Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

The big loss to Chelsea, FC United also fell from third to seventh in the table, this Lu Wei did not care, the league has only played four games, there is still a long time.

The good news is that this game is followed by a two-week international break, and Lu Wei can use this time to adjust the form of the players in the team.

Coming to the Newton Heath training base that day, Lu Wei felt a lot more deserted, Edward. Mendy is a Senegalese international, and Ramsdell was recruited to the England Under-21 team to play in the UEFA Under-21 Super League, leaving only third-goalkeeper Olelenshaw in the first team.

Tate is a member of the Dutch national team, Harry Maguire has also been selected for the new England national team, Robertson and McGim are regular members of the Scottish national team, Zinchenko is also Ukraine's main left-back, Matuidi needless to say, Rice was just 18 years old and called up by Ireland Under-21 to play.

Lozano is also the main winger of the Mexican national team, and Barbosa has also returned to South America to play in World Cup qualifiers, Sollot and Daniel. James has also been selected for their respective national squads, St. Maximin has returned to France to join the French Under-21s and Sancho has been in England's Under-17s for the Under-17s World Cup in October.

Baird announced his retirement from the national team after last year's European Championships, and together with several other Englishmen who were not selected for the national team, there are now only eight scattered first-team players at the Newton Heath training base.

Lu Wei looked at the row of players who were less than the number of coaches, and sighed silently, the previous international break was not so deserted, so many players were called up by the national team, Lu Wei did not know whether to be happy or frustrated for a while.

With a wave of his hand, he walked with all the remaining players to the youth team training ground on the other side of the training base and participated in joint training with FC United youth team.

Half of the FC United first-team players without international break tasks are all central midfielders, and Lu Wei simply scattered them into two groups to take the young people to group each other, but this efficiency is naturally not too high, but there is no way, even the first team that can't get together with eleven people how to practice tactics.

A week later, the players who went abroad to play for the national team returned to Newton Heath base, Lu Wei looked at the physical report sent by the Marseille doctor, and sighed again, most of the players played almost two 90-minute games, even Maguire also started one game, only Teter, Sollot and Daniel. James spent almost a week sitting on the bench for the national team.

In order to keep his players fit for the group stage of the Europa League, Lu Wei fielded an odd starter for the weekend's game against Leicester City, goalkeeper Ramsdell, three defenders Tarkovski, Webster and Baird, five midfielders Hayden, Tavernir, Graems, McGim and Maddison, and striker partners Sollot and Balbosa.

Tavernir and Maddison appeared on the left and right sides of midfield, Robertson and Zinchenko consumed a lot of energy during the international break, and Lu Wei put both on the bench and hoarded a large number of defenders in the middle to limit the space that Vardy and Iheanacho could carry the ball.

Leicester City's tactics are also similar, both in the middle of the stockpile to compress space and strengthen the defense. But the result was not satisfactory to either side, focusing on the centre meant relaxing the wing defense, FC United crossed from the right in the first half, Sollot headed to break the deadlock, Mahrez cut inside the box in the second half caused Baird to foul, Vardy scored on penalties and broke the goal of his old club.

FC United and Leicester City have been winless in three rounds, both hoping to get a win on their opponents, but they have lost both, and the goals have been scored by substitute strikers in the national team, it seems that the impact of the FIFA virus on the club is still quite large.

The good news is that FC United can rest in place, wait in Manchester for the Europa League group stage in three days, the Red Rebels players who do not have to take their fifth flight for two consecutive weeks can take a reprieve, and Lu Wei also gave them a day off to adjust their bodies and prepare for the Europa League.

FC United's first Europa League match was played against the Israeli champion Maccabi Tel Aviv, and because it was the first European match in the team's history, the tickets for this match were sold out as early as the fixture schedule came out, and all Manchesterns, whether they were old Red Rebels or recently became FC United fans, were expecting FC United's first European victory.

Although Maccabi Tel Aviv is Israel's giant, it is only in Israel, and proud English fans do not take them seriously at all.

'Maccabi Tel Aviv seemed to be in a group with Chelsea the year before last, and they seemed to have lost all the group stage this time.

"Idiot, it's the Champions League this time, it's the Europa League and we played, can that be the same?"

"What's different? That's because our Reds were in the Championship last season and can only play in the Europa League this year, otherwise we can also enter the Champions League, have you forgotten, Lu said the team's goal is to be in the top four. A

fan who looked like a diehard Red Rebel showed off to his companions.

'That has to be really in the top four, FC United have just entered their first year in the Premier League, and it would be nice to be relegated.

"You are a traitor, we are not satisfied with just relegation."

On the streets of Newton Heath, there are occasional fan debates about FC United, and although some people are not optimistic about FC United's big words at the beginning of the season, the unanimous opinion is that FC United can win the first European game in history.

But by the end of the game, the singing and roar of the Red Court could no longer be heard, and the huge score on the scoreboard showed that FC United were 2-0 behind Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Just 12 minutes after kick-off, Maccabi Tel Aviv scored, and Dole Aviv. Micha crosses the right in front of the goal, Edward . Mendy fell to the ground to intercept the cross, but it was lost, and striker Elilan Attar reacted a little faster than Maguire and stood closer, giving the visitors the lead.

In the 31st minute, Iceland international Kejatanson shot straight into the corner from the edge of the box, even though Edouard stretched his body to the extreme, he could not save the ball out of the frame, his fingers touched the ball but it was extended by Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Lu Wei discharged the offensive formation of 433, but the 23 shots in the whole game did not exchange for a single goal, Barbosa seemed to be lost in the crowd, after taking the ball, he didn't know whether to break forward or cooperate with his teammates, and the ball was also broken by the defender in hesitation.

Lu Wei was also disappointed with him, and replaced him at halftime, and Sollot had a bit of a sprained back during training, so Lu Wei could only let Lozano be promoted to the center forward position and replaced Sancho with a little fast spirit.

But Maccabi Tel Aviv, who has experienced European matches, knows how to deal with his opponents in the five major leagues, and their goalkeeper will be Serbia's goalkeeper Rajkovic, the winner of the U19 European Cup and U20 World Cup, who can keep FC United's shot out every time.

When the final whistle blew, Lu Wei stood quietly on the sidelines, looking at the harsh scorecard, his face seemed to be fifty degrees gray.