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Chapter 228 Roller Coaster

In the first game after the new year, Leeds United took down their opponents at home in an extremely thrilling manner, with 43 points and climbed to the fifth position in the standings. Although there is still a 2-point gap from Leicester City, which is the number one in the standings, it is only five points behind No.[-] Milton Keynes.

This gap, that is, the gap between the two games, as long as Leeds United can maintain their recent good form, there is a good chance of catching up with No.2, and if there is a losing streak like last month, it will easily slip out of the top six again-you know that No.7 has also reached 41 points.

But McAllister is full of confidence in the next game. In the next three games, except for Peterborough, which is the top six teams, the rest are mid-range teams or even relegation teams. It is not a problem for Leeds United to beat these opponents with their own ability.

Sure enough, in the fifth round of No.20, Leeds United beat Brighton with two goals in the away game. Although they failed to score in the first half, Brighton's defense had become precarious under the impact of Leeds United. Shortly after the start of the second half, Long Bisheng opened the scoring with a powerful header!

Ten minutes later, after receiving a pass from Beckford, Delph inserted into the penalty area and stabbed to seal the victory. After winning the game, Leeds United fell eight points behind Leicester, which had played one game less, and still ranked fifth.

In the sixth round of No.20, Leeds United ushered in a strong opponent. Facing this opponent who had completely outperformed them in the away game by two goals, Leeds United tried their best to take revenge. Although they were scored by the opponent in the first half, Beckford started to show his power under the influence of Long Bisheng. In minutes No.60 and No.701, he scored two goals in a row to help the team successfully overtake. Compared with one, Leeds United won five consecutive victories!

The five-game winning streak has already tied the record for the longest league winning streak this season, but McAllister does not want to stop like this. His goal is to win six consecutive victories.

He and his team did it. In the seven rounds of No.20, they only took 1 minutes to establish the victory.

In the 6th minute of the game, Leeds United won a corner kick. Huntington naturally rushed into the opponent's penalty area to compete for the top, but when he ran into the opponent's penalty area, he found that his central defender partner Mister Xie also sneaked up.

"My God! What are you doing up here?" Huntington was taken aback. Mister Xie's height is not outstanding, even if he comes forward with an assist, it won't be of much use, and his greatest role is to prevent the opponent's counterattack. Now that he has come up, what should he do if the opponent counterattacks?
"I have a hunch that I will score a goal this time." Mister Xie said to Huntington seriously, and then got short and blended into the crowd.

Huntington stared dumbfounded at this daring guy, and McAllister off the field was also taken aback. Fortunately, he was relieved when he saw that the two full-backs were still in the backcourt.

"This guy who doesn't follow orders... is too bold!"

When McAllister was playing hard, Howson had already driven the ball into the penalty area, and the penalty area was immediately in chaos.

Long Bisheng has scored eleven league goals so far in this kind of set kick, seven of which were headers. Long Bisheng was naturally closely marked by his opponents. Two defenders restrained him from left to right, making it very difficult for him to take off. Long Bisheng, unable to take off, could only watch the ball fly over his head.

Huntington in the latter point was also under the opponent's tight defense. Although he did not receive such a grand treatment like Long Bisheng, he could only barely take off. Huntington knew that he probably could not directly pose a threat to the goal in this situation, so he simply pushed the ball back to the middle of the penalty area again, causing even greater chaos.

Sure enough, the already chaotic opponent's penalty area became even more chaotic. Most people couldn't see where the ball had gone, and the fans in the stands stretched their necks to look into the stadium. The weather has been a bit dry recently, and there was unusually no rain. The Elland Road Stadium is also a bit in disrepair. There is already smoke and dust billowing in the stadium.

Suddenly, the Leeds fans in the stands behind the goal where the opponent's penalty area is located cheered collectively, and then soon, the cheers spread throughout the stands-although the fans in other stands still couldn't see what happened, the cheers of the fans in the stands behind the goal proved one thing, that is, Leeds United scored a goal.

Misterxie rushed out of the crowd in disgrace, and then rushed to the stands, waving his hands desperately—in the chaos just now, the ball kicked by someone who didn't know just rolled and fell under the feet of Misterxie who was getting up from the ground. All he had to do was to push it lightly with his arch...

The other team members rushed up to congratulate Mister Xie, but Huntington was shocked——was what Mister Xie said just now true?Was his hunch so accurate?

Seeing that Long Bisheng was running past him and preparing to join the crowd, Huntington grabbed him: "Long, just now Mister Xie said that he had a hunch that he could score this time, and he really scored! By the way, he is half Chinese. Do you Chinese have this ability? Can you count whether you can score?"

"No way?" Long Bisheng opened his mouth wide: "How is it possible? If I had this ability, would I still get those two knives? I can count the goals, but if I can't count, I will get knives? Are you kidding me!"

"That's right..." Huntington touched his head, and then grabbed Mister Xie who was about to return to his own half after the celebration: "Hey, how did you predict that you would score this time?"

Misterxie smiled embarrassedly: "I had a dream last night..."

"Damn it!" Huntington and Long Bisheng cursed at the same time.

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In any case, Mister Xie’s dream came true, whether it was a coincidence or God gave him instructions, Mister Xie scored his first goal after joining Leeds United. This goal further established Mister Xie’s main position.

Five minutes later, Leeds United extended the score to 5-[-]. After receiving a pass from Beckford, Howson volleyed from the corner of the penalty area and scored goals in two consecutive games.

The final score was 1-2. Leeds United settled their opponents in [-] minutes and won the longest six-game winning streak this season. At the same time, they beat Milton Keynes by one point and rose to the No.[-] position in the standings - and this position is a direct upgrade position.

Leeds United was extremely happy to be able to return to No.2, but they were only happy for five days. On the last day of January, the players of Leeds United, who played at a high level in a row, declined collectively. They lost [-]-[-] to Walsall in the away game, and dropped to fourth place again in points.

Fortunately, in the next round of the game, they relied on Beckford to score twice at home to win and upgrade their opponents Millwall. Long Bisheng's header ferry before the end helped Beckford score the second goal. This is Beckford's No. 17 league goals and returned to the top scorer list.

February was not a very good month for Leeds United. The reason why Leeds United, which had won [-] consecutive unbeaten games at the beginning of last season, fell to the point of playing the play-offs was because they were overtaken by their opponents because of the five games without a win in February.

Fortunately, after losing two games, Leeds United is still in third place, but there are two teams behind them who have two games less than them, and the second-ranked Milton Keynes has one game less than them, leading by five points-in the case of 31 rounds of the league, this gap is not impossible, but it is already very difficult.

As for the top-ranked Leicester City, they are already ahead of them by as much as [-] points-despite an extra game-now the most realistic consideration for Leeds United seems to be how to prevent those behind from catching up, rather than catching up in front of them.

McAllister is very troubled. In these two games, Long Bisheng's state can be said to be quite bad. Although he is still very good in confrontation, his running is not as active as before. Many balls that could have been grabbed are now due to insufficient running. This has also caused the team's offensive efficiency to be far less than before.

With Leeds United already used to Long Bisheng’s non-stop running and creating a lot of opportunities, once Long Bisheng’s perpetual motion machine stops, the losses will be even greater-because it is quite difficult to get back to the previous rhythm after getting used to it.

"Is there something wrong with the dragon? Or is he too tired?" McAllister thought with a frowning face: "It seems that I have to find a way to find out what's wrong with him, otherwise, if this continues, our prospects are not good... Winning one game and losing one, my heart can no longer bear the thrill of this roller coaster."

(End of this chapter)