Chapter 1166 The End of the League
When Xie Lan came home from get off work, she met Li Ziqiang who had just parked his car in the underground parking lot, so she warmly extended an invitation to Li Ziqiang:
"Hey Lao Li, come to my house and watch the Europa League final together!"
"I won't bother you with this..." Li Ziqiang wanted to refuse.
"Hey, no trouble, no trouble! There are so many people watching football games in the middle of the night and I'm not sleepy, there's nothing to worry about!" Xie Lan waved his hands repeatedly.
"That's what I said, Sister Xie. But every time I go to your house to watch football, you have to treat me to dinner..."
"That's not troublesome. It's just an extra pair of dishes and chopsticks. Besides, our two families didn't have children around us, and we didn't move around very often. It was such a lonely life, don't you think?"
The two of them walked into the elevator while talking.
Li Ziqiang knew that he could not refuse Sister Xie's enthusiastic invitation, so he nodded: "Then I'll bother you. But it's still early..."
Xie Lan shook his head: "It's not too early, it's not too early. It's only twenty days. It's gone by in the blink of an eye, but it's so fast!"
Li Ziqiang lowered his head and said nothing. How can he still be happy after twenty days?
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Twenty days goes really fast.
For Leeds City, it is only a matter of two games.
On Monday, May 10, in the 37th round of the Premier League, Leeds City challenged Thorton Town away.
Although he had just experienced the Europa League semi-final against London Bridge, Clark did not arrange for the main players to rest in this game.
After all, there won't be any games next, so the opportunity to play is particularly precious at this time.
This is because it is necessary to prevent the main players from finding their form after not playing for too long.
This is what Leeds City's players hope for - with three games left before the end of the season, Lasky has not yet completed the tasks assigned to him by boss Clark.
A brace in the second leg of the Europa League semi-final brought Lasky's total season goals to 18.
Still two goals away from completing the goal.
In order to ensure the completion of the task, of course, the sooner the goal is scored, the better.
You can’t wait until the Europa League final to complete this task, right?
Therefore, playing Thorton and letting all the main players start will help Laski complete the task.
In this game, the entire Leeds City team was trying to find ways to create opportunities for Laski.
But perhaps because he wanted to score too much, Laski's performance in this game was not as relaxed as in the last Europa League semi-final.
His teammates created many opportunities for him, but he also wasted many opportunities.
Until the end of the game, he failed to score.
Leeds City finally relied on Hulay's brace to defeat Thorton 2:1 away from home.
After the game, everyone in the locker room comforted the depressed Lasky and told him not to care too much about not scoring in this game.
In the last round, Leeds City played relegated Sandwell at home, so he still had a chance.
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On Sunday, May 16, the 2026-2027 Premier League season will finally come to an end.
At this point in the league, the suspense of championship and relegation has ended - the league championship belongs to Manchester Athletic, and the three relegated teams are also confirmed.
They are Helmer in 18th place, Sandwell in 19th place and Northumbria in last place.
Among them, Northumbria performed well in the Premier League last season and even almost qualified for the European competition.
As a result, this season's performance plummeted - only six wins, two draws, and 29 losses in thirty-seven league rounds. Scored nineteen goals, conceded sixty-three goals, accumulated twenty points, and was relegated early.
Helmer, ranked 18th, has 28 points, 11 points behind Burley, who is 17th in the league, and was relegated very early.
The only suspense in the league at present is qualifying for the European competition.
The most fierce competition is to qualify for the Champions League.
The top four in the league are Manchester Athletic with 89 points, Stan Park Rangers with 70 points, Wiggerston with 69 points, and London Bridge with 68 points.
Tramed, who is fifth in the league, has 67 points.
It can be said that except for the league champion Manchester Athletic, the other four teams are very likely to qualify for the Champions League next season.
In order to ensure fairness and justice, the final round of the league kicks off at the same time.
But this has nothing to do with Leeds City.
They only care about one thing, and that is whether Lasky can complete the league's goal of 20 goals in this game.
Captain Pete Williams even wanted to talk to Lasky specifically, hoping to reduce his pressure and prevent him from having too much psychological burden.
But he was persuaded by Hu Lai: "The more you do this, the greater the pressure will be on him! Can a professional player not even be able to withstand such a little pressure?"
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"You can play how you want to play. Instead of avoiding the pressure, it is better to face it head-on. I believe Dominic can withstand this level of pressure." Hu Lai looked at Peter who seemed to be hesitant and asked: "Why? , don’t you trust your teammates?”
Pete shook his head quickly: "No, I believe it."
Hu Lai spread his hands: "Isn't that the end?"
Then he patted Pete on the shoulder: "Pete, you are going to be the leader of this team in the future. No matter what, you must believe in your teammates. This is very important."
Peter was lost in thought.
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From the first minute of the game, Leeds City, playing at home, launched a fierce attack on Sandwell's goal.
Sandwell, which has been relegated early, lacks fighting spirit.
So the game completely fell into Leeds City's rhythm.
Eleven minutes after the kick-off, when Kamara broke into the penalty area from the wing, he was dragged to the ground by Sandwell's defender. The referee decisively blew the whistle and sentenced Sandwell to death.
Hulay, who was originally the team's top penalty taker, directly stuffed the football into Laski's arms.
"Come on, Dominic."
This scene surprised the commentators.
Without knowing the inside story, it is really difficult for them to understand why Hu Lai gave this penalty kick.
Could it be that after missing out on the Premier League Golden Boot this season, the pot has been broken?
Before this round of the league, Hu Lai basically said goodbye to the competition for the Premier League Golden Boot this season. There is a difference of seven between his twenty league goals and Stones' twenty-seven goals. There is no way he can score eight goals in this last game, right?
Peter saw Hu Lai thrust the football into Lasky's arms so casually, then he didn't care about Lasky's surprised expression, waved his hand, turned around and exited the penalty area.
He remembered what Hulay said to himself before the game.
You have to believe in your teammates...
So he shouted to Laski, who was still in a daze: "Dominique!"
Lasky was called back to his senses and looked up.
"Come on, you can do it!" Pete clenched his fist and waved.
He noticed that the expression on Lasky's face changed little by little, and finally he nodded vigorously towards himself.
Then he turned around and went to place the football.
After placing the football, Laski stood up and backed away, then looked at the goal. He felt unprecedented pressure.
He felt as if he was facing the most crucial goal in the penalty shootout in the Europa League final.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Thinking of Hu Lai, he gave the penalty kick to himself without saying a word.
I remembered Peter's encouragement to me again.
Thinking about the help the whole team has given him this season...
How could there be no pressure?
But how could he be afraid of pressure?
The whistle sounded, he opened his eyes, exhaled, took a running approach, and kicked off!
He whipped the football hard towards... the center!
Sandwell's goalkeeper dives to the right!
Amid huge cheers, the football flew into the goal!
"Beautiful! Only twelve minutes into the game, Leeds City took the lead! Lasky scored his twelfth league goal this season! Second only to Hulay, he ranked third in the Leeds City team Two!”
After scoring the goal, Lasky did not run wildly to celebrate, but stood on the spot and roared, venting all the pressure of not scoring in the previous round of the league.
Immediately afterwards he was overwhelmed by the swarm of Leeds City players.
Everyone cheered loudly in his ears.
The Leeds City players on the bench were even more excited. They were shouting: "One more to go! One more to go!!"
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After Laski opened the scoring for Leeds City, Leeds City scored again in the 36th minute.
This time it was Hulay who scored the goal.
He suddenly shot a cold arrow from the front of the penalty area and penetrated Sandwell's goal with a long shot.
Leeds City leads 2:0!
After taking a two-goal lead, there was basically no suspense for Leeds City to win the game.
The players began to feed Laski the ball, hoping to help him complete the goal of twenty goals in this game.
Their move was so obvious that the commentators were a little confused - they couldn't understand why Leeds City players were trying so hard to create opportunities for Laski.
If they create opportunities for Hu Lai, it is somewhat understandable. Although Hu Lai has no hope of winning the Premier League Golden Boot, what if it is to allow him to rank higher on the Premier League scorer list?
What is the purpose of creating opportunities for Laski?
Can Laski still hit the Premier League Golden Boot?
Or is Laski's popularity within the Leeds City team already so good?
You must know that not only other Leeds City players are creating opportunities for Laski, but even Hulay is doing the same - Leeds City's first goal of the game, Laski's first goal, but It was the penalty kick opportunity given to him by Hu Lai!
Everyone can’t understand it, which is normal. After all, no one would have thought that Leeds City players would work so hard for a meal...
The actions of the Leeds City players deeply stimulated the Sandwell players, who regarded it as a "provocation" to themselves.
So they stepped up their defense against Lasky.
Although they have no idea why Leeds City are so determined to let Laski score...
In the 72nd minute, Hulera got the ball after getting out of the penalty area, and he sent a very rare through ball!
This caught Sandwell off guard - after all, when had he seen Hulay organize an attack outside the penalty area before?
Lasky ran into the space, received Hulay's pass, and shot directly!
The football rolled from the Sandwell goalkeeper's feet into the net!
"Laski! Laski finally scored again! He looked very excited after scoring. He ran to Hulay who passed the ball to him, hugged him, and was then surrounded by more Leeds City players. Live... All Leeds City players seemed very excited and excited, which somewhat puzzled us... But anyway, Leeds City scored again! They led Sandwell 3:0 at home with a clean game! A clean victory brings an end to this league season! ”
Matthew Cox shouted, wondering.
Because after Laski scored, the Leeds City players were particularly excited. It felt like they had won the league championship...
In the stadium, even the Leeds City players on the bench rushed out and ran towards their teammates who were celebrating, joined them and continued to celebrate.
Sam Randall nudged Clark with his elbow: "There's going to be bleeding again!"
Clark didn't speak, but answered him with a hearty laugh. (End of chapter)