Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

On November 19, 2016, the FC United team took the train to Reading, took the team bus to Madjiski Stadium, and everyone got off the bus one after another and walked into the stadium, until the bus drove away, the fans did not see Lu Wei.

It turns out that our protagonist is now wearing a fan uniform and a hat with a ticket, pretending to be an ordinary FC United fan lining up to enter, through the club's connections, he got a ticket for a relatively unobtrusive position, sitting near him are individual fans, there are no Red Rebel fan groups, if you don't pay attention to him, you will only think that he is an ordinary Asian youth.

In this game, Lu Wei has been completely handed over to Steele, and he didn't even care much about the pre-match preparation, and ran to the other side of Newton Heath Base to observe the training of the youth team.

This behavior also made the coaching staff and players cry and laugh, you are also the head coach of the team, even if you are suspended, you have to care about us, you can't be a handshake because of the suspension.

But Lu Wei also has a reason, I am not only the head coach of the first team, I am also the president of the club, and I also have to take care of the youth team.

Due to the recent end of the international break, Steele did not let Robertson, who had played two World Cup qualifiers, play, and he also took the stand to rest, except that he sat behind the coach's dugout with the Red Rebel fans, far from Lu Wei's position.

Goalkeeper Edward. Mendy, defenders Tavernir, White, Tarkovski, Zinchenko, midfielders McGim, Jenas and Madison, the forward combination is Bowen, Daniel and Hogan.

This is the tactic that Steele told Lu Wei he intends to use in this game, as the name suggests, FC United wants to solve the battle with long-range shots in this game.

This is a very bold and gambling idea, as long-range shooting is known to be the least efficient way to score on the football field, and although there are many good long-range shooters in world football, they can score up to 5 goals outside the box in a season.

So winning with a long shot is a fundamentally unrealistic idea.

However, Lu Wei thought about the characteristics of Reading, and found that it was not impossible, the backcourt shrunk defense, the front court was pressed with high pressure, what did this mean, which means that the defensive force in the middle of the midfield is relatively weak, Reading's usual formation is 442, there are only two people in the middle of the midfield, and Williams is still a weak midfielder, although their goalkeeper Omani Habsi is quite tall, but he is 35 years old, his foot movement has long been less flexible, and his reaction has also decreased somewhat, Long-range scoring may really work.

(Off topic, this Habsi also played for Bolton, was the backup of Jaskolenen at the time, and later transferred to West Bromwich Albion, has always been the main goalkeeper of the Premier League team, and has won the FA Cup, can be said to be the most successful Asian player in the Premier League besides Son Heung-min and Park Ji-sung, can be called the first goalkeeper in the Middle East, with a total of 133 clean sheets in his career, was selected for the Oman national team in 2003, retired in 2020, and made a total of 67 appearances for the Oman national team, He didn't play in both meetings with China.

Lu Wei couldn't help but take a look at his assistant coach, who was five years younger than himself, unaware that Steele had an unbeaten record in the first 14 games in charge of Reims, successfully pulled Reims out of the Ligue 1 relegation zone, and would have rushed into Europe if it weren't for too many draws.

FC United's starting list has several good long-range shooters, Bowen, Maddison, McGim and Jenas all have a long-range shot, Daniel and Hogan's breakthrough ability can also be exchanged for several well-positioned free kicks in the front, and Tavernir's free-kick scoring efficiency ranks first in the Championship, and has scored three direct free kicks this season.

The game began in McGin's flat ground thunder, FC United continued to use short passes to avoid Reading's pressing after the kick-off, after advancing to a range of 30 meters, Madison set up a battery, McGim met the ball with a angry shot, real-time measurement and analysis software concluded that the ball speed reached 114km/h, but half a meter off the goal.

The process of the game has always been very glue, Reading pressed fiercely when FC United possessed the ball, if it were not for the good foot skills of FC United's midfield, I am afraid that Reading's counterattack efficiency would be higher.

The score in the first half was 0:0, Steele was not in a hurry off the field, the way to score with a long-range shot was originally a risk, so he could not rush, the only worry was that the long-range shot would be easily seen by the opponent, and there were probably not so many shooting opportunities in the second half.

Sure enough, Stam is known for his bald tough guy image, but as the world's top central defender, his ability to read the game is quite strong, and Reading strengthened the protection of the front of the box in the second half.

Two consecutive long-range shots from Madison and Bowen were blocked by defenders, not to mention scoring chances, and even goalkeeper Habsi didn't need to make a save.

Lu Wei watched the game leisurely in the stands, he even had the leisure to eat hot dogs, holding freshly baked hot dogs in one hand and fruit tea in the other, and said with a frown after eating two bites.

"Not as good as our Red Course."

As the interim head coach, Steele could not see this scene, otherwise he would have even beaten Lu Wei, but now he did not spare Lu Wei, seeing that Stam had made adjustments to protect the penalty area, he immediately made a gesture to the players on the field.

The FC United players on the pitch also understood Steele's actions after seeing it.

Three minutes later, Taphnier ran to the middle to answer, Williams immediately stuck up to prevent him from getting up, Taphnir had to pass the ball to avoid losing the ball, Maddison received the ball to Jenas, Jenas passed to Robertson, Robertson dunked the ball back and passed it to Madison, and finally Jenas ran out of the shooting space, and Madison immediately passed the ball.

Jenas stopped the ball and adjusted to shoot from distance, he has scored in this position, goalkeeper Habsi is also a big enemy, Jenas has also scored in the goal he guarded in five or six years, who knows if his feet are still so hard after a year of knee injury.

Another back George. Evans also rushed forward to interfere with him, just when everyone was waiting for Jenas's shot to be higher than the crossbar or saved by Habsi, Jenas loosened his feet, the shot turned into a pass, Hogan, who had been walking in front of McShaun, suddenly turned and started, caught up with the football and shot directly without stopping, and the ball flew into the net from Habsi's fingertips.

It turns out that Jenas is not about shooting, but about passing!

After the goal, Hogan pointed to Jenas, thanks to Big Brother for this beautiful assist, although Jenas experienced a torn cruciate ligament and recovered from an injury for a year and a half before returning to the green field, knowing that his physical condition has slowly not supported a long professional football match, but his awareness and judgment on the field are still at the level of the national team, and it is up to him to complete this last pass.

This is Steele's real tactic, long-range shooting is only the first wave of FC United's attack, and he actually has four words behind the 100-step crossing Yang that he told Lu Wei.

A hundred steps through Yang, the sound of east and west.