Chapter 108 The Young Guards

When Howard Wilkinson walked out of the player's passage, he happened to see Xiao Ming standing next to the coach's seat and chatting with several fans in the stands.

Wilkinson's brows immediately frowned.

Of course, he attached great importance to this game, because for him, the League Cup final is his last chance to continue as Leeds head coach!

Before the start of the season, the ambitious Leeds United invested heavily in the transfer market. It cost them about 10 million pounds to introduce three African players alone, not to mention other investments, but what about the results? They were fifth last season, and now, they rank 13th! Only a mere five points away from the relegation zone!

If the boss of any team had changed, it would not be possible to endure the team's poor performance. If Leeds United had not reached the League Cup final and had the chance to win the first heavyweight championship in the Premier League era, Wilkinson would have been dismissed long ago - the results were not good, the head coach was the best scapegoat, and it was a truth all over the world.

Only when he was able to win the League Cup championship was Wilkinson had the opportunity to continue working as Leeds head coach - the same was true for Ferguson back then. On the eve of his get out of class, a FA Cup champion saved his life, which led to the subsequent Manchester United prosperity!

Although Wilkinson is not Ferguson, he also hopes to work hard for his career!

So before this game, Wilkinson had no intention of underestimating Leiden Oriental. He completely regarded his opponent as a top team. He collected all the videos of Leiden Oriental games that he could collect, especially the previous few games in the League Cup - in other games, Leiden Oriental may hide his strength, but when facing Premier League teams in the League Cup, no team can still hide his strength!

I have to say that this is a very effective method. After careful research, Leiden Oriental's full strength has been exposed to Wilkinson's eyes!

In the past, neither West Ham United, Coventry, Arsenal or Aston Villa had ever observed the true strength of Leiden Oriental so carefully. Leiden Oriental will truly face a Premier League team that is ready for the team.

However, the shock brought by Leiden East to Wilkinson was quite great.

Although the team's performance this season is not very good, Wilkinson is indeed one of the most skilled coaches in England, otherwise he would not have led Leeds to win the 1991-92 English championship. After careful observation, Wilkinson suddenly discovered that at least more than half of the players in Leiden Oriental's main lineup have the strength to play as the main player in the Premier League!

There is no problem with the remaining players being at least in the top six teams in the League One!

Such a League Two team... was directly causing huge waves in Wilkinson's mind!

He immediately judged that it was definitely not accidental that this team was able to defeat four Premier League teams in the League Cup...

So before the game, he also made detailed preparations. Even in the locker room just now, he kept explaining tactics back and forth until the game was about to begin. But after he walked out, he saw Xiao Ming chatting and laughing with the fans in the stands, and looking at him, he seemed to have been standing here for a long time... because the fans who were far away had no longer looked in his direction, which proved that he had been staying for quite some time!

Thinking of this, Wilkinson couldn't help but feel angry - Leiden Oriental is good, but do you actually underestimate Leeds United so much? That's right, among the four Premier League teams that were eliminated by Leiden Oriental before, except for Coventry, the rankings of other teams are higher than that of Leeds United, but you are just a League Two team after all! Why are you so arrogant in front of me?

So when Xiao Ming saw him and came over to shake hands with him, Wilkinson said coldly: "Mr. Xiao looks very relaxed... It seems that he is very sure of this game."

Xiao Ming just smiled relaxedly: "It's not that there is any certainty...but how to arrange it in the locker room, we don't have any chance to win. Leeds United is a Premier League team, it would be nice if our English League Two team can win the runner-up."

After saying that, Xiao Ming let go of his hand, turned around and walked to the coaching seat of Leiden East, sat down, and then crossed his legs...

Wilkinson wanted to go up and strangle this guy who disrespected his seniors to death. He gritted his teeth and walked towards the Leeds United coach's seat with his face...

At this time, the players on both sides have already appeared!

In the League Cup finals, of course no one will do anything like preserving their strength. Not to mention that this championship is very important to both sides, even if they don’t care too much about this game, they will do their best in this game - even if it is a Premier League team, there is no chance to compete for the championship every season!

This can be seen from the starting lineup of both sides.

Leeds United goalkeeper is England's second national goalkeeper Martin, the right back is 22-year-old Irish international Gary Kelly, and the left back is Kelly's uncle and nephew, and Ian Hart, who is only 18 years old, guards two sides of the team, which can be regarded as a good story.

The two central defenders are South African defenders Radbey and England veteran Jobson, the two midfielders are young Jackson and veteran Palmer, the left front guard is former Manchester United genius Lee Sharp, the right forward guard is Norwegian Kranick, and the two forwards are Masinga and Ye Boa who have returned from injury.

Leiden East's starting lineup is also 442, goalkeeper Jiwen, four defenders are Daniel, Brin, Stam and McCassi, the two players in the middle of the midfield are Barack and Holland, Jinklaze and Poboski are on both sides, and the forwards are partnered by Jankoler and Solskjaer.

The players who started this game are the absolute main players of both sides. Although Masinga performed averagely in the previous Premier League, his impact was still quite outstanding. Wilkinson could also see that Ye Boa alone would probably be difficult to defend the two central defenders with strong confrontation capabilities of Leiden East.

What surprised Xiao Ming was that the bad boy Li Bowyer, who later became the bad boy, was not in the Leeds United team. Maybe he would only transfer to Leeds United in the next few seasons. What team did this guy play for in the past? Xiao Ming can't remember it.

However, this is good news for Xiao Ming. Although Bower is a notorious bastard, his talent and creativity are beyond doubt. Before his bad deeds were revealed, he still played several good goals at Leeds United. Now that he is not here, Leeds United's midfield creativity is at least a lot less! The only creative one is probably the only other bad boy, Lee Sharp who transferred from Manchester United.

As for this guy, Xiao Ming naturally arranged someone to deal with him. Daniel is a very suitable target for such a talented player, but he is not aware of his personal life, and his physical fitness has begun to decline.

Even if Lee Sharp can get rid of him a few times, Daniel will definitely be able to get rid of him! If you want to get rid of him, you have to pay much more physical strength than usual, but Lee Sharp, who is almost hollowed out by wine, how can he compare physically with Daniel, a newborn calf!

Xiao Ming vaguely remembers that after a season or two, Li Sharp's decline was comparable to that of PetroChina. Li Sharp, who was once considered to have a bright future at Manchester United, had to play a substitute for him, was almost forgotten by the end of the 1990s...

If his physical fitness is still good now, will he become unknown from one of the best left-handers in the Premier League in two or three years?

However, the trend of Leeds United's "Youth Guards" is now very obvious. Kelly is 22 years old, Hart is only 18 years old, Radbey is only 26 years old, Jackson is 18 years old... Although it is not as exaggerated as Leiden East players are all players in their 20s as the main players, as a Premier League team, being able to allow so many young people to occupy the main position is enough to prove that there is definitely a reason for the formation of the young guards in the future!

But now, Xiao Ming is very confident that he can pk his younger "Young Guards" and this future "Young Guards"!

Didn’t it mean that “youth has not failed”? We are younger than you, so we will naturally not fail in the competition…

Lee Sharp is a genius, there is no doubt that it is.

He debuted a year earlier than Giggs. Manchester United won the first two seasons of the Premier League. He and Kancherski made great contributions to the devil wings on the left and right. In those two seasons, Lee Sharp and Kancherski were synonymous with the best wingers... You should know that even in later generations, Russia's Alshavin was called the "tsar", and many old fans believed that Kancherski thought that Alshavin was just a weakened version of Kancherski...

But in everyone's opinion, Lee Sharp is more comprehensive and excellent than Kanchersky.

Kancherski can only play on the right side, but Lee Sharp is in the left middle and right side. He is a right-footed player, but he can suppress Giggs, the best left-footed genius in the next ten years, on the left side... What is this concept? Manchester United fans at that time even compared him with George Best among the three Manchester United masters!

The only pity is that like his predecessor Best, his private life became his nightmare. When he became the main player of Manchester United, he often went out to fool around. Once he pulled Giggs to a sex party. For this reason, Ferguson drove to Preston, two hours away, and pulled Giggs home from the party, but he couldn't pull Lee Sharp... Perhaps it was precisely because of this reason that Ferguson was so strict with Beckham afterwards, and even said that he wanted two bullets, one to kill Wenger, the biggest opponent in the league, and the other to kill Victoria, who took Beckham to the catwalk everywhere...

Even so, Lee Sharp still occupies Manchester United's starting position until the disease caused by long-term straits destroyed him - injuries and viral meningitis left him absent for a long time and Giggs was on the way, but he was still bought by Leeds United for a record £4.5 million. Although Lee Sharp performed much worse than before, he still became the main force of Leeds United.

He is only twenty-four years old this year, but he already looks old.

When Daniel, who was seventeen years old, stood beside him, this handsome football and entertainment star who was the last version of David Beckham, inevitably seemed weak.

Ten minutes after the game started, Lee Sharp felt extremely bored.

Is this young boy wrong? He just followed him without doing anything... The most overwhelming thing is that he is not slow and his physical fitness is also very good. He has not even connected the ball several times until now.

Boy, don’t think you can run if you are young. In this way, your physical fitness will consume at least twice as much as mine! The game will take ninety minutes, and the second half will see how you can run!

Thinking of this, Lee Sharp continued to run, hoping to get one or two balls smoothly. Even if he couldn't get it, he would have to consume more Daniel's physical fitness.

Although Lee Sharp is only twenty-four years old, he is old in the Premier League. He played the main player at Manchester United at the age of twenty. Of course, he can calculate that if Daniel wants to continue this kind of defense, he will consume at least twice as much physical energy than him.

How physically capable can a seventeen-year-old man be? Even if he is not as good as before, his physical fitness has been greatly affected. With such an advantage, he cannot consume the other party's physical fitness earlier, so he doesn't need to mess around.

Seeing Lee Sharp running happily on the field, Xiao Ming smiled and looked at McDonald.

His tactics have been successful in part - using Daniel alone to destroy Lee Sharp, the only creative Leeds United offense, which is undoubtedly an extremely deductive thing.

Even if Daniel's physical fitness is not enough to support the game until the end of the game, that's enough! What's more, in Xiao Ming's view, Lee Sharp, who has recovered from a serious illness, may not be able to ensure enough physical fitness after Daniel's physical fitness is consumed!

The twenty-four-year-old Lee Sharp is also a young player, but is he really young? My Daniel is young!

"There is no need to consider the attack of Leeds United for the time being... Lee Sharp is unable to clone it. No matter how strong the impact of Masinga and Ye Boa is, he cannot break through the iron walls of Stam and Bryn! Before Lee Sharp finds a way to get rid of Daniel, he will score first!"

This is one of the tactics formulated by Xiao Ming before the start of the game. Of course, there are other alternative tactics. However, when this situation occurs, the players on the court must know what they should do based on this situation!

Masinga rushed to the penalty area of ​​Leiden East with the ball. He was very strong and had a very good impact, but he encountered Stam, who was taller and stronger than him.

Stam didn't have any fear and went straight to meet him, then hit Masinga hard, and after the ball left Masinga's feet, he quickly stretched out his foot and poked the ball off.

The ball that got out was obtained by Holland, and he immediately passed the ball to Barack in front. Barack was like usual, just letting the ball pause under his feet for a while, and then passed the ball to Pobosky on the right!

The reason why it was passed to Pobosky was because in the previous game, Kin Klaze and Kelly had faced each other twice. Kelly could not cut off his ball, and it was difficult for him to get rid of Kelly - after all, the opponent was a full-back who had been playing in the Premier League for three years! And on this side of Pobosky, his opponent was just an eighteen-year-old boy...

In fact, Xiao Ming had never underestimated Hart at all. He knew that this guy was a free kick expert for Leeds United and the Irish national team a few years later. The accuracy of his left-footed free kick was probably not inferior to that of Beckham, but he was not as famous as Beckham. However, Pobosky was a very good offensive route against Hart.

Hart is a left-back who can attack and defend well. He was also quite famous in the Premier League later, but his speed was not very fast. Pobosky is famous for his speed...

Faced with Hart's blockade, Pobosky did not do many extraordinary moves, but stepped on two bicycles and immediately rushed to the bottom line, and then started to accelerate!

Hart turned around and chased Pobosky at the first time. His starting point was not slower than Pobosky, but after running a few steps, the difference in speed between Pobosky and him was revealed. After only running for more than ten meters, Pobosky had already run out of a pass and made a pass at the first time!

Radbe followed Jankoler in the penalty area. Jankoler jumped up, and he also jumped up... Unfortunately, Poboski's cross was not passed to Jankoler!

The ball flew over the top of the two people's heads and then began to fall. Solskjaer, who came out from the back, jumped up and rushed out a smart rebound before Martin attacked. Martin was rushing to catch a handful, but only caught a ball of air...

"gooal - Leiden East took the lead! Solskjaer's eighth goal in the League Cup! It is also his 39th goal in all competitions this season! A terrifying goal rate!"

In the battle between the younger Leeds United and the younger Leiden East, the younger one took the lead!
Chapter completed!