Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chen Xiaoliang returned home and continued to fiddle with the system.

Before that, though, his rented yard in Cheshire was once again buzzing with lively voices.

Ibiza ranked 4th in La Liga A, entered the play-offs consisting of 10 teams, and finally successfully advanced, becoming one of the 22 teams in La Liga next season.

After completing all the work of the season, the club's players and coaches have already been on vacation. Erica also temporarily put down her work as the general manager. She went back to Germany for a few days to visit her family, and then went straight to Cheshire, which she was always thinking of.

The reason is also very good, to accompany my sister and report to the club's shareholder Chen Xiaoliang.

Chen Xiaoliang's plan is also very clear, that is, to keep this team in West Second Division for a relatively long period of time, and then send young players from the Red Country to the youth training camp to compete.

Regardless of commercialization and income, the tactical level and overall strength of the West Second League are still much stronger than those of the Red Super League, and it is precisely because of poor commercialization that the teams in the West Second League are generally still Simpler and more focused on football itself.

This is completely different from the promotion battle of the "[-] million pound battle" of the English Championship, which is also a second-tier league, although "looking at money" is originally one of the essences of professional football.

The two small players from the red country in the team, Hu He and Guo Jia, performed very well in the Western League One. If the addition of other youth training players next season can ensure that the team will not be relegated in the Second Division, then this A road of practice that tries is half the battle.

Another day later, Riise also came. Of course, his purpose of coming was not only to discuss with Chen Xiaoliang and Erica how to recruit Ibiza Island Club next season and how to update the coaching team.

Van der Sar is still recovering in the hospital, but Manchester United's signings for next season are urgent. Although the season is not over yet, the major European giants have already begun to actively contact their transfer targets.

Chen Xiaoliang really doesn't want to discuss this with the last three games of the season, which are also the most crucial three games, but Manchester United's current transfer strategy is to cast a wide net. Cooperate with super agents such as Smith, Barnett, Pimenta, and Riise, tell them the general needs of the team, and then ask these agents to provide a list of recommendations, and then the transfer team will analyze it based on the scouting report. Finalize your goals.

Yilan Kunda, who has been training with the team, is the goal provided by Chen Xiaoliang. The role is to replace Sancho, who is extremely cost-effective and can no longer adjust his mentality no matter how you look at it.

Chen Xiaoliang gave two names, one midfielder and one central defender.

Riise looked at the names and thought for a while. He knew both of them, and one of them even competed with him...

After looking up at Chen Xiaoliang and getting a confirmed answer, Riise immediately went into action.

Originally, there should be Roque who was assigned to Rome on this list, but Roque has scored 17 goals and 13 assists in all competitions in Rome this season, and his worth has soared to 5000 million euros, which directly attracted Real Madrid. , Barcelona, ​​Manchester City and other teams are off the field, especially Barcelona, ​​who have been flirting with Roque for several years. If Riise hadn't killed halfway, they would have signed the Brazilian striker known as the new Ronaldo.

After finishing the affairs of the club, Chen Xiaoliang was finally able to deal with his own affairs.

The victory against Arsenal in the last game, coupled with his goal of riding a thousand miles alone, gave him 12 training points (14 → 26).

It’s just that this season, except for the double play against Tottenham, the draws with Chelsea and Manchester City, and the away game against Newcastle, the rest of the time against the BIG7 teams basically conceded the ball, which also made him lose many times Chance to earn breakthrough points.

As for the "Great Family Mission", he got a Ljungberg side breakthrough card that was not very useful to him now.

He looked at the backpack and simply compared this card with Ashley Cole, Ronaldo, Zidane, Robert Pires, Bergkamp, ​​Tevez, Torres, Suarez, Materazzi, etc. 9 Together, the cards improved his long-range shooting from 18 to 19.

Among them, Suarez's biting card and Materazzi's swearing card he really wants to keep, but now, as a football player, there is absolutely no way for him to do this kind of thing on the court. If there is a major controversy, it will also seriously affect the reputation and image of the individual.

But looking at the Busquets Acting Card, Gerrard Slip Card and Balotelli Fireworks Card still in the card pack, Chen Xiaoliang couldn't help showing a smirk.

After these things, Chen Xiaoliang and the whole team devoted themselves to the preparations for the final.

The FA Cup, the oldest football competition in human history, was established in 1871.
That year the Paris Commune Revolution broke out, the German Empire was established, the Qing Dynasty was still in the Tongzhi period, and the later Emperor Guangxu was just born.

Today, this event has come to the 143rd session.

Coincidentally, the name of the champions of the first FA Cup that year was "Wanderers". They won the FA Cup five times in the first seven years of the event, but the team was disbanded in 1887 until In 2009, the descendants of the club's players reorganized the team and participated in the 15th level league in England - the Surrey South East League Junior Division B.

Even if they were promoted every year, it would take them 4 years to reach League Two, the fourth tier for all professional clubs...

Arsenal are the most successful club in this competition with 14 titles, followed by Manchester United with 12 and Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham with eight FA Cups each.

Due to the double-killing of Liverpool in the league this season, and the huge gap in the score, the public opinion before the game is almost one-sided that Manchester United will win the championship.

But against Liverpool, the team never needed too much mobilization. Both Ten Hag and Chen Xiaoliang put defense first in the locker room lectures.

After all, this is the final, there is no room for error.

90 minutes before the game, the double starters were announced.

Manchester United drew for the home team tonight, wearing a red jersey, changing to 4-1-4-1:

Goalkeeper Livakovic, as a reward for his outstanding performance this season, Ten Hag started him in tonight's cup final;
Defender Dalot, Lindelof, Timber, Luke Shaw;

Single defensive midfielder Chen Xiaoliang, double central midfielder Milinkovic and B Fei;
Left winger Kwa, center Sesco, right winger Rashford.

Liverpool is still a 4-3-3 starting formation:
Goalkeeper Alisson;
Four defenders Arnold, Konate, Gwadiol, Zimikas;
Three midfielders Barrera, Lavia, McAllister;

Three forwards Salah, Gakpo, Nunes.

Chen Xiaoliang did not expect that he could appear at Wembley so many times this season, nor did he expect to encounter Barrera, the opponent he was most uncomfortable with.

However, Varela is not the kind of person who can afford to lose, which also led to the fact that every time the two sides shake hands before the game, he just touches Chen Xiaoliang's hand to fool him, and he doesn't even look at Chen Xiaoliang.

Van Dijk, who was psychologically shadowed by Cesco a while ago, was put on the bench by Klopp, and the captain's armband was put on Salah's arm. start!
From the very beginning, Manchester United took the initiative on the scene at Wembley Stadium.

They seem to be proving to the outside world that they are worthy of any praise and optimism before the game.

In the 3rd minute, B Fei took a 30-meter long shot to test Alisson's concentration;

In the 9th minute, Chen Xiaoliang pressed close to the right side and blocked Lavia's pass to Nunez. Then he immediately launched [good at passing through balls], and combined with his passing attribute of 21, Immediately sent a wonderful through ball for Rashford.

The ball was kicked directly to the top of the penalty area from a position just past the center line to the right, but the injured Rashford did not seem to have recovered 100%, and his sprint speed was a little slower, but he still caught up with the ball. Before Gwadiol touched the ball, he kicked the ball to the left side of the penalty area with a side hook.

Kwa on the left received the ball one step inside the penalty area. Goalkeeper Alisson saw that he had formed a one-handed momentum and immediately abandoned the goal to attack.

Conat, who has been chasing Rashford behind him, rushed straight to Kwa.

Kewa adjusted a step, facing Alisson who was squatting in front of him, aimed at the far corner of the goal and kicked a curved ball!

Lou Yichen: "Hit the door! Far corner!"

"oops!"

"The ball actually hit the outside of the post and bounced off the baseline!"

"United missed a great chance to score."

Klopp on the sidelines was furious, pointing at Lavia and yelling: "What are you thinking?! Sleepwalking?!"

"If you pass the ball blindly, I will come down!"

Seeing that the head coach was furious, the 20-year-old Belgian midfielder had no choice but to admit it. He raised his hand and turned his back to Klopp to avoid seeing him again.

Almost conceding the ball at the beginning, coupled with Klopp's lion's roar, made Liverpool's players afraid to try too risky moves, including long-distance through balls and large premise from the back line.

But in this way, the three arrows in the frontcourt immediately lost the support of the midfield and backcourt, and became independent, and the team's offense became less threatening.

This made Gerrard, who came to watch the game from the stands, shake his head.

In his heart, he always wanted to wait for Chen Xiaoliang to realize that it was a wrong choice not to join Liverpool at the beginning, but now even if he is stubborn, he can't help but admit that maybe he was wrong.

Liu Yue: "Manchester United's psychological advantage is too great. In other words, Liverpool's psychological burden is too heavy. Their performance seems to express to some extent that they themselves do not believe that they can win."

"Except for Nunes and McAllister in the midfield, the rest of the players seem to see Xiao Liang defending him, and they immediately evade or transfer the ball. If this is Klopp's deliberate tactic, it will be invisible. Instead, it increases the player's fear of the enemy."

In the 24th minute, Manchester United made another murderous attempt. Kwa was brought down by Arnold when he broke through from the left. The referee Paul Tierney awarded Manchester United a free kick.

Luke Shaw originally wanted to take the penalty, his left foot can send the ball directly from the left wing.

But Chen Xiaoliang walked over, Luke Xiao nodded towards his captain, and immediately backed away.

"Beep!" Paul Tierney blew the whistle, indicating the kick-off.

Chen Xiaoliang kept looking at the back point, where Lindelof and Milinkovic were wandering, and Alisson took half a step back consciously.

He took a run-up step and kicked a curve ball with his right foot!

Lou Yichen: "The ball flies backwards!"

"Ouch!!! Alisson! The ball turned out to be a direct shot!"

"Fortunately, Alisson was prepared, jumped back and blocked the ball out of the baseline with his fingers!"

"How do you feel that Xiaoliang is very active in taking free kicks recently? He scored a goal against Arsenal in the last game, and he almost scored again today."

"Manchester United's right corner kick, let's see if Xiao Liang will also take the corner kick."

Liu Yue: "Fee B will take the penalty."

Lou Yichen: "Someday he might be happy, and he can even take a corner kick and shoot directly."

Two people: "Hahaha."

B Fei took a corner kick, Milinkovic overwhelmed Nunes to get the header, and was blocked by Alisson again.

In the first 30 minutes, Alisson became the busiest player on Liverpool's side.

The camera showed Gerrard in the stands again, with a look of disappointment on his face.

Although in the live broadcast room of Sky Sports, his old partner Carragher was still talking endlessly that Liverpool was going to defend first and wait for a wave of strength in the second half to take them away, but if Gerrard heard this, he would definitely Say "relying on the defense".

Of course, he is also here today to learn tactics. Both Klopp and Ten Hag are much more mature than him from a coaching point of view. However, as a legendary player, he can easily see that Chen Xiaoliang's future Withdrew, so that Manchester United's two central midfielders and three forwards can press forward more, and these five people have speed on the wings, height in the center, can play counterattacks and play positions. Can't press it at all.

What's more, behind them, there is Chen Xiaoliang who can't catch up even if they run, and who can send a precise long pass to the back at any time.

Liverpool played slower and more cautiously, but Manchester United was constantly trying to break the score with a sudden increase in speed.

In the 34th minute, they made an extreme attempt.

Salah shot over the bar and Livakovic kicked it in.

Timber, who was delayed, saw Chen Xiaoliang running to the right to support, and passed the ball with a big foot.

Dalot, who advanced along the right side at a high speed, ran forward under Nunes' retreat and chased. While catching the ball, he used the inside of his foot to pad the ball to Chen Xiaoliang on his left.

Seeing that Chen Xiaoliang was about to catch the ball, McAllister on the center line and Barrera on the side immediately surrounded him.

But Chen Xiaoliang did not stop the ball, and directly pushed the ball forward with his right foot. The ball passed between the two, quickly rolled to the feet of Rashford in front, and instantly penetrated the Liverpool midfielder's defense.

Liverpool left-back Zimikas almost accelerated with Rashford, but the gap in sprint speed made him forced to be gradually pulled away by Rashford.

Rashford caught up with the ball, took a few steps by virtue of his half position, ran to the right side of the penalty area and made a cross pass into the penalty area. Konate was left behind, and it was a push shot against the incoming ball from the small penalty area line.

At such a short distance, Alisson has no time to wait for the ball to come out before making a save judgment. In addition to jumping up, he can only lay down his body to expand the blocking area as much as possible.

But he guessed the wrong direction, and Sesco's push shot hit the right side of the goal, scoring easily.

Lou Yichen: "In the 35th minute, Manchester United made use of a very fast advance to advance directly from their own goal to Liverpool's goal, and forward Sesco scored a goal!"

"The live subtitles came out. The ball took 8.6 seconds from start to finish!"

"All the Manchester United players rushed over and hugged each other tightly!"

"Haha, the director pointed at Klopp again. He seemed to want to shout something at the players, but in the end he chose to sit back on the bench!"

Liu Yue: "I can't attack when I press up, and I can't defend when I retreat. Liverpool played very tangled today and didn't create any good opportunities. Basically, there were mostly small cooperation between the three players in the frontcourt, and then it ended with a long shot. "

"The pair of central defenders Timber and Lindelof performed very well. It can be seen that this is not only because Ten Hag is rotating for the last round of the league in 3 days, and put Lima and Varane on the bench. It also fully recognizes the abilities of these two people.”

"Especially Timber, who played more games in the second half of the season, whether he was a full-back, a central defender or a defensive midfielder, he played very well."

After the goal, Manchester United felt a little crazy. Before the end of the midfield, Chen Xiaoliang suddenly rushed to the frontcourt to catch the ball. Facing Barrera's defense, he first rushed to the right and forced it by relying on his physical advantage, and then faced the ball. The encirclement formed by Arnold, Konate and Lavia did not take the ball, but chose to rush up with the ball directly.

When approaching Konate, Chen Xiaoliang changed direction to the right, and Lavia rushed to put a shovel in the diagonal thrust. Chen Xiaoliang immediately changed direction to the left, and passed the ball behind the turned Konate before Arnold jumped up and down. Going out, the ball rolled into the penalty area, Chen Xiaoliang accelerated and rushed into the penalty area without the double-teaming of the four!
Seeing that Alisson was guarding the near corner, he directly hit the far corner with his left foot, but the ball rubbed against the post in the far corner and rolled out of the baseline!

Chen Xiaoliang turned his head and smiled at Sesco and Keva who were following him, then raised his hand, and his teammates and fans immediately applauded him.

But what's interesting is that after replaying the shot just now, the rebroadcast shot was given to Nunes.

Barrage:

[Kova pushes the center post at the far corner, Xiaoliang pushes the far corner and misses. Does the director mean that Nunes is working? 】

[The four of them can't stop, how good Xiaoliang is as a striker]

[He played forward, who played the midfielder, Milinkovic was smashed into a sieve by Nunes on the field, did you forget?What's more, there will be two more battles in the future, and they must be rotated]

[Chen Xiaoliang's speed, I wouldn't watch the Olympics without him]

...

Klopp on the sidelines was silent.

After one season, he finally understood the reason why he was able to invite Manchester United to drink Seven Up last year, but this year he had nothing to do with his sworn enemy.

The team lacks a super leader and a superstar. After Henderson and Milner left the team, no matter who wears the captain's armband, it seems too quiet.

It’s okay to play the ball with the wind, but once you encounter the ball with the wind, no one can stand up and motivate the teammates around you to move forward against the wind.

He fell into the same dilemma as Guardiola. The head coach's label and imprint are too heavy, and the players on the field seem to be relying on the head coach's decision-making to play.

Winning is the credit of the head coach, and losing is also the responsibility of the head coach.

But the head coach is the one who can't replace the player.

Coupled with the obvious aging of the two world-class stars Van Dijk and Salah, neither Nunez nor Konate can reproduce their great role in the past for the time being.

Although Klopp can't say it, he has realized in his heart that the Manchester United team in front of him is no longer something he can fight against.

He must apply for more transfer funds in the summer, completely transform Liverpool, and close the gap with the two perverted teams in Manchester City in order to reshape the team's competitiveness.

However, when people are struggling, they often think of things that they usually don't think about or dare not think about.

Suddenly, an evil thought was born in his mind.