Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

FC United have five league games to play ahead of the FA Cup match with Liverpool on January 5, but Lu Wei received two bad news, Lazzari suffered a thigh ligament strain in the FA Cup and may be absent for three months, and goalkeeper Pickford also strained his calf in training, and it is still unknown whether he can catch the match against Liverpool.

The right-back position is fine, Nicholson is a qualified rotation player, and Peterson and Rahmani can also play in this position, but Edward . Mendy still needs a lot of training to solidify his basic skills, and he is not up to the standards of professional footballers, especially the high-altitude ball, which has been scored a lot in daily training.

But Lu Wei now has no other way, the transfer market has not yet opened, and it is impossible to buy another goalkeeper for more than a month, the third goalkeeper Olerenshaw and Mendibi are only half a pound and eight taels, although it is a Liverpool youth training, but the ability is limited, unbearable to be reused, as a third goalkeeper is still possible, unless Mendy can not play to have the opportunity to play, Lu Wei sighed, this month's training can only work on defense.

FC United's next round of league opponents is Wimbledon, but now Wimbledon is no longer the "mad gang" of the past, the club moved out of Wimbledon in 2002 for stadium reasons, moved to southeast London to rebuild into a new football club, that is, now Milton Keynes, similar to FC United, as the team moved out of the original area, a large number of local fans protested this behavior, and finally in Eric. Under Samuelson's leadership, fans formed a new Wimbledon, AFC Wimbledon, and declared that any club based in Milton Keynes could not represent the 130-year-old Wimbledon football team, and better than FC United, AFC Wimbledon played from the 8th division and took 7 years to establish a foothold in League Two, and Lowe knew that AFC Wimbledon would return to League One in two years.

From this point of view, FC United and AFC Wimbledon are a pair of brothers and sisters, but the difference is that AFC Wimbledon can now rely on the Dons Trust Fund to maintain the daily expenses of the club, while FC United although the chairman is Andy. Walsh, the club fund also comes from member donations, but behind it is the support of Lu Wei, a rich man, FC United's ceiling is much higher than AFC Wimbledon, the current era is not the pure football era of 20 years ago, the arrival of the golden era has broken the original football structure, the rise of Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City and the sinking of Nottingham Forest, Hamburg and Leeds United are the best examples.

Closer to home, when Lu Wei walked into the Baoya Lane Stadium, the first thing he saw was the sign that he would supposedly never take off: "WE DON'T BUY HISTORY, WE MAKE IT!" "We don't buy history, we make history" This is also what Lu Wei and FC United feel the same way, opposing the power of capital to affect the normal operation of the team, Manchester United sold shares to Greze, Glazer raised the ticket to a price that ordinary fans could not afford, the crazy gang moved away from their roots for stadium tickets, can capital and fans really not coexist? Lu Wei asked himself deeply on this field.

Lu Wei, who was emotionally affected, failed to direct the game well, failed to make effective adjustments when the situation on the field changed, and AFC Wimbledon also played an extraordinary level in the face of FC United, the "little brother", FC United also lost this "fan derby" in the end, Mendy's high-altitude ball control still needs to be exercised, and the two goals conceded were all brought by crosses from the wing. After returning to Newton Heath, Edward also consciously practiced himself on the training ground every day, calling his cousin Friend and compatriot Mane to practice judging and intercepting high-altitude balls every day.

Edward still needs to be honed to become a big gate in FC United's backline, but fortunately, FC United's attacking group has played well, and in the Devil's Christmas schedule from December 21 to January 1, eight goals in four games, two wins and two draws unbeaten record keep them in second place in the league, and the two draws are still rotations made to maintain the fitness of the players, when the 1-1 draw with Burton Albion, FC United are about to face the strongest opponent of all time - Liverpool.

Liverpool have brought in goalkeeper Mignolet this season, defenders Nicolas Sacco and Kolo. Toure, midfielder Alberto and striker Aspas have strengthened the thickness of the squad and sought to return to the Champions League, and the attacking combination of Raheem Sterling, Suarez and Philippe Coutinho has been bloody in the Premier League this season, and although they have not left their most brilliant careers in Liverpool, the power of these three at this time is far from what FC United can resist.

However, FC United is not without a chance, Lu Wei knows that this season is Liverpool is the closest to a league title in a decade, if not for Gerrard's continuous low-level mistakes, this season's Premier League title will not fall into the hands of Manchester City, although FC United has English media known as Manchester United second team, but Liverpool will not put too much energy on FC United.

Just as Lu Wei thought, Rodgers only let the Liverpool coach collect the video of the first two games of FC United, and Lu Wei all rotated these two games, leaving only Moore and Mane, the two main players, because one of them is the second in the scorers list, the other is the first in the assist list, these data cannot be hidden, it is better to directly tell Rogers, Moore and Mane are the two core of our team.

And in this game, Lu Wei's real killer skill is on the right wing, and Liverpool's main left-back is Jose. Luis Enrique, however, has suffered a knee injury since the start of the season and is unavailable, and the only left-back option is France international Ali on loan from Valencia. Sissoko, and in Lu Wei's mind, Sissoko is not a qualified defender at all, the defense is hairy, it is easy to rush to lose the defensive position, if not for Enrique's serious injury and could not play, I am afraid that Rogers would not choose to loan Sissoko, and another substitute left-back Brand. Smith is even less frightened, just 19 years old and still playing in reserve.

And Liverpool's right-back Glenn. Johnson is nowhere near in shape as he used to be, with Flanagan and Martin. Kelly's rookie was limited, and Liverpool's problems with two full-backs were not resolved until Kroup's arrival, the promotion of Alexander-Arnold and the purchase of Robertson. The current Liverpool have problems defending on the wing, which is the weakness of FC United's fierce fight, and this game, Lu Wei intends to use Mane and Hogan to use flexibility on the wing to break through Liverpool's defense.

However, Liverpool did not rely on defensive results this season, Suarez, Raheem Sterling, Coutinho, Suso, Sturridge, each of them are famous stars, Lu Wei can only hope that Rodgers looks down on FC United and does not send all the main players on the field.

The pre-match training of the two teams is also a very different atmosphere, and the coaches and players of Liverpool, who have just won over Hull City, did not use FC United from League Two as their main opponent, and the training ground was relaxed. The FC United side is strengthening the players' running training, Lu Wei and Ferran frown and organize training on the side of the training ground, and the coaching staff meets every day after the training session to discuss how to deal with the details of each field and how to prevent Liverpool's attack.

Although Liverpool do not believe that FC United are equal opponents, FC United see Liverpool as a lifelong red enemy.