The crowd outside the venue was full of voices, and the venue was silent.

On the sidelines of the pitch, Ipswich Town Under-18s formed a circle with a tactical board standing in the circle, and Samp was reiterating the tactics used today to the players.

This kind of scene is not unfamiliar to Gao Sheng, and it can often be seen in the youth league in the past two years, but compared to before, today is a little more serious or heavy.

At least there is a little bit of nervousness on everyone's face, which may come from the peculiarities of today's match, or it may be today's opponent.

Wimbledon, one of the founding teams of the English Premier League, has a history of 100 years, can be described as a veteran, but there is no 100 days of red, since the 99 to 00 season after being relegated from the Premier League, Wimbledon has fallen like a roller coaster, the Championship, League One, League B, and the English Championship.

It wasn't until the 04-05 season that Wimbledon returned to League Two after a rebirth.

As a fourth-tier team in England, Wimbledon is not outstanding, especially after the relocation and reorganization, Wimbledon's foundation has been greatly damaged, and he has been promoted to League Two for eight seasons, and is still hovering in the middle of League Two.

But that's it, Wimbledon is still a team to be reckoned with at The Athletic Under-18s, after all, the youth league is always a youth league and the intensity cannot be compared to the professional league.

Compared to Wimbledon, who worked hard in the "primeval jungle" for eight seasons, Ipswich U18 is a greenhouse rose by their side.

It looks delicate, but in fact it can't withstand the wind and frost.

Because of this, the unfamiliarity made the Ipswich U18 players a little nervous, even timid.

The ten-minute tactical explanation ended quickly, but instead of disbanding the team immediately, Samp continued to form a circle with arms on arm and he stood in the middle, giving the players a final speech of encouragement.

As for the starters, there was no suspense, Samp opted for the regular youth league main lineup, Yoddle and Anderson two hopefuls appeared together, and Gao Sheng wore a substitute vest.

For this arrangement, in fact, Gao Sheng already knew about it two days ago, after all, Samp personally told him: It depends on the situation and then decide whether to send him to play.

So after Samp's final speech, Gao Sheng was ready to sit in his own place - a simple bench made of wooden planks on the sidelines.

But when he went to the bench again, Gao Sheng walked to Yodel's side first.

"Wait a good kick, do you hear? Mr. Ilmez is on the sidelines of the pitch, don't embarrass them. Gao Sheng squatted on the ground, saying as he helped tie his shoes.

Yodel kept nodding yes.

In the past year, as long as Yodel started, the substitute Gao Sheng was always like an adult, constantly explaining something.

And Yodel took the trouble to respond like today, but today Yodel felt different, he figured out the problems that he didn't think about on Saturday, just when Gao Sheng helped him tie his shoes.

"Brother Gao Sheng, did you invite your cousin and aunt to come over so that they could see me?" Yodel asked suddenly, blinking his clear eyes.

Gao Sheng patted the grass clippings stuck to his hands, smiled and said, "Why do you care so much?" Play well. As he spoke, he raised his leg and kicked Yodel into the arena, and shouted, "Come on!" ”

With that, Gao Sheng shook his hand at Yodel again, and then turned and walked to the bench.

Looking at the back, Yodel froze in place, his clear eyes twinkling with stars at some point, and then lit up with a bright smile, raised his head, and ran to his place. ……

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As soon as the players from both sides stepped into the field, it was not long before the first assessment match of the Ipswich U18 team began.

At the beginning of the game, Ipswich U18's performance was quite stable, perhaps related to the tactics formulated by Samp, playing steadily and steadily, basically not giving the opponent any chance.

On the offensive end, Anderson, as the hope star of Ipswich Town's U18 team, is significantly stronger than other starting attacking players, and almost single-handedly has captured several dangerous shots from Ipswich.

Wimbledon, on the other hand, was tepid and played at its own pace, and in this way, the two sides played back and forth on the field.

The "wonderful" offensive battle also drove the emotions of the surrounding citizens watching the game, and whenever Ipswich U18 attacked with the ball, there would be a wave of sound on the sidelines, and the atmosphere was extremely warm.

However, this situation changed after twenty minutes, and this change was not expected by the citizens at the scene.

Wimbledon may be League Two teams, but they have eight years of professional experience and they know how to take control of the game.

After 20 minutes of probing, Wimbledon has already seen Ipswich Town Under-18 thoroughly. After deciding to make a move, Wimbledon first locked up the active Anderson and cut him off from his teammates.

And Anderson's strength stood out among the offensive players, once causing chaos in the opponent's defense, but after Wimbledon began to focus on defense, Anderson's space for movement was sharply compressed, and the contact with teammates was cut off, Anderson inevitably fell into a lonely dilemma, and it was difficult to perform again.

Anderson was restrained, and Ipswich City's Under-18 attack was muted.

Immediately afterwards, Wimbledon avoided the defensively capable right side of Jodel and focused on the left side of Ipswich Town's Under-18s.

Taking advantage of his body and speed, Wimbledon's forwards, wing-backs, and full-backs repeatedly attacked, and the left side of the line, which was relatively solid at the beginning, became stormy after repeated impacts, and it looked like they could concede goals at any time.

In their most recent attack, Wimbledon came close to finding the Ipswich Under-18 goal. It was a beautiful kick to the wall, and after tearing through the left side of the Ipswich Town Under-18 defence, the wing-back sent a low cross, only for the Wimbledon striker's unlucky header to hit the crossbar and Ipswich Under-18 escaped.

However, Wimbledon's attack did not fail to warn Ipswich WICH U18's defenders on the left side, and the poor defense soon allowed Wimbledon to repeat his old tricks.

Kicking past a defender over the wall, the Wimbledon wing-back sent in a pinpoint cross before the striker leapt high and smashed the ball into the Apswich Under-18 net.

1-0, Wimbledon broke the deadlock.

After conceding the goal, Ipswich U18 played more chaotic, Jodel had to abandon his position to help from the right in order to stabilize the defense on the left side, but Wimbledon offensive line was flexible, allowing Jodel to take care of the other, and the impatient Anderson made frequent mistakes when attacking on the right side, and the opponent seized the opportunity to play a counterattack.

Towards the end of the first half, he scored another goal from Wimbledon on the right.

Wimbledon ended the first half with a 2-0 lead. ……

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