Football: My coaches are all world-class stars

The second half of the game against Leicester City continued the dullness of the first half.

Both sides did a good job of defending, and there were no goals in the game.

To be precise, not only did not score, both sides did not even have a decent chance to shoot.

In the final stage of the game, Zhang Bo could also feel that the goal was hopeless.

Go back and seriously participate in defense, but it is almost the same as facing Chelsea in the last game.

But there was no chance to fight back, and there was no way to stage another long-distance raid.

Millwall scored their first 0-0 game of the season and scored a point, but dropped to eighth in the league.

In the next round, they will be a guest in Manchester and play away against Manchester United.

From Chelsea to Fox City and then to Manchester United, this round of games can be regarded as a devil's schedule.

But before that, we have to play an FA Cup game.

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The FA Cup is actually very long.

In the past, low-level teams at all levels had to play four rounds in qualifying rounds before reaching the serious first round.

From this round, the English Championship teams began to participate, and after two rounds of competition, there were 64 teams left.

By the time of the round of 64, the Premier League teams began to participate.

The FA Cup draw rules do not have any evasion principles for leagues at the same level, so theoretically speaking, Millwall's first round of FA Cup matches is likely to draw opponents at the Premier League level.

However, Millwall's luck was quite good. Their opponent in the first round was drawn by a team from League One, Doncaster Rovers Football Club.

This professional football club, founded in 1879, is located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The most glorious history should be in the 2006-2007 season final, beating Bristol Rovers 3-2 in overtime and winning the league championship. champion.

The so-called League Championship refers to the English League Championship, referred to as the British Championship.

Once a year, the participating teams are teams from the third to fifth tiers in England. It is considered a unique cup among low-level league teams.

But even so, it is an honor for a team in a low-level league.

Moreover, there are no high-level teams participating, and their chances of winning the championship are also higher. Although it is not as good as the traditional FA Cup and League Cup, at least they can leave something in the showroom.

In the 2012-2013 season, Doncaster also won the First Division Championship and was promoted to the English Championship.

However, in the following season, they ranked at the bottom and returned to the English First Division.

In the following six or seven years, it has been hovering between League One and League Two, a typical century-old low-level league club.

But even low-level clubs have their home stadium, Keepmott Stadium.The stadium can accommodate 15 spectators and cost £231 million to build.

It has to be said that the entire English Football League system is too healthy.

Even teams in the third-tier league can spend 3200 million to build teams. The background of these century-old clubs is really beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

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Drawn to Doncaster, Ranieri slightly relieved.

If another Premier League team is drawn, then the only option is to give up the FA Cup.Otherwise, it is said that this devil's schedule is really impossible to play.

But despite being drawn to the third level of the team, Ranieri can not completely relax.

There are too many upsets in the FA Cup.

For example, Arsenal lost 2-4 to Nottingham Forest in the game the day before.

It would be fine if they lost to Doncaster, the most troublesome thing is the draw!

According to the rules of the FA Cup, if there is a tie, there will be no overtime and only one make-up match will be played.

Now that the Millwall team is full of injuries and the schedule is intensive, playing one more game will put a lot of pressure on the team even against a team of Doncaster's level!

So Ranieri would rather lose the game than play a draw.

So that in this game, Ranieri rarely formed a 3-4-3 attacking lineup.

Agger, Zuma, Beavers on the back line.

Midfielder Abdo, Brees, Martin, Vladimir Turan.

Schurrle, Zhang Bo and Grigory are on the front line.

There are a lot of main players, only Shaqiri and Saville have been rotated, which seems to mean giving up the next round of the league to save the FA Cup.

But Ranieri's deeper thoughts still want a game to end this round, whether he wins or loses.

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Of course, Sheringham is very aware of the team's difficulties.

In fact, when the league started, Sheringham had already foreseen the possibility of a concentrated outbreak of injuries.

Let's just say that Cahill and Johnson are not young anymore.

Especially Cahill, who has only participated in the World Cup and is the main force of the team, the test of his health is still relatively large.

Cahill couldn't stand it, which was expected by Sheringham.

So from the beginning of the season, without Ranieri's request, Sheringham has already taken the initiative to lead the team to inspect various defenders.

From those who are young and have potential, to those who are a little experienced but a little expensive, there are a lot in the "shopping cart".

But he didn't expect Wallace to suffer a career-destroying injury.

All of a sudden, the midfielder needs people, which puts him under a lot of pressure.Of course, it also includes the issue of Zhang Bo's contract renewal.

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"Mr. Sheringham! Long time no see!"

After finishing the training, Zhang Bo was a little surprised when he saw Sheringham when he walked out of the training ground.

After becoming the football director of the team, Sheringham often goes to games, but there are really few on the training ground.

Seeing the sudden appearance today, Zhang Bo was really taken aback.

He blurted out a sentence, but saw Sheringham said with a smile on his face: "Long time no see, our new captain!"

Zhang Bo was very kind to Sheringham.

If he hadn't talked to himself at the beginning, Harris would definitely drive himself away, and there would be no last training game.

This meeting also smiled from the heart: "Mr. Sheringham, how are you doing recently, you must be busy."

Seeing Zhang Bo smiling so happily, Sheringham felt a little ashamed.

The purpose of his coming, to put it bluntly, is to play the emotional card.

At present, the negotiations with Gabbiadini have stagnated. The handsome Italian guy over there is not making progress, and the concessions are very limited, far exceeding expectations.

The board of directors decided that the contract renewal negotiations need to be completed during the winter break. According to this progress, there must be no other way.

In desperation, Sheringham had no choice but to play the emotional card on Zhang Bo with the cheek to allow the negotiation to continue.

But well...

In fact, when Zhang Bo saw Sheringham for the first time, he knew what he was doing in Bole.

A person who never shows up once suddenly came to him, could it be to say hello?

here...

Something must have happened.