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Chapter 27 Qualification and First Round Opponents
Chapter 27 Qualifiers and First Round Opponents
FC United want to break into the FA Cup, they first have to conduct three qualifying rounds.

All English FA member teams, including the Premier League, British Championship, League One, League Two and amateur teams can participate, but amateur teams need to conduct several rounds of qualifying matches to compete for the first round FA Cup qualification, League One and League Two teams start directly from the first round.Premier League and Championship teams will join the FA Cup in the third round.

The FA Cup has a total of eight rounds. Except for the semi-finals and finals, the winner of each round will be promoted within 10 minutes and will be eliminated in a single game. If there is a draw within 10 minutes, a rematch will be selected. , the rematch means that if there is a tie within [-] minutes, there will be overtime. If there is no winner in overtime, there will be a penalty shootout.

This kind of competition system often has a lot of upsets, and a strong team may be bitten by a low-level league team if it takes a nap.

Among England fans, there will always be some dragon-slaying stories in the FA Cup.

Will FC United become the next dragon-slaying hero?

FC United's first opponent in the qualifying round was Kemer Laird, a team at the same level as FC United. FC United won the opponent with a score of 5:0 without much effort. Successfully advanced to the next qualifying round.

On the day after the completion of this game, FC United's next opponent was drawn. The opponent was also Salford City in Manchester. This was equivalent to a Manchester derby in a low-level league.

Salford City play in the sixth tier of the Northern Premier League. FC United have never played against their opponents before.Know nothing about the opponent's condition.

But after all, the opponent is a team in the sixth tier, which is one notch higher than FC United, which is in the seventh tier.Ma Jinson has no idea about the strength of the sixth-level team.

The match against Salford City is scheduled for two weeks later, on September 22. In these two weeks, FC United will play two league rounds. The opponents are against Nantwich Town at home and away against Sta Ford Rangers.

最终FC联曼5:0大胜南特维奇，客场2:1战胜斯塔福德流浪者。取得了联赛开赛以来的八连胜。在积分榜上以及甩开No.2的球队七分，看起来这个赛季FC联曼晋级第六级别的北部超级联赛已经没有任何悬念了。

But then they ran into trouble against sixth-tier side Salford City in the FA Cup.

Less than 10 minutes into the game, FC United's goal had already been lost twice. The attacking power of the sixth-tier team was indeed much higher than that of the seventh-tier team.

Majinson frowned. If FC United's defense can't even defend the sixth-tier team, then their FA Cup ambitions are a joke.

The only way for a weak team to challenge a strong team is to defend and counterattack, but if your own defense is not well organized and leaves too much space for the opponent, there is no way to talk about counterattack.

Fortunately, at the end of the first half, FC United got a corner kick, and Li Qingshan took a corner kick from Dean Stott and scored with a header to bring the team back.

During the halftime break, Makinson was determined to let the team's midfielder retreat, to be more closely connected with the defense, and to compress the opponent's space.In front of them were Nick and Li Qingshan.

Ma Jinsen quite trusts Li Qingshan's offensive ability.

However, the team's defense in the second half was still chaotic, and most of the ball was controlled by the opponent. However, although the defense was very embarrassed by the opponent's attack, fortunately, it did not continue to concede the ball. In the case of dense personnel in the penalty area, it was difficult for Salford to win. Ideal shot chance.

When Solfort tried several long shots from outside the penalty area in an attempt to break through the FC United bus, they quickly paid the price. Goalkeeper James kicked in the goal. Li Qingshan stopped the ball with his chest and split the side. A header from the center goal equalized the score.

At the end of the game, a Salford player fouled Li Qingshan, and FC United won a free kick to the right of the penalty area more than 40 meters away from the goal.

Dean Stott's free kick drew an arc in the air and flew into the opponent's penalty area. This time Li Qingshan seized the opportunity and once again headed the ball to the top of the net.Beat Salford City.

The team successfully advanced to the next round of qualifying with a score of 3:2 in the away game.

A week later, the team defeated Kendall Town, another qualifier, 3:1 at home, and successfully advanced to the first round of the FA Cup.

After the game, FC United's players gathered at the Newton Heath Bar, waiting for the draw for the first round of the FA Cup.

At this time, there will be league teams joining.England has a large number of football clubs and football leagues. These teams and leagues form the most complex league system in the world. The top of this league system is the "Premier League". There is only one level, the Premier League. There are two Ten teams.

Under the Premier League, it is called "The Football League" (The Football League), which is divided into three levels: the Coca-Cola Football League Championship (Level 2), the Coca-Cola Football League One (Level 3) and the League Two. (Coca-ColaFootballLeagueTwo, level 4), each level includes 24 clubs, a total of 72.The Premier League broke away from the English Football League in 1992, but customarily, its 20 teams are still together with the 72 English Football Confederation teams, collectively referred to as "Union Teams".These 92 clubs are all professional clubs.Other teams are collectively referred to as "non-league teams".

From the first round of the FA Cup, the League One and League Two teams in the league will join, and the Premier League and the English Championship will start in the third round.

"I would say it's better to draw a non-league team this time so we can get to the third round."

"It would be nice to play a game at Old Trafford!"

"Hey, we won't go there to watch the game then." Some fans also joined the discussion.

FC United fans don't hate Manchester United, they are still Manchester United fans to some extent, they just hate the Glazer family who bought Manchester United.

When FC United was established, many fans expressed that they would never go back to Old Trafford to watch the game.The reason is that they are unwilling to buy tickets to benefit the Glazer family.

"Dean, is there a team you want to meet?"

Li Qingshan asked Captain Dean Stout sitting next to him.

Dean thought for a while and said, "Actually, I want to meet Burnley, but they are in the Super League now, and this round is impossible."

Dean came from Burnley's youth training camp, but he didn't represent Burnley's first team in any game.

Seeing the captain's disappointed expression, Li Qingshan didn't ask any further questions.

At this time, Jerome Wright, who had been refreshing the lottery page, suddenly shouted excitedly.

"The result came out, we played at home, and the opponent was"

"Hereford United!"

An opponent from the Second Division! !
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