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Chapter 50 Returning to China, First See Jiangcheng
In the sixth round of League No.30, with curiosity, Li Mo sat at home with his teammates and ushered in Nottingham Forest.

This is a "legendary" team in English football.

Needless to say about their past glory, you only need to enter the name of this team in the browser to get a general understanding, but Li Mo knows this team because of a book he read when he was young in his previous life.

At that time, he didn't have a mobile phone yet, and he found it by accident in a bookstore in the town during the summer vacation of his sophomore year.

But the first time he saw this novel, it was thanks to the author's name that he was familiar with.

When he was younger, he probably just graduated from the third year of junior high school. In the bookstore in the town, he found a set of books called "We Are the Champions".

That set of books, whether pirated or genuine, accompanied him through the hot summer after graduating from the third year of junior high school.

He already liked football, so he spent a whole summer saving money by digging and searching, and finally bought this set of ten volumes of novels from the bookstore owner.

When he saw the author's name again, he knew that the other party had published a new book, so he took the novel called "The Godfather of Champion" from the shelf without hesitation.

To this day, he still remembers those summers, remembers the plots in those two novels, and is naturally deeply impressed by the clubs in the two books.

Warren Damme, Florence, and Nottingham Forest.

Unexpectedly, they met Nottingham Forest in the English Championship this season.

Li Mo was very emotional, but although he has always had a good impression of Nottingham Forest, he will never be soft-footed in this game.

Nottingham Forest is the first of the top six teams to fall behind. They have fallen to seventh in the league and have fallen out of the play-offs.

But the strength of Nottingham Forest should not be underestimated. If Sheffield United wants to climb up the rankings, they cannot easily lose the following games. Facing tough bones, no matter what the teeth are, they must gnaw down.

And Nottingham Forest is also eager to return to the top six, and also strives to win against Sheffield United.

The game between the two teams has entered into a fierce battle from the beginning.

Scrapping, hand-to-hand combat, fouls, and cards.

Sheffield United had never received so many cards in the first half. Montgomery, Matthew Lorton and Li Mo each received a yellow card, and Nottingham Forest had four yellow cards.

The intensity of the competition can be seen.

The game in the first half was severely divided by fouls, and both sides seemed to be struggling defensively.

At the beginning of the second half, Li Mo was directly shoveled to the ground by Nottingham Forest's midfielder, which almost caused a fight between the players of both sides!

Fortunately, Li Mo has an aura of iron man. Apart from feeling the pain in his ankle, he was not injured because of it.

After repeated checks by the team doctor, Li Mo stood up under Speed's nervous gaze, walked two steps and gestured to indicate that he was fine.

It's just that Maguire, a stupid boy, chased the opposing midfielder for a foul and punched a few times, and was sent off by the referee directly.

Li Mo didn't expect that the usual naive big head could make such a move.

The home fans cursed and booed Nottingham's foul midfielder. When Maguire came off the field, they all stood up and gave him cheers and applause.

Standing up for his brother, this kind of manly behavior will only win the respect of everyone on the football field, let alone his own fans.

Li Mo hugged Maguire tightly, and then patted his big head to let him go down to rest.

The two have known each other for many years, there is no need to say a lot, Li Mo will use his own way to win this game, he will not let Datou get this red card for nothing!
After the game resumed, Li Mo began to retreat more to get the ball, and the opponent lost a defensive midfielder, and the interception strength of the midfielder plummeted.

Li Mo took the ball and hit the opponent's defense again and again in the hinterland of Nottingham Forest.

Double team?Even if you double-team, I will smash your defenses today!

Li Mo was like an angry behemoth, constantly bullying Nottingham Forest's defenders with his body and dribbling.

The other Sheffield United players tried their best to help Li Mo open up the opponent's line of defense and create one-on-one opportunities for him.

Finally, in the No. 607 minute of the game, Li Mosheng ate Nottingham Forest's left back. After entering the penalty area, he used a powerful volley to help Sheffield United break the deadlock!

After the goal, Li Mo patted his chest and roared in the penalty area of ​​Nottingham Forest. The commentator bluntly said that Nottingham Forest had completely angered Li Mo.

Speed ​​was a little worried that the defenders of Nottingham Forest would become angry with embarrassment, and they would attack Li Mo later.

But I don't know if they knew they were wrong, or they were stunned by Li Mo's unreasonable goal. Forest's defenders didn't make rude fouls on Li Mo or Vardy like their midfielders did.

No.80 In the second minute, Li Mo received a cross from Matt Ridge and knocked away Nottingham Forest's central defender and scored with a header.

This goal shattered Nottingham Forest's hope of an equalizer, and the score of 2:0 was maintained until the end of the game.

But this victory cost Sheffield United a heavy price. Maguire was suspended for the next league game with a red card, and because of his hand, it is not known whether he will be fined.

Andy Taylor was injured again in the second half, and the left defense became a headache for Speed ​​in the next game, and several veterans still need to rest.

After the game, Speed ​​criticized the Forest team's rough defense in a very rare anger. Of course, the opposite coach also grabbed Maguire's hands and chattered endlessly, threatening to appeal.

At the press conference, the coaches of both sides were very angry, which made the reporters onlookers laugh from ear to ear.

It's just a pity that there was no fight. If the two coaches also had a fight after the game, there would be news material for the next week.

The No.30 seven rounds of the league started three days later.

And looking at the injury situation in the team and the fatigue of the players, Speed ​​made up his mind to withdraw all the main players, and took an almost pure second team lineup to challenge Watford away.

This was a renunciation that had to be made. After getting Sheffield United's squad, many media jumped out to question Speed's decision, thinking it was a disrespect and humiliation to Watford.

After seeing the report, Watford's coach was so angry that he scolded his mother.

Of course, it's not to scold Speed, but to scold this group of full-fledged media.

He wished that Speed ​​would humiliate him severely, no, it was disrespecting him.

Compared with three points, everything else is fart!
In the end, although Sheffield United's second team defended very hard, the gap in strength cannot be bridged by defense.

After defending for a whole game, Sheffield United lost the league game 0:2 Watford.

But the main players of Sheffield United who got enough time to rest, in the next league game, it was a 4:0 bloodbath against Leeds United who came to Bramall Lane Stadium.

The coach of Leeds United almost cried after the game.

Damn it, Speed, you are not a kind person!
If you send warmth to Watford, you will kick to death when you come to me, right!
Speed ​​also felt a little blushing, but he didn't know that the players were in such good condition after a round of rest.

Li Mo scored twice again, and Vardy also scored his fifth goal in the British Championship with the assist of Li Mo.

After boarding the top scorer list, Li Mo's goals are still rising.

Danny Graham was desperate. After he was surpassed by Li Mo, he worked hard and finally raised his personal goals to twenty goals.

But after this round of competition, Li Mo's personal league goals rose to 23 goals.

The gap widened again.

Three goals, for a shooter in the British Championship who was able to win the Golden Boot in the past season, it would take almost six or seven games to score this number of goals.

But now there are only eight rounds left in the league, and Graham feels that he is out of action.

On the following international match day, he felt that he could have a good rest. It was too fucking difficult to compete for the Golden Boot with Li Mo, an animal!

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Because Sheffield United had an early match in today's league, and it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon after the game. Li Mo hardly had a rest, so he set foot directly on his way back home.

Speed ​​held Li Lijun's hand eagerly, and repeatedly asked Li Lijun to take care of Li Mo, but don't get hurt in the friendly match.

Sheffield United will have to rely on Li Mo for the league behind Sheffield United and the possible play-offs. If Li Mo is injured, Sheffield United will have no place to cry.

Li Lijun didn't know whether to laugh or cry. After repeated assurances, he and Li Mo took the train to Manchester, and then flew from Manchester Airport overnight to Pudong International Airport. By the time they arrived in Pudong, it was already the morning of the next day.

Then fly directly to Jiangcheng from Pudong, and when they arrived in Jiangcheng, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon.

Li Mo's spirit is not bad, but Li Lijun is getting older, and he is exhausted from all the troubles.

But before getting off the plane, Li Lijun pulled himself together and helped Li Mo tidy up his attire and appearance.

This is the first time for Li Mo to return to China after becoming famous, so he has to leave a good impression on the people of the country.

After walking out of the airport, Li Mo was startled by the situation before him before he had a good look at the buildings near Jiangcheng Airport!
Many reporters carried cameras and microphones, and when they saw Li Mo appearing, they immediately surrounded them. There were also many Jiangcheng fans around, holding signs welcoming Li Mo back home, and running towards this side behind the reporters.

Fortunately, the staff who didn't know where they were at the side hurried over to separate Li Mo from the reporters and the fans.

Gao Hongbo rushed over with a few people after a minute or two, but he saw Li Mo signing autographs for enthusiastic fans.

For domestic reporters, Li Mo treated them mildly. After signing autographs for the fans, he answered a few more questions before Li Mo got into the car with Director Gao.

"Welcome home, Xiao Li."

Gao Hongbo smiled and patted Li Mo's arm, while Li Mo was feeling a little nervous and excited.

No matter how fantasized he was, today, he finally came back.

Looking at the street scene passing by outside the window, and the familiar faces of the Chinese people, Li Mo was still a little excited, but he couldn't help but gradually calm down.

"Hi, Jiangcheng"

(End of this chapter)