The Legendary Chairman Novel - Chapter 271
271 Expedition To Bucharest
Dinamo Bucharest was founded in 1948 in Bucharest, Romania. They are one of the most successful clubs in Romania. They have won 17 Romanian Premier League titles, 12 Romanian Cup titles and 1 Romanian Super Cup title.
Dinamo Bucharest is the second Romanian side to reach the semi-final of the Champions League and one of Romania’s top clubs.
They are the most famous teams in Romania with their city rivals Bucharest Star. The derby between them is called the national derby of Romania, the derby of Bucharest and the eternal one.
Dinamo Bucharest are a good team, having won both the league and cup titles in Romania last season. And at the beginning of this season, they won the Super Cup in Romania, the king of the kings in Romania!
This is the highest level of the Romanian team, they are very strong.
Romania’s Bucharest side are very confident in this match. After all, this is their home ground, and Dinamo Bucharest is at their peak. He is Romania’s treble champion. They think they can still defeat Zurich United’s three consecutive defeats.
Dinamo Bucharest is doing very well in the Romanian league, winning consecutive matches. Their form is very hot and everyone is naturally very confident in them.
Dinamo Bucharest coach Mirca Rednik told reporters before the match: “It is clear that Leeds United are a team that is returning to glory. They have just rushed up from the second division and they can play the UEFA Cup, which speaks volumes about their strength.” However, it is said that their condition is not good recently, the main force of the team has greatly left and injured, the main body of the team has been a problem, their recent results are really not ideal. “This means that they have encountered a problem. This is very good news for us!”
Rednick added: “Well, I’ve heard of Madman Loria. He’s an atypical manager. Well, he’s very strong. Whether it’s their judgement of people or their ability to coach the team, he’s really strong. Leeds United really did a great job under him.”
Rednick said: “Leeds United are in a lot of trouble and we are in good shape. I am very confident that we can win this game.”
Dinamo Bucharest coach Rednick is very confident that he has done a lot of homework and knows the situation at Leeds United like the back of his hand. Clearly, Rednick knew 36 tricks and knew his opponent well, so he was invincible in a hundred battles!
This also shows the ambition of the Dinamo in Bucharest. They are hoping to win this match and they are ready for it.
The Dinamo players in Bucharest were also full of confidence in this match. Before the match, they told reporters that they would definitely win and win this match.
Similarly, the local fans also think so. A promotion from the Premier League, they really don’t think much of it. This is simply sending their team to the UEFA Cup group stage. Dinamo Bucharest’s fans are so excited that they can’t wait to see this match.
Almost all Romanians are optimistic about Dinamo Bucharest. Even a lot of the English media are optimistic about Dinamo Bucharest. They think there is a big problem with Leeds United and they can’t win in Bucharest. This made Dinamo Bucharest’s fans very happy. It seems like the Englishman really knows his place.
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Zhong Cheng really didn’t know much about Dinamo in Bucharest.
Even if it was the memories of later generations, Zhong Cheng still didn’t have much of them, because this team was really too small compared to Zhong Cheng, and he didn’t have much influence.
Zhong Cheng’s impression of Dinamo Bucharest came from the intelligence gathered by Greene Nethercott. Dinamo Bucharest’s attack was very strong, one was Claudio Nicolescu, the other was Yanis Zichu.
Claudio Nicurescu made a name for himself early in his career at Dinamo Bucharest, where he did well and spent 2002-2003 on loan at Genoa, Italy, but returned to Dinamo Bucharest after a season.
But after returning to Dinamo Bucharest, his performance is getting better and better, scoring 16 goals in his first season back, compared with 21 last season. This season he has continued to perform well and is the team’s number one striker.
This is a person that Leeds United must pay attention to today. It’s very dangerous.
Yanis Zicu is the Romanian international, a former genius who has joined Inter. However, he has never played for Inter. He has been on loan for many years, played for Parma and then loaned to Dinamo Bucharest, where he did well.
This fellow later came to Asia to play, he first joined South Korea’s POSCO, then joined South Korea’s Kangwon Road FC.
It was also said that he had had an affair with China’s Ningcheng Hongyun and Tianjing Taida back then, but he chose to go to South Korea in the end. Therefore, Zhong Cheng was a little familiar with him. This was a very good left-footed general.
However, this fellow’s weakness was also very obvious. It was that his body was not strong enough. Sometimes, it was even sticky!
The rest of the players are not bad, most of them are Romanian international players, the strength is really not ordinary.
Zhong Cheng looked at the information and thought very seriously about the match. They thought that their Leeds United team could still beat Dinamo Bucharest.
In an interview with reporters before the game, Zhong Cheng said: “Yes! Dinamo Bucharest is a team that can’t be ignored. Their strength is very good. Most of them are Romanian international players and their strength is very strong. And they have been in good shape recently, which is a very bad thing.”
Zhong Cheng also said: “However, I am still very confident in our Leeds United team. Although this match is very difficult, but I think the final victory is still our Leeds United team!”
At this time, the reporters were asking Zhong Cheng about Huntelaar,
Zhong Cheng said: “Every player has a peak and valley, this is very normal.” Just like Ronaldo back then, didn’t he have a goal shortage? Besides, isn’t that the case with George Best, Gascoigne and the others in England? Kras was indeed not in a good condition, but he had already improved a lot. “I believe that Huntelaar, whom we are familiar with, will return soon!”
“As for this match, I naturally hope that Huntelaar can recover from his previous performance, but this is not a matter of my will. However, I really hope that he can return as soon as possible,” Zhong Cheng said immediately after the reporters asked another question.
Yes, Huntelaar is very important to Leeds United right now. The Leeds United team needs him to pull out the stronghold for the Leeds United siege.
Before the match, Huntelaar did not give any interviews to the media. He hated these damned media reporters to death. If it wasn’t for these media reporters, perhaps he would have recovered his previous strength long ago, right?
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A lot of media reporters were watching the match before the game. Of course, there were also many fans who came to the scene. Naturally, these fans were all fans of the home team Dinamo Bucharest. Only a few dozen Leeds United fans came to support the team away.
This was considered to be a large number of people in the expeditionary army. Sometimes, when they went to this kind of away game, there were really a few fans there. So Leeds United fans are really good.
The formation that Zhong Cheng had discharged today was a 4-1-3-2 formation. The list was as follows:
Goalkeeper: Zhong Zheng
Four defenders “from left to right”: Evra, Vermaelen, Pique and Sagna
Single waist: Nigel Dejon
Three avant-garde “left to right”: Franck Ribery, Ivica Olich and James Milner
Twin strikers: Huntelaar and Darren Bent
Yes, Zhong Cheng placed Huntelaar in the starting lineup of the Leeds United team. It could be seen from this that Zhong Cheng had a preference for Huntelaar. Even with strikers like Crespo in the Leeds RUF, Huntelaar, who performed badly, was still in the starting line-up.
Zhong Cheng’s favourite player, Ivica Oli ć, also appeared in the starting line-up, replacing the heavily injured Modric. Obviously Ivica Olic is much weaker than Modric in terms of offensive organization and passing, but his running, his motivation and his forward backstealing and defensive abilities are much better than Modric’s.
Zhong Cheng valued this kind of thing on Oli ć ‘s body. He was a very professional player.
At the beginning of the game, Leeds United put on the visiting team’s defensive formation.
Yes, against Dinamo Bucharest, Leeds United still chose to defend, which made many English media reporters frown. Leeds United really embarrassed English football.
Dinamo Bucharest used their home court advantage to attack. Yanis Ziku and Claudio Nicolescu were both starting. These two guys were very active, especially Claudio Nicolescu. This guy was like he was on drugs. Ten minutes into the game, this guy had already finished three shots, and he was very threatening.
However, Zhong Zheng continued his excellent praise. It was the high resistance that destroyed the opponent’s shot.
The Dinamo in Bucharest seemed to have seen through the depth of the Leeds through these attacks, and they immediately stepped up their offensive, pressing down almost on the entire line.
But at this moment, midfielder Nigel Dejon suddenly stopped the ball. He quickly passed the ball to Olich in front of him. Olich’s passing was a bit less imaginative, so he directly passed the ball to the side and rolled directly to Ribery’s feet.
Ribery felt a bit of a pity. If Olich had stuck the ball behind him, he would have been able to instantly instantly kill the opponent’s full-back with his speed. If Modric or Albertini were here, they would have sent out such a wonderful pass. Unfortunately, it was Olich who was passing the ball to him now.
Ribery immediately stepped on the ball and stopped. This was a swing for Dinamo Bucharest’s full-back. Ribery then swiftly crossed the ball because Nigel Dejon had already plugged in.
Nigel Dejon caught Ribery’s pass very comfortably and didn’t hate to throw a straight kick behind the Dinamo full-back in Bucharest.
Ribery rushed forward and instantly overtook Dinamo Bucharest’s full-back from the outside. Necker grabbed the ball and rushed to Dinamo Bucharest’s forbidden area.
Without waiting for Dinamo Bucharest’s centre-back to pounce, Ribery gently rubbed the football and it flew over the Dinamo Bucharest centre-back’s head towards Huntelaar in the middle.
Huntelaar jumped high and missed the football.
The latter James Milner rushed up and jumped to the top, smashing the football into Dinamo’s goal in Bucharest.