Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

Back in the league, FC United claimed their first professional league win with a 2-1 win over Exeter City, with Mane and Moore both contributing. Seven days later, the 0-3 away win against Wycombe slapped the media who were not optimistic about FC United's prospects at the beginning of the season, McReis, who had not been in the starting lineup for a long time, played well, passing and shooting, and the in-form Moore had squeezed Akinfinwa on the bench, scoring twice in this game, and the excellent performance made Hogan also have to compete for the position of right winger.

Now FC United's intra-team competition atmosphere is very good, except for Pickford, Robertson and Mane's main position is unshakable, other positions can not distinguish between the main player and the substitute, Dragp and Dawson two famous players will not have the number of appearances due to age, learn the qualifications of coaches around Lu Wei and Ferran.

Tactical training and technical training is now the focus of FC United's training, Lu Wei watched many team training videos in his previous life, and he also knows a little about the team's training, not to mention that the theory learned in school in this world is Lu Wei's precious wealth, with future ideological vision, profound theoretical accumulation, coupled with Ferran's words and deeds, Lu Wei will become an excellent head coach in the future even if he does not rely on stars.

But at this time, it is still necessary to consolidate the basic ability for the current FC United, most players have not been exposed to the professional league before, not only the change in the rhythm of the game, but also the training intensity, technical movements and eating habits will change, simply put, the difference between amateur and professional, just like even if you are a master Kennan who has played tens of thousands of games in League of Legends, you can't beat THE HY, who plays crocodiles with one hand while eating.

Since the beginning of this season, FC United's daily training sessions have become very standardized and compact, starting at 9 am, the whole team is divided into three groups for an hour of cyclic warm-up and stretching, followed by two hours of technical training, including ball sense, passing, shooting, heading and other basic technical movements.

In the afternoon, there was tactical training and group confrontation training, Lu Wei organized players to conduct various tactical drills and cooperation exercises between players, and finally FC United's traditional part in the training session - group confrontation. Lu Wei and Ferran lead two or four teams, and the number of each team depends entirely on Lu Wei's thoughts that day, most of them are normal seven-on-seven or five-on-five, and sometimes arrange unbalanced games like seven-on-nine and six-on-seven, sometimes offensive players vs. defensive players, and sometimes Lu Wei even wants to let the players play in positions they are not good at for game practice, such as letting Rahmani play high school forward, let McRees play full-back, and even arrange some new tactics to observe the players' performance in training.

FC United, who had been grinding tactics, finally overturned, losing 3-1 at home to relegated Portsmouth from League One, and although Mane took the lead for the team in the 9th minute, Lahmani made consecutive mistakes in the backline, the first goal was a defensive set-piece missed, the second was a one-on-one defense, FC United were one goal behind in the first half.

In the second half, Portsmouth showed the professionalism of a League One team, and the solid backline repeatedly failed FC United, but was seized by Portsmouth before the end of the game to fight back, and Klukas was also broken by the opponent in the physical collision and needed to rest for a while.

On the 27th, the second round of the League Cup match, Edward Edward who made his first appearance for FC United. Mendy failed to deliver a qualified answer, and Bolton, who were half-main, half-substitute, beat the Reds 2-0 to advance to the next round.

The in-form FC United are now only Mane and Moore in good form, and the game against Dagnham has both contributed to the game, among which Mane also took advantage of the opposing goalkeeper's mistake to score a 38-metre hanging goal, which was also named the best goal in League Two in August, and Mane also won the League Two Player of the Month award in August.

However, the FC United team did not have the same form as Mane, and when the international break arrived in September, Mane was transferred to the Senegal national team, and Robertson, Rahmani and Nicholson were also transferred from their respective national youth teams, at which point FC United lost 2-0 to last season's league rivals Newport County.

On September 14, it was thanks to Moore's two goals on the penalty area line to win York City 0-2 away from home, but seven days later they exchanged 0-0 with Northampton, and after eight rounds, they were in fifth place with 4 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats and 14 points, but league leaders Northampton only had 15 points, and Sokenspur United, Dagnham and York City had 14 points, and the competition for promotion places was fierce at the start of the season.

FC United won a draw, won and lost a game made the coaching staff very worried, but Lu Wei still focused his daily training on tactical running-in, the progress of FC United players is still obvious, although Lazari is not very adapted to life in England, but has gradually understood what the team's tactics need to do, Rahmani and Edward. Mendy gradually became a professional player after three months of professional system training, but he was not yet able to gain a foothold in the first team, but fortunately with Roberts, a veteran, on the back line, it would not cause too much confusion in the back line.

In December, FC United, which gradually entered the state, has rarely lost, and its place in the league has not fallen, currently ranking second after 19 rounds with 11 wins, 3 draws, 5 losses and 36 points, but unfortunately also lost to Chesfield on penalties in the Vanguard Winners' Cup, but it is not without good news, FC United's strikers were quite powerful in the first half of the season, Moore 10 goals and 3 assists, Mane 9 goals and 6 assists, Hogan 6 goals, Akinfinwa 3 goals, Bowen has not yet scored but has 3 assists, Naismith and McReis have also scored two goals, and the strong offensive ability temporarily covers the defensive deficiencies, which also allows Lu Wei and the coaching staff to continue to strengthen the daily training of defenders.

FC United's journey to the FA Cup also entered the second round smoothly, with an 8-1 victory giving FC United a shot in the arm, and Oldham Athletic scored three goals in the second half after conceding a goal in the first half, and won 1-3 to advance to the third round. However, when the FA Cup third round draw results were announced, everyone sighed for FC United, against the opponent of FC United on the table is the Premier League giants - Reds Liverpool, this is the first time FC United has met the real powerhouse since the establishment of the team, Lu Wei saw this result in front of the computer, silently clenched his fists.