Chapter 157: The Decisive Battle of the Wolves (2)
While Lao Liu was still joking with the fans around him, Wenger keenly noticed an anomaly on the bench, McCarthy often made some strange gestures to the pitch from the sidelines.
Following the direction of the gesture, Wenger saw Guilherme nodding faintly towards his manager.
It's not good, just when Wenger was stunned, the change on the field has been born, Guilherme received the pass, and did not choose to break through or cross, but after attracting Van den Boray's defense, he walked back with the ball, just at the moment when Van den Boray followed, D. Potter suddenly cut diagonally to the left, and just before D. Potter was about to overtake the last defender, Guilherme turned his back to the ball and ran towards the middle of the box at high speed, D. Potter got the ball and swooped straight into the ribs of Wellingsme.
Rozenard was in place in time for his interference, and D. Potter lost the chance to cross in front of the baseline, and then flicked the ball across to Guilherme.
Guilherme got on the ball again and was already on the edge of the box, but Van den Boray also stepped in at centre-back to block Guilherme's head.
With no space to break through at all, Guilherme picked the ball and just stepped sideways on the penalty line, when suddenly he screamed and fell to the ground.
Van den Boray next to him subconsciously raised his hands, but the referee who came from behind him hesitated, but still very resolutely pointed to the 12-yard area, penalty, in the case of the attack did not prevail at all, in the twentieth minute of the first half, Wolves on the edge of the penalty area, got a rather controversial penalty opportunity.
Lao Liu didn't see the process of penalty kicks too clearly, his first reaction was: black whistle, someone has won the lottery in this ball, but think about it, since he met Dickens, Lao Liu is particularly vigilant about the key game, Dickens and Zuo Teng were squeezed away by him, Lao Liu has established a good relationship through some upper-level relations and some well-informed people, and he can always understand and make certain precautions in advance for the request of Willingham's opponent in this regard.
Lao Liu has made a detailed understanding of today's game in advance, and the Wolves team did not do anything behind the scenes, so is it really a penalty?
Toot toot, the mobile phone in the pocket made a short message vibration sound, Lao Liu hurriedly opened it to see that it was Mike's mobile phone number, and the content was Wenger's tone, Wenger told Lao Liu, don't be nervous, this is McCarthy is doing a ghost, and he has his own way to deal with it.
The penalty was taken by defensive stalwart G. Breen and Johnson pounced in the right direction, but the ball scurried in front of his fingertips.
The large-scale electronic scorer typed out the words 1-0 in the form of an exciting animation, and the live commentator was desperately shouting, "goooooooal", but his voice still seemed to loom in the frenzied shouts of the fans.
At this time, Lao Liu noticed that Wenger got up and came to the fourth official, waving his arm and saying something, the fourth official kept comforting the professor, it seemed that the professor was protesting the strictest. This kind of protest is of no use, but Wenger must have his purpose in doing it now.
In the ensuing game, the enraged Willingham players played even more frantic attacks, Henry created good chances with several wide-ranging pulls, and Wolves tightened the defence even more, and in less than ten minutes, the referee gave the Wolves defender two yellow cards.
After another ten minutes, Henry finally seized an opportunity and began to sprint with the ball thirty meters away from the Wolves goal, and when he encountered the opposing defender coming up to intercept, Henry, Capo, and Helde made two consecutive one-twos, allowing Henry to appear alone in front of the Wolves old goalkeeper M. Oakes.
Although Oakes struggled to get the ball out of Henry's feet, Henry didn't give him that chance at all, and with a well-placed shot, the ball slipped between Oakes' running legs and into the net.
Watching the new captain of the French national team run with his arms outstretched and celebrate his goal, the Wolves players and more than 10,000 fans present were in full swing at the same time.
A master is a master, McCarthy suddenly felt like crying, God, how could this monster appear in the opponent's lineup in such a critical game.
"McCarthy threw in the towel before he could fight." At halftime, when Lao Liu and Wenger exchanged views on the side, Wenger said amazingly, "In fact, compared to the beginning of the season, we just have one more Henry, really want to attack normally, we may not have a great confidence to win, our two families are half a pound and eight taels, as long as you keep an eye on Henry, the game is still playing, but he wants to win by such a yin way, but it stimulates the fighting spirit of our players, and according to the current system, the referee can go back to view the first half of the game video at halftime, I protested strongly again, and they felt better in the second half. ”
Lao Liu has nothing to say, only a thumbs up.
Sure enough, in the second half, the referee was much harsher on Wolves' decision, and in the 85th minute of the game, Wolves' left-back J. Clapham was sent off with a second yellow card.
The final score was 3-1, with one each from Thierry Henry and Capo, both assisted by Holder.
With such a big score away, the result of the first round of the play-offs is already doomed.
Looking at the smile of Held, who scored a hat-trick of assists, and Henry, who scored twice, Lao Liu couldn't help but feel sorry for the young players of the Wolves team, although they don't know how to play there next season, but if they can help the team rush to the Premier League during the loan period, I believe it will be good for their future.
It's good for you, but it's big trouble for Lao Tzu, so it's better for you to bear with it. Lao Liu thought so.
In the home game three days later, Wolves honestly played their own style and ability, causing a lot of trouble for Willingsmu, but the chance of a comeback was too weak, and the Wolves players just fought the field for the dignity of the club, 2-2, and the overall score was 5-3.
Willingham reached the play-off final.
McCarthy was reportedly fired the next day.
The opponent of the play-off final is Norwich City, who eliminated Crystal Palace in two legs with away goals, Crystal Palace lost very tragically, and Norwich was forced to score 1-1 away from home, and scored valuable away goals, after returning to the home field, he led by two goals early, and he had already won the game, but in the second half, the goalkeeper made a mistake and was pulled back by Norwich, and then in the 80th minute, the Zeng family scored a goal for Willingham, and Freedman, who scored first in this game, was seriously injured, As the substitutions have been used up, Crystal Palace can only respond to the ten-man battle, after resisting Norwich's tidal attack for nearly ten minutes, just when the fourth official is about to raise the card to prompt stoppage time, the goalkeeper S. Flinders, who made a mistake, collided with the opposing player in order to save Norwich from a dangerous attack, both injured, Norwich had no substitutions, but Crystal Palace injured the goalkeeper, and had to be replaced by the 1.94 tall defender D.ward.
After keeping out a dangerous strike from Norwich, Ward was finally beaten by a sudden long-range strike in the fourth minute and a half of stoppage time.
At this point, Crystal Palace lost all the hard work of the whole season.
Wellingham, who are known as the most appealing team in the Championship this season, and Norwich, the luckiest team in the Championship this season, meet in the final of the play-offs, and the winner between them will join Birmingham City and Sunderland to become the English Premier League team next season.
(To be continued)