Chapter 68 Chapter 68 is still a mortal enemy!

Leeds United's first round match against Manchester United was scheduled for 16pm on 19 August, and Simon Grayson and his disciples arrived in Manchester on the evening of 18 August.

The promotion of the "Young Guards" to the Super League has improved the treatment, and there is no need to rush to the away stadium on the day of the game to save some accommodation costs, so that the players can keep the fatigue of traveling.

Of course, Ken Bates, the old man who picks the door, still shows his stingy side, and the hotel where Leeds United are staying is only a three-star hotel, but fortunately, assistant coach Eric Black arrived in Manchester early and booked a hotel with a lawn for Leeds United to do a simple training session, and Leeds United only need to pay an extra 1,000 pounds for this.

Even if they are back in the ranks of the super team, even if Leeds United has just beaten Manchester City to win the Community Shield, the attention they receive is actually very low, and there are only four sports reporters from the two media media in Leeds who stayed in the hotel, Simon Grayson was in a good mood to accept a simple interview while the players were not disturbed to conduct simple training, mainly talking about Leeds' defeat of Manchester City in the Community Shield, followed by the goal of this season's "Young Guard", Simon Grayson, of course, is saying that the team is still aiming for relegation.

It was only when talking about the fourth round of Europa League qualification that Simon Grayson showed a bit of ambition: "It's been a long time since we've had a voice in European football, because it's been a long time since we've had a chance to play in Europe, so we're not going to give up even one Europa League game. Red Star Belgrade is a quality team but my players and I are confident of winning the game and going to the group stage of the Europa League and we are ready for it...... How far can you go? Hehe, of course, how far you can go, then how far you can go! ”

The first leg between Leeds United and Red Star Belgrade comes on 23 August, four days after the match against Manchester United, and Leeds United will be waiting for their opponents at their home stadium, Elland Road.

Now the new season has just begun, and the age structure of their team can be said to be very young, the physical condition of the players is quite good, such as Zach Thompson, Jonny Hausen, Ben Parker are all young and excessive young players, Red, Clegg Dawson and others are also very young, Bentley, Tevez is even more in the playing year, and only Papach, Whitehead, and Ameobie are veterans in their thirties, so Simon Grayson is still very confident in the physical fitness of his team. The game they beat Manchester City was also due to their physical fitness and frantic running to win the game, which also gave Simon Grayson a good lesson that his team can make the most of this advantage and fight for physical energy and fighting spirit against opponents in the league, rather than using their own shortcomings to play with others and play with technical awareness.

Relying on the youth of his team, Simon Grayson has no intention of letting go of any game.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of August 19th, the match between the promoted Malize United and last season's Premier League runner-up Manchester United started on time, and the Old Trafford Stadium, which can accommodate 76,212 people, poured into 75,797 people to reach full capacity, all the fans of the "Red Devils" have begun to can't wait to compete in the new season, last season they fell short in the final round of the championship and lost the championship, this summer the team added Van Persie and Ganso two stars, and the new season of the "Red Devils" is really something they have been looking forward to for a long time.

And the "old man" Ferguson did not disappoint the fans, in the first game of the new season, he discharged the combination of Rooney + Van Persie on the front line, but there was no Ganso in the midfield, Giggs, Flanei, Fletcher, Nani's combination is still the most experienced, fast, and combative in Ferguson's heart, and the back line has not recovered due to Vidic's injury, Ferguson only arranged Evra, Evans, Rafael, Ferdinand to start, The goalkeeper was still the young Spanish goalkeeper David De Gea.

For the team's lineup, Manchester United fans are still full of expectations, although this is not Manchester United's strongest squad but not far away, although Ashley Young, Welbeck, Ganso and others on the bench did not play, but it has been a good proof of Manchester United's bench thickness, the team's strength this season is stronger, coupled with the leadership of Ferguson, the league championship is almost in the bag.

Besides, playing a new Premier League team like Leeds United, a small promotion horse, does the "Red Devils" still have to be like a big enemy?

In fact, there are many stars of Manchester United who have the same mentality as the fans, although Leeds United just beat the mighty "Blue Moon" just a week ago, but everyone who watched that game will think that Leeds United is indeed there and they are indeed very brave, but the victory of that game is ...... It's just that they're just lucky, Manchester City are so unlucky.

The performances of both sides seemed to confirm this after the start of the game, with Leeds, who were the first to kick off, only to pass five balls before the ball was snatched away from Snodgrass's feet.

Then Giggs on the left side launched an attack with the ball, and Giggs, who is about to turn 39, seemed to be back to his youth, he rushed quickly with the ball on the left side, and with a shake it passed Connorie, and then sent the ball to the far Leeds United on the right side of the small penalty area.

Van Persie, who was making his first official appearance for Manchester United, was very positive in this game, and the Dutchman rushed all the way to the point where the ball landed, but unfortunately the attacking Roneckan took the first step to take the ball out of the air......

"Whoa, whoa, whoa............"

The cheers in the stadium at Old Trafford turned into a round of applause, which was given to Giggs by Manchester United fans, the Welshman has been with Manchester United for more than 20 years, and he has contributed to the team with his words and deeds, even if Giggs has been scandalized, but his presence has already become a symbol of the "Red Devils" themselves.

Although Van Persie felt that the quality of Giggs's pass just now was just average, and he could have passed the ball faster and farther, so that he could have a chance to shoot, he still grinned and extended a thumbs up in the direction of Giggs, for the Manchester United biggger, Van Persie will not provoke.

Seeing that their team began to suppress the opponent as soon as they came up, Manchester United fans were very happy, it seemed that they could easily win this game, and then Manchester United also always suppressed Leeds United, they continued to launch attacks from the left, center and right, and caused almost ten crosses in just a few minutes, but unfortunately every attempt they made was blocked by Leeds United.

But even so, the United fans were still laughing and dancing happily in the stands, and the team began to dominate, all they had to do now was wait for the goal to score, but their good mood only lasted seven minutes!

It's only seven minutes!

At 6'31', the ball was sent to the feet of United midfielder Flaney.

The twenty-four-year-old Flanei transferred from Everton to Manchester United for 19 million pounds in the winter transfer last season, and was jokingly accused by the media that Moyes was doing early work for his successor "old man", but unfortunately in the end Mancini and the "blue moon" disrupted Ferguson's desire to win the championship and retire, and Moyes could only wait a little longer.

However, Flaney under Ferguson also performed quite well, playing a total of 15 games for Manchester United last season, scoring 6 goals and 3 assists, which is generally worthy of the 19 million pounds that Manchester United paid for him, and this season he was promoted to the main team by Ferguson.

But this time, Flanei encountered the "Shaq" who only emerged last season, and the Belgian midfielder actually knew Zach Thompson's strong defensive ability early on, but he also knew that Zach Thompson was used to using his body to "bully" the opponent most of the time, and then broke the ball with his foot at the moment when the opponent lost his balance, so Flanei turned to receive the ball, and just controlled it a little and passed the ball horizontally.

But just as the ball flew out of Flaney's feet and rolled towards Fletcher, a figure slid on the ground and stopped in front of the ball!

"Smack!"

Zach Thompson raised his left foot slightly and stabbed the ball towards Snodgrass, who retreated forward to get the ball!

"Shaq!? A perfect interception! ”

The commentator exclaimed, and the Manchester United fans in the Old Trafford stadium also looked at this scene with stunned expressions, no one could have imagined that this ball would be broken, this young "Shaq" is really a steal maniac, just like England coach Hodgson gave him an evaluation, this kid was born with an intuition to judge the opponent's passing route!

Snodgrass is a playmaking striker, he has not been a prolific goalscorer, he played 39 games last season and only scored 9 goals, but the number of assists reached 10, and he also appeared in the starting lineup in place of Bentley in this game, playing the role of delivering shells behind Ameobi, Tevez, and Beccio, the reason is that Simon Grayson found after the last game that the coordination between Bentley and the strikers is still a little rusty, It wasn't too obvious against weaker opponents, but it showed against Manchester City, and the link between him and the forward line could easily be severed.

"Smack!"

Snodgrass, who was standing in the centre circle, didn't dribble much, turned around and tucked the ball into the left front, behind Rio Ferdinand, in the space between him and Rafael.

When Ferdinand turned, he saw a tall figure rushing up from his left like a gust of wind......

Ameobi!?

Ferdinand was shocked, he had previously focused on his former teammate "The Beast" Tevez, he knew very well what huge energy was contained in the short body of this little Argentine man, but he didn't expect that Ameobi, who was suddenly ignored by himself, would explode.

"Bang!"

After Ameo rushed up diagonally, he directly kicked the ball into the big penalty area of Manchester United, and rushed up in a few big steps, although his speed was not very fast, but Ferdinand's speed was not fast, when Ameobi started first, Ferdinand could not catch up with him.

Although De Gea, who was standing in front of the Manchester United goal, was young, he still reacted very quickly, and rushed out of the goal.

It's a pity that with Ameobi's rich game experience, how could he make the mistake of making the ball big and being confiscated directly by the goalkeeper?

In the middle of Manchester United's penalty area, before De Gea, Ameobi directly came to the ground and tackled!

"Tom!"

Ameobi's right foot was pressed very low, and it actually kicked to the bottom of the ball, and then the ball bounced upwards and was already running to the penalty spot, and De Gea watched as the ball flew slowly through the air on his right side and then fell into his own goal......

“goal！！！！！！！！！！！！！！”

After the goal, Ameobi got up and rushed to the camera near the corner flag, his swarthy face as he yelled, making him look like a roaring chimpanzee, and then one Leeds player after another pounced on him............

At the moment when the ball flew into the Manchester United goal, the "old man" Ferguson, who was sitting on the field, couldn't help but stare at him, and then chewed the gum in his mouth a few times, and the expression on his face returned to calm.

However, the old man's clenched fists still betrayed his unsettled heart: now Leeds...... It's really strong!

Although Leeds United and Manchester United have become mortal enemies because of the "War of the Roses" hundreds of years ago, and even in various sports competitions, but in this era, the hatred in the football circle has been forgotten because of the sinking of Leeds United, and even before this game, there was no media voice about the "War of the Roses" to provoke the relationship between the two teams, but now...... "Peacock Army" has become the sworn enemy of the "Red Devils" again!

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