Demon Golden Boots

Chapter 596 Two Years Later

Two years later in the summer, at Wembley Stadium, the Championship was promoted to the play-off final.

Liu Yun, wearing Coventry's sky blue No. 49 jersey, stood in front of the penalty spot.His jersey was covered in grass stains.

The promotion rules of the English Championship: the top two at the end of the season will directly enter the Premier League. The 3rd to 6th will play two rounds of play-offs to determine the last Premier League place.

Play-off format, No.3VSNo.6. No.4 VS No.5.

The first round adopts a home and away two-round system.The final will be played on a neutral court (Wembley Stadium).

Two years ago, the old lieutenant, the winner of the Golden Globe Award and the spiritual leader of Manchester United, devalued himself and returned to the starting point of his European football journey-the League One team Coventry.

Liu Yun joined Coventry and brought several large corporate sponsorships to the Coventry team.This allowed Coventry to purchase several outstanding youth players during the summer break that year.

Before that season, Coventry was only a League One underdog who barely relegated.

After Liu Yun's return, he brought not only a large amount of sponsorship money to Coventry, but as the spiritual leader of the team, he also injected a new soul into Coventry, a century-old club-never give up, never surrender .

Under the leadership of the old lieutenant, Coventry performed well that season, ranking third in the standings all the way.

In the end, Coventry was promoted to the British Championship with No.3 results in the season when Liu Yun returned.

Coventry's journey to the Championship this season can be described as full of twists and turns.

The old lieutenant was injured in the opening game of the British Championship and had to recuperate for more than a month. Coventry experienced a five-game losing streak.

Everyone believes that the newly promoted Coventry will definitely drop back to League One at the end of the season.

Whether it is club capital or player strength, Coventry is the worst of the 24 teams in the English Championship.

No matter how powerful the old lieutenant is, he is only a person, not a god!It is impossible to keep the weak Coventry in the British Championship.

I never thought that after the old lieutenant returned from injury, he would start the infinite scoring mode.He almost single-handedly led Coventry to sixth place in the standings at the end of the season.

This surprised everyone.Coventry, which scored 0 goals and accumulated 0 points in the first five rounds of the league, actually qualified for the promotion play-offs?Got a chance to hit the Premier League places?

However, the media are still not optimistic about Coventry's future in the Championship play-offs.

You know, in the 48 rounds of the English Championship, Newcastle United, the top team, has 96 points. No.5 West Bromwich Albion has 92 points.In other words, from the champion to No.5, there is only a gap of 4 points.

And No.6 Coventry, only accumulated 71 points.There is a gap of seven wins with No.5 West Bromwich Albion.

In any professional league in any country in the world, points at the end of the season are equivalent to strength.In other words, there is a huge gap in strength between Coventry and the other three teams participating in the promotion playoffs.

Fortunately, Coventry has the old demon and old lieutenant Liu Yun.

In the first round of the play-offs, Coventry faced third-ranked Sunderland.

Coventry tried their best at home in the first round, but lost to Sunderland 0:1.In the away game, the old lieutenant scored twice and beat Sunderland 2:1.Relying on the advantage of 1 away goal, the Sky Blues stumbled into the final of the Championship promotion play-off at Wembley Stadium.

In the final, Coventry was suppressed by the opponent Cardiff City.Liu Yun also had bad luck in the frontcourt, with 5 shots, one post and one crossbar.

Fortunately, the 19-year-old goalkeeper Preet, who had just been promoted from the Coventry reserve team to the first team last season, was in a brave state. He saved Cardiff City's three must-have goals and tried to keep the goal.

The 0:0 score on the field was maintained until stoppage time.

Just as the head coaches of the two teams were thinking about lineup adjustments for overtime, the old lieutenant Liu Yun once again staged a magical scene!
He passed three people into the penalty area in a row at the front of the penalty area.Cardiff City's young defender De Fora was inexperienced and dragged Liu Yun out of desperation and was awarded a penalty kick.

Coventry won the penalty!At the same time, he also won the double jump within two years, the best chance to be promoted to the Premier League!
Liu Yun stood in front of the penalty spot, staring at the goal of Cardiff City.

The Cardiff goalkeeper jumped left and right, interfering with Liu Yun's sight.

Liu Yun took a deep breath, ran up, and shot!

The ball flew to the lower right corner of the Cardiff City goal.The ball went in! 1:0!

The big mouthed Dunphy in the commentary shouted: "The goal is scored! The magical old lieutenant once again helped Coventry at the most critical moment! 1:0! He has become a football legend! There are still 2 minutes, Coventry will be able to return to the Premier League after 23 years! The great old lieutenant has created a miracle again! The Sky Blues! Defend, defend, defend! Hold the last 2 minutes and you will make history!"

Big Mouth Dunphy and Fat Bob have been the "exclusive commentators for the old lieutenant game" on SKY TV.When the old lieutenant was in League Two, they were the commentators for League Two.The old lieutenant arrived at Manchester United, and they became Premier League commentators again.The old lieutenant returned to Coventry. They first went to the League One commentary department for a year, and now they are members of the British Championship commentary department.

Fat Bob said: "Oh my God, there are still more than ten days before the old lieutenant's 50th birthday. He will tie Stanley Matthews' record of playing in England's top league at the age of 50! The old lieutenant is to make history. Born!"

Cardiff City midfield kick-off again.

Including Liu Yun, all Coventry players returned to their own half-court defense.

2 minutes, 1 and a half minutes, 1 minute, 20 seconds. . . .

Coventry's head coach Edda was afraid to look at the field.His eyes were on his watch.The last 20 seconds seemed as long as a century to him.

The scene when he saw Liu Yun for the first time appeared in his mind.

At that time, Ada was a scout and assistant coach for Coventry City.George Sr. sent him to Asia to find a suitable backup striker.

Sun Jihai, a member of the Premier League Hall of Fame, introduced him to the China First Team Zhujiang Haihun to inspect the 45-year-old Liu Yun.

When he heard that the player introduced by Sun Jihai was 45 years old, his heart was broken.He thought at the time that if the head coach George Sr. heard the news, he would take his Winchester shotgun across Eurasia and beat him into a hornet's nest.

In order to take into account the face of the members of the Premier League Hall of Fame, he only went to the Pearl River symbolically.He did not report any hope for the trip to the Pearl River.

When I first met Liu Yun, it was raining heavily on the Pearl River.Zhujiang's head coach, former Asian Footballer of the Year Hao Hexi, had no choice but to arrange a 5V5 match in an indoor stadium.

As a result, the old lieutenant conquered Ada with his performance. . .

Thus, there is a legend in European football - the legend of the old lieutenant!

Ada stepped out of her thoughts. 10, 9. . . 3, 2, 1.

He looked up at the referee and thought to himself: The 3-minute stoppage time has come.Why didn't the damn referee blow the final whistle?

Finally, the referee raised his whistle.

"Beep~" The game is over!
Coventry won the Championship promotion play-off final, returning to the Premier League again after 23 years!
(End of this chapter)