The dense schedule of fixtures in the next two weeks made Michu feel a little breathless, but it also gave Leeds United a twelve-point spirit.

Michu himself did not dare to be careless, you must know that when he took over the team last season, the team's schedule was not tight, Leeds United had already been out of the League Cup at that time, and the FA Cup was also abandoned early when the team was aiming to upgrade, so Michu, who saw the schedule at this moment, really realized the trouble caused by more than a week of games.

On the one hand, Michu does not want to give up the competition for the League Cup early, and at the same time, the Championship in the opening stage cannot afford to lose, and Michu does not want his team to withdraw from the championship early.

But fortunately, the season has just begun, the team is currently in a complete lineup, and it is still very easy for Michu to arrange two different starting lineups, mainly in the collocation of team personnel, Michu is a little confused, so he had to find Poyet and others to discuss.

The two-week double-match schedule for Leeds United is very challenging.

"The next four games will be on August 12, August 15, August 18 and August 22." Poyet flipped through the schedule and scratched through his notebook beside him.

"Boss, I took a look at the schedule. The League Cup match on 12 August is against Marcosfield Town, which is obviously weak, so we should try to win this game. ”

"But we have a game against Queens Park Rangers on August 15th! If we play with all the main forces, there will be problems physically."

"Considering that the Carabao Cup is played away from home, we should do the least to get the most out of it, so we might as well take advantage of this opportunity to rotate the squad. After all, the team has only played one game, and the main part of last season has not yet played!

At the same time, we insist on the strategy of defensive counterattack away from home, so that we should be able to ensure that we enter the next round even if our strength is not greatly affected" Poyet's approach is simply to kill multiple birds with one stone.

"Then I can let go of the home game against QPR on August 15, and the main lineup of the team should be well rested by then, even if I play two games in a row with the same lineup on the next 18th," Michu himself put forward some opinions.

"After a break for a game, I think the physical condition of these guys should be able to cope with the two games on the 15th and 18th, and as for the game on the 22nd, we might as well look at the previous results before making a decision!" Michu very much agrees with such a proposal, of course, the team needs to rotate the starting lineup to a certain extent, and Michu did not expect a lineup to last a whole season! The adoption of rotations is imperative.

So when Michel's side took on Mercosfield Town Town in League Two at the 6,500-man Rose Stadium, it was no surprise that many made such a big change to Leeds' starting line-up.

Starting from the goalkeeper position, Michu made as many as nine personnel changes, except for Huntington and Kilkenny, the substitutes in all positions in the opening game were given the opportunity to start, and the team's five-man substitute list was impressively Pantilimon, Giroud, Koscielny, Delph, Reuss and others.

After all, the opponent is only a team in League Two, and the strength of the opponent is not very strong, so even if Leeds United plays with a full substitute lineup, Michu is very confident.

Speaking of substitutes, in fact, Beckford in the front, Huntington's partner Marquis in the backline, and goalkeeper Angel Ankerberg were all the main players of the team last season.

So as the team's formation became 442 in a parallel position, Michu's tactics were also simple and direct, the previous ground pass control was gone, replaced by a direct bottom cross and side ball, using Candal's header advantage, smashing a gap in the opponent's middle.

Beckford's 25-minute header from Candor in the middle gave Leeds a 1-0 lead, and Leeds United also bombarded the opposition half, and Pluton's long-range shot in the middle at the end of the first half made the game unsuspenseful early.

Michu was very satisfied with the way the team won the game bloodlessly, and took a seat in the coach's box early.

Michu replaced Kilkenny and Huntington shortly after the start of the second half in a bid to recharge for the weekend's Championship fixture, and this proactive approach to energy conservation was praised by the Leeds City media after the game.

The team won their first win of the season without a beating, allowing Leeds United to reach the next round of the Carabao Cup.

The rotation has worked well and allowed Michu to concentrate on preparing for the Championship game against Queens Park Rangers at the weekend.

Although the two teams had already played each other in the warm-up matches before the start of the season, because neither team was 100% ready for the game at that time, that game was not very meaningful for Leeds United's preparation!

After all, the situation at that time was just an innocuous warm-up game for both sides, but for the Championship at the weekend, Michu did not dare to be careless.

The Queens Park Rangers also made preparations early, because it was a succession of away games, they did not even return to London after the League Cup, but went directly to Leeds City, and began to prepare on the spot, which shows the importance of it.

For this kind of performance of the opponent, except for the stubborn draw of Leeds United in the opening game, which made the opponent have a warning, Michu really can't think of a reason why the opponent can pay so much attention.

After all, Queens Park Rangers lost in the opener.

Although he didn't know about the performance of Queens Park Rangers last season, Michu still clearly remembered the dazzling lights of Queens Park Rangers in the 2011-2012 season in the Premier League that season!

Park Ji-sung, Nate Phillips, Cesar, Fabio, Granero, Tarabut and other powerful players are enough to make the entire British football world look sideways, just when everyone thought that Queens Park Rangers would set off a storm, their performance that season surprised everyone, the team's performance of a big name is not worthy of the corresponding value, and finally at the end of the season, it was also under the help of RedConap to complete the relegation!

I don't know what the current Queens Park Rangers team is, but the main players of their own players have a good rotation in the Carabao Cup in midweek, and there is no problem with their fitness status.

However, Michu still deliberately told Poyet not to arrange too heavy training tasks between match days, after all, the time is too short, and Michu does not want to make any mistakes.