After the match against Leverkusen, the English media titled "Leedon East Strives towards the Triple Crown". You should know that in the knockout match that Leiden East participated in before, they had never lost in the first round - but this seems to be a nonsense, because Leiden East has only played the Champions League knockout match for two seasons so far, and they won the championship all the way. It can even be said that their breakthrough rate in the Champions League knockout match so far is 100%...

The title of the German media is "The Germans defeat the Germans". They believe that Leiden Oriental actually did not create many opportunities in the whole game. If it weren't for Klose, who was also a German, assisted Vanny and succeeded after coming on as a substitute, Leverkusen could at least take away a draw away.

Xiao Ming didn't care much about the statements of the media on both sides. After all, the two sides will play the second round in Germany in a week, and it is natural to see who wins and who loses.

After this game, Leiden East suffered a lot of losses. Deselli accumulated yellow cards and was suspended. Although Jin Kraze only played halftime, he fought too fiercely in that halftime. In addition, he had just recovered from a serious illness. The medical team replied that he needed a good rest. It is best not to play in the next game. Even the second round against Leverkusen may not be able to play.

Leiden East has losses, and Leverkusen is not much better. Novotney can come back, but Ramilao is suspended again, and this midfielder is missing. It is estimated that Leverkusen can only allow Barack to continue as a midfielder. If he is in the back position, the threat to Leiden East will be much smaller.

Before the second leg, Leiden Oriental will play away against Southampton in the league. Fortunately, Southampton is not far from London, which saves Leiden Oriental from running back and forth.

Perhaps it is because Southampton's "Saint" Matthew Leticsel has decided to retire after the end of this season. Although Leticsel has not played for Southampton for more than a year due to injury, Southampton's performance this season is excellent. Although they have never escaped the danger of relegation, their ranking has not fallen into the relegation zone. This is a good ending for Southampton, which has been striving for relegation since the establishment of the Premier League.

In the last round of the league, Manchester United suffered another defeat. They lost to Liverpool, which was extremely fierce recently. The points fell to fourth place and were already five points away by Leiden Oriental. However, Arsenal, who was no longer tied to the Champions League, continued to maintain a winning streak, defeated Charlton three goals away from home, and continued to chase behind with a two-point advantage.

Now Arsenal has replaced Manchester United and become Leiden Oriental's biggest opponent in the league. Among their opponents in the last five rounds of the game, except for facing the city's arch rivals Tottenham and Manchester United in the next two rounds, the remaining three opponents are not strong, namely Ipswich, Everton and Bolton. Leiden Oriental's opponent in the last three rounds are Liverpool, Sunderland and Leeds United. Their opponents in these two rounds of the league are slightly weaker than Arsenal. In addition to facing Southampton, the opponent in the 35th round is Newcastle, but Leiden Oriental is at home and the possibility of winning is also quite high. If the opponent cannot be defeated in these two rounds of the league or is overtaken by Arsenal, then the situation for Leiden Oriental will be quite serious in the last three rounds.

It is precisely because of this that even if he has to face the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals next, Xiao Ming still sent most of the main players in this game. In addition to rotating Jin Kraze and Figo, he let Ashley Cole sit on the bench to rest, and Sun Jihai appeared at the left-back position.

The league was very difficult, and Southampton had not yet escaped the danger of relegation, and they were also unwilling to see their spiritual leader in the last season to encounter the danger of relegation of the team. So although Leiden East was a bit too strong for them, they still launched tenacious resistance at home. Although Leiden East's offense had an advantage, they were successfully cleared by the united Southampton defenders one by one.

It was not until the second half that Leiden East only relied on Fanny's 19th league goal this season to take the lead. After that, Southampton launched a tide counterattack, and with a momentum, it actually suppressed Leiden East. However, Yasquelenen's performance was still steady. He saved Bridge and Delgado's shots in a row to ensure that the goal was not lost.

After a breath of relief, Ronaldo passed the opponent's two defenders in the counterattack and then assisted Kloze, who came on the bench, to expand the score. Leiden East defeated Southampton with two goals away from home and continued to maintain the lead in the league.

The result of another game made Leiden Oriental feel regretful. Although it was a away game, Tottenham performed extremely tenaciously. After Lyonberg took the lead for Arsenal in the first half, they withstood Arsenal's next crazy attack, and even firmly suppressed Arsenal after the start of the second half. In the 81st minute, they relied on Sheringham's goal-shot to equalize the score. Many Leiden Oriental fans also appeared at the Highbury Stadium and cheered for Tottenham. After seeing this goal, they cheered and thanked Tottenham for their hard work!

However, one thing is very regrettable is that Arsenal still won the game. Cameroon midfielder Lauren scored a long shot after five minutes and broke through the goal guarded by Sullivan. Arsenal went through hardships to win the game and continued to put intensified pressure on Leiden East.

After receiving this news, Xiao Ming shrugged regretfully. Both sides won the battle after a hard fight, but Arsenal could have a good rest after winning the league for a week, but they had to go away to face another extremely difficult game...

There is no way, if you want to get more, you have to pay more. And now Leiden Oriental is not in a bad situation. After all, they are still two points ahead of Arsenal and have a certain advantage in goal difference. If they can get ten in the next four rounds of the league, they will basically be able to win the league championship. What's more, Arsenal will face Manchester United away in the next round. This round of the league may be a good opportunity for Leiden Oriental to widen the gap.

Leverkusen, North Rhine Westfall, Germany.

This is a small city. Leverkusen Club is only a member of the football department of the 14 departments under the sporting clubs of Bayer. Their home stadium can only accommodate 22,000 people. After Germany won the right to host the World Cup in 2006, the city of Leverkusen agreed that it was completely unrealistic to expand Bayer Arena into a stadium with 40,000 people, resulting in Leverkusen giving up the opportunity to bid for the World Cup. Compared with the cities of Cologne, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Bochum and other cities in the state, Leverkusen seems so small. However, this city is one of the best clubs in the Bundesliga in recent years, although they have not won any domestic top league championships so far.

For Leverkusen fans, this season was a season that made them extremely happy. They were invincible in the league, and the German Cup also reached the final. The Champions League entered the quarterfinals historically, and there was still a chance to go further...

If you can win the championship in these competitions, it will undoubtedly be the most memorable day in Leverkusen's history.

Of course, to do this, they must first defeat the two-time Champions League winner Leiden Oriental and step on their bodies to accomplish this.

After arriving at Leverkusen, Xiao Ming and Leiden East players felt a familiar feeling.

Like Leiden, this place is not big. Although it is much bigger than Leiden, it gives people a very familiar feeling of a small town. But then again, North Rhine Westphalia is not only not the capital of Germany, but also quite similar to London. It is the most economically developed region in Germany and is also an extremely developed region with football. It is almost the same as the population of Greater London. It also has countless top and amateur clubs...

Cologne, Bochum, Bochum, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Duisburg, Bielefeld, Aachen, Dortmund, Schalke Zero Four... These names that are familiar to Bundesliga fans are all in this area, and Leverkusen is of course also part of it.

"Liverkusen, like us, belongs to small cities with big ambitions. He is also attached to big cities and hopes to achieve brilliant results... In this regard, we are no different from them, but our luck is better than them and we have won some remarkable honors. However, in this game, I will not pray for good luck to Leverkusen."

Looking at this quiet city, Xiao Ming said to all the players thoughtfully.

These words aroused the players' pride and honor. Yes, Leiden is also a small town. Compared with Leverkusen, they are even smaller. The entire city has a population of only tens of thousands, and the Walthamsto area that is attached to is only 200,000, but their 30,000 people are full of home games, which is almost two-thirds of the total population of Leiden small town!

Although many fans came to watch the game from the Walthamsto and nearby areas, it is not surprising that when Leiden Oriental was in the low-level league, their attendance rate reached more than 5,000 people per game, accounting for one-tenth of the local population. After all, in Leiden, a small town with no highlights, being able to have a professional team is already the biggest highlight!

The fans are enthusiastic, and Leiden Oriental is also very successful. The achievements that Leiden Oriental has achieved in recent years are enough to make everyone proud. It also has established a relatively wealthy family that is not enough, but is already a good foundation.

For Leiden Oriental, they did not gain enough advantages at home and would face the opponent's crazy attack away. Their biggest advantage was their experience in the Champions League. They have experienced several knockout matches in the past two years, and they have encountered many situations like playing home and then away. They know deeply what the away team is afraid of. When facing an adverse situation, they will also appear calmer.

In this regard, Leverkusen, who had only had one Champions League knockout experience before this season, was obviously much more immature. The last time they played in the Champions League knockout stage was in the 97-98 season. At that time, they were eliminated by Real Madrid, who later won the Champions League championship in the quarter-finals. They played one-to-one with their opponents at home, and were eliminated by zero-to-three away games.

Inadequate experience means that the team may experience turmoil in an unfavorable situation. Although this probability is not great, Leiden East can completely take advantage of this.

In the adaptation venue and training before the game, Leiden Oriental was not subject to any difficulties from Leverkusen. After all, in the European arena, almost no team will play their home advantage so much. Perhaps only the Turkish clubs will do this...

Barak, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, shrugged his nose, then turned his head and shouted exaggeratedly at the kitchen: "It smells so good, my dear, your skills are getting better and better!"

Simone stretched out her head from the kitchen and replied with a smile: "There is no way, your mouth is so clever, how can you not cook better... If you want to eat quickly, help lay the table, otherwise you can keep waiting!"

Barak laughed, then quickly got up and skillfully laid the table. Simone brought out a few pots of vegetables, placed a table quickly, then wiped his hands with an apron, and said with a smile: "Eat, don't starve my Michard."

Barack smiled, and then chewed a sausage with one fork.

"There are some things in the refrigerator. I have to go to the supermarket to buy some tomorrow. If you have time tomorrow, please help me buy things. I can get it back alone."

While watching Barack eat, Simone said while tidying up the room, then she stood up and patted her forehead: "Look at my memory...you have a game tomorrow, right? Then forget it, I'll go by myself."

Barack stopped eating and thoughtful with a spoon in his mouth. If outsiders saw him like this, they would never believe that he was from the mighty German chariot on the field. In fact, perhaps only Simone could see him like this.

"I'll go shopping with you after the game tomorrow." Barack said to Simone after thinking for a while.

Simone was stunned for a moment, then straightened her waist and asked curiously: "Don't you have a game tomorrow? If you win, you will definitely celebrate together."

She didn't say that it would be like this if she lost. In fact, every time she lost, Barack would sulk at home alone and didn't want to do anything. Simone was very familiar with this...

"No matter whether you win or lose, I will accompany you. If you win, I will ask the coach for leave." Barack buried his head and started eating again: "I will invite someone to dinner tomorrow. Maybe there will be a chance tomorrow. He is a busy man."

"In our house?" Simone became even more curious, because whether it was in Kaiserslautern or in Leverkusen, Barack rarely invited people to visit his home. Even his best teammates had never invited them, and he wanted to invite them out to play. So far, there are only three guests at Barack's home - the head coach Rehager, Leverkusen's former Daum and current head coach Topmuller, before.

Who will he invite this time? And there will be a chance tomorrow... You should know that with Barack's low-key personality on the court, he dislikes those troubles the most.

"Can you tell me who is invited? What kind of dishes he likes can buy them tomorrow." Simone asked.

Barack began to meditate again. While he was meditating, a very strange expression appeared on his face, both nostalgic, both gratitude and regret...

"He... should be my first head coach after starting professional football. The enlightenment head coach. He discovered me and changed me from an amateur player to a professional player, and made me get my first income... But I left him because I missed home, but I don't regret it, because if I didn't leave him at that time, I might not be able to touch you." Barack took Simone's hand.

Simone knew who he was talking about.

"You are talking about Xiao, right? That legendary head coach." As the player's wife, Simone also knows a lot about European football, and at the same time, she is naturally very familiar with Barack's previous career.

"It's him." Barack laughed: "When I told him that he wanted to leave, he was very sorry. Maybe he was a little unhappy all the time, so I wanted to invite him to visit his house. No matter what, I was sorry for him at that time, because Leiden Oriental was at the critical moment of the Premier League."

"Will he come? I heard that this man is very proud and never go to drink with his opponent after losing the game." Simone was afraid that his man would put a cold butt on his face.

"That's okay." Barack laughed: "No matter whether he comes or not, I must invite him to visit. This is also a fulfillment of my wish. And I know that the boss... is not a petty person. Besides, it has been so long. In the eyes of others, I should regret it."

"Then why don't you regret it?" Simone deliberately glanced at Barack: "If you didn't leave at that time, there would be two champions in the Champions League."

"I said, I don't regret it, because if I hadn't left at that time, I might not have met you. Then who would have cooked me for food... The boss is very pitiful, such a rich man is in a place with rough food like London..." Barack took Simone's hand and said with a smile.
Chapter completed!