Chapter 40 - Chapter 41 The Road to Victory
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The two-to-one defeat of Torkee United at home allowed Leiden East to win the first British-Climate victory after five years. The local media in Walthamsto and Leiden City naturally described the game in detail, constantly boasting about Jin Kraze's outstanding performance in the game. Barack, who assisted the first goal, and Hackby and Ward, who scored all two goals, also received a lot of praise.
The local media naturally loves the house and the Ukrainians. In fact, there is nothing to see in just one game. The Leiden Evening News praised all the players who played in Leiden Oriental, which made Xiao Ming want to invite the reporters who wrote these articles to have dinner after reading it.
However, London's larger media naturally did not care much about this game. First of all, the Premier League has begun. Although the British and Chinese New Year's League starts one day earlier than the Premier League, which is the so-called "Saturday League", the English League Two and English League One are also held on the same day. With a lot of reports on the situation of the English League One and Premier League news, at most a small section will be left to report the results of the English League Two and English League One.
"No attention, you must be promoted to the League One quickly at least! Otherwise, you will be a little too depressed."
Xiao Ming hummed and threw down a newspaper.
The difficulties in the last stage of the last league did not attract Xiao Ming's attention. He thought it was just a coincidence. After all, the other party is also a professional team, not an amateur team.
For the English-Class team, after the first round of the league, they will start preparing for the third important game in England - the League Cup. The League Cup is a cup competition that all 92 teams in England's four levels participated in, with only seven rounds in total. The first round was all 72 teams in the other three levels except the twenty Premier League teams. If they were not lucky, they might encounter an English-Class team in the first round. This is not good news for the English-Class team who want to catch some luck in the League Cup.
However, Leiden Oriental seems to have good luck. Their opponent in the first round of the League Cup was the English League Two team Blackpin, which is a team in the middle of the League Two. In the past, Leiden Oriental met with each other in the League Two. However, last season, Blackpin scored a double kill against Leiden Oriental in the league. This game was also a battle of revenge for Leiden Oriental in a sense.
After all, the opponent is a League Two team that is one level higher, and Blackp's overall strength is quite good and the personnel structure is very reasonable. There are many veteran rookies and legitimate players. Unlike the old and young Leiden Oriental in the past, there are not many Middle-aged players, Blackp's players have had a lot of time to cooperate together, and they are much better than Leiden Oriental in tacit understanding. So Xiao Ming did not ignore the opponent's information like the first round of the league, but instead mixed with several coaches to study the opponent's information in the first round of the League Two, and did not even pay attention to the stock market - but the main reason is that Xiao Ming is doing a long-term business now, otherwise in his opinion, making money is still the most important thing.
After discovering that Blackpin's defense was tight in the middle and weak in the wing, Xiao Ming and his coaches set a strategy to let Jin Kraze be the first offensive point first, threatening the opponent's defense line on the wing. After attracting the opponent's defensive attention to the wing, he suddenly hit the ball to the middle, allowing Barack to insert the back row to participate in the offense.
Perhaps because he beat Leiden Oriental twice last season and was not afraid of Leiden Oriental in history, Blackpin didn't seem to care much about this game. As a result, at the Brisbane Road Stadium, Leiden Oriental gave the opponent a blowout in the first half. Barack first scored a wonderful long shot, and then assisted Ward in the penalty area to score. In the first half, Leiden Oriental led Blackpin one level higher at home!
Blackp, who was almost stunned, launched a tide attack in the second half, and a striker Malkin seized an opportunity in the penalty area to score a point. Blackpin, who saw the hope of equalizing, began to get even more aggressive and continued to attack. As a result, Jin Klaze scored the most exciting goal in the second half!
In a wonderful solo performance, after receiving Barack's clearance from the midfield, Jinklaze dribbled the ball through the entire half, changed directions and dribbled past the opponent's three defenders, and then made a wonderful spoon shot on the penalty area line, which stunned Blackpin's goalkeeper Capriton!
After scoring the goal, Jinklaze rushed to the sidelines and raised his head proudly. What greeted him was the cheers of nearly 10,000 fans at the scene collapsed and tsunami.
The teammates also shouted and hugged him. Such a goal could undoubtedly greatly increase the morale of the team and cause a devastating blow to the opponent's morale!
Before the end of the game, Brin, who assisted forward, smashed the corner kick from Jinklaze into the goal - four-to-one! Leiden East swept Blackpin, who doubled their last season at home!
This score almost indicates that Leiden Oriental can successfully advance to the next round! With such a huge advantage to go to Lancashire where Blackpin is located, Leiden Oriental has no reason to lose two rounds of the game!
This big score victory began to attract many media attention to Leiden Oriental. After all, in this round of League Cup, teams with higher levels basically won, and Leiden Oriental is the only team that beats the team with higher levels than themselves, not to mention a big score of four to one!
This exciting victory has effectively enhanced the players' self-confidence and was able to defeat the League Two team, which seems to prove what Xiao Ming said: "We will definitely not be a League Two Team, we should have the highest pursuit!"
It seems to be proving that Xiao Ming's words are extremely correct. In the second round of the league, Leiden Oriental relied on Ward's goal to defeat Darlington 1-0 and won two consecutive games.
In the third round, he defeated Rochedale three-to-zero at home, Jin Krazer scored the first record, Huckby expanded the score, McGrady, who came on the bench in the second half, added icing on the cake, winning three consecutive victories.
In the fourth round, Leiden East stopped the winning streak. They were tied 1-1 by Scarpolo in the away game. If Barack hadn't hit the post with a strong free kick before the end of the game, Leiden East would have probably won four consecutive victories, but the situation of their home team being pressed against each other in the game also made Scarpolo's fans feel lost.
After the fourth round, Leiden East went to Lancai to play the second round of the first and second round of the League Cup. Blackpin, who tried his best, could not win. Although they broke through the goal guarded by Hilton twice in the game, the two main strikers of Leiden East scored a goal, bringing back a two-to-two draw from the away game and successfully advanced to the second round.
Back in the league, Leiden East won the victory after two consecutive draws. They defeated Sylford 2-0 away. The biggest contributor in this game was Jin Klaze. His two assists helped Holland and Carl both score the first goal at Leiden East. In the game, Leiden East completely controlled the situation and continued to complete the attack through the midfield players' insertion, making Sylford's defenders unbearable. The two goals were scored by the full-back and the midfielder.
“We are on the road to victory and will go further.”
After reaching the top of the standings with four wins and one draw, Xiao Ming said enthusiastically in an interview with local media.
The most exciting part of Leiden Oriental's outstanding performance in the British CPC was the fans of Leiden Oriental. Just after the next round of the League Cup, all the remaining hundreds of tickets in the club were snatched away, and the club's financial staff were happy. Although Xiao Ming was not very fond of these small money, the better the club's profits, the less he needed to invest and the more optimistic the prospects, so he was naturally very happy.
Xiao Ming did not have the habit of going to the bar for a drink like the British. He was not too used to London food, so he booked a seat in Lao Sun's Chinese restaurant. He went to eat every day when he had time. If he had no time, he would call them to send it. Anyway, Xiao Ming was either in the club or at home, or at the London Stock Exchange, which was easy to find.
Most of the time, Lao Sun himself was responsible for delivering food, and sometimes he asked his son Daniel to help deliver it. Although Daniel is a member of the Leiden Oriental Youth Team, he was only sixteen years old now, and has not signed a formal professional contract and has not trained all day.
Xiao Ming sometimes chatted with Daniel, but he didn't care much about this handsome guy. There are forty or fifty players in the Leiden Oriental Youth Team. Those who are more outstanding have long been transferred to the first team to train together. For example, the substitute center back of the first team is only half a year older than Daniel, and he has been recommended to the first team. It seems that Daniel's ability in the youth team can only be considered average.
That day, when Daniel delivered the meal to Xiao Ming, he suddenly said: "Mr. Chairman, my father asked me to express my gratitude to you, and said that you will be exempted from all meals in Chinese restaurants in the future."
"Ah?" Xiao Ming was stunned, but he knew that Lao Sun was also an honest person, so he joked: "Isn't he trying to transfer you to the first team?"
"How could that happen?" Daniel blushed, and the young man's self-esteem was quite strong: "If I want to join the first team, I have to rely on my own efforts! Otherwise, if I don't have the ability and can't play in the game, what's the use of joining the first team? Mr. Chairman, you underestimate me too much."
"Haha, I'm sorry, I'm just joking with you." Xiao Ming laughed: "But there is no free lunch in the world, I think it's better to give it up."
"No, Mr. Chairman, my dad wants to thank you." Daniel said quickly.
"What do I do?" Xiao Ming couldn't help but ask strangely when he saw Daniel not seemingly joking. Although a month's meal is nothing, it's for no reason...
Daniel said excitedly: "You don't know. Since the fans of Leiden Oriental knew that you always had dinner with us, our business has been much better than before. Now we can basically find empty places every day! Many fans say that you can lead the team to win so magically, it must be because you eat Chinese restaurants every day. I don't know how many fans come here every day. Dad said that this is better than advertising on the jerseys, and there is nothing else to thank you, so we will have all your three meals a day in the future."
Xiao Ming sweated for a while, then laughed. These fans are so cute. They actually made the Chinese restaurant business better because they always eat in Chinese restaurants...
After laughing, Xiao Ming shook his head: "It's not okay to eat for free. It's not good to get a reputation if it is spread... Otherwise, you go and tell your father, get a discount card or something, and go to your place to have a 20% discount, just treat it as thanking me."
"But……"
Daniel wanted to say something, Xiao Ming waved his hand: "That's it. Your Chairman, I am also a rich man now. There is no reason to take advantage of you. They are all Chinese. It's not easy to make a living in London. I used to run a Chinese restaurant, and I knew it was not easy to make money. Your dad earned hard money. I received this meal today, and it would be enough to get a discount in the future."
Then Xiao Ming took out a ten-pound note and stuffed it into Daniel's pocket: "This is a tip for you. Go back, I have something to do."
Daniel walked out of Xiao Ming's office in a daze, then pinched the ten-pound pound piece before reacting: "No, Chairman, this meal is only eight pounds today..."
After kicking Daniel out of the office, Xiao Ming finished the meal in two and began to read the information about the next opponent.
Leiden Oriental's next game is a away challenge to Preston, now ranked third. This is an old English team. Like Leiden Oriental, it was founded in 1881. However, their history is much more brilliant than Leiden Oriental. In the 19th century, it won the top league championship in England for two consecutive years, and won six runner-ups in England's top league. They also won the final championship twice in the FA Cup. They also set a record of winning the league championship with an unbeaten record in the 1888-1889 season, but the game in that season was only twenty-two rounds for various reasons. Thirty years later, Burnley set a new record with a thirty unbeaten game.
Xiao Ming didn't care much about this information. No matter how glorious the past is, it only belongs to the past. What's more, Preston has been declining for a long time. He has been struggling in the low-level league for almost half a century, and now he is playing in the English Centre like Leiden East. What's the matter? No matter how rich his ancestors are, aren't they all begging for the English Centre now?
After carefully looking at Preston's situation this season, Xiao Ming felt relieved. The data shows that Preston's defense is quite good, and several defenders are tall and experienced, but they are a bit bad in offense. In the first five rounds of the league, the average goal is less than two goals per game. In only one game with three wins and two draws, the two draws were tied with zero to zero. Such a team is not worrying in Xiao Ming's opinion, because although Leiden Oriental's defense is not very tacit due to its cooperation, it has several talented players in the offense, and the British and CPC will not be able to withstand their attack!
"David, what do you think of this game?" Preston's head coach Gary Peters asked a middle-aged man with ordinary appearance in front of him and a pair of deep eyes and smiled: "Leyden East is indeed very outstanding. They have several very good players, especially on the offensive line... But they have many weaknesses and do not cooperate well enough, especially on the defense line. This is the most deadly! It is not difficult to defeat them..."
"David, tell me what you plan. Although you are the captain of the team, you are also my assistant." Peters laughed: "In many places, you are more accurate than me. With your help, you will definitely give Leiden East a better look! Let them know that even in the English and CPC, they have nothing to be proud of!"
David smiled on his face, indeed, Leiden East, although you are very strong now, football games are not just about relying on strength...
Chapter completed!