Chapter 35: The New Season Begins
Arsenal II team in the stability of the defense at the same time, in the midfield control of the ball to give the Willingsmu team a lot of pressure, Dabling had to often return to the midfield to assist in the ball, for a while, Willingham was powerless to threaten Ammonia, but Toby and Bout had to always be on guard against Adebayo's quick start, less than ten minutes, Johnson has made three flying saves, the difference in strength is still relatively obvious.
In the fourteenth minute, Denilson's direct pass passed through the two central defenders, Adebayo appeared in front of Johnson, lightly picked up with his left foot, and the ball drew a light arc, passing through Johnson's outstretched hands, 1-0, the first home goal conceded by Lenovo Fengyun Stadium came like this, but in the absolute disadvantage, Willingham still quickly equalized the score, Dablin's breakthrough goal, made a wonderful performance of Bautson, left foot stop ball half turned and volleyed with right foot, Hanging straight to the corner of the goal, Wenger in the stands couldn't help but applaud, today's game because it was Arsenal's second team, so assistant coach Pat Rice commanded, the professor sat in the stands and watched the game with the VIPs.
The two sides ended the first half 1-1, after the break, Pat Rice adjusted his strategy, Arsenal II began to play two wings, Rennes Smith and Simpson continued to impact the cross near the baseline, Diaby retreated to the forward position to deal with the ball pushed out by the Willingham central defender, and put Adebayo in front of the competition for the header, the other two midfielders Denilson and Muemba also took turns to press, because Toby and Bout do not have any advantage in height, the pressure of defensive high-altitude bombing increased suddenly, In the 56th minute, he was finally won by Adebayo and pushed the ball into the upper right corner of the gate, Liu Luyi hurriedly made personnel adjustments, and replaced the physically exhausted Toby with Kevin Moore, a seventeen-year-old player with strong defensive high-altitude balls, and replaced Dablin with Helder Puskash and Patterson with Miller, and the lineup became four-five-one, but there was no restriction on Helder's position, which was basically a concept of a free man in the frontcourt, and his first touch of the ball passed Reinsmith and Muemba in a row, attracted a round of applause from the audience, but when he was strong Senderos, the ball was cut off by the Swiss international, with his instigation in the midfield, the Arsenal second team did not dare to press too much, and simply replaced Senderos, Denilson and Adebayo, replaced by several young players under the age of eighteen, and before the end of the game, Miller was brought down by the opponent's young defender in the penalty area, and Tainno took the penalty, and the game ended happily with a draw.
After the game, Wenger went to Willingham's dressing room to visit the players, especially praised Patterson, who had excellent performance and Helder with unlimited development potential, and joked to Lao Liu that he wanted to ask the price of these two players, Lao Liu nodded at Hyrd, "Let's exchange Henry." Everyone burst into laughter.
In several consecutive warm-up games, Willingham actually achieved two wins, two draws and one loss against the first-division team, and the losing game was only against Luton Town, which had just been relegated from the Championship, and the score was only 2-3.
"Our biggest problem now is still in the backline," Xue Lin said eloquently in front of the tactical board, "In terms of attack, we can play nearly ten different tactical routines through different staffing, and the players can fully cope with League One in terms of ability and tactical execution, but our defense is not very strong even in League Two, and we still lack a good central defender with the demeanor of a general." The coaching staff led by Lao Liu nodded frequently, and in the new season, Lao Liu also adjusted the coaching staff, Xue Lin was always in charge of tactics, and Mike was training with the assistance of several other coaches.
"Well, since this problem can't be completely solved in the short term, we can only do two things, one is to dig up the potential internally, try to give full play to the ability and potential of the existing players, and the other is to consider the protection of the midfielders at the back when formulating tactics, if we can play with the momentum of promotion in the first half of the season, Maori should be able to get a good central defender back in the winter transfer period, so be it, disband." ……
Just one day before the start of the new season, on August 4, several restaurants and other service points around Lenovo Fengyun Stadium have officially opened, of course, the most eye-catching is two fans with the red and white decoration of the Willingham home jersey, which has more than ten kinds of fan supplies and dozens of samples of fan supplies, due to the rush of time, it will take a few days to fully put on the counter, but the low price still makes the fans who come to visit very happy to take out the money, the most popular commodity is Dablin's jersey, In just one day, nearly 100 pieces were sold.
The rush to print out the fan guide is also made in full accordance with the standards of the Championship clubs, all fans who have purchased a season package will receive a copy each, and others who can buy any ticket in the midfield can be purchased at cost price, and a small flag will be given to the fans......
Before the start of the league, several mainstream football bookmakers in London have opened a handicap for all teams, and in the English Second Division, Willingham's promotion odds reached 7.5, ranking fourth among the twenty-four participating teams, which is a pretty good odds for a club that still needs to fight for relegation last season, if it can get this position, it can already be promoted to the play-offs, but Liu Luyi is still very dissatisfied with this, "One day they will find that this odds are problematic, We certainly won't need a play-off, and we might even be able to get promoted before the end of the season. ”
On the same day, "Xinhua Sports News" reported Lao Liu's attitude with a genuine page, and then many media such as "London Evening Standard" forwarded it and followed up the report.
"In this way, these media will always focus on following up on our results, so that when we have a little problem, they will make a big fuss about your sentence." Murphy reminded Lao Liu with some worry.
"Hey, that's exactly what I wanted."
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