Young Football Player

On August 20th, the fifth round of the Scottish Super League, Dundee United welcomed the newly promoted Dunfermline at home.

Dunfermline is just a small team in Scotland. It was relegated due to financial difficulties in the past few years. After being in the Soviet League for several years, it finally got promoted back.

The most commendable figure in the history of the Dunfermline team is naturally Alex Ferguson.

Ferguson reached the peak of his career while playing for Dunfermline, where he won the Scottish FA Cup and league runner-up, and was also elected to the Scottish League Golden Boot.

Although this game was just a home game against a newly promoted team, the fans of Dundee United were very enthusiastic. When the whole team entered the stadium, the cheers on the stadium seemed to overturn the stadium.

"The Dundee United fans are very enthusiastic because they have just qualified for the Europa League. This is the first time they have reached the main game after the restructuring of the European competition. It is indeed a moment to cheer."

Although Dundee United are very happy that the team has advanced to the European Championship, and even want to use this game as a celebration, but Dunfermline is very uncooperative. As a newly promoted team that has set the goal of relegation early, What they have to do is to face every opponent and strive to grab every point.

In the opening half an hour, Dundee United had been playing tepidly and did not show too much desire to attack. Dunfermline felt that he had seen the situation of the game clearly, so he started to play against the guests, and it was really in the 45th. In the minute, their midfielder Burns scored a goal and took the lead in the score.

During the intermission, Peter Houston was very dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half: "Everyone needs to cheer up quickly. We have just qualified for the Europa League. If we lose to a newly promoted team at home immediately, what will happen? Sample?"

Everyone didn't speak, and Vardy became angry at this time: "It's embarrassing."

This time Houston was not dissatisfied, but echoed: "Yes, this will embarrass us, and other people will also think that we are a team with a big belly that got into the European War by relying on shit."

In fact, Dundee United's promotion to the main match this time does have a certain element of luck, because it is really hard to say who will win and who will lose if they really go to Turkey to play an away game against Trabzonspor. However, Jackie Lee agrees with Houston that losing to a newly promoted team at home will really embarrass the whole team.

So at the beginning of the second half, Dundee United began to exert their strength, trying to break the embarrassing situation.

In the 48th minute, Jackie Lee sounded the team's offensive drum with a long-range anti-aircraft gun. Dunfermline was also very pragmatic and consciously retreated to play a defensive counterattack. not a lot.

In this way, Dundee United's offensive was like a wave, slapping on Dunfermline's defensive embankment wave after wave, and finally knocked the gap open.

In the 77th minute, after Li Chenglong and Yue Yue cooperated with each other in the middle, they pushed the ball directly with the inside of their feet without stopping the ball. The ball passed through the crotch of the opposing defender Jason Thomson and entered the penalty area.

Conway from the left rushes to the corner, catches the ball and immediately pushes a shot from a close corner, making it impossible for the opponent's goalkeeper to make a save.

"Lee set up Conway with a clever pass through the crotch, and Dundee finally equalized."

"Except for the first round of the league, Lee has scored or assisted in the last four league games."

The commentator is still showing his merits for Jackie Lee, and the situation on the field has changed again.

In the 82nd minute, just 5 minutes after the goal just now, Li Chenglong dribbled the ball on the right side of the front field and passed the opposing defender Austin McCann, then took a step horizontally and immediately hit the goal.

The ball flew straight to the upper left corner of the goal. Dunfermline goalkeeper Gallacher became a wooden man again, standing in front of the goal blankly doing nothing.

"Goooooooal~~~~"

"Bruce Lee~~~~ A powerful long-range shot broke the goal~~~ Dundee United overtook the score!!"

"Lee looked powerful with every kick he made.

This is his shooting characteristics. "

"If Dunfermline want to avoid relegation, I think goalkeeper Gallacher may be a big obstacle for them. Dundee United scored twice in five minutes. He stood in the goalkeeper twice and didn't respond. That's definitely not what a goalkeeper would do."

Jackie Chan's goal also became a lore goal. In the next 10 minutes, Dundee United began to recover properly to reap the fruits of victory, but Dunfermline did not create any good opportunities.

Relying on Jackie Chan's one pass and one shot, Dundee United beat the newly promoted Dunfermline with a 2:1 surprise at home, avoiding a two-game losing streak in the league.

In the other games of this round, Rangers won 3:0 in a direct confrontation with Motherwell, but Celtic overturned at home and lost 0:1 to St. Johnstone.

So in the league standings after 5 rounds, Rangers topped the standings with 4 wins, 1 draw and 13 points, Celtic ranked second with 4 wins, 1 loss and 12 points, Motherwell and Dundee United both won 3 1 draw and 1 loss have 10 points, but Motherwell has one more goal difference than Dundee United, so they rank third.

This round of Dundee United's win and the two teams in front of them lost, it can be regarded as allowing Dundee United to make up for the point difference of the last round of away defeat to the Celtics. Currently, it is only 3 points away from the top of the list. up.

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In the middle of the week after the 5th round of the league, the second round of the European playoffs started.

Dundee United can rest at home and watch TV due to the cancellation of the second leg game.

In the Scottish League, Rangers failed to show a good performance at home. They drew 1:1 with Maribor and were eliminated with a total score of 2:3.

The Celtics were also very dangerous. They went to Switzerland and sent off a central defender with a red card in just 2 minutes. Fortunately, they still scored a crucial away goal in the second half, although they ended up with 1 The score of :3 was defeated, but still successfully advanced by virtue of the huge advantage established in the first round.

Therefore, in the European competition this season, only the Celtics and Dundee United have successfully advanced to the main match in the Scottish League.

Fortunately, the Swiss league, which ranks competitors in the European competition, is not too good. Apart from Sion being directly eliminated by the Celtics, the young people of Bern returned to their home court and drew 2:2 with Sporting Lisbon. Fewer balls are eliminated.

As for the two teams participating in the UEFA Champions League play-offs, Basel successfully advanced, and Zurich was eliminated to participate in the Europa League group stage.

So the Swiss League also has only two teams entering the European competition, but they have Basel participating in the Champions League, and they can get 4 bonus points before the game starts.

All the places in the European competition have been determined, and the group stages of the Champions League and the Europa League will follow.

The management headed by Dundee United Chairman Eddie Thompson personally led the team to Monaco to participate in the draw, and the head coach Peter Houston also followed. This is the first time in their lives to participate in such a major draw ceremony.

After all, the draw for the UEFA Champions League and Europa League group stage is not only for drawing groups, but also for awarding some important awards from last season. Many well-known figures in European football will be present. It is indeed a good place for socializing.

Messi and Barcelona undoubtedly became the biggest winners at the awards ceremony. Messi was elected the first European Player of the Year award, and Ronaldo, who was also shortlisted, only got a poor 3 votes, so he was ironically called Ronaldo 3 votes.

Now is the era when Messi dominates, and Ronaldo can only hold back temporarily.

After the awards, the group stage draws for the UEFA Champions League and Europa League will follow.