Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

On 22 August 2010, the Northern League Premier League match officially began, and FC United's first game of the new season and the first game of Lu Wei's coaching career will travel to away to Marin FC. On the team bus, Lu Wei showed a rare nervousness, he has never felt the tension that he has never felt in this world for almost two months, and there is still an hour before he will be on the field as the head coach of the team to direct the game, this is not a drill, not a friendly match, but a real knife and a gun to enter the green battlefield.

Team captain David. Chadwick saw Lu Wei's nervousness, walked over and patted Lu Wei's shoulder: "Head, you don't need to be nervous, everyone has the first time, you look back at them, don't you still believe in our strength?" The victory of the first game of the new season, we have already booked, you guys say yes, guys?!

"That's right! The victory is ours! A group of young people in red jerseys shouted from the bus.

Lu Wei looked at every face in the carriage, the older ones were closing their eyes, the younger ones were either chatting or staring out the window, and they didn't feel the tension at all, only Mane, who had never played a game, was a little stiff, sitting on the seat of the bus like a good student, Lu Wei smiled secretly, yes, what is there to be nervous, this is only the seventh level of the event, it's still early before I should be nervous, I believe in myself, I believe in my players more, Will definitely win this game!

Arrived at Marin Tourist Stadium, got off the bus, Lu Wei went straight to the locker room waiting for the players to finish warming up, when all the players and coaches were crowded in the small locker room, Lu Wei opened his eyes that seemed to be restful, at this time the players seemed to see two fires, and they couldn't help but get emotional. Lu Wei looked at everyone and said:

"Let me announce the starting list first, goalkeeper Sam Ashton, right-back Kyle Jacobs, central defender Scott McManus and Tyrone. Mings, left-back Lee. Neville, defender Nick Pratt, centrefielder Jack Cottrell and Sam. Klucas, right winger Carlos Rocca, left winger Mane, striker Jamie. Vardy. Substitutes Dave Watson, Jonatão. Cross, David. Chadwick, Simon. Carden and Matthew Wolfenden. I won't say much about the tactical arrangement, usually you all know in training, the guard should play the ball quickly, Jack is the metronome of the attack, the rhythm of the attack is directed by him, if Jack is limited, give the ball to the two wingers, whether to forward or play with the two of you freely, feed Jamie the ball, you all know his scoring ability. Jamie, as long as it suits you, play the goal, not afraid to waste opportunities, I have no other requirements for this game, there is only one, you must win!

"Oooo In a roar of shouts, FC United players walked onto the pitch with their fists in gear. In this group of players, although most of them are old quacks who have worked in the amateur league for many years, there is Tyrone. Future Premier League giants like Mins and Lucas, with top stars like Mane and Jamie Vardy up front, should have little problem for FC United to win at this level of competition, according to Lu Wei's idea.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the game, although it was away, FC United launched a fierce attack on Marin. Mane and Carlos frequently attack each other's defenses on the wing, although Carlos is only mixed in the low-level league, but his speed is fast, Marin's left-back can not block his impact at all, and the defender side is even worse, Mane although still young but also has the style of the later life, under the guidance of Lu Wei Mane's inside cut and shot has made a high improvement. The biggest threat was Jamie Vardy, who had already completed three shots in the first 10 minutes, but the quality of the interference was not high.

Marin tried to organize the attack several times but stopped abruptly in front of the goal, Klucas and Pratt had a large range of running in midfield, and Tyrone was also active in pressing and intercepting, there was no way to face such an attack and defense Marin.

In the 23rd minute, FC United finally scored the first goal of the new season, Cottrell and Carlos controlled the rhythm with a pass on the right, attracting the attention of the opposing defender to the right side and suddenly kicked to left-back Neville, Neville quickly inserted the ball to Mane before the opposing player came up, at this time Mane directly inserted a knife into the box, used speed to throw off the left-back who was chasing back, and stopped sharply to avoid the central defender's frontal defense. After passing the ball to Vardy in the middle before the opposing defender broke his foot, Vardy easily pushed his right foot into the near corner, and the opposing goalkeeper only had time to make a downward motion, 1-0.

Lu Wei raised his hands and ran to the side of the stadium excitedly to celebrate with the players, and on the other side of the stadium, more than 100 fans who came to the away stadium with the team were also cheering, although there were only more than 100 people, and they also made enough noise in this small stadium. Seeing the team leading, the leaders of the fan organization took the lead in singing:

"This badge is your badge, This badge is Mine

badge, Three stripes and three sails

, Oh what a fine badge,

They tried to take it."

But we replaced it,

On the shirt of United FC！ "

“So come on cheer the boys,

FC make some noise,

We go wild wild wild,

We go wild wild wild！"

The FC United players, who heard the fans' singing, played harder, and under Corretel's organization, Mane and Carlos frequently launched attacks on the wing, and Vardy once again had a good chance, only to hit the post and pop up the baseline.

FC United's frequent impact on the opponent's penalty area allowed Marin players to compress the defense, targeting Vardy and the two wingers, but neglected the defensive intensity outside the box, and in the 41st minute, Klucas's assist Corretel's long-range shot from 28 meters from the goal caught the goalkeeper off guard, and goalkeeper McMahon watched the football into the net, 2-0.

In the 43rd minute, Marin wanted to take advantage of FC United just celebrated the goal counterattack, a straight kick to find a striker but was destroyed by a sliding tackle by Tyrone, in the 44th minute, Marin launched an attack on the left side, broke through Jacobs' defense and passed to the center, the striker's shot was interfered with by Pratt, Ashton confiscated the ball, threw the ball to launch a counterattack, Neville passed to Mane, Mane broke through the full-back's defense with a boost, took the ball to the box and looked at Vardy's position before choosing his own shot, Bad luck hit the column.

At halftime, Lu Wei explained that the back line should be stable, do not take it lightly, do not rush the attack, we should be stable when we control the ball, ensure the success rate of passing, the opponent should press the ball in the midfield, and when they make mistakes, they praised the state of the players. In the second half, Lu Wei replaced captain Chadwick with Tyrone's solid defense, which did not stop FC United's attacking pace.

In the 77th minute, Pratt broke the ball in midfield and immediately counterattacked, substitute Jonatão was blocked by a defender in a cross from the wing, Corretel sent a corner kick, in the chaos in the box, Vardy broke away from the defense and rubbed in front, the ball went around the goalkeeper's arm and scored into the goal, 3-0.

A 3-0 win made it easy for the team to return to Burleigh, the team resumed training after only one day off, in the English lower league, the game schedule is very tight, the Northern League Super Group has a total of 22 teams, to play 42 games, plus the FA Cup and FA Cup Winners' Cup, basically a team has to play a game every 4 days, there is no winter break.

At this time, the Chinese medicine team hired by Lu Wei played a role, and after returning to the Jige Lane stadium after the game, all the players were arranged to do a collective recovery massage, and the players who did not play also gave a simple muscle massage. And when the team gathered, in front of them were two dark brown Chinese medicine soups, and suddenly someone had a gumelon face, but some people were curious, they had never heard of Chinese medicine like this, and they did not know the bitterness of Chinese medicine.

After Lu Wei asked the Chinese medicine doctor in the team to talk about the magic of Chinese medicine and the effect of medicinal soup, most of the players were surprised, massage had also heard of it, and the effect of Chinese medicine and acupuncture on the human body was a bit fanciful for them. When Lu Wei asked who wanted to drink first, no one stood up to see that no one was willing to try, captain Chadwick took the initiative to step forward and took the bowl from the Chinese doctor, looked at the team members behind and the head coach in front of him and said: "I used to drink Chinese medicine when I had a severe cold, I believe in the magic of Chinese medicine, and I also believe that the coach will not harm us, I am the first to drink." After speaking, he closed his eyes and drank a bowl of Chinese medicine.

"It's okay, it's not bitter, normal people can drink it." Chadwick deserved to be the captain, or took the lead.

The second one out was Mane, this kid was not afraid of the sky, thinking that as long as it was helpful for training and competitions, no matter how hard I drank, I would dry the bowl of soup in two bites. The other FC United players saw that the captain and Mane from Africa had drunk the medicine, and they also stepped forward to drink the medicine.

Since then, drinking Chinese medicine has become a tradition of FC United, the team will arrange players to collectively carry out TCM massage and Chinese medicine conditioning according to the intensity of the game and training, and in the future, when FC United's medical team and facilities are becoming fuller, acupuncture, cupping and other methods are also added to help players recover their fitness and maintain their condition.