Young Football Player

On November 13th, in the 12th round of the Scottish Super League, Dundee United played against St Mirren at home.

St. Mirren's club has no outstanding results. Since they were successfully promoted to the Scottish Super League in 2006, their results in the last four seasons have been either second to last or third to last.

Fortunately, Su Chao only has one relegation spot, so they can keep relegation every year.

At present, St. Mirren is also a member of the relegation team. They only scored 8 points in 11 rounds, and they are temporarily ranked as the deputy squad leader of the Soviet Super League.

But seriously, there is a very famous figure in the history of the St. Mirren team, Ferguson.

St. Mirren was the first team coached by Ferguson in his official coaching career.

Ferguson started part-time coaching at the end of his playing career, but he was not a full-time professional coach at that time. After retiring, he officially coached St. Mirren, which was the official starting point of Ferguson's coaching career.

Ferguson also had good results in coaching St. Mirren. He successfully led St. Mirren to win the Soviet Union Championship and was promoted, but he was fired because of conflicts with the management.

After that, Ferguson went to Aberdeen, led Aberdeen to very impressive results, and then went to Manchester United, until now.

Speaking of it, Ferguson has only coached three teams in his official coaching career, Manchester United, Aberdeen and St. Mirren, so St. Mirren is definitely an important stop in his coaching career.

However, many people may not know that Ferguson also coached the Scottish national team and worked part-time at the end of coaching Aberdeen.

It's amazing to say that in 1985, in the European qualifiers for the World Cup in Mexico, Scotland faced Wales in the last round.

In their away game in Wales, they were scored by Welsh star Mark Hughes in just 13 minutes, but in the 81st minute of the game, Scotland won a penalty. With this penalty, they equalized the score and won an additional Qualification.

But their head coach, Jock Stein, also suffered a heart attack on the sidelines because of this penalty kick, and the rescue failed.

As one of the four famous Scottish coaches, Jock Stein may not be as famous as Ferguson, Shankly and Busby, but he is also a very successful Scottish coach. He led Kyle in the 1966/67 season The Tes were crowned quadruple champions and became the first British team to lift the Big Ears Cup.

Most importantly, Jock Stein is Ferguson's most respected mentor.

His mentor fell on the court, and Ferguson took over the banner of the Scottish national team without hesitation, successfully leading Scotland through the play-offs and into the World Cup.

Ferguson led Scotland to participate in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, the one where Maradona was crowned king, and the one where the Hand of God was held.

The world of football seems to be quite small, and there are many irrelevant people. After going around a few times, they will be connected.

However, Scotland only scored 1 draw and 2 losses in the World Cup that year, and was eliminated at the bottom of the group. Ferguson left the Scottish coach and joined Manchester United a few months later.

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Against a relegation team at home, Dundee United did not play well, quite badly.

In the 25th minute, St Mirren relied on a set-piece opportunity in the frontcourt, and their England midfielder Michael Heaton scored with a header.

In the 41st minute, Michael Heaton received a pass from his teammate in the penalty area, pushed a near corner and scored again.

"It's a bit unbelievable. The relegated St. Mirren has already led Dundee United 2-0 in the away game, and the game time is just over halfway."

"A newspaper broke the news before that the Dundee United team went to a nightclub to have a crazy night a few days ago. It seems that they played too much. Now everyone's legs are weak and they don't know how to play football." The narrator talked about the news in a timely manner.

At halftime, Peter Houston was quite angry.

"You bastards, did you leave your football boots in the nightclub?"

"This is the Tanatis Park Stadium, not the nightclub dance floor in the city of Dundee!!"

"I was kicked 2:0 by a relegation team in the first half. If you meet the Celtics, will you lose 0:9 like those trash in Aberdeen?"

"If you still perform like this in the second half, I promise you will never have time to go to nightclubs this season!!"

Houston cursed, although he didn't mention his name, but Jackie Chan himself felt a little blushed, because he was one of the people who went to the nightclub that day, and he did not perform well in this game.

However, taking a peek at the teammates around him, Brother Moon was as ashamed as himself, but other veterans such as Joan Daly, although they also lowered their heads, obviously didn't care.

Li Chenglong suddenly felt that he must not become an old fritter like Joan Daly in the future, otherwise the higher the talent, the faster he would be useless.

Of course, it is impossible to say that you will never go to a happy place like a nightclub, but you must pay attention to the time and be careful.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Houston immediately made a substitution, replacing Joan Daly with the 90-year-old forward Jonny Russell.

The scolding and this substitution really improved the team.

Just 5 minutes into the second half, Dundee United scored a goal.

Brother Moon cooperated with Robertson in the middle and gave the ball to Li Chenglong on the right. Russell, who played, appeared there, fell directly to the ground and shoveled the ball into the opponent's goal.

After Dundee United pulled back a goal, St. Mirren's side began to retreat and defend.

For a relegation team, getting three points is the most critical.

St. Mirren fans who came to the away game also began to sing the team song to cheer for their team.

In terms of fan loyalty, British fans are absolutely unique in Europe. As the birthplace of modern football, Britain has countless teams of all sizes across the country. Even a small town like Dundee has two teams that have been entangled for hundreds of years. sworn enemy.

But any team in the UK, even a small team that has been sunk for many years, can have a large number of diehard fans who will never leave.

St. Mirren strengthened their defense amid the cheers of their own fans. Dundee United really had no good way. After all, the state was not very good. Even if there were more home fans cheering, they did not get much buff addition.

As time passed by, Dundee United still couldn't find a good solution.

In the 88th minute, Goodwell dribbled the ball in the front court and was tripped by an opponent player. Dundee United won a free kick in the middle of the front court.

"This is the last chance for Dundee United. Although they pulled back a goal at the beginning of the second half, after St. Mirren played a defensive counterattack, Dundee United has never had a good way to score. Instead, they were almost counterattacked by the opponent several times. Break down."

Since scoring that free kick against Liverpool, Li Chenglong has been promoted to the team's first free kick.

But things like free kicks are not scored every game, and not even every game has a good free kick opportunity.

After becoming Dundee United's number one free-kick taker, Lee Cheng-long has also kicked many free-kicks, and even missed several good-positioned free-kicks. Except for the goal against Liverpool, Lee Cheng-long has only scored one free-kick so far. The goal was scored in the 3:1 victory over Kilmarnock in the seventh round of the league.

When he came to the penalty spot, Li Chenglong also knew that this was Dundee United's last chance.

After the referee whistled, Li Chenglong skillfully ran up, kicked and hit the goal.

Although the ball played a good arc and successfully bypassed the wall, Li Chenglong felt that the angle was not perfect.

After the football made a semicircle in the air, it flew to the left of the goal.

At present, all goalkeepers in Scotland know that Li Chenglong's free kick is mainly a curve ball, and the goalkeeper of St. Mirren is no exception. He waited for the ball's curve to be almost judged before starting. Doesn't stop the ball from hitting the net.

"Goooooooooal~~~~~~"

"Bruce Lee, another standard banana goal, a standard banana arc!!"

"Samson's reaction is too slow. If he starts faster, he can save the ball."

"Of course, this is also the characteristic of Bruce's free kick. The ball is very fast. If you want to judge the arc first and then save it, you have to bear the result."

"This is the third free-kick Bruce has scored this season, he really is the Beckham of Dundee United!"

Amidst the compliments of the commentator, the game ended quickly.

Dundee United scored two goals in a row when they were behind by two goals in the first half. Although they only scored one point, it was still acceptable.

But St. Mirren's side is not very acceptable. When the stadium staff routinely cleaned up the stadium after the game, they found that the toilet near the away stand had been smashed.

Obviously, this is the work of St. Mirren fans. They vented their dissatisfaction in this way and smashed the bathroom to "poop".

Maybe they know about the relationship between Jackie Lee and John Sr. They smashed the bathroom of Thanatis Park Stadium and "defecated", and in the end it had to be dealt with by Sr. John, who is in charge of the stadium.