Xu Zhu's Successor's Football Journey

Chapter 107 Provocation (1)

The day before the game, Dave Jones and McLaren were like shrews, they kept scolding each other one by one, each said that their team was full of confidence and would definitely be the winner of tomorrow's game, their affirmation His expression made the media excited.

What the two said was recorded verbatim by these media. After the game, they will have sufficient reasons to laugh at the loser.

In recent years, Ferguson and Wenger have been the hottest head coaches in the Premier League. Due to their success, many new Premier League coaches also like to imitate their actions. Starting a scolding battle before the game, maybe this is also considered an improvement?

But McLaren and Dave Jones failed to learn the essence of the war of words before the game. What they said did not leave room for anything. After the game, the winner will definitely rejoice, but the loser will inevitably be ridiculed by the media Goal, maybe this is another kind of winner or loser.

It can be seen from this that these two young coaches still need more tempering if they want to achieve the cunning level of Ferguson and Wenger in terms of off-court details!
After receiving more media attention, this game has also been upgraded from a collision of ordinary Premier League mid-range teams to a battle of honor like sparks hitting the earth. Since history, Middlesbrough and Wolverhampton have never had much intersection. , but because of Greening's words, the two head coaches had a relentless battle of words, which made the game even more attention-grabbing.

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BBC TV has always been a giant in the British media industry, and today, their special correspondents also came to Middlesbrough, just to see which team will win the game. The two young coaches, Who will have the last laugh.

Baolier Nix is ​​a special commentator of the BBC Football Channel, and he is responsible for explaining the game.

Fans who often follow the BBC Sports channel know that Bollier is a pure Newcastle fan. As long as Newcastle participates in the game, his commentary will be seriously biased.

But today is the game between Wolverhampton and Middlesbrough. For Bollier, these two are just country teams. There wasn't much hope for this game either.

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Middlesbrough today has a standard 442 formation, with Boateng and Zenden in the middle, left and right wingers Greening and Mendieta, defenders Mills, Southgate, Davis and veteran Cooper. On the forward line, Juninho won the starting lineup. He and Nemeth formed a double fork in the frontcourt, threatening Wolverhampton's defense at all times.

I have to admire McLaren's tolerance. Before the game, Greening's big mouth caused so much trouble for the team, and even made him speechless by the media several times. But today, Greening Li Ning still won the starting lineup. It seems that he still won the trust of McLaren on the court.

Maybe Greening promised McLaren something, or McLaren was very confident in his defensive ability. Today, Greening's range of activities is not limited to the position of right midfielder, but He puts the emphasis on the defense on the right side, and sometimes even participates in the supplementary defense in the middle. Generally speaking, his range of activities is exactly the same as that of Wang Li. It seems that McLaren attaches great importance to Wang Li. In order to defend him , and even weakened the offensive on the right.

Although before the game, McLaren vowed that his team has made all preparations and will definitely win a clean victory at home, but in the current scene, the Middlesbrough team is not optimistic.

In the first ten minutes of the game, the Middlesbrough players had made more than a dozen mistakes in a row. If Miller and Halilson hadn't really entered the game, they might have conceded the ball.

"Boy, you are such a softie! I heard that you are good at dribbling past people, why did you pass the ball again?" Seeing that Wang Li did not choose to break through on the right, but passed the ball to Kennedy in the middle, Ge Li Ning sarcastically said.

From the beginning to the present, facing Greening's defense, Wang Li chose to pass the ball directly. Originally, in the official game, this approach was very correct, but it became Greening's ridicule. His handle.Before the game, McLaren emphasized that Wolverhampton's Alan Wang's dribbling ability is very outstanding and he must be careful to defend. However, in the first ten minutes of the game, Greening did not see that Wang Li had brought himself a lead. The scene of passing the ball, so he felt that this kid was afraid of him, which made him a little complacent, and the expression on his face was a bit like a villain's success.

Hearing Greening's trash talk, Wang Li remained expressionless and didn't respond at all. He just shook his head and ran towards the backcourt.

After so many Premier League games, Wang Li's game experience has gradually enriched. When there is no good opportunity to break through the opponent's defense, blindly dribbling and passing will only waste energy. , After that, he still has to cross, so this is basically useless work. The Premier League is an official game, not an exhibition game. He will not waste his energy needlessly in order to show off.

"A jerk is a jerk!" Seeing Wang Li turn away, Greening said in a low voice with his lips curled up.

With Wang Li's sensitive hearing, of course he heard Greening's whispers, but he didn't say anything, but anger was silently accumulated in his heart.

In the No.17 minute of the game, Miller received a pass from Kennedy in the penalty area, stopped the ball, turned around and shot vigorously, and the riverside stadium was full of exclamations!But at this time, Middlesbrough veteran Southgate stepped forward. He fell to the ground and blocked the shot with his back. This performance won the applause of the fans.

Southgate is 34 years old this year. He used to be the main defender of the England team. He participated in the European Cup in 96 and 00 and the World Cup from 98 to 02.In England, Southgate has always been known as 'tenacious' and deeply loved by fans.Because of his spirit on the pitch, even though he is close to retiring, he still has the trust of McLaren.

According to rumors, Mr. Steve Gabbiton, the chairman of Middlesbrough, even intends to let him directly serve as the coach of the Middlesbrough team after retiring. It can be seen that Southgate's tenacity and loyalty are very worthwhile. trust.

After the ball was blocked by Southgate with his body, it flew directly into the air. The goalkeeper Schwartz attacked and picked up the ball easily after jumping up. At the foot of forward Boateng on the left side of Fangda's penalty area.

Middlesbrough strikes back!

In the frontcourt, after Boateng got the ball, he directly stabbed it to Zenden in front. After receiving the ball, Zenden quickly took a few steps up. The ball was passed to Greening on the left.

At this time, Wang Li was standing in front of Greening. In the attack just now, he did not get in. Instead, he stood at the front of the penalty area and waited for the opportunity. When he saw the ball in the hands of the Middlesbrough goalkeeper, he Immediately ran to the backcourt, seeing Greening break forward with the ball, he hurried to meet him.

"Boy, do you think you can grab the ball?" Greening quickly dribbled the ball and broke through from the left, talking trash to Wang Li who was stuck beside him.Although Greening's temperament is very annoying, his strength is still very good. The ball was guarded by him on the left side, and it kept rolling along the sideline. No chance.

When Greening dribbled the ball to the bottom line, Wang Li felt that his chance had come. The moment Greening stopped the ball, there would definitely be loopholes. Grab the ball.

However, Greening's approach was beyond Wang Li's expectations. When he was about to approach the bottom line, Greening did not stop the ball at all. After knocking, the ball spun and rolled to Boateng's feet!
"Boy, you're too young to grab the ball from me!" After passing the ball, Greening sneered with his mouth slightly tilted.

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PS: I changed the titles of a few chapters today. Starting point blocked my author account. I just lifted the ban. I was depressed. When I reached more than 100 chapters, the titles could not be written. I apologize for causing trouble to everyone.

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