Young Football Player

An away draw with Motherwell was not ideal for Dundee United, but Lee Chenglong participated in the team's two goals, and the second goal was directly assisted by him. His personal performance was not bad.

Originally, Dundee United's previous three consecutive victories had already lifted the team's ranking to the 4th position, but the national team's two rounds of unbeaten matches on the day of the national team's match dropped to 7th.

So in the next quarter-finals of the League Cup in the middle of the week, Peter Houston once again arranged to play off the bench.

Interestingly, Dundee United's opponent in the quarter-finals of the League Cup is Motherwell, the opponent a few days ago, and the venue is still away. Many people are watching whether Dundee United will score a few more goals there. own goal.

But they were disappointed. Dundee United did not score an own goal this time, but they also failed to win the game. Dundee United lost 0:1 to Motherwell in the away game and were eliminated from the League Cup.

Peter Houston didn't care too much about being eliminated from the League Cup. His plan was to stabilize the league, and it would be best if he could get promoted steadily. At the end of the season, he would be satisfied with qualifying for the European competition.

The current results of Dundee United allow Houston to temporarily stabilize the coaching position, but obviously his previous performance still makes the management of Dundee United not trust him, so Houston knows that if Dundee United is ranked in the first place at the end of this season With an ordinary mid-range ranking, he is likely to dismiss get out of class.

If he wants to continue coaching Dundee United next season, it is best to be able to lead the team to a European qualification, then the possibility of him staying next season will be very high.

On October 30th, the 10th round of the Scottish Premier League, Dundee United played against Hibernian at home.

Hibernian is a club from Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It and Hearts are rivals in the same city. In the early years, it was considered the third Scottish team after Celtic and Rangers. (Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland, but the capital of Scotland is Edinburgh)

Hibernian has a very happy name in the Cantonese area, Hibernian.

Because of their English name Hibernian, it really sounds like Hibernian.

It is worth mentioning that Xibainian is the first British team to participate in the Champions League.

The first UEFA Champions League was just established. At that time, the league champions of various countries did not participate directly, but participated by invitation. There were only 16 teams participating in the first UEFA Champions League, the most influential of which were Real Madrid and AC Milan.

Originally, there should have been two participating teams from the UK side. The Hibaenian was the invited representative of Scotland, and Chelsea was the invited representative of England.

But for Chelsea, because the FA is unwilling to make concessions for the UEFA Champions League, which has just started and has not had much influence in the schedule, so in the end Chelsea had to withdraw from the UEFA Champions League due to schedule reasons and was replaced by a Polish team. its location.

Chelsea missed the identity of becoming the first English team to participate in the Champions League, and also achieved the identity of the first British team to participate in the Champions League in a century.

Xibainian played well in the first UEFA Champions League. They reached the semi-finals all the way before losing to Reims, the French local tycoon team at that time.

This time they faced Xibainian at home, and Peter Houston issued a death order, demanding that the game must be won.

Indeed, if this game cannot be won, Dundee United will be unbeaten in all competitions in four rounds.

In many cases, if you lose too much, if you lose and lose, you lose all your energy.

However, Xibainian is not a weak team that can be manipulated at will. Even if Dundee United has the home court advantage, it is still very difficult.

The two sides played back and forth in the first half, but in the end it was a goalless draw.

In the 71st minute of the second half, Li Chenglong was about to go forward from the right. Brother Moon took the ball in the middle and then transferred to Li Chenglong.

Faced with such a pass, Li Chenglong had an idea, turned around and lifted his foot to hook in the air, hooking the football behind him, Li Chenglong then turned around and rushed forward, just leaving the defender behind.

"Beautiful~~~ Li's hook is so beautiful!!!"

"Li's extraordinary move is full of imagination!!"

After passing the man, Li Chenglong was completely empty in front of him, so he smoothly cut the ball into the penalty area, attracting others to come closer to him, but he pushed the arch of his foot and passed the ball to the back of the goal.

Goodwell plugged in from the back row and made an easy push behind the goal, scoring a goal.

This goal was also the only goal in the game. Relying on this goal, Dundee United won Xibaiian 1-0 at home, ending the winning streak in all competitions.

After winning this game, Dundee United's position in the standings also rose by two places and came to fifth place.

In this round of the Scottish Super League, the most watched game is the time-honored Derby, the game between Celtic and Rangers.

In the 9 rounds of the league that have been played before, the two teams of the time-honored brand have maintained a complete victory in 9 games. This game is the standard top game.

In the end, the Celtics lost 1:3 to the Rangers at home, reaping their first league defeat, and also allowed the Rangers to reach the top of the list.

The Scottish Premier League is like this. The two big bosses generally seldom lose in the country. Even if they lose, they lose to each other. It is difficult for other teams to have a chance to beat them.

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On the second day after winning the game, Old John suddenly said that he would treat him to dinner, which made Li Chenglong a little puzzled.

When he came to a French restaurant in the city, Old John finally introduced the person who really treated him today.

"Bruce, this is our club president, Mr. Eddie Thompson."

"Eddie, this is Bruce, you've seen it."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Thompson." The other party was also his own boss, and Li Chenglong went up to shake hands.

"Bruce, you have been doing very well recently. Old John really has a good grandson."

The three of them ate for a while before Li Chenglong knew what kind of routine this meal was.

It's not a grand banquet, but a simple exchange of feelings between the chairman and the players. By the way, at the end of the season, Dundee United will activate the buyout clause in the loan contract, making Li Chenglong a real Dundee United player.

Li Chenglong was a little speechless. With his previous performance, Dundee United hadn't decided whether to activate the buyout clause, or they didn't think that Li Chenglong was worth 1.2 million pounds before.

Only recently did they finally decide that Jackie Chan was worth £1.2 million.

In fact, what Li Chenglong wants to hear more is that the club will give him a salary increase or something.

Jackie Chan's current contract was originally signed in Crystal Palace, with a weekly salary of 4,000 pounds, which is a little over 20,000 pounds a month, which is very cheap.

Of course, the first contract of many non-genius players in British football is about the same price, which is similar to the youth contract price of those talented Premier League players.

But Li Chenglong felt that his recent performance should be significantly higher than the value of 20,000 pounds.

However, Dundee United did not have any intention of giving him a salary increase.

In other words, they think that the current salary of Li Chenglong is quite reasonable.