In the events after the World Cup, the stars who participated in the World Cup often appear in a normal state. Their physiological and physical conditions will always fluctuate at climaxes and troughs. Even the best players are no exception. It is simply that some players’ troughs are not so obvious, and some players’ troughs are relatively fluctuating in their states.

In addition to Jasqueline, Jinklaze and Van Nie, the other players who participated in the World Cup were all players who participated in the World Cup. Many of them were in average condition on the court. Although Figo only participated in the group stage, Portugal's poor performance made Figo look a little physically and mentally exhausted when running on the court. However, it is no wonder that after his outstanding performance in the European Cup, countless people gave great expectations for Portugal's performance in the World Cup, but were eliminated in the group stage. Although there was a factor in being plotted against by South Korea, if they had not lost to the United States in the first game, why would they have been eliminated in the group stage? Just as Argentina's group was eliminated not only because of losing to England, but because of being tied by Sweden, and France's group stage was eliminated not only because of losing to Senegal in the first game, but because of losing to Denmark in the last round.

This kind of blow is quite huge for a player. As Portugal's number one star, Figo was unable to turn the tide in two losses, which also put him under tremendous pressure. After the start of this game, Figo's performance on the court was only average. His personal sharp breakthrough disappeared. He could only help the team through his rich experience and solid technical skills to complete the attack.

Although other players who participated in the World Cup were not as affected as Figo, they were more or less declining, while Blackburn's players were in good condition. After all, in addition to goalkeeper Friedel, only Yunsal, Duff and others participated in the World Cup...

In this case, Jin Clazer and Fanny, two stars who did not participate in the World Cup, dominated the game. In the stalemate between the two sides, Leiden East took the lead with the performance of the two. Jin Clazer's pass after breaking through the side created an opportunity for Fanny. Fanny, who rarely surpassed the penalty area, keenly received the ball and then shot and broke the net!

Jinklaze's assist and Fanny's goal!

Xiao Ming waved his arm hard off the court. Leiden Oriental's opponents in the first few rounds of this season were not strong, but these mid- and lower-level teams were least affected by the World Cup. If they could not grab points from Leiden Oriental before the physical condition of the players participating in the World Cup recovered, maybe Leiden Oriental would fall behind other opponents at the beginning. Although powerful opponents like Manchester United Arsenal will also be affected by the World Cup, there are not as many players participating in the World Cup as Leiden Oriental!

Main players like Manchester United's Giggs, Stam, Neville brothers, and Beatty did not participate in the World Cup. Captain Keane did not participate in the World Cup due to the conflict with the head coach of the Irish national team. As for Arsenal, their defense line did not participate in the World Cup except Keon and Heyman, and the same was true for Borgkamp on the forward line. At this time, two-thirds of the players in Leiden East and most of the main players participated in the World Cup, which became a burden.

In this case, the performance of Jinklaze and Fanny is crucial, and the two of them did not disappoint Xiao Ming.

After taking the lead, Leiden East began to play the advantage of midfield ball control, nipping Blackburn's counterattack in the cradle again and again. After the start of the second half, Xiao Ming replaced Hypia and Pirlo, replaced Deselli and Ronaldo, and continued to play the technical advantages of the midfield.

In the 72nd minute, Pirlo's long pass from the backcourt helped Fanny form a one-on-one strike. The Dutch shooter pushed the ball into the penalty area and scored twice, helping Leiden East win the game and also achieved a good start.

Leiden Oriental easily defeated Blackburn, which would not be any news. After all, Leiden Oriental is no longer a surprise to win in the league. However, after the game, many media reported this game. The reason was very simple. When they saw Ronaldo appear on the bench, countless reporters held their energy to observe the game, so as not to miss the news that Ronaldo played for Leiden Oriental for the first time. As a result, Xiao Ming put Ronaldo on the bench for ninety minutes from beginning to end. Even when the two goals were decided to win, he failed to let Ronaldo play, which disappointed the reporters. However, when they came to observe this game, they would inevitably miss other games, and they could only put most of the reports on Leiden Oriental.

Ronaldo is worthy of being the most famous European football star in the late 1990s. Although he has been resting for more than three years, his every move still touches everyone's hearts.

However, Ronaldo himself did not care much about this. After the Leiden Oriental Physical Fitness Training Group and the medical team tested Ronaldo's physical condition, Ronaldo also knew that his body was not suitable for playing games now. In fact, if he didn't want to attract attention, Xiao Ming would not even put Ronaldo on the bench. Although Ronaldo performed extremely well in the World Cup, he also exhausted his few physical fitness. If he didn't conduct good restorative training, barely playing would only make Ronaldo's physical condition worse.

On August 24, in the second round of the league, Leiden East ushered in its first home game of the season, and they will face Everton at home.

David Moyes has become Everton's head coach. The Scots became Everton's head coach last season in March. Everton was relegated at the time. After Moyes took office, he quickly helped Everton to relegate successfully. Although he was only ranked fifteenth, Moyes had already led Everton to relegate successfully one month after taking office. In addition to losing two consecutive games in the last two rounds, Moyes led the team to win four wins, one draw and two losses in the other seven games. The young Scots' coaching ability has been recognized by most people.

This round of the league has received considerable attention from Chinese fans. Chinese players Li Tie and Li Weifeng joined Everton before the start of this season, and in the first round, Li Tie started for more than 70 minutes, and performed well. If it weren't for the small possibility of Sun Jihai playing the main player in Leiden East, the Chinese media would have to hype something like "China derby"...

However, what surprised Chinese fans and media was that Sun Jihai actually appeared in the starting lineup of this game, replacing Ashley Cole, who performed in the last mediocre performance, became the main left-back, and Li Tie was also sent to the court as Everton's main midfielder - the Chinese derby in the Premier League, which appeared in front of everyone without anyone expected.

In fact, Xiao Ming really didn't notice this. He sent Sun Jihai to the court in this game because Ashley Cole's physical condition was indeed not very good. The older Garney was also in poor health. Only Sun Jihai was the only one who could play the left back. Why did the substitute do it? Isn't it just used it when the main player was tired and injured...

In addition to Sun Jihai, Figo also sat on the bench. It was not Glencier who replaced him but Pirlo. Pirlo and Marklele partnered with the midfielder, and Gerrard appeared on the right position, and the forward line was still Ronaldo and Fanny's partner.

Moyes also changed his formation in this game. He did not continue to use the three forwards in the previous round of the league, but instead placed the young player Rooney on the bench. Swedish midfielders Alisanderson and Pembridge appeared on the two sides. Li Tie played double midfielders with Gravesson, and Razinski and Kevin Campbell were on the front line. It was obvious that Moyes was also quite afraid of Leiden East's midfield and wanted to fight Leiden East's technical midfield by strengthening the midfield running and strength.

However, Xiao Ming's change was beyond Moyes' expectations, so Moyes smiled bitterly when he shook hands with Xiao Ming before the start of the game.

Because she had previously loaned Klose and Upson to Preston where Moyes was, Xiao Ming and Moyes also knew each other. Seeing Moyes' performance, Xiao Ming smiled proudly.

Everton's two midfielders are actually very powerful. Li Tie's running ability is second to none even among British players. Gravesen is a player with excellent defense and offense. He is simply a weakened version of Roy Keane. These two people ran wildly on the court, and the average midfielder really can't stand it.

However, Xiao Ming placed Gerald on the wing and did not face them head-on, while Pirlo was in the backcourt. If Everton's two engineers midfielders wanted to interfere with his ball, they had to move their position forward. After moving the position forward, the gap behind him seemed relatively large. If one in front and one behind, the control of the midfield was invisibly weakened.

Xiao Ming's tactical change is not surprising, but it can be regarded as an open conspiracy that fully exerts his strength. For Moyes, the opponent's conspiracy is not terrible. As long as the reason is found, the opponent's conspiracy can be solved. However, this open conspiracy that relies entirely on strength really makes Moyes feel helpless.

However, during the game, Everton was not at a disadvantage in the midfield. Perhaps because of the confrontation with the national teammate Sun Jihai, Li Tie was particularly excited on the court today. He could almost see his shadow in the whole game, pressing Pirlo in close contact, blocking Gerald on the side, returning to defend Vanny in the penalty area, and rushing to the penalty area of ​​Leiden East to grab the spot... For a moment, the shadow of this Chinese who is not very tall and looks very thin can be seen on the entire court...

"This guy is very good at running, it seems that he does not run less than the Koreans in the World Cup." McDonald off the court was also amazed.

Xiao Ming smiled: "If his organizational offensive ability can be half as good as his running ability, I might consider introducing him."

"Well, that's true. This guy's footwork is a little rougher." After seeing Li Tie pulling his feet at the front of the penalty area and shooting angrily, the ball flew to the highest floor of the stand, McDonald shook his head: "You can just press it down and then fight again, why are you in a hurry?"

"But skills can be trained. He doesn't seem to be very old, so this physical fitness is rare." Wilkins, who is a little farther away, said this. Perhaps because he was also a player of this type of player, Wilkins seemed to have a good impression of Li Tie.

Xiao Ming shook his head: "He is twenty-five years old...and if I told you that he had played in Brazil for five years as a teenager, what would you think?"

"I played in Brazil for five years in my youth but it was just this kind of technique?" Wilkins was really surprised. After thinking for a while, he shook his head: "It seems that his performance is only like this, and his body does not look very strong. If his physical fitness decreases, his ability may decline further."

"That's right." Xiao Ming shrugged: "Otherwise, with his running ability, it would be good to be a substitute for Claude, and he could also play the scavenger."

The game on the court was very intense, but the coaching staff of Leiden Oriental chatted easily off the court - the reason was very simple, because shortly after the game started, Ronaldo and Van Nicht cooperated with one-on-one and broke into the penalty area, opening the first record for Leiden Oriental. The current score is 1-0...

After the start of the second half, Li Tie was still running all over the field, but his running still could not stop Leiden Dongfang's advantage. Instead, in the 70th minute, Leiden Dongfang attacked quickly. Li Tie, who returned to defense, tripped Jin Kraze in the penalty area. The referee decisively awarded a penalty kick. Fanny took the penalty kick and expanded the score to 2-0.

Seeing that the team was already behind two goals, Moyes had to give it a try. He replaced Alisanderson with Rooney, and then replaced Li Tie with Lindrot, who had strong offensive ability, and was preparing to strengthen the offense.

Rooney seemed quite active after playing. His performance as he started in the last round of the league has attracted a lot of attention. After taking the bench, he also rushed to many opportunities on the court with a newborn calf not afraid of tigers. However, after Xiao Ming directed Daniel and Sun Jihai to switch positions to keep an eye on Rooney, Rooney began to perform less.

Rooney's talent is unquestionable, but Daniel is six years older than him, and her body is fully mature, and she is no worse than him. After several forced breakthroughs, Daniel hit her head and knocked back, Rooney felt a little guilty. After all, this was the first time he had encountered a defender who was not slower than him, and his body was against him.

After the 80th minute of the game, Leiden East's victory was decided. Xiao Ming looked at the bench and then called out Ronaldo.

"Ronnie, go warm up."

A hint of desire flashed in Ronaldo's eyes. He stood up without saying a word, then quickly changed into his sneakers and ran out of the bench.

"Ronaldo has started to warm up!"

When Ronaldo started to move his body on the side of the court, all the focus was already on him. Although it was just a few simple warm-up moves, everyone knew that Ronaldo's first appearance in the Premier League and Leiden Oriental would appear immediately!

Although it may only be a few minutes of garbage time, and although it may be the game ended after a few touches, countless people are still looking forward to this scene.

While Ronaldo was warming up, the shouts of Leiden Oriental fans from the stands behind him came into his ears: "Ronnie! Come on!"

"Don't panic after playing, Ronnie, don't worry." Xiao Ming said in Ronaldo's ear: "Feeling the atmosphere and rhythm of the Premier League, any player needs to adapt after coming to an unfamiliar environment, but I believe that the time you need to adapt will never be long."

Ronaldo nodded and then took a look at the stadium.

After the dead ball, the substitution was played on the sidelines, and No. 9 Ronaldo came on the court and replaced No. 18 Fanny.

Fanny ran off the field, hugged Ronaldo for a while, then walked to the bench, and there was a warm applause from the stands. The applause was not only given to Fanny, but also to Ronaldo.

Shortly after playing, Ronaldo received a straight pass from Pirlo. Ronaldo took the ball and turned around, and Gravesen pressed up.

Ronaldo did not mean to force a breakthrough through Gravesen. He made two fake moves, then stretched out his foot and passed the ball to Ronaldo, who was receiving the ball. After Ronaldo received the ball, he began to break through along the sidelines, and then passed the ball to Gerald who was changing positions with him. Gerald passed it straight to Ronaldo at the front of the penalty area. Ronaldo kept shooting directly, but was rushed out by goalkeeper Wright.

Seeing Ronaldo get a shot as soon as he comes on the court, the fans of Leiden Oriental in the stands are even more crazy, and they are looking forward to Ronaldo's first goal.

However, this shot was Ronaldo's only shot in this game. In the following time, he kept running in the frontcourt. After receiving the ball, most of them chose to pass the ball instead of passing the ball. When the whistle sounded in the end, he shot one shot, seven passes and one foul. This is the answer given by Ronaldo.

Three days later, in the third round of the league, Leiden Oriental defeated Leeds United by Gerald's long shot away and won three consecutive league wins. Ronaldo came on the court in the 70th minute of the second half. This time he had three shots and two successful outings, but still failed to score.

Although Ronaldo has not scored or started yet, Leiden Oriental has won the best three-game winning streak since participating in the Premier League. Next, they will welcome Manchester United at home and usher in their real first hard battle.

Leiden Oriental 2002-2003 season player list

Goalkeepers: No. 1 Yussie Jaskleinen (27 years old, Finnish), No. 12 Paul Gerrard (29 years old, English), No. 22 John Mackenzie (27 years old, English)

Defenders: Sami Hypia No. 5 (28 years old, Finnish), Marcel Deselli No. 6 (34 years old, French), Daniel Sun (24 years old, English), Robert Gialney No. 3 (34 years old, Croatian), Saul Campbell No. 2 (27 years old, English), Darren Perth No. 15 (24 years old, English), Sun Jihai No. 17 (25 years old, China), Ashley Cole No. 29 (21 years old, English)

Midfielder: No. 7 Jozele Jinklaze (29, Georgian), No. 10 Louis Figo (29, Portuguese), No. 14 Claude Marklele (29, French), No. 8 Steven Gerrard (22, English), No. 19 Stig Tofting (33, Danish), No. 23 Matt Holland (28, Irish), No. 30 Jespe Glenshare (26, Danish), No. 21 Andre Pirlo (23, Italian)

Forwards: No. 18 Luther Van Nistruei (26, Dutch), No. 11 Kevin Phillips (29, English), No. 9 Ronaldo (26, Brazilian), No. 20 Ronaldinho (22, Brazilian)
Chapter completed!