Chapter 481: Going together

After a double defeat to Chelsea, Leiden Oriental ushered in a winning streak in the league.

On January 10, in the 21st round of the league, Leiden Oriental, who was at home, defeated Aston Villa three-to-zero, and Chelsea and Arsenal also won one after another, but Manchester United stopped their winning streak. They tied with Newcastle away, and their advantage in leading Arsenal shrank to one point, and their advantage in leading Leiden Oriental shrank to three points.

On January 17, in the 22nd round of the league, Leiden Oriental defeated Tottenham 3-2 away and achieved a key victory. Manchester United broke out in the away game. They lost to the promoted Wolves, who ranked last in points. Wolves striker Miller scored a crucial goal in the second half. Leiden Oriental tied Manchester United's points, and Arsenal, who won this round, jumped to the top of the points. Chelsea was tied by Birmingham again, and the score behind the top three was expanded to four points.

On January 24, in the fourth round of the FA Cup, Leiden Oriental, who sent a large number of substitutes, tied with Everton one-to-one away and will return to home playoffs on February 5. Xiao Ming was not worried about this. The FA Cup was originally a place to train young players. The more games they played, the more training opportunities young people would get.

Interestingly, the opponent in the Leiden Oriental League is also Everton. In other words, Leiden Oriental will face Everton three consecutive games in two weeks. Leiden Oriental, who returned to home, sent all the main players to defeat the opponent three-to-one, ushering in a five-game winning streak in the league. Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea also won the game, and the gap between points did not change at all.

On February 5, Everton, who had been exhausted by Leiden Oriental, lost again away without any temper, Phillips shone and scored a hat-trick in this game, and Darren Bent also scored a goal. The outstanding performance of the two substitute forwards allowed Leiden Oriental to defeat Everton four-zero at home and advanced to the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Three days later, Leiden Oriental finally stopped winning streak and was tied by Liverpool again away. Liverpool's performance has been pretty good recently, and Hollier's position has also been a little more stable. After returning to home, they played proactively. Irving scored twice after he got injured. His lightning speed made Leiden Oriental's defense a little helpless. Although Ronaldo also scored twice in the game, he could only get one point away.

After tied this game, Leiden Oriental's ranking fell to third place again, with their points being 54 points, Arsenal first in 58 points, Manchester United second in 56 points, and Chelsea fourth in 52 points. The gap between each team and their opponents in front and behind is two points, which is a wonder.

Xiao Ming could only helplessly. Although Chelsea's strength this season is better than Liverpool, Leiden Oriental was able to beat Chelsea twice, but Liverpool tied in both games - but then again, the first game defeat was because Chelsea's signings were not over and there was no tacit understanding in running-in, so Leiden Oriental won more easily. In the away game, Leiden Oriental played an extremely high level. Chelsea's luck was not very good. Crespo's injury at the beginning greatly affected their preparations. Although Liverpool's overall strength is not as good as the previous semi-finals, their main lineup ability is not worse than any Premier League team. They are not bad when facing strong teams, but their ability to grab points when facing weak teams is not as good as the top four.

The four-point gap is nothing, and the fourteen-round game is not a big deal. Only after the war in Europe will the overall strength of a team be better.

On February 11, in the 25th round of the league, Leiden Oriental, who was at home, defeated Manchester City 2-0. After Xiao Ming returned, he was unbeaten in the league for 11 consecutive rounds. In addition to the previous two games, he was unbeaten in the thirteen rounds. Although it was still a lot worse than Arsenal who had not lost in the league since the beginning of the season, it was already quite good.

However, Arsenal's results were even more amazing. In this round of the league, they defeated Southampton 2-0 at home. After being tied by Everton in the 20th round away, they had already won five consecutive games. He was in good shape. In these five games, he scored seven goals in five games. The two goals in Southampton games were already his 100th and 101th goals in the Premier League, making him the eleventh player to score more than 100 goals in the Premier League and the second foreign player to score more than 100 goals in the Premier League after York. Van Nie has now scored 93 league goals in Leiden East, and is likely to become the third foreign player to score more than 100 goals. If he had not missed most leagues in the 200-01 season, he might have been the second foreign player to score more than 100 goals.

Xiao Ming also used this incident as an example to motivate Fanny, and Fanny made scoring 100 league goals before the end of this season as his goal. For his decision, fans of Leiden Oriental expressed their support. After all, the more goals the scorer scored, the better the Leiden Oriental's results will be...

Another thing that makes Leiden Oriental fans happy is that Manchester United lost again in this round of league. They lost to Middlesbrough 2-3 at home. Middlesbrough has been the victim of Manchester United in recent seasons. They can often defeat Manchester United in the league...

This loss also allowed Leiden Oriental to surpass Manchester United again with a one-point advantage and reach the second place in the standings. Arsenal will compete directly with Chelsea in the next round of the league. What Leiden Oriental has to do is hope that these two teams will suffer a loss.

Before the 26th round, Leiden East ushered in the fifth round of the FA Cup. Their opponent was West Ham United, a city rival who had already been relegated to the English League One. In this season's League One game, West Ham United did not perform well. Although Defoe, Carrick and others stayed, and they also loaned young wing player Bentley from Leiden East, they were barely ranked sixth in the thirty rounds of the League One. They were located under Norwich, West Bromwich, Wigan, Sunderland and Sheffield United, and were six points away from the direct upgrade. Preston and Ipswich, who were leading seventh and eighth, had only one point advantage, and Reading, who was ranked ninth, had only three points, and the promotion situation was not optimistic.

However, in this case, the charm of the Derby still surpassed everything. In the "away game", they tied the entire substitute with tenacious defense zero to zero, and dragged the game into the play-offs. For West Ham United, they were happy to cause some trouble for the Leiden Oriental, although it was not a problem for Leiden Oriental, who only used all substitutes to play the Cup...

In the 26th round of the league, Leiden Oriental defeated Portsmouth three-to-zero at home. Fanny scored twice in the game, increasing his Premier League goals to 95. Manchester United's bad luck continued. They were tied 1-1 by Leeds United at home, and the points behind Leiden Oriental were expanded to three-pointers. The only thing that made Leiden Oriental feel regretful was that Arsenal won again. They scored one-minute away goal by Goodjohansen, and Vieira and Edou scored two goals in a row in the game to overtake the score. In the second half, Chelsea had the opportunity to counterattack, but the red card Goodjohansen received in the 60th minute made Chelsea unable to make a comeback.

After the 26th round of the league, the competition for the top four has gradually become clear. Arsenal scored 64 points in the 26th round of the league, high above, Leiden East followed closely behind with 60 points, Manchester United ranked third with 57 points, and the recent consecutive defeats have caused them to slide from the top to third. After losing this key game, Chelsea still ranked fourth with 55 points, but Liverpool and Newcastle behind them are still ten points, and the position in the top four is still quite stable.

After this round of league play, Leiden East's third-line battle officially began.

On February 22, in the fifth round of the FA Cup, Leiden Oriental challenged West Ham United "away". During this period, West Ham United may have gained confidence from the draw of Leiden Oriental. They won two consecutive games in the League One, and their points have climbed to fourth place. Although the gap from the second place is still six points, there is not a chance.

Perhaps because of the tightening in the league, West Ham United no longer has the desire to block Leiden East. They also sent a large number of substitutes in this game. The substitutes against the substitutes, and the substitutes of the Premier League team naturally have much higher value. In the end, Ronaldo's two goals and Darren. Bent's icing on the cake helped Leiden East win West Ham United three-to-zero, entering the sixth round of the FA Cup, which was to enter the quarterfinals of the FA Cup.

The FA Cup quarterfinals are quite valuable. Although there have been countless Premier League teams before, only four Premier League teams entered the quarterfinals, but among these four Premier League teams include Manchester United, Arsenal and Leiden Oriental, the other is Portsmouth, and the remaining four teams are all English League One teams, Canmeier, Millwall, Sunderland and Sheffield United.

However, in the draw ceremony of the quarterfinals, everyone was surprised - in four matches, no game was a competition between the Premier League and the English League One team, but the four Premier League teams were quite fair to fight against each other, and four English League One teams were fighting against each other - Manchester United and Leiden Oriental will have a fierce battle at Old Trafford for the semi-final qualification, and Arsenal's luck is slightly better, and they met Portsmouth.

In this case, Leiden East ushered in the third round of the League Cup. They will first face Perugia away, and then return to home court and compete with the opponent.

Although Perugia was able to play in European competitions for the first time this season, their results in the league were a mess. They only won one game in the 22 rounds of the league. If there was not Ancona who had not won a single game so far, they would be the last one. However, even so, they were seven points away from the relegation zone. They lost Grosso and Ted again during the winter transfer.

Sco and Frizas are the three absolute main players. Although they have introduced eleven players, including Hubner and Ravanelli, in the eyes of those who are discerning, Gao Qi's move is definitely the last crazy. Perugia's players do not believe that Perugia can succeed in relegation after the end of the season. This can be seen from the fact that Grosso would rather transfer to Serie B Palermo than stay in Perugia, that all the players have lost confidence in Perugia.

The opponents faced have been disintegrated, and the newly introduced players have not shown any eye-catching performance. Hubner is certainly an excellent scorer in Serie A and the best example of becoming a player late. Onlavanelli, a bald-headed man was once one of the super killers in Italy, but if he wanted to rely on two old strikers who were almost forty years old to relegate, he would be too underestimated by Serie A.

In fact, this is true. After the major blood swap against the team in the winter, Perugia's performance still did not improve. Although he relied on Hubner's 90th minute goal in the last league to beat Regina 2-1 away and won the first victory of the season, in the other seven league games since January, their results were bad, two draws and five losses! Even Ancona only got a draw, and the two old forwards they had high expectations combined were only three goals...

In this case, it would be a hell if Perugia was still in the mood to play in Europe.

At his home court, Perugia lost five goals neatly. Leiden Oriental relied on Ronaldo, Gerald and Lucio's goals and three goals to lead. Although Xiao Ming replaced Ronaldo, Figo and Ronaldo in succession in the second half, Ronaldo, who came on the bench, scored twice and set the score to 5-0. This big victory also allowed Leiden Oriental to enter the quarterfinals of the League Cup ahead of schedule.

The victory was so easy that the fans of Leiden Oriental did not expect that now, the level of the League Cup is really low. That Perugia, although it is a Serie A team, its performance is worse than that of the League One team...

After this relaxed victory brought Leiden Oriental back into the league, he almost suffered a big loss.

In the 27th round of the league, Leiden Oriental will visit Elland Road Stadium and challenge Leeds United away.

After Fanny scored the first record for Leiden Oriental, Leiden Oriental players were a little reckless because of the easy victory in the last League Cup. As a result, the opponent's Buck and Viduka scored two goals in six minutes. Leiden Oriental players realized that their opponent was not Perugia, who had a low morale. Although Leeds United has been in the relegation zone this season due to the financial crisis, they are still fighting bravely for relegation, which is completely different from Perugia!

Amid Xiao Ming's roar, Leiden Dongfang launched a fierce attack in the remaining ten minutes of the first half, and Daniel scored a wonderful long shot in the 42nd minute, equalizing the score and entering the midfield.

After being yelled by Xiao Ming in the locker room for more than ten minutes, the players of Leiden East never dared to relax. In the 60th minute, Gerald scored again with a long shot. In the 71st minute, Ronaldo dribbled the ball from the wing and then dribbled past two opponents' defenders and scored strongly, freezing the score to four-2. Leiden East won a difficult away game and continued to chase after Arsenal, who had already won seven consecutive victories.

The efforts of Leiden Oriental players were not in vain. Although they were still four points behind Arsenal, they left Manchester United, which was tied by Fulham, by five points in this round. Now Manchester United's points have also been tied by Chelsea. Leiden Oriental's five-point advantage allows them to focus their attention on Arsenal ahead for the time being.

However, what made Leiden Oriental a little unhappy was that after winning consecutive leagues, they had to temporarily focus on other games - the next round of the league will be held on March 15, during which time, the second leg of the League Cup 16th finals, the FA Cup quarter-finals and the first leg of the League Cup 18th finals - after sweeping Perugia away in the first leg, it is a foregone conclusion that it will enter the quarterfinals of the League Cup.

This is true. After returning from Elland Road, Leiden East, who was at home, ushered in the second leg of the League Cup. The away lead of five to zero made Xiao Ming almost care about this game. In this game, Xiao Ming changed the starting lineup of the first leg. Leiden East, who was all substituted, still easily defeated Perugia at home, and advanced to the quarterfinals of the League Cup with an 8 to zero score in two rounds.

On March 7, in the FA Cup quarter-finals, Leiden Oriental challenged Manchester United away.

Although the FA Cup has been much less important than the league and European competitions, it has entered the quarterfinals of the FA Cup and not many strong players left, so neither Xiao Ming nor Ferguson will give up this FA Cup match.

Manchester United has performed averagely in the league recently. He lost to Porto away in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals. Ferguson needs the victory of this game to regain confidence. Xiao Ming will not show weakness to Ferguson at this time. When he is away, Manchester United had already snatched a victory at home in Leiden East. How could Leiden East take the initiative to show weakness in this situation and give up the qualification to the semi-finals of the FA Cup!

"We have many games recently, but don't forget that Arsenal and Manchester United are not having a good time! They only played one less game than us, and in the first leg of the Champions League, the resistance they received was much more difficult than the resistance we received! And their bench thickness and physical condition are definitely worse than ours! Even in the away game, even in Old Trafford, we have to strive for victory! In the first half of the year, they snatched a three-pointer at our home court, and even in the league, we snatched a three-pointer from their home court, which was just a draw! This is a bit inconsistent with our nickname of "Manchester United nemesis"? What should you do?" Before the game started, Xiao Ming's eyes swept across the faces of all the players, saying word by word.

"Then we will grab it twice! Then we will still be Manchester United's nemesis!" Daniel waved his fists and roared. Soon, his roar resonated with all the players. Xiao Ming smiled with satisfaction. What do you rely on when fighting on several fronts now? It is the players' desire for victory!
Chapter completed!