Pogatz was finally sent off in the 69th minute of the game, ending his depressing half of the game.
The score at that time was 4-0, and Leeds United once again launched a wave of attacks on the right side of Middlesbrough where he was stationed in the second half.
In the goal in the second half, Bell used his speed to eat Pogatz alive. Then Bell actually did not choose to pass the ball after passing Pogatz, but continued to enter the penalty area.
Finally, before the goalkeeper blocked all angles, he hit the ball into the far corner of the goal.
After that, Pogatz completely gave up the game, and he no longer retreated when defending. In the next defense, he pulled down Bell who wanted to break through him again, and was punished by the referee in despair. Go down.
However, the Leeds United players did not let him go, and still followed Pogaerts relentlessly as he walked down.
When Bogaerts came to the sidelines, George Li also walked to the middle and looked at him with vicious eyes.
Without stopping, Pogatz walked directly into the tunnel and headed to the locker room.
Even though this was Middlesbrough's home court, Pogaerts didn't want to stay on the field for a moment.
However, Bogaerts escaped, but the remaining players of Middlesbrough had to finish the game. The 10-man Middlesbrough team could only replace one frontcourt player, and then replaced it with a full-back to fill Pogatz's vacancy.
However, the full-back who was replaced was a little worse than Pogatz. In the 79th minute of the game, Leeds United was awarded a penalty kick for pulling down Bell who had completed the breakthrough.
Kuyt steadily converted the penalty kick and changed the score to 6-0. This score was maintained until later, and Leeds United continued to press Manchester United with a big victory.
After the game, Middlesbrough's head coach was aware of Bowyer's injury, and he took the initiative to express his apology to George Lee. Therefore, George Lee has a pretty good impression of Middlesbrough head coach Jewell, at least he didn't leave directly because he lost 6 goals.
At the press conference, Leeds United and Middlesbrough had a tacit understanding not to talk about the score of the game, but focused on the injured Bowyer.
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A week later in the league, Leeds United was held to a draw by Fulham at home.
However, compared to the two points lost, what made George Lee even more annoyed was that in this game, Fulham used rough defense to target Leeds United's offense in order to grab one point.
In the first half, Baynes was taken off on a stretcher like Bowyer. In the 56th minute of the second half, Milner accidentally sprained his ankle.
However, after using up two substitutions, George Li's bad luck was not over yet.
Shortly after Milner came off the field, Woodgate pulled his thigh during a fight with the opponent's forward.
This incident still caused a conflict between the two teams on the court at the time. Because Woodgate already had the ball under his feet at that time, and then because of a thigh injury, Fulham's forward actually snatched the ball away and continued the attack.
After the opponent's forward got the ball, he faced the goalkeeper directly.
Fortunately, Schmeichel struck out in time at the end and defused this "despicable" attack.
After the ball went out of bounds, some Leeds United players went to check on Woodgate's injury, while another group of players surrounded Fulham's forward Kamara.
"Boy, what do you mean, are you capable of playing football like you?"
"I'll fucking kill you!"
Although Leeds United did not have Smith on the field today, Leeds United's previous "troublemaking" character of never admitting defeat is flowing in the blood of every Leeds United player.
When the referee saw this situation, he immediately came over to start a fight. Although he also looked down on Kamara's "villain" behavior, because of the referee's accusation, he still pulled the players on both sides away.
First, he warned the players here at Leeds United not to gather in crowds again.
Then, he came to Kamala and told the other party directly that he should pay attention to his behavior. After all, it is really rare for players to do such shameless things.
But Kamara continued to chatter beside the referee until the referee showed him a yellow card. The referee pointed to the place where he shot just now, and then waved his hand to indicate that it was not because of his initial behavior; rather, he pointed to his current place, indicating that he was given the yellow card because he kept harassing the referee.
It's just that George Lee didn't gloat about the yellow card. He hurriedly replaced the injured Woodgate with Granqvist. He injured three players in this game, so the three substitutions were all passive substitutions. None of the substitutions were used to change tactics. This resulted in Leeds United being defeated by Fulham in an "ugly" way. It was a draw.
Only scoring 1 point did not bother George Lee much, because at the same time, Manchester United was also tied by the opponent. But the injuries to the three main players suddenly caused Li George to go crazy.
Five days later, Leeds United will sit at home and face Chelsea, who have played against them many times this season.
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George Li stood in front of the window outside, watching the sunset slowly setting outside the training ground.
Although the beautiful scenery at dusk is enough to amaze everyone who appreciates it, it is obvious that George Li cannot be moved today.
Behind Lee George is an A4 paper full of names: Alan Smith, Leighton Baines, James Milner, Wesley Sneijder, Jonathan Woodgate, Lee Bowyer ...
These are the list of players who cannot play in the next game. The ones written in front are the main players.
"Dong dong dong~"
"Please come in."
The door to the office was not closed, so the person who knocked came directly in after receiving permission. However, George Li did not turn around to look at the two people who came in, but still looked at the sunset in the distance.
"Boss."
"Boss."
Although the two titles are different, the emotions revealed are the same, and what can be heard is the most respect between the two.
"Alan, Li, you are here."
It was Smith and Bowyer who came. Bowyer was pushed in by Smith in a wheelchair, with a thick plaster on his foot.
"Boss, it seems that you will have more assistants." Bowyer first made a self-deprecating joke.
When he first learned of his injury, Bowyer felt very sad and regretful, but later he thought about it. He's going to retire sooner or later anyway, so it's better to take this opportunity to retire directly and make room for the many remaining young players at Leeds United.
"You should heal your injury first, and then do some theoretical study first. I have a notebook here from when I was a coach. If you don't mind it being outdated, you can take it and look at it."
"Okay, boss." Bowyer smiled and said to George Li, "How can your stuff be outdated? I think what you wrote at that time must be more advanced than the tactics of some coaches today."
"Haha, I didn't expect you to also learn humor." George Li said to Bowyer.
Then, no one spoke, knowing that the focus of this conversation was not on Bowyer.
George Li looked at Smith. He had overheard someone discussing this matter during training just now, but he still wanted to hear Smith say it himself.
After a period of injury, Smith has now begun simple recovery training with the team. Today is his third training with the team.
"Boss, I want to play closed in the next game."
After listening to this, George Li was silent for a while.
He didn't reply to Smith for a long time, but asked Bowyer beside him: "Li, how many Champions Leagues do you think we will win?"
"Definitely not less." Bowyer said confidently, "But I may not be able to see it as a player, but I think I will definitely be able to see it as a coach."
After getting a satisfactory answer, George Li asked Smith on the other side: "So, can you save me a closed sum of money?"
