Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

Heading into December, FC United will first face the third round of the FA Cup, against League Two side Walsall, and the huge lead in the league allows FC United to prepare for history in the cup without pressure. FC United's previous best result in the FA Cup was in the third round, losing to League One champions Brighton in the second round in the 10-11 season, and to League Two side Sokensp United in the third round last season, and this year Lu Wei set his team's goal in the FA Cup at least reaching the fourth round, that is, winning Walsall.

Walsall was relegated to League Two after finishing 20th in League One in the 10-11 season and is currently ranked in the middle of League Two, while FC United's current advantage in the National League makes it unanimously believed that FC United is stronger than Walsall. However, Lu Weike thinks so, the football field does not rely on who has high strength and low strength can divide the victory and defeat, otherwise the Premier League will award the championship to the most expensive team every year.

Walsall is not very far from Manchester, the whole team is more than an hour away by bus, although the home stadium is called Banksy Stadium, but Walsall and England's legendary goalkeeper Gordon. Banksy has nothing to do with it, the stadium that can accommodate 11,000 people is empty, Lu Wei looked at the scene and there were more than 2,000 spectators, and 800 people were FC United fans, which shows that Walsall's popularity in the local area is low.

After the start of the game, Walsall was also obviously inferior to FC United in form, as soon as FC United controlled the game in the first game, Akinfenwa and Moore were on the bench in this game, the starting striker was Wolfenden, and Mane and McRees formed the lightning trident, three fast players frequently created chaos in Walsall's backfield, and the three people have been running in different positions, so that Walsall's defense can not catch FC United's offensive line, midfielder Klucas, Suarez and Thayer are also players with a lot of movement, not to mention the two full-backs Robertson and Jonatang, who have already sprinted back and forth for food.

Lu Wei's tactics in this game are very simple, that is, running, through a large number of runs and transfer balls to consume Walsall's physical fitness, although both sides are 3 days later is the league game, but FC United has used a rotation lineup in the last round of the league, and the 11 people who started today have all been rested, and Walsall still needs to fight for relegation, it is impossible to have reservations in the league, so Walsall who can only deal with the game with 70% of the state faces FC United who is 100% in full state, Victory and defeat can be imagined.

Finally, in the 28th minute, Walsall was hit, Mane came to the center with the ball and McClay made a wall-hitting cooperation after breaking through Walsall's backline, dribbled into the right side of the box, and suddenly reversed a triangle return pass near the small penalty area, and Suarez who inserted the ball directly pushed the ball, the ball flew into the upper left corner of the goal with a strong rotation, the goalkeeper was out of reach, FC United led 0-1 away from home.

Suarez was also very excited after scoring a goal, this goal is his first goal of the season, last season FC United introduced Suarez who played in the League Two after thinking that he could replace Corretel as the core of the midfield, but Suarez who came to the amateur league is in average form, more to share playing time with Corretel, although Corretel is gone this season, but Lucas can take on more of the role of playmaker after two seasons of training, And from the Irish Premier League brought in Higgins, Suarez was completely reduced to a substitute this season, this year is only 27 years old, of course, he is not willing to continue like this, early last year he vowed to Lu Wei that he would lead FC United to the second division, but the decline in form and underestimation of the ability of other FC United players made Suarez doubt himself, and this time to break the goal of the League Two team also allowed Suarez to break the shackles of the heart of the year.

Walsall, who conceded a goal at home, was certainly not willing to fall behind, and wanted to organize an attack to equalize the score after reopening the ball, but Mane and Wolfenden retreated to the midfield to participate in the defense, leaving McReis waiting for a chance to counterattack in front. All of a sudden, FC United's midfield hoarded five midfielders and-stirring sticks, and the continuous pressure made Walsall make a series of mistakes, just 7 minutes later, Suarez broke the ball in midfield, and then directly a big foot pass to a large open area in front of the field, McClay played the advantage of speed at this time, only 2 seconds to completely throw off the defender, caught up with the football before the goalkeeper came out to solve the siege, and avoided the goalkeeper's defensive range in a trip to the side, sending the ball into the empty goal, 0:2.

Walsall also failed to complete a shot for the rest of the first half, the pace of the game was driven by FC United Walsall players ran two kilometers more than usual, most of the people were gasping for air at halftime, Walsall head coach thought for a moment and decided to abandon the FA Cup and leave his strength to the league. In the second half, Lu Wei knew that the other party had surrendered after seeing the opponent replace the two cores, and also directed the players on the field to slow down the pace and switch to positional battles, and replaced McClay and Robertson in 56 minutes, replacing Moore and Nicholson, strengthening the threat of the box and stabilizing the backcourt defense, and also allowing the two players to save some physical energy.

In the 74th minute, Ruonatang crossed from the right, Moore's header was blocked by the goalkeeper, but Moore's follow-up shot made the goalkeeper only wave, 0:3, FC United won the third round of the FA Cup and advanced to the next round.

After the game, the team celebrated briefly away and was ready to take the bus back to Manchester, Lu Wei also took out his mobile phone to turn on the sound, usually on all game days Lu Wei turned off the mobile phone sound in the morning to prevent being disturbed. Lu Wei was startled when he looked at his mobile phone, several missed calls, and saw that the communicator turned out to be Barbara, a Hungarian beauty she met on the plane in the summer. Parvin, Lu Wei looked puzzled and thought about what she was looking for me, so he asked the players to pack up first, walked out of the locker room and called Barbara back.

"Hey, Barbara?"

"Of course it's me, the big coach is really busy, I didn't answer several calls." A mocking voice came from the other side of the phone.

"I'm sorry, the team has a game today, and I muted the bell all day."

"Of course I know you have a game, don't I play it all before you play? Who knows you don't look at your phone for a day, and guess where I am now? "

How do you know I have a game today, you shouldn't go to Manchester, come to our club and find me there only to find out I'm not there, right?" Lu Wei thought he had guessed correctly.

"No, why should I go to the door of your club to find you, I'm right outside the stadium where you just played, I just watched your game, you guys are so good, you won a team one level higher than you so easily."

“Waht？ How did you watch the game here? Where are you, I'll go find you.

"I'll be at the north gate of the stadium, I'll talk to you when you find me." After speaking, a busy signal came from the phone.

Lu Wei was also a little puzzled by this, not knowing how the female fan who met Pingshui was here, so he explained to Chadwick that the team did not have to wait for him to return directly to Manchester and walked out of the stadium to the north gate to find Barbara. Because Walsall lost the game, the fans withdrew quickly, there were few people at the north gate now, and Lu Wei saw the two girls standing under the pillar at the north gate from a distance, quickened their pace and hurried over.