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Chapter 240 Victory of Force
In this game, both sides sent their strongest lineups.

Like Leeds United, they are able to rank first at this stage of the season. Leicester City still has their main striker combination-Scottish center Steve Howard. Although he is almost 33 years old, he is 1.9 meters tall and weighs 91 kilograms. He is still an indispensable main center for Leicester City. He has scored 23 goals this season. Matt Fayette, the 26-year-old striker has scored 28 league goals so far this season, second only to Bristol Rovers striker Rich Lambert who scored [-] goals!
The top scorers in League One this season have one characteristic, that is, they are not very old, or very young!Beckford is 26 years old, Rich Lambert is the oldest and only 27 years old, Fayette is only 23 years old, another Scunthorpe shooter Hooper is only one year older than Long Bisheng, 21 years old, and Long Bisheng is only 20 years old!

And except for Long Bisheng, the other four shooters are all local English players. Although many positions in the Premier League are occupied by foreign players, in the lower leagues, it is the local players who call the shots. They are the best supplements for the top league local forces!From this point of view, the "labor certificate" that has been criticized by many head coaches has played a huge role in it, because the English Championship and League One teams are rarely attractive enough to introduce foreign players who meet the labor certificate requirements. They can only choose local players.

In addition to this pair of strikers, Leicester City's goalkeeper is 25-year-old England goalkeeper David Stockdale. In the back line, England left-back Morrison, Swiss center-back Bernard replaced Tonchev and Kisnobo's partner in the center-back. But 32 years old!
From this point of view, relegation to League One is not necessarily a bad thing for Leicester City. In the more relaxed environment of League One, they have already cultivated a considerable number of young players who can play the main force. Leicester City has not lost many players before the start of this season.
Presumably in the next season, they will carry out a large-scale cleaning of the team, while Leeds United does not have this trouble, and their current first team is only 26 people.

Leeds United's starting lineup is the main lineup that has been stabilized recently through a season of adjustment experiments: goalkeeper Ankelenger, four defenders captain Richardson, Huntington, Mister Xie and Michalik, midfielders Douglas, Kilkenny, Howson and Delphi, and forwards Long Bisheng and Beckford.

To say that Leeds United's forward line can be regarded as the strongest striker combination among the 24 teams in the League One. The two scored a total of [-] league goals, which is a full nine more goals than Leicester City's striker combination!

It can be said that if it weren't for the recent outstanding performance of this pair of strikers, Leeds United would not be able to tie the gap of more than ten points with a wave of nine consecutive victories and eleven unbeaten rounds!

The head coach of Leicester City, Dowie, naturally would not ignore these two dangerous characters. From the start of the game, Long Bisheng followed up with his old rival Kisnobo, while the Swiss Bernard kept his eyes on Beckford. Although he was three centimeters shorter than Beckford, Bernard was a strong guy. Beckford's characteristic was already well known in League One, that is, he was afraid of confrontation!
Under Bernard's constant physical collision, Beckford seemed a little silent after the start of the game, but Long Bisheng was like a fish in water, and started a physical confrontation with Kisnobo at the beginning of the game!

When the two teams met for the first time, Kisnobo almost stared at Long Bisheng, but Long Bisheng disrupted Leicester City's defense by switching back and forth with Beckford, and finally helped Leeds United win that crucial game with a beautiful long shot from outside the penalty area. After the game, Kisnobo was very unconvinced!

He gained the upper hand in the physical confrontation, but was defeated by Long Bisheng's "trick". This made Kisnobo always look down on Long Bisheng in his heart, thinking that he would never be his opponent in the confrontation in the penalty area.

But what Kisnobo didn't know was that in that game, Long Bisheng had just returned from injury, and he was a little weak when running on the field after losing too much blood, let alone having a strong physical confrontation with his opponent.
Kisnobo soon felt something was wrong, because it was an away game, so Leeds United's offense was not so crazy, but more cautious, but after ten minutes, Kisnobo had two confrontations with Long Bisheng, and the result of these two confrontations was-Kisnobo was completely defeated!
When Howson made a wide pass, Kisnobo jumped up with Long Bisheng thinking he was stuck in the position, but he was squeezed away by Long Bisheng during the body contact in the air. If it wasn't for the help of the goal post, Long Bisheng's header might have killed Leicester City!

The second time was that Long Bisheng took the ball at the front of the penalty area. Kisnobo squeezed Long Bisheng from behind. Who knew that he squeezed twice and did not move, but was bounced away by Long Bisheng's buttocks, and then passed the ball to Beckford in the penalty area. Beckford kicked the ball away under Bernard's interference.

"Impossible! This is a hallucination!" Kisnobo almost shouted like a fat man from the Tofu King Kong team, but he was still wondering in his heart, since he hadn't seen him for a few months, why did this guy suddenly become so much stronger?It is impossible for a person to increase their strength so much in such a short period of time, right?
Long Bisheng glanced at the bewildered Kisnobo, and secretly laughed in his heart. He knew why Kisnobo was confused. People always believe too much in what they have experienced and don’t believe in legends. Although this cannot be said to be a shortcoming, it makes it easy for people to walk into a dead end!
Long Bisheng believed that Kisnobo would not believe that he could not beat Long Bisheng—is this sentence a mouthful?So this is an opportunity that can be exploited.

After fending off a round from Leicester, Leeds launched another counterattack. Kilkenny passed the ball forward immediately after passing the midfield, because he saw Long Bisheng, who had run to the front of the opponent's penalty area, reaching for the ball.

The timing of this pass is also quite good, Leicester is in the stage of transition from offense to defense, and now there are only two defenders left defending near the penalty area!

Two on two in the frontcourt!
Beckford has already brought Berna to the other side of the penalty area through running positions, and Berna has to follow. You must know that Long Bisheng is also very good at playing the ball. If he wants to pinch Long Bisheng with Kisnobo, then Long Bisheng can create a single-handed goal for Beckford with just a light pass!

Kisnobo planned to go around the front to defend and intercept the ball in advance, but he couldn't go around Long Bisheng for a while, so he could only stick closely behind Long Bisheng.

"Come on, let's compete and see how strong you are!" Kisnobo roared in his heart.

Under Kisnobo's strong pressure, Long Bisheng stood firm like a green pine, stretched out his foot to stop the ball without moving, and then leaned back violently!
A pure contest of strength, without any fancy holidays!

Of course, Long Bisheng did not blindly slam into his opponent. If Kisnobo fell backwards, it would definitely be a foul.

Kisnobo is also a strong man like a bull, this kind of confrontation was his favorite in the past, but this time, he felt horrified!
In such a situation where no tricks were possible, the strength he was so proud of was easily suppressed by the opponent. He could feel that he was being slowly squeezed away by the opponent!

"Damn it." Kisnobo added more force in disbelief, but it didn't have the slightest effect.

Just when he was about to exert his strength again, and didn't care about the possibility of crossing the bottom line of the foul, Long Bisheng had pushed him away for a while, then quickly turned around and walked past him!
"Oops!" Kisnobo's heart trembled, he just remembered that he was the last defender to defend against the dragon!
But it's too late.

Long Bisheng, who turned around from Kisnobo and broke through, took a step forward with the ball, and then made an easy push shot at the goalkeeper Stockdal!

The ball flew past Stockdal's armpit and flew into the lower corner of the goal!
Most of the stands at the Pacers Stadium immediately became silent, and the singing of "Go Forward" by the Leeds fans suddenly increased by dozens of decibels!
Leeds United led [-]-[-] away and took the lead in this crucial game!
After Long Bisheng saw the ball hit the net, he was not in a hurry to celebrate. He first showed his muscles to Kisnobo, and then strode towards the stands where the Leeds fans were, raised his arms and roared loudly!The other players of Leeds United rolled past Kisnobo like a wind, and the fans were beside Long Bisheng!

(End of this chapter)