"Two days ago, Mike asked me if I wanted to hold a parade at the end of the game this year."
In the conference room at Thorpe Arch, George Li was gathering the team's coaching staff for a meeting. At the beginning, he asked everyone such a question.
Of course, no one can answer this question, because the team's coaching staff all regret that their team failed to win the league championship this season.
However, George Li’s next words couldn’t help but make everyone raise their heads.
"I said, if you want to do it, you must do it." George Li slapped the table hard, making several people around him jump up in fright.
"Be gentle, George." Casper was the closest to George Li, and he was obviously frightened.
"At least we have a League Cup trophy this season, and Arsenal definitely have nothing." Li George ignored Kasper, but continued to tell everyone, "And the FA Cup is right in front of us, we can win it Two trophies, isn’t it?”
"Wrong, three. This season's Community Shield is also ours." Casper reminded proactively.
After George Li heard this, he did not ignore Casper this time, but nodded after thinking for a while.
"From this point of view, even if Manchester United wins the Champions League, they will still only have two trophies. The most successful team this season is still Leeds United."
"Come on Chelsea, kill Manchester United!" Casper shouted after hearing this.
"Hahaha~"
Everyone was amused by the conversation between George Li and Casper, which dispelled the originally very depressing atmosphere and made the conference room lively again.
Seeing that the goal had been achieved, George Li began to prepare for the team's last pre-game coaching staff meeting of the season.
"Our opponent is Portsmouth, I think..."
^^^
"Hello, George."
"Hello, Harry. Hope it was a good game."
"hope so."
Lee George and Redknapp shook hands in a friendly manner on the sidelines. Players from both sides have already begun to do their final game activities. The England 2007/08 FA Cup final is about to begin.
Portsmouth's head coach Redknapp is also experienced. In 1982, Harry Redknapp ended his playing career at Bournemouth and became the club's assistant coach. He was promoted to head coach in 1984 and served until 1992. During this period, in addition to helping the team successfully protect relegation, he also led the team to win the League C championship in 1987 and be promoted to Group B. Due to player injuries and the team's sharp decline, they were relegated to Group C in 1990. In the summer of the same year, Harry Redknapp and team director Brian Taylor went to Italy to visit the World Cup. Unfortunately, they were involved in a car accident. Taylor and four other people died on the spot. Harry Redknapp survived, although his body Recovered, but lost his sense of taste.
He later served as manager of West Ham United, director of football at Portsmouth, and head coach of Southampton, and in 2005 he returned to Portsmouth. At that time the team was seriously threatened with relegation. In January 2006, Alexander Gaydamak officially purchased the team and provided funds for Harry Redknapp to purchase players. At the end of the season, Portsmouth only escaped relegation in 17th place. The following season Portsmouth finished ninth in the Premier League, the team's highest ranking since the 1950s.
These achievements are definitely incomparable to those of George Li, who has suddenly emerged in recent years. But this season Portsmouth, under the leadership of Redknapp, has been able to reach the FA Cup final, which is already a very good performance.
Now, there is an opportunity to win the championship trophy before them, and they are ready to fight hard to break the monopoly of the FA Cup by Leeds United, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool in recent years, and then win 08/09 Qualification for the UEFA Cup this season.
However, it was a good idea for Portsmouth to have this idea. What they encountered was Leeds United, a Leeds United that had just won the league runner-up and was full of anger and nowhere to vent.
From the beginning, the two teams had a fierce battle in the midfield. Finally, after Leeds United's Gareth Barry made a pass and found Robben who was advancing on the right, Portsmouth became more honest.
This attack was extremely threatening. When Portsmouth's left-back Traore wasn't paying attention, Robben caught the opportunity and used the space behind him to make a big fuss.
If the ball had not been passed to the front and back of the goal and Arnesen had not been a little slow to follow up, the ball would have really gone in.
After Portsmouth's formation shrunk, Leeds United completely controlled the rhythm of the game.
High-position pressing, frontcourt siege, full-backs advancing, midfielders, and quick counterattacks, it can be said that Leeds United showed the audience a tactical training session of the team.
Apart from not scoring a goal, everything else was beautifully played.
The first goal was not scored until the 41st minute of the game, and it was Kuyt who scored.
Portsmouth made a mistake when passing the ball in the frontcourt. After Lualua advanced on the right and encountered the defense, he tried to pass the ball to Portsmouth's forward.
However, the direction of his passing was unpredictable. It looked like he was passing to Kanu who was running in front, but the ball was flying towards Kanu's heel, while he himself was facing the goal; It seemed like he was going to pass the ball to Kranica, but the ball was still far away from Kranica, and it was unlikely that he could catch up with the ball.
There was no other way, Kanu could only turn around and catch the ball.
However, even though the Nigerian's body coordination is very good, he was still a step too slow. He just touched the ball lightly with his foot behind his back, and the ball still rolled past his foot.
It's okay if it doesn't touch. Kranica can still try hard, but the path of the ball changed after Kanu touched the ball.
Without Kranica paying attention, the ball rolled past his eyes, and it was too late for him to stretch his legs.
The ball was rolling toward Barry, but Barry took a look at the ball and immediately started running forward.
Because he saw Milner, a right back, appearing in the defensive midfielder position.
"Dong~"
Milner, who had not been back for long, kicked a long pass to the team's left, where Arneson had already crossed Portsmouth's defense and successfully countered offside.
Arnesen jumped up and used his feet to unload the ball in front of him, and then immediately accelerated again and started to break through.
Once the Norwegian gets the ball and breaks through in an open space, there are really not many people in the Premier League who can catch up with him.
Unfortunately, there really aren’t any here in Portsmouth.
Arneson kept dribbling the ball into the penalty area. When facing the attacking goalkeeper James, he pushed the ball horizontally to the center, allowing Kuyt to follow up and send the ball into the empty goal.
This kind of cooperation is unsolvable, and the goalkeeper can only choose to attack the first player who attacks alone.
As long as the following players here at Leeds United can keep up, the ball can almost be said to be scored.
Even if Kuyt in the middle does not penetrate in place, Robben in the back will not be slow.
Here at Leeds United, Kuyt did not celebrate loudly after scoring. Instead, he took the initiative to fish the ball out of the goal and let Portsmouth kick off quickly.
Similarly, the task given by George Lee to the players today is that whenever he leads by three goals, he will let Muamba play.
In order for this teammate who survived the catastrophe to play a few more minutes, the Leeds United players on the field worked hard.
Leeds United is now in control of the situation, but they haven't scored a goal. Now that they have opened up, they don't want to waste time and want to score three quickly so that Muamba can play.
In the end, the game still ended 3-0, and Muamba got on the field in the 73rd minute of the game today. In the 82nd minute of the game, he also completed his first shot in the Leeds United first team through a long-range shot, which was too positive and was caught by the opponent's goalkeeper.
After the game, Smith and Muamba lifted the trophy representing the FA Cup champions, which also heralded the end of Leeds United's 2007/08 season.
