Chapter 136: Is this the rhythm of a counterattack?

Six to zero, Birmingham beat Watford to take all three points.

Dongfang Chen was very good in this game, not only scoring two goals, but also scoring a hat-trick of assists, which can be said to have single-handedly eliminated the Watford team.

As soon as the results came out, the fans of the Watford team were angry and pointed the finger at the senior management of the Watford team, and they were very dissatisfied with the actions of the senior management of the Watford team.

Originally, Dongfang Chen should have belonged to their team, and now the second place in the league should also be their Watford team. However, because of the foolish actions of Watford's top management, the director zhì missed out on them, and they were angry.

Even if they didn't get promoted last season, they still haven't been promoted this season, which makes Watford fans unacceptable, and they can't stand the club's hierarchy anymore.

Under such circumstances, Elton John, the elderly chairman of Watford, announced his resignation as chairman of Watford.

Elton John wanted to resign last year, but it was postponed until now because of trivial matters. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he also retired.

After Elton John's resignation, Watford fans did not feel happy, but felt a little worried, who will accept Watford? What about the future of Watford?

However, these have nothing to do with Dongfang Chen and the Birmingham team.

At the end of the 44th round of the league, Birmingham won 6-0 against Watford and won all three points. Wolves, on the other hand, gritted their teeth and won 1-0 at home to Queens Park Rangers at this time, also picking up three points.

As a result, Wolves are still top of the league with 86 points; Birmingham are now second in the league with 85 points.

Sheffield United lost 0-1 away to Burnley in this round, while Cardiff City were even more unlucky, being beaten 6-0 away by Preston North End. Reading weren't too lucky, too, as they drew 0-0 at home to Barnsley.

Therefore, in third place in the league is still Sheffield United, who have 76 points. Fourth-placed Reading, who have 74 points, are the same as Cardiff City, who lost this round, but Reading have an advantage in goal difference, overtaking their opponents and sitting in fourth.

Now there are two rounds left in the league, and the title race has entered the most intense stage.

The Birmingham team is very nervous right now, McLeish is also very nervous, and the last two rounds of games, one qiē and one qiē are up to now.

The Birmingham team is very demanding right now, and the players of the Birmingham team are like soldiers who have entered a state of readiness, ready to fight their opponents at any time.

In these days of training, Dongfang Chen and the players of the Birmingham team are very serious and hardworking, at this time, no one wants to touch McLeish's mold, and they also want to have a good result this season.

Now the outside media is also paying close attention to the situation of the Birmingham team and the Wolves team, and the news of the two teams is reported everywhere, which makes the atmosphere very tense and attracts more people's attention.

In the 45th round of the league, which is also the penultimate round of the league, Birmingham City are at home to Preston North End and Wolves are away to Barnsley.

Neither of these opponents will be easy to deal with, starting with Birmingham's opponents Preston North End, who are now eighth in the Championship with 68 points, level on points with seventh-placed Swansea and just four points behind sixth-placed Burnley.

With two rounds of the league remaining, Preston are theoretically still in a position to qualify for the promotion play-offs. In the last two rounds, they have to fight hard, even against second-placed Birmingham City.

So, this game is very stressful for Birmingham.

Barnsley and Preston North End are two extremes, Preston is desperate for promotion and Barnsley is desperate for relegation.

Barnsley are now fourth from bottom in the league, just two points ahead of Norwich, who are third from the relegation zone, and with two games remaining, there is no guarantee that Norwich will not be knocked down.

Therefore, Barnsley will also be toiled with Wolves in this game, and even more desperately, because they do not want to go to League One next season.

There are still two rounds of fixtures left in the league, and each of these games is so crucial that no one can afford to lose it.

Now, for the sake of fairness in the league, the same round of matches are played at the same time, and when Birmingham's game against Preston North Africa begins, the game between Wolves and Barnsley officially begins.

The Birmingham side did not take advantage of the home advantage and attacked frantically, after all, Preston still has a certain strength, otherwise they would not be able to rank eighth in the league. The Birmingham team tried to test the temptation first.

Dongfang Chen returned to the starting XI of Birmingham City in succession, and after the start of the game, his performance was very good, causing very big problems for Preston North End and frequently threatening Preston North End goal.

The fans of the Birmingham team at the scene saw Dongfangchen's wonderful performance, and cheered excitedly one by one, cheering for Dongfangchen.

Now Dongfang Chen's goals have reached twenty-seven, only three goals away from thirty goals, and at this time, Dongfang Chen has surpassed Blake behind him by two goals, and this season's top scorer in the Championship is in front of him.

In the last round, although Wolves won 1-0, Blake did not score, and he was opened up by Dongfang Chen. In this round of the game, Blake is holding back his strength, and he must catch up with or even surpass Dongfang Chen.

However, it was Birmingham that scored the first goal in this round.

In the 18th minute of the first half, Birmingham wide players Sebastian Larsson and Jemuro made a one-two on the flank, and immediately went down and swept the ball into the Preston North End box just as the ball was about to roll off the line.

The ball was swept in, not a high ball, but a boccia ball, and the ball rolled tightly against the turf towards the middle of the Preston penalty area.

In the middle, Dongfang Chen quickly plugged in, and his body pressed Preston's central defender behind him, and directly sent the football into the Preston North End goal with a "Li Huitang-style lying on the ground", opening the door to victory for the Birmingham team. This is also the 28th goal of Dongfang Chen in the Championship this season.

After learning that Dongfang Chen had scored, Wolves' Blake seemed a little anxious, and now he is three goals behind, which is not easy to chase.

Blake looked a little anxious in the game, failing to capitalise on a couple of good chances and failing to find the back of the net at the end of the first half.

At the end of the first half, Birmingham City led Preston 1-0. Wolves, on the other hand, played Barnsley to a 0-0 draw.

The result has Birmingham fans excited. Because if both games end according to the current result, then they will overtake Wolves and return to the top of the Championship.

Birmingham fans were thrilled and desperate for the game to be over.

However, at the beginning of the second half, Wolves scored, but it was not Blake who scored.

Birmingham fans have gone from heaven to hell and if Wolves win this game, they will still be one point behind Wolves.

Birmingham fans immediately folded their hands and prayed to God for Wolves to lose this game.

Shortly after Wolves scored, Birmingham City scored again, this time again by Dongfang Chen.

After receiving a pass from Kevin Phillips in front of the penalty area, Dongfang Chen directly blasted the football into the Preston North End goal with a "Li Huitang-style heavy artillery long shot", and Dongfang Chen scored twice to expand his goal tally this season by 29.

Birmingham have a two-goal lead and have basically won the game. Now Birmingham fans are not worried about their own game, and they are looking for another game, hoping that Wolves will be overturned.

After learning that Dongfang Chen scored again, Blake was even more anxious, he was too anxious in the game, frequent offsides and mistakes, Wolves coach McCarthy couldn't stand it, and directly replaced him in advance, which also announced that Blake has basically lost the qualification for the top scorer in the Championship this season.

Because at this time, he was already four goals behind Dongfang Chen, and there was only one round of games left. It's not impossible to score four goals in a game, but it's too difficult, and Blake has never scored four goals in a game in his career, except for four goals in one game when he was with Juniors.

This basically declared Blake's defeat, and Blake was disappointed.

To McCarthy's disappointment, Barnsley took advantage of a corner to send a ball into the Wolves goal to equalise after replacing Blake.

However, what is even more infuriating is that it was not Barnsley's players who scored the goal, but the Wolves centre-back, who drew at home to Wolves thanks to an own goal from Wolves.

The Birmingham team, on the other hand, relied on Dongfangchen's brace to defeat Preston North End 2-1 at their home stadium and got the three points as they wished.

By the time the whistle blew at the end of the game, the entire St Andrews Stadium was boiling over as they already knew the outcome of the other game, which overtook Wolves to return to the top of the Championship table.

Birmingham fans are thrilled to be lucky to be back at the top of the table ahead of the final round of fixtures, so exciting, with the league title in front of them right now, and they're thrilled.

After the game, the players of the Birmingham team were also very excited, very excited, they jumped excitedly in the dressing room, and they celebrated excitedly. It made them feel that the hard work and hard work before the race was worth it.

However, Birmingham head coach McLeish reminded his players that this is not the time to celebrate, there is still one round of league games left, and this one is crucial and they must give it their all, otherwise this qiē will not belong to them and they will hand over the league title to Wolves.

The players of the Birmingham team calmed down and suppressed their excitement to calm down. They also knew that they must not get carried away at this time, otherwise there would be no moths in the last round, and they were all holding back their excitement, and they were about to suffocate their internal injuries.