fat man who can't play football

Chapter 162 The Power of Extrusion
After Lukaku scored the third goal, the faces of Leeds new chairman Radrizzani and director Orta, who were sitting in the VIP box, were slightly pale.

The two gave Steve great support at the last moment of this summer's transfer window, and the two hoped to get a good return.

Radrizzani hopes that Leeds United can grow into the backbone of the Premier League under the leadership of Steve, and then shake the status of "big6". In order to sell at a good price in the future.

If even Everton, who is the second echelon, can't win at home, Radrizzani will have to seriously consider whether Steve is the best candidate to take charge of the team in the future.

Although he promised to give Steve a new contract, but everything has not been finalized, and now it seems that the contract negotiations with Steve are slow, and Radrizzani decided to observe the team's performance again.

The director, Horta, is a newcomer and urgently needs a few outstanding transfer deals to establish prestige at the club.Steve has great prestige in the current club because he led the team to the promotion and won the championship trophy that has not been touched for many years.

Horta also had to take Steve's opinion into account in this summer's transfer, and in the end basically followed Steve's wishes to win three players.

At present, it seems that Sun Xingmin's performance is acceptable, while Joe Hart's performance is worrying. The England goalkeeper seems to have lost his confidence in front of the goal due to mistakes and public criticism. This game is full of loopholes.

You must know that if the players brought in under Steve's leadership perform well, then he and Horta will be mutually beneficial and win-win.Once there are parallel imports among the imported players, someone will come out to take responsibility. As the director of the club, Horta will undoubtedly be on the cusp of being held accountable.

Thinking of this, Horta decided to make some changes during the winter transfer, focusing more on the transfer targets on the players his team inspected.

At times like this, everyone has to keep a little back, otherwise it will be difficult to throw the blame when it comes to liquidation.

At this time, the fat man on the coach's bench didn't know that in just a few minutes, his future in the Leeds club was questioned by the team's top management.

What Fatty is worried about at this time is that Hughes and Berardi, who came off the bench one after another, failed to reverse the situation for the team in the past few minutes.

Some players want to take the risk of attacking to equalize the score, while others want to defend firmly to avoid falling behind by a bigger score at home.

At this time, the leader of the team needs to stand up.

Austin, who is the vice-team, was excluded from the lineup by Steve due to technical reasons, and he didn't appear on the bench at all today.

As the head coach of the team at this moment, Steve is a bit far away from the players, and he cannot make timely tactical deployments at all.

Now the only Leeds captain in the stadium is Lewis Cook, and all the Leeds players are waiting for him to say something.

When Leeds got the ball in the backcourt, Cook finally had a chance to speak. He called the nearest players and shouted: "Will (Hughes), don't think about returning to defense for a while. Yes, I'm behind.

Calvin (Phillips), if you try to advance the position, it is useless to stay behind now.

Berardi, pay attention to your actions. Your tackle was too aggressive just now, and the referee has noticed it. "

The dead ball was short, and Cook couldn't say much more.

Berardi didn't know if he didn't hear clearly just now, or he couldn't listen to Cook, a brat. A "death-killing" flying shovel was placed on Lukaku again. The referee couldn't bear it anymore and showed a yellow Gem Ares card.

The tackle was a big one, and if it had happened in other league games, Berardi would have been sent off.Fortunately, this is in the Premier League, and the referee has always been loose in punishing fouls.

Being brought down by big moves one after another also made Lukaku a little timid when he took the ball: the Belgian center knew that he was in good form now, and it was not worthwhile to be found by injuries at this time.

The fat man didn't expect that Berardi's killing style of play really worked. I hope Berardi can stay on the field until the end of the game. Some unknown angel sister, please help me.

Carragher in the commentary did not agree with Steve's defensive strategy against Lukaku: "In the Don Levy era, Leeds were called "dirty Leeds".

This title is due to the never-say-die tenacity and rough style of play that Levi injected into the team, causing the team to often use unconventional physical confrontation in the game, which are dirty moves that can cause players to be injured .

It is undeniable that during the Levi era, Leeds United became one of the greatest teams in English football history.

But is it possible to do whatever it takes to win?This requires deep thought. "

The fat man on the coach's bench can't hear this. He is a little anxious now, and the team has been unable to start the offensive for a long time.

In this game, Traore, who performed well in the previous three rounds of the league, had no chance at the feet of the veteran Baines, and was marked to death.

Belotti looked isolated up front due to lack of support from the flanks.

Only Sun Xingmin is more active in the frontcourt, but he is outnumbered.

The fat man decided to make a final fight, and replaced Traore with James to add a little vitality to the frontcourt.

DJ didn't think about anything else after he came on the court. No matter whether he had the ball or not, he just kept sprinting and running.

This made Baines, who had been exhausted by Traore a lot of physical energy, very troubled. Run along, his physical condition can't hold up, and if he doesn't follow up, he is afraid of some changes.After much deliberation, Baines could only grit his teeth and keep up.

In the 80th minute of the game, Koeman, who had a two-goal lead, replaced left winger Boracier with Tom Davis.

Davies is another outstanding product of Everton's youth training. He represented the first team in the league last season.He also got the first chance to start for Everton's first team in the last round of the league match against Norwich City last season. After the game, he performed well and was selected as the best player on the spot.

In general, Davis is a midfielder with good skills at his feet and a certain defensive ability.

Removing a winger and replacing it with a midfielder, Koeman wants to hold the lead.

If the game is consumed like this for another three or five minutes, then the Leeds players probably won't be able to muster the courage to reverse the game.

At this time, Cook was the first to stand up.

Several Everton midfielders were kicking back and forth to consume the game time. Cook called on his teammates to organize and siege.

DJ was the first to respond to Cook. He ran towards Baines who was holding the ball. The run was so scary that Baines quickly handed the ball to Barry in the middle.

The force of the hasty pass was a bit too strong, and Barry adjusted it twice when he kicked the ball. In the gap between these adjustments, Cook and Phillips had already pressed to his left and right sides.

Barry could only lower his center of gravity to protect the ball, hoping to cheat a foul.

But Cook was very measured, he just stuck his body to Barry tightly, and didn't make too many movements on his hands and feet.

This time, Barry was very sticky, but the old Barry was a character that Benitez had taken a fancy to back then, and he wanted to sign him to replace Harvey Alonso!

Cook's close defense successfully aroused Barry's fighting spirit. Barry's "horse stance" was lower, and his feet were always blocked between Cook and the ball.

This gave Phillips a chance on the other side. The young man looked at the right time and kicked the ball from between Barry's legs to behind him.

Barry couldn't turn around as he was pressed against Cook.

Cook watched the ball being poked and turned around immediately.

While Jagielka stepped forward to interfere with Cook's dribbling, he beckoned his teammates to retreat quickly.

Cook faced Jagielka with a simple acceleration and changed direction, and then flashed to Jagielka's side.

Jagielka broke the ball without even thinking about it, paying attention to maintaining his body balance when going up the tackle.

Jagielka saw that Cook had flashed past him, made an emergency stop, turned around and started chasing.

Cook looked around and found that there was no good route for the ball. If he continued to entangle with Jagielka like this, he would lose the opportunity to counterattack.

In desperation, Cook was forced to come up with a bold idea!Why not just shoot right here.

Now the distance from this place to the goal is about twenty yards, which is a bit far for shooting, but now that I have picked up the speed, the shooting here is sudden enough, and the opponent will never expect it!

Cook, who made up his mind, lifted his foot and shot while running. Cook did not make any preparations and exerted force at all, and Jagielka beside him did not react.

This long-range shot was earth-shattering. Stekelenburg flew to make a diving save, but the speed of the ball was so fast that the football flashed past his fingertips.

then……

It hit the goal post hard!
The fat man was clutching his hair regretfully on the sidelines, when a white figure quickly flashed in front of the football.

The fat man opened his eyes and looked, it was Belotti!The Italian striker ran to that position at some point, and with a clever follow-up shot, the ball was sent into the net at the moment when Stekelenburg fell on the lawn and hadn't gotten up.

Stekelenburg immediately knelt on the ground and raised his hands, signaling Belotti to be offside.

Belotti also looked back nervously at the line judge.

The linesman did not raise the flag, the goal counts!
Red Beibei happily fished out the football from the net, and ran to the middle circle excitedly with the ball in his hands, and gave Cook a passionate high-five to celebrate on the way.

Carragher saw clearly through the replays on the TV: at the moment Cook shot, Belotti was still standing on the same level as Williams, the last man in Everton's defense.

Belotti seemed to have a premonition that Cook was going to shoot. At that moment, he started to accelerate, quickly threw Williams away and completed the supplementary shot.

"Uh... I have to admit that Belotti is a natural shooter. He has an unparalleled sense of smell in the penalty area."

2 to 3!Leeds United narrowed the gap in the 81st minute, and the suspense of the game returned.

Koeman, who held the last substitution spot, began to struggle, should he make a substitution?Defensive or offensive player?
Berardi didn't keep Koman entangled for too long. When Leeds won three red cards in two years, the "Lion" Berardi shoveled again. Lukaku fell to the ground and cried out in pain.

The referee blew his whistle quickly, and then showed Berardi a second yellow card. Berardi was sent off after two yellow cards turned into one red!
In the next time, Leeds will have ten people to fight.

The Everton team doctor entered the field to check Lukaku's condition, and after the inspection, he reluctantly gestured to Koeman to make a substitution.

Koeman exploded with a Dutch national curse, and turned to let the Ivorian striker Arouna Koné prepare to play.

By the time Everton completed the substitutions, the game had reached the 85th minute, and there was not much time left for Leeds United.

Cook still did not give up, running hard to grab the ball at the feet of Everton players.

This momentum of grabbing the ball inspired the Leeds players to follow suit.

Grandma Newton couldn't sit still any longer, she got up tremblingly and sang "Marching On Together" with the surrounding Leeds fans!
The singing of the fans made the Leeds players burst out with energy, supporting them to grit their teeth and fight on.

But Everton, who was fighting with one more player, didn't even think about attacking. He just wanted to use up the rest of the time. "Toffee" deliberately lowered the pace of the game so that Leeds United couldn't get any good opportunities.

In this way, the game was consumed to stoppage time. The "brainless" kick of the Everton players aroused the dissatisfaction of the Leeds fans, and there were deafening boos from the sidelines.

The ambitious young Davis couldn't bear the pressure and tried to bring the ball forward.

But he was quickly knocked down by Cook and grabbed the football.

Cook's ball-grabbing action was obviously a foul. The referee did not whistle the foul because it was in stoppage time to give the lagging side a certain chance to attack.

Cook took a few steps and gave the ball to James on the right. After James stopped the ball, he directly kicked the pass and the ball hit Baines and went out of the baseline.

At this time, Leeds goalkeeper Joe Hart also rushed into Everton's penalty area under the instructions of the fat man.

Cook could hardly run due to excessive consumption, so he could only hover near the middle circle.

The corner kick from Phillips was headed out of the penalty area by the tall and thick Williams.

The second point was also grabbed by Everton player Barry, who used the outside instep to clear the ball directly to the center circle.

The ball just came to the feet of Miralas, and the Belgian winger immediately sped forward and ran forward, only an empty goal was waiting for him.

In order to be stable, Miralas did not directly lob the empty goal, but chose to take the front and then push the empty goal.

It was his choice that gave Cook a chance.

Cook, who was still on his hips just now, let go and ran for forty yards with a sliding shovel.

The tackle was so clean that Miralas didn't even touch a hair, and Cook tackled the ball beautifully.

Miralas hit the ball and fell.

Cook climbed up first and threw the ball to the frontcourt.

Since time was running out, Cook didn't dare to take more, and chose to cross shortly after passing the middle circle.

With a long pass at an angle of 45 degrees, Stekelenburg abandoned the goal and was about to pick the ball. Halfway through the rush, he found that the football had a huge spin when it was close to the penalty area. Back inside the door.

In the process of Stekelenburg's retreat, several people with the football bypassed the middle and flew to the head of left winger Sun Xingmin. Sun Xingmin got up early and relied on his ability to stay in the air to hit a header.

Stekelenburg jumped up in a hurry and failed to hold the ball.

The football was hoisted into the far corner!

In just 15 seconds, the Leeds fans felt that they had come from hell to heaven, and the joy of surviving the disaster caused them to cheer with amazing decibels.

Even the fat man on the sidelines opened his mouth in shock. He thought the game was over when Miralas dribbled the ball, but he didn't expect the ball to go into Everton's goal in a blink of an eye.

The fat man felt a little confused.

Leeds United tied at the buzzer!
(End of this chapter)