14:00 on August 13, Elland Road Stadium.
Blackburn's head coach Mark Hughes resigned from his position as head coach of the Welsh national team in September last year, and then joined Blackburn where he started to coach where he last played as a player.
Before, Wales could only be regarded as a third-rate team in Europe. During the five years of coaching by Hughes, they almost reached the 2004 European Cup finals, but lost in the play-offs. Mark Hughes was indispensable.
Last season, Hughes led Blackburn to successfully avoid relegation and also led Blackburn to the semi-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in 40 years.
This is the difference between Hughes and Lee George. Leeds United performed well in the league from the beginning, so Lee George decisively gave up the domestic cup competition and focused on the league. Blackburn is trying to go further in the domestic cup competition on the premise of avoiding relegation.
Hughes is now on the sidelines, looking at the Leeds United players who are warming up on the pitch.
Robin van Persie, a young Dutch forward who has proven himself in the Premier League last season, Alan Smith, who has become more powerful after changing his position, Thomas Gravesen, the former Everton playmaker, and the Dutch who have played for many wealthy clubs." "Wild Boar" Davis, the two main wingers of the Danish national team, Grenjaer and Romedal, among whom Romedal is still wearing a substitute vest, and the experienced Dutch national team goalkeeper Edwin, who has just joined Leeds United. -Van der Sar.
Mark Hughes now turned his head and looked at his team's lineup. It was really infuriating how many people there were.
Edgar Davis, who was warming up on the court, suddenly ran to the sidelines and found Lee George who was chatting with Mateo, who had just moved to Blackburn on a free transfer.
Then Mateo bids you farewell and goes to warm up.
Then George Lee called over Scott Parker who was warming up, asked him to take off his vest, and threw it to Davis.
Ask the team's coach John Sheridan, who has just been transferred to the first team, to find the FA staff on the sidelines.
Finally, several referees who were warming up also came to the sidelines.
"What's going on over there?" Hughes wanted to get some news from Mateo, who was back there.
"It seems that Davis is injured and probably won't be able to play."
Smoke bombs, routines, tricks, conspiracy and other words popped out of Hughes' head.
Seeing that his new head coach was thinking about something, Mateo continued to run to warm up.
^^^
"Dear viewers, we just got the latest news that there may be changes in the starting lineup at Leeds United."
Today, Sky TV's commentators for the city's game are Martin Taylor and Ian Darke. Just now it was Taylor who was explaining the starting lineups of both sides to the audience. After talking about Blackburn, when I was about to introduce Leeds United, I suddenly stopped.
"Well, we got new news. The starting lineup here at Leeds United has changed."
Dak also got the hint from the director and took over Taylor's words.
"Leeds United's starting goalkeeper is Dutch veteran Edwin van der Sar, who just transferred from Fulham this year."
"Today's defense is composed of four defenders. They did not use the three-center-back tactic they have been using in the warm-up games. The four defenders from left to right are Baines, Matteisson, Albchesson and Mills."
"Now we see that the young player Baines has succeeded Hart and become Leeds United's first choice on the left after growing up last season."
"In the midfield, we just received news that Edgar Davis seems to be injured and will not be able to start today. Parker, who also just transferred this year, will start in the starting lineup, partnered by Graveson and Smith."
"In the frontcourt, the two wingers are Glenchard and Robin van Persie. We saw that today Van Persie appeared on the right, but last season he appeared more in the team's center position. I don't know if this is the case. It’s another new tactic from Leeds United’s young manager George Lee.”
"Last season he put Alan Smith, who was originally a forward, into the midfielder, and the effect was obvious. Smith also scored more than a dozen goals last season and became the team's leading scorer."
"The team's lone forward is Kevin Davis, who has just transferred from Bolton Wanderers. This way there will be two Davis in the Leeds United team. Fortunately, the Dutch Davis will not play today, otherwise We have to add prefixes to them when we commentate.”
Taylor introduced Leeds United's starting lineup in one breath, and then Dak spoke.
"We have seen that this season Leeds United has made reinforcements, including reinforcements in the frontcourt, midfield and backcourt. Three of today's starting lineups joined this summer, namely Kevin Davis. , Parker and Van der Sar.”
"I'm really looking forward to their performance today."
At this time, players from both sides began to enter the stadium, and Taylor began to introduce.
"Sure enough, we did not see Edgar Davis in the Leeds United team, which means that Leeds United have changed their starting lineup."
"There's no change to the squad here at Blackburn."
The match between the two sides started with Blackburn taking the kick-off as a guest.
Blackburn forward Bellamy passed the ball to midfielder Robbie Savage. Savage did not pass the ball back to the central defender, because now the entire Premier League team knows Leeds United's high press, especially The dozen or so Premier League teams that played against Leeds United in the Premier League last season did not dare to pass the ball back too deep.
Speaking of Robbie Savage, he is also an acquaintance of George Lee and a youth training player of Manchester United. When George Lee was chatting with Mateo just now, Savage was reminiscing with Brian Kidd and Casper. . They won the 1992 Youth Cup together with Beckham, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, and then their fate was almost the same as that of George Lee, who was delayed from making his Premier League debut due to hernia surgery. There was really no first-team place left, so he was given up by Ferguson and left Manchester United. However, Savage was more unlucky and encountered a car accident on his way home.
Then after playing at Crewe Alexander, Leicester City, and Birmingham, he came to Blackburn Rovers.
Savage handed the ball to Emerton on the wing. Emerton saw that he didn't listen carefully during the tactical arrangement and passed the ball back to Mateo.
Mateo saw the ball coming towards him, but he was too scared. He had just transferred from the opposite side, so he didn't know what the other side was doing.
When Mateo saw Emerton passing the ball, he noticed Kevin Davis moving towards him, so he could only rush forward to catch the ball and find a way to protect the ball.
Mateo got the ball first, jammed Davis with his back, and then observed the surrounding situation.
After all, he is a veteran, and he was a former Leeds United player. Mateo did not dare to pass the ball easily, because he just stepped forward a little to catch the ball. He was sure that he would pass the ball to the two full-backs or another full-back. When the ball was released, there would definitely be a Leeds United player, so he could only pass it to goalkeeper Friedel.
But when he was about to pass the ball, Davis lowered his center and hit Mateo to the ground.
Then Davis snatched the ball away and prepared for a one-on-one shot.
"du~"
The referee stopped the game and signaled Davis to foul.
Davis looked innocent and kept explaining to the referee, but the referee waved his hand to Davis.
Brother, don’t you know what your reputation is in the Premier League? I have been staring at you just now, and there are no small movements in your hands and feet.
