This proposal naturally received a warm response from Jessica. The two of them kissed on the streets naturally did not avoid the omnipresent paparazzi, and indirectly helped Sweetheart Lawu to promote...

Sweetheart Spicy Dance premiered in major theaters in London on September 8, with a warm response. Although this kind of youth song and dance film has not many audiences, it is very enthusiastic. What's more, the UK is also a country with a wide range of races. Such a film with some anti-racism has also received praise from many media.

During this period, the English national team also performed well, defeating Macedonia and Liechtenstein in two European Cup qualifiers. Although the fans felt that it was not very satisfying to win against Liechtenstein at home, a point ahead of Turkey also allowed them to directly enter the European Cup as the first in the group in the last round. English fans were quite satisfied with this.

After two rounds of national team games, Leiden Oriental's internationals returned to the Leicester training base and began to prepare for the fifth round of the game. In Leiden Oriental's main lineup, almost everyone participated in two national team games. Ronaldo and Lucio, the three Brazilian internationals flew back to South America and played two games before flying back, and their bodies seemed quite tired.

Xiao Ming didn't care much about this. There are many national players in his team and many international players in his competitors. The pressure is the same. Like the national team, when the competition is intensive, it is relatively the opportunity for those mid- and downstream teams.

Now in the league standings, Arsenal ranked first in the standings with four consecutive victories, Leiden Oriental and Manchester United tied for second place with three wins and one draw. In this round of the league, their opponents are also mid-range teams. Arsenal faces the newly promoted Portsmouth at home, Leiden Oriental challenged Blackburn away, and Manchester United played against Charlton away. As for Chelsea, who won one win, two draws and one loss in the first four rounds, welcomed Tottenham Hotspur at home.

For the upcoming Champions League match, Xiao Ming hid Ronaldo and Lucio in this league, but Van Ni's performance allowed them to win easily away. Although Blackburn's forward Jason grabbed a turnover on the defense line in the eighth minute, the performance of Leiden Oriental's frontcourt trident immediately extinguished the excitement of Blackburn fans. Former Inter Milan defender Grasco tripped Ronaldo and who broke through in the penalty area. Fanny took the penalty to equalize the score. Shortly after the second half, Ronaldo made a beautiful breakthrough and assisted Fanny to score twice. Before the end of the game, Ronaldo broke through outside the penalty area and shot straight into the dead corner. Three to one, Leiden Oriental successfully turned the tables and won the game.

Manchester United and Chelsea also won. Manchester United defeated Charlton with two goals from Beatty. It is worth mentioning that Joaquin, who started in this game, completed two beautiful assists. The local media in Manchester cheered and encouraged, believing that Espanyol had successfully taken over Beckham's mantle. Chelsea, who did not perform well in the previous rounds, finally played a beautiful game at home. Lampard scored the first record, Mutu scored twice, Hasselbaink added icing on the cake before the end of the game. Although Tottenham's Canute also scored two goals, he still could not get rid of the fate of losing two-to-four at home.

Arsenal, who maintained a complete victory, encountered a draw in this round of the league. Veteran Sheringham's goal shortly after the opening gave Arsenal a blow to help Portsmouth lead away. Although Henry scored a controversial penalty, Arsenal was still tied by the promoted player Portsmouth at home, and the points returned to the same starting line as Manchester United and Leiden Oriental.

"The championship is still a battle between the top three, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Leiden Oriental. Among them, Leiden Oriental has been very strong recently. They have scored three goals in two consecutive games and have shown excellent form. Compared with them, Arsenal is a little too dependent on Henry. Once Henry's condition declines in this game, their offense is very difficult, and Manchester United is still digesting the adverse effects brought by Beckham's departure. Fortunately, Joaquin's performance has given them hope. Chelsea? They have started to slowly get on the right track, but it will take time to attack the top three. These four teams will soon participate in the Champions League game. Let's see if they can form another competition in the European arena."

After the game, the English media commented that in fact, in addition to these four teams, Liverpool's performance was not bad. Their points were even one point higher than Chelsea with eight points. However, after spending money before the start of the season, the teams the media paid attention to were not only Leiden Oriental, Manchester United and Arsenal, and Liverpool was forgotten unconsciously.

On September 17, the UEFA Champions League season in 2003-04 finally started to fire. The two Premier League teams that played first were Manchester United and Chelsea. In the end, these two teams were also very successful. Manchester United broke Panasinacos, Beatty, Joaquin, Solskjaer, Bart and Jemba each scored a goal. Chelsea relied on Gala's goal before the final game to defeat Sparta Prague, Czech Republic, 1-0 away, and achieved a good start in the group stage.

On September 18th, it was Arsenal and Leiden Oriental's turn to play. Arsenal's opponent is Inter Milan, and Leiden Oriental's opponent is Monaco.

When Xiao Ming saw Deschamps on the sidelines, even Deschamps felt very interesting.

You should know that two seasons ago, Deschamps, who was two years older than Xiao Ming, played in Valencia against Leiden Oriental. Two years later, Deschamps, 36, had led Monaco to win the double runner-up in the French League Cup last season - in fact, this is also a thousand-year-old second-class head coach...

If it were the young coach, Deschamps should have been the youngest among the new generation of young coaches in Europe. However, compared with Xiao Ming, he could no longer say that he was younger. He was two years older than Xiao Ming, and Xiao Ming had already started to formally coach Leiden Oriental at the age of 24. Even since he got his professional coach certificate, he became the youngest head coach in the history of mainland Europe at the age of 32.

Xiao Ming did not slacken at all in this game. All the main players appeared, goalkeeper Jascrienen, defenders Daniel, Lucio, Campbell, Ashley Cole, midfielder Marklele, Gerrard, Figo, Ronaldo, forwards Ronaldo and Fanny - it was clear that they wanted to attack and win the first victory in the Champions League group stage at home.

The lineup sent by Deschamps is much more secure. The goalkeepers are Italian Roma, four defenders Gifford, Squeragic, Zex and Evra, midfielder Cice, Benardi and Rodriguez serve as three midfielders, Gullirotten is on the left and right, and the one at the front is Morientes who came on loan from Real Madrid.

Jiuli and Luo Teng are both experts in counterattacking, and the defense of the three-middle midfielder can cover the front of the penalty area to the maximum extent. At Leiden East's home court, no matter who it is, they will focus on defense. However, whether they can defend depends on their ability and luck.

This is the first time Deschamps led the team to play in the Champions League. He met Leiden Oriental, who performed best in the Champions League in the previous few seasons. He was inevitably a little uneasy. Although he is a Frenchman, he spent most of his career in Italy and had a deep understanding of the essence of Italian defensive football. When facing Leiden Oriental, he naturally adopted the defensive method he was most accustomed to - although he knew that Monaco's defenders were one level different from the top Serie A team in terms of personal defense and overall defense, the defensive formation of up to seven people can make up for the shortcomings of personal strength to some extent, and the three players in the frontcourt have a good counterattack configuration. Theoretically, this tactical arrangement is understandable.

But Xiao Ming quickly let Deschamps know that adapting to the situation is not something that any team can use. To a large extent, the first thing any team should do is to play to its best, rather than thinking about how to make up for its shortcomings.

Monaco is not a team that focuses on defense. Among their defenders, Evra, the best among their defenders, is an offensive full-back. If you want to rely on dead defense, you have abandoned what you are best at and use the least good tactics to deal with Leiden East, which is known for its sharp and fierce offense. The winner is actually decided before the game begins.

Leiden Oriental used uninterrupted attack to make Monaco breathless. Although there were enough defensive players in the backcourt, Leiden Oriental's offense was never a one-time deal. After continuous pressure, they were forced to make mistakes and then score goals. Monaco's counterattack was not able to be played as Deschamps expected. Although Jiuli was fast and had a strong impact, Ashley Cole, who was against him, was also of this kind.

The type of player, and the skilled Roten is also the type that Daniel likes to deal with the most. Although Morientes is an excellent center, it is only relative to Espanyol. Just think about the centers of Urses' level who have always been able to become Spanish internationals, you will know how lacking the excellent powerful center. No matter how outstanding Morientes is and how strong the impact is, he is not as strong as Campbell and Lucio of Leiden East.

When the counterattack was completely strangled by Leiden East, Monaco could only accept Leiden East's attacks like a raging wave on the away game.

In the 31st minute, Leiden East opened the door to victory. Ronaldo's breakthrough on the wing created a free kick in the frontcourt. Figo's shot forced Roma to save the ball and lose his hand. Ronaldo's eyes and feet were quick, and he immediately shot the ball into the net. Leiden East led by 1-0!

Monaco's situation was quite bad by the opponent and lost the ball. Deschamps also discovered his mistake. During the break, he replaced midfielder Rodriguez with Croatian striker Pursau to try to counterattack. However, with the lead already, Leiden Oriental's ability to control the game is not comparable to that of Monaco.

Although Monaco took the offense after the start of the second half and created some opportunities, the steady performance of Leiden East's defense made their offense repeatedly fail. At the same time, Leiden East's offense also made them not get much offensive. When they were able to show signs of separation from Leiden East in terms of offense, their defense was difficult to resist Leiden East's omnipresent attack.

Ten minutes after the second half, Gerald, who actively stepped forward, and Van Nie, who pulled out of the penalty area, made a beautiful two-pass and one-on-one cooperation. Gerald, who was unguarded at the front of the penalty area, took a kick before the opponent's defender came to block the ball, and the ball flew into the blind spot of the goal. Facing this long-range shot with excellent angle and strength, Monaco goalkeeper Roma could only sigh to the sky.

In the following time, Leiden East continued to firmly control the situation on the field. Although they did not create many opportunities, Monaco's offense could not open the situation. Although Rotten's free kick hit the crossbar, they still could not get back even a ball.

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, more than 30,000 fans of Leiden East gave warm cheers. Although they were used to winning in the Champions League, each victory still made them feel great passion.

"I have to say that we made a mistake." When shook hands with Xiao Ming after the game, Deschamps said helplessly and admitted his mistake frankly. If it weren't for being suppressed in the first half, Monaco would not have played badly in the second half. If Monaco had fought against Leiden East at the beginning, although the ending might still be a loss, he would not have lost so badly.

"Everyone will make mistakes, and Monaco has excellent players." Xiao Ming replied.

Xiao Ming did not pretend to be a pretentious statement. He knew that Gullirotten, Evra, and even Adebayo were excellent players. Pursau and Morientes were one of the most eye-catching forwards in the Champions League this season. It is precisely because of such an excellent offensive combination that Monaco in history has performed so well in this season's Champions League. Unfortunately, Deschamps and Mourinho and others are still much younger, otherwise they would not lose without a temper in the Champions League final, and their luck is not very good.

However, by the next season, this team will be disintegrated like those teams that have made a splash. This season's performance is also the brightest flash in Deschamps' coaching career. However, after being in the same group as Leiden Oriental, will they be strangled in the group stage?
Chapter completed!