Chapter 53 Anticlimactic European War (Happy Long Holiday!)
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The sixth round of the spn Premier League has come to an end. Manchester United has lost another away game since the start of the league!
After the game, Everton also sent a bill for £1,000 to Manchester United.
It is said that Sir Alex Ferguson performed his famous stunt, the hair dryer, in the dressing room after the game.
Not only the hearts of Manchester United's players were injured, but even the visiting team's locker room at Goodson Park Stadium was also swept away. There was basically nothing left that could be smashed, so it was natural to receive the bill.
Sir Alex did not attend the post-match press conference, leaving only Moyes as a one-man show.[
After the league ends, Everton will face the third knockout round of the UEFA Cup. They will face Ukraine's Kharkiv Metalworking Team at home on the 20th.
Their opponent, Kharkiv Metalworkers, ranked third in the Ukrainian Premier League last season. However, Everton really doesn’t know anything about this team. Ukraine is well-known in the European competition, and it is the only team that has played in Ukraine.
Core leader Shevchenko's Dynamo Kiev and traditional powerhouse Shakhtar Donetsk, these two teams represent the highest level of Ukrainian clubs and are regulars in European competitions.
Then the Kharkiv Metalworkers that Everton will face is definitely a mysterious team. At least Moyes can't find good information to understand the opponent in the game. At this point, Everton Club is definitely on par with the top teams.
There is a big gap between clubs.
There is not much information about the opponent, so we have to focus on our own adjustments and adapt to changes by staying the same. However, the seventh round of the Premier League will start on September 23rd, away to challenge Aston Villa.
Counting the away time, there is less than 2 days of rest between the two games. How to allocate the players' physical strength has become Moyes' top priority. Everton does not want to give up on both fronts, so appropriate rotations are needed.
Li Yu is not on the list of players considered for rotation. Just as Moyes promised before, Li Yu will continue to start.
In the past few days of training, Moyes has rarely opened closed training and declined all interviews with the media. He does not care about the state of his team and lets his opponents know about it through reports from various media. The penetrating British media always
He likes to be a disservice, and Moyes has to guard against it.
The training is mainly based on tactical drills. Li Yu has shown a good competitive state in the training. He is now more sharp in breaking through. The combination of body and feet with the ball is now integrated little by little. The results of the double-star training are being combined with Li Yu's own
The conditions are slowly changing. After all, in the special training, Messi teaches skills based on his characteristics. He also combines his own characteristics to form breakthroughs and protective methods in games and training!
It would be somewhat inappropriate to completely apply it to Li Yu. Li Yu finally realized this during the match against Manchester United. At the start of the game, he played football according to the method taught by Messi.
Very laborious!
But after using his own strength, he became much more relaxed on the court. Li Yu is trying to use the practice in training to find his own breakthrough method, combining his own characteristics with what Messi teaches.
In the recent Everton training, Li Yu's changeable playing style made it difficult for the players defending him. I don't know which method Li Yu will choose to break through. Sometimes fouls are necessary, so if he falls down in training
The ground record has always been with him. Ever since Li Yu moved to Everton, Li Yu has always held the record for ground downs in the team's training. Although the value has decreased recently, he still ranks first. This record is also matched by no one.
Fighting for.
There is another first that everyone in the Everton team can achieve: running distance. After every training session, Li Yu's running range is always around 20,000, while most Everton players are
With a running distance of about 10,000, Moyes loves this newly purchased training equipment. In the past, Li Yu would not realize that Li Yu would run so much more distance. Although some of it was for running, don't forget that many
This is how opportunities come out!
So Moyes boldly added special training for Li Yu to get rid of man-to-man defense during training. In fact, the method is very simple. It is the method Li Yu used in the Manchester United game. It is the most effective and the most energy-consuming method to increase running.
The range makes it impossible for opponents to mark him even if they want to. Li Yu's good physical fitness can ensure that he can be used well in the game. Moyes actually has some expectations. Once the opponent uses it, he will know, "I can't outrun you!"
The word most used by the British media when reporting on this UEFA Cup knockout match was 'massacre'!
Obviously, they are still optimistic about Everton's victory over the away Ukrainian team with a big score at home.
Without knowing the strength of the opponent, they easily and unanimously pursue their own country's team. This is the style of the British media.
Everton can't say anything yet, saying that they agree. If you don't score the big score the media said, you will die miserably by then.
What if you don't agree? You still die miserably, with collective bombardment from the media and accusations from experts. In fact, the real difference is whether you die sooner or later.
The media has already determined the game before the game. If there is a slight deviation, Everton will definitely be affected, so the game must be played well and a big score must be scored.[
The media's excessive optimism is sometimes a form of pressure. Everton's previous good performance in the league forced them to accept this pressure and move forward resolutely.
The team is under pressure, so what about Li Yu, who performed extremely well before?
Of course, the media will not forget Li Yu. They pointed out his two goals in the Manchester United game and continued to report them. The media supporting Manchester United ridiculed Li Yu for being so lucky. Both goals were extremely lucky.
Manchester United lost unjustly, so Ferguson found a better excuse for his rage after the game. In the words of these media, if you are a fan who supports Manchester United, you will definitely scream when you see Li Yu's two goals.
, "This boy is the illegitimate son of the goddess of luck. The old gentleman witnessed the whole process and was so strong that he was exhausted!"
The domestic media in China put all the halo on Li Yu's head. Praising words such as Manchester United's nemesis, China's future, and the strongest striker suddenly appeared behind the name Li Yu. He scored a goal in the ass.
No matter what, if you have the ability, you can join one!
Anyway, it’s an almost out-of-print goal. If you want to score a goal with your butt against Manchester United, you can score it?
Li Yu, our Chinese player scored!
This alone can be magnified, not to mention other things. The domestic god-making movement has begun to send Li Yu's image to the foot of the sacred mountain. He is just waiting for the end of the Premier League's first season to officially become a god!
The praise from the domestic media was a bit too fierce and too extreme, which made Li Yu feel great pressure. It seemed that if he did not perform well in a game, he would feel sorry for hundreds of millions of Chinese fans. This understanding may be a bit alarmist.
But the truth is actually not too different.
Li Yu also had a lot of emotions about this. In some aspects, the Chinese media may be more eager for quick success than the British media, which is known as the most utilitarian. It went from one extreme to the other. It only took Li Yu less than a month to change the world.
It's so wonderful.
No longer questioning, no way out, and no excuse for himself to retreat, Li Yu could only move forward hard on the road of playing football, accumulate game after game, and win some breathing space for himself.
That’s what Jade thinks!
Everton's first European match of the season attracted nearly 60,000 Toffees fans to Goodson Park on the day of the match. Most of them were fans with tickets, while fans without tickets had to wait.
Gather together outside the stadium and cheer for your favorite team with your own songs outside the stadium.
Very few fans of the visiting team came. In the entire stadium, only the stands where the fans of the away team were located could find empty seats. For safety reasons, although the 3,000-person stand was only half full, the other seats were not occupied.
Open to home team fans.
Kharkiv Metalworking uses a defensive counterattack strategy in the away game. A draw is good. It would be even better if they can bring back another away goal.
Li Yu was not marked by his opponent during the game, and Kharkiv Metalworking paid a heavy price for this. In the 15th minute of the first half, Li Yu received Arteta's pass from the left and grabbed the ball.
Point scored with a header, opening the scoring for Everton.
The tall Ukrainian defender did not block Li Yu and was beaten by him, so the goal was no longer in doubt!
The goal was conceded very quickly, and the Kharkiv Metalworkers' wishful thinking failed. They could only spread out their formation and try to attack!
Amid the cheers of tens of thousands of Everton fans, Everton became more and more courageous. The confrontation was definitely the course of the game that Everton wanted to see. After Kharkiv Metalworking tried several more attacks, Li Yu seized the opportunity again.
In the space behind the opponent's defender, with a single shot in front of the goal, Pienaar assisted Pienaar to catch up and score another victory.
Leading by two goals, Kharkiv Metalworking was stunned by two consecutive punches. Everton became even more crazy in the attack, but the visiting team's goalkeeper began to show his strength, catching high and low blocks, and using his hands and feet tenaciously.
blocked several threatening shots from Everton.
Until the end of the first half, the score was still 2-0. The ability to maintain such a score was entirely due to the goalkeeper's extraordinary performance.
Moyes was very satisfied with the team's performance in the first half. In the second half, he still adopted the same tactical arrangement as the first half. However, Everton's players began to show some slack in the second half, allowing the visiting team to catch Yabo's clearance error in the 60th minute.
Scored a valuable away goal.
After relaxing, it was a bit difficult to show off the previous state. Everton did not perform as well as it should in the next game. The visiting team's bucket defense successfully held back the score, 2 to 1! [
Everton's first European campaign ended anticlimactically!
