Chapter 135: Powerful Confidence!

After a month and ten days of rest, Leeds United's training camp for the new season is about to begin. With Grayson's long sleeves, the £18 million squad that has been further strengthened is really more competitive.

Up front, "The Beast" Tevez, "Big Black" Ameobi, and Nelson? Oliveira, these three strikers with very different styles will be the arrowheads of the "Young Guard" in the new season.

In midfield, Zach? Thompson, Jonny? Hausen, Philip? Pivkovsky, Snodgrass, John? Fleck, Barnetta, Bentley, Glenn? Wilan, Hammet? Altentop and these players are very combative, plus a 16-year-old genius Ashley? Hood, and the new German phenom Kevin? Vogt, this thickness really makes Simon? Grayson is quite satisfied, in fact he is most satisfied with his team in the midfield.

Compared to the talented midfield, although the back line is a little weaker, it is also much stronger than last season. Parker, prunes? Vrsarico, Clegg? Dawson, Red, Madias? Caruzo's five men will form a new backline, in addition to Connoli and Odi as substitutes, plus Chris? Sally's raving 17-year-old genius kid Chris? Farley, this lineup is enough to handle the game, not to mention Kevin? Vogt, Hammet? Altentop can also participate in the friendly play on the back line, and the thickness is relatively enough.

In the goalkeeper position, Andy? Roneckan or Simon? Grayson's first choice, substitute Paul? Rachuka is just a piece of insurance, and the new 16-year-old in the youth team, Kovamy? Arteta was still an apprentice, but he was just here to make up the numbers. Good goalkeepers are too hard to find, and even if they do, the price is not something that the "Young Guard" can afford.

In general, Simon? Grayson is still quite satisfied with the 25 players in his first team, after all, the "Young Guards" is not a big team, and they mainly have to rely on internal digging and reselling players to enhance their strength, and they can't play often with big money like buying "The Beast". Even prunes, Nelson? Oliveira spent a lot of time with the team, and that was just an investment in the future.

On July 10th, when the largest individual group in Leeds United, the "Swordsmen", returned to the Thorpe Arch training base one by one, and then exchanged commemorative photos left after each other's various encounters on vacation, these boys began training for the new season. Parker's new contract has been signed, and he got a deal with Prune? With the same annual salary of 2.6 million as Vrsarico, Red's salary has grown to a maximum salary of 3.7 million pounds, and the "Swordsmen" will not be absent in the new season. It's a lot of fun for a group of young kids.

The intensity of the first day of training was not great, mainly to check the physical condition of the players, fortunately Leeds United except for one "beast" who was not very professional and gained ten pounds, the weight of the others did not change much, and there were even "Leeds Three Musketeers" who had lost weight, and the three boys spent a holiday in Brazil, and they could not always find Brazilian girls to vent their desires. On the contrary, they enjoy beach soccer every day in Brazil, and all three are in excellent form.

After three days of training. Leeds United went to Hampshire to play a friendly match with the local Aldershott team, and in the opponent's small home stadium "Entertainment Stadium", which can only accommodate 7,500 people, Leeds United easily beat the opponent 3:1, and the only goal scored by the opponent was specially given to the opponent to save face in the 83rd minute of the game.

After this game, the "old" players of Leeds United found that the strength of their team seemed to have really been further enhanced. Let's not talk about the four new players, after all, they have all played in other teams, but even the seventeen-year-old guy Chris who just came up from the youth team? Farley is also very good, his speed is not very fast, but his skills are quite comprehensive. The defense is also very stable, and after the game, it was affectionately called "Little Ben", which means small Ben? Parker.

In the next few friendly matches, Leeds United also won consecutive victories, and all of them were won away, 4:1 against Galati in Romania, 4:1 in Groningen in the Netherlands, 3:1 against local amateur team Barnett, 5:1 against Milton and 4:0 against Bournemouth.

After six friendlies, Leeds United's form is getting smoother and smoother, especially in attack, which continues the team's strong firepower last season. Grayson was quite satisfied.

"Big Black" Ameobi scored 5 goals, Snodgrass scored 4 goals, Zack? Thompson scored 3 goals and "The Beast" Tevez scored 2 goals, of which Tevez only played two games, and the scoring efficiency was quite high.

Leeds United's form for the new season has been quite good, and the most immediate impact is the team's season ticket sales have risen gratifyingly, with 16,000 season tickets directly bringing in more than £12 million in revenue for the team, and it is still increasing.

The "Swordsman Group" has become the largest force in the Leeds United dressing room, and the team has reassigned the shirt number once before the start of the new season.

Zack? Thompson got his wish to get the No. 5 jersey, Jonny? Hausen got the number 7, Ben? Parker 3, Prune 2, Reid 4, Clegg? Dawson, on the other hand, chose No. 16, and he preferred No. 5, but in this team...... Who can compete with Shaq!?

The new John? Fleck likes the number 10 jersey, Kevin? Vogt got the number 8, Madias? Caruzo got the number 6...... Almost everyone got their favorite numbers, a new round of shirt sales also set off a lot of hype, and Leeds United's financial revenue has also increased.

After a week's break at Thorpe Arch Base, Leeds United enjoyed their seventh friendly of the new season, the final friendly and the most important one, as the opponents were ...... Ac milan!

The initiator of this friendly match is AC Milan's side, and if it was this time last year, even if AC Milan had fallen, they would still not have played a warm-up match against Leeds United. But with the Young Guard's stellar performances last season, even former giants like AC Milan feel they can test their team's quality.

Leeds United also took this friendly match very seriously, and even Leeds fans looked crazy, the currently expanding Elland Road Stadium can only accommodate 34,000 spectators, and in order to watch this match between Leeds United and AC Milan, 32,000 spectators have come to the scene.

What makes Leeds fans feel incredible. The "Young Guards" had already sent their strongest line-up in this game, but just 2 minutes and 51 seconds into the game, AC Milan bought Belgium international Hazard from Lille last winter burst into the penalty area on the left side.

Red was close to Hazard's defense, but he didn't expect Hazard to suddenly make a sudden stop, and the outside of his right foot was directly pumped onto the ball!

"Bang!"

Red didn't have time to react, his right foot popped up to block it, but after the ball "snapped" on his right instep, it bounced up and drew a weird arc, and flew to the middle of the goal with a "whoosh". Ronegan, who was blocking the near corner, had no time to adjust his center of gravity and fished it with his left hand...... Empty!

“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL！！！！！！！！！！！！！！”

Hazard was so excited to run and score so quickly and so easily, he was really excited!

There was a quiet atmosphere in the Elland Road stadium, and the Leeds fans were silent, the strength of the team this season must have been further enhanced, but even so, they conceded a goal in less than three minutes of "Leeds time" before the game started, is there such a big gap between their own team and the big teams?

And...... And that's just the declining AC Milan!

Time. Leeds fans are low on confidence, but the situation on the pitch is changing. After Leeds United's restart, Pivkowski, who cut inside from the right, was tripped in front of AC Milan's penalty area on the right.

When a set-piece is served, Ben? Parker stood in front of the ball, made a look of going to blast the ball directly into the AC Milan goal, and at the moment of touching the ball, he turned his ankle and pushed the ball firmly against the ground to the top of the arc of the penalty area facing the goal!

"Smack!"

Zack? Thompson leaned sideways with his right foot and brought the ball in front of him. Standing motionless on the spot, the ball flew out with a "bang" and went straight to the upper right corner of the AC Milan goal like a missile.

Standing in front of the gate of AC Milan, Amelia reacted very quickly, flicking his body to the left and making a leap in the air, but unfortunately his reaction was still a beat slower. Zack? Thompson's long-range shooting ability has reached the strongest in football history, and when he organically combines his catching and shooting, it is no less powerful than a long-range heavy artillery!

"Huh!"

The ball smashed a hole in the white net behind the goal!

Shaq...... Long shot! The ball is in! The ball is in! Nice long shot! Wonderful set-piece tactical coordination! It's so beautiful! It's definitely a world wave! ”

Inside the Elland Road stadium, the Leeds fans finally regained their vitality, shouting and jumping one by one, and there were waves of cheers under the call of the commentator......

It was only 7 minutes after this goal, and Leeds United took advantage of the opportunity of a corner kick to receive Ben by Wang Tiezhu. Parker's ball from the right flank headed the ball towards AC Milan's right goal, and Mex, who was guarding in front of the goal, was caught off guard and hit it with his head, but the ball flew in...... 2:1, only 13 minutes, Leeds United, playing at home, easily completed the reversal.

With 18 minutes to go, Jonny? Hausen broke through with the ball on the left and crossed in front of goal, and "The Beast" Tevez pushed a shot into the bottom left corner from four meters in front of the goal...... 3:1！

On 31 minutes, Leeds United played a clever pass from Carlos Tevez on the counter-attack. Oliveira, the Dutch youngster ran 30 meters with the ball and scored from outside the penalty area on the right side of AC Milan...... 4:1！

The "Young Guards", who had completely gone crazy, had no intention of giving up, and continued to attack amid the frantic cheers of the home fans, and Piskovski cut inside with the ball in the 37th minute and bounced the ball with his left foot into the inside of AC Milan's left post...... 5:1！

Towards the end of the first half, Tevez and Piskovski made a five-metre offside move, and the "beast" kicked the ball from under Amelia's left arm into the AC Milan goal...... 6:1！

The game played like this, AC Milan's big names had already been numb, and when the halftime whistle sounded, they all left the field with straight faces, and they still didn't understand how they fell behind so much all of a sudden, Allegri also frowned, he still did research on the "Young Guard" before the game, but Leeds United after the game started made him feel unfamiliar, the original defensive tactics against Shaq were completely useless, this kid didn't seem to organize the team's attack, Only with two kicks at the crucial moment will the ball be moved from left to right, or from right to left, or he will suddenly attack from the middle.

The change in Leeds United's tactics has made Allegri feel helpless, but Simon? Grayson's half-time adjustment made Allegri feel even more insulted, because ...... Leeds United have made a substitution!

Substitutions, that's normal!

However, Leeds United changed nine players at once, except for central defender Madias? With the exception of Caruzo and goalkeeper Ronegan, everyone else was replaced.

Nima!

There is no limit to the number of substitutions in the friendly match, but I don't take you to play like this, it's too faceless, right!?

Face, it's all earned by yourself!

AC Milan has been beaten like this, who thinks about saving face?

AC Milan's big names also seemed to be enraged, and in the second half of the game, the "little pharaoh" Shaarawy, Hazade, and Nocerino each scored one goal each, but in the end they still lost to the "Young Guard" with a score of 4:6.

After the game, the fans in the Elland Road stadium sang and danced until the players had to come out again to thank them, and then the Leeds fans reluctantly left.

One by one, the fans were still excitedly reminiscing while walking, the team still defeated an opponent like AC Milan with a score of 6:4 in the second half, which is enough to prove that the strength of the team has indeed improved a lot, and the opponent played a 6:1 in the first half, which is really a long temper!

In the new season, the "Young Guard" is indeed worth looking forward to!

With such strength, Leeds United can not only challenge for the championship in the English Premier League, but also try to go further in the Champions League!

The atmosphere in the home team's dressing room was very relaxed, and the Leeds United players were smiling and talking to each other about what happened in the game, so easily winning this game against AC Milan can be regarded as a real test of how strong the "Young Guards" are in the new season.

10+1, double is equivalent to 5+1, so ...... Come again! Again! Fat man, I'm not afraid of you! Huh, hehe~~~~~~~~~~~~ (To be continued......)