When they saw the real-time standings displayed on the TV screen, the Stan Park Rangers coaches sighed.
When Abion tightened their defense, they were still full of hope for Abion's away draw with Leeds City.
But now it seems that it was a wrong decision for them to put their hope in Abion.
Abion is Abion after all, and they are not good at defending. Being able to hold on for twenty-five minutes in the second half is pretty good.
In the end, the goal was scored by Leeds City.
"Be prepared for the worst, guys." Brooks's voice rang in the room. "In the next round, we must beat London at home, otherwise we will say goodbye to the league championship."
No one else in the room said a word, only the cheers of Flanders Stadium came from the TV speakers, and Matthew Cox's excited commentary:
"...This is the first time this season that Leeds City has finally reached the top of the league standings! When the league ends, will they still be in this position... Let us wait and see!!"
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The entire Flanders Stadium was celebrating like crazy, but Clark soon came to his senses.
When the Leeds City players finished celebrating and ran back to their own half, they saw head coach Clark standing on the sidelines and making a "continue attacking" gesture to them.
Obviously, only leading by one goal cannot satisfy the head coach, and to be honest, it is not safe. If Abion scores another goal, wouldn't the three points obtained by Leeds City become one point?
Since we have scored a goal now, of course we must take advantage of this opportunity to work hard and make persistent efforts to score another victory!
The Leeds City players already understand the manager's style very well.
In fact, they don't need the head coach to remind them from the sidelines, they also know that just leading by one goal is not enough, and they will continue to attack Abion's goal in the next game.
The reason why Abion wants to hold on is because they are tied with Leeds City, and they believe that they can keep this point as long as they hold on.
But now that the tie has been broken, they are already behind. The basis for continuing to defend the score no longer exists.
Since Abion does not continue to park the bus in front of the goal, what do Leeds City have to fear?
Of course, fuck him!
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Facing Leeds City, whose morale was boosted by this score and full of firepower, Abion's defense was under tremendous pressure.
And finally declared defeat again in the 77th minute.
However, the person who scored this time was not Hulay who scored twice, but Jay Adams. He took advantage of Lorenzo and Hulay to attract the attention of Abien's defense in the penalty area and suddenly inserted into the penalty area.
Received a pass from Williams and scored with a low shot!
"3:1! Leeds City almost sealed the victory!"
This time the cheers in the stands seemed to be louder than when Hulei scored twice, because Adams' goal made many Leeds City fans put their hearts in their throats back.
With ten minutes left in the game, a two-goal lead really made them feel reassured.
Only then did they dare to cheer louder and celebrate to their heart's content.
The cheers from the Leeds City fans continued until the end of the game.
After Adams scored, neither team scored again.
Abion first gave up his historical mission of being an arranger of fate and no longer struggled to his death.
Leeds City also began to prepare for the next round of away game against Tramed, replacing the main players including Hulay.
The last ten minutes of the game basically ended calmly.
"The game is over! Leeds City used this victory to surpass Stan Park Rangers and reach the top of the Premier League! However, the league is not over yet, and there is still a tough battle waiting for Leeds City. If they cannot defeat Trameme away from home
Germany, then it is still possible for them to give up this number one throne...
"Tramed's away games are not easy to play. The red-roofed stadium was once the famous devil's home stadium in Europe before Stan Park Stadium. And I believe that Tramed fans will not allow Leeds City to step on their home ground.
With their corpses approaching the championship throne...
"But similarly, I'm afraid London Bridge will not give in easily at Stan Park Stadium. They will compete with North London Rangers to qualify for the Europa League next season. If they lose to Stan Park Rangers in the next round, they may be eliminated by North London Rangers.
London Rovers over!
"In short...the competition for the Premier League championship this season has entered a fierce stage!"
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"Don't get too excited, guys!"
In the home team's locker room at Flanders Stadium, Clark said with a straight face to the players who had just come off the court.
"I hope you remember the mistakes we made before this game. Don't trip over the same stone twice. We can't say we are number one yet because Tramed is not easy to play. If you want
To become the Premier League champion, then we must risk our lives to compete with Tramed in the next game. Not only must we go all out, but we must also exert 200% of our energy! Only in this way can it be possible to win at the Red Roof Stadium
Defeat Tramed!"
"Now we are only two games away from the league championship. As long as we win a complete victory, we can become the champion! This will be the first Premier League championship for many people in our team... no, everyone's career.
I hope everyone will grit their teeth and persist for two more rounds of the league and create history together!"
Outside media say that Leeds City may become the first civilian team to win the Premier League in the 35 years since its establishment. There is a reason. It is not just because the Leeds City club has a small budget investment, low income, and its economic size is compared with that of the wealthy clubs.
It's far from that. It's also because there are no superstars in this team. Rookies like Hu Lai are just emerging and can't be considered superstars.
Although Jay Adams became famous at a young age, he never grew up and was far from what everyone expected of him. Therefore, although he is famous, he is still not a superstar.
Even the main players and substitutes in the team, no one has the honor of being a Premier League champion.
Even Jay Adams did not win the Premier League title during his time at London Bridge.
When London Bridge won the Premier League title, he was unfortunately loaned out again.
Therefore, Jay Adams, who has been famous for many years, does not have the honor of Premier League championship in his personal honor book until now.
Such a new rookie team, compared with Lancashire Rangers who spent a lot of money to recruit star players to form the "strongest promoted team in history" and then created the "Miracle of Roses", they are indeed civilians and can no longer be civilians.
You must know that Lancashire Rangers' transfer investment, salary expenditure and other transfer budget in the season when they won the championship were the highest in the Premier League.
Just because this team is a newly promoted team, we cannot think that they are "civilians".
The current financial budget of Leeds City Football Club ranks fifteenth among the twenty teams in the Premier League. If the financial budget represents a team's final league ranking, then Leeds City should be able to avoid relegation. In fact, at the beginning of the season,
The goal set by the club is also to avoid relegation, and this goal plan is very consistent with their financial investment expectations.
But in the end, the team's performance greatly exceeded the club's expectations and exceeded everyone's expectations.
If they can really win the championship, it will definitely be a major event that shocked the Premier League for 35 years, a milestone that can be written into the history of the Premier League, and a true "victory of the common people."
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At the post-match press conference, Clark was as "stable" as ever.
The expression on his face was actually calmer than that of the reporters present.
"...The league is not over yet, we are only one point ahead of Stan Park Rangers. You must know that Stan Park Rangers were also one point ahead of us before, so this one-point lead cannot explain anything... Of course, now
The situation is indeed favorable to us. But the premise is that we have to win the next two games. And in the next round, Tramed is not easy to play. We are still away... so I will not talk about the Premier League championship.
.I’m just focused on the next game.”
A reporter raised his hand and asked: "Mr. Clark, if Leeds City finally wins the championship, it will be the first time that a truly civilian team wins the Premier League championship. Do you think this represents a victory for the common people?"
Clark glanced at the reporter: "I said before that I don't talk about things like the Premier League championship, so I can't answer your question."
The reporter who asked the question became anxious: "If, if, I mean if. Let's assume..."
"I don't assume things that never happened, sorry sir." Clark shook his head firmly.
A group of reporters looked at each other and wanted to roll their eyes: If we don’t talk about the Premier League championship, then what are we interviewing? This is the topic that everyone is most concerned about now!
Clark seemed to know what the reporters were thinking. He said with a smile: "Let's talk about Kamara's performance. Did you see his wonderful performance in assisting Hu in the game? He was almost alone.
It caused Abion's entire defense to collapse... To be honest, I think based on his performance in the Premier League this season, he can definitely be selected for the French national team. Of course, if he is not selected in the end, I can accept it.
At least we'll have a rested Kamara next season..."
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After the press conference, reporters complained that Clark was too cautious. Everyone knows that Leeds City is chasing the championship. There are only two league rounds left. The team is in first place, one point ahead of the second place, but
I don't even dare to say "if I win the championship".
As for that?
"To be honest, Tony, I can't understand it. You are too cautious. If I didn't know you well enough, I would have thought that you have no confidence in winning the championship..." Assistant coach Sam Landill also said:
There was some criticism of Clark's approach.
Clark smiled slightly and said that Randall had seen this kind of mysterious smile on Clark's face many times this season. He still doesn't understand what the meaning behind this smile means, but anyway
Clark quite likes to laugh like this...
Clark smiled and said: "Sam, I learned a new word from Hu, called 'bad character'."
"What is that?" Randhir was confused and couldn't understand the word at all.
"You can understand that because you were not cautious enough, you ended up not getting the results you wanted..."
"I get it, 'get carried away'."
"No, no, no, it's not that you are too complacent. To be complacent is to be too complacent. And 'losing character' means that even if you just state the goal naturally without showing off your complacency, it also leads to the final failure. That is to say
You can’t even say it, at least you can’t publicize it publicly, otherwise the mission will be doomed to fail from the moment you say it!”
Randhir was stunned for a moment before shaking his head and saying: "I always feel that Hu is lying to you. Did he say that it was some mysterious Eastern spell again? Just like he did to Charlie Potter. I only knew Potter before.
It's a bit silly, but I didn't expect you, Tony..."
Clark interrupted Randall's nonsense: "At first I thought he was talking nonsense, Sam. But he told me about his winning the league championship in China, which touched me deeply..."
"ah?"
"He told me that when he was playing in China, his team also aimed at relegation at the beginning of the season. Isn't this similar to ours?"
Randhir nodded.
"But in the end they became the Chinese Super League champions. And their head coach has always emphasized in front of the media that his team's goal is to avoid relegation. And unlike me, he has not announced the goal of winning the championship within the team. The Chinese
The coach didn't reveal his true purpose until the end. He kept the idea of winning the championship in his heart... Nonsense, it was because he was afraid of 'losing his character'. His cautious approach did help the team win the league.
Championship. So they became the first newly promoted team to win the championship in the history of China's top league, and they created China's 'Miracle of Roses'!"
Clark seemed to have a lot to say, and he continued to talk: "After listening to this story, I analyzed it carefully, Sam. This statement sounds ridiculous at first, but if you think about it carefully, it is actually very scientific.
While we publicize our goals everywhere, we have actually entered a state of ecstasy in our subjective consciousness, but we don't know it. After all, the way of 'losing character' is not so obvious... And if we always have a root in our hearts
The strings are tight, always reminding us not to relax, not to be proud, not to get carried away... we can't do any "bad character" behavior. So it seems that my insistence on not talking about the championship is unreasonable, but in fact this is
Reminding myself to keep my brain clear and calm at all times. This is an 'anchor', Sam, is the anchor in my heart. As long as this anchor is still there, I will not misjudge the situation because I get carried away!"
When he said the last sentence, Clark said that he must be serious, as if he was talking about a very sacred thing.
Randhir wanted to say something, but his mouth was opened, but no words came out. He opened his mouth wide and sighed: "God... I don't even know whether what you said is right or wrong..."
Clark laughed: "Then just think I'm right, Sam!"
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