Chapter Seventy-Three: Zach Thompson's Smile

Leeds United, which restarted to play in the English Premier League, ushered in a pretty good stage in the schedule, and Manchester United, Everton's two rounds of league games, they will face Fulham, Bolton, West Ham United, Reading and other weaker teams, and will not start to play with the "Gunners" Arsenal, "Reds" Liverpool, and "Blues" Chelsea in the ninth round, and as a Leeds United team with the goal of relegation, the most important task at the moment is, of course, to meet Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and other strong teams have picked up enough points from other opponents.

On September 2, Leeds United visited Craven Cottage Stadium for their third round of English Premier League match against Fulham.

Although Fulham was already a super team last season, the "Young Guards" were unanimously favored in the pre-game odds, because Fulham's team is completely a grassroots team in the Super League, they don't have a lot of money to spend, and there are no big stars in the team, and the only task of this team every year is basically relegation, and they have been relegated every year for many consecutive seasons, and finally succeeded, and they also got a nickname of "relegation professionals".

In the impression of fans, Fulham is a small team that buys low and sells players high, and they also rely on this strategy to ensure the strength of their team for a long time, but whether they admit it or not, Fulham can succeed in relegation every year, in fact, there are some off-field factors, they often start to release water to other teams after the relegation is successful, in exchange for some "favor", and use it when it is really important.

It's a pity that this time Fulham met the same relegation goal of the promoted Malize United, the two teams can be said to be in competition, although it is only the beginning of the new season, but who can guarantee that when the season is about to end, the two teams will not go out of the completely opposite fate trajectory because of a little point?

Before the start of this game, Simon Grayson gave his team an order to win, not because Simon Grayson became arrogant after winning Manchester City and Manchester United, but Fulham's own strength was not very good first, and then their state after the start of the new season was really poor, and it was understandable that the first round of the league lost 0:2 at home to the "Blues" Chelsea, after all, "Buddha coach" Di Matteo just led Chelsea to the Champions League trophy, Chelsea spent another £34.5 million to buy Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani from Napoli this summer, and the overall strength of the "Blues" has also been greatly improved, and they are also one of the favourites to win the title this season.

However, in the second round of the league, Fulham lost 2:3 to Blackburn, which shows that this team is indeed facing a lot of problems now.

Simon Grayson may not know the phrase "take advantage of your illness, I want you to die", but he still understands the reason for taking advantage of the situation, and he will naturally not miss a game that can win the game, which will allow Leeds United to finally get a good place in the table.

The manager's instructions were well followed by the players!

Just 11 minutes into the game, Tevez received a header from Beccio and fired a fierce shot into the Fulham goal from the top of the penalty area to give Leeds United a 1-0 lead.

Zach Thompson laughed happily after seeing Tevez's goal, and this time he was very careful to give 17 bonus skill points to Jonny Hausen, Ben Parker and Tevez.

Among them, the bonus of "Beast" is 2 shots and 6 long-range shots, both of which are full of Zach Thompson, while Jonny Howson and Ben Parker have both received passing bonuses, Zach Thompson's idea is that Leeds United is playing Fulham in this game, they definitely don't need to keep defending, Tevez on the front line will have more opportunities to shoot, and the team will naturally rely on him to score more goals if they want to win, and the game has been analyzed very thoroughly in advance, Naturally, Zach Thompson's choice couldn't go wrong.

With 19 minutes played, just eight minutes after Carlos Tevez opened the scoring for Leeds, Zach Thompson sprinted forward 15 metres after a successful break in the centre circle before sending a through ball into the Fulham box on the left.

Tevez "The Beast" is in front of the ball again!

"Bang!"

Tevez didn't make any other moves, and directly volleyed the outside of his right foot, and the ball flew neatly into the Fulham goal again...... 2:0！

Completely stunned, Fulham did not come to their senses until the end of the first half, but Leeds United became more and more courageous, and in the 42nd minute of the game, Bentley's through ball gave the "beast" a chance to go crazy after the successful anti-offside position, and he kicked the ball under the crotch of Fulham's 39-year-old Australian goalkeeper Mark with a low shot...... 3:0！

Tevez, who scored a hat-trick in the first half, was thrilled and could feel that he was getting better every day since he arrived at Leeds United, and today he felt like a god, as long as he wanted to score goals, he kept going in, this feeling...... It's wonderful!

"Hey, hey, hey, hey......"

Zach Thompson is in a really good mood today, he found out for the first time that the football game can be played so easily, Leeds United played in the English Champions League last season, at that time Zach Thompson did not have the ability to add to his teammates, every game was played very hard, but now the team has been promoted to the Super League, with the "beast" Tevez joined, because he and Ameobi can put pressure on the opponent, which makes Leeds United's defensive pressure greatly reduced, and the game is also extremely easy.

In the second half, the two sides changed places and fought again, and at this time the trend of the game was completely out of suspense, and Leeds United was also playing more and more easily in the game.

Although Fulham relied on home advantage, scoring once each in the 48th and 71st minutes, Leeds United also scored two more goals in the second half, with Tevez setting up Ameobi to score a goal in the 59th minute to make it 4-1, and then he himself received a long pass from Connoli on the 82nd minute, shook off the Fulham goalkeeper and pushed the empty goal to complete the quadruple and lock the score at 5:2.

Zach Thompson and Jonny Hausen didn't return to Leeds with the win, and the two of them took a taxi to the St George's Park training base, where Hodgson had once again called the Leeds duo with World Cup qualifying approaching.

The Three Lions are in Group 8 of the European World Cup qualifiers, with Poland, Montenegro, Ukraine, Moldova and San Marino joining the other five opponents.

On September 8 and September 12, England will play two games away from Ukraine and at home against San Marino.

In the new England team, Hodgson still did not dare to use young players on a large scale, but the selection of Liverpool's 23-year-old striker Carroll and the selection of Middlesbrough's 24-year-old goalkeeper Joe Reeves still made the England team a step further in its youthfulness.

After meeting veterans such as Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand, Steven Gerrard, Ashley Cole and John Terry at the St George's Park training base, Zach Thompson and Jonny Hausen were naturally encouraged by these people, as if they were afraid that these two talented boys would be buried in Leeds, but unfortunately they were doomed to fail at the moment.

I have to say that Hodgson is really determined to promote youth in the England team this time, although Frank Lampard and Gerrard were selected for the England team this time, but in the game against Ukraine, Hodgson used a new midfield combination, Zach Thompson, Jonny Hausen, James Milner, and Layton Bynes became his first choice.

As for Frank Lampard and Gerrard, the midfielders who once represented an era of English football, were placed on the bench by Hodgson on the grounds of their poor physical condition.

Regardless of the mood of Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard, Zach Thompson is of course very happy to be able to represent England again, and every time he plays for the "Three Lions", he can get at least one teammate bonus skill point, which he will not refuse.

It's just that in this game against Ukraine, the England team still encountered a lot of tests, without Lampard and Gerrard, the midfield creativity of the England team has completely disappeared, although Jonny Howson has been added by Zach Thompson, but how much role can he play alone, Rooney and Walcott are running very happily in the front court, but the opportunities are pitiful.

With 11 minutes played, Dynamo Kyiv's striker Artem Millevsky opened the scoring with a header.

Ukraine, playing at home, are in high spirits after taking a 1-0 lead, and they seem to have seen the dawn of victory!

At the critical moment, it was Zach Thompson who stepped up!

In the 15th minute of the game, Jonny Hausen advanced the ball to the edge of the Ukrainian penalty area on the right side, but suddenly a sudden stop passed the ball back to the top of the arc in the middle, Zach Thompson rushed up from behind at this time, Jonny Hausen's pass was just right!

Jonny Howson's series of performances is really wonderful, moving forward quickly with the ball, attracting the attention of the opponent and then passing the ball to his teammates, he shows personal ability and overall view are praised, but this is also deserved, after Zach Thompson used 17 teammates bonus skill points at once, Jonny Hausen, who was already very good at his individual ability, is almost a world-class midfielder, so it would be strange if he was not strong!

"Smack!"

Zach Thompson stopped the ball with his right foot and then fired a shot from his left heel!

"Tom!"

The ball that flew out from Zach Thompson's feet was like a precision missile, not only fast, powerful, but also very tricky, flying directly into the bottom left corner of the Ukrainian goal!

The only thing Ukrainian goalkeeper No. 1 Andrey Pyatov can do is turn his head and send the ball into his own goal!

Zach Thompson's long-range shot really boosted the morale of the England team, and the "Three Lions" who were playing away from home regained their vitality, and they began to attack frequently through the assists of Ashley Cole and Glen Johnson, and the initiative of the game fell into the hands of the better England team.

Towards the end of the first half, the "little fat" Rooney, who had fought for forty minutes, finally used his hard work to spell a chance, he rushed to the Ukrainian team's big penalty area with the ball, and resisted the pursuit of the two Ukrainian players behind him, Rooney also had to face the goalkeeper at the same time, and the helpless "little fat" was very clever to distribute the ball to the right side, and James Milner, who was inserted behind, sent the ball into the empty goal with a volley.

This goal also became the last goal of the game!

In the second half of the game, Hodgson replaced Walcott with Carroll, replaced Layton Bynes with Gerrard, and replaced James Milner with Lampard, so England's midfield defense has become stronger, and the control ability has also improved.

After the game, Zach Thompson happily hummed a song and Jonny Hausen hooked up their shoulders and walked away, in this game the two of them scored a goal and contributed an assist, which is naturally happy.

It's just that Jonny Hausen doesn't know that the reason why this good partner and good brother next to him is really happy is that his teammates' bonus skill points have increased to 20 points!

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