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Chapter 285 Christmas

The return of Long Bisheng brought great morale to Leeds United, and when he immediately used a goal and an assist (creating a penalty kick to allow his teammates to score an assist) to help the team reverse the game and win the first victory since four rounds, this encouragement reached its peak!
A team tends to perform abnormally when they are not winning consecutively, and they can't even win the games that can be won. But when they win a victory or play a wonderful game at this time, they will often usher in a turning point.

Now, the turning point has come.

Three days later, in the No.14 round of the league, Leeds United challenged last season's League One opponent away from Peterborough, which had made a bloody way out of the promotion playoffs.

Last season, Liz's performance in the face of this opponent was a home victory. Now the situation of the two sides in the English crown can be described as heaven and underground. Although Leeds has a bad situation, it is not in danger of relegation for the time being. After the last win, it re -ignited the hope of playing the first six games. The same lack of funds. Petersburg was defeated all the way. It has only won two games for three games until now, and lost eight games. Now ranks the penultimate.

Although Leeds lost an away game last season, Long Bisheng hadn't fully integrated into the team at that time. This time when he came back to Peterborough's home court, one side's morale was high, and the other side's morale had been lost. Therefore, although the stadium was still on the same pitch, these people played the game, but the result was completely different from last year's game.

Two to zero, a complete victory, Huntington received a corner kick from Howson to open the scoring, and then Delphi received a cross from Long Bisheng from outside the penalty area and volleyed successfully. Leeds won two consecutive victories and rose to ninth place in the ranking.

The ninth place is already in the top half of the standings, and there is only a five-point gap from the sixth-ranked Derby County. Once these two games are won, Leeds United is on the right track.

In the No.15 round, they beat Swansea [-]-[-] at home, and Long Bisheng opened the scoring for the team.

In the No.16 round, Long Bisheng scored the only goal in the game against Blackpool [-]-[-] in the away game.

In the No.17 round, the two-to-two tie with Watford in the away game ended the winning streak. Long Bisheng also stopped his momentum of scoring in two consecutive games, but Leeds United squeezed into the top six by relying on this point, rekindling the hope of promotion.

Since Leeds United have given up all domestic cups including the League Cup and the FA Cup, they only focus on the league, so the team's overall weak strength does not seem to matter. They rely on a main lineup to win the world. The results in the British Championship are also quite good. They basically won against some mediocre teams.

In the No.20 three-round league match on December 25th, Leeds United defeated Ipswich Town 20-[-] with the goals of Long Bisheng and Howson, ranking third in points, only six points behind Middlesbrough at the top of the list, and only four points behind Coventry at the second place. This achievement is quite proud for Leeds United, which has just returned from League One to the Championship. McAllister happily announced a six-day holiday for the players to spend Christmas at home until noon on the [-]th. Only concentrated, ready for the No.[-] six-round away game against Middlesbrough.

The competition for the top six in League One this season can be regarded as a gathering of strong teams. Although Middlesbrough is at the top of the list, they have not been able to widen the gap with the teams behind them. Coventry, Leeds United, Reading, Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United. Half of the schedule, it is really unknown which three teams will be lucky enough to enter the Premier League next season.

Originally facing Middlesbrough, the strongest opponent in the British Championship this season, immediately after Christmas, McAllister should not have a holiday. However, considering that the main lineup has been fighting continuously during this period, it really needs to take a break, so it is simply generous. It has been put until the end of Christmas Eve.

When McAllister announced the news, the players cheered and cheered. Recently, they have been fighting continuously. Although they have not been dragged down by the cup, they are tired from playing ten games in two months. Now they can rest for nearly a week. It is indeed a rare enjoyment after the start of the league.

Of course, this time is not enough for the players to go to some tourist resorts for a rest, and for Europeans, Christmas is the most important festival of the year, just like the Chinese Spring Festival. Players always invite players they know well to celebrate Christmas together. Long Bisheng is no exception. He invited Huntington, Delphi, and Mister Xie who are familiar with him to his home for Christmas. Of course, Ning Xi also invited Lu Xiaoshan.

In the next few days, Long Bisheng, Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan ran all over the city of Leeds, snapping up all kinds of Christmas items. Although Long Bisheng didn't care too much about this festival, he had already invited guests to the door. It would be embarrassing if things were missing.

Although he had already spent Christmas in England, he didn't invite his teammates over last Christmas. He just played around with Ning Xi and then went home. He didn't know what the British used for Christmas. Fortunately, Ning Xi had already understood the British way of celebrating Christmas, so there would be no trouble.

Arranging the Christmas tree, preparing Christmas presents, and buying a turkey—these are the three essential steps for the British to spend Christmas. With the help of Lu Xiaoshan, they are finally arranged in an orderly manner, just waiting for the guests to come to the door.

On the 24th, when the sky gradually became dark, the pedestrians on the road began to become less and less. At this time, the guests came to the door.

First, Huntington brought his girlfriend and a child who was less than two years old, then Misterxie's family of four—the couple and two children, and finally Delphi also brought his girlfriend. The small living room of Long Bisheng Apartment immediately became very lively.

Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan smiled and distributed the gifts they had prepared in advance to a few children. Although Huntington and the others knew that Long Bisheng lived with his female manager, they didn't know that there was another Lu Xiaoshan who was also closely related to Long Bisheng. Seeing the two beautiful girls getting along so well, they couldn't help but be amazed.

As soon as Long Bisheng saw the strange expressions on the faces of the three teammates, he knew that they were thinking wrong. When Ning Xi, Lu Xiaoshan and Huntington's wife and girlfriend were teasing the children, the four men got together to chat. Long Bisheng took the opportunity to explain: "Don't think wrongly. The other girl is the sister of my friend in China. She is studying at the University of Leeds. I just help take care of her, and she often comes to my house to play."

It’s okay if he didn’t explain, but when he explained, Misterxie immediately gave a weird smile: “What’s wrong, we didn’t think so.” He glanced at Huntington and Delphine, and they immediately shook their heads. Then Misterxie said with satisfaction, “It’s because you are in such a hurry to explain, I think something is wrong.”

"Damn it, no one believes the truth these days." Long Bisheng said helplessly, "I didn't know that my friend's sister was in Leeds at the beginning. I was injured last year because I saved her. I didn't know until her brother came."

"The more you make it up, the more realistic it becomes." Mister Xie said dissatisfiedly, "I also know Chinese, and I often read some Chinese novels. What you said is just like what was said in those novels."

Delphi was pouring a glass of beer down his throat. He couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and poured the rest of the wine into his nose with a shaking hand, and couldn't help coughing loudly.

When Ning Xi and the others heard the commotion, they turned their heads and saw that Huntington was patting Delphine's back and several men were laughing, so they didn't pay attention.

We chatted a few more words and talked about the possibility of Leeds' promotion this season. Leeds performed very well in the first half of the season, especially during this period. At least there is no problem with relegation, but that was purely won by the players. It was obvious in the one month or so I was gone.

Chatting and chatting, the four of them all felt that if they did not bring in a few players at the same level or stronger than the main lineup during the winter break, Leeds United would inevitably suffer from a lack of stamina.

Huntington sighed: "If we say that our situation this year is really good, if we had brought in one or two outstanding players in the summer, we might have been ranked first now. It was really unfair to lose a few games in a month or so, and Plymouth could score us three goals."

"Okay, let's not talk about the unhappy things. After all, we are in a favorable situation now." Misterxie changed the topic and raised his glass: "I wish us to enter the Premier League next season! Once again, we will play the banner of the Young Guards in the Premier League!"

"Okay!" The other three raised their glasses one after another, and then drank the beer in one gulp.

The four of them had just put down their glasses when they heard the door banging loudly. Long Bisheng frowned, put down his glasses and went to open the door, thinking while walking: "Who, why are you so rude."

After opening the door, Long Bisheng let out a cry of surprise: "Damn it, it's you!"

(End of this chapter)