Chapter 105: The opening of the Championship
Although West Bromwich Albion's home match with Willingham is a very normal Championship match, it has a special significance for Lao Liu, which is his real entry into the English football circle, and the games below the English League One are not valued by authoritative figures, and are generally considered to be the base for providing young players for the Premier League. So it's actually an extension of the Premier League.
It can be said that after entering the Championship, Lao Liu began to contact real English football.
After shaking hands and talking cordially with West Bromwich Albion Football Club's chairman Pierce and business director Fowler before the game, Lao Liu came to the bench with the substitutes and waited for the start of the players' entrance ceremony. Robson, dressed in a flowing suit, was chatting happily with the fourth official of the game, and seeing that there were still a few minutes left, Lao Liu walked slowly towards the two.
"Hello, dear Mr. Liu," the fourth official Nolan was the first to see Lao Liu, and hurriedly said hello and reached over, shaking hands with Lao Liu, this Nolan Lao Liu is no stranger, last season there were a few Willingham League One games, he was the fourth official, because of his outstanding performance this season, he was assigned more to the Championship this season, which is equivalent to promotion, so seeing Lao Liu, who was also promoted, has an extra intimacy.
"I'm going to introduce, Brian. Coach Robson, Coach Liu, it's the first time you've met. Nolan played the role of an intermediary, Lao Liu and Robson shook hands, complimented each other a few words, Lao Liu found that Robson's eyes had a puzzled look, I am afraid that he did not expect that this Chinese who turned the world upside down in the lower league was actually such an ordinary appearance.
Hmph, there's something to surprise you later.
West Bromwich Albion still use a four-three-two-one line-up that emphasizes wide attack, but unlike AC Milan's pyramid line-up, their two-man is a traditional English winger who spreads wide on either side of the front, and the central defense is entirely responsible for two midfielders and a defensive midfielder.
Today's breakthrough is still the former national team main K. Phillips, on both sides are England J. Green and Hungary Z. Gera, the midfield defense three are England's R. Chaplow, Wales J. Koumas and Scotland's N. Quashie, the four defenders are a pure England lineup: P. Robinson, N. Clement, C. Davies and S. Watson, none of whom have been selected for the national team, but they are all very practical English defenders, and the goalkeeper is the current Swiss national team's backup goalkeeper P. Zuberbuhler.
"It's a very English lineup, the ability of players in all positions is not bad, after letting them control the tempo, the opponent will be more uncomfortable, but the only weakness is that there is no strong attacking core, it is a collective team style of play, the team with a slightly weaker midfield on the opposite side is easy to do, if the midfield can completely suppress them, the result is difficult to say." Lao Liu pointed to the players on the field and said to Mike that he put all the talented players in the midfield for a few days on the field.
Head coach K. Stroud blew the whistle to announce the start of the game, and the 80-year-old Wellingham reached the English second division for the second time (the last time was in League Two, which had been played for two years 70 years ago), Helder touched the ball, Poterson passed back to Capo outside the centre circle, the Frenchman shifted his big foot to Hleb Jr. on the right, and J. Green rushed up to him.
Although he participated in a lot of warm-up games, Hleb Jr. was still a little frightened by this ferocious British style of play from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't be blamed completely, and his brother A.Hieb also took about half a season to fully adapt, which also had a negative impact on him. In the face of J.Greening's even fierce expression, Hleb Jr. quickly returned the ball to Song on the left back.
Lao Liu frowned, he thought about this question, Eastern European players would be repulsed by England's style of play, but he didn't expect it to be so serious, he silently calculated in his heart.
Fortunately, most of the players were well suited to the English style of play, and soon, the midfield consisting of Cabo, Siwalker, Holder, Song and Hleb began to make West Bromwich Albion's central British Isles a little overwhelmed, and J.Green and Z.Gera also had to come back often to participate in defense and protection.
The first to strike was Cabo, the French attacking midfielder who had completely found his feel at Wellingham. Taking advantage of an opportunity for Z.Gera and J.Koumas to make a mistake, he dribbled straight to the right side of West Bromwich Albion, C.Davies hurriedly stepped forward to get in the position, and the experienced S.www.xstxt.orgent came from left to right to respond, Capo suddenly changed direction, ran sideways with the ball for a few meters and then reversed his left leg, and then went straight forward, Patterson swung back, although he was poked by N.Clement as much as he could stretch his foot, changed his position slightly, and slid past the back side of Capo, but less than a second before R.Chaplow came up to get the ball, Halder suddenly appeared here and pinched the ball with his foot, passed between R.Chaplow's legs, Hleb on the right did not stop the ball, directly a half-high ball cross, Helder in front of P. Zuberbuhler put the ball back, Capo, who had already stuck in the position, jumped high and met the ball, 1-0.
It was a brilliant team goal, and you can imagine how much effort Kardoni put in, and Lao Liu noticed that while the Willingsham players were celebrating the goal, the West Bromwich Albion players were still cheering each other up. Robson also applauded vigorously to cheer on the team.
Kicking off again, although West Bromwich Albion did not make substitutions, they immediately made adjustments in their style of play, J.Green and Z.Gera pulled more into the midfield to mark Kabo and Hleb, J. Koumas went forward, and K. Phillips also came back more to respond. P. Robinson and S.www.xstxt.orgas headed the ball to K. Phillips and pushed it when they were snatched up by Rosenal in the box, and N. Clement easily converted the penalty to put the two teams back on the same starting line.
At halftime, Lao Liu emphasized one point, to be fast and high
In the second half, Willingham obviously accelerated the speed of the attack and began to use his own rhythm to mobilize the opponent, and the particularly tall and thin Botterson also sped up, which couldn't help but feel a little funny, but it was his tenacious counter-attack, Got the ball out of N.Clement's feet, then shook off the angle, and fired a very difficult shot through the door of P. Zuberbuhler., and then just when the players on the West Bromwich Albion field did not have enough reaction and Brian Robson had no time to adjust, he received a pass from Hleb again, turned his back to the goal, stopped the ball on his chest, half-turned and volleyed, and then went to the next goal.
I saw Brian who was a little stunned not far away. Robson, Lao Liu smiled, in recent games, Lao Liu arranged Patterson as a-stirring stick, so that everyone didn't pay attention to him, but ignoring such a demon has a price.
"Crowge's Phantom continues to torment West Bromwich Albion, the Championship newcomers beat the former Premier League team 3-1 in their first game", Lao Liu didn't like this title very much, but when he thought that this could increase Pouterson's value, Lao Liu still sent the reporter a piece of the latest ultra-high-speed memory card as a thank you gift.
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