Young Football Player

The results of the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League group stage draw have officially come out. Eddie Thompson continued his good signing luck and drew a fairly good group for Dundee United.

Dundee United was assigned to a group with Twente in the Eredivisie, Fulham in the Premier League, and Odense in Denmark. This group is indeed not too difficult. As long as Dundee United performs better, it is entirely possible to qualify for the group.

But the Celtics, who are also a Scottish team, were not so lucky. They were actually assigned to a death group.

To be fair, the competitiveness of the Europa League is much smaller than that of the Champions League, and there are very few death groups, but they are so lucky that they were assigned to the same league as Atletico Madrid in La Liga, Udinese in Serie A, and Thunder in Ligue 1. Well a group.

Except for the Celtics, this group is all teams from the five major leagues. If the Celtics want to qualify for the group, they may really need to waste their energy.

The European Championship is approaching, and it's time to count points again.

The Scottish media calculated the points very quickly this time, and they had already calculated the scores shortly after the draw came out.

According to the performance of the respective teams in the Scottish League and the Swiss League in the qualifying rounds, and after the end of this season, the points of the European War in the 06/07 season will expire, the Scottish League only needs to be in the European War With 2 more European points than the Swiss League, you can continue to overwhelm the opponent and have two Champions League places.

The Scottish media also assigned tasks to the two teams participating in the main match. Since the Swiss League also has two teams participating in the European competition, according to the strength of their respective teams, the Celtics will play against Basel. For Dundee United to play against Zurich, it is enough for each to get 1 point more than the opponent in the European war.

That's it, simple and fair.

This division is not difficult for Dundee United. Zurich was assigned to a group with the Portuguese Super League Sporting Lisbon, Serie A Lazio, and Romania Vaslui. It should be difficult for Zurich to qualify for the group. Dundee United won a little more than the opponent. Battle points, shouldn't be a big problem.

But it may be a bit difficult for the Celtics. They were already assigned to a death group, and they had to score one more point than Basel. You must know that Basel is participating in the Champions League, and they have won 4 points before the game. It is indeed difficult for the Celtics to score one more point than the opponent on this basis.

In the Champions League, Basel is assigned to a group with Premier League Manchester United, Portuguese Super League Benfica and Romanian Galati Steel. Judging from the difficulty of the group, Basel should not be able to advance to the knockout round, but it is basically not a big problem to get a third place in the group. It's time to fall and continue to participate in the Europa League knockout rounds.

Under such circumstances, the Celtics need to get a little more points in the European War than their opponents, which means that the Celtics must get out of the death group, and after entering the knockout rounds, they must score some points in order to be able to beat them. task.

As the overlord of the league, the Celtics should have taken the initiative to undertake the task of earning European points for the Scottish Premier League. This is what the Scottish media said.

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The UEFA Europa League group stage will not start until mid-September. Before that, Dundee United has to prepare for the league.

On August 27, in the sixth round of the Soviet Super League, Dundee United went to an away game to challenge St. Johnstone.

The day before the start of the game, Jackie Lee received a call from Kate Lee. The coach of the England national team will come to the sidelines to inspect his performance in this game.

Not the current head coach of the England senior national team, Fabio Capello, but the current head coach of the British Olympic team, Stuart Pierce.

Olympic football is not valued by European countries, so European countries rarely have such a statement. If they qualify for the Olympics, they usually send the U21 national team directly to participate.

However, next year's 2012 London Olympic Games, Britain is also the host, they still have to pay a little attention to Olympic football.

So this summer, the FA specially arranged for England U21 coach Stuart Pierce to be the head coach of the Olympic team, and gave him a year to select players from national teams at all levels to form a competitive team. The strong British Olympic team is preparing to participate in next summer's Olympic football competition.

But this time, he came to inspect Li Chenglong specifically to select players.

At McTian Mead Park Stadium in Perth, St. Johnstone, who defeated the Celtics 1-0 in the last round of the away game, continued to be in good form. Dundee United was played by Barry Douglas in the opening 2 minutes. After hitting a long-range shot and scoring a world wave, they actually scored three consecutive goals in the first half and ended the first half with a score of 3:1.

At half-time, Stuart Pierce and his assistant Gareth Southgate were in the stands talking about the first half of the game.

Stuart, what do you think of him? Southgate asked after handing the other party a can of coffee he just bought.

It's okay. The Perth people have been targeting him in the first half, but he still formed a few good breakthroughs on the wing. One of the crosses was still very threatening, but the stupid tall man couldn't grasp it. Pierce said after taking a sip of coffee.

Then do you think he can be selected for your team? Southgate continued to ask.

I still need to observe more. I can't make a decision so quickly, and he is only 18 years old. If I choose an 18-year-old player to join the team, it is likely to cause some controversy. Pierston continued: You I know, if the Olympics were not held in London, no one would pay attention to whether there is an Olympic team, but now, many people are staring at me.

It is true, but by the time he competes next year, he will be 19 years old, which is not too young. I can guarantee that in next year's Olympic Games, there will be 19-year-old players from several countries participating in Europe, and they are not yet young. few.

Southgate continued: I hope this kid can join the team, because he, like me, came out of the Crystal Palace youth training camp. Crystal Palace's youth training camp rarely produces stars.

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At the start of the second half, Dundee United started a counterattack.

The counterattack in the first ten minutes did not have any effect, so Dundee United took a break and made a comeback a few minutes later.

In the 69th minute, Li Chenglong broke through the opponent's two defenders on the wing, and passed the ball back to the front of the penalty area. Moon brother waited there and volleyed the ball directly into the upper left corner of the goal.

In the 76th minute, Jackie Lee sent another precise cross after cooperating with Keith Watson on the right. This time, Joan Daly successfully pressed the opponent's defender to grab the point, pushed out a rebound ball in front of the goal, and the ball jumped up Then flew into the net from above the opponent's goalkeeper's hands.

Bruce Lee, he sent two assists in a few minutes and Dundee United equalized!

I can say that Bruce Lee has dominated the right side of every pitch in Scotland. No one can really stop him.

The commentator was bragging about Li Chenglong wildly. While celebrating with his teammates, Li Chenglong also looked up at the stands, but he didn't see anyone who looked like a coach.

Could it be that the so-called coach who came to inspect left early because the team fell behind 1:3 in the first half? Li Chenglong couldn't help thinking this way.

Dundee United chased two goals in a row to equalize the score. St. Johnstone began to be a little scared. Their head coach directed the team to keep the formation on the sidelines, and don't give Dundee United another chance.

This had some effect to some extent. In the next ten minutes or so, Dundee United did not create any more good opportunities.

But in the 91st minute, when stoppage time just started, Dundee United attacked the frontcourt again, Li Chenglong changed to the center, and Conway from the left passed a high ball.

At this time, Li Chenglong saw Vardy running in on the alert right side, so he didn't think much about it, he went up to the ball and flicked his neck, and directly ferryed the ball.

The ball was accurately ferried to Vardy, and Vardy raised his leg and hit his knee, thus reaping his second goal of joining Dundee United, and it was also the lore goal of this game.

Goooooooal~~~~~

Lee's header ferry~~~ Vardy dedicated lore!!!

It's unbelievable. Li completed a hat-trick of assists in this game, and the last one was the lore assist!!!

The league has only reached the sixth round, and Li has sent out 6 assists. I think there is no suspense about being the assist king this season, really!

There is also Vardy, a striker who came up from the regional league. He should thank himself for his good luck. He stayed in the same team as a top assist player like Li. The two goals he scored so far were all given to him by Li. assists.

2 goals in 6 games, the efficiency is not low. I think Vardy's value will rise sharply after this season. I heard that Dundee United only spent 150,000 pounds to introduce him.

The commentators were basically touting Jackie Chan's hat-trick of assists, and his teammates also ran over to celebrate with Jackie Chan, only Vardy ran to the home team stand with his arms open, and he pretended to celebrate in a coquettish manner, attracting the fans of the home team in the stands Boo him like crazy.