Chapter 555 The first three rounds
This Community Shield match is a demonstration of the new tactics of Leiden Oriental and Arsenal.
Xiao Ming began to determine the main tactics of the three midfielders, which was a very huge change. Although it had been gradually practiced over several seasons, it was still a huge change.
Arsenal's changes are even more obvious. The departure of Vieira, the captain and the core midfielder, and the young player who is only 18 years old, has to be said that Wenger's decision is admirable. After all, not many coaches dare to decisively abandon Vieira, a superstar player and use a new player.
To put it bluntly, the changes in Leiden Oriental and Arsenal are both at the core of the midfield organization. Xiao Ming officially straightened Pirlo, while Wenger entrusted the important task to Fabregas. However, it took Pirlo three years to get this opportunity. At the age of 26, he is already fully mature, and Fabregas has only been a year since he started to gradually play in the game. Whether it is adapting to the Premier League, personal maturity and physical confrontation, Fabregas was at a disadvantage when facing Pirlo.
No one can deny that Fabregas is a rare late-achieving genius, but Pirlo is also a genius, not to mention that in all aspects Pirlo has an advantage over the current Fabregas.
In the midfield organization and confrontation, Fabregas was completely suppressed by Pirlo, and the final result was that Leiden Oriental defeated Arsenal with a 2-1 score in the Community Shield. Under Pirlo's dispatch and Fanny's cover, Ronaldo took over two goals from Leiden Oriental, and Pirlo was also shining, one instigation and one direct assist, both goals were related to Pirlo.
In the second half, there were many players on both sides. Wenger replaced two wide players with Reyes and Hleb, and Gilberto Silva and Van Persie to replace Flamini and Borgkamp. Xiao Ming used up all five substitutions. Sun Jihai, Mascherano, Jinklaze, Bentley and Bent came on as a substitute one after another. The lineups of both sides changed drastically in the second half, but Leiden East still laughed to the end.
"Young people boldly use it, you always have to pay a little price." Xiao Ming and Wenger said as they shook hands after the game.
Wenger shrugged, this guy is a full man, but he doesn't know that the hungry man is hungry, your stadium has been repaired, but our stadium is only half repaired and placed there. There is no transfer fund. I don't need young people to use superstars? Where did you get so much money?
Wenger is somewhat similar to Xiao Ming now. He is already one of the shareholders of Arsenal, so he can have no complaints when he does not invest much money every year and can only make small repairs. In some aspects, he is also working for himself, and every penny he spends is his own.
Wenger in later generations was more like an operator. Although Arsenal had not won any championships for several years, their finances began to get better and better after the construction of the new stadium. Ensuring that they can participate in the Champions League games every season also allowed Arsenal to gain a lot of benefits. Since then, Arsenal's business philosophy has begun to appear a bit out of place compared to the Premier League environment, but it pays more attention to balance of revenue and expenditure like the Bundesliga team, which is also an outlier in the Premier League.
Xiao Ming does not think there is any problem with this way of operation. Every team has its own way of living. Just like he can ensure investment in the transfer market every season without building a new stadium, but he always has to prepare for the future. Once the salary limit regulations and the control regulations for fiscal deficit are released, Leiden East, which cannot obtain enough income on the stadium, will probably be caught by UEFA as a typical example.
The money spent back then was to quickly gain world fame. Now, saving first-team expenses and spending more money on infrastructure and youth team training was to lay a solid foundation for Leighton Oriental.
Leiden Oriental fans are also very happy that Leiden Oriental won the Community Shield Cup. They don’t care whether this cup is important or not. What’s more, the so-called curse that winning the Community Shield Cup will lose the league championship has long been broken by Leiden Oriental. Naturally, they would not think that winning this championship is an unlucky omen.
The victory of the Community Shield Cup has made Leiden Oriental fans even more look forward to the beginning of the new season. Of course, what they are more looking forward to is the second round of the league - Leiden Oriental will usher in the first official game at the Oriental Stadium, and they will face Everton at home.
Before that, Leiden Oriental challenged Aston Villa away in the first round of the league.
Aston Villa won the 10th place in the league last season. The team is as dull as their chairman Ellis. However, they have done a good job in the transfer market this season. They have loaned Newcastle's young wing player Milner, bought Phillips of Leiden Oriental, bought Dutch international Boma from Eindhoven, introduced Czech striker Barroche from Liverpool, and Czech veteran Borg from free transfer, which has effectively supplemented their lines, which is not much cost but is quite effective.
Their head coach is David O'Reilly, the head coach of Leeds of the youth guards. For O'Reilly, Xiao Ming's Leiden East is also a roadblock. If it weren't for Leiden East's emergence, Leeds wouldn't have missed the Champions League with great investment for several consecutive years, which eventually led to a collapse. Therefore, Villa had been performing very hard when playing Leiden East last season, and it could be considered as a thriller to play Leiden East.
In this league, the starting lineup sent by Xiao Ming was exactly the same as in the Community Shield Cup, but in this game, Leiden East was resisted by Aston Villa desperately. Phillips, who had just transferred to Villa for four minutes, used a goal to "reward" Leiden East. Although Leiden East scored a goal by Fanny and Ronaldo in the remaining games in the first half, Villa's midfielder Steven Davis equalized the score again shortly after the start of the second half. After the equalization, Villa began to shrink its defense, and Leiden East's luck seemed to be quite poor. Ronaldo's single shot was saved by Sorensen, and Gerald's long shot also hit the goal post, and he could only accept the draw.
This is the first time in five years that Leiden East has not won the first round of the league.
After this result came out, public opinion was immediately in an uproar. Because this year is not the year of the big competition, the strong Premier League teams performed well in the first round. Chelsea defeated the newly promoted Wigan with one goal away, Manchester United beat Everton two goals away, Arsenal defeated Newcastle two goals away, Liverpool defeated Middlesbrough with one goal away, Leiden Oriental became the only team among the top five that did not win. Before last season, Leiden Oriental lost Figo and Ronaldo but did not have any additional performance. Everyone began to think, is Leiden Oriental already starting to fail?
This situation also made the club's finance director Coft be amazed. This old-fashioned guy, who has always been known for his dead face, laughs at people in the club these days, which makes the person who meets him creepy - a guy who often has a stern face suddenly smiles is indeed creepy.
"If the attendance rate of the Oriental Stadium can be maintained at more than 90% as before, maybe we can consider continuing to expand the stadium!" This is the sentence that Coft said the most in the past few days.
When the Oriental Stadium was successfully built, it had room for expansion. Some stands could be expanded completely, and it could be expanded to accommodate up to 72,000 people. However, Xiao Ming knew very well that for a club, it may not be a good thing to be too big. Unless they can have tens of thousands of members in their city like Real Madrid and Barcelona, an oversized stadium will not bring more benefits, but will bring more maintenance and management costs.
This is even more obvious among the Italian teams. Juventus has been troubled by the recession of the Alp Stadium, and the same is true for the two Milan heroes. The new Juventus stadium that had already started to be built when Xiao Ming was reincarnated and Inter Milan Club, which had the idea of rebuilding the stadium, reduced the capacity of the new stadium. About 60,000 people is a very reasonable number, and too many will be bad.
So when it comes to Kaft, Xiao Ming just smiled. He also wanted the capacity of the Oriental Stadium to be comparable to Wembley, but if it weren't for the frequent tickets and difficult balls for several consecutive years, Xiao Ming would not consider continuing to expand the stadium.
In the first official game at the Oriental Stadium, Xiao Ming sent out such a starting lineup.
Goalkeeper Jas Klanin, defender Daniel, Campbell, Lucio, Ashley Cole, midfielder Mascherano, Pirlo, Gerrard, forward Jin Kraze, Ronaldo and Fanny.
Moyes sent out a formation in the 451st century, leaving only Marcus Bent to cruising in the frontcourt, while the midfield sent out a combination of Philip Neville, Cahill, Arteta, Kilbany and Simon Davis to start blocking from the midfield with the advantage of numbers, reducing the number and chances of Leiden East attacking.
Amid the shouts of 60,000 fans of Leiden Oriental, Leiden Oriental began to launch a tide attack, and two full-backs took turns to assist. When Jin Kraze broke through on the wing, Ronaldo and Gerald also rushed into the penalty area to serve as centers, constantly attacking Everton's defense.
Under the oppression of Leiden East, although Everton defended closely, he suffered a huge test. In the 33rd minute of the first half, their left-back Piston was injured and Moyes was forced to replace him with midfielder Ottoman, and Philip Neville returned to the left-back position.
Just after Piston got off the court, Leiden East immediately took the lead. Pirlo passed the ball to Jinklaze who was pulling it to the middle of the field. Jinklaze made a clever pass. Ronaldo forced his way into the penalty area from the wing and grabbed Philip Neville's flaw just after changing positions. He faced the goalkeeper Wright, who was attacking, and then pushed the ball to score in the far corner!
"Cristiano - Ronaldo!"
The shouts of the commentator on the scene rippled in the middle of the stadium, Ronaldo ran around the stadium with his arms open, while the fans of Leiden Oriental in the stands cheered hugely.
Among the three Ronaldos in Leiden East before, Ronaldo was the least famous one. However, now, Ronaldo has gone to Barcelona, and Ronaldo is almost at the age of 30, the offensive player. The fans of Leiden East also know in their hearts that the future of Leiden East will only be in this twenty-one-year-old Ronaldo...
For Ronaldo himself, Figo left and Ronaldo left. The two mountains pressing above him had completely disappeared. At the same time, he also felt that this was a sign that Xiao Ming valued him, which also made Ronaldo begin to feel that he had a more prosperous future in Leiden East...
Even if he has ambitions, Leiden Oriental can be said to be one of the best teams in the world. Because of Leiden Oriental's existence, the status established by Real Madrid at the turn of the century has not been fully established, nor has it left the impression that "only players who have been to Real Madrid are the best players" in the minds of the players. Xiao Ming believes that as long as he is a player he wants to stay, he will definitely be able to stay.
After taking the lead, Leiden Oriental played much easier in the next game.
If you want to get at least one point, Everton has to attack, and after the attack comes out, the flaws in the backcourt will become even bigger...
Shortly after the second half, Leiden East secured the victory. After Ronaldo broke through on the wing, he made a cross. Fanny attracted the attention of everyone on the opponent. Gerald, who was inserted in the back row, expanded his lead with a powerful top-up!
With two goals from Ronaldo and Gerrard, Leiden East beat Everton 2-0 at home and won the first victory in the new league season. Three days later, they won again at home, with Fanny's two goals helping them beat Newcastle and rising to third place.
After two consecutive home wins, Leiden Oriental did not become the first in the standings because, in addition to Arsenal who lost to Chelsea in a strong dialogue and Liverpool who lost to Charlton in the gutter, Chelsea and Manchester United both achieved three consecutive victories. Manchester United defeated Villa and Wigan one after another, and Chelsea swept West Bromvic four-zero home after defeating Arsenal, and ranked behind Manchester United with only one goal difference disadvantage.
Chapter completed!