"The ball went in. It was Bolton's Diouf who scored. The Senegalese received a pass from Kevin Davis and scored without anyone watching." Sky TV commentator Martin Taylor explain.
"Kevin Davis played a key role in losing the ball. His steals, catches, confrontations, and passes were all impeccable." Ian Dark added.
"Now in this battle, Bolton has the upper hand."
"Next, we'll see how Leeds United's George Lee responds."
The broadcast camera showed George Li on the sidelines. He was making gestures and waving his two fingers forward.
Then the camera showed Edgar Davis on the court. The Dutchman wearing sunglasses nodded and then extended his thumb.
Now George Lee can only leave the task of controlling the rhythm of the game to Davis. Because Graveson is not here, Davis can only be asked to speed up the pace.
The Bolton team is known as the "Premier League nursing home". Most of the team's players are veterans over 30 years old. George Lee wants to take advantage of this and speed up the pace to increase the physical exertion of the Bolton team.
At the beginning, the two sides were still in the testing stage. Li George asked the team to control the rhythm. Now that they are lagging behind, they can only use the planned routines.
Sure enough, after the game started again, Leeds United accelerated the pace of the game.
He continued to press Bolton's midfielders and center backs in the frontcourt, which made Bolton's backcourt players a little tired to deal with, especially Hierro, who is the former double captain of the Spanish national team and Real Madrid. He is tall and runs aggressively. He is fierce in interceptions and excellent in headers. In addition to defense, the most valuable thing is that he has a good offensive awareness. When the two armies are in a stalemate, he often suddenly intervenes and wins by surprise.
But Hierro was out of action today and had no chance to move forward. Van Persie and Smith kept appearing on his path to receive the ball, making him very uncomfortable receiving the ball. Once he catches the ball, De Jong and Davis will always come up immediately and press him.
Hierro was uncomfortable. He was gasping for air more than thirty minutes into the game. The physical exertion was too great. Because of Ivan Campo's injury, Hierro had to be pushed to the back. s position.
Finally, in the 37th minute, Leeds United responded to Bolton in the same way Bolton scored just now.
Hierro received a pass from Rade Jaidi. This pass was because Van Persie did not block the passing route between Jaidi and Hierro, so Hierro easily received the ball.
But Hierro was careless after receiving the ball. He didn't notice that Van Persie was chasing after him. He only saw Davis in front of him, and then knocked Van Persie from behind. Hierro, who had already exhausted a lot of physical energy, stumbled. After a moment, I wanted to protect the ball.
But he found that Davis had already stretched out his foot, their feet touched, and the ball rolled to the other side.
Leeds United's Smith grabbed the ball before Giannakopoulos, and passed the ball to Grunchar on the side. After Grunchar got the ball, he started to drive towards the middle. Bolton's left back Tal- Ben Haim followed Grenchar towards the middle, leaving the wings free.
After taking two steps, Grenchar saw Ben Haim following him. As soon as the ball stopped, he scored to the left.
Bynes got in, and he got in decisively.
There was no one around Baines, so he brought the ball all the way into the penalty area, and Ben Haim gave up on Grenchar and came over to defend.
Baynes made a fake pass with his left foot, tricking Ben Haim into putting his hands behind his back to block the ball.
Then his right foot went to the bottom again, and Ben Haim accelerated to catch up.
Just as he was approaching the baseline, Baynes raised his left foot again to prepare for a cross. Ben Haim had no choice but to go down to the ground to shovel.
Who knew that this was still a fake move. Instead of taking off his foot, Baynes stepped on the football with his left foot on the baseline. Ben Haim also slid out of the baseline. The difference is that Baynes came out of the baseline while standing, while Ben Haim slid to the ground. Baynes must have turned around faster than Ben Haim.
Baines touched the football with his left foot, and then passed an inverted triangle ball to the penalty spot with his right foot.
Smith ran to the football ahead of Hierro and chose to hit the goal with his left foot.
The ball was powerful and heavy, flying far towards the goal.
Jaskolainen touched it with his hand and changed the direction of the ball a little. But the team's strength was so great that Jaskolainen's move had almost no effect and was still unable to prevent the ball from flying into the goal.
1 to 1.
Leeds United equalized in the final minutes of the first half.
After scoring, Smith rushed to the corner kick spot and celebrated the goal with the Leeds United fans who were scattered around the corners of the stadium.
The footage was also given to Leeds United fans.
Commentator Martin Taylor also showed off his wealth of knowledge.
"The camera was shown to the Leeds United fans. We saw that the Leeds United fans here were very excited after the team equalized. The two young people we saw in the camera were none other than the Leeds United head coach. Two adopted sons, Carl Olsen and Sean Wallace, both young players play for Leeds United’s youth team. I have seen their performances before and they are both very talented players. It’s just that they are both They cannot be selected for the England youth team because one of their nationalities is Norwegian and the other is Scottish."
"That's really a pity." Ian Dark obviously didn't know Wallace and the others, so he could only sing praises.
Then Martin Taylor was not over yet and continued to introduce to the audience.
"What's even more pity is that Coach Li's biological son, whose nationality is Dutch, cannot play for England. Now with them is Charlotte Black from the Leeds United youth team, who is also a young player with great potential. , who previously played in Cardiff’s youth team.”
"Where did you get all this information?" Ian Dark asked Martin Taylor.
"There was a report before about the underage talented players in various Premier League clubs, and they were among them. Maybe in a few years, Leeds United will have several talented players as outstanding as Wayne Rooney. "
"Then looking at this young guard of Leeds United, the future is promising."
"The young beauty they were talking to next to them looked familiar to them. She might be their girlfriend or something."
Helen and Wendy followed Wallace and the others and appeared on the broadcast screen.
Fortunately, George Li was on the sidelines and couldn't hear what the two commentators said, otherwise Li would definitely scold them severely.
If you can’t explain it, don’t talk nonsense.
Back to the game, after Alan Smith celebrated, Bolton kicked off.
The score is now tied at 1-1. If this score remains until the end, Leeds United will still finish fifth in the league with a goal difference advantage. This is what Bolton does not want to see.
Bolton's head coach Allardyce was very anxious. He wanted to control the rhythm of the game. He first dragged the game to halftime and then rearranged it in the dressing room, because at the current pace, Bolton would definitely not be able to win. .
But George Lee obviously didn't want to give Allardyce this opportunity. He called Davis again and pointed two fingers forward to continue to speed up Leeds United.
I will take advantage of your illness and kill you.
Leeds United did not give Bolton a chance to breathe at all. Several people in the frontcourt stared at Bolton's backcourt and besieged it, especially Glenchar.
Glenchard was informed by the head coach before the game that he would not play the entire game and would be substituted in the second half. So Grenjaer ran as hard as he could, constantly pressing Bolton's Ben Haim and Ngoti, including Hierro.
Several Bolton defenders could only kick the ball forward to relieve Leeds United's high pressure.
However, Bolton's forward Kevin Davis does not have an advantage in height. Although Kevin Davis is strong and good at grabbing points, he still suffered a lot in the battle with Albchisson.
When grabbing points in front of the goal, it depends more on the running position and the timing of the jump. However, when faced with low-quality long passes coming from the backcourt, Davis is beyond his reach.
In the final stage of the game, the fourth official held up his sign for 3 minutes of added time.
Albucherson beat Davis to the ball and tipped it to Matteisen.
After Matheson got the ball, Bolton's people began to retreat, and no one paid attention to Matheson.
Matteisen stopped with the ball and brought the ball to the midfield. It was not until it passed the center line that Bolton's Gary Speed came up to grab it.
At this time, Matteisen made a perfect through ball by mistake, passing the ball from among several people to the left behind Bolton's defense.
Grunchar appeared behind Bolton's defense. Ben Haim, who performed poorly today, completely missed Grunchar. Grunchar went directly to Bolton's penalty area after stopping.
On the line of the penalty area, Bolton central defender Bruno Ngoti was brought down by a tactical foul after being chased back.
Referee Barry chased after him with the red card held high. It was obviously given to Ngodi who committed the foul.
"Penalty kick! Penalty kick!" George Lee kept shouting after seeing Ngoti's foul on the sidelines.
Allardyce ran to the fourth official and told the fourth official that the foul was outside the penalty area.
The foul was for everyone to see because Ngodi brought down Grenchar with his leg from behind. It just depends on whether the referee determines whether it is in the penalty area and whether to give a penalty kick.
However, the referee came directly with a red card. Generally, such a penalty is basically a set kick outside the penalty area. Because if it's in the penalty area, it's usually a yellow card plus a penalty kick.
Sure enough, the referee determined that it was a free kick on the penalty area line.
Ngodi continued to walk down the field slowly, trying to delay as much time as possible and enter the halftime break after Leeds United's set piece.
Under the urging of the referee and Lee, Ngoti finally walked off the field.
When Ngodi walked to the sidelines, Lee George had already made a rare appearance next to the fourth official to complain. Now Leeds United had the advantage. Lee George obviously entered the halftime break with a lead. Ngoti was like this The dilly-dallying must have dissatisfied Li.
"Can you hurry up, the baby is finished." George Lee shouted towards the Bolton bench.
"Coach Li, please return to your area." The fourth official drove Li back.
When George Lee walked back, the Bolton fans at the Reebok Stadium began to boo.
I don’t know if this boo was for George Lee or Van Persie who was placing the football.
Because Pedersen and Hart were not on the court, Van Persie took the kick.
Previously, Van Persie asked Baines if he needed to take the penalty. Bain said that he wanted to stay in the backcourt to prevent Bolton from counterattacking, so he asked Van Persie to take the penalty.
Van Persie's final set-piece penalty was of high quality and bypassed the wall. It's a pity that it hit the outside of the post and flew out of the baseline.
Leeds United finally entered the halftime break with Bolton with a score of 1-1.
Leeds United had the upper hand as the tie remained level until the end and they were also at the top of the table. At the same time, they will play with one more man in the second half.
