Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

With FC United remaining in September, FA Cup qualifying round 4, FC United's historic entry into the second round of the FA Cup last season and almost winning League One champion Brighton makes fans quite proud, not to mention that the FA Cup is the oldest football event in world history, and many English fans regard the FA Cup as more important than the Premier League or even the Champions League.

So in Lu Wei's heart, this season's FA Cup will not be easily given up, as far as he can go, but the four rounds of winless games in the league make the current FC United desperately need a victory to regain momentum, Lu Wei asked the players to give their best in the last game in September, so their opponent Roswell was out of luck.

Goalkeeper Pope, defenders Jonatang, Schaefer, Tyrone and Robertson who started for the first time, midfielders Draper, Hewson and Lucas, and up front McRess, Mane and Wolfenden. The average age of this set of starters is only 20.1 years old, and like Mane and Robertson are future top stars, Pope, Tyrone and Klucas are also Premier League stars in the future, Schaefer and Hewson are all big youth graduates, McRes and Draper also have the level of the Premier League in the future, and the only real amateur level in FC United's starting lineup is Wolfenden.

Lu Wei knows that in order to bring FC United to the Premier League, the change and elimination of personnel is essential, the old ministers in the team will soon be unable to keep up with the pace of the team's development, the immediate combat power introduced for promotion will also be eliminated after the team is upgraded, and the team's star players will also be poached by the big team before the team is promoted to the Premier League, and the only people who can really stay in the team may be the young people in the team.

In this game, Lu Wei handed over the captain's armband to Tyrone, the reason why FC United's state fluctuated in September, or it was rooted in Lu Wei's rotation, Lu Wei hid four veterans in these four games, deliberately arranged the players who came to the team for nearly two years to play, according to the chronological order of the team to arrange the captain, Vardy, Tyrone, Neville and Klukas respectively served as the captain of the first four games, although the effect was not good, but Lu Wei still saw some merit, Although Tyrone is young, he is very hard-working, and he can drive the enthusiasm of the back line when he is on the pitch, although he is still very young, but the future Aston Villa captain is currently doing well.

Facing an opponent three levels lower than himself, Lu Wei chose to let the players on the field play freely, and only said one sentence in the pre-match preparation, "If you lose this game, you can run from Gig Lane in the next away league game." "Knowing that FC United's next league rival Sollihull is 140km from Burleigh, which is longer than three marathons, which is not something these players can complete, and even if they do, they don't have the physical strength to race. So they took the frustration of the first four games out on Roswell.

This small team with the same name as the famous UFO incident suffered, the first starter Robertson performed the best, Robertson has been eating according to the dietitian Lu Wei invited for two months, Harris also specially developed a physical training plan for him, in just two months he grew 2cm taller and gained 5kg, although it is still a little thin, but it is no longer a small physique.

Robertson swept all of FC United's activities on the left flank in this game, forcing Mane to move to the middle to play nine-and-a-half, one goal, two assists and four steals, and Robertson, who started for the first time, delivered a perfect scorecard. Mane, Wolfenden and Hewson each scored as FC United won comfortably 4-0 in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup. And Tyrone's performance as a captain is also very satisfactory to Lu Wei, whether in the organization of defense or communication with teammates, Tyrone already has the appearance of a captain.

After this game, Tyrone officially wore the armband of FC United, and Lu Wei also discussed with Walsh to abolish this tacit rule next season, the captain and two vice-captains will be appointed directly by the head coach, maintaining the tradition of arranging the captain's order for the length of time in the team, and will be postponed when the three captains are not on the field.

FC United have started the point-grabbing mode, losing only three league games in the remaining 24 games in 2011, and FC United are in third place with 15 wins, 10 draws, 5 losses and 55 points after 30 league rounds, only 2 and 3 points away from the top two Brenttree City and Droylesden, the northern division of the National League can only be promoted directly if they win the championship, the second to fifth place has to play the promotion play-offs, and the sixth place is only 5 points away from FC United, the competition for promotion places is very fierce.

In the second round of the FA Cup, which fell last year, FC United beat League B rivals Bristol Rangers 1-0 to successfully enter the third round, although it was only a small goal loss to Scunthorpe United, also a League Two team, but in the FA Cup Winners' Cup they won consecutive matches, successive victories over Genzboro and Stoke Harbour to reach the second round.

Vardy is the best player in FC United during this time, although he has not yet completed a hat-trick, but he has scored 32 goals in 30 games in consecutive games, and is likely to break the goal record in his league again, Mane and McReis, the two wingers are also playing well, Mane has 11 goals and 13 assists, and again has a double-double before the end of the league, although McReis has only scored 3 goals, but has given 16 assists. The wind-like speed allowed him to frequently enter the box and send crosses.

However, under the offensive data of the scenery, FC United's back line is still frequently problematic, although Tyrone has performed well after becoming the captain but is still too young, often grabbing in the game is easy to lose position, Shafor and the back line cooperation is not very tacit, Ruonatang is more suitable for the right winger than the right back, the gap in the back line on the right side is still obvious after the front assist, Draper's every time the complement is not very timely, he is also more suitable for stable defense in the center, Robertson, who had high hopes for Lu Wei, was only 17 years old and was far from growing up.

The midfield is the most unbreakable combination of FC United, Klukas has firmly established his main position, Suarez also defeated FC United's former best player Corretel in the competition at the heart of the organization, although Draper is not fast, running and moving is not as good as Pratt, but in the improvement of the defensive hardness of the midfield is not Pratt's, when Draper is on the field, there are fewer holes in the backline, and it also frees Tyrone to allow him to insert assists more often.

Although Lu Wei said that he wants to play rotation and determine the main position based on the player's condition, the main position has remained almost unchanged after entering October, and England still only allows 5 substitutes in the squad, so some players have no chance to play at all, and they want to leave after a long time. Not only that, FC United's outstanding performance was also seen by other teams, and some players in FC United were stretched out.

In this state, Lu Wei and FC United ushered in 2012.