As an event that only plays seven rounds, it is already the second half of the third round. There are only 32 teams left in total. If you can pass this level, you will become one of the top 16. Although the League Cup can be said to be the least concerned event for Premier League teams, entering the top 16 is not a great achievement, but if it is a British-Class team, it will probably be a big and small news.

What made Xiao Ming even more excited was that at the beginning of the third round of the League Cup, after all Premier League teams participated, the game began to be broadcast live to all England. For low-level teams, participating in such a game can also get a certain transfer fee share, and getting half of the opponent's ticket income away, which can be considered a very good fortune.

Xiao Ming was not very moved by the money. What he was even more moved was to show the style of Leiden Oriental in England. For low-level teams, if they can make a big splash in the League Cup and the FA Cup, it would be a shortcut to quickly improve their fame.

After all, there are forty-six rounds of the league. It doesn’t matter if you can give up the league temporarily when you can play the cup. You will just catch up slowly in the future. If you perform well in the cup, it will in turn stimulate the players’ self-confidence and make them perform better in the league.

Sunderland's home court, the Bright Stadium, can accommodate more than 43,000 people. This is the first time Xiao Ming has seen such a large stadium since he came to England. By the way, just looking at this stadium, you know that Sunderland will not be a strange thing to enter the Premier League in the future. A large stadium means that there are many fans watching the game on the spot. A lot of fans watching the game means that the ticket income is high. If the income is high, you will have enough financial resources to buy some better players. Everyone understands this principle.

But then again, the attendance rate of Guangming Stadium does not seem to be very high. The stadium with more than 40,000 people is only half of the attendance rate. Perhaps it is because it does not pay much attention to this League Cup? Leiden Oriental players breathed a sigh of relief. They rarely have the opportunity to play football under the attention of so many home team fans. If there are more people, they may feel heavy pressure. However, Xiao obviously has to be a little disappointed. The low attendance rate means that the ticket income is not much, and his income will be a little less.

After a while of random thoughts, Xiao Ming looked at the head coach Sunderland on the coach's seat on the other side of the home team, and secretly wondered in his heart whether the hiding Hakbee and Barack played a role in the last round? Will he be surprised to see that the starting lineup of today were two people changed?

Sunderland's head coach Ian Evans frowned and looked at a list of starting lineups in his hands, and turned to ask the assistant coach around him: "What's going on? Their starting lineup has changed two people compared to the last league game? A seventeen-year-old German boy and an eighteen-year-old England striker?"

"Yes, these two people were not in these two positions in the last game, but maybe it was because the two main players were injured?" The assistant coach shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter if two teenage guys... It's the Georgian who is a threat." He pointed to Jinklaze, who was doing warm-up moves on the court: "He is a member of the Georgian national team. He joined the national team at the age of nineteen. After transferring to Leiden East this season, he has three goals and five assists in the league. His personal skills are very good. In the first round of the League Cup, he also scored a long-distance raid with three consecutive players. It is the core of Leiden East's offense. It is said that most of the offensives were initiated by him."

Evans nodded, he also noticed Jin Kraze and made targeted arrangements. There should be no problem with two players defending this offensive core of Leiden East.

But what are the levels of those two teenage guys? Evans thought to himself.

Phillips, who Xiao Ming feared the most in Sunderland's team, was not the one who was the most afraid of. This short forward is a productive shooter. It seems that Sunderland scored more than 100 league goals in six seasons. Whether in the Premier League or the League One, his goal rate is quite high. It seems that Phillips has not transferred to Sunderland yet.

However, there is another familiar name on Sunderland's forward line. Irish high center Neil Quinn, an Irish shooter who has just transferred from Manchester City, a super center who is 1.93 meters tall, and a center who can't use heading skills well. Although he has not been famous because he only plays in the English League and is not strong in the Irish national team, he is a heading expert whose heading skills are no less than Bielhoff.

Brin looked at Quinn nervously. Before the game, Xiao Ming arranged for him to watch Quinn. Although they were both Irish, the 27-year-old Quinn has played for the national team more than 30 times and is the absolute main force of the national team. Brin has only been selected for the Irish youth team under 21 years old...

Matt Holland, who is also an Irishman, patted his shoulder and comforted him: "It's okay, I will help you defend him... His header is very powerful, you don't have to directly compete with him, interfere with him, block the position, and make him unable to fight for the top with comfort. That's enough... But he has a great strength, fight with him with all his strength and try to squeeze him out of the penalty area."

In this game, Holland's position will be relatively low. Xiao Ming specially arranged two Irish people to watch Quinn to see if he will be responsible for his compatriots. Oh no, he should be showing mercy.

After the game started, Sunderland, who was at home, immediately launched a fierce attack. Their attack was very simple. Many times, they went straight to the front court to find Quinn, and then created opportunities through Quinn's ferry.

"Damn, this guy's header is really good, not inferior to Bielhof."

After watching the game for a while, Xiao Ming couldn't help but mutter. Of course, he said these words in Chinese, otherwise it would be difficult for MacDonald to ask who Bielhoff was - Bielhoff had already been to Inter Milan at this time, but he had hardly played. Now it seems that he is playing in Serie B. There are still two years left before the European Cup's stunning success.

Maybe he could dig up Bielhov? In a trance, Xiao Ming was a little distracted again. When he thought of Bielhov, he remembered the 96 European Cup. The Czechs' fierce men seemed to be still in the Czech Republic. I wonder if he could dig up one or two...

Just as Xiao Ming was accustomed to being distracted, a huge cheer suddenly came from his ears.

"Damn, have you lost the ball?" Xiao Ming looked at the field in shock and happened to see Quinn running in front with his arms wide open, and a group of Sunderland's teammates behind him were chasing him.

Sunderland's long pass from the backcourt, Quinn completely defeated the young Brin in physical confrontation. However, he did not head the ball directly to his teammates, but instead pushed the ball down, then stretched out his long legs and took a step to catch up with the ball, and then shot the ball out before Holland made up. Hilton could not save it.

"Did you concede the ball so soon?" Xiao Ming was a little stunned, but he quickly returned to his calmness: "It's okay, tell the players to continue defending until they appear slacking off."

In this case, Xiao Ming and Leiden East have long been mentally prepared. After all, Sunderland is not a mid- and lower-level team like Barnsley. They are one of the most powerful teams in the League One. Moreover, this game is still at their home court, so it will naturally not be so easy. So Xiao Ming sets a tactic to defend first and wait for an opportunity to attack. As long as Sunderland despises Leiden East, then Leiden East will have a chance.

After watching the game for a while, Xiao Ming felt relieved. After leading, Sunderland did not choose a more stable offensive method, but continued to launch a fierce attack, constantly finding Quinn through crosses on both wings and direct long passes in the backcourt to create opportunities. He simply did not treat Leiden East as an opponent of the same level - of course, Leiden East and they are not of the same level.

However, it seems that Sunderland has put some effort into this game. The core of Leiden Oriental's frontcourt offense, Jin Kraze, has always had a player who keeps inseparable defense. It seems that he is completely strangling the source of Leiden Oriental's offense and then defeating Leiden Oriental in one fell swoop through a fierce attack - but this is also normal. Sunderland is most concerned about the League One. They do not think they can go far in the League Cup, and of course they do not want to waste too much effort on this English League C opponent.

Sunderland's offensive was very strong, and Leiden East naturally recovered very well. In this case, Xiao Ming was not too worried about Leiden East's defense. No matter how powerful Quinn's header was, it would not always be possible to compete for the top.

The first half passed slowly with Sunderland's fierce attack. Leiden East defended quite tightly. It seemed that it was at a disadvantage but did not allow Sunderland to continue to expand the score. It often counterattacked through Jin Klaze's personal skills. Although it threatened Sunderland's goal several times, it also made Sunderland's defense jump for a while. It did not dare to press the assist so unscrupulously, and also alleviated Leiden East's defensive pressure.

After the start of the second half, Leiden East still kept it safe. Twenty minutes passed, and the score was still 1-0. Although Evans was not very satisfied with the 1-0 score, for such a winning or losing knockout match, winning one goal is enough, and the result is the most important.

So when the game ended in the last twenty minutes, Sunderland's offensive slowed down. At the same time, Quinn was basically fighting against several young centre-backs of the opponent until now, and his physical fitness was consumed a lot - a high center forward like him would not be particularly good. In order to keep Quinn physically healthy to cope with the next League One game, Evans replaced Quinn with a fast substitute forward and prepared to use defense to survive the last period of time.

After Evans thought that after being suppressed by Sunderland for so long, Leiden East did not hit so quickly. Sending a fast forward can also play Leiden East's counterattack. Even if you can't score a goal again, it is enough to keep the lead until the end of the game.

What he didn't know was that he had just made this substitution, and Xiao Ming was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst into laughter in his heart!

Originally, Xiao Ming planned to use this method of defending to make Sunderland impatient and press harder, so that Leiden East might have a chance. However, with Quinn, a center with excellent heading ability in the frontcourt, Sunderland's counterattack became very simple, and a direct long pass can often form a threat. So Xiao Ming was satisfied with taking advantage of the opponent's impatient opportunity to suppress the opponent. But now Evans has actually banned his martial arts. How can he not make Xiao Ming ecstatic?

What's more, Sunderland actually started to retreat after a failure of an offense! This was simply giving up the initiative to Leiden East!

Before she could think about why Evans suddenly had such a stupid move, Xiao Ming stood up and made a gesture to the field - counterattack!

Just like a long-silent volcano, Leiden's attack in the east suddenly erupted!

Carl dribbled the ball over the half and then knocked the ball to Hackby. Jinklaze ran over and still got the ball under the close-fitting defense of the opponent's defender. Then he turned around and dodged the defender who was close-fitting defense.

But the second-place defender Sunderland rushed up immediately, and they did not lack the number of players in the backcourt as they retracted.

Jin Clarze almost controlled the ball, and then helped to pass the ball back to Horan. Seeing this scene, Evans felt relieved. When the players from Leiden East rushed up, he was indeed shocked, but he was relieved to see that Jin Clarze could not break through Sunderland's defense.

Jinklaze is the most threatening person in Leiden's East offense. If he can hold him up, Evans will be confident that he will survive this last period and win the game at the lowest cost.

But what Evans didn't know was that from the beginning, Xiao Ming bet on Barack, and Jinklaze was just a cover!

After most of the game, Leiden East began to attack over halftime. However, Jin Kraze was under the opponent's tight control and did not get any good opportunities. Most of the time, Leiden East could only create opportunities from both wings. However, although Ward is already a good player in the English C League, there is still a considerable gap with a high-level center like Quinn. Most of the time, he was fought for by Sunderland's defender to the first place. Occasionally, Ward won a few headers, and he could not create too much threats under the interference of the opponent's experienced masters.

Jin Clarze once again took the ball on the left, Sunderland's right-back and midfielder did not dare to neglect. Although Leiden East's offense did not create many opportunities, Jin Clarze made them anxious again and again. Now no one dares to underestimate this Georgian anymore.

With his feet rhythmically taking small steps, Jin Clarze used it to dodge a few spikes and then dodge a defensive player on the opponent. Seeing that the situation was not good, another Sunderland midfielder came over. Jin Clarze seemed to be staring at the ball under his feet, but he had already keenly noticed that the front of Sunderland's penalty area was empty!

Jinklaze passed the ball! The ball flew between two Sunderland players and flew accurately to Barack, who had been in front of him at some point!

"Michal--" Xiao Ming jumped up from the sidelines and shouted loudly.

With his shout, Barack took the ball forward and immediately took a long shot!

The ball flew into the penalty area like a cannonball, then hit hard on the inside of the left goal post and flew into the goal quickly!
Chapter completed!