Chapter 21: Early relegation
Soon entered March, the three games after the Spring Festival Willingham performed normally, one win at home, two draws away, in the forty rounds of games that have been played, Willingham is in the twentieth place in the standings with forty-three points, and has a nine-point advantage from the relegation zone, in the remaining six rounds, theoretically at least nine more points will be scored to ensure relegation, but according to the experience of previous years, and the relationship between the relegation teams, it is expected that another six points will be no problem.
Six points from six games looks like nothing is a problem, and the players are already in high spirits, with opponents in three of the last six games now looking hopeless, so it looks like they can move on to next season.
Slowly, this is not Liu Luyi's style, although promotion to the English League next season is a task that must be completed, there are too many places to prepare and adjust for this task, but before the relegation is not determined, all the attention should be on the last few games, Lao Liu does not want to capsize in the gutter.
Then the key issue now is to get the team to be relegated as soon as possible.
"I'm betting we'll be relegated early after three rounds, and the bet is a 10-year-old bottle of whiskey, who would dare to take it? If you lose, please go to karaoke. No one thought that Lao Liu's first sentence when he called all the players and coaches for a meeting was actually this, Tony Zhang, who had been here for a while, was already a little familiar with the style of the Chinese boss, and several players who had a good relationship with the team were squeezing their eyebrows and teasing. Tang Xiaotian and Wang, who have been on the team for a short time, both widened their eyes.
"This gamble is not fair, I am going to bet with you, that is, against the club, if you can't be relegated early, you won't be able to drink your whiskey. Don't do it, don't do it. Jean and several other main players waved at Lao Liu, although the management team was very strict, but Liu Luzhen didn't want to build a high-ranking boss, that would really kill him, so after smoothing out the hair of these old people, he took them out to play a few times, especially after the last victory, he actually rated five outstanding players, except for one less than twenty changed to material rewards, and the others followed Lao Liu to the red light district for a night, this time the team members should be honest when they were honest, It's better to be presumptuous than to be presumptuous.
"So how do you say you bet? Otherwise, you bet on three rounds of early relegation, I bet you can't, it doesn't matter. "Lao Liu looks like he is negotiating, he is so happy in his heart, you guys can't get out of my palm.
The final result is to bet with Lao Liu in the name of all the members of the team, three rounds can be relegated in advance, if the team wins, increase the reward of 50,000, piggyback on five bottles of whiskey, if you lose, then honestly close training until the end of the season. When they went out to start training, some of the players had already turned a corner, and they were relegated to increase the bonus, and they were the boss again.
Patterson has been happy for less than two months after entering the team, playing five games, and actually scored four goals, which is twice the goal of last season, but he also feels that the boss is becoming more and more strict with himself, and the big man on the training ground is also full of flowers and sweat.
After careful observation, Liu Luzhen basically confirmed that Patterson's problem lies in the basic movements, his body shape is very special, and he is easy to deform when doing some simple movements, which makes the previous coach unwilling to use him, and will not formulate a special training plan for him, so that Patterson's practice is getting worse and worse, and the worse it is, the less attention it gets, and finally it is almost abolished. So while ensuring his playing time and squandering opportunities, Lao Liu thought about it, anyway, other forwards will take the level, who will squander is not squandering, and then formulated a special training plan for Bauterson, using scientific high-intensity training to control his movement deformation problem, the most important thing is the establishment of confidence, slowly, Boterson's position in the team has begun to threaten Jean.
The first game in the bet came, playing Rochdale at home, which is now ranked eighth, because Rochdale still has the pursuit of entering the top six to play the promotion play-offs, so this game is not easy to play, but just before the game came a good news, Boston United, ranked 23rd, lost at home to Boehly, who has been relegated, so that Willingham only needs to score seven more points to determine relegation, and the possibility of Lao Liu losing the bet is getting bigger and bigger.
In this game, Liu Luzhen used Patterson as a single striker for the first time, and put Jean on the bench, Jean was obviously very unhappy, and finally accepted such an arrangement without expression, Lao Liu knew in his heart, the first job after the Spring Festival was to sign a long-term contract with the players who he thought would be worth a few dollars after the season, and these people still showed off, hehe, boy, dare to disobey and sell you.
Rochdale is a team that is good at defense, at the beginning of the game as everyone expected, both sides were testing each other's strength, and playing counterattacks under the premise of stability, Lao Liu specially explained to the goalkeeper Matisse who returned to the starting lineup before the game, and asked him to pay attention to the opponent's long-range shots, and sure enough, Rochdale's forwards won the ball several times to follow up the players in the middle of the strong long-range shots, and the prepared Matisse made them regret holding their heads every time.
But in the attack, Willingham also encountered problems, the middle could not penetrate at all, and the ball on both sides was destroyed by the opponent's central defenders, and Patterson had to return to the midfield to get the ball, but it was broken several times, and the two sides were like holding a shield to die, the momentum was not small, but no one could hurt anyone. For a while, Lao Liu didn't have anything to think about.
At halftime, Lao Liu ignored Jean's eyes and replaced him, without you, Lao Tzu has the final say, and Lao Tzu has the final say with you.
But it was Pouterson who solved the problem, and he held the opposing defender and pushed the goalkeeper's ball back, and this time the goalkeeper had to surrender.
"We're going to have whiskey, we're going to be ready to rush to the English League," singing the song he had made up, everyone seemed to bow respectfully when they passed by Liu Lu, "Thank you boss for the wine." Angry, Lao Liu casually chose a butt and kicked it over.
After drawing away from Peterborough team, now only need to win at home against Boehly team to be able to completely relegation, of course, if Boston United can't win this round, Willingham is to play relegation, but Boston United is at home to face Swindon, who has lost four consecutive away games, and the possibility of winning is very high. Liu Lu said disdainfully, "It has nothing to do with us what they do, we have to fight for our own victory." ”
The stadium was packed, and Xue Lin and Mike, who had become the club's coaches, took the offensive and defensive players to the stadium for the final practice.
Tommy walked to the side of the pitch and whispered to Liu, who was concentrating on his coffee, "Arsene Wenger is here, in the stands to the west." "Who?" Lao Liu's eyes narrowed, "Wenger, what is he doing here, isn't he fancy which player, right?" "It's hard to say, why don't you talk to him." "On this occasion, forget it, but I've already told Ma Dexing that I'll go see him after the season."
Winning this ball means that he has basically gained a foothold in England, and Liu Lu, who usually looks at the ball calmly, can't help but be a little nervous, and the players and referees on both sides seem to want to breathe together Lao Liu, first of all, Lo handball on the edge of the penalty area, was awarded a penalty by the referee, Boehly striker overnight, less than ten minutes behind, Tainno corner assist home partner David Merris header equalized the score, but a minute before the end of the first half, Boehly took advantage of a suspected offside opportunity to exceed again.
"Damn, why are you so nervous when you know there are still three games left?" Follens asked a few of his old Willingham fans, and everyone laughed knowingly.
In the first 30 minutes of the second half, both sides scored another goal, but Willingham was still one goal behind, and seeing that the remaining time in the game was getting less, even Lao Liu began to look at his watch frequently.
The referee who awarded the controversial penalty and offside finally stepped up again, this time finally replacing it with Lao Liu, and Boehly's defender kicked down Patterson on the opposite foot, and the referee stepped forward to show a red card. At the critical time, it was the Shaolin abbot after the 80s, 3-3, at this time, Boston United led Swindon 2-1, if the game ended, Wellingham must win one more game or Boston United lose another game.
In the last minute of stoppage time, Willingham won another free-kick in front of the goal, and it was still Tainol standing in front of the ball, he exhaled lightly, observed the opposition wall and the goalkeeper's position, and kicked it, the ball arced and hit the crossbar and bounced off the bottom line. The whole audience was stunned, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and the game was over, and the final score was 3-3......
Suddenly, there was a stirring in the stands, and the stadium horn sounded, "Swindon, last minute long-range shot, final score, Boston United, Swindon, two to two." ”
I rely on, I still have to rely on others, it's really shameless, Lao Liu spat on the lawn, and was immediately surrounded by a cheering crowd.
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