Chapter 18: Preparations for the Spring Festival (3)
London's Chinatown is getting more and more festive, with red lanterns hanging in front of each building, pasted with Spring Festival couplets, and a ceremonial stand has begun to be set up in nearby Trafalgar Square, and the entire Chinatown and some adjacent areas are covered in large festive reds, and people are also having happy expressions on their faces.
"Tang Xiaotian's SMS support has exceeded 1.5 million, and his performance in Port Vale has also been praised by the club's coach, and it seems that there should be no problem for him to win first this time." In the auditorium of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Chinatown, De Ma Liang, who was supervising the layout of the finals venue, predicted to Xue Lin.
Xue Lin was busy during this time, constantly appearing in various clubs with players, not only to cooperate with the video of Hunan Satellite TV, but also to guide each player, although these are all amateur players, but in more than half a year of contact, Xue Lin, a member of the national team coaching staff, has developed a deep affection for them, so that two months ago, there was a Chinese Super League team like to poach him as the head coach, but he politely declined.
To be honest, this "kick out my dream" amateur young player national audition was not very smooth at the beginning, it is very different from "super girl" and "happy boy", Hunan Satellite TV tried its best to design the specific process of the event, and finally the executive director Ma Liang suggested inviting Xue Lin, who had a good relationship with him, and after full preparation, it began, so Xue Lin was the executive coach of this event from the beginning, and basically all potential players have been guided by him, He also knows every player inside out.
Hearing Ma Liang's words, Xue Lin just smiled and shook his head, he couldn't say what the reason was, Tang Xiaotian, the core of the midfield, has a good sense of the ball and understanding of the game, but he feels more optimistic about the inconspicuous defender Zhang Ping, but these children are now at best just a small flower bone that has just emerged, and there is still a long way to go to bear fruitful fruits, not to mention, the domestic league is likely to completely destroy these flowers and bones, That's why he kept the eventual champions and runners-up in London to train, and although they couldn't get a formal chance to play at Wellingham, the atmosphere in England was enough for them to get the best of their growth.
So in the past few days, he has been thinking, is Liu Luzhen just talking about letting him stay as a coach? If he can cultivate a few future pillars of Chinese football here, he would rather stay here......
"Today's game is not a contest between players, you also have to fight with us," Liu Luyi was not on the team's bus at this time, he was encouraging the morale of these Willingsim fans on the car of a fan group that followed, "You all know that the reason why Swindon's normality has the title of the devil's home stadium is because they have the most fanatical fans in the second division, and their overwhelming momentum will shake the confidence of all opponents, and Swindon's home record this season is 11 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, In stark contrast to their three wins, six draws and eight defeats on the road, they are now relegated with 50 points, and there is an 18-point gap between the odd number and the sixth place in the promotion play-offs, so basically they have nothing to pursue this season but to play well at home, so if we can resist their home atmosphere, we still have a good chance of winning. ”
"Oh, oh, oh." The fans responded strongly, which made Lao Liu very satisfied. This time, the club also invested in the purchase of clothing, flags and fan supplies for the 300 main players of the fan cheering group, and arranged five cars to pull away together.
The game officially started at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the 300 Wellings fans were suppressed by the momentum of more than 10,000 fans at home, but they were always desperately shouting and making noise, and they were able to compete with each other.
According to the characteristics of the opponent, Liu Luzhen rearranged the lineup today, abandoned the four-four-two style of play, and returned to four-five-one, but this formation can be transformed into four-three-three at any time, the other three in the midfield are responsible for filling the position after the left and right midfielders are pressed, and the four people on the back line are in the position, in addition to making offsides, they are not easy to press the assist, in such a home atmosphere, conceding a goal too early is undoubtedly a dead end, and the single striker Jean leans on the opponent's central defender in the front, and picks up the ball on the side to find an opportunity to attackIn addition to this arrangement, Lao Liu also put a surprise soldier on the bench, that is, the new Chinese defender Tony Zhang, in the recent period of training, Tony Zhang showed a strong offensive ability and Yu Wang, and some amazing good balls were passed on the guard line, Lao Liu was ready to gradually use him at the end of the season or next season, but in today's critical game that must be won, he was still put on the bench, Another change is the replacement of Matisse with Steve, such a big scene for the young goalkeeper to play, other coaches have reservations, but Lao Liu doesn't care, he has his own ideas.
There were no goals on either side in the first half, compared to Swindon's chances, every time he attacked the half, the thunderous cheers and shouts shook the court, but the Wellingham players who were prepared enough in advance were trying to eliminate what kind of interference, and basically did not give the opponent any chance to kill.
At the beginning of the second half, Lao Liu Lingqi waved, the formation was changed to a four-one-four-one type, and David Merris, who had a better view of the overall situation, played the only dragging midfielder, Tyno, Reid, Matthew and the young midfielder Snow assisted the attack behind Jean, and ten minutes later, Tony Zhang replaced Snow with Smirk Reed, this series of changes made Swindon's players very uncomfortable, and the fouls in the backcourt gradually increased, and the role of the home fans was not so obvious.
In the 70th minute, Swindon's defender kicked Smirk on the edge of the box, and the referee clearly hesitated before giving a free-kick.
"It's obviously a penalty, fuck, the referee is blind." This time, it was Jean who rushed to the front.
It was the young Smirk who grabbed Jean, and then the other team members also came up to stop him, Lao Liu looked at it and shook his head, and nodded again.
Tainol hit the penalty on the poster, and the rebounding ball leaped over the head of the Swindon goalkeeper and was met head-on by the rushing Barnett, who slammed into the goal with the ball.
Once the deadlock was broken, things were easy to do, and in five of the seventeen games that have been played at Swindon home this season, the first five games were scored by opponents with three draws and two defeats, and then twenty minutes later, Wellingham scored a goal from a sweep from Mathieu's cross from Jean, while Swindon only pulled one back from the penalty three minutes before the end of the game, and on the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Luyi scored his third victory in the English Second Division, an important one.
When he walked out of the court, Lao Liu specially pulled Tony Zhang, and for this Chinese player who played for the first time, the normal play was to give Lao Liu the greatest support.
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