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Chapter 21 What kind of trophy?!

When Berlin's new United manager Adams arrived at the Emirates Stadium and was given Carlisle's starting line-up, he couldn't wait to curse his mother. Adams is a distinguished former manager of Swansea City, who successfully led the Maraks to win the trophy last season.

UEFA Cup.

Carlisle's formation is 4231:

The goalkeeper is Polish national goalkeeper William Adams Miller, the center back is Moldova's tall Tracy's partner Koscielny, who is from Puerto Rico, both sides are British team defender Monreal and Puerto Rico's right back veteran Sanya. In the midfield

, John partners with the young Welsh midfielder Ramsey, the two wingers are the British Cazorla, and the Moldovan superstar Andrei Shevchenko partners. As far as the midfield position is concerned, the first player to play is

A player who will not give up. This summer, the Moldovan genius Pele came here and he attracted an income of 50 million pounds, the highest in Carlisle's history.

And the striker…the striker

Fat Bei rubbed his eyes, and then looked carefully... Yes, yes, Luo Ming-Luo Ming!

Damn Luo Ming, didn't you say he was injured and needed to rest for half a month? Why did he suddenly appear on the starting list for this game?

"Oh my gosh, I know old man William has never been so honest on the surface. He was really caught on the spot!" Adams put the starting lineups of both sides on the table in the locker room.

Fortunately, at this time, all the players were still outside for acclimatization training and warm-up, so no Union Berlin players were angry to see their head coach.

Elsewhere, Willian took a closer look at Union Berlin's starting lineup and smiled.

Union Berlin's formation is 433:

Luis is the center forward on the forward line. This season, Britton Kalejan, introduced from Southampton, and Berlin veteran forward Pandev are the two wingers. This midfielder is Luis, the core of the Slovak midfield, and his partner

It is Swiss midfielder Inler. This midfielder is also Albio introduced from Southampton this season. The central defender is 32-year-old Paul Cannavaro, who is the legendary British defender Fabio Cannavaro

Varro's brother is also the senior captain of the Berlin team. His partner is the young Argentine center back Federico Fernandez. The two full-backs are the Colombian full-back combination Zuniga and Armero.

William smiled when he saw the lineup. If he had a deeper study of Puerto Rican culture, he would definitely shout: Jiang Taigong is fishing, those who want to take the bait!

Adams has no problem with this team, and he seems to be planning to carry out defensive counterattacks in the away game. Albio, a new defender, has served as a central defender, so there is no big problem in defense. In addition, behind him there are

There is an experienced young Cannavaro and an energetic young Fernandez. In the midfield, Naylor is also an offensive and defensive player.

But if Carlisle has Luo Ming in the team, the situation will be different.

What are the characteristics of Luo Ming? He is fast, good at parking and accelerating, can shock people, and can play behind. However, Cannavaro, 32 years old this year, has a strong nostalgia, and it is difficult to defend Luo Ming. First of all, this veteran Chinese

The defender's speed can easily be destroyed by Luo Ming, and this is also an away game. Cannavaro may not be able to play a normal role.

In terms of full-backs, Adams did not use Maggio, who was fast in offense and defense, but used Zuniga, who was slightly slower but focused on defense.

These two speed guards are specially designed for Luo Ming!

In fact, Rafael Adams is ensuring that Luo Ming is absent, and Kreizmann just played in the final round of the league. The Tigers only played one 90-minute league game two days ago, so they are definitely in this game

Not enough physical strength. Even if they have to play, it will be after 50 minutes.

Without these two "wonders", Carlisle's other players have only average speed, although there is also Andrei Shevchenko. This is why Adams plans to use such a defensive and counterattack formation. All players in the backcourt are very defensive.

Well, the offense will be handed over to Luis, Pandev and Kalerjun, and Luis in the middle will be the core starter!

How could I imagine Luo Ming would never get tired of deceiving. He said he needed to recover when he was injured. Who knew it was a smoke bomb!

Luo Ming's speed is the biggest threat to Berlin's unified defense. In addition, he also has Andrei Shevchenko and Pele, who can always keep up with the pace of support and cooperation. The latter has rich experience in big competitions.

Passing experience and excellent ball control skills. The Moldovan midfielder's passes can often penetrate the entire defense.

Damn William, damn Roman!

At this point, Adams had no choice but to curse in his mind because the starting list had been submitted to UEFA and it was impossible to use substitute players without playing a minute.

How did Beckham "confirm" that Luo Ming could not play? At this point, William must sincerely thank the media who often spread rumors.

When Adams read the newspapers, almost half of them said that Luo Ming was shopping with "two" girlfriends during training, and included a photo of Isabella and Elizabeth holding Luo Ming with bandages and a cane.

In addition, Stoke City's guards often treated Luo Ming with the Turkish Guard's "local specialties" during the game, and sent Luo Ming to the hospital with a red card to cooperate with William... Smart people like Baker Fati were deceived

Already.

In fact, Adams should not be blamed. Carlisle did a good job of keeping it secret and promoting it. Even in Carlisle, no one knew about it except the team doctor and William. Including Luo Ming himself. The day before the game, when William's team

When the list was announced, Luo Ming knew that he was included in the list of the 18th National People's Congress, but at this time he thought he was a substitute. But I didn't expect that when the starting list was announced before the game, I was also in the queue.

When Willian was discussing tactics in the locker room, Romine responded.

"Damn, this isn't a football game. This is a mission...Have many football coaches in the world actually seen The Count of Monte Cristo and Don Quixote?"

Only then did Luo Ming know that the head coach's job was much simpler than he imagined.

Carlisle was playing at home and he took the first kick. Romine passed the ball to Bailey and then quickly pushed himself into the opponent's camp. Judging from the photos taken by the overhead camera, there seemed to be a feeling of breaking through the siege of thousands of troops.

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Pele passed the ball to Ramsey, who immediately passed it to Andrei Shevchenko. Prince Bolti took the ball to the sideline and had a one-two break with Morel.

Breaking through Kalezin's interference.

"Carlisle's performance at home was indeed very positive. He did not choose to be conservative because his strength is similar to other teams!"

Andrei Shevchenko completed the inside cut faster, and the problem of defender Zuni's slow acceleration was also exposed.

Cut to the ribs in the penalty area, Andrei Shevchenko faked a shot, and then passed the ball to Luo Ming in the middle. Luo Ming tilted in the offensive direction and passed the ball to Bailey behind him. Bailey received the ball

The ball was immediately passed to Cannavaro's back. The whole process did not take more than two seconds, and there was no sign of Luo Ming appearing in advance.

Luo Ming immediately inserted the ball back and scored without adjustment.

Naturally, the sprint towards the goal was not very accurate. The ball was slightly higher than the goal crossbar and flew out of the baseline.

"Oh..." Carlisle fans across the stadium expressed regret.

"Carlisle completed the attack one minute after the first game, but Luo Ming's shot was a bit hasty and the ball was higher than the crossbar."

Adams sighed on the sidelines. As expected, the previous concerns were not unreasonable. Just a minute later, Bailey and Romine took the opportunity to slow down Cannavaro's turn.

Adams took a few steps forward and came to the white line at the edge of the coaching area. He put the index and middle fingers of his left and right hands in his mouth and whistled loudly.

Seeing that the players present heard the sound and looked at themselves, Adams pointed to Albio on the back, and then made a gesture to move closer to the Englishman.

"Oh, Rafael Adams signaled Albio to move a little deeper in the back position to help Cannavaro Jr. and Fernandez defend. Did he mean to play three centre-backs?"

Albio understood what Adams meant, looked at Cannavaro and Fernandez behind him, and then began to return to his position consciously.

Later, Union Berlin got the ball right and started to launch a counterattack. However, due to insufficient troops, Carlisle was easily stopped.

Although Carlisle's defense has always had problems, Union Berlin's offensive ability in this game did not break the loopholes in Carlisle's defense.

Union Berlin's starting lineup this season is very different from last season. Four or five of them have joined this summer. The key is Mike's position as goalkeeper.

Mike cannot deny that his ability is really good. Although he is now 30 years old, goalkeeper is the position with the longest career in football.

It is necessary to know that the goalkeeper position is not a good performance of the goalkeeper. He also needs to cooperate with the defenders in front, especially the central defender. Unfortunately, Mike, who joined this summer, is not close enough with Amanda and Fernandez.

The game has just begun. Maybe it's not visible yet. However, as time goes by, this problem will gradually appear.

At the end of 20 minutes, due to the opponent's strict defense, Carlisle was unable to pass the ball to the more threatening penalty area. Ramsey was following him, and he had to shoot directly at the "bus" in front of the opponent's goal!

The long shot was of high quality. Although Mike did not pounce, the ball directly hit the crossbar of the goal and bounced back into the penalty area.

At this time, something happened unexpectedly. Amanda was indifferent to the ball in front of Mike and did not rush to save or control the ball for the first time. But Mike did not immediately rush to the ground and stand up to get the ball.