Defeating Real Madrid and reaching the Champions League final again greatly boosted the morale of Leeds United players.
For this group of players who are only around 20 years old, being able to participate in the Champions League final is definitely their dream.
Is that something that many people desire but cannot achieve?
Stimulated by reaching the Champions League final, Leeds United's morale is high and the young players have shown amazing fighting power.
In the 35th round of the Premier League, Leeds United faced Tottenham Hotspur at home.
Speaking of the North London team, it is still ranked third in the Premier League, and it is relatively stable to enter the top four. However, Mourinho's team still cannot relax its vigilance, so the two teams fought fiercely at the Amazon Stadium.
Leeds United played with a rotating lineup. In just 13 minutes, Rodrigo opened the scoring for Leeds United with a wonderful follow-up shot, and also won himself cheers from the Amazon Stadium.
But in the 25th minute, through a direct pass from Bruno Fernandez, Son Heung-min scored with a single goal, equalizing the score for Leeds United.
Before the end of the first half, left back Nuno Mendes advanced and assisted, allowing Vardy to score again. Leeds United once again exceeded the score, 2 to 1!
After that, the two teams exchanged offense and defense. Tottenham Hotspur was never able to break through Leeds United's goal. Instead, in the 84th minute, substitute Kvarac Helija dribbled the ball past three Tottenham players.
After sending a wonderful pass, Alvarez, who also came on as a substitute, calmly seized the opportunity and scored another victory for Leeds United.
Three to one!
Leeds United beat Tottenham Hotspur at home!
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Due to the FA Cup final, the 36th round of Leeds United's Premier League match was scheduled to be played ahead of schedule.
This time the opponent is Burnley.
Although Burnley aims to avoid relegation, the strength of the two teams is far apart. Although Leeds United suffered a tenacious attack in the away game, they still relied on Pedri's goal before the end of the first half.
Zero takes the lead.
After changing sides in the second half, Vinicius scored Leeds United's second goal in the 60th minute, assisted by left back Nuno Mendes.
The Portuguese defender is getting better and better.
Later, Vinicius posed a threat on the left twice in a row and sent out exquisite assists to help Vardy score twice.
The Brazilian left winger made two passes and one shot in this game against Burnley and was elected the best player of the match.
This also allowed everyone to see the growth and progress of Vinicius.
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In the evening of May 15th, London, Wembley Stadium.
FA Cup final, Leeds United vs Chelsea.
As soon as the game started, the White Rose launched a crazy high-pressure press against the Blues, especially in the frontcourt, and even directly suppressed Chelsea's defense in the penalty area, unable to move.
This made the Blues feel very passive.
Chelsea was not a waste of energy, and not to be outdone, they launched a relentless pressure on Leeds United.
The two Premier League teams went back and forth like this, pressing high and pressing to see who made the mistake first.
Scenes like this are not uncommon in the Premier League.
When the game reached the 6th minute, Chelsea pressed Leeds United's defense, forcing the midfielder to be unable to play the ball, and was forced to pass it back to goalkeeper Alisson.
The Brazilian goalkeeper left the penalty area and stopped the ball outside the penalty area.
Ruben Dias and Militao both retreated and opened up a distance to ensure that Alisson had a path for the ball at any time.
Chelsea's frontcourt players immediately realized that the success rate of continuing to press was low, so they slowed down their forward pressing and instead concentrated their forces near the midfield, but most of the players remained in the Leeds half.
Even the back line of defense was pressed close to the midline.
Harland in front also realized the opportunity, and he has been cruising in the center line.
After seeing Chelsea's defense coming up, he raised his left hand high and made a gesture to his teammates in the distance.
Both Alisson and Ruben Dias noticed Haaland's gesture, and also noticed that the Norwegian player was gradually approaching Chelsea's two central defenders, and immediately looked at each other.
The Brazilian goalkeeper gently stepped forward to kick the ball, adjusted it, and just when everyone thought he would pass it to Ruben Dias, he suddenly made a long pass.
The ball traced an arc and fell behind Chelsea's defense.
"Leeds United's backcourt directly launched a long pass."
"We saw a long pass from Alisson into the frontcourt."
"The placement of this long pass is very good."
"Haaland is sprinting!"
“Norwegians are very fast!”
When Harland sprinted, he couldn't stop him even if he wanted to.
With his burly body, strong body, and amazing speed, who can stop him?
I saw Haaland break through Chelsea's defense, pass Rudiger, sprint all the way to the outside of the penalty area, face the falling football, and deftly remove the ball in mid-air with his left foot.
"Nice stop."
"Haaland's stop was very easy and he stopped directly into the penalty area."
"Rudiger followed behind and tried desperately to push Haaland away, but Haaland is a left-footed player, so be careful."
"Look at Harland's handling this time..."
After the Norwegian center broke into the penalty area, he was squeezed to the left side of the penalty area by Rudiger, but isn't his left foot the best?
Haaland took advantage of the situation and took the ball to the left, then fired a sweep with his left foot and sent the ball to the lower right corner of the goal.
At this moment, Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Kepa was standing on the left side of the goal, blocking Haaland's near corner with Rudiger, but the far corner was released.
Although Haaland was under pressure from Rudiger and broke into the penalty area at high speed, his left-footed shot was still very accurate. The ball almost touched the turf and went straight into the lower right corner of Chelsea's goal.
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“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
!
!”
"With just over 6 minutes to play, Leeds United took the lead."
"A great goal from Haaland."
"Chelsea's defense pressed a little too far forward. This was obviously coach Lampard's plan, but in this way, Chelsea exposed the weaknesses and deficiencies in its defense."
"This is the biggest problem for the Blues right now."
"The assister this time is Alisson, Leeds United's goalkeeper."
"We can take a look again. This long pass is very beautiful and the landing point is very accurate."
"Of course, Haaland's sprint speed, strong body, and confrontation ability that is not inferior to Rudiger's, all allowed Haaland to win this contest at the critical moment."
"One to zero!"
"Chelsea need to pay attention."
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"Leeds United is now the focus of everyone's attention and even study."
In the box at Wembley Stadium, Abramovich watched the game leisurely.
His close confidant, Chelsea director Granovskaya, was on the sidelines introducing Leeds United.
Although the score was behind and the scene was not as good as Leeds United, he was not too anxious and always maintained a demeanor.
He is in a much better mood now than when he first landed in the Premier League.
This is mainly because he was indifferent and achieved his goal.
Some people say that every investor in the Premier League has different purposes.
Abramovich's purpose is to get rid of his Russian identity and strive to integrate into the upper class society in Britain and even Europe, to be accepted by them and become one of them.
This is actually what the Russian upper class has been striving for since ancient times.
But since ancient times, European "gentlemen" have regarded Russians as synonymous with barbarism.
Abramovich did a lot of things, including buying a house near Prince William's Kensington Palace, including lending his luxury cruise ship to Prince William and his brothers to pick up girls, including hanging out with some British political and business celebrities, and even
The interactions of entertainment stars.
In fact, he has invested crazily in Chelsea over the years.
All of these are to achieve this purpose.
Now, he has achieved it!
Since then, his mentality has changed a lot. Although Chelsea's success makes him happy, even if it fails, he can still look at it very indifferently.
"I think we should re-establish a football director or technical director," Granovskaya suggested.
After thinking for a while, Abramovich nodded slightly, "I heard that Gao Shen served as technical director at Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain. This position is basically set up in the Premier League now."
Sometimes, existence always makes sense.
For no reason, why do Premier League teams and most teams in Europe have technical directors or football directors?
Do you really think those clubs have too much money and can spend it casually?
Certainly not.
That's because the technical director can better control the team's development direction and create a mature team formation concept and ideas for the team. Only in this way can the team avoid violent turmoil due to the change of head coach.
For example, at Chelsea, after Sarri dismissed get out of class, Lampard took over, and the two have very different styles.
"Leeds United is really strong right now, and their experienced teams are also very in demand. I contacted them before, but they are still short of manpower." Granovskaya smiled bitterly.
Chelsea takes the initiative to send money to the door, but people still don’t want it. What’s the point of this?
If you have the skills, ability and experience, you can do whatever you want!
There is no way, who makes the current European football world be dominated by Gao Shen?
Manchester United?
The so-called system created by Ratcliffe has long been exposed by the media. It is a big joke. The British rich man is just a big bastard who was deceived and lame by his subordinates.
Today, Manchester United's ranking in the Premier League is only 9th, which is the result of continuous improvement.
Interestingly, Arsenal is currently ranked 8th, one point and one position above Manchester United.
Sometimes, when Abramovich looks at Ratcliffe, it feels like she is looking at a stupid and rich boy giving money.
Even when he acquired Chelsea, he poached people everywhere with checks, but he didn't poach as ruthlessly or unfairly as Ratcliffe.
Moreover, he at least had an immediate effect that year, winning two Premier League championships.
On the other hand, Ratcliffe, let alone the Premier League champion, would be proud to be able to play in the European competition.
There is news that many sponsors, including Adidas, are now looking for trouble with Manchester United because they have missed the European competition in a row. According to the contract, the sponsorship fee must be discounted.
When it comes to being the biggest quarrel, Ratcliffe ranks second. Who in world football dares to rank first?
