Chapter 645: This is my boss

Before the national team match day arrived, Leiden Oriental, who won the sixth European Super Cup championship in club history, played a beautiful game in the league. They beat Portsmouth at home 3-0, surpassed the points in this round, and Chelsea, who lost to Aston Villa in two away goals, rose to third place. Liverpool won a happy victory at home. They defeated the derby six-0 at home and continued to occupy the top spot in the standings. Torres, the champion of the Premier League summer, scored twice.

In the first five rounds of the league this season, Liverpool won four wins and one draw, and won many big wins, which seemed to mean that the team that won the most top league titles in England, but has not won once in the Premier League. It has begun to revive strongly, which has also made many Liverpool fans cheer for it.

The prosperity of the Premier League team seems to have brought good luck to the English national team. In the next two European Cup qualifiers, the English national team won two brilliant victories at home. They first defeated Israel three-to-zero, and then defeated Russia, one of the biggest opponents in the group three-to-zero, and defeated the team ranked above themselves two consecutive games. England finally got rid of the dilemma of ranking fourth in the group and jumped to second in the group, leaving Croatia, which ranked first in the list, two points ahead of Russia and three-pointers ahead of Israel.

However, their situation is not particularly good. Next, there are three opponents. In addition to Estonia, which will be against in October, the opponents in the other two games are Russia and Israel. If you are not careful, you may suffer a catastrophe. In these two games, Leiden Oriental performed well. Beckham, who returned to the English national team, did not score, gave three assists in two games, helping England achieve two consecutive victories.

In addition to Beckham, Aston Villa's Gareth Barry became the biggest discovery of the English national team. When Lampard was unable to play and Hargreaves was abandoned, Barry became England's main midfielder. In these two games, Barry played his best. In addition to protecting the midfielder in defense, he often used dispatch to sort out England's midfielder in order. In this national team lacking strong midfielder, Barry's role began to be clearly revealed. He was a defender and was willing to do dirty work and tiring work. This is something that Gerald and Lampard had very much. Although both Dundes were from defensive players, they were basically in offensive positions after entering the adult team, and were already unfamiliar with the drag and back defense position.

Xiao Ming seemed very angry about this result - it was not because the English national team's performance improved and he didn't have the chance to take over, but because in the first game against Israel, Gerald was injured halfway through the game, and then he played again in the second game - he was still closed before going on! The direct consequence of this approach was that after returning to Leiden East from the national team, Gerald took a break and lay down. Levin's diagnosis result was that he needed to rest for half a month.

What made Xiao Ming most dissatisfied was not just because of this - but Chelsea's Lampard had two games off in the national team when he was injured. McLaren's approach completely angered Xiao Ming. He didn't care whether Gerald and Lampard's situation was different. He tried his best to use my people to let Chelsea's people rest well. Are you too biased?

However, under the premise of playing for the country, Xiao Ming naturally would not be stupid enough to blame McLaren with such things. However, as a top coach, he had some ways to make things difficult for McLaren. Just when McLaren thought he had achieved such two beautiful victories and felt a little fluttering, Xiao Ming's words immediately made his mood fall to the bottom again when he was interviewed.

"Everyone has seen David's performance in these national teams? Such a player is definitely England's most precious asset. Since he returned to the national team, England has immediately won three consecutive victories, including defeating the strong opponents in the two groups of Israel and Russia... This performance is of course gratifying, but I have a question, why such an outstanding player missed the national team for a whole year before? Our national team has many talented players, but David is still unreplicable. If he were there, we would not have fallen into the point where we had to win all three games to advance with three rounds left in the group stage."

This obviously made a resonance among British fans. Beckham missed the national team in one year, especially when the situation in the previous game was bad and Beckham had immediately won a winning streak as soon as he returned to the national team. They would not care that England had collectively started to perform well in these three games to win three consecutive victories. It was not Beckham's credit for himself. They were just thinking that if Beckham had been in the national team, they might have already qualified in advance. At least with Beckham, England would not have been tied by Macedonia and Israel. Even if they were away, they would probably not lose to Croatia...

McLaren immediately responded fiercely: "Xiao Ming is not qualified to point fingers at my work, and he cannot regard all the three games as what Beckham has achieved. The rest of our players performed well to achieve three brilliant victories."

"Oh, then why didn't there be such a brilliant victory before? In the past year, in addition to winning big scores in teams like Andorra and Estonia, we even scored one goal in Macedonia in just two games! We had no choice but to win Israel's defense away, but David was able to win three of them after his return... I have no intention of denying the efforts made by other English players, but David is the catalyst. With him, our victory can be easier." Xiao Ming retorted lightly.

The debate soon fell into a boring situation. With the rekindling of the league and the beginning of the Champions League, everyone's attention began to turn to this aspect. Xiao Ming began to pay more attention to the game, and McLaren could only shut up unwillingly, holding back his energy to prove himself in the future.

However, in the next period of games, Leiden Oriental's performance was not very good.

In the four league games between the sixth and ninth rounds of the league, that is, in the four league games between the two European Cup qualifiers, Leiden Oriental won four consecutive victories, defeating Tottenham 3-1 away, sweeping Derby County five-zero at home, and defeating West Ham United 1-zero away, defeating Sunderland 3-2 at home. After a four-game winning streak, Leiden Oriental surpassed Arsenal and Liverpool and topped the standings. However, in the Champions League, Leiden Oriental unexpectedly fell into a tough battle.

In the first round of the group stage, Leiden East tied with Porto one-to-one away. This draw did not make people feel that there was anything wrong. After all, it was normal to make occasional mistakes. As a result, after returning to home in the second round, Leiden East encountered a draw again. They tied with Marseille to zero. The two draws allowed them to lead Besiktas, who lost both games, ranked third in the group, and were under pressure by Porto and Marseille, who also won one-to-one.

After these games, Leiden East ushered in another FIFA match day, which made Xiao Ming feel a little overwhelmed. After all, Leiden East's usual results in the Champions League were because they were constantly experimenting with new tactics and lineups. The frequent changes made Leiden East's performance unstable. Finally, there were some signs. The players had to go their separate ways to participate in the national team competition, and the effect was reduced again.

However, in another aspect, Xiao Ming achieved good results - in the home game against Estonia on October 13, McLaren began his revenge - Beckham was not recruited into the national team by him at all. McLaren's reason was that Beckham's appearance at Leiden East was unstable and in poor condition, and Daniel and Gerrard were also placed on the bench. They were replaced by Liverpool's captain Carragher and Chelsea captain Lampard. Judging from his appearance, if Cole had not been too stable in the national team and no one would have replaced him, he would probably not even be a Leiden East player in the main lineup.

England, which has changed most of its main lineups, still won the third three-to-zero victory in the last three games at home. They beat Estonia 3-0 at home. In another game, Croatia defeated Israel 1-0 and continued to lead England to ranked first in the group with three-pointers. After losing this game, the gap between Israel and England has been widened to six points. With only two games left, they have difficulty qualifying from this group.

Russia was left by five points by England, but they played one game less than England. In addition to home against England, the remaining two games were away against Israel and Andorra. Although it was away, Israel had basically no chance to qualify, and Andorra was the bottom of the bottom. If they could beat England at home and win all the remaining games, England would be eliminated by Russia even if they beat Croatia in the last round.

Among the three teams that still have hope to qualify in the group, Croatia is in the best situation. They are now leading third place Russia by as many as eight points. In the next two games, they can securely qualify in the group as long as one point is obtained. If Russia wants to qualify, it must beat England and win the remaining two games to ensure the qualifying in the group. Among them, the home game against England is the top priority. Even if it draws, it will make their next situation very bad. The situation in England is more obvious. Losing to Russia away will be very dangerous. If you lose to Russia, in addition to striving to defeat Croatia, Russia also needs to capsize in Israel and Andorra. If you win Russia, then they can qualify in advance. If you draw, it is acceptable. In that case, they only need to tie Croatia in the last game and rely on mutual victory and loss relationship to qualify.

In other words, this away game against Russia will be a life-and-death battle between England and Russia.

Before this game, many domestic football celebrities and media reporters in the UK called on McLaren to let go of his prejudice and use the main lineup that had won three consecutive victories. In those three games, the four players of the Leiden Oriental system were top priority. At this time, Xiao Ming was quite good at Gu Dabi and did not express any opinions and continued to stimulate McLaren. Perhaps because he knew what actions McLaren would do...

With almost the whole country calling for Beckham to use the best players in the league, McLaren still insisted on leaving Beckham in London. Although he brought Daniel and Gerald, he did not want to change the main lineup in the last game.

"England is definitely not a team that can't perform well without a certain player! The Premier League is the best league in the world, and we also have the best players in the world. Now we have passed the most difficult time, and the continuous victory has made our state reach its peak. In Moscow, we only have one hope, that is victory."

In Moscow, McLaren swore that he was indeed confident in this game, although he had many difficulties - Russia has always been very good, there are quite a few good players in the team, and at the same time, the central stadium of Russia's home court is paved with artificial turf, which is somewhat unfavorable to England, and the Russian head coach is even more cunning Hiddink...

However, McLaren planned to bet this game. If he wins this game, his position in the English national team will no longer be affected, and no one will point fingers at him for not using Beckham and Leiden Oriental. If Beckham is used, even if he kills Russia away to enter the European Cup, his self-mouthed behavior will still make his future position unstable - Xiao Ming's previous words have forced him to a dead end. If Xiao Ming didn't mention it, there would probably be no one to mention it...

It is precisely because of this idea that McLaren insisted on not using Beckham and Leiden Oriental. He wanted Leiden Oriental to know that he is the head coach of the England national team. In the entire England national team, he is the final decision.

Even assistant coach Venables could not persuade him. Even the FA secretly warned him that if he lost the game, he would be dismissed immediately, and he was still firm in his approach.

He is not willing to be a cautious puppet. What he wants is all the right to speak in the English national team, so that his position will be more stable.

Everyone will have their own ideas. Those practices that are considered "extremely brainless" in later generations will always have reasons for their appearance. McLaren is trying to gain more voice in the national team in the future and suppress the arrogance of the Leiden Oriental system. Although several of the Leiden Oriental players are honest players who don't make trouble, their boss is really annoying...

Xiao Ming was watching coldly, and the players of Leiden East were watching coldly. This time McLaren did more obvious. In the pre-match confrontation training camp, in addition to Gerald, even Ashley Cole was taken from the main position by McLaren. If Lampard's injury had not healed, Gerald might have lost his position...

In the training within the national team, Manchester City's young genius Richards was replaced by Manchester City's young genius, and Everton's Lescott chose Everton's Lescott. When Terry was injured in the central defender position, McLaren recruited Portsmouth veteran Campbell into the team, preparing to recreate the central defender combination of England's national team Ferdinand and Campbell a few years ago.

"He is really going to do this?"

When Xiao Ming was calling Daniel, he knew some of the situation inside England. He couldn't help laughing: "This idiot, you don't need you and Ashley. Just wait for the two sides to be beaten by the Russian Kovs... Lescott is good at strength, but he is more suitable for the central defender. Even Upson, who has played for our team before, is better than him in the left-back position. If it were me, he should be partnered with Ferdinand. Richards is also talented, but it is far inferior to you! Look at the two wings he used - one little Wright who can't play the main player at Chelsea, and the other Joe Cole, who is not fast, has walked back to Eriksen's old path."

After laughing, Xiao Ming still reminded Daniel: "Don't interfere in the current situation. You can train as much as you should, and don't complain. Do you understand?"

"I understand, boss." Daniel replied on the other end of the phone, and then he asked a little hesitantly: "If we go on stage... do we have to do our best?"

"What is this, Daniel." Xiao Ming said dissatisfiedly: "A professional player must do his best in any situation! I don't like McLaren because this guy doesn't need David. He does things that are unfavorable to the entire England national team just because of personal considerations. If I want you to do this, then what's the difference between me and him?"

After scolding Daniel, Xiao Ming said: "Don't think too much. This has nothing to do with you. Be good at performing well. If you have the chance, you still have to strive for the main force of the national team. Do you understand?"

Daniel replied obediently. Although he had always been the cold-faced captain of Leiden East in front of outsiders, he was no different from a child in front of Xiao Ming.

After hanging up the phone, Daniel breathed a long sigh. He was a little worried that Xiao Ming would suggest that they would let the national team game. Now it seems that the boss is still the boss, the boss who pays great attention to professional player qualities, has not changed much from before.

This is my boss.

Daniel thought to himself, although he had made up his mind when he asked that, even if the boss asked him to let him go in the game, wouldn't this be better now?
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