After the match against Barnsley, Leiden East has another week to rest, but don’t think Leiden East will be easier next - this is just a little special treatment before the Devil’s schedule begins.

To be honest, even Xiao Ming, who didn't need to play football himself, felt a little frightened when he looked at Leiden East's schedule in March.

March 1, the 35th round of the league, away against Portsmouth, March 4, the first game of the League Cup, the first game of the League Cup, the fifth round of the FA Cup, away against Middlesbrough, March 12, the 36th round of the league, away against Birmingham, March 15, the 37th round of the league, home against Odham, March 18, the second game of the League Cup, away against Monaco...

In March, thirty-one days, Leiden Oriental has determined that there will be seven league rounds, two League Cups and one FA Cup, a total of ten games. If they can go further in the FA Cup, they will add another FA Cup semi-finals...

Ten games a day, two games a week, with no discount. When Xiao Ming saw this schedule, he had already come out of the joy of defeating Barnsley and began to curse the FA's inhumanity and actually arranged such a intensive schedule!

But then again, Xiao Ming cannot blame the FA, because it is difficult for ordinary English League One teams to participate in two cups at this time. Even if there is a English League One team that can still participate in the League Cup and FA Cup games, there are only two FA Cup games this month, and there is no task for the League Cup, because the final of the League Cup will be held next month...

An English League One team like Leiden Oriental still has to participate in the League Cup. This seems to have not happened in so many seasons in the English League...

After the 35th round of the league, Leiden Oriental will welcome Monaco at home. Although like Strasbourg, it is a French team participating in the League Cup this season, Xiao Ming knows that Monaco's strength can be said to be much higher than Strasbourg...

Not to mention, Monaco has four players in the French World Cup after participating in more than a year, just for the French internationals - goalkeeper Butters, midfielder Petit and two of the two players who are not yet the main players of Monaco, but are the two players with the highest achievements of French strikers in the future - Henry and Trezege! Although both of them are only eighteen years old now... In addition, Belgian internationals Shifu, Scottish midfielder Collins, Brazilian forward Sony Anderson, Nigerian forward Ikepeba, French midfielder Benabia... These are all world-class stars! Even if Leiden Oriental's main players have reached their peak reputation, they may not be able to beat Monaco!

Unlike the teams I met in the League Cup before, they are truly a giant!

But then again, except for Leiden Oriental, the others who entered the quarterfinals of the League Cup are all wealthy families...

"We will let the main players adjust the game against Portsmouth." After the training that day, McDonald took the initiative to find Xiao Ming and said, "Otherwise, we won't have too many opportunities to play against Monaco."

Xiao Ming knew what he said made sense. Although the level of the League One was not very high, the pace of the game was quite fast. Playing such a game would consume a lot of physical energy. Sending all the main players Xiao Ming was sure to win the game, but it was quite unfavorable for the League Cup three days after preparing for the game.

In history, the French Ligue 1 champion this season was Monaco. Under the leadership of former French national team superstar Jean Tigana, they were unstoppable in the Ligue 1 this season and won repeatedly in the League Cup. If they are still a tired team facing such a team, they can only be seeking death.

"That's it." Xiao Ming is now like a capricious nanny. He feels that the owner is well treated, and that the owner is not tired of working. He wants to please both sides of the world, but he forgets one sentence: people who are too greedy often get nothing.

So Leiden East repeated the things that have been repeated several times this season, and sent most of the substitutes in the away game against Portsmouth. Starm, Lenon, Jinklaze and Hackby did not even enter the roster. In the end, they tied with their opponents away, and were once again left by five points by Barnsley.

Xiao Ming could only comfort himself in his heart: "In the league, one or two points doesn't matter, there is always a chance to catch up..." But he forgot that after this round of league, there were only eleven rounds of games left in the entire league...

"Grading this game is considered to be accumulating character." Xiao Ming continued to comfort himself like this.

The draw in this game forced Leiden East to a dead end. In the next home game, they must win, and the price paid for this game will be meaningful!

Not only Xiao Ming, but also the players in Leiden East think so.

Before the first leg of the League Cup quarter-finals began, Tigana did not underestimate Leiden Oriental at all in an interview. After all, they have eliminated Strasbourg in Ligue 1 and Bundesliga Borussia Mönchengladbach in Bundesliga. Even though Monaco performed extremely well in Ligue 1 this season, he also believed that the team might capsize in the gutter.

So he said cautiously: "Although I haven't heard of Leiden East before, their performance in the past two seasons has been surprising. Being able to enter the quarterfinals of the League Cup itself proves their strength... They may scare us in the game, but I still believe we will win this game."

What the former French superstar didn't expect was that in the game, Leyton Oriental not only scared them, but also actually won the game. In the game, they relied on running to weaken Monaco's midfield control. Lennon was not afraid when facing Shifu, who was much more famous than him. He firmly controlled Monaco's midfield core with excellent defense. When he played with the opponent in the middle, Leyton Oriental grabbed the opponent's slightly weak side and launched an attack. Both wings, Jinklaze and Hackbee performed well. Jinklaze scored a goal, and Hackbee assisted Jankoler to score. If it weren't for the opponent's Sony Anderson scored a penalty shortly after the start of the second half, Leyton Oriental would have won a complete victory!

But after winning this game, Xiao Ming became even more confused. The advantage of leading by two-to-one at home is not too great. But after all, he won the game and must play well in the next round. Maybe he can enter the semi-finals, but it will inevitably affect the league. Even if Xiao Ming deceives himself, he knows that there are not many games left in the league now, and there is not much room for him to squander...

In this state of entanglement, Leiden East ushered in its second consecutive cup match. In this game, the tired Leiden East suffered a Waterloo at the Riverside Stadium. The Middlesbrough they faced was also a team that did not understand the main and secondary of the league and the cup. Now they are in the last few places in the league, but have reached the final of the League Cup and have also made great progress in the FA Cup.

The two stars decided the outcome of the game. Lavanelli and Juninho each scored a goal to help Middlesbrough defeat Leiden East. However, a strange scene after the game was that Middlesbrough did not express it too happily, and Leiden East collectively breathed a sigh of relief after losing...

To be honest, Xiao Ming looked at Middlesbrough with sympathy. He knew what Middlesbrough had been going on this season - relegation in the league, the FA Cup and the League Cup both reached the finals, but both lost...

Although they lost the FA Cup, there is no benefit to the next schedule of Leiden East. They still have to play seven games in the remaining time. What's worse is that they did not take the initiative to give up the FA Cup. After two consecutive fierce battles, Jin Kraze and Hackby were both injured. In the next two rounds of the league, Xiao Ming could only let the young Simon Davis play the position of the main right forward. Fortunately, Murphy has recovered from injury, otherwise Leiden East would not even find a suitable candidate for the left forward...

Under such circumstances, Leiden Oriental still gritted its teeth and achieved a record of one win and one draw in the next two rounds of the league, and continued to bite Barnsley in front of it. This was the only thing that Leiden Oriental fans could comfort themselves.

Leighton Oriental, who was short of soldiers, went to France to prepare for the second leg of the League Cup.

Before setting off to the Stadium of Louis II, Xiao Ming had some unknown premonition in his heart.

Now he has begun to regret that he is too greedy at Christmas, which has caused the team to have no clear goal. If Leiden Oriental could make a decision earlier and give up the FA Cup, then they would not lose so many points in the league. If Leiden Oriental had enough points in the league, it would not have made the players run away every game...

But there is no ifs in this world, and there is no regret medicine to take. So what can I do if I feel tired? Just fight one by one. Instead of not doing anything to regret it in the future, it is better to regret it again after doing it. Many things in the world are like this. Zhuge Liang will take it afterwards, but when he is in the game, how many people can clear the fog and see clearly?

If he could really see everything clearly, Na Ying would not have sang "Looking at Flowers in the Fog"...

"No matter how tired you are, I will hold back this game!" Xiao Ming said to all the players before the game: "What we need is just a draw!"

The players clenched their fists and nodded. The game was so far that they could only withstand that there was no other way to go.

Xiao Ming plans to repeat the way he defeated Strasbourg away. The Ligue 1 team is delicate but not enough to have enough impact. Their smooth offense is not something Leiden Oriental is afraid of, not to mention that he now has enough defensive players.

Lennon stared at Shifu, Barack restrained Collins from intervening, Stam was responsible for defending Anderson, Horan was responsible for dealing with Ikepeba, and the others adopted regional defense tactics. Jin Kraze and Hackby's absence made Xiao Ming have to adopt such a defensive tactic. For this reason, he sent Murphy and Johnson, two midfielders with excellent defensive abilities, in the midfield, to completely turn the situation of the midfield into South Korean international Ha Xizhou, making it a pot of porridge!

The game was indeed carried out according to Xiao Ming's vision at the beginning. The booing over Louis II's court never stopped from the beginning, because Leiden East used the most brutal and purest defensive play. The four midfielders with strong running ability made the entire midfield a mess, making Monaco's delicate skills and passing and cutting coordination completely impossible to perform. The game was repeatedly interrupted by the whistle, and there were scenes of people turning up and down from time to time.

The score in the first half was zero to zero, Monaco shot five times, and Leiden Oriental shot only twice.

The situation in the second half was still the same, the league relied on offense and the cup relied on defense. Xiao Ming showed this mentality to the fullest, especially when he was leading the total score. Leiden Oriental tried hard to pass the time in the game and desperately blocked the opponent's attack.

Fifteen minutes later in the second half, Tigana finally couldn't stand it. He changed two players in a row. When he saw these two players, Xiao Ming's eyebrows jumped violently.

Thierry Henry replaced midfielder Viod, and David Trezege replaced the mediocre Sony Anderson.

Others may feel relieved when they see Tigana replace two 18-year-old players. After all, no one cares about these two people's fame or strength, but Xiao Ming is most afraid of this happening - no one knows better than Xiao Ming's level of what kind of standards these two people have!

Although Henry is still playing the right winger and Trezeguet is still a young man, they have scored goals in the World Cup just over a year later!

He immediately called Daniel: "Stay at No. 14! No matter what method is used! Tell Stam not to take No. 23 lightly! Just treat him as Anderson!"

Although she was not sure why Xiao Ming attached so much importance to these two strikers who were born in the same year as him, Daniel still nodded and quickly conveyed it to Stam.

Soon, Daniel knew why Xiao Ming attached so much importance to these two players.

He was playing the left-back and he happened to face Henry. He lost in the first duel. Henry's lightning-like starting speed instantly threw him away, and then crossed into the penalty area. If Stam hadn't headed the ball to clear the ball, it would have caused a very threatening attack.

"Damn it, he starts very fast!" Daniel thought to himself without admitting his defeat. He used to think that Pobosky's start speed was already fast enough, but this winger who was the same year as him seemed to be faster than Pobosky!

When Henry dribbled the ball for the second time, Daniel had already planned to foul if he could not stop the opponent as soon as possible. However, this time Henry first pretended to break through from the wing, and then immediately inserted the ball into the middle. If Barack had not returned to defense and cleared the ball in time, Henry could directly dribble the ball into Huanglong.

"Daniel can't defend him...what should I do?" Xiao Ming held his chin and thought, Monaco only needed one goal, and now it is obvious that Daniel, whose physical fitness has dropped a lot, cannot stop Henry's breakthrough at all. This is simply an unfair confrontation. He is not familiar with Henry, and his physical fitness has also decreased. He has been observing for such a long time off the court...

"Why don't Daniel let him slap him?" The thought flashed through his mind shocked Xiao Ming himself. After thinking about it, he shook his head. If Henry is really slap, maybe there will be no super striker Henry in the future. Moreover, after entering the Premier League in the future, Xiao Ming will still buy Henry. If the relationship is broken now, I won't be able to grab Henry before Wenger in the future...

After thinking about it, Xiao Ming made a gesture to Johnson, asking them to deal with Henry. If one person doesn't work, two people can do it. Henry is not the one who scored goals in the Premier League later.

After two players with neither weak defensive ability targeted Henry, Henry's chances of successfully breaking through were reduced a lot, but he alone restrained the opponent's two defensive players, and Monaco's offense began to gradually turn to this side...

The 81st minute came the moment of despair.

Ikepeba, who pulled to the wing, used Henry to attract two Leiden Eastern defenders to successfully receive the pass from Shifu, and then made a beautiful cross. Trezeguet suddenly appeared at the landing point of the ball, and then headed in front of Stam and Holland!

When Xiao Ming saw Trezeguet appearing at the ball landing point like a ghost, he closed his eyes.

As the huge cheers from Louis II's stadium came to his ears, he knew that the scene he least wanted to see had happened.

Although Trezege has the body of a high center forward, his technical characteristics are close to that of Inzaghi. He may not appear in the camera most of a game, but when his figure appears in the camera, it is the time to shoot...

In the 81st minute, the striker Trezeguet, who came on the bench, scored the only goal in the game. Monaco defeated Leiden Oriental 1-0 at home, with a total score of 2-2. Relying on the advantage of many away goals, he eliminated the only English club in the League Cup, Leiden Oriental, and advanced to the League Cup semi-finals!
Chapter completed!