Fengba Greenery

Chapter 37 The third round is coming
Chapter 37 The third round is coming

After interviewing Li Qingshan, Defoe went back and wrote an interview report.However, the report was rejected by the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.Defoe could only regretfully put the manuscript that he had spent a few hours writing in the drawer, and thanked one again according to the routine.

Later, Li Qingshan paid special attention to the "Manchester Evening News". If he saw his report, he planned to buy it for collection. After all, this was the first time his name appeared in the media.As a result, I followed several issues in a row, and I didn't see any articles about myself.There are many reports about FC United, but the content is basically the same.The only person whose name appears throughout the article is coach Karl Makinson. As for the interviews with players, they usually start with "according to a player from FC United".

There is still more than a month before the third round of the FA Cup. England in December has already entered the rainy and muddy season, but England's teams do not have a so-called "winter break". Even during December, England China's professional league will enter the "Christmas Express", when the Premier League and Championship teams have fully started their cup journey.Unlike other countries, England has two main cup competitions - the FA Cup and the League Cup.

Of course, for FC United, there is no way for them to participate in the League Cup, which is only open to league teams.So relatively speaking, their schedule will not be as tight as that of professional league teams. They only need to play three league games in December, plus one in early January. Before the third round of the FA Cup, they still have to play. There are four league rounds.

However, since the opponent in the third round was Liverpool, Coach Markinson has focused all his training on the training mode against Liverpool.Coach Markinson no longer cares about the league. Anyway, the distance between them and No.2 has widened to [-] points. This gap basically locks in a promotion spot.

Despite this, FC United's strength in the seventh level is also outstanding. Despite the loss of Nick, Li Qingshan, the top scorer, is almost unstoppable in this level of competition.The league game on December 3st was an away game against Bryce Sparta. FC United won 1:4. Li Qingshan scored two goals and performed well.On the following December 1th, they defeated Hunsford Town 2:0 in an away game, and beat Grantham Town 0:2 on December [-]th.After this game, the team had a [-]-day offseason, and the players went home to prepare for Christmas.And Li Qingshan also experienced the western Christmas culture with a group of fellow Chinese in a foreign country.On January [-]rd after New Year’s Day, the team challenged Nantwich Town in an away game. There were some twists and turns in this game. Maybe the players were still on vacation, or maybe they were thinking about the upcoming FA Cup In the third round of the game, the team trailed the opponent [-]:[-] at the end of the first half.Just when the fans thought the team would suffer a second league victory, Li Qingshan scored three headers in the second half and scored his sixth league hat-trick of the season .If the seventh-tier league has the selection of the best player of the season, even if Li Qingshan no longer plays from now on, he should be selected based on his crazy performance in the first half of the season.

During these games, FC United's focus has been on the FA Cup match with Liverpool.

Liverpool is a typical English team with a direct and fast style of play.And this season's new head coach Rodgers is known for being good at pass control and ground offense.During his tenure at Swansea, he transformed a typical English team into continental football, with a distinctly Barcelona tinge.This also turned Swansea from the original lifter into a team that can survive stably in the Premier League.It was seeing Rodgers' success in Swansea that Liverpool's top management decided to hand over the position of head coach to this young coach who was less than 40 years old.

Over the years, as the Premier League has become more and more commercialized, the economic strength of the Premier League teams is the highest in Europe. Attracted by sufficient funds, more and more players from the European continent have come to the Premier League, which has also brought great benefits to the Premier League. Gained more tactical enrichment.With the success of Arsenal's transformation, more and more British teams hope to learn the advantages of continental football.

Liverpool's performance in this game is not very stable, but as the league progresses, this team has more and more colors of Rogers.

Markinson edited and edited Liverpool's game videos this season and showed them to the players.Analyze the performance of each Liverpool player for them, and then tell them how to deal with various situations.After training every day, he always spares an hour for this tactical lesson.

Li Qingshan's task in this game is of course to score goals. Although not many people can think that FC United is capable of breaking Liverpool's goal, in this team, Ma Jinsen can only trust Li Qingshan's offensive ability.

Due to Nick's departure, Ma Jinson decided to play a single center in this game, and put Li Qingshan in front alone to contain the opponent's defender.Add a defensive player in midfield.This is also the usual way for a weak team to play against a strong team, shrinking the half court and waiting for a counterattack.

"Today is the last training session before the game." Makinson stood on the court and explained today's training content to the players. "After practicing defense for more than a month, I think everyone is tired of it. Today we practiced hard set-piece tactics. A weak team plays a strong team, and set-pieces are a very important weapon. I hope we can catch those who are not in the game. Lots of set-piece opportunities. Let's warm up first."

With a wave of Markinson's hand, the team began to warm up under the leadership of assistant coach Roy.

After the warm-up training was over, Ma Jinson started the frontcourt free kick and corner kick attack training.

This training does not set up defensive personnel first, and the offensive players directly face the goalkeeper's practice.The defensive players will then be added for confrontation training.

In addition to Dean Stott, who was in charge of setting the ball, the offensive personnel in this training only arranged for Li Qingshan, central defender Jones, and midfielder David Butch to participate.If the set-piece attack fails, the opponent will counterattack. If there are not enough defensive personnel in the backcourt, it will be easy for the opponent to score. Especially if the opponent is a team of Liverpool's level, you must be more careful.

Li Qingshan is of course the main attacker. Although there are only three players participating in the attack, it is also difficult for FC United's other defensive players to defend against Li Qingshan's header.

This situation did not let Ma Jinson breathe a sigh of relief.Although there is no expression on his face, as a head coach, he must always have a confident look.But his heart has been clouded.He has no confidence in whether Li Qingshan can compete against the Liverpool defender.

Despite this, FC United has been preparing for this game step by step for more than a month.

The last ray of sunlight in the sky was swallowed by the distant mountains.The stadium lights come on.Makinson stood on the edge of the court, listening to the players on the court cheering each other, and listening to the car horns coming and going outside the court.Pick up the whistle in your hand.blew their last training session before the third round of the FA Cup.

Tomorrow afternoon, they will meet a giant opponent at this stadium.

This battle of warriors and dragons.

In the end, the dragon ripped open the warrior with a small claw.

It is still a small warrior who overthrows a majestic dragon.

Only tomorrow will we know.

(End of this chapter)