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Chapter 301 No way out

Tranquility, extreme tranquility, all Leeds people do not believe that such a result will happen, how could it be?Why was Coventry able to complete such a desperate lore at the last moment of the game?Coventry does not have any outstanding stars, but why did they create such a miracle?
The birth of the miracle of Coventry means that the miracle of Leeds was strangled in the cradle. They were the team with the best results in the last dozen rounds of the league, but they still could not directly enter the Premier League and faced cruel and unacceptable play-offs.

The play-offs have not brought Leeds a good thing. In the second year after being dropped into the British Championship, they lost to Watford in the play-offs. In the first year of being dropped into the League One, they also lost in the play-offs. Leeds, which is dominated by young players, can hardly bear the huge pressure brought by the play-offs.

But this time, the situation they are facing is even worse. The players have been supporting the remaining six rounds of the league. The only motivation to support them is to directly enter the Premier League. The shattering of this dream leaves the players with much fighting spirit to participate in the play-offs?This has a lot of question marks, and their opponent Nottingham Forest has started to consciously save energy a few rounds ago. In this game, the physical energy of Leeds' main force was consumed by substitute players...

More importantly, the top scorer with [-] goals in the league, their most reliable player, Long Bisheng, will miss the home game of the first round of the play-offs due to accumulating five yellow cards...

"On another venue, Coventry won the victory, so we will usher in the first round of the play-offs in a week..." The live commentator at Elland Road Stadium said in a low voice, as if reading an obituary: "This is uncomfortable news, but I believe that our warriors will not be knocked down by this small setback. We will win the semi-finals of the play-offs, win the final of the play-offs, and we will still appear in the Premier League next season!"

The fans at the scene listened quietly, the fans in the square outside the stadium listened quietly, and the fans in bars and bars listened quietly—they felt as if they heard the obituary of a friend when they heard this passage.

The fans considered more details than the coach. When Long Bisheng received a yellow card, some fans already knew that Long Bisheng would be suspended in the next domestic game in England, but no one cared at that time, because they believed that their team would definitely be able to enter the Premier League directly, and being suspended in the first round of the Premier League was nothing at all.

But now everyone knows what that means. When Delphi was injured, Leeds was able to stay in the first group and still have the hope of directly advancing in the last round, almost relying on Long Bisheng's continuous goals. Without him, what will Leeds do now?
"Three days off... No, four days, gather on Thursday, resume training on Friday, and play on Saturday." McAllister made such a difficult decision. He knew that the players were basically unable to support them. If they didn't take a few days off to let them relax, maybe before Long Bisheng came back, they would lose to their opponents at home.

Unfortunately, McAllister guessed right and failed to directly enter the Premier League. Instead, they had to face the play-offs, which completely collapsed the last line of defense for the Leeds players. After four days of rest, although they recovered a certain amount of physical fitness, their psychology was completely incomparable with that of the previous period.

Not being able to directly enter the Premier League is a huge blow, but what hit them even more was the absence of Long Bisheng.

No one can deny the importance of Long Bisheng to Leeds now. After Delphi was injured, Long Bisheng is the only most reliable player in the Leeds team.If without him, Leeds are only half as good attackingly, then no one would disagree with that.

In the first round of the play-offs, Leeds traveled to Nottingham Forest.

Nottingham Forest, which has been carefully prepared for several weeks, completely controlled the game amid the shouts of more than 2 fans in the city stadium. Compared with the game a week ago, the two sides of the game were completely adjusted.

It can be said that the Leeds players did not work hard. They successfully defended the opponent's onslaught in the first half. Although the opponent scored a goal in the second half, they tied the score with Hooper's quick counterattack. If the game ends here, it will be a perfect result for Leeds.

It's a pity that their poor physical fitness made all their efforts come to naught. In the last 10 minutes of the game, almost all the Leeds players on the field couldn't run anymore. No matter how McAllister dispatched troops, it didn't help. Nottingham Forest seized this opportunity to win two consecutive cities - [-] to [-]. Nottingham Forest established a huge advantage at home!
This score means that if Leeds wants to enter the play-off finals, they must win by three goals at home - there is no home and away goals in the English Championship play-offs, even if Leeds beat Forest [-]-[-] at home, they will continue to play overtime and even penalties!
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In the city stadium game, Long Bisheng watched at home.

Hooper's equalizer once made him very happy. In his opinion, if the away game draws, then Leeds will be able to beat the opponent when they return to home. There are no outstanding players in Nottingham Forest.

"A very good team." Ning Xi commented. Of course she was talking about Nottingham Forest: "Although there are no big names and no top ten scorers in the scorer list, their overall team is very balanced and their cooperation is quite tacit. It can be seen that their coach has put a lot of effort into this team."

"Our coach also put a lot of effort into us." Long Bisheng said.

"But he values ​​you star players too much." Ning Xi said, wringing her fingers, "You, Fabian, Jonathan, Paul, you four are the strongest pawns in his hands. You are the scorer, Fabian is the source of attack initiation, Jonathan brings vitality to the wing, and Paul is the anchor of the defense. There is nothing wrong with this approach. Now 90.00% of the coaches in the world rely on stars to win, but in Leeds now, there are too few reliable players, and Fabian is injured. , you are suspended, Jonathan and Paul's fitness has declined, and there is nothing left for Leeds."

"It's just two balls, I believe we can do it." Long Bisheng shook his head stubbornly, then stood up and walked back to his room.

Ning Xi looked at his back and shook her head. Long Bisheng has always been so stubborn, but this is also his greatest strength. If it wasn't for his almost paranoid pursuit of stronger abilities, perhaps Long Bisheng would not be able to reach this height today.

In the game three days later, I hope Aaron and Leeds can get what they want.

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Despite losing two away games and the second round of the play-offs three days later, McAllister still gave the players a day off. On this point, he is very accurate. The current Leeds, the difference is nothing else, just physical fitness.

The disadvantage of two goals is not so easy to recover, but Leeds have not lost hope. Although Delphi has just started to do recovery training, it is far from reaching the standard of being able to play, but Long Bisheng is back. His physical fitness is very good. He played one less game, which made his energy look more vigorous.

During the training, Long Bisheng's expression was very relaxed, just like in normal times, he meticulously completed any training content, and chatted and laughed happily with a few friends he knew well during the training break.

His usual expression made his teammates feel at ease, and felt that this life-and-death battle was not much different from an ordinary league match—wasn’t it just winning two goals? Just over a week ago, didn’t we just kill Nottingham Forest [-]-[-] at home?

Although everyone knows that there is no comparison between the upcoming game and the game more than a week ago - Nottingham Forest's only goal in that game was to consume as much energy as possible from Leeds United. In that game, Nottingham Forest only had three main players, and the other main players were resting comfortably. More importantly, the importance of the second round of the play-off semi-finals was much greater than that of the league game. Nottingham Forest's desire to win is definitely not comparable to that game!

But everyone is forcing themselves to think this way, the power of the spirit is quite powerful, even if they are deceiving themselves.

May [-]th finally arrived. In the afternoon of that day, the whole city of Leeds suddenly became very quiet. All the fans did not take to the streets. They were distributed in three places—around the Elland Road Stadium, in bars of various sizes and in their own homes, waiting for the arrival of three o'clock in the afternoon and the sound of the whistle.

This is a fateful game. If Leeds can pass this hurdle, then they will have a one-week buffer time to allow the players to recover more physical fitness.

He has helped us return from the League One to the Championship, and he has helped us to have a vision of qualifying for the Premier League at this time, so now our Tarzan of the Apes can help us a little more!Help us defeat Nottingham Forest, help us return to the Premier League, and let the white rose flag fly in the Premier League again!

This will be the most important game of the season, and it will also be the most stressful and difficult game for Leeds this season!
Because they have no way out.

PS: The last chapter should be Chapter 290...

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