Football: Rebirth 04, I Create a Black Shop in Football

As the Premier League approaches, many media and experts have also begun to predict the performance of each team this season. Interestingly, due to the sudden rise of Leeds United, the original BIG4 in the Premier League has become BIG5 in everyone's mouth. Among these five teams, the most promising is undoubtedly Chelsea, which has won two consecutive Premier League titles. The lineup is strong, and this season it has also introduced two superstars, Shevchenko and Ballack, which makes people not doubt their competitiveness in the country at all. What the outside world expects more is that Chelsea can make a breakthrough in this year's Champions League! The second place is Ferguson's Manchester United. Although Manchester United sent Van Nistelrooy away in the summer window, they also introduced Berbatov and Carrick from Leeds United and Tottenham to strengthen the team. Therefore, the media and experts generally believe that Manchester United is still the biggest competitor of Chelsea this season.

As for the remaining three teams, everyone thinks that they are basically the same. It is already very good to be able to maintain the fourth place and compete for the third place.

Leeds United is already in the controversy of sending Falcao and Berbatov away. Experts generally believe that although the two new players performed well in the last game, the opponent is just a small club from the Middle East. The overall strength is still too weak, and nothing can be seen after one game.

In addition to introducing Milner, Liverpool also brought in Dutch striker Kuyt from Feyenoord, but also sent away Morientes and Cisse. This time and again, it seems that there is no strengthening.

As for this year's Arsenal, Li Shiguang still remembers it vividly. Last month, they bid farewell to Highbury and moved into the Emirates Stadium.

But this also means that Wenger's years of robbing Peter to pay Paul have officially begun. Arsenal is suffocating due to the huge debt. This summer, they have invested less than 15 million euros in transfers.

But Li Shiguang will not pay attention to these idiotic analyses. Winning the league championship this season is his basic goal.

Before the start of last week's game, Li Shiguang received another task issued by the system.

The rewards for this task are extremely generous, but the starting point is also high.

The lowest level of diamond treasure chest rewards require winning the league championship. The higher-level treasure chests such as Star Glory, King, and Glory King can only be obtained after winning the Champions League. Therefore, for Li Shiguang, who has not even opened a diamond treasure chest, it is still very attractive...

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August 19, Saturday.

The first round of the 2006-2007 Premier League was held as scheduled.

The first to play were Leeds United, Liverpool and Arsenal, who were considered to be able to only maintain the fourth place and fight for the third place this year.

Leeds United played away, and the opponent was Newcastle United, which was based at St. James Park. The British star Michael Owen was the captain of this Newcastle United.

Unfortunately, in the World Cup in June, Owen once again showed his "glass man" attribute. Just one minute into the group match against Sweden, he was seriously injured in his right knee ligament when no one was guarding him, basically announcing that this season was scrapped. In this case, Newcastle United spent a lot of money in the transfer period to introduce Martins and Duff from Inter Milan and Chelsea to strengthen the team, hoping to make a breakthrough in the new season.

But in Li Shiguang's eyes, these two stars, whose combined value is not as high as Torres alone, are definitely not good enough in front of his own Leeds United.

Considering that Leeds United will leave for the Middle East to play the second round of the Champions League qualifiers after this game, Li Shiguang also adjusted the lineup for this game before the start of the game.

In the goalkeeper position, Neuer replaced Schmeichel. Considering that a team had already made an offer for Schmeichel last month, Li Shiguang planned to give the young Neuer more playing time this season so that he could grow up as soon as possible and sell Schmeichel earlier.

In the defense line, Cannavaro and Sun Jihai, two new players who played last week, were rotated, and the old actors Maicon, Kompany, Thiago Silva and Lahm became the starters.

Li Shiguang made major adjustments to the four players in the midfield, Mascherano and Garcia played as double defensive midfielders, and Bale and Ribery, who did not play last week, played as left and right wingers.

In the forward line, Li Shiguang sent out the combination of Ibrahimovic and Podolski, who are tall and fast.

Newcastle's head coach Glenn Roeder reacted quickly and saw the lineup that Li Shiguang arranged today when taking photos before the game.

I knew that Leeds United was going to play the double-winger game today, so I told the players to pay attention to the defense of the wing before the game started.

But some things are not what you think.

After a season of growth, Bale and Ribery have greatly improved their speed, breakthrough ability, and inside cut ability. At the beginning of the month, when Li Shiguang checked the players on the system, the speed of both of them had reached a terrifying 95 points.

Sure enough, after the game started, Leeds United did not give Newcastle United any chance to react, and launched a fierce attack from the moment of the kick-off.

Just 7 minutes into the game, Bale and Lahm completed a breakthrough on the left with a beautiful two-pass cooperation. After receiving Lahm's return pass, they drove all the way to the bottom line. Looking up and observing the situation in the penalty area, Bale made a quick decision and made a precise cross. The ball went straight to the back of the Newcastle United goal, and there, Ibrahimovic, who had been waiting for a long time, broke through the Newcastle United goal with a header that he was not very good at, 1:0!

Leeds United did not relax after taking the lead. Li Shiguang kept directing the players to press forward and not give the opponent too much breathing time.

Five minutes later, Leeds United got another good opportunity. Mascherano intercepted the ball in the midfield and drove straight into the penalty area to launch a quick counterattack. After bringing the ball to the outside of the penalty area, Mascherano found that no one came up to press for a long time, so he directly kicked and tried a powerful long shot.

But Mascherano's shot only pursued power, and did not pursue the angle excessively, so Newcastle United goalkeeper Given still stood on the goal line and hit the ball out with both fists, but because the power of the ball was too great, Given's clearance did not hit the ball too far.

Then, the best goal of the Premier League in August appeared!

When Mascherano kicked, Ibrahimovic, the "professional in fairy ball", had already rushed into the penalty area facing the goal, and then Given's save happened to fall next to Ibrahimovic.

Next, Ibrahimovic showed the flexibility of a nearly two-meter-tall center forward for the first time in front of Premier League fans.

Turn around.

Jump.

Kick.

Hook shot, all in one go!

The ball went straight to the upper right corner of Newcastle United's goal. Given, who was still in pain from his fist, had no reaction at all. He could only watch the ball fly into his own goal, 2:0!

A wonderful overhead kick! After Ibrahimovic scored this goal, there was a brief silence at St. James' Park.

Whether it was the fans at the scene, Glenn Roeder on the sidelines, or the Newcastle United players on the field, they all looked helplessly at Ibrahimovic, who was hugging Li Shiguang and celebrating wildly.

An ominous premonition gradually rose from the bottom of their hearts...

80 minutes later, Glenn Rod looked at the bright 1:4 on the big screen above the stadium and the empty seats around him, and sadness flowed like a river~~~

Li Shiguang was naturally elated after winning the first league victory of the new season. He waved his hand and took the whole team to a local restaurant for a small celebration. Then they would fly directly from Newcastle to the Middle East tomorrow.

But on the other two fields, Wenger and Benitez were not as happy as Li Shiguang!

Not long after the Leeds United game ended, Arsenal and Liverpool also ended their first round of the new season.

The result was not satisfactory. Liverpool was tied 1:1 by the newly promoted Sheffield United away, and Arsenal was tied 1:1 by Aston Villa at home.

This is not the most painful.

On Sunday, the remaining games of this round started, and Chelsea and Manchester United both won big against their visiting opponents at home.

After the game, the two old coaches were already thinking about how they would be criticized in tomorrow's news and newspapers~~