As Smith walked in step by step, two people were whispering in the stands behind the goal.
"Smith scores a goal later, do we want to celebrate?"
The speaker was a young man with slightly longer hair, and he quietly asked the short-haired young man next to him.
The short-haired young man thought for a while, and then said to the long-haired one: "It's better not to, after all, we are surrounded by Spanish fans."
When he heard what he said, the long-haired man began to complain: "How did you get two Spanish tickets here?"
"When I bought it, I was asked who I supported. I said I was neutral. Who knew the one he gave me was neutral and was surrounded by Espanyol fans."
After saying that, the short-haired man also glanced at the surrounding Espanyol fans wearing blue jerseys.
"Shit, you will be a Leeds United player next season. It will be officially announced in a few days. You are pretending to me here."
"Raphael, I'm not doing this for you," the short-haired man said. "If reporters were to photograph the captain of Hamburger SV coming to cheer for Leeds United, they would report it blindly."
The one with short hair is Ajax's Sneijder, while the one with long hair is Hamburg's Van der Vaart.
The two originally started hanging out together after the season, and then Sneijder proposed going to Scotland to watch the UEFA Cup final.
One is that Lee George was their previous coach in the Ajax youth team and had coached both of them. Moreover, Leeds United now has their former teammate De Jong in the team, so it is understandable that they come to cheer for their coach and teammates.
Another thing is that Sneijder has confirmed that he will join Leeds United this summer, and finally comes to play under George Lee again.
With 12 million pounds, Leeds United were rich for a while.
Because there was a clause in Van Persie's transfer agreement that Real Madrid would withdraw from the competition for Sneijder, there was almost no resistance when Leeds United pursued Sneijder.
However, Leeds United did not deliberately lower the price because there were no competitors. Instead, they offered a price higher than the market price to buy Sneijder. This price is much higher than the 5 million pounds that Van der Vaart paid when he transferred to Hamburg.
After all, Leeds United and Ajax have a long-term cooperative relationship, and even the son of the Leeds United head coach is still in the Ajax youth training team.
The two men stared closely at Smith as he positioned the football, then slowly backed away.
"Go in, go in..." Sneijder ignored it completely and regarded himself as a Leeds United player.
Van der Vaart looked helplessly at the Spanish fans beside him, nodded quickly and smiled.
^^^
Smith exhaled and glanced up at the goalkeeper opposite.
Espanyol goalkeeper Ilesos kept waving his hands to interfere with Smith.
Smith took a run-up, stood with his left foot behind the penalty spot, and kicked the football hard with his right foot.
Right!
Smith aimed for the lower right corner of the goal.
Elisos also guessed the right direction and rushed towards the right.
It's just that Smith's ball angle is very tricky and the ball speed is very fast. Elisos simply couldn't reach the ball.
It’s over!
Just when Elisos thought Smith was going to score the ball, he heard a "boom".
The ball hit the post and bounced outside.
Didn't make it!
All the fans in the stands, including Sneijder and Van der Vaart, let out a cry of surprise.
Smith knelt on the ground regretfully. He was too focused on the angle, so he kicked the ball against the goalpost and failed to score.
If this goal had been scored, Leeds United would have ended the game directly.
But there is no regret medicine in this world.
Smith walked silently back to his teammates. This time he didn't have the same coolness and confidence as he just walked forward.
"Alan, it's okay. We still have Edwin, he will catch it." Mills, who also kicked the ball away, was standing next to Smith, encouraging Smith.
Smith had turned his head away, not daring to look at the Spaniard's fifth penalty kick.
"Hoo, hoo~"
He kept panting, thinking about the free throw he just missed.
If I hadn't been able to pursue that angle, but had kicked it hard, I might have made it.
Damn it!
If I lose, I will be the sinner of the team...
Smith was still blaming himself and didn't dare to look ahead at all.
"yeah!"
The whole place erupted into a deafening sound.
Just as Smith was about to raise his head to see what was going on, he was thrown to the ground by Mills beside him.
"Alan, you win!"
"Didn't get in?"
"Edwin pounced, Edwin the bastard pounced!"
Smith lay on the ground, watching his teammates running towards Van der Sar.
Van der Sar stood in the penalty area, shouting with his right hand and holding the ball in his arms with his left hand.
"He really saved this bastard!" Smith finally understood the situation. Van der Sar judged the right direction and saved the Spaniard's last Dani Halke penalty kick.
Smith pushed Mills away and started running towards Van der Sar.
Just after running two steps, another person jumped directly on him.
It's George Lee.
George Lee threw Smith to the ground again, just as quickly as Van der Sar jumped on the ball just now.
"Alan, you bastard, your stupid penalty makes me worried to death."
"Boss, we won, didn't we?" Smith finally laughed, laughing and crying.
"Damn it, you are the captain, how can you cry, Alan!"
"I'm worried too. I thought I was going to be Leeds United's sinner, boss!" Smith could no longer suppress it and cried loudly.
"Get up!" George Li stood up first, then stretched out his hand to pull Smith up.
But the two of them thought too much.
Other Leeds United players have found their coaches and captains.
One by one, they jumped on George Li and Smith.
"I am coming!"
"And I!"
In addition to the players, other coaches and players who were not playing came to the court and jumped on the crowd.
There were more and more people, and George Li felt the weight on his body getting heavier and heavier.
"Get up! Get up!"
George Li felt that he would be carried down if he continued like this, so he quickly asked others to get out of the way.
After the crowd slowly dispersed, he slowly stood up.
Then he kicked Smith, who was still lying on the ground, "Get up, Alan."
"I'm just laying down, boss. The season is finally over. We had a pretty good season, didn't we?"
Smith dropped to the ground and kissed the turf. Then he turned over and spread his hands and feet, lazily continuing to lie on the ground.
Seeing that his coach didn't answer him, he started to talk again.
"There will be many more opportunities like this, right?"
"Yes!"
George Li answered firmly.
"Let's go, boss. Are we going to receive the award? I like to receive the award the most."
"First we have to give the Spaniards an award." Li George said.
"Then let's go and have a look. After all, we at Leeds United are the most polite."
Smith stood up and patted the grass clippings on his body. And George Li took out a goalkeeper's glove from his suit, because it should have been stuffed in when he was pressed under him just now.
Looking at the glove used by Van der Sar to save the crucial penalty kick, George Lee decided to take it back and collect it.
^^^
Charles's Fish Shop in Leeds once again became a sea of joy for fans.
And "Skinny" Sgor received a text message from his boss.
"As usual, free admission."
