Ball King Pioneer

Chapter 85

On August 8th, the Everton Club ushered in the first League Cup of the season. The Premier League team had a collective bye in the first round. Today, it is the League One team Sheffield United who came to Goodison Park to challenge Everton.Although the attention of this game is very low, no TV station arranged for the live broadcast of this game, and even the broadcast was only broadcast live by a traffic station in Liverpool, and it was in the middle of the week, and the game started at 24:3 pm. Even so, there were still nearly 00 fans attending the game, and the attendance rate of season ticket holders reached 20000%, which is almost the only treatment for wealthy teams.

Today is a memorable day for Lin Yi. Lin Yi ushered in his first Everton game start.The game was about to start, and Lin Yi looked at the stands curiously. Today, there were many Chinese faces, some wearing Everton jerseys, some wearing Chinese national team jerseys. They gathered together in twos and threes. Some of them were old and young like a family, and some were like student groups. They were all Chinese or international students living in this city.Lin Yi performed too well in the last round of the league and was successfully elected as the best player in this round of the Premier League. He is also the first Asian in history to be elected the best player in a single round of the Premier League.Ji Dong's light ignited the longing for home and yearning for roots among the Chinese who were far away from their homeland, so no matter whether they liked football before or not, as long as conditions allowed, they would go to Everton's specialty store to buy a No. 1 jersey, because the surname represented by "LIN" on it made them feel very cordial.

Moyes's starting lineup today is a big change compared to 4 days ago. Only the midfielders Rodwell and Jagielka are still in the starting lineup, and the rest have been replaced, and half of the main lineup has not even been selected for the 18-man squad. This shows how little attention is paid to the League Cup.Sheffield United has been relegated from the Championship to League One this season, and has only ranked 5th after five rounds so far this season.Facing such a team, if Moyes still wants to use his main force, he will be ridiculed by the media for being hungry.

Everton’s formation today is still 4411 dedicated to Moyes. The goalkeeper No. 1 is Slovak Muha, the left back is Gibson, the two center backs are Heitinga and Jagielka, and the right back is Duffy; the midfielders are Drenthe, Rodwell, Lin Yi and Barkley from left to right;

At the start of the game, Lin Yi quickly took over the game. After ten minutes of probing and getting familiar with him, Lin Yi felt that the strength of the Sheffield United team in front of him was not stronger than that of Chengdu Sheffield United.

Facing such a team would have been a good opportunity to collect statistics, but I don’t know if it was in response to the saying that if you are proud of the love and frustrated on the court, Lin Yi tried several shots in this game but failed to score. In the 11th minute, he chose a long shot for the first time. The football hit the crossbar and flew out of the baseline.Fortunately, Lin Yi’s passing was still sharp. Facing a group of youths who were about the same age as himself, Lin Yi could crush the opponent both physically and technically, so it was very easy to schedule. In the 25th minute, Lin Yi’s midfielder broke through the opponent’s captain Clark and then kicked a 31-meter long pass. Anichebe easily scored with a header, and Everton led 17-40 at home.In the 1th minute, Lin Yi and his younger brother Barkley played exquisitely on the right. After 0 consecutive passes and 28, Barkley made a 2-degree cross. Saha, who had returned from injury, scored his first goal of the new season with a right foot pad. This was Saha's first goal after more than 1 days.

None of the 3 shots hit the goal, 1 assist, and planned another goal. This is Lin Yi's report card for the entire first half. Although it is not too bad, compared with the performance of the previous game, this statistic obviously disappointed the Lin Yi fans who came to watch the game.Ji Dong didn't know why this happened. He obviously had chances for those few shots. He thought that there was no problem with the shots, but he just didn't get the right position, which is very unscientific.

"Lin, don't think too much, it's normal, no matter who is out of shape, just adjust." Barkley comforted his boss in the locker room.

Ji Dong also agrees with his words, everyone is out of form sometimes, since this is the case, it is enough to adjust the state in the second half of the game.But Moyes did not give Ji Dong this chance. Moyes directly announced that in the second half, Fellaini would replace Ji Dong.

Perhaps because he was afraid that Ji Dong would have any thoughts, Moyes thought about it and then went to Ji Yi's cabinet and explained softly, "Lin, don't think too much. I let you go because we have basically won this game. What you need now is rest. You must know that you don't have a complete summer physical reserve. Now is your fatigue period and a stage where you are easily injured. We still need your pass in Blackburn three days later."

Faced with Moyes' almost promise to start the next game, Ji Dong seemed a little flattered. "Boss, you don't need to explain to me, I respect your decision, and I will adjust my body and state, just watch mine in 3 days!"

Ji Dong beats a snake and follows a stick. Since you said that Blackburn will need me in 3 days, then if I say this again, you will be too embarrassed not to start me.

In the second half, Lin Yi sat on the bench and watched the whole game. He observed very carefully, and his teammates' running positions and technical characteristics were also imprinted in his mind one by one.At the end of the game, Everton scored a shot from the young teenager Barkley in the 55th minute of the second half to expand the lead.Sheffield United scored with a penalty kick before the end of the game. 3:1, Everton advanced to the third round of the League Cup. Their opponent in the next round is West Bromwich Albion, which was the first to advance yesterday.

After the game, Lin Yi rushed home with Zhao Liying. Tonight will be his first visit to other people since he came to the UK.In the Red Forest incident last time, Lin Yi yelled at the injustice and successfully protected his teammate Barkley. Afterwards, the Barkley family who learned about this through the media were terrified. They were very grateful for Lin Yi's generous action. So a few days ago, the old Barkley specially wrote an invitation letter to Lin Yi and his girlfriend Zhao Liying, hoping that Lin Yi would be honored to come to their house for dinner tonight.

Lin Yi and Zhao Liying wore formal attire to express their respect to their host family. You must know that this is a very important etiquette in the UK, especially when Lin Yi learned that their family is a traditional religious family.The gift that Zhao Liying prepared for this visit was a set of ceramic dolls brought by Lin Yi from China last time, and a bottle of Moutai wine bought at the mall, which can be regarded as a standard British gift.

Many people greeted Lin Yi and Zhao Liying in the front yard. Lin Yi thought it was just his family members, but after Buckley introduced him, he realized that the British family banquet is like a Chinese family gathering.There were more than 20 brothers and sisters including the old Barkley and his wife. They used the most grand family banquet to thank this young man from China.

In fact, there are not too many delicacies in the family banquet, because in order to maintain the British tradition, they will not let the food of other ethnic groups be served on the table, but there are not many British foods that can be called gourmet. Fortunately, the two parties mainly feel the same atmosphere and heart.

In the British table culture, it was not allowed to talk too much, but gradually the family members of the aristocrats gradually became fewer and fewer. In order not to appear thin, they would discuss issues at the table.Today's dinner table was extremely lively. Old Buckley was obviously more outgoing than his son. He could always mobilize the atmosphere of the table so that everyone could participate, and he would not neglect Lin Yi and Zhao Liying who were invited as guests.

"So you only found out later that Heinrich took off his shirt to fight you?" Old Buckley asked Ji Dong curiously while cutting off a piece of roast pork for Zhao Liying with a large table knife.

"Yeah, these are what my teammates told me when I got back to the locker room. I thought, my God, I might have saved the friendship between the two countries just now." Although Lin Yi's joke was very cold, it may be that the British laugh is low, so everyone at the table seemed very happy, and it seemed that they were really laughing, not perfunctory.

An elderly, tall, silver-haired man opposite Lin Yi heard Lin Yi's bet with Heinrich, and said with emotion: "If the big-name players in our England national team can handle things like you, we will also be able to relax a lot."

Ji Dong heard something else, what is "us people can also relax a lot"?Ji Dong looked at the silver-haired man in front of him curiously again. Just now Buckley only said that it was just his uncle, but in English, uncle, uncle, uncle, and uncle are all uncles, who knows which one is which.

"Lin, let's get to know each other again. My name is David Bernstein. I am the current chairman of the Football Association. My wife and Rose's mother are sisters." The silver-haired man smiled and introduced himself to Lin Yi again, but this time there was something else in his smile.

Ji Dong was stunned for a moment, shit!What a big tiger!

　Another big man has appeared on the stage, everyone votes for me to suppress him, ask for a monthly ticket, ask for a recommendation ticket!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)