Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

Brighton is a seaside city located in the south of England, Brighton and Hove football club was founded as early as 1901, a century before FC United, long in the top flight, but in the 90s due to financial crisis, the team's poor performance made them relegated, and due to huge debt, the team was continuously relegated to the then third division, and the club had to sell the team's home stadium - Goldstone Stadium to pay off debts, and did not get its current home until 2000 - Lease rights for Westdam Stadium. Last year, Tony Bloom, president of a specialist football betting consultancy, bought a 75% stake in the club to become the club's new chairman and invested £93 million to build a brand new stadium that is scheduled to open next season, so Western's stadium will also be the last season for the Brightons.

With a huge investment, Brighton bought 17 players this summer, including many veterans who came from the Premier League, and the team's most famous is undoubtedly striker Chris on loan from West Bromwich Albion. Wood, the future New Zealand national team's all-time top scorer who is not yet 20 years old, was loaned to Brighton and worked out while his partner Ashley. Barnes is the team's top scorer, in the future the two will also reunite at Burnley to continue to partner, in the face of such a strong and tacit forward combination, Lu Wei is very distressed, a week ago Lu Wei was still very confident, felt that although his team's strength can not reach the level of the Championship, even in the League One is also relegation strength, fight hard to play well is not a chance for Brighton, but when I see Brighton's squad, I suddenly slammed the table, which is a League One team, this forward combination can score twenty or thirty goals in the Championship, The defense also has Lewis. Dunk and Steven. Cook, these two fierce people in the Premier League, although they are not old and do not have the same strength as the future, but they will definitely be sent to us to exercise their level in this game.

Lu Wei and the coaching staff watched the recent Brighton game video, looked at the pace of the game four levels higher than themselves, and did not come up with any good countermeasures, unanimously believing that Brighton is not the current FC United can beat, the only chance is that Brighton will send some young players to participate in the competition to play a role in training.

On 17 November 2010, FC United entered the Westdam Stadium to prepare for the FA Cup match with Brighton, and the starting line-up Lu Wei produced a different line-up than usual, goalkeeper Sam Ashton, right-back Jonatang. Cross, three centre-backs Chadwick, McManus and Tyrone all came on, left-back Jerome Wright, defender Pratt, centre-backs Corretel and Sam. Hewson, with Wolfenden and Vardy in his forward partners, cannot play without a labour certification because the FA Cup is part of the FA competition.

Brighton's side, on the other hand, is the traditional 442, and the forward combination that Lu Wei fears does not all play, only Chris . Wood enters the starting line-up, Ashley. Barnes did not make the squad, which relieved Lu Wei.

In the dressing room, Lu Wei shouted to the players: "This is the first time we have reached the second round of the FA Cup, but not the first time we have played against League One teams, in the last round we beat Rochdale, who only sent substitutes, and Brighton only played young players to deal with us, obviously they don't see us as opponents worth playing our full strength, do they think we are an amateur team?" Go on the field and let them see the anger from the amateur team, let's go! "

FC United said it was a back five, but it was actually Lu Wei who learned from Conte's 352 wing-back formation, Jerome Wright has good attacking ability, the entire left wing is competent, and Jonatão. Clos was originally made to the French national team by playing in the wing-back position, Tyrone. Mins is also a good left-footed defender, FC United also has three midfielders who can run and organize, plus two strikers who have won the Premier League Golden Boot, FC United at this time can be said to have the shadow of the future Juventus.

Brighton saw the other side put on a five-back formation and thought that FC United was afraid, and he kept pressing FC United to play in the opening game, but he didn't expect to meet strong resistance just after advancing to the midfield, five midfielders plus Vardy who returned to defense, six people formed a cooperative defense in the middle, Brighton was difficult to push forward, and finally passed the ball to the feet of the forward, McManus and Tyrone stared at a striker so that they did not have a good chance, long passes and straight plugs to find behind them were also dissolved by Chadwick and Ashton, and Brighton's field is full of young players, and they don't know how to play in the face of such unfamiliar tactics, just passing back and forth to find opportunities. And as long as the ball is at the feet of the Brighton defenders, FC United's two wingbacks and two strikers come up to press, several times almost missed, the backfield can not control the ball, the midfield can not push forward, the striker has no chance to shoot, and FC United does not dare to invest too many people to attack, only Wolfenden and Vardy counterattack did not pose a threat, the scene was stalemated for a while.

Lu Wei saw on the sidelines that the team's counterattack was not efficient, and he was also very anxious, thinking that as long as he could play once, he took advantage of the dead ball opportunity to call Vardy to the sidelines, "Jamie, now you and Matthew are too inefficient in the counterattack, go and tell Jack not to pass the ball directly to the front court, look at the space of the ribs of the two defenders, pass the low flat ball there, don't rush to pass, feel that there is no opportunity to control the ball and hand it to the two sides, and when you see a good opportunity, you will stuff a kick Matthew to be responsible for attracting the attention of the defenders, You just rush forward, be careful not to offside, and then you follow the cooperation in training to give me ideas to get that damn ball into the opponent's goal. Vardy

immediately conveyed the news to Corretel and Wolfenden after receiving the military order, and Jerome was in possession of the ball, but he quickly lost possession under Brighton's defense, Brighton quickly transferred the ball to the right of FC United, and passed the ball to Chris with three feet. Wood, Wood shook the fooled Tyrone with a feint, and Pratt arrived in time to knock him down, otherwise it would be dangerous to let him into the box.

Brighton won a free-kick in front, only 31 meters from the goal, but the angle was not good, whether it was a direct shot or a pass, Brighton's two central defenders also came to the box to grab the point, leaving only two full-backs behind. Lu Wei saw this scene off the field and immediately stood up, this is a good opportunity, as long as he defends this kick. Chris. Wood stood in front of the ball, it seemed that he wanted to play directly, FC United lined up a four-man wall to defend, Corretel was on the far right of the human wall, standing on the wall waiting for the referee's whistle, Corretel suddenly saw that the opponent's front waist was not in the box but waiting in the middle of the midfield, and he left a mental eye in his heart.

Sure enough, after the referee blew the whistle, Chris. Wood feigned a shot, but the ball was diverted into the no-man's land in the middle, and Brighton's front waist ran towards the ball, and it was seen that he was going to shoot vigorously. Corretel did not jump up with the wall of people, but in the midst of Chris. Wood ran to the ball as soon as he picked it up, and Chris Smith. Wood's speed of trying to control the force of the free throw was not very fast, and he took the ball in front of Brighton's front shot, and the counterattack began!

Corretel passed the ball to Vardy at the first time, and at this time Vardy was 5 meters away from the closest distance between the two full-backs, Vardy led the ball and began to sprint, and when the full-backs approached, they directly took the ball, bypassing the defenders and running forward, the two defenders one defender was clinging to Wolfenden, and the other was chasing Vardy, but he found that Vardy was getting farther and farther away from him, and he couldn't do it if he wanted to reach out and foul, but in 6 seconds, Vardy rushed into the box and saw Brighton's goalkeeper Casper. With Ankgren still standing in front of the goalline, Vardy adjusted his pace and swung it with his right foot before hitting the ball into the near corner.

In the cheers, Lu Wei and the people on the bench all stood up and rushed to Vardy, and Vardy rushed to Corretel, it was Corretel's flash of inspiration that created the goal, which should be the first merit, otherwise if Brighton were allowed to play that well-prepared long-range shot, it would be FC United who was behind at this time. In the 39th minute of the first half, FC United led Brighton 1-0 away.