our champion dream

Chapter 99 No.30 A UEFA Champions League Start
In Europe, every successful team has a stadium to match it.As the home stadium of Besiktas, Inani Stadium has a long-standing reputation in Turkey and is a holy place in the minds of Besiktas fans.

Now, Li Xiaoming and his partners set foot on this holy place, and they didn't come here to worship, but to destroy it.

This is the goal of all Manchester United, and they hope to use a hearty victory to start their first shot in chasing the Champions League.

During the warm-up, the Manchester United players fully felt the "enthusiasm" of the Turkish fans-they welcomed the Manchester United players from afar with boos and curses.

This situation did not stop until the Manchester United players left the pitch and returned to the dressing room.

However, Manchester United players have been to many away games, and they did not take this booing seriously.

In other words, in fact, they didn't care about the fans booing them at all. Their minds were full of the Champions League champions. They fell last season, and they wanted to get them back this season.

Being able to play in the Champions League is the pursuit of many European professional players.Some players are willing to change jobs in order to be able to participate in the Champions League.

Some teams have worked desperately for a season in order to be able to qualify for the Champions League next season.

Being able to participate in the Champions League is not only for the club's financial considerations, but also for the players' self-seeking considerations.

Being able to play in the Champions League can attract the attention of more wealthy families and reach the pinnacle of life from then on.

Everyone has their own goals and their own calculations.But they all have one goal in common, which is to win.

Well, none of the above is actually what Li Xiaoming thinks in his heart. Li Xiaoming's heart is surprisingly calm. He knows that the media, fans, and more importantly, the people he loves and cares about are paying attention to his performance. To perform well in front of them is the most important thing.

Just like what those media reporters discussed, how long can his crazy performance last? With such excellent performances, they will slowly admit that these performances are not crazy, or even just his normal performance.He always wants to be the best.

Ferguson stood in the locker room. His players had already changed their clothes and sat in their seats, watching him and waiting for his speech.

"I have nothing to say, lads. You have enough experience and enough ability to fight for a championship. Last season we were only one step away from the championship. We could only watch our opponents reach the top of Europe. It is what we all hope to see. But this year, we are back, we are the best club in Europe, we have the best players, the best coaching staff, our eyes are not only on this game, but also on It's the St. Brad's Cup, telling the world that we are still on top of the world."

After encouraging Ferguson, he waved his hand and said in a humorous tone: "The goshawk fights the rabbit also needs to exert the strength of the whole body. I hope you can bring a victory back to Manchester."

Ferguson spread his hands and looked at everyone.In fact, he is not afraid that Manchester United will lose this game, because in his view, the probability of this is almost zero. His purpose of saying this is to tell the players that Manchester United's goal is the championship.

Li Xiaoming nodded slightly.Although he has never experienced the Champions League, he knows how important a clear goal is for a team. A clear goal can ensure that the team will work hard for this goal.

"So. I hope you will show your dominance from the first second on the sidelines, and I hope to applaud you more times on the sidelines.!" Ferguson finally ended his speech with a passionate voice.

After Ferguson finished speaking, Giggs, the captain of the game, also stood up, slapped his hands vigorously, and loudly encouraged his teammates: "Hey, brothers, look at the stadium outside, the Turks like to put their home stadium If it’s like hell, let’s make it a Turkish hell.”

Everyone was encouraged by him to stand up from their seats.Join him in chanting: "Come on! Manchester United! Come on!"

Li Xiaoming was among them, and he liked the feeling that everyone was united and fighting for victory.This is a wonderful experience that only a team sport like football can bring him.

When Li Xiaoming and his teammates were waiting in the player tunnel to play, the stadium broadcaster was broadcasting the starting lineups of both sides.

The main introduction is of course the home team Bessie Stark

The live broadcast calls each name.It will attract cheers from the Turkish fans in the stands.

It's just that Li Xiaoming doesn't understand any of these names.

After introducing the starting lineup, the impassioned Champions League theme song sounded on the scene.

Li Xiaoming had watched the live broadcast of the UEFA Champions League on TV before, and heard the theme song of the UEFA Champions League through the TV screen
But this time.When he heard the theme song of the Champions League in the real time and space, he still felt his scalp tingling, as if an electric current passed through his whole body.He looked around the huge stadium, and the excited fans waving jerseys or scarves were like passionate magma in this volcano.

Then, he turned his head, looked at Rooney, who looked very relaxed, and said, "Wayne, this is the Champions League."

Rooney turned around, smiled at him, and said, "Why, are you nervous? I was also nervous for the first time, and I became nervous after kicking."

Ming Kai laughed, he knew that Rooney was decompressing himself,

So Li Xiaoming also laughed, and patted Rooney on the shoulder to express his gratitude. Although Rooney has the advantage of not being serious, he didn't say anything to himself.

But, anyway, this is the Champions League after all!
Apart from the World Cup, I am afraid that the highest stage for professional players is now!

What should be tense should be tense
When Li Xiaoming stood still on the court and found his position, the noise in the stands became much quieter, and the passionate theme song disappeared long ago.

The huge stadium was full of people, but it suddenly became quiet.Everyone is looking forward to the start of the game.

This feeling is very strange. If you are not in the scene, you will feel very contradictory.But at this time, you will feel that this is not contradictory at all.

Li Xiaoming looked left and right, looked at the situation on the field, then looked at the positions of his teammates, and also saw clearly the positions of the opposing players.

While he was looking around, Rizzoli, the referee on duty for the game, blew the whistle to start the game.

"This is CCTV5, audience friends! Welcome to a match in Group B of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 2010-2011 season. Bessie Stark played against Manchester United! Chinese player Li Xiaoming will serve as the starting midfielder in this match." He Ping's voice sounded.

As a special guest commentator of the Premier League, He Ping has commented on many of Li Xiaoming's matches, but he broadcast them in a small studio to a certain audience. The broadcast hall broadcasts the game to countless fans who follow the Champions League, and according to the data, the number of people who turn on the TV to watch the game before the game has reached a historic high. You must know that this is just a Champions League group match. Contest.But because of Li Xiaoming's existence, he became extraordinary.

He was also a little excited.He watched Li Xiaoming walk out step by step. Starting from the university football field, he can be said to be a witness of Li Xiaoming's football journey.From the college football game, to the youth team game, to the Community Shield, to the Premier League, and finally to the Champions League, he achieved five consecutive jumps in one year, which is really like a fairy tale.

What kind of performance can Li Xiaoming show in the Champions League?Even the narrator expressed unlimited expectations.

In front of the TV, Li Hai, who had already fallen asleep on the sofa, was kicked awake by Feng Zhong: "Don't sleep, the game has started!"

When Li Hai opened his eyes, he saw the TV screen, and a close-up shot of his son happened to appear, so his drowsiness dissipated immediately, and he sat up, watching the game nervously.

Li Qingru is actually a little dissatisfied with himself. He hopes to accompany Li Xiaoming to watch his games in any stadium and witness every step of his career with his own eyes. But now it seems that this is temporarily impossible.However, she still nervously watched the games on the computer screen. Since Li Xiaoming landed in Europe, she never missed a game of Li Xiaoming.

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In this game, Besiktas, who played at home, kicked off first. They used the ball possession advantage of the kick-off to attack Manchester United's goal.The Turkish fans sitting at home in the stands cheered for their team with huge cheers and non-stop singers.

However, Bessie Stark's attack soon ended.Bessie Stark, Marcio receives a cross from his team-mate and heads it high out of goal

Van der Sar predicted the goal in advance and didn't even make any remedial actions. He just jumped on the spot and watched the court fly out of the court.

It's just that this attack still attracted applause and cheers from the Bessie Stark fans. The enthusiasm looked like they had defeated Manchester United and won.

Rooney glanced at Li Xiaoming in front of him, and shouted, "Li, look at us."

After Bessie Stark's attack was over, it was Manchester United's turn to have the ball.

Van der Sar did not drive the football directly to the frontcourt, but passed the football to the central defender Vidic.

Vidic passed the football to Scholes again, Scholes observed and divided the football directly,

The Brazilian full-back Da Silva was assigned to replace Gary Neville. Besiktas leaned over to catch the ball, and Li Xiaoming also ran back a little.

Da Silva chose to run the football up to Li Xiaoming who was catching the ball.

"This is Li Xiaoming's first touch of the ball in this game!" He Ping's voice seemed very excited

After Li Xiaoming received the ball, Tabat, one of Bessie Stark's two midfielders from China, rushed forward, trying to interfere with Li Xiaoming's possession of the ball.

Without waiting for him to come up, Li Xiaoming passed the football to Besiktas on the wing, and then quickly ran to the next spot.Then ask Besiktas for the ball.

Besiktas also passed the football over.

After he catches the ball, he passes the ball out again while continuing to change places to catch the ball.In the process, United pushed the football across midfield and towards the Bessie Stark 30m area.

It seems that Li Xiaoming is as relaxed as usual when he plays the league, but those who really understand can see some differences.His technical movements have become concise, reducing the display of personal abilities and allowing himself to be more integrated into the team.

But no matter where Li Xiaoming goes, there will always be a sad and happy Tucker player by his side, not necessarily the same person, sometimes when Li Xiaoming returns to the middle circle, it will be Bessie Stark's midfielder Dag, some Sometimes it is the two defensive midfielders Tabat or Ernest who are in charge of defense in the midfield...

He keeps changing his position on the court, and the defensive players around him are also changing all the time, but what remains the same is that no matter what, someone is guarding him.

It's not man-to-man defense, it's zone defense.

The advantage of this kind of defense is that it can keep the team's overall formation from being chaotic, and there will be no situation where someone follows out, and as a result, no one fills the space behind and is used by the opponent.For example, in the first game between Manchester United and Arsenal, Wenger wanted to use man-to-man defense to deal with Li Xiaoming. As a result, their entire central axis went up one by one, and the whole midfield seemed to be beaten. A sharp knife penetrated and was used by Manchester United to cause a goal loss.Li Xiaoming's personal ability is very strong in Coach Bessie Stark's mind, and he doesn't believe that his midfielder can watch him with just one person.

Bessie Stark's head coach used zone defense in this game to avoid such a situation.For Li, this is indeed another style of defense
However, zone defense also has weaknesses-the weakness of zone defense is that it is not tight to mark people, and it is easy to give the opponent more space and time.

He made some adjustments to the zone defense. He made the team's formation more compact, especially in the middle, so that the sideways looked more empty, but the center was very tight and compact.In this way, the space that Li Xiaoming can obtain is greatly compressed.

Although this will make the wing more open, but compared to restricting the wing, coach Bessie Stark cares more about the defense of the center.In any case, Li Xiaoming cannot be allowed to attack easily.In this way, the linkage between him and Rooney puts too much pressure on his defense. For Manchester United now, their biggest problem is the lack of high points. Berbatov's injury makes their offense not three-dimensional.

From the current point of view, under such a defense, Li Xiaoming will pass the football as soon as he receives the ball.There was no good or decent attack. In such a tense atmosphere, it was difficult to organize or launch any threatening attack, so Scholes also leaned in to help Li Xiaoming share the defensive pressure a little. And the premise of his position can also help Manchester United maintain its current suppression of opponents.

"...Bessie Stark probably hopes to use this shrinking defense to limit Li Xiaoming's performance and turn him into a pure passer... Li Xiaoming who holds the ball in front of the penalty area is obviously more threatening." Martin Taylor analyzed. "But I don't think Manchester United must rely on Li Xiaoming's offense. Anyone can use this huge wing. And Manchester United's players also have strong personal abilities."

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(End of this chapter)