Weekends, warm-up races. Manchester United Reserves vs Chelsea Reserves.

Warm-up matches between Premier League reserve teams are generally played on small pitches at each team's training base. Such a game doesn't attract many spectators.

In the audience at Manchester United's reserve stadium, there were only a few dozen spectators. Among them are Isabella and Liu Xiaoyan.

The spectators in the stands were either middle-aged men and women in their forties and fifties, or girls in their teens and early twenties. The middle-aged men and women are basically the parents of the boys in Manchester United's reserve team on the field. The young girls are their girlfriends.

Isabella and Liu Xiaoyan are opposite, Liu Xiaoyan, a young girl, is the player's daughter, and Isabella, a half-aged, is the player's fiancée.

The referee blew the whistle and the game began.

The coach of the Red Devils reserve team, Bart, pressed Liu Yun to the bench.

The two sides were locked in a stalemate in midfield as soon as they started. It seems that neither can break through the opponent's defenses. In the first half, United's reserve team had just two shots on goal, both of which went over the crossbar. It was the same for Chelsea, with all three shots hitting the woodwork.

In the second half, the game was changed again, and the scene was still dull.

Those dozens of spectators in the stands were drowsy. Liu Xiaoyan lay on Isabella's shoulder: "Aunt Isabella, when will my father be able to play?" ”

Isabella replied, "I don't know either." ”

Liu Xiaoyan complained: "I knew that I didn't even have the opportunity to play in the reserve team when I came to Manchester United, so my dad might as well go to the Gijón team in Spain." ”

The game lasted 88 minutes. Finally, the Manchester United reserve striker was fouled by a free-kick from 28 yards outside the opposition penalty area.

Bart patted Liu Yun on the shoulder: "Liu, let's play!" Show those Chelsea kids how you can take free-kicks. ”

Liu Yun got up and entered the field from the sideline. It was the first time he had played in a Red Devil shirt. He knew it was an opportunity, an opportunity to show his quality in front of the reserve coach Bart!

Liu Yun stood in front of the free kick and glanced at the goal. Take a deep breath, run, shoot!

At the moment of shooting, he tried his best to twist his whole body and touch the ball sideways with the instep of his foot at an angle of almost zero degrees to the ball!

The ball curled inside the banana into the top right corner of the Chelsea goal.

When the free-kick was taken, the young goalkeeper in Chelsea's development squad was delighted. I was finally able to deal with the old lieutenant. You know, Chelsea were twice beaten by the old lieutenant in the FA Cup final!

The young goalkeeper of the reserve squad said in his heart, "If I can save the old lieutenant's free-kick, doesn't that mean that I am better than Courtois?"

However, Liu Yun's inner banana arc completely shattered his illusions.

The inside banana arc was awkward, and the flight arc was too big for the Chelsea reserve goalkeeper to save.

1:0！ In the 89th minute of the game, with Liu Yun's goal, Manchester United's reserve team took the lead!

In the last minute of stoppage time, Liu Yun once again taught the boys of the Chelsea reserve team what it means to be ginger or old spicy.

Liu Yun took the ball on the right side of the penalty area, 40 meters away from the goal.

He first knocked a ball past a midfielder. Then he took a few steps forward and dangled a big swing to an opposing defender. Subsequently, he used the ball to play one of the opposing defenders. After beating three Chelsea development players in a row, he took a decisive shot from the right side of the box! World Wave! 2:0！ Liu Yun played only 4 minutes and scored two goals to help the team win!

Bart was stunned in surprise! The old guy on the field。。。。。。 It's just an old monster! I think Bart was Beckham's master brother at the beginning. He has seen a number of textbook free-kicks on the pitch. Liu Yun's free kick kung fu is not inferior to Xiaobei!

Then there is the world wave on the right side of the penalty area after passing three opposing defenders. The ball seemed to be firmly stuck to Liu Yun's feet. Although the three Chelsea reserve players are young, they can be matched by the giants Chelsea, and they also have a certain strength! Definitely not an amateur player. In front of Liu Yun, these three people are like a layer of membrane that can be broken with a single stab!

Bart is a pragmatic person. Maybe he had a lot of prejudices against Liu Yun before, but these prejudices have now been driven out of the clouds by these two goals.

Next to Liu Xiaoyan, a blonde girl of seventeen or eighteen years old complained: "Oh my God. How could a reserve team recruit such a strong player? He should have played in the first team. ”

Next to him, the girl's best friend told him, "Don't you know? This old man in his forties is last season's FA Cup Golden Boot, Coventry's old lieutenant Liu. ”

The blonde girl complained, "Oh God! My dear Josephine。。。。。 I'm afraid that the position of the main shadow striker of his reserve team will not be guaranteed! Damn it, how could Old Bart call such a first-team player into the reserves! ”

Liu Xiaoyan and Isabella looked at each other and smiled. Isabella said to Liu Xiaoyan: "Oh, my little princess, you have a saying in China, that gold always shines. Your dad is that piece of gold. ”

Isabella majored in Mandarin at University, and in addition to knowing the saying that gold always shines in China, she naturally knows that everything is difficult at the beginning; A good start is half the battle, these two Chinese sayings.

Liu Yun, an old demon, made a good start in the warm-up game of the reserve team, and he couldn't stop scoring goals at all!

A week later, Manchester United's reserves warm-up game took on Southampton Reserves. Liu Yun scored a long-range shot in each half and scored twice to help the team win the opponent 2:0.

Two weeks later, Manchester United's reserve team played West Brom in their warm-up game. Liu Yun contributed an assist in the first half, and in the second half, he scored a hanging shot from the edge of the penalty area to help the team defeat the opponent 2:1.

Three weeks later, Manchester United's reserve team play Stoke City in their warm-up game. Liu Yun scored two goals in the first half, and then scored another goal in the second half, and a hat trick helped the team beat the opponent 3:1.

Four weeks later, Manchester United's reserves warm-up match took on city rivals Manchester City Reserves. Liu Yun staged the senior happiness!

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In eight weeks, in eight warm-up games for Manchester United's reserve team, Liu Yun scored a total of 16 goals! Nine assists!

This is really scaring the rest of the Premier League reserve teams. Several big clubs even signed a letter to the FA, asking the FA to change the regulations to prohibit players over the age of 45 from participating in the Premier League reserve league in the new season!

Banning players over the age of 45 from participating in the reserve league is obviously aimed at Liu Yun alone.

In fact, there are many older players in their 30s or even close to 40 years old in the development squad of major clubs. These players often played a major role for the club at a young age. As he grew older and his level of competition declined, he couldn't play the main team in the first team, and he was unwilling to hang up his boots. The club put them in the reserve team for retirement.

Players over 45 years of age can 。。。。。 Looking at the entire Premier League first team and reserve team, Liu Yun should be the only one who is still active.

In every country's football association, there are always one or two stupid hats that decide things with a slap on the thigh. The FA is no exception.

The FA took the clubs' advice and amended the rules of the reserve league to explicitly ban players over the age of 45.

Seeing that the new season is about to start, Liu Yun is facing a situation where he has no ball to play in the reserve team.

As soon as the new regulations of the reserve league came, Liu Yun knocked on the complaints in Bart's office.

Bart disagreed: "Liu! My dear brother! Feel relieved! Even if all the professional players in England don't have a ball to play, you'll still have a chance to play! Because you are who you are, the one-of-a-kind old lieutenant! ”