participate in the Champions League every year!

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Kamara once again managed to break through the wing, and then rushed the ball into the penalty area before the opposition defender came up to block him.

This time he made a grounder pass, which was faster but also more difficult.

Under the close defense of Manteguru, Hou Lai still ran towards the football.

He could feel the rush from Manteguru, squeezing his body, trying to push him out of the receiving path...

Hu Lai's strength was indeed inferior to the opponent's, but he still gritted his teeth and held on, not letting the opponent squeeze him away.

But he put almost all his energy into the physical confrontation, and it is difficult to get a chance to shoot - because once his feet are off the ground, he may be squeezed away by the opponent...

It's hard to do in today's situation, just supporting your body with one foot and then swinging the other foot to shoot the goal like normal.

Not to mention that Kamara passed the ball from the left. Hu Lai wanted to shoot, preferably with his left foot, but he is not very good at it. If there is no interference, it’s okay, but now when you shoot with your left foot while physically confronting the opponent’s central defender, the accuracy will plummet...

Obviously, the players of the Bay Lighthouse also understand this, so they specifically attacked Hou Lai's weakness, forcing him to only use his left foot to handle the ball.

Just when Mantegulu was concentrating on wrestling with Hu Lai, he suddenly felt that the power blocking him had disappeared!

He froze for a moment - could it be that he pushed Hu Lai away?

Then he was worried again - this kid won't fall again, right?

Looking down again, there was only time to see Hu Lai's outstretched right foot... He stabbed the football towards the goal with the outside instep of his right foot!

Manteguru didn't have time to stop him, and could only watch the football flash past his eyes and then disappear-out of his field of vision.

"Hu Lai... Hu Lai! Beautiful!!"

Accompanied by He Feng's loud roar that suddenly increased in volume, everyone saw that Hu Lai suddenly pulled back when he was fighting against Mantegulu, and then he did not use his left foot, but stabbed and shot with the outer instep of his right foot!

Mantegulu did not expect that Arslan, the goalkeeper of the Bay Lighthouse, did not expect that Hu Lai could shoot such a thief!

He fell to the ground to save half a beat late, when the football flew over the goal line, he made the save action...

"The goal is scored!! The seventy-ninth minute of the game! Leeds City took the lead!" Matthew Cox raised his arms and shouted.

"Beautiful!! Hu Lai! Beautiful!! The first goal in the Champions League! His first goal in the Champions League! The first goal of a Chinese player in the Champions League! Born in his first Champions League game!! Even if there is no good chance, Hu Lai still caught it with a beautiful blow...just one blow...fatal!"

He Feng's roar of excitement echoed in thousands of households past four o'clock in the morning.

All of them witnessed the birth of history once again!

Hu Lai has taken a solid step and stepped on another deep footprint in his career!

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PS, during the double monthly pass period, use Hu Lai's Champions League first goal to ask everyone for a monthly pass~!