Young Football Player

Dundee United's training camp for the new season has officially started, and the transfer of major European leagues is in full swing. At this time, the European qualifiers are gradually starting.

There are four teams participating in the European War in the Scottish Super League this season, and the only Champions League team, Glasgow Rangers, will start from the third round of the Champions League qualifying round.

The three teams that qualified for the Europa League, Hearts participated in the second round of the Europa League qualifying round, Dundee United participated in the third round of the Europa League qualifying round, and Celtic participated in the Europa League qualifying round.

In mid-July, Harz's UEFA Europa League qualifying match started first, and their opponent was Austria Vienna, a powerful team in the Austrian League.

Hearts first lost 0:3 in the away game, a score that was almost difficult to comeback, and then lost 1:2 at home, and was directly eliminated by Vienna, Austria.

Hearts, who fought to the death with Dundee United last season and finally won a European qualification, is now vulnerable in the European competition and was easily swept out, which made the Scottish media conduct a review of Hearts An all-round critical education.

The media criticized Hearts, more because the Scottish league needs to continue to compete with the Swiss league for rankings this season, and every team participating in the European war needs to try its best to score points. If the European rankings drop again after this season, the Scottish League will become a league with only one Champions League spot starting next season.

Now Hearts was double-killed out in the qualifying round and did not get any points in the European war. This is really slowing down and really disappointing.

"It seems that only the Celtics and Rangers in the Scottish League have the ability to go to the European war to grab points." The Scottish media had to issue such a sigh.

After the second qualifying round of the Europa League, Dundee United's opponent in the third qualifying round also came out. The team from Hungary, Paks, was a result that reassured the Scottish media.

Paokes is just a small team in a small town in Hungary. It was able to participate in this season's Europa League by winning the second place in the league record last season. Dundee United won the opponent's should. Not a big problem.

In fact, Paokes is also quite satisfied with meeting Dundee United, because in the eyes of the Hungarians, Dundee United is just a small team with weak strength.

However, before the third round of the Europa League qualifying round, Dundee United needs to prepare for the league.

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On July 23, the 2011/12 season of the Scottish Premier League officially began. The opening game was defending champion Glasgow Rangers at home against Hearts, who finished fourth last season.

In the end, Rangers, who were preparing for the upcoming Champions League qualifying match, drew 1:1 with Hearts at home and failed to win the opening game.

Now the Scottish media has something to say again. Hearts was hammered badly in the European war, but when he returned to the domestic league, he immediately grabbed points from the Rangers. This is a bit of a civil war.

On July 24, Dundee United also ushered in their first opponent of the new season, Kilmarnock.

"This summer, Dundee United did not make much moves like the usual transfer period. So far, they have let go of a few rotation players and introduced a few new substitutes. The main lineup has not lost much. Of course, if they can On the premise of continuing to keep Goodwell."

Amidst the narrator's discussion, the game is also going on.

Dundee United, who had just finished their training camp, was not in a good state. They had a goalless draw with Kilmarnock in the first half, but conceded the first goal in the second half. In the end, Goodwell, who came off the bench, scored a long-range shot and scored at home. A draw.

Goodwell did not start this game. In fact, almost everyone in the team knows that Goodwell is going to the Premier League.

Dundee United is currently in transfer negotiations with Blackburn in the Premier League, and it has almost come to an end.

Goodwell's transfer to the Premier League is basically a foregone conclusion, so the management also issued instructions to try not to let Goodwell play any more games, so as not to be accidentally injured at this time, and the transfer will fall through.

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On July 28, in the first round of the third qualifying round of the Europa League, Dundee United played against the Hungarian team Paokes at home.

The day before the game, the Scottish media had already reported that the negotiations between Dundee United and Blackburn Rovers had basically reached an agreement. This Europa League qualifying match will be Goodwell's curtain call in Dundee United. After this game, he will officially go to England to complete the medical examination and transfer.

When the whole team entered the stadium, there was a huge applause at Thanatis Park, which was not only an encouragement to the team for the new European competition in the new season, but also a thank you to Goodwell.

However, Jackie Lee saw a discordant banner on the platform: "We want David (Goodwell), we want to go to the Europa League, and we don't want Chinese!"

To be honest, the transfer of Goodwell has nothing to do with Jackie Lee, but it just happened that Dundee United bought out Jackie Lee, which caused a chain reaction after the team's financial strain. , Li Chenglong will undoubtedly be supported as the team's new head star.

All these will always make some fans feel that Jackie Chan squeezed Goodwell away.

And Goodwell has played for Dundee United for five seasons, and still has many supporters. These supporters should be the ones pulling the banners in the stands.

Li Chenglong also doesn't want to pay attention to these fans. After all, these fans are only a minority, and what he should do is to perform well in the game and try to lead the team to the Europa League.

Although Dundee United had a brief glory in the 1980s, since the restructuring of the European War, Dundee United has never scored in the European War. This is why some fans are very reluctant to let the team let Goodwell go. .

They want to see the team qualify for a European competition.

The lineup arranged by Dundee United has not changed much from last season. It is still the familiar 442, that is, replacing Goodwell on the front line with young player Jonny Russell.

After the start of the game, Dundee United, which had the home court advantage, played very proactively.

In the 8th minute of the opening, Jackie Lee passed the opponent's defender Matt Bordeaux on the right, and sent a very precise cross, which fell directly behind the goal and hit Russell's head, but Russell took this excellent opportunity. A sky cannon.

In the 21st minute, Li Chenglong switched to the center and cooperated with Yue Yue and sent a beautiful through ball. After getting the ball in the penalty area, Russell didn't know how to hit the goal quickly. Instead, he handled the ball slowly and was defended by the opponent's defender. He wanted to make a penalty kick, but he fell in a very fake penalty area. He failed to make a penalty kick, but was given a topaz card by the Dutch referee.

"Fuxk!!" Seeing that guy's performance, Li Chenglong couldn't help but swear.

"Jonny Russell performed very well when he played as a rotation forward last season. He started the two games after the start of this season, but he did not perform well. He wasted the last game. Maybe he is not really ready to start the team.” The commentator also talked about Russell’s situation.

Seeing that the front line is unreliable, Li Chenglong can only think of ways more on his own. If he can't win Paokeshi at home, Dundee United may really be eliminated by the opponent. That is definitely not the situation Li Chenglong wants .

In the 39th minute, Li Chenglong took the ball in the right corner of the frontcourt penalty area. Seeing that the opponent's goalkeeper seemed to be attracted by his holding the ball, his stance was a bit off, so he immediately swung his legs and volleyed the lower left corner of the goal.

Paokesh defender Barlow flew in to block a slow step, and goalkeeper Naji Galgay made a sideways save, but the ball flew under his palm and into the goal early.

"Goooooooooal~~~~~"

"Bruce Lee~~~ He stood up again!!!"

"When the team couldn't start the situation, it was Li who stood up again and scored with a strong volley from the penalty area line, helping Dundee United to take the lead."

"Honestly speaking, just now Dundee United has an advantage but can't seize the opportunity. I am really worried. Many times, teams that occupy the empty scene but fail to score are easy to seize the opportunity to counterattack."

"Now that Bruce Lee has finally given Dundee United the lead, we can rest easy for a while."