"These kids are really good." After celebrating with his assistants, George Li said to several other substitute players off the court.
Sitting below are not only young people like Danny Rose and Grant Wall, but also veterans like Kevin Davis.
The 31-year-old Davies is Leeds United's oldest player besides Edwin van der Sar.
"Coach, I don't agree with what you said. I'm actually not that old." Davis immediately retorted.
George Lee did not continue. He continued to say to John Sheridan: "John, when you were still the reserve team coach, could you have guessed that they would be so good?"
Sheridan hesitated for a moment, and then replied seriously: "Of course, I thought I could win the reserve league championship 20 times in a row."
"Hahaha~"
"Puch~"
Sheridan laughed when he saw a few of them, and couldn't help but laugh too. He couldn't hold himself back any longer.
After the Leeds United players on the field finished celebrating, they returned to their own half and waited for Manchester United to kick off. But their faces were full of confidence, which was much better than when they just started.
The advantage of being young is that once the young people of Leeds United are allowed to play their best, Manchester United may be exhausted.
Arnesen, Robben, and Bale kept attacking Manchester United's defense from both sides.
In the 23rd minute of the game, Robben deceived Evra's center of gravity through continuous steps on the right, and then took a long shot. The ball was lifted over the crossbar by Foster.
In the 25th minute of the game, Bell overtook in the outside lane and used his speed to eat Wes Brown alive. After reaching the baseline and passing the ball into the penalty area, Arneson stretched his leg a little late and did not touch the football.
In the 29th minute of the game, Leeds United no longer attacked from the wing this time. Albucherson intercepted the ball during the confrontation with Rooney in the backcourt, and then passed the ball to Parker. Parker promptly passed the ball to today's starter Gylvi Sigurdsson. When the Icelandic youngster took the ball a step forward, he chose to shoot from far outside the penalty area. The ball hit the goal post.
"Huh~"
Seeing that the ball almost went in, Sigurdsson grabbed a handful of his hair with regret, held his head and sighed.
"Boy, don't be afraid!" Barry behind him immediately came over to encourage him.
"It's a beautiful shot. I think your shot is better than Alan's." Just a few steps later, another midfield partner came over to encourage Sigurdsson.
He looked at the support given to him by his two big brothers in the midfield, and secretly determined to perform well and not let down the expectations of the head coach and teammates.
Ronaldinho, who was watching this scene with his hands on his hips, was also melancholy, remembering what he was like when he first came to Manchester United.
"Don't look, your footwork is much worse than him." A discordant voice appeared in Xiao Luo's ear. He knew it was his opponent Baynes at a glance. This kid seizes the opportunity to add insult to injury. I'll give Baynes some color later.
Ten minutes after the goal, Leeds United took the initiative on the field and threatened Manchester United's goal many times. Fortunately, Manchester United's defense here was relatively solid and did not allow Leeds United to break through the goal again.
After a while, Leeds United's offense was no longer so strong, and Manchester United took advantage of experience to launch a counterattack.
In the 33rd minute of the game, when Leeds United attacked on the right, Robben took the ball a little long, and Manchester United gradually double-teamed Robben.
Park Ji-sung took advantage of Robben's attention on the left side and broke out from behind Robben's right to intercept the ball.
After stealing the ball, the Korean immediately turned around to protect the ball, trapping Robben behind him.
Then after seeing his teammate reaching for the ball, he passed it in time.
Today, Giggs, who originally appeared in the center to partner Scholes, pulled to the wing, asked Park Ji-sung for the ball, and then received a pass from his teammate.
He then began to attack on the left, which is his best position.
Giggs was guarded by his fellow Welshman Black. The two were already teammates on the Welsh national team, and Giggs gave Black a lot of care in the national team.
But as an opponent on the field, Blake will not take care of Giggs in league games because of his national team teammates.
An acceleration was used, but in fact the speed after starting was not very fast, in order to prevent Giggs from changing direction.
But Giggs was also very smart. He saw the gap on the wing caused by Blake leaving a backhand, and he unceremoniously broke through from the left.
Seeing that Giggs had not been fooled, Blake saw that Giggs had taken advantage of the situation and walked to the wing, and he immediately accelerated to follow.
Giggs knew that he couldn't get rid of this defender with his speed alone. He was very confident in his speed before, but as he got older, he was no longer the same as before, and Giggs knew that at least there was still something on the court. There are 5 people faster than him.
And Blake is one of them.
After being unable to escape, Giggs observed the situation on the field. As he ran, he saw Rooney approaching him from the corner of his eye.
With a push of his left foot, he passed the ball to Rooney who connected him in a small gap.
After Manchester United's No. 10 got the ball, he protected the ball at his feet and turned himself from facing the team to turning to the right.
Rooney did this to make a fake pass to Scholes or Ronaldinho on the other side.
And this action really deceived Granqvist, who was defending him.
As soon as the Swedish center back moved, Rooney immediately dunked past him with his right foot.
After entering the penalty area, he faced the young Schmeichel who was about to attack and did not attack aggressively. Instead, he waited for Schmeichel to take two steps and then passed it to Ronaldinho who came in from the right.
Manchester United's No. 7 just made a move towards the center when Rooney was still outside the penalty area. When Rooney entered the penalty area, he immediately entered the penalty area from the other side.
Bynes found out it was too late.
Ronaldinho just sent the ball into the empty goal, just like Arnesen did before.
The score was equalized by Manchester United at 1-1.
And both goals were very exciting, especially the young players of both teams performed well. The four assists and passers were all only about 20 years old.
Off the field, Lee George was also helpless in the face of Manchester United's goal. He can't blame Granqvist who defended Rooney, nor can he blame Schmeichel who attacked. It can only be said that Rooney's extraordinary performance is indeed wonderful, and Ronaldinho's intervention is also timely.
On the other side, Ferguson was also smiling. He was very satisfied when he saw that his two disciples could quickly help the team tie the score. Park Ji-sung, who had stolen the ball before, and Giggs, who was pulling away, all showed that It shows the technical and tactical level that Manchester United players should have.
However, Ferguson's smile only lasted 5 minutes.
In the 38th minute of the game, Leeds United received a throw-in from the left side of the front court. After the ball went out of the sideline, Bell slowly went to pick it up, but Albuchesson and Granqvist came to the frontcourt together.
Just when everyone couldn't understand why Leeds United's center back rushed to the opponent's penalty area for a throw-in, Bell wiped the football on his jersey twice and started to retreat.
"What!"
"Aha~"
While Ferguson stood up in surprise, the home fans at Elland Road also stood up and began to cheer excitedly.
Everyone understood what Bell was going to do.
Bell started to run up, and after three steps, he threw the ball from his head toward the penalty area, like throwing a medicine ball.
The football flew towards the penalty area like a cannonball. Leeds United's first point was Barry. He rushed to rub the ball in front of the Manchester United defensive players and then pointed backwards.
Albuchesson was the one to take over at the back point.
However, Manchester United's center back Vidic also noticed the Dane. He quickly pulled the opponent's jersey, and then immediately touched the opponent with his body. While preventing the opponent from taking off, he prepared to jump up and head the ball away.
Just when Vidic was about to take off, he saw a white figure rising from the ground from behind and taking the lead.
Granqvist, who had just lost the ball in defense, made up for it this time. He jumped into the attack and pushed the ball into Manchester United's goal, rewriting the score again and taking the lead again.
