Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

On March 11, 2017, in the 37th round of the Championship, FC United hosted Nottingham Forest, everyone was waiting to see the joke of FC United's three-game losing streak, but Lu Wei once again disappointed the wall-like media, FC United easily won Nottingham Forest with a score of 2-0 and consolidated its position as the leader.

Instead, Newcastle United dropped the chain, losing 3-1 at home to Fulham, with nine rounds left in the league, and FC United continued their eight-point lead.

Now the situation in the Championship standings is as follows:

first-place FC United, 27 wins, 7 draws and 3 defeats, with 88 points;

2nd place Newcastle United, 25 wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats, 80 points;

3rd place Brighton, 21 wins, 8 draws and 8 defeats, 71 points;

4th place Reading, 19 wins, 7 draws and 11 defeats, 64 points;

5th place Huddersfield Town, 18 wins, 8 draws and 11 defeats, with 62 points;

Sixth-place Sheffield Wednesday, 18 wins, 8 draws and 11 defeats, with 62 points;

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That's the point situation for the top six in the Championship, with eight points between the first and second points, nine points between the second and third points, and unless FC United and Newcastle United turn over together, the chances of Brighton being promoted directly are slim.

FC United's schedule is not easy, and they will play the top six teams in the round of 39 and 40, all of which will go to Huddersfield Town and Newcastle United away to face Huddersfield Town and Newcastle United. Although the opponent in the final round of the league is Reading, FC United are likely to have won the title early.

With the exception of these three rivals, the rest of the teams are in the middle of the table and it will be difficult to cause problems for FC United, which, if all goes well, could well lift the Championship trophy early in mid-April.

In the 38th round against the wantless Brentford, FC United won the game 1-0 without bloodshed. Newcastle United, on the other hand, dropped the chain again, drawing with Birmingham and widening the gap to 10 points with FC United.

In the round of 39, both teams won and Steele lamented, "How nice it would be if Newcastle United had lost, so that we would have locked up the promotion in advance without having to fight them in the next game."

"What so many good things, William, don't always think about relying on others to fail, think about how to make yourself successful, Rome was not built in a day, and the Tower of Babel is not built in one or two or three floors."

Lu Wei said seriously, he attaches great importance to Steele's assistant, whether it is video analysis or tactical advice, Steele can always help Lu Wei, with a right-hand man to assist him, it can really save a lot of worry, just as every emperor must have a virtuous assistant beside him, and every famous coach also has a conscientious assistant coach beside him.

Now that the Steele family has moved to Manchester and settled down here, it should not return to Belgium to coach, and it is all unknown whether he will become a manager in the future.

In the 40th round of the league, FC United will go to St James' Park in the north of England to challenge Newcastle United, although even winning this battle of Tianwang Mountain is not enough to win the championship in advance, but if you can win, you can lead the third place Brighton by 19 points with 6 rounds left in the league, lock their top two positions in advance, and directly determine that they will be directly promoted to the Premier League and complete the second goal set by Lu Wei to the team.

FC United are also aiming to win this game, and Lu Wei also expressed his attitude during training.

"I don't know how many games there are ahead, I don't know if we win a few more games to advance and win the title early, I just know that as long as we win one by one, we will definitely enter the Premier League next season as Championship winners."

So in these games, FC United are all out, every game is fought to the end, and this game is no exception.

However, Benitez's Newcastle United are not soft persimmons, and in the 18th minute, Ritchie received a direct pass from Shervey and fired a low shot through FC United's goal, giving the Magpies the lead first.

But before Benitez could laugh long in the dugout, Bowen's breakthrough on the right caused a foul on Dumit, and FC United won a free-kick from the right side of the front.

Seeing this scene, Lu Wei, who was very calm even if he was behind, stood up from the coach's dugout, and then walked to the sidelines and stood there, quietly watching everything on the field.

Webster and Tarkovski both ran into each other's boxes, Hayden also left his defensive position, FC United pressed the entire backline, leaving only Robertson and McGim behind to protect, FC United all the people who could top the header gathered in front of Newcastle United.

Lu Wei's thoughts could not be more obvious, he was not afraid that Benitez would be guarded, but even if he knew, there was no way, sometimes he was not afraid of you playing yin, and he was afraid that you would not be able to think of a way to stop you from playing yang.

Newcastle United's defensive average height is less than 1.85 meters, Sollot and Webster, two giants over 1.9 meters, can easily find his passing target without much thought.

The referee's whistle sounded, Tavernir took two steps to pass the ball over the box, Sollot blocked Newcastle United's tallest Lassells, Webster jumped lightly to be a head higher than the Newcastle United player next to him, although the football ball was not fast under the interference, but the angle was tricky enough, and the football curved around Karl. Darlow, landed inside the goal.

After confirming the goal, Lu Wei waved his fist, glanced at Benitez who had no expression on the other side, and thought, the good show is still ahead, Master Bei.

Benitez did not expect that Lu Wei would use a free kick tactic to play the game this time, and he also thought that FC United would play defensive counterattack like the previous half of the season, after all, this game only needs a draw for FC United to be considered a victory.

Although there is no expression on his face, but Benitez frowns in his brain, Newcastle United is the Championship team with the fewest goals conceded this season, they have conceded two fewer goals than FC United, but a quarter of the goals conceded are scored by the opponent with their heads, and the air defense is slightly weaker, this is indeed Newcastle United's current weakness, Benitez faces Lu Wei's Yang Scheme, there is really nothing to do.

Thirteen minutes after the equaliser, FC United were once again awarded a well-placed free-kick, again on the right flank of the pitch, but this time closer to the box, with Tavernir standing in front of the ball, raising his arm and waiting for the referee's whistle.

Cal. Darlow was engrossed in Sollot and Webster, this time confident he would be able to free the ball before the FC United players could top it.

But after the whistle, the football did not follow Karl. Flying over the box as Darlow thought, Tavernir kicked a low flat ball around the wall and flew towards the near post, not a pass, but a shot.

Carl, who has already run two steps forward. Darlow realized that it was too late, forcibly turned his feet and could not make a save, and finally he could only fall to the ground in embarrassment, lying in the net with the football, and somewhat unwillingly watched the FC United players celebrate on the sidelines.

The result was fixed at 1-2, FC United won away to Newcastle United, and although Brighton also won Birmingham City, the 19-point lead has given FC United a direct promotion to the Premier League six rounds earlier.