Chapter 120 This is reality

Although Xiao Ming made a new arrangement during the break, requiring the players to speed up their passing rhythm to avoid the opponent's fierce pressing, after increasing the passing rhythm, Leiden East's offensive error rate also increased.

When the overall offense could not achieve results, it was supposed to be the time to play to the player's personal abilities, but Jin Klaze, who was the most assault-based in Leiden East, encountered fierce tackles from the opponent in succession. After only five minutes of the second half, he was injured by the opponent. Xiao Ming had no choice but to replace Jin Klaze with Murphy.

This is the first time since Kim Kraze joined Leiden Oriental. In the English C and English League Two, he can easily avoid the opponent's fierce movements with his technical ability that is more than one level higher than the opponent, but it seems a bit difficult to avoid the opponent's speed and strength.

Jin Kraze, who was carried off, seemed very frustrated. Although Colin told him that the injury was not very serious after checking his knee, it was just a simple ankle sprain and he would have to rest for a week or two, the helpless feeling made the talented midfielder who had not suffered any setbacks since he came to Leiden East and was filled with depression.

Xiao Ming just glanced at him and didn't say anything, because he didn't have time to deal with this matter now. Before the start of the season, he confidently announced the goal of achieving good results in the fourth line this season. If he encountered difficulties in the first game, it would have a great blow to the team's morale.

After Murphy came on the court, the technical content of Leiden Oriental midfielder decreased, but the impact and running ability increased a lot. Murphy is a typical English midfielder, who can run and rush, and his personal skills are average, and his technical characteristics are a bit like Manchester United's ginger head Scholes. At the same time, after he came on the court, the opponent's fouls had to be restrained. After all, his free kick skills are still quite good.

However, Leiden East's luck seems to be not very good today. After Murphy came on the court, he had two free kicks that were quite threatening. Unfortunately, one kick came out of the post, and the other kick hit the post heavily, causing Xiao Ming, who was waiting for the goal on the sidelines, jumped for a while, and then sighed heavily.

This game not only allowed Leiden Oriental players to truly understand the rhythm of the League One close to the Premier League, but also made Xiao Ming feel the pressure of being a coach.

To be honest, Xiao Ming did not feel any pressure from being a coach in the first two seasons. Although he had failed, soon, the strong strength of Leiden Oriental's main lineup could quickly establish an advantage in the league. In addition to making him nervous when facing Premier League teams in the League Cup, Xiao Ming has always been very calm in other games. All he had to do is to arrange tactics before the game - watch the game on the sidelines - celebrate the victory after the game - and then go home. After playing, the league game will not make him feel nervous at all.

But today's first League One game made him nervous on the sidelines.

Originally, Xiao Ming thought he would not have any pressure on the sidelines because the head coach was under pressure, and more because of the pressure given by the club's senior management, if the grades were not good, it would be dismissed. This is an irrefutable truth. Even if you are the most famous coach, who is Xiao Ming? He is the boss of the club! Put pressure on yourself? What a joke!

But now, Xiao Ming knew that what puts pressure on the head coaches is not only because of the pressure from the club's senior management, but the greatest pressure actually comes from the game itself.

Because as long as you are a head coach, you will have ambitions. No one will want to see their team lose. If the team performs poorly, the most stressful one is the head coach.

Leiden East's performance was not good in this game, but it was not bad either, but luck failed to stand on Leiden East's side.

After Murphy hit the post, Leiden East ushered in another excellent opportunity. Hackby forced his way through the opponent's defense on the wing and made a cross. Jankoler headed the ball and Phillips shot. The ball had already passed the opponent's goalkeeper, but was rescued by Martin, who was back in front of the goal.

Leiden Oriental's morale, which lost two excellent opportunities in a row, declined, while Reading completed the final victory in the 76th minute.

The opponent's midfielder's shot hit Bolling's sideline, and the ball unexpectedly flew to the feet of the unguarded Welsh forward Nogen. Faced with such an excellent opportunity, Nogen naturally would not be polite and pushed a shot at a far corner. Jiwen tried his best to stretch his arms but failed to touch the ball. The ball hit the far post and bounced into the goal.

The backward Leiden East launched a fierce attack, and Reading's style of play became more and more rough. In the 81st minute, the main central defender Huntel accumulated two yellow cards, but Reading, who had ten players, still tenaciously maintained the lead until the end.

When Barack's long shot kicked high, Leiden East suffered a defeat in the first official game of the season.

The news of the first round of the league's defeat came, and fans of Leiden Oriental felt it was a bit incredible.

Last season, she was incredible in the League Cup and swept five Premier League teams to win the championship, but Leiden Oriental lost the first round of the League One game in the new season - her opponent is still a mid-range team in the League One!

This made the fans of Leiden Oriental who had not lost a game for a long time unable to adapt. However, it was obvious that they did not lose confidence in the team because of a loss. Even when Xiao Ming went to Sawyer's bar to drink, the most fanatical fans of Leiden Oriental did not show any sign of blaming Xiao Ming. Instead, they did not mention a word about the game, but were just talking about something else.

Even Soya, the boss who had always been inconsistent with Xiao Ming, just silently brought Xiao Ming a glass of wine and said nothing.

But the more they seemed to be understanding, the more Xiao Ming felt that he couldn't stand it.

Especially when she saw Chris next to her with a little disappointed expression, Xiao Ming felt that the loss of this game was so fucking furious.

If Reading's strength is stronger than Leiden Oriental, there would be nothing to say, but even though his personal ability and overall ability are not as good as Leiden Oriental, he defeated them with his strong playing style and luck. How could Xiao Ming not feel angry?

I believe that the players in Leiden East think so too.

In this atmosphere, drinking naturally makes drinking tasteless. Xiao Ming silently left the bar after drinking a glass of wine. He also had to leave because he was here, and the atmosphere of the whole bar seemed to become very dull, and he didn't like this feeling.

In fact, this dull atmosphere was indeed caused by him. Before he came, even if the people in the bar sighed and discussed the defeat of the game, at least the atmosphere was enough, and it would never be as dull as when he was here.

Xiao Ming also understood this situation and chose to leave. He was in a bad mood, but he didn't want others to be in a bad mood with him.

After Xiao Ming walked out of the bar, the atmosphere in the bar immediately began to appear a little warm.

"Xiao seems to be in a bad mood." said a drunkard.

"Nonsense." John glared at him. It was a person who could tell that Xiao Ming was in a bad mood. He should ask him to say it?

Michael unconsciously touched his pocket. He was addicted to smoking, but he never smoked in Sawyer's bar, especially with Chris present - Sawyer refused to let second-hand smoke poison his baby daughter: "We actually lost to Reading... We lost that game so unfairly."

"Michael, just smoke if you want to smoke. Today is an exception." Sawyer looked at Michael's small movement and snorted: "But we did not perform well in that game. Norwegian babyface and the Czechs left, which really had a great impact on our strength."

"I think it's not just that." Chris suddenly smiled and said: "There is a reason why Solskjaer and Pobosky left, but our strength is still very strong... Yesterday's poor performance is more because our players are not adapting to the rhythm of the League One... English A is a whole level higher than English B, and most of our players have never played in English B. I think they will definitely be able to perform better after they get used to the rhythm of English B."

As soon as Chris said the words, the people in the bar were quiet for a moment, and then they suddenly realized.

"Wow, Sawy, your daughter is so smart!"

"Soya, Chris is a hundred times smarter than you!"

"You idiots can't even catch up with my daughter one percent! Hahahaha..."

No wonder these fans didn't see the problem. After all, they have only watched the English League Two and English C games for many years. It was a long time ago that Leiden Oriental last participated in the English League One, and they would not pay special attention to the English League One. You know, even in the Premier League, they rarely watch it. They just support Leiden Oriental. People who often only watch English Two and English C games are naturally difficult to immediately notice the differences between English League One.

"Guys, since this is the case, even if our team performs poorly next, we cannot lose confidence! Because our players are absolutely capable, and even have the ability to play in the Premier League, and we just haven't adapted yet! When we adapt to the rhythm of the League One, we will become the king of the League One!" John raised his cup and shouted, and Sawyer knocked him behind: "You grab my line!"

Of course, Xiao Ming didn't know what the little girl Chris said today, which led Sawyer and the most fanatical fans to cheer for Leiden East in the next game even if they had poor results. The actions of this group of most fanatical fans also led other fans to stay with Leiden East in the next difficult days.

After the first round of the league ends, it is the first round of the League Cup. As the defending champion of the League Cup, Leiden Oriental does not need to play the first round of the league, which gives Leiden Oriental plenty of rest and adjustment time before the second round of the league begins.

During this week, Leiden Oriental will naturally not be idle. The defeat in the first game made all the players who underestimated the League One put away their contempt and began to fight in training more intensely, because only when the pace of the daily training becomes faster can they adapt to the League One with a faster pace!

The pace of the Premier League is also fast, but most Premier League teams are relaxed and relaxed in their games and have sufficient technical content. On the contrary, Leiden Oriental is not very scared when facing this style of play.

Nothing is more inspiring than experiencing the level of a league in person, especially after losing the game, for the young Leiden Oriental players, an unforgettable defeat is more meaningful than a brilliant victory.

So in the team's confrontation, there was a real meaning of swords and guns. There were scenes of people constantly turning around. However, this was a confrontation in the team, and everyone was merciless. To truly adapt, they had to slowly find the feeling from the real game.

Xiao Ming still did not join the training in person. He was not good at this. He just gave instructions to the assistant coaches to increase the confrontation factors in training and shorten the time for players to adapt to the League One.

In this way, a week passed quickly, and Leiden Oriental welcomed its second opponent in the League One, and this game was also the first time that Leiden Oriental played at home this season.

The loss in the first round of the league did not affect Leiden Oriental's home attendance rate. The Brisbane Road Stadium, which has expanded to 13,000 seats, was once again full. All fans hope Leiden Oriental can win the first victory in the League One at home and wash away the shadow of the previous game's defeat.

In this game, Murphy replaced the injured Jinklazer to start, and the other starters did not change from the previous game.

A week of training session was not enough to allow Leiden Oriental players to adapt to the confrontation of the League One, but the progress was still quite obvious. After the game began, Leiden Oriental did not mess up the situation by the opponent's fast-paced fight, but was calmly entangled with the opponent.

In this game, Leiden East's opponent is Charlton, a veteran team in England. They played in the top league the previous season when the Premier League was founded, but they were relegated that season. After the relegation, Charlton has been in the middle of the English League One, just like Reading, and has never been relegated.

Facing an opponent with an equally fierce style of play, Leiden Oriental relied on rapid transfer and timely return to defense and pressing, and even though he was still a little uncomfortable with the opponent's fierce pressing, he still slowly gained the upper hand with his overall technical advantage.

In the 34th minute, Hackby was tripped by the opponent's defender when he broke through the wing. Murphy took the free kick and passed it directly into the penalty area. With several big men attracting most of the opponent's defensive power, Phillips appeared in time at the landing point of the ball, and a beautiful turn and shot to win the ball to score the first record!

Brisbane Road Stadium burst into huge cheers, which is Leiden Oriental's first league goal this season!

After scoring the goal, Phillips rushed to the stands and accepted the cheers of the fans. At this moment, the fans of Leiden East forgot that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who destroyed the city for the team last season, and this equally short forward began to become the new shooter at Brisbane Road Stadium!

"Beautiful job, Kevin!" Xiao Ming waved his fist vigorously. Phillips' goal was a typical shooter-style goal. He was not eye-catching before touching the ball, but when he appeared in front of the ball, the light of the whole game would gather on him.

After gaining the lead, Leiden East took advantage of the situation and attacked again, but it was not lucky and failed to break through the opponent's door.

But the good times did not last long. After the start of the second half, Leiden East still had some advantages in the field, but was unable to continue to expand the score. Instead, the opponent equalized the score in the 60th minute. Charlton's forward Paul Allen dribbled the ball and broke into the penalty area, then shot hard and broke through the goal guarded by Jiwen.

What happened next was simply a replica of Reading. After losing the ball, Leiden East launched a fierce attack, but the opponent used tenacious defense to persist until the end of the game. Although Leiden East did not lose in this game, only scored one point in two rounds, and then they fell to the 20th place and entered the relegation zone.

The League One has received a lot of attention, so naturally they will not ignore Leiden Oriental, a team that plays European games as the League One team. After seeing Leiden Oriental scored only one point in two rounds of the league, many media have asked questions - will such a team that cannot win in the League One lose the face of the English team in the European arena?

Although as the League Cup champion, Leiden Oriental only has the chance to play since the second round of the League Cup, the opponent in the second round will definitely be stronger than the first round - this is undoubtedly a matter of course. If the English League Cup champion returns home without winning a single game in the League Cup, it will indeed discredit the honor of English football.

After seeing these reports, Xiao Ming was almost angry, but he could only say "dead" in his heart helplessly. The English media did have reason to despise Leiden Oriental. A team that could not win in the League One can achieve good results in the European arena with higher levels? I am afraid no one would believe this.

Before Leiden East won several real victories, Xiao Ming could not block those people's mouths.

Professional football is based on results. Last season, Leiden Oriental won the League Cup championship, and the media can win them to heaven. This season Leiden Oriental has failed to win two rounds, so the media can naturally throw them into hell.
Chapter completed!