The Legendary Chairman Novel - Chapter 1247
1247 Missing Out on the Top Four
Leeds United lost to Chelsea, but it was in the Carling Cup, not the league.
Therefore, Zhong Cheng’s mission to kill all the rich and powerful Premier League teams has not failed.
Of course, if he lost the Carling Cup, Zhong Cheng would lose a championship. This was also a terrible thing.
However, Leeds United did have a problem playing this game.
Zhong Cheng didn’t pay any attention to it. After all, life needed to be looked forward.
Zhong Cheng did not care about this matter anymore. Right now, Zhong Cheng’s attention is on the league. Leeds United’s goal this season is to win the Premier League.
Leeds United are doing very well now. In the Premier League it is very much ahead.
Now that the Premier League’s tenth round is over, the Premier League’s rankings have changed dramatically. It is not Manchester United or Arsenal who are at the top of the rankings, but Chelsea who are coming from behind. Yes, Chelsea are back.
Ten matches later, Chelsea scored eight wins, two losses, 24 points and held the championship high. Next up was Red Manchester United. Their record was seven wins, one draw, two losses, and 22 points. Sheffield Wednesday was also seven wins, one draw, two losses, and 22 points. Arsenal, who had just lost to Leeds United, was ranked fourth, seven wins, one draw, and two losses, with 22 points.
Leeds United, on the other hand, finished fifth in the Premier League with seven wins, three losses and 21 points.
Yes, Leeds United really did come up, and in a flash they were fifth in the league. This was beyond many people’s expectations.
Ranked sixth in the league was Leiden East, who went six wins, two draws and two losses with 20 points.
Then there was Tottenham Hotspur, who were 6-1, 3-19, then Liverpool, 6-4, 18 and Manchester City, 5-3, 2-18.
This was the current ranking of the Leeds United. This was indeed beyond the expectations of many people. Zhong Cheng’s consecutive wins directly allowed the Leeds United to enter the top five, only a point away from the top four. Zhong Cheng was really powerful.
Right now, no one could underestimate Zhong Cheng. The Leeds United were always able to unleash an extremely powerful force in his hands. Now, they were truly formidable.
Originally, everyone thought that Leeds United would be good in the middle and lower reaches of the season, but they didn’t expect them to be stupid enough to reach fifth place, and there was also a gap of one point between them and the top four.
Zhong Chengzhen’s is amazing.
Of course, at this time, there are many Premier League clubs that want to poach Leeds United. The easiest way to get rid of Leeds United is to poach them.
At this time, Leeds United welcomed their eleventh Premier League game of the season.
In the 11th Premier League match, Leeds United went away to face Sunderland.
Zhong Cheng has some reservations about this match because the Champions League will start next week and Leeds United will play Alkmar at home.
Therefore, in this round of the league, Zhong Cheng had some reservations. And in this round of the game, Zhong Cheng is to let the recovery of Alexander Pato start.
In this match, Zhong Cheng’s formation was 4-1-3-2. The list was as follows:
Goalkeeper: Simon Mignolet
Fourth Guards “Left to Right”: Danny Ross, Gary Cahill, Matts Hummels and Kyle Walker
Single waist: Sammy Hedilla
Three avant-garde “left to right”: Eden Azar, Tony Clos and Marco Reus
Twin strikers: Diego Costa and Alexander Pato
In this match, Leeds United was practically an all-substitute lineup. This was a big rotation. After all, Leeds United had only played against Arsenal and Chelsea before, so they needed to adjust.
However, Zhong Cheng did not expect that Leeds United would fall behind 2-0 in the first 15 minutes of the match. Is the current Manchester United second team so powerful?
Yes, Sunderland is now known as Manchester United’s second team because many of their players are on loan or imported from Manchester United, such as striker Campbell and winger Richardson.
At the beginning of the first half of the game, Leeds United were unstable. Sunderland winger Zenden sent the ball into Leeds United’s penalty area with a curved pass. In the penalty area, Campbell scored from behind with a shovel.
Then, on the 15th minute of the game, Richardson crossed from the side. Somehow, there was a strange arc. The football directly passed over Leeds United goalkeeper Simon Mignolet’s head and fell into the far corner of the goal.
This arc was really strange. It was clearly Richardson’s pass. For some reason, it turned into a hanging door on the side. Simon Mignolet had no choice but to shake his head and sigh.
Zhong Cheng was dumbfounded. What was going on?
Leeds United are 2-0 behind at the start of the game? Was this game going to end like this?
Zhong Cheng was signaling for Leeds United’s players to step up their offense, especially on the wings.
At this time, the Leeds United wingers immediately attacked Sunderland like crazy. Now that Leeds United are in charge of the game, Sunderland are tired of defending.
In the thirty-ninth minute of the second half of the game, Marco Reus broke through one after another on the side and entered the restricted area of the Sunderland team. He was directly tripped to the ground by Sunderland goalkeeper Gordon, and the referee awarded a penalty kick.
However, Gordon only got one yellow card. The referee was really soft-hearted.
Marco Reus personally stood on the penalty spot and shot through Gordon’s goal. Leeds United scored a point.
Unfortunately, it was getting late now. It was already 42 minutes. There really wasn’t much time left for Leeds United.
Fortunately, Leeds United did not give up. In the first minute of injury time, Leeds winger Eden Azar stumbled at the front of the box by Sunderland centre-back Da Silva. Leeds United got a free-kick with a good front-court position.
Eden Azar, Tony Clos and Alexander Pato were all standing in front of the football.
In the end, Eden Azar made a quick run-up and made a beautiful arc. The football went around the Sunderland wall and flew into the Sunderland goal.
That’s how Leeds United managed to tie Sunderland with two set-pieces.
In this match, Leeds United were really terrible. They almost lost on the road.
After this round, Chelsea are still top of the table with 27 points in nine wins and two losses, followed by Red Manchester United with 25 points in eight wins and one draw, Arsenal with 25 points in three eight wins and one draw and two losses, and Leiden East with 22 points and seven wins and two draws, ranking fourth in the Premier League.
Ranked fifth in the Premier League was Sheffield Wednesday, who scored seven wins, one draw, three losses and 22 points. Leeds United are now 7-1, 3-3, 22 points.
Zhong Cheng was a little depressed now that he had conceded 22 points from three goals. If they had really scored three points in this match, they would have already reached the top four of the Premier League, not the current result.
Really, Leeds United missed a very, very good opportunity.
Ranked seventh and eighth were Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, both with 19 points, ninth was Liverpool with 18 points and tenth was Aston Villa with 18 points.
Therefore, Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez’s life was very difficult at this time. Right now, many Liverpool fans were dissatisfied with Rafael Benitez, very dissatisfied. This fellow’s performance in leading the team was really too bad. Now, Rafael Benitez had already disappeared from the crowd.
Many people claim that Benitez’s game is no longer the same as the football world today. Benitez has been eliminated by the times.
Liverpool fans are clamoring for Liverpool to fire Rafael Benitez. Liverpool now need fresh blood and tactics. It’s time for a new generation.
Yes, Rafa Benitez is Liverpool’s merit coach, but that’s the reality. And the banner they hold high is that they are doing it for the good of Liverpool and they are willing to do anything as long as Liverpool get better.
Yes, at this moment, Liverpool fans are desperate to replace Rafa Benitez.
To be honest, the reason why Liverpool’s results are so poor is because of their club’s injuries. Liverpool’s injuries are relatively severe, and many of their main players are injured, such as Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres.
Liverpool are in a really bad situation and Rafael Benitez has no other options.
News of the new Liverpool manager, such as the great coach Roy Hodgson, the former Real Madrid coach Michael Schuster, and Dalglish, was circulating in the outside world. They were all targets of the Liverpool Football Club.
Of course, who would Liverpool fans like to take over now? That would naturally be the former Liverpool King Dalglish.
Dalglish had a good relationship with Liverpool and now they are hoping to renew their previous relationship with Dalglish.
Liverpool fans have also claimed that, Liverpool should be the head coach of Leiden East or Sheffield United. These two are both Zhong Cheng coaches. The two of them are very good at leading the team now. Sheffield United don’t need to talk about it anymore. They have been in the Premier League for so long, so it’s easy to imagine such a result. On the contrary, the promotion horse, Leiden Oriental, had such a sharp result. This head coach’s level was very high.
Look at Brandán Rogers and DiMatteo. Liverpool need these two managers. They wanted to poach these two coaches mainly because they couldn’t poach Zhong Cheng.
Yes, now Liverpool are really paying attention to Leeds United and Zhong Cheng.
However, Zhong Cheng didn’t pay much attention to this.
As long as you don’t dig the corners of the Leeds United team, you can play anytime you want. It has nothing to do with our Leeds United team.
Now Zhong Cheng’s attention was naturally on the upcoming Champions League match. After winning this match, Leeds United could advance by two rounds.