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Chapter 356 Football Association Cup

In the new season, the personnel of the City League have not changed.After a whole winter of training, everyone is in good condition.Under Zeng Lao's suggestion, Liu Feiyu added several players from the youth training camp.

The number of the first team of the City League basically maintains around 30 people.In the first year after the World Cup, the world football gradually returned to calm. This year, the national team central defender Li Yifeng, who had an outstanding performance in the World Cup, was favored by a foreign club and successfully completed the transfer.The veteran Gu Daming officially announced his retirement at the end of the season after the World Cup.

And today's domestic top league has also completed its expansion, from the original twelve teams to fourteen teams.

In terms of relegation, there are still two teams relegation.

And this year's domestic top league is also full of big names. The major clubs have increased their investment and introduced excellent domestic and foreign players. However, the city league, which has been operating in a low-key manner, has not made any moves. It is still an all-Chinese class!
"This year, our focus is on the FA Cup. As for the league, it's still the same sentence, just stay in the top league!" Liu Feiyu looked at the players and said, "This year, in our half area, there are quite a few strong teams, but these teams are all determined to win the championship. With such a fierce competition to win the championship this year, they may choose to give up the FA Cup, or they may not be able to fully devote themselves to the FA Cup."

What Liu Feiyu said is correct. The excellent performance of the national team in the World Cup has made the enthusiasm of football fans in China unprecedentedly high.This has also allowed major businesses to see business opportunities. This is also the main reason why many sponsors of the teams have increased their investment this year. The increased investment of major clubs has also made today's league championship competition more intense!

"Of the seven teams listed by everyone as hopeful to win the championship this year, four are in our half, and the three teams with the highest probability of winning this year are all in our half, so our road to the FA Cup today is also full of difficulties." Liu Feiyu said.

This year's top league fans have selected seven teams that are expected to win the championship, namely the veteran powerhouses Yancheng, Jingcheng, Shencheng, Shancheng, Jincheng, plus the new giants Dongcheng and Yucheng.And the newly promoted East City team, relying on their strong financial resources, recruited aggressively at the beginning of the season.Thus the strength soared.In terms of chances of winning the championship, they surpassed the two veteran teams of Shencheng and Beijing, and ranked second, while the Dongcheng team and the league defending champion Yancheng team were divided into this half of the city league in the FA Cup grouping.In addition to the Beijing team, the three most promising teams in the league are all in this half of the city league.This makes the road to the FA Cup of the City League very difficult.

Liu Feiyu looked at everyone and continued: "But, no matter what! We must win the FA Cup this year! This is also our only goal this year. Of course, the league cannot be relegated. This is the basic requirement!"

"Okay! Come on everyone!"

"come on!"

In early March, the top flight started as scheduled.In the first five games, the City League has two wins, one draw and two losses, ranking ninth.

The third round of the FA Cup has officially started.

This year's FA Cup was also restructured. Amateur teams can also directly sign up for the FA Cup, so the FA Cup has also added two rounds.The professional teams did not start to participate in the competition until the third round.

Since the first two rounds of competition were all amateur teams and low-level teams, the top league was not interrupted.

In the third round, there will be 64 teams participating. These teams will play a single knockout match, and the team with the lowest level or the lowest ranking in the same level in the previous year will occupy the home field advantage.

The City League's opponent in this round is a semi-amateur team.

"We must take every opponent seriously!" Liu Feiyu looked at everyone and said, "For us, every game must be played as a final! We cannot underestimate every opponent!"

"understand!"

In order to make the game more fair and entertaining, the Football Association stipulates that all teams in high-level leagues are not allowed to use foreign aid for teams in low-level leagues. However, this rule has no effect on the city league, which has no foreign aid.

Liu Feiyu sent a full main lineup in this game.

Goalkeeper Lei Yiming, four defenders Yuan Xiaoqi, Sui Dong, Gao Liang, Hao Wei, double midfielder Xiao Zhanbo, Zhao Junzhe, two wingers Liang Fei and Zheng Bin, front midfielder Qu Bo and Chen Hai.

After the game started, the City League firmly controlled the advantage on the field.Leading by three goals in the first half.

In the second half, Liu Feiyu only replaced a few substitute players, and finally defeated his opponent 4:0 and entered the top 32.

What Liu Feiyu didn't expect was that in this round, it can be said that there were many upsets. First, several teams in the second-tier league were eliminated by amateur teams. Closer to that, in the top league, several teams aiming at relegation chose to give up the FA Cup one after another. Although this is understandable, it was unexpected that they would give up so early!
Immediately afterwards, an even bigger surprise appeared. The Dongcheng team, which played in the all-China class, was actually eliminated by a team from the third-tier league!

This result surprised everyone!After this game, the Dongcheng team's chances of winning the championship dropped sharply, giving way to the top three!
"This is too interesting!"

After knowing the result, Liu Feiyu said very happily.If all goes well, the City League will meet the Dongcheng team in the next game, and now the Dongcheng team has been eliminated!

How could Liu Feiyu be unhappy with this result!As for the other two strong teams, the City League will not meet until they reach the semifinals.

The reason why the Dongcheng team was eliminated is actually very simple. They underestimated the enemy. They only sent 18 players to the away game. Among them, only five players played in the league, and none of them were the main force!It's no wonder we didn't lose.

Of course, if the Dongcheng team advances smoothly, then when facing the city league, I am afraid that the lineup sent will not be like this, but foreign players can play.

In any case, the elimination of the East City team is definitely a good thing for the city league!Great news!
Before entering the semi-finals, although the opponent's strength will continue to increase, Liu Feiyu is sure to defeat the opponent.

The league is still going on, and the opponent of this round of the city league is the Dongcheng team that has just been eliminated from the FA Cup.Originally, Liu Feiyu still wanted to get to know the Dongcheng team well through this game, but now it seems unnecessary.

In this game, the Dongcheng team played with all their main players, and there was no hope of winning the FA Cup. This also made the Dongcheng team focus all their attention on the league!

(End of this chapter)