Either way, after a week's rest, Leeds United have a game against Birmingham.

Birmingham's home side, which has rarely been filled this season, was packed at the time of this game.

Despite Birmingham's poor performance this season, home attendance picked up towards the end. Because everyone has to cheer for the team's relegation.

When the team is at its most difficult, they naturally have to support their team.

This was already felt by the Leeds players in their pre-match warm-ups, and when they came out to warm up, they were greeted with boos all over the stadium.

They almost suffocated.

Klopp looked at his players and frowned slightly.

He knew it wasn't going well, not because of the pressure from the Birmingham fans, but because of the physical strength of the Leeds players.

Although I have been practicing every two days during this time, I have added physical training to my daily training.

But physical recovery is not a matter of one or two days, it is a long process.

It always takes time.

"In this game, try to slow down the pace and play around with the other party."

This is Jurgen Klopp's solution to the problem of the game at hand.

If Birmingham are going to be fast, then Leeds are going to have to slow down, slow down the tempo and try to keep the football at their feet. At the same time, when the opponent is attacking, do not entangle with the opponent in the front court, quickly retreat from the defense, and then shrink the defense, so that the physical requirements are lower.

After talking about the tactical requirements, Klopp began to boost the morale of his players.

"The opponent is far inferior to us in this game, so as long as you play normally, you can win this game. There is no need to care about the criticism of the media, they are all people who can only create gimmicks, and I have seen through it for so many years with the team. ”

Jurgen Klopp, as the head coach of the championship, is well aware of the importance of morale at this time, although the Championship title does not mean anything, but this kind of experience in competing for the title is very valuable for Leeds United.

In his mind, Leeds United's goal is far from being promoted to the Premier League.

Thinking of this, he waved his hand.

"Let's play, boys! Show your performance to those who doubt you! ”

......

When the Leeds United players walked out of the tunnel and onto the pitch, the boos were almost stifling.

Thankfully, the boos only lasted for a few seconds.

If it continues, it may actually cause heart disease.

However, the brief boos have also shown the attitude of the Birmingham fans to the Leeds United players - this game is definitely more difficult than the Leeds United players imagined!

When the game started, it really seemed to be going in that direction.

Just eleven minutes into the game, Leeds United were sent off - centre-back Clarke made a mistake in the box for a flying tackle on a Birmingham striker, not only was he sent off with a red card, but the referee also gave Birmingham a penalty!

"It's a double whammy!"

The British commentator couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

'The game had just started and Leeds were behind and there was one less in numbers.

Leeds United's fitness has already started to have problems, and I think it would be nice to be able to keep playing until the end of the game under such circumstances.

If Leeds lose or draw this game, it will be great news for Blackburn! ”

When the head coach on the sidelines, Jurgen Klopp, saw this scene, his brows were almost twisted into a rope.

A low curse, damn it! It doesn't get any worse than this!

He was thinking not just about the deficit caused by the goal, but about the tactical changes between the two sides after the defeat.

How Birmingham will play after taking the lead, he can think with his knees, it must be a shrinking defense.

In this case, the pace will be slower on your side, but it will be more difficult to score goals.

If you can't break through Birmingham's dense defense, this game will be lost!

And, once they lose this game and are overtaken by Blackburn Rovers in the standings, there may be problems with the mentality of the players, after all, there are too many young players in this team.

If the team collapses due to a mental problem, it is possible that Leeds will miss out on promotion as he did in the previous season.

Therefore, Leeds United must not lose this game. But what does it take to win?

Klopp's eyes looked at Lu Feng, this Chinese kid, can he still surprise himself?

.....

The Birmingham City striker, who created the penalty, took it upon himself to kick the ball into the Leeds United goal and score his thirteenth goal of the season.

1-0, Birmingham City temporarily lead Leeds United at home.

In fact, when Clark fouled, the Leeds United players did not immediately gather around excitedly and protest to the referee.

They were a little dazed, watching the referee point to the penalty spot and watching the Birmingham players cheer and celebrate.

They were all a little incredulous when there was such a decision in a game they couldn't afford to lose - is it true? Is this true? Is it really a penalty and a red card?

By the time they could react, the Birmingham striker was already bending down to place a football on the penalty spot.

Damn it!

They clenched their fists unwillingly.

But what if you are unwilling?

Originally, this game was not easy to play, but now the score is behind again, how to play the next game?

Can we still win the game?

Will we still be able to win the league? Could it be that the previous Leeds United tragedy will be repeated on us? Damn it!

The players on the field involuntarily looked at Klopp, who is the soul of this team.

......

When the Birmingham striker kicked the ball into the goal, he turned and ran to celebrate, scoring a goal for his team in the opening stages of the game, and the rest of the Birmingham players pounced on him.

At this crucial moment of relegation, this goal gave them hope of winning. Naturally, they are happy at this time.

The Birmingham fans in the stands also jumped up and cheered the goal with the players.

The rest of the Leeds players stood still, stunned.

Even goalkeeper Reina was much slower than usual to get up.

As he slowly got up from the ground and was about to catch the football in the net, he was knocked over.

"I'm sorry, Reina, but I'm in a hurry." He heard Lu Feng's voice.

By the time he turned around, the ball in the goal was gone.

He turned his head and saw Lu Feng holding the football and running towards the middle circle.

"Looks like someone hasn't given up yet."

Boisco, who was on the sidelines, straightened his back when he saw Lu Feng do this. There was a sense of anticipation in his voice.

"But he's alone..."

Klopp said with a frown. What a blow this penalty and red card did to the team.

"One person is worth looking forward to!"

Boisko said categorically.

'Birmingham defended very tightly against him, it was ten minutes into the game and so far he didn't even have a shot on goal and I'm expecting him to surprise me again, but you know, football is not a one-man thing.

"There's always a way, and it's not just Lu Feng, isn't there anyone who hasn't given up."

Bouák joked with a smile and looked at several midfielders.

"Good, this is my team."

Klopp quickly understood what Boisko meant, smiled, and his brow furrowed again.

"Well, I'm expecting them to surprise me! Tell the players to attack with all their might, and even if you lose, you have to score in this game! ”

......

In order to ensure the backline, Jurgen Klopp replaced Robert and replaced the substitute centre-back Ramiro.

When Robert was replaced, he looked helpless.

Of course, he didn't want to be substituted so early, but there was no way, what about the lack of people as soon as the sleeping team came up? In order to maintain the integrity of the backline, the strikers had to be sacrificed.

Robert glanced at Lu Feng's back, and felt a little unwilling in his heart, damn boy, the head coach trusts him, and he really has more than me.

Klopp stepped forward, shook hands with Robert, and comforted him.

Robert shook his head, unhappiness written all over his face.

Back on the bench, he sat down and didn't communicate anything with his teammates next to him.

Now, neither of them is in the mood to say anything to each other.

Just staring at the court, frowning, looking worried.

It was a tough game for the team and they didn't know what to do with the substitutes.

'Leeds changed their squad and they brought on a striker, Robert. In this way, there is only one striker in the frontcourt, and if he wants to win, Lu Feng will have to shoulder more responsibilities, but can he do it? ”

The TV broadcast gave Lu Feng a close-up.

Meanwhile, in distant China, the Chinese commentator Wang Kai gave a very different answer.

"Although Robert was replaced, Lu Feng is still there, and with Lu Feng's strength, he can still pose a threat to Birmingham's defense. Next, let's wait and see how Lu Feng performs. ”

The Chinese fans who watched the live broadcast all set their eyes on Lu Feng.

......

Because he became the only striker, Lu Feng was under more defensive pressure.

As long as he has the ball, he has at least two people around him, sometimes as many as three.

And that's just the defenders around him, not to mention the Birmingham defenders on the periphery, who completely surrounded Lu Feng. Anyway, there was no response from Robert, so there was nothing to worry about just surrounding Lu Feng.

Lu Feng tried to get the ball a few times, but he couldn't get the ball out, either it was broken, or he barely protected it, and he could only pass the ball out again.

Five minutes passed after the substitution, and Lu Feng showed no performance.

"You can't blame Lu Feng for this, it's that the defense he faced is too tight, and it's completely a posture against first-class stars. Even those world-class stars don't have a good way to deal with such a defense, so Lu Feng's poor performance is understandable. ”

Wang Kai had a headache during this time, and Lu Feng's performance made him feel a little slapped in the face for what he just said.

There was no way, he could only be busy finding various objective reasons for Lu Feng to explain why Lu Feng was not performing well.

Of course, this can't be said to be a matter of the strength of your own players, so isn't it to destroy your own prestige and grow the morale of others?

Chinese fans are very worried about it. Although they admit that Wang Kai is right, everyone comes to see Lu Feng's performance, and Lu Feng has no room to play, and everyone is bored.

Many Chinese fans withdrew from the live broadcast as a result.

......

Lu Feng raised his hand to ask for the ball.

Silva hesitated.

He's the only striker who is good, and if you want to pass the ball forward, you can't get around him, but at least two people around him don't leave him.

Birmingham, who were unexpectedly ahead, are now playing resolutely, shrinking their defence and then waiting for an opportunity to play Leeds on the counter-attack. They know very well that Leeds United, who are behind, have to attack, if they don't attack they will die, and there will be a lot of space behind them when they attack.

These are all counter-attacking opportunities that Birmingham can exploit.

What if you are given a land wind ball and he is broken?

Thinking of this, Silva still didn't pass the football to Lu Feng, he gave the football to Gomez on the wing.

Gomes picked up the ball to break down the flank, but was soon rounded back by Birmingham's tight defence and he played the ball down the middle.

Silva took the ball again, Adiyak cut in from behind, and Silva passed the ball to Adiyak.

Adiyak took a few steps and passed the ball to Lu Feng.

After the land breeze street ball, he didn't try to break through, and directly came with a long-range shot about thirty meters away.

Of course, under the interference of the Birmingham players, the ball flew away without any suspense.

"Leeds don't have a very good attacking approach at the moment. After Birmingham contracted the defense. Klopp replaced Robert, who was the fulcrum in the penalty area, so that there was one less bridgehead in attack.

Landwind's skills are indeed better than Robert's, but his body is not strong enough, which restricts his performance.

If it's in Bajia, it probably doesn't matter, there is nothing wrong with Lu Feng's body center. But this is the Championship, and the defenders in the Championship are all physically strong, and Lu Feng is at a disadvantage in the physical confrontation.

This is also the reason why Klopp chose to put Lu Feng in the midfield.

In the face of the opponent's dense defense, the physical confrontation against Lu Feng, who suffered a loss, had no chance at all, and there was no play at all. ”

Seeing this, the British commentator gushed and analyzed the current situation for everyone.

"I even think Klopp's substitution is a failure, and the person he should have replaced was not Robert, but Lu Feng!

Although Lu Feng's strength is slightly stronger than Robert's, his physical attributes make him not suitable to play in the current tactical environment.

In the face of a dense defence, Leeds United need a steady guide rather than a speedy player to break through. Even if Lu Feng can pass one person, can he pass all the opponent's defensive players? It's impossible!

Replace Robert and keep a land breeze, I think this decision will make all of Birmingham happy..."

(End of chapter)