Chapter 248: A Little Dispute
After beating Fulham at home and successfully qualifying for the last four of this season's FA Cup, United did not get much time to recuperate, but immediately prepared to play a league game away to Fulham.
So it was a very interesting scene at the airport in Manchester, and the morning after the game, Manchester United and Fulham, the two teams who had just played for 90 minutes yesterday, were almost on the plane to London. And four days later, they will play the second leg of a week at Fulham's home stadium, Craven Cottage, which is a new feud that has not yet been eliminated, and it is necessary to add another hate.
While the two teams are actively preparing for this league match in London, the outside world is still in full swing about the FA Cup quarter-finals between the two teams.
According to the inertia of the media, there is no doubt that the incident of Li Lei's "boxing" Coleman has received more depiction and attention than the match itself.
And the fans are clearly more interested in it, after all, they take United's home win over Fulham for granted, and it's hard to bring up any interest in the game.
Of course, there are no exceptions. If there is anything in this game that has attracted the greatest attention from the outside world after the game, it is undoubtedly the "bold" goalkeeper style that Li Lei frequently showed on the field in this game. On this matter, the outside world can be regarded as causing a huge controversy.
As with all new things, the attacking aspect of the goalkeeper's style of play that Li Lei showed in this game was almost unanimously questioned by the outside world. Perhaps the vast majority of fans will be very interesting and funny about Li Lei's performance on the pitch that repeatedly rushed out of the penalty area, and even near the arc of the center circle, but this is not the case in the eyes of professional football professionals.
In their view, this style of play, which is completely different from the traditional goalkeeper style, is completely a crooked way to carry out the team's slow suicide. It may have a surprising effect in some games, but in the long run, Li Lei's goalkeeper style of play will definitely do more harm than good to the team in addition to becoming a boo for fans and fans.
Although there are a small number of people who have expressed neutrality on this, we should definitely look at Li Lei's performance in the next game and draw conclusions, after all, Manchester United's only goal in the whole game against Fulham was directly caused by Li Lei's bold style of play, but in the English professional football circle, the views and voices of Li Lei's goalkeeper's style of play are still almost one-sided and unoptimistic and questionable.
Even some Manchester United celebrities expressed their views on Li Lei's "bold and novel" goalkeeper style of play, and generally believed that Ferguson should quickly take measures to limit Li Lei's "unscrupulous" style of play, and don't let Li Lei, a seedling destined to be Manchester United's future legendary goalkeeper, grow crooked.
In this way, fans and professional football professionals formed two completely different views on Li Lei's goalkeeper style after the game. The former is very interesting and welcoming, while the latter is very skeptical, asserting that it will not succeed.
While the outside world was arguing about this endlessly, Li Lei's goalkeeper style of play barely made any waves in the Manchester United team. Although the Manchester United players were also very curious about this, they did not ask too much, because they also thought that it was probably just a whim of Li Lei, and it would not become a regular style of play, after all, in their opinion, although this style of play is bold and creative enough, it is also too dangerous.
It's just that what they don't know is that on the night of the quarterfinals with Fulham, Ferguson deliberately discussed this matter with Li Lei.
In the end, the result of the negotiation between the two was that because the whole Manchester United team, including manager Alex Ferguson himself, was not familiar with Li Lei's revolutionary and innovative goalkeeper play, Li Lei needed to limit the use of goalkeeper play as much as possible in the rest of the season.
If there is a major mistake due to Li Lei's use of the goalkeeper style of play, and then Manchester United concedes the goal or even loses the game, then he will face a ban of one or even two games that is not announced by the team.
To be honest, such an ambiguous result was not what Ferguson wanted beforehand. He originally wanted Li Lei to completely ban his goalkeeper style of play in the rest of the season, because in the case that he and even the whole team are not very clear about Li Lei's goalkeeper play, this bold and innovative goalkeeper style of play, not to mention what the future result will be, for now, the risk of mistakes is too great.
Only God knows that in the game against Fulham, whenever Li Lei boldly rushed out of the penalty area, or even rushed out of the penalty area with the ball, he looked expressionless and calm on the sidelines, and he was unmoved.
In his opinion, even if Li Lei really wants to make this kind of goalkeeper play a regular style of play, he will have to wait at least until the end of the season so that he and the team can further understand and integrate this further style of play in the offseason.
But Li Lei did not fully accept this, but argued with reason. He believes that because of United's attacking and defensive problems this season, he will have to rely on goalkeepers to relieve the pressure in front of the door in certain games against strong opponents, such as the second leg against Arsenal.
When he said this, Ferguson couldn't help but shout angrily: "Boy, do you think that the door of the team can be guarded by you alone?!" ”
Lao Shuai felt that maybe it was because it had been too smooth recently, the young and vigorous Li Lei was really a little arrogant, and he had to suppress him.
But who knows, in the face of his question, Li Lei replied with a natural tone, and immediately made the old man happy, "Of course, this is not the case." But in some sessions, in certain moments, that's exactly what it is. ”
After hearing this answer, Ferguson's mind immediately went blank and he was angry. The old coach dared to swear that since he was engaged in professional football, from being a player to a manager, he had never seen a goalkeeper who could be so arrogant, and this kind of self-confidence that was almost taken for granted could be compared to the previous Cantona, and even faintly surpassed.
So in order to suppress Li Lei's obviously "excessive" self-confidence and momentum, he even threw out a ban, so that Howard, the main competitor who was finally pressed by Li Lei, threatened to play again.
But what he didn't expect was that Li Lei was unmoved at all and happily agreed to this agreement.
This made Ferguson, who originally thought that Li Lei would retreat from the difficulty, and immediately became a little unable to get off the stage. As long as you think about it, if Li Lei really uses the goalkeeper style on the court to make a mistake, he must pull Howard, who is his main position, out again to play the starting scene, and the old coach feels painful.
It's just that since Li Lei accepted such an absurd agreement in person, the old man has no room to step down. Let him succumb in front of Li Lei and withdraw this agreement, which is simply impossible for him, who has always been very strong in the Manchester United team.
So, in the end, when Ferguson was holding his stomach, such a secret agreement was signed by him and Li Lei.
This made the old man not in a good mood for a few days, this is not at this moment when the old coach is supervising the whole Manchester United team on the sidelines to adapt to the simple training of the field at Craven Cottage Stadium, he also has a cold face and no smiling face, which in turn makes the whole Manchester United team look at his face is silent, and they all honestly bow their heads for simple training.
However, it is not without exception, Li Lei is the only player in the Manchester United team who is training with a normal face and is not moved by Ferguson's bad face at the moment.
It didn't take long for the faint aura duel between these two masters and apprentices to be seen by the Manchester United players who were quick to look at each other. Just when they were confused and didn't know what the two masters and apprentices who had always had the best relationship were doing, Howard on the side couldn't help but show joy when he saw it.
Of course, Li Lei knew what this American guy thought, but he didn't care.
He never gives any chance to an opponent who has already been overtaken by him.
He was confident that this would not change now, since it was so in the slums before!
Not in the future!!