"Why did you just ask the single player on the team to write a note and throw it into the box?" Brian Kidd was curious about what Lee did in the locker room just now.
"Don't you think November 11th is a good day? Don't the four 1's look like a group of bachelors?" George Li told Kidd his thoughts.
After the team laid out their tactics, in order to let the players relax from their nervousness before the game, you took out a cardboard box and said that anyone who was single on the team could write something and put it in it.
Then if Chelsea is defeated today, Li George will draw three lucky players. As long as the demands are not too excessive, Li George, as the head coach, will pay to buy them.
This action decisively attracted the enthusiastic participation of many singles within the team, and even several single members of the coaching staff also participated. After all, it did not say that coaches could not participate in the activity.
"I think this is a good idea. We can do this once every year." Kidd expressed his opinion.
"You paid for it?" George Li asked Kidd.
Just after the assistant coach was asked by George Li and had nothing to say, several players waiting to enter the field were also discussing what they had written.
"Thomas, you can't write, you're not single."
"Danny, I didn't write..."
"Jonathan, I see you put it in, what did you write?"
"I'm more curious about what you wrote."
The Chelsea players looked at the Leeds United players curiously, not knowing what they were discussing.
Why playing football has something to do with being single or not.
But you can’t go up and ask, after all, they won’t tell you even if you ask.
"Casper, you don't have a girlfriend. What did you write?"
Smith, who was standing at the front, glanced at Terry, who was standing straight next to him, and then turned to ask behind him, Kasper Schmeichel, who was starting today.
Smith saw that the son of the goalkeeper coach was a little nervous today and his body was even shaking.
While the team members were discussing, Schmeichel kept taking deep breaths and did not discuss it with his teammates. After seeing this, Smith felt that he needed to enlighten this little brother.
"I, I just wrote..."
But before Schmeichel could say anything, he was led into the field by the referee.
After the players from both sides entered the court, the coaches of the two teams also came to the court. Li George looked at Mourinho next to him. The Portuguese's face didn't look good, and even the assistant coach Rui Faria next to him also looked livid.
Before the game, Mourinho once again asked his boss Abramovich to let Shevchenko come on the bench, but was rejected again. The Russian insisted on letting the Ukrainian start.
But George Li didn’t know about these things.
Anyway, George Lee decided that Chelsea would play two forwards today, so he set up a 3241 formation that is not commonly used this season.
The three defenders are Mattison, Woodgate and Mills, the two midfielders are Parker and De Jong, the two central midfielders are Smith and Graveson, and the lone forward is Kevin Davis.
Today's two wingers are more interesting. They are all players who played on the right before, but Milner is still on the right and Kuyt is sent to the left.
This is another attempt by George Lee to develop Kuyt's versatility.
Anyway, the pressure on Leeds United's wing today is not very great, especially on Kuyt's left wing, which is facing Chelsea's Gremi. The pressure is not as great as Milner's facing Ashley Cole.
Sure enough, soon after the game started, the two sides started a fierce fight in the midfield, which was completely hand-to-hand combat with bayonets seeing red.
Today Leeds United still wear their usual white jerseys, while Chelsea wear their home blue jerseys.
Less than 10 minutes into the game, Leeds United's Smith fell to the ground three times, Parker turned over twice, and De Jong just received a yellow card for pulling down Lampard.
The white jerseys worn by these three people were covered with mud marks and grass clippings.
Lampard came off the field, took off his blue jersey and put on a new blue jersey. Just now during the fight with De Jong, his jersey was torn.
Lampard returned to the field again and looked at De Jong with his eyes, as if he wanted to eat him.
Not to be outdone, De Rong pointed his nostrils towards the "magic lamp" and his expression was also very scary.
The two sides continued to play in such an unfriendly atmosphere.
And this atmosphere really scared Schmeichel, who played today.
"Casper, here comes the ball..." Mills passed the ball back to Schmeichel.
"oh......"
Then Schmeichel gave the ball a big kick and drove it to midfield.
After the ball flew to midfield, Ballack and Smith both jumped up to fight for the ball. In the end, it was the German who headed the ball.
Ballack tipped the ball to Essien beside him, and then Essien passed the ball to Joe Cole in front.
As soon as Cole turned around, he was put down to the ground by Parker.
"du~"
The referee signaled a foul, and Joe Cole was falling to the ground and rolling.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mills quickly came to Schmeichel Jr. and told him.
"Don't worry, just be steady first. We can pass the ball first, and then you can pass it forward when you find another good opportunity. You were too blind just now, and our offense will stall in the midfield."
"Okay, okay..." Schmeichel could only nod.
"Think more about what your father and boss said."
"Okay, okay..."
After saying that, Mills returned to his seat.
After all, he is a veteran player of Leeds United. When Van der Sar is away, Mills needs to shoulder the responsibility of commanding Leeds United's defense.
Woodgate could have done this originally, but today Woodgate followed George Li's instructions and followed Drogba closely, never leaving for a moment.
Lampard drove the midfield set-piece that Leeds United had just fouled into the frontcourt, thinking of looking for Drogba.
However, Drogba failed to hit the ball due to interference from Woodgate, and the ball was confiscated by Schmeichel who was waiting in position.
Then Leeds United's young third goalkeeper was about to take a big kick when he suddenly saw a bald head on the right.
Under the afternoon sun, it is a bit reflective.
Schmeichel quickly realized something was wrong, hugged the ball again, leaned over and rolled the ball to Mills.
After Mills pushed the ball forward a little, he passed the ball to Milner, and then returned to his defensive position, located on the right side of the center line.
After seeing Leeds United push the ball forward, Milner broke through to the baseline and then chose to cross. The ball was blocked by Ashley Cole with his legs and Leeds United won a corner kick.
Woodgate went up to the opponent's penalty area to participate in the attack.
Mills and Matheson stayed in the backcourt to defend, and Mills turned towards Schmeichel and nodded.
But after seeing his position, he quickly put his hands down his body.
Schmeichel immediately knew that the head coach had emphasized many times at this time that when his own players were attacking, the goalkeeper could appropriately walk out of the penalty area, so that his team's defense could continue to improve.
But as soon as he stepped out of the penalty area, he discovered that Leeds United had scored.
After Milner scored, De Jong suddenly advanced from the penalty spot and headed the corner kick unmarked into Chelsea's goal.
1 to 0.
After scoring the goal, De Jong came to the camera and made a gesture of drawing a square with his index fingers. Then he used his right hand as a pen and his left hand as paper. He kept writing something, and then pretended to ball up paper and throw it at the camera.
When the Leeds United players who came behind saw it, they also imitated De Jong's actions, imitating writing, and then balled up a piece of paper and threw it at the camera.
"Goooooooal!"
"Leeds United scored first, and after scoring, De Jong came to the camera..."
"What action is this?"
"This action seems to mean something, we have seen Leeds United players make this action..."
The commentator explaining this game couldn't understand this action. He couldn't explain anything to the audience in front of the TV, so he had to ask the director to cut the scene.
The camera switched to Leeds United's coaching bench. In the camera, George Lee was surrounded by other Leeds United players off the field and kept saying something.
Several substitute players also made moves to write towards George Li.
