I am a giant in football

Chapter 188 Winter in Russia
The off-court problems are almost resolved.

Ye Fei knows very well that as long as they have the motivation of money, this group of players is very willing to express themselves on the field.

Especially on a big stage like the Europa League, in the football world, the best place to prove players is the Champions League, followed by the Europa League.

After all, no matter what, this is also a European competition. In the past two years, with the reform of the Europa League, major clubs have also begun to pay attention to the results of the Europa League.

The Europa League, which was about to be cancelled, has also been developed again.

In particular, the provision that the winner of the Europa League can directly advance to the Champions League next season has given hope to those wealthy teams that did not perform well in the domestic league and did not qualify for the Champions League.

As the saying goes, no matter how rich the family is, there will always be times of trouble, especially in the Premier League.
The competition is not so big, if the giants are not careful, they may lose their qualifications for the Champions League.

For example, Liverpool last season went straight to No.6.All qualifications for European competitions this season are not available.

According to the original time and space, the FA Cup champion last season belonged to Arsenal, because Arsenal had already qualified for the Champions League, so the Europa League qualification for the FA Cup champion was postponed to Liverpool.

But it is very unfortunate that Ye Fei was reborn, this is the most irritating thing,
Ye Fei insisted on cutting off Arsenal's FA Cup title, and then snatched Liverpool's Europa League qualification.

Unlucky Liverpool could only cry and faint in the toilet!
In this world, no one cares about losers.

Liverpool's poor performance is largely due to the retirement of captain Gerrard, which made them lose their core.

Although Liverpool was already on top of the world when Ye Fei crossed, the current situation is that their rising core Salah and Van Dijk are now under Ye Fei's hands.

Ye Fei really doesn't know if Liverpool can rise in this life. Anyway, he doesn't have any big hatred. Ye Fei still hopes that Liverpool can rise, otherwise it would be too boring to have no pressure in the Premier League in the future.

The end of the second game of the Europa League group stage did not give Ye Fei and his Sheffield United a reprieve period.

On the contrary, on the fourth day of the game, they encountered a British Championship battle,
The opponent is Burnley, who is currently ranked second in the league. Like Sheffield United, the game has won 9 rounds so far without defeat. The difference is that Sheffield United has 9 wins and 0 losses.

Burnley has 7 wins and 2 draws...

Sheffield United has 27 points and Burnley has 23 points, which means that even if Sheffield United loses in this game, they still rank first in the standings.

Therefore, there is no such thing as a title fight, and there is no media to hype it up.
People's media can't look down on a game at the level of the British Championship!Is he not good at reporting the Premier League?
The competition was carried out in such a low-concern high school, and the final result was thrilling.
"0-1"... Sheffield United only scored a goal in the 90th minute with Gnabry's random kick in the penalty area.

It can be said that this game is too thrilling. One of the reasons for this situation is that the players have been too active in training for the past two days and they are exhausted, and the other is that Ye Fei has rotated again.

Only less than half of the main players played, and the rest were not the original substitutes, and four of them were playing for the first time.

This is totally a gamble!
In the end, Ye Fei won the bet. Although the players who played for the first time were very good and even lost their way on the court many times, they never gave up from the beginning to the end.

I did what Ye Fei said, "Even if you are kneeling, you have to finish kicking."

Such an opportunity is very rare for them. Playing once means having a second or third time.

It also shows that the organization has not given up on them, and hard training is what they should do next.

从10月6号到10月20号，谢菲尔德联总共有3场联赛，这3场联赛他们都取得了胜利。

With a wave of 13 consecutive victories, he rushed to the highest stage of the league again.

This kind of strong dominance not only caused a great sense of fear in the league teams, but also attracted the attention of various media to Sheffield United.

Once again enjoying the spotlight that others envy, this is what many teams hope for.

Because enough exposure can allow the team to get investment from those local tyrants and get more sponsorship,
The bosses who spend money to buy football teams are not like Abramovich for hobbies. They rely more on the club to make money for them.

This is the case in the world of capitalists, but for Ye Fei, who only wants to lead the team to victory with peace of mind, these spotlights are something he doesn't like.

But he still has to face it with a smile, the main reason is that he doesn't have 1000 billion,

He has no money and no confidence now, so he can only accept charity.

Otherwise his team would be over.

October 10nd………………

It's just an ordinary day for the earth, but for Sheffield United,
This is another intense match day coming, the English Championship matches are much more than the Premier League,

In addition, Sheffield United is now fighting on the fourth front. In the past two months, the physical reserves of the players have almost been exhausted.

And they are still a new army. In this case, Ye Fei knew that he should give up.

Especially Gnabry's accidental injury in the last league game made Ye Fei understand that he had to give up strategically.

Especially in the new round of the UEFA Cup, their opponent is Chelsea, who was taken advantage of by Ye Fei with Robinson last season.

Now Robinson has returned to his League One league, while Ye Fei and Sheffield United are constantly climbing the football ladder.

For Chelsea, they are angry that Ye Fei and the others lost a 3000 million pound man (Salah).

Salah, who was originally regarded as a fraction of Robinson's trade, has now become a well-known figure in European football.

Some media even asserted that he is the next Messi,
This is like the Blazers missed Jordan in the 84 NBA draft.

Chelsea's current mood is like this. No one thought that Salah would be so terrifying under Ye Fei's hands!

So before the game, the Russian tycoon Abramovich had already spoken to vent his anger by washing Sheffield United.

Unfortunately, Ye Fei didn't intend to confront them head-on in this game, and went directly to the bench to let Chelsea have a good meal.

This is also to exercise the mentality of the substitute players.

The final score was "3-1". I don't know whether the Chelsea group looked at Sheffield United's poor substitute or they were really out of shape. After the opening, they shot 12 shots in a row, but none of them scored.

Even the closest time to the goal was caught by the substitute goalkeeper with luck.

Almost stunned the goalkeeper, and it was the most bloody block.

After the game, Ye Fei immediately came to the goalkeeper and said something to him:
"Well done! Boy!"

This is to encourage him, so that he will not be afraid in the future.

Some people are like this, they are not afraid when it happens, but they start to be afraid when they think about it later, and then this scene will keep appearing in their minds until it leaves a shadow.

In order to relieve the pain of the goalkeeper, Ye Fei has been chatting with the substitute goalkeeper who was just hit in the face since the end of the game.

Although the ball left him a big slap in the face, this guy was still very tolerant and kept talking and laughing with Ye Fei.

Because Gnabry was injured for two weeks, Ye Fei had to put Zaldes on the starting lineup.

Originally, he wanted to use Osmeen, but this guy's position overlaps with Zhang Yuning's. Although he has been able to play recently and performed well, he is far from reaching Zhang Yuning's level.

The absence of Gnabry means that Ye Fei has lost a ghost in the penalty area. As a result, their frontcourt dominance has seriously declined.

Although Zaldes has good abilities, he is a more balanced player.
Being more balanced means that there are no outstanding points. For forwards, if they can't achieve Messi's balance and are strong everywhere, they can only find their own outstanding points.

The outstanding point is the advantage of competing with others. Originally, Zhang Yuning and Gnabry, one in charge of the penalty area and the other in charge of long-range shots, perfectly complemented each other.

Now that one person is suddenly missing, Zhang Yuning will be under greater defensive pressure.

In this case, Ye Fei can only let Salah increase his desire to attack, and let Zaldes be mainly responsible for pulling the opponent's defense line from the side.

Provide Salah with a bigger and wider attacking and passing space!
Not two days after the end of the UEFA Cup, Sheffield United set off again,

This time they are going to the cold Russia. In October, Russia is already closed by heavy snow.

Because of the weather, Ye Fei had to let the team members arrive in Kazan two days in advance to adapt to the local climate.

When Ye Fei set foot on the ice and snow world in the cinema for the first time, he had to say that the name of the Russian fighting clan was not for nothing.

The local temperature was minus 11 degrees, and there were still people wandering out in shorts.This made all the members sitting on the bus look at the old man outside as if seeing a ghost.

Especially Zhang Yuning, who lived in Hangzhou, a city where he hardly saw snow for a year, was really shocked to see this scene suddenly.

During the year in England, he felt that he had adapted to the cold weather, but after coming to Kazan, he realized what cold is.

On the way on the bus, he wrapped himself in a corner and didn't talk to anyone, for fear that a little draft would blow around him.

In this climate, what Ye Fei is most afraid of is fever,

Sure enough, when I woke up the next day, what was supposed to come still came,

Zhang Yuning has a fever, but he still hasn't survived the cold winter in Russia, just like Napoleon and Hitler fell one after another in the Russian winter.

This will also be the case. The lack of the first main force at a critical time made Ye Fei panic all of a sudden. This game can be said to be very critical.

Bordeaux Sion, who was second and third in the group over there, tore each other.As long as Sheffield United wins this game, no matter which team wins,
Sheffield United may guarantee a qualifying spot, but once the game is not won, the danger will come, especially when there are three rounds left in the game.

A counterattack is very likely to happen, and the Europa League group stage matches are very close, and one game after another will not exceed 20 days at most.

In addition, the FA Cup will start again in November, and the FA Cup is the last thing Ye Fei wants to give up.

After all, in the English league, apart from the Premier League title, the FA Cup title is the most valuable, and the FA Cup title is also the only ticket for Sheffield United to enter the Europa League again next season.

Although Ye Fei's goal this season is to win the Europa League and qualify for the Champions League next season.

But there are too many uncertainties along the way. Guaranteeing the qualification for the Europa League is to give Sheffield United the opportunity to train in the European war next season.

These are valuable experiences, whether for the players or Ye Fei himself, they need to accumulate.

For example, when I came to Russia this time, who would have thought so much before the game? This is only known after experiencing it.

Early the next morning, Ye Fei hurriedly called Osborne and Wilder to his room to discuss what to do.

"Ye...... I suggest that we change to a 4-4-2 formation! In this way, Salah and Zardez can also support the frontcourt firepower, and there is Alberto behind them."

"The firepower is completely sufficient, and our opponent Rubin Kazan in this game is not a team with particularly strong firepower."

Wilder was the first to speak. Obviously, this plan must have been stored in his notebook for a long time, and it happened to be used at this time.

"Osborne, do you have any disagreement?"

At this time, Ye Fei turned his head to Osborn beside him,

"Ye, I think what Wilder said is very mature, but what I want to say, Wilder's arrangement is mainly a defensive formation, and he can ensure that we don't lose,"

"But what we need now is not not to lose, but to expand our lead. In this game, our opponent is the weakest in the entire group stage. We all know that their attacking firepower is not enough, so why don't we take the initiative?"

"Or, why don't we be bold and use it to attack them directly?"

"So my suggestion is to let the veteran Sharpe start, Zaldes as a center forward, and Sharpe as Gnabry's role."

After finishing speaking, Osborne looked at Ye Fei as if pleading,

When Osborne proposed to let the veteran Sharp start, Ye Fei knew that it was definitely not just Osborne's personal reasons,
There must be Sharp among them, but Ye Fei doesn't think it's strange!
Sharp, as an old friend who has been with Osborne for five years, Osborne is obliged to give Sharp a chance to start in the European war, regardless of reason or emotion.

Especially this time when Zhang Yuning and Gnabry are absent from the game at the same time, Sharp has a great chance of starting.

Since Ye Fei brought in so many young players, Sharp, a veteran, has rarely had a chance to play.

(End of this chapter)