Chapter 108: Provocation (1)

The day before the game, Dave. Jones and McLaren are like shrews, one by one, scolding each other, each saying that their team is confident that it will definitely be the winner of tomorrow's game, and their affirmative look has made the media excited.

What the two men said was recorded verbatim by these media, and after the match, they will have plenty of reasons to laugh at the loser.

In recent years, Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have been the most sought-after managers in the Premier League, and because of their success, many new coaches in the Premier League also like to imitate their actions, so the Premier League managers seem to have become hot-tempered, and they start a scolding battle before the game at every turn, maybe this is also a kind of progress, right?

But McLaren and Dave. Jones failed to learn the essence of the pre-match war of words, leaving no room for what they said, and after the game, the winner will certainly rejoice, but the loser will inevitably become the target of media ridicule, and perhaps this is another kind of winning and losing.

It can be seen from this that these two young managers still need more training if they want to reach the level of Ferguson and Wenger in terms of off-field details!

After being paid more media attention, this game has also been upgraded from the collision of ordinary Premier League midstream teams to a battle of honor like Mars hitting the earth, Middlesbrough and Wolverhampton have never had much intersection in history, but because of Grining's words, it led to a war of words between the two managers, which made this game more attention-grabbing.

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BBC Television has always been a giant in the British media industry, and today, their correspondent also came to Middlesbrough just to see which team will win this game, and who will have the last laugh with the two young managers.

Boril. The Knicks, who is a special commentator on the BBC football channel, was in charge of commentating the game.

Fans who regularly follow the BBC Sports channel know that Borrill is a pure Newcastle fan, and whenever Newcastle play a game, his commentary will have a serious bias towards the surname.

Today was a match between Wolverhampton and Middlesbrough, and for Borrier, both of them were just country teams, and there would be no passion at all, so he didn't have much hope for this game.

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Middlesbrough lined up the standard 442 today, with Boaten and Zenden in the middle, left and right wingers Grinin and Mendieta, defenders Mills, Southgate, Davies and veteran Cooper, and in the forward line, Juninho got the start, and he and Nemet formed a double in front of the pitch, threatening Wolverhampton's backline at all times.

I have to admire McLaren's tolerance, before the game, Grining's big mouth caused so much trouble for the team, and even made him speechless by the media several times, but today, Grining still got the start, it seems that on the court, he still has McLaren's trust.

Maybe Grining assured McClaren of something, or McClaren is very confident in his defensive ability, today, Grining's range of activities is not limited to the position of right midfield, but focuses on the defense of the right side, and even sometimes participates in the middle of the defense, in general, his range of activities is exactly the same as Wang Li, it seems that McLaren attaches great importance to Wang Li, in order to defend him, and even weakens the offensive on the right side.

Although McClaren vowed before the game that his team was ready to get a clean victory at home, Middlesbrough was not optimistic about the current situation.

In just ten minutes into the game, Middlesbrough's players had already made a dozen mistakes in a row, and if it weren't for the fact that Miller and Harilson hadn't really been able to get into the game, they might have conceded goals

"Boy, you're such a softass! I heard that you are very good at dribbling the ball, why did you pass the ball again? Seeing that Wang Li did not choose to break through on the right side, but passed the ball to Kennedy in the middle, Grinin sneered and sarcastic.

From the beginning to the present, Wang Li has chosen to pass the ball directly in the face of Grinin's defense, which was originally very correct in the official game, but this has become a handle for Grinin to laugh at him. McLaren highlighted before the game that Wolverhampton's Allen Brownton was the only player in Wolverhampton. Wang's passing ability is very outstanding, and he must be careful to defend, but in the first ten minutes, Grining didn't see Wang Li have seen himself pass with the ball, so he felt that this kid was afraid of himself, which made him a little complacent, and the expression on his face was quite villainous.

Hearing Grining's trash talk, Wang Li was expressionless, didn't respond at all, shook his head directly, and ran towards the backfield.

After so many Premier League games, Wang Li's game experience has gradually become richer, when there is no good opportunity to break through the opponent's defense, blind dribbling, passing, will only waste physical strength in vain, even if it passes Grining, and then still have to cross, so, this is simply useless, the Premier League is an official game, not an exhibition game, he will not be in the limelight, and useless consumption of physical strength.

"A soft egg is a soft egg!" Seeing Wang Li turn to leave, Grinin pursed his lips and said in a low voice.

With Wang Li's sensitive hearing, of course he heard Grining's whispering, but he didn't say anything, just silently stored anger in his heart

In the seventeenth minute of the game, Miller received a pass from Kennedy in the penalty area, stopped the ball and turned to shoot vigorously, and the riverside stadium was full of exclamations! However, Middlesbrough veteran Gareth Southgate stepped up and fell straight to the ground and blocked the shot with his back, a performance that won applause from the crowd.

Southgate, who is 34 years old, was a regular defender for England and played at Euro '96 and '00 and the World Cup from '98 to '02. In England, Southgate has always been known for his 'tenacity' and is deeply loved by fans. Because of this spirit on the court, even though he is close to retirement, he still has McLaren's trust.

Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gabiton is rumoured to be even interested in having him coach directly at Middlesbrough after his retirement, showing that Southgate's tenacity and loyalty can be trusted.

After the ball was blocked by Southgate's body, it flew directly into the air, goalkeeper Schwartz attacked, jumped up and easily picked up the ball, looked up at the form of the front, and then he threw it hard, and the ball was handed to the feet of defender Boateng on the left side of the penalty area.

Middlesbrough's counterattack!

In the frontcourt, after Boateng got the ball, he directly stabbed it to Cendeng in front, after Cendeng received the ball, he quickly took a few steps up, and saw that there were opposing players running over to scramble, he did not stick to the ball, and passed to Grinin on the left.

At this time, Wang Li stood in front of Grinin, in the attack just now, he did not plug in, but has been standing in the front of the big penalty area waiting for the opportunity, seeing the ball in the hands of the Middlesbrough goalkeeper, he immediately ran to the backfield, saw Grining take the ball to break forward, he hurriedly greeted him.

"Boy, you think you'll be able to grab the ball?" Grinin quickly broke through from the left with the ball, and his mouth was still talking trash to Wang Li, who was glued to him. Although Grining's surname is very annoying, his strength is still very good, the ball is guarded by him on the left side, and he has been rolling along the sideline, Wang Li on his right wants to steal, but there is no chance at all.

When Grining dribbled the ball to the bottom line, Wang Li felt that his opportunity had come, and at the moment when Grining stopped the ball, there would definitely be a loophole, and at that time, he would definitely be able to easily grab the ball by using the 'shadow foot'.

However, Grinin's approach was beyond Wang Li's expectations, when he was about to get close to the bottom line, Grinin did not stop the ball at all, but directly stepped out with his right foot, a back heel, and knocked the ball backwards, and the ball swirled and rolled to Boateng's feet!

"Boy, you want to snatch the ball from under my feet, you are still tender!" After the pass, Grinin said with a slight crooked mouth.

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ps: I changed the title of a few chapters today.,The starting point sealed my author's number.,Just lifted the ban.,Depressed.,When it's more than 100 chapters.,The title can't be written.,Sorry for the trouble caused to everyone.;