Chapter 894 Time is running out
The game on the field has restarted, and Tramed, who scored the goal, was boosted in morale and continued to attack Leeds City's goal.
According to the thinking of many Stan Park Rangers fans, Leeds City should have reached the edge of the cliff. As long as Tramed exerts a little more force, he can push them from the cliff into the abyss.
After all, Leeds City had already begun to show signs of fatigue before conceding the goal.
But when the game resumed, the situation did not develop in the direction that Stan Park Rangers fans expected.
When these Rangers fans were celebrating Tramed's goal just now, they didn't notice that Tony Clark stood on the sidelines and roared loudly after losing the ball.
After successfully attracting the attention of the Leeds City players on the court, he raised his thumb, index finger and middle finger, put away his ring finger and little finger, and made the "I want three points" gesture.
His meaning is very simple - even if everyone is exhausted now, they will still fight for me until the last minute and will not give up until I get three points!
So you don't have to think about anything but offense.
What? Is it possible to concede the ball when attacking?
So what?
Can our current score of 2:2 enable us to win the league championship?
If we attack, we may lose the game, but if we don't attack, we will still lose the championship.
Either way, it's death, so fight with your life!
After every Leeds City player understood what the head coach meant, there was a surge of heat in their hearts. They know this is their last chance to win the league.
If this game cannot be won, the next round of the league will be meaningless.
And if we can win against Tramed on the road, then what can we not win against Northumbria at home in the final round?
Either win the game and win the championship, or fight until the end and die!
Such pride arose in the hearts of the Leeds City players.
Dragging his tired body, he continued to attack Tramed.
For a moment, Tramed slowed down his attack because he was worried about the space behind him...
They fell back and were pushed back by Leeds City's attack.
This disappointed Stan Park Rangers fans who expected Tramed to defeat Leeds City in one fell swoop.
Then he comforted himself: Even if Tramed fails to win this game, a draw can help our Stan Park Rangers reach the top...
"Regardless of whether Leeds City can win the championship this season, I think their performance is enough to win everyone's respect... Tony Clark is a crazy manager, and his madness has created a team like Leeds City. Crazy team, his madness brought a completely new performance to the team, his madness made him and Leeds City They all deserve our respect. Leeds City is still attacking. They seem to only know how to attack, but it is precisely because of this that they can have such a crazy season! The game is not over yet, and I don’t know if they will end up. I can get my wish, but now I just want to wish them good luck..."
Matthew Cox sighed after seeing Leeds City's heroic counterattack.
He originally thought that a team like Leeds City, which lacked foundation and championship experience, would have collapsed after being continuously beaten by Tramed in the away game.
But no.
This team is as tenacious as weeds. As a grassroots team in the Premier League, they grow silently in an unnoticed corner. And when everyone noticed them, they realized that they were almost covering the ground.
At this time, it is no longer as easy to eradicate these weeds as it was at first.
They are weeds, they can grow back again even if they are burned by fire.
They have experienced a lot of pain, so what they suffered today at the Red Roof Stadium may not be worth mentioning, and it is far less terrible than the threat of relegation.
Cox is actually a little pleased to see that this team has hope of breaking the BIG6 monopoly.
But if even such a crazy team can't do it, then maybe today's football is indeed dominated by the rich and powerful, and class has been solidified.
Football was originally a working-class sport, but now it has become a game of capital.
The rich, the very rich, always find a way around UEFA's Financial Fair Play sanctions by waving checks to attract top players and young talent.
So the strong will always be strong.
Smaller teams can beat them once in the league, but not throughout the league.
Cox is not a conservative person. He knows that if modern football is to develop, capital plays an important role and is indispensable. But under his "objective and neutral" stance, deep in his heart, he still has a "wishful wish", hoping that someone can really break this stagnant situation.
After all, when capital is so large that it is no longer willing to accept any constraints, they may destroy the sport of football instead of helping it develop and grow as it once did.
This can be seen from the fact that wealthy clubs have been making a fuss about establishing a European Super League in the past few years.
Although they are under the banner of overthrowing UEFA's ignorant and corrupt rule, they want to bring fairness to football.
But in fact, they just want to seek fairness for the wealthy families: everyone is fair, but we need to be more fair.
Later, due to strong opposition from all parties, the matter of the European Super League was settled, but the giants never gave up the idea of overturning the existing game rules and starting a new game of their own.
Under such circumstances, Cox was actually very happy to see a team like Leeds City give those giants a slap in the face!
After hearing what Cox said, the Leeds City fans in front of the TV muttered: "We don't want to be respected, we just want the championship..."
After winning the championship, it doesn't matter if he is reviled by thousands of people. We've never been liked by that many people anyway, so it doesn't matter if they hate us, but the champions are the real deal!
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Leeds City's fierce attack did not last long because they did have problems with their physical fitness.
Although it is considered good that the problem did not occur until the 37th round of the league, the timing of the problem now is really not good...
Clark replaced captain Lorenzo with midfielder Jose Vieira.
The captain's armband was placed on the arm of Pete Williams.
He is also the youngest captain among the twenty teams in the Premier League.
After replacing a defensive midfielder but removing a center, Clark is definitely not giving up offense. He did this to push both Williams and Jay Adams forward, leaving Vieira behind to defend the midfield alone in an attempt to make a last-ditch effort.
But this substitution did not show any effect.
Instead, Tramed, who had calmed down, suppressed Leeds City.
As the game time passed, Tramed's offense became more threatening.
It can be seen that Tramed really wants to defeat Leeds City at home, and their pursuit of victory actually has nothing to do with Stan Park Rangers - if they want to guarantee Stan Park Rangers to win the championship, they only need to draw at home. Leeds City will get the job done. Now with such a fierce attack, there is still the possibility of Leeds City counterattacking and stealing a ball, which makes Stan Park Rangers fans tremble with fear...
So Tramed just wants to win, and it has nothing to do with who wants to win.
They simply didn't accept the fact that Leeds beat them at the Red Roof.
Moreover, Leeds City performed so tenaciously in this game, how could it not arouse the competitive spirit of Tramed's players?
You are so tenacious. If we don't defeat you, wouldn't we be the ones who are embarrassed?
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Time passed by, and although Tramed did not score Leeds City's goal, the time left for Leeds City was getting less and less, and they still did not score.
Hu Lai, who had scored 29 goals before the game, was only one goal away from 30 goals, but he has not scored yet.
Now most of the time he even appears from behind to defend instead of attacking from the front.
This is not in line with his playing habits and is not what he is good at doing.
But there is no way, he is just one of the eleven players on the field, and does not have the super ability of one person to take the ball and challenge the other team's eleven players, and then hit the football into the goal.
Even if it is cheated, sometimes it is still subject to the rules of football and the laws of physics.
Lilith took the time to turn her head and glance at Li Qingqing beside her, and found that the stuffed doll in her arms had completely sunk in. From her tight muscles and white knuckles, you could see how hard she was working now. This means she is nervous.
Her friend was so close to making history, but now he was brutally knocked back to reality...
Lilith also felt the same.
She turned her attention back to the television.
The game is nearing its end.
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"The game is coming to an end. It is the 85th minute of the game. There are still five minutes left before the end of the 90-minute game. There is less and less time left for Leeds City..." He Feng said weakly.
Yan Kang next to him was silent, thinking about how to comfort the disappointed and painful Chinese fans.
He knew that second place in the league was actually a good result, but at this time, how could he say this?
In the luxurious private room of the KTV, everyone was looking directly at the big screen. The coffee table in front of them was filled with beer bottles, but no one took them to drink, or even took a look at them.
They just looked at the screen nervously, longing for a miracle to happen in their hearts.
It’s just that as the game time passes by, the possibility of miracles becomes less and less likely...
But no one sighed first, and no one spoke out words of frustration first.
They just look at the screen.
The cheers and singing of the Tramed fans could be heard from the speakers around the private room.
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When the fourth official raised the injury time sign on the sidelines, many people were shocked to realize that five minutes had passed by in a blink of an eye and that the 90-minute match time had come to an end.
From the sign that was raised, everyone can see that this game has four minutes of injury time.
When Levin saw this scene in the bar, he yelled: "Damn it! Why are there only four minutes of stoppage time? This is a red-top stadium! A red-top stadium! How can the stoppage time in a red-top stadium be less than seven minutes? ! Are you looking down on Tramed’s home field?”
John glanced at his companion who was already furious, and rarely quarreled with him.
He wasn't in that mood either.
In the past, Tramed had a record of the referee giving a long stoppage time when he was behind in his home game. In the end, Tramed won the game by scoring in the last minute of stoppage time. That's why there is such a joke in English football - the starting time of injury time at the red-top stadium is seven minutes, and there is no limit.
This is of course a joke used to satirize Tramed for being taken care of by the referee, but now Leeds City fans are extremely hoping that the referee can repeat the previous "classic moment", with at least seven minutes of injury time, and then no cover. , until they scored to defeat Tramed...
But just like jokes can only be jokes, the extravagant hopes of Leeds City fans can only be extravagant hopes.
"There are only four minutes left for Leeds City to pursue the league title. Unless a miracle happens, it will be difficult for them to beat Tramed away from home..."
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"Stan Park Rangers are now only four minutes away from being number one in the league! However, for Stan Park Rangers, it is somewhat ironic that Stan Park Rangers were able to return to first place with the help of their rivals in the league..." Matthew Cox said with a hint of sarcasm.
The Stan Park Rangers players in front of the TV didn't care about the ridicule from the commentator. No one of them could remain sitting. They all stood up and stood side by side, putting their hands on the shoulders of the people next to them.
Just like on the sidelines of a game, all the players lined up, trying to suppress their excitement, waiting for the final whistle.
Even Brooks was not exempt from the custom, standing in a row shoulder to shoulder with his fellow coaching staff. His heart was beating wildly, but the expression on his face was trying to remain calm.
The game is not over yet, don’t get carried away yet! (End of chapter)