"It was Hu who scored again. This is his 31st goal of the season, right? It's unbelievable... He changed my view of Chinese players..."
"Hey! Now is not the time to praise your opponent!"
"Ah, sorry..."
Brooks heard the curses and comments coming from the coaching bench, but he did not make any response. He still stood on the sidelines and concentrated on watching the game going on.
Assistant coach Stephen Brown, who was standing side by side with him, looked back at the coaches, and then said to Brooks: "It seems that Northumbria can't stop Leeds City. We..."
Brooks interrupted Brown and did not let him continue: "Don't worry about so much, Stephen. Let's do our own thing."
A little further away, the current score of the game is displayed in real time on the big screen at Tyne Earp Stadium.
The Highlanders trailed Stan Park Rangers 0:2 at home.
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When running back to his own half after celebrating, Leeds City captain Lorenzo shouted to his teammates: "Hang on! Guys! We have made a good start, but don't miss this ball."
It’s wasted!!”
Pete Williams is also encouraging everyone: "Don't relax! It's just a one-goal lead! This score does not guarantee that we can win! Keep up the good work and keep scoring goals!!"
Tony Clark, who saw this scene on the sidelines, turned to Sam Randall and smiled: "It seems that you don't need to make gestures to remind them anymore."
Randhir shrugged and hummed: "I've played under you for two seasons, and I'd be damned if I still don't know your temper!"
After saying that, he also laughed.
Hu Lai's goal freed everyone from the nervous and anxious mood. He, an assistant coach who always had to show a serious image, was inevitably a little happy at this time.
After all, in his coaching career, Randall actually didn't have any honors to win, and he never saw any big scenes.
The Premier League championship...that is the most beautiful thing in his career resume!
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Facts have proved that the self-motivation of Leeds City players is not just a formality of clapping and shouting a few slogans.
After the game restarted, they took advantage of the momentum of the goal and continued to attack Northumbria's goal.
When the two teams met for the first time in the league at the beginning of the season, Northumbria lost 0:2 at home to Leeds City.
At that time, it was mainly because Kamala's unexpected activity caught Northumbria off guard.
After that, Northumbria's performance in the league was remarkable. At home, they only lost 0:1 to Stan Park Rangers, and they also drew with Tramed 3:3 at home and defeated Tramed 1:0.
Passed through Warship Harbor and defeated North London Wanderers 3:1...
A series of outstanding performances helped them successfully avoid relegation early, and their current league ranking has been improved to seventh place.
Then the players began to think about ruining Leeds City's good things in the away game and leaving them a profound lesson.
As a result, apart from the fact that Leeds City players were a little nervous and couldn't let go at the beginning of the game, they were able to play back and forth with Leeds City, but now they are completely beaten by Leeds City.
At this time, those Northumbrian players who were still thinking about bad things for Leeds City before the game realized that Leeds City's ranking first in the league was not only due to other performances in forcing G6 this season.
There is indeed a huge gap between their own strength and that of Northumbria.
After all, one is ranked first and the other is ranked seventh...
Leeds City's continuous offensive made Northumbria's players feel very uncomfortable when competing with other teams. After the opponent's attack, they always had to slow down, just two punches with a boxer.
Take a breath and let them counterattack. The two sides will play like a turn-based game.
But in the match against Leeds City, the Northumbrian players felt that their opponent was not a human being at all, but a ruthless punching machine, punching one after another. Maybe the force of each punch was not particularly strong, but they couldn't stand it all the time.
Don't stop punching...this kind of continuous and stable output is the most terrible thing.
This feeling of the Northumbria players is not an illusion, but a feeling that many Premier League teams will have when playing against Leeds City this season.
Of course, the premise is that Leeds City's physical fitness is not a problem. In the last round of the game against Tramed, their physical fitness declined so quickly that their on-field performance also declined.
This time Clark also gave the team a day off specifically to allow the players to fully rest and avoid the previous situation of physical exhaustion.
At the end of the first half, Leeds City scored another victory! This time it was Charlie Potter who scored the goal in the penalty area, changing the score to 2:0!
After scoring the goal, Porter took off his shirt again and showed his Eastern spell to the camera. At this time, he believed Hu Lai's original words: No matter what others think of this sentence, no matter what it means, to him Charlie
·For Porter, this is his Eastern spell, which is an important reason for his outstanding performance this season!
The Chinese fans were laughing a lot, but they weren't just laughing about Charlie Potter's tattoo...
"Leeds City is two goals ahead! As long as we continue to play like this... we have a great chance!"
As the words came to his lips, He Feng remembered that his character must not be compromised, so he swallowed the words back and used a more euphemistic expression.
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The Stan Park Rangers players who returned to the dressing room at halftime inevitably learned the news that Leeds City were two goals ahead of Northumbria at home.
The atmosphere in the locker room was a little dull for a while.
The Stan Park Rangers players did what they should do in the first half. They also led the Highlanders by two goals in the away game and performed quite well.
But such efforts pale in comparison to Leeds City's 2:0 victory.
Brooks looked at the depressed players and clapped his hands to boost their morale: "Don't care what they do, just do our own thing! Leave the rest to God!"
Stephen Brown heard Brooks say this from the side and couldn't help but glance at him, thinking that Scott actually said, "Leave the rest to God"?
It seems that he also feels that it will be difficult for us to regain the league championship from Leeds City...
Brown buried his head, not wanting the players in the locker room to see the disappointment on his face, or... he himself didn't want to see the disappointed expressions on the faces of the players who had worked hard all season.
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After the start of the second half, Stan Park Rangers players continued to attack the Highlanders' goal.
It was as if the loss and frustration of knowing Leeds City were two goals ahead at halftime had never happened.
"Honestly, Stephen... I'm proud of my players, really. I admire them." Head coach Scott Brooks said to assistant coach Stephen Brown next to him as he looked at the game going on on the court.
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"Yes, they have done everything they can. In fact... our performance this season is very good, Scott. When we won the championship last season, we had less than 90 points, and now we
With 92 points, they can only be ranked second... Leeds City is so weird, this team is so incredible." Brown covered his mouth and sighed. "Look at their performance last season, this season they are like
It’s like the collective has been replaced by players..."
"Even if the players are replaced collectively, it will be difficult to perform like this. They have to start from scratch." Brooks also covered his mouth and said, "Actually, if you think about it carefully, Stephen, you will find that this team has actually transformed.
There are signs. Their performance in avoiding relegation in the second half of last season was very good. And after introducing several key players this season, it is not unbelievable that this team can break out."
Brown also knew that Brooks was right, and he nodded.
"And we, including Manchester United and Tramed, lacked attention to this team. We didn't regard Leeds City as a competitor before. This led to us being beaten when we met them.
Being caught off guard and losing to Leeds City at home was fatal for us, and it also strengthened Leeds City's confidence in competing for the championship. They gained confidence from defeating us..."
As Brooks was talking, he heard a low-pitched exclamation from the coaching bench behind him: "Hu scored again! Leeds City leads Northumbria 3:0!"
There was only one sentence, and then there was no sound.
Brooks and Brown looked at each other, and they knew without looking back that there must be painful faces on the coaching bench at this moment.
Brown was about to speak when he heard a sudden loud cheer from the stands, coming from Highlanders fans!
After the cheers, the Highlanders fans sang: "Your champion is flying away! Flying away! Like a bird gone never to return! Gone never to return!!"
"Damn it!" Brown's expression changed when he heard the song and he cursed. "Damn Highlanders!"
The singing spread to the pitch, and Stan Park Rangers players no longer had to ask their teammates off the pitch to know what was going on.
Obviously Leeds City scored another goal.
From a two-goal lead to a three-goal lead, with more than 20 minutes left in the game, it can basically be said to have "secured the victory."
This goal also meant that Stan Park Rangers' season-long efforts were in vain.
They failed to defend their title.
This blow is not a big one, and it will soon be reflected in the game scene. After hearing the reminder of the Highlanders fans' songs, the Stan Park Rangers players were obviously in a daze, absent-minded, and made frequent mistakes.
And also restless.
Assistant coach Brown frowned and wanted to go up and yell a reminder, but was stopped by Brooks.
"Forget it, Stephen. We really can't ask them to do more." Brooks shook his head slightly.
Brown heard the helplessness in the head coach's tone, so he did not struggle, but stood beside him obediently and spent the last twenty minutes of the season with him.
Looking at it, Stephen suddenly said: "Replace Harry, he should be preparing for the World Cup."
Brooks nodded: "Okay."
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"HUUUUU!!!"
"HUUUUU!!!"
"HUUUUU!!!"
When Hu Lai fell from the sky and made his signature celebration move, the first shout rang out from the stands. And then it didn't stop there as usual, but continued with the second and third shouts!
The entire stadium was filled with such shouts, sweeping in from all directions and completely drowning the figure on the stadium.
Even the most cautious Leeds City fans can say such cruel words when seeing this situation:
This season's Premier League champion, we Leeds City... are determined!