Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

On January 5, 2014 at Anfield Stadium, more than 44,000 spectators poured into the stadium to watch the FA Cup match between Liverpool and FC United, due to the special status of FC United, the match also received a lot of media attention, in the pre-match interview, Lu Wei rarely appeared in public, but unlike usual, Lu Wei said in an interview that FC United's goal now is only to relegate in the League Two, and the FA Cup can play against Liverpool is a good professional experience for players. Such a low-profile performance also made the players in the team scratch their heads, obviously not said so in yesterday's training session.

Lu Wei thought to himself, this is called showing the enemy to be weak, and the broad and profound Chinese art of war is the same when applied to the football field. Sure enough, Rodgers only sent four main players in this game, Toure, Henderson, Sterling and captain Gerrard, the goalkeeper was substitute goalkeeper Jones, right-back Kelly, Toure's central defender partner was Ager, left-back Sissoko, forward Moses, and the other two forwards were two new Spanish signings Alberto and Aspas.

FC United's starting lineup is goalkeeper Edward. Mendy, right-back Nicholson, centre-backs Tyrone and Roberts, left-back Lu Wei opted for veteran Dawson due to some concerns, three midfielders Carter, Klucass and Granmes, the forward combination of Hogan, Mane and Akinfinwa, and Robertson and Moore were on the bench.

Anfield's aura of more than 40,000 people overwhelmed FC United will be a little breathless, used to playing with low-level teams FC United can not keep up with the rhythm of Liverpool at all, except for Akinfinwa everyone is guarding their own half, usually in the League Two to let the opponent deal with the overwhelming pressing tactics was simply solved by Liverpool, FC United played the best but the veteran Dawson, Sterling in front of this old rivers and lakes consecutive attempts to break through have not succeeded, However, FC United tried to find an opportunity to counterattack but could not do it at all, the midfield was completely controlled by Liverpool, and the long pass to find two wingers was also unsuccessful under Henderson's defense.

The audience has been filled with the unfamiliar singing of FC United players, the deafening sound has made them lose their previous level, even Mane is lost in the front court does not know how to break through Liverpool's defense, but Dawson and Roberts stabilized the military in time, and the defense has not yet been lost.

But keeping it all the way is not the result Lu Wei wants, taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity to call Hogan over, "Scott, I don't understand what you're afraid of, Sissoko is just a big old man, it's easy for you to be fooled by a few feints, Ager turns around slowly, let Akinfinwa carry him, remember the blocking tactics I taught you during training, just do it, go and tell Sam, how straight is not afraid of mistakes, seize the opportunity, the opponent is a Premier League team what's wrong, still trample them under their feet." FC

United gradually regained the feeling of the game in Lu Wei's shouts from the sidelines, but Liverpool scored before they could attack, Sterling pretended to break through on the wing but suddenly crossed, the captain Gerrard inserted in the middle flicked his head to score, Liverpool led 1-0 at home, and suddenly the huge wave created by 40,000 fans doused the momentum that FC United had just ignited.

After the re-kick-off, several straight cuts by Klucasse were also obtained by Liverpool before Hogan and Mane, and only Mane completed a shot in the entire first half, which was still blocked by Toure, and at halftime, Lu Wei looked at the players' low mood and slapped the table fiercely.

"You all look up for me, why, it's just one goal behind and you're about to throw in the towel? I know that Liverpool is now second in the Premier League, we are second in League Two, just a substitute striker Aspas is worth more than 20 people in our squad combined, so what, such a big gap in the first half we only conceded one goal, everyone thought we would lose, do you think so, do I think only I think you can beat Liverpool at Anfield, if that's the case then I won't say anything, if not for the substitution of only 3, I want to replace you all and get players who want to win.

"No, coach, I want to win." Mane was the first to raise his hand, followed by the second and third, "I want to win." "I want to too." "Whoever says we must lose." "With 45 minutes to go, let's get back."

Lu Wei slapped his hand on the tactical board, "Then since you don't want to lose, then pick up the spirit of wanting to win, see what you did in the first half, the players who did not lose to Liverpool lost to the Anfield fans, let me play well in the face." "

In the second half, when the Liverpool players FC United Manchester ran towards them with red eyes, they played a stir, and for a while they were controlled by FC United, but the giants are giants after all, and they stabilized the position with a slight adjustment, but FC United played a beautiful match in the 54th minute, Grimes picked out Hogan, Sissoko wanted to head the ball but found that he couldn't reach the ball at all, and a top made Hogan form a single knife, Ager, who wanted to come over and make up for it, was stopped by Akinfinwa's running line, and Hogan wasted no one-on-one opportunity to kick the ball from under the goalkeeper's armpit into the net, and FC United equalized the score.

Excited Hogan took off his shirt and ran to the coach's dugout, hugged Lu Wei fiercely, and other FC United players also rushed over to join the celebration, this is the first time that FC United has scored on a Premier League team since its establishment, and this is all brought to them by Lu Wei, step by step from the seventh division to the professional league, although many people have left, most of the people in the team have only joined the team in the past two years, but during this time they have liked this red rebel army, Fell in love with this young Chinese head coach.

The FC United players who ended the celebration became more and more courageous, and the active running played back and forth with Liverpool for a while, Rodgers also replaced Lucas and Coutinho to strengthen the midfield, Lu Wei also responded when he saw Coutinho on the field, replacing Akinsonwa for Draper to continue the midfield sweep, replacing the physically exhausted Dawson with Robertson to continue to defend Sterling.

Robertson and Sterling are both 19 years old, but at least now the two are not on the same starting line, Sterling, who stood in the Premier League at the age of 17, has much more experience than Robertson, and Robertson is the defensive side, and the defense is always passive. Finally, Sterling seized the opportunity to pass Robertson in the 82nd minute, and although Robertson had quickly turned and pulled Sterling's clothes, Sterling passed the ball and substitute Suarez shot forward to put Liverpool back in the lead.

Mane and Hogan tried several times to equalise without success, and Liverpool's victory over FC United at Anfield once again blocked FC United from the FA Cup round of 32.