Chapter 117 Fierce battle is in full swing

The "Three Lions" home court with Moldova's World Cup qualifiers is about to begin, and Zach Thompson has embarked on his journey to London again.

This time, Hodgson's England team is still the only player from Leeds United was selected. Lampard, Ferdinand, Hargreaves, Crouch, Gerrard, Joe Cole and other veterans over 30 were selected again. I don't know what Hodgson is thinking. This old man seems to have given up on promoting the youthfulness of England, or he thinks that in the qualifiers, the need to play home and away games in ten rounds, the old players are more secure.

The game against Moldova is the last game of England this season. The next game will be in early June. Zach Thompson went to London with a good mood and returned to Leeds with satisfaction. Because England, who played at home, swept the opponent with a score of 10:0, Zach Thompson also scored a hat trick in the game, and the other person who scored a hat trick was "Gao" Crouch.

After this game, Zach Thompson's teammate bonus skill points increased to 37 points, and he could also provide more help to his brothers in the "Swordsman Group". Sometimes he is quite contradictory. The ones who play in the game are all his brothers. When he uses the "Black Feet" system to provide bonuses, it is really impossible to be more favorable to one and the other. If the teammate bonus skill points are evenly distributed, there is too few.

The draw for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup has also been held in the past two days. The quarter-finals are Leeds United, Paris Saint-Germain, Eindhoven, Switzerland's young team, Chelsea, Athletic Bilbao, AC Milan, and Inter Milan. Except for Leeds United and Young Team, Athletic Bilbao and other teams are almost comparable to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.

However, this year's Champions League is a bit weird. The current quarterfinals are Real Madrid, Miners, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Moscow CSKA, Swiss Young Team, Paris Saint-Germain, and Inter Milan are all eliminated by the Champions League to play in the Europa League.

Leeds United's luck this time was not that good. They encountered the Italian giants Inter Milan. Although the Nerazzurri was getting worse, the framework for this team to win the Champions League is still there. Leeds United met them and was regarded by the outside world as the UEFA Cup journey to the end.

However, Simon Grayson and his disciples were quite open-minded. Even the team's fans felt that a newly promoted English Premier League team could reach the quarterfinals in the Europa League. They were already very content. No one expected Leeds United to win the UEFA Champions League, which was simply unrealistic.

After returning to Leeds United, Zach Thompson was surprised to find that the team's condition was better than before when they played against Leverkusen, and they were almost going to return to the fierce state of the season at the beginning of the season. The specialty fifa virus on international matches did not have much impact on the "Youth Guards". Although Zach Thompson is the absolute core of the team, he is even considered the team's weather vane. But his physical condition is there, and there is no possibility of being infected by the "virus".

In this nearly 100% state, welcoming the defending champion "Blue Moon" at home is probably a good thing for Leeds United. They are waiting for it. There are a lot of international players over Manchester City who have just played international games!

Due to the schedule, Leeds United has fallen to third place in the standings due to one less round of the game. "Gunners" Arsenal has returned to the top position. Although "Blue Moon" Manchester City has 3 points less than Arsenal, it ranks second because of one more game of 2 points more than Leeds United. "Red Devils" Manchester United also caught up with Leeds United and scored with Leeds United because of the goal difference. Tottenham Hotspur is only 1 point less than Leeds United.

If the "Youth Guards" lose this game, they will immediately bear huge pressure. Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur may surpass them at any time to squeeze them to the fifth position. For Leeds United, the most real thing is to keep themselves in the top four in the standings, so that they will have hope to play in the Champions League next season.

However, pressure is not unique to Simon Grayson and Leeds United. "Blue Moon" Manchester City also has considerable pressure as the defending champion. The game against Leeds United is definitely an important event that competes for the championship.

Manchester City coach Mancini remained silent before the game, but in the end he couldn't resist the run from Sky Sports News and jumped out and gave a counterattack: This game will definitely attract much attention. No one can predict the outcome of the game. What my team and I can do is handle the game with the most positive attitude, so that we will have the advantage.

The odds of the bookmakers before the game are still optimistic about Manchester City. Sky Gambling Company's prediction is that although Leeds United has home advantage, the gap between the strength of the two sides is still quite large, and Manchester City will defeat their opponents away.

When the reporter interviewed Simon Grayson, the Leeds coach said: "I know everyone is not optimistic about our victory in the game. We lost to our opponents 0:2 in the first round, but please don't forget that this is the Elland Road Stadium. Any opponent who wants to leave with a victory from here must agree with my players! Now... we don't agree!"

Simon Grayson said it very tough. It was not his bluff, but he knew very well what his team was in now. Shaq's state was still as stable as ever. As long as he had no problem, the "Three Musketeers of Leeds" would not have any problems. The "Beast" has become excited recently and has even worked a little too hard in training. Of course, this is the chemical reaction caused by his hatred value for Manchester City, which is a great thing for Leeds United.

Simon Grayson, who was ready for it, did not expect that in the game on April 1, under the leadership of Zach Thompson, Leeds United would bring surprises to everyone one after another.

In this game, Mancini arranged a 4-2-3-1 formation, but the tactic used by the Italians was to accumulate six players in the midfield and frontcourt. He seemed to be very at ease with his team's defense line consisting of Krish, Bochetti, Richards and Serner, and there was no midfielder at all.

The single striker is Bosnia and Herzegovina center Dzeko, behind him is Manchester City's engine David Silva, Argentine Aguero hides behind Dzeko and plays the role of a shadow striker, on the right is Yaya Toure, and on the two midfielders are De Jong and Croatian midfielder Badergi, who bought for 19.25 million pounds this season.

The luxury of the "Blue Moon" lineup is simply outrageous. But even such a powerful defending champion, when they encounter the "Youth Guards" away, they are still unable to compete with the opponent, because there is a Zach Thompson nicknamed "Shake" in Leeds United.

Just one minute into the game, Croatian midfielder Badergi, wearing Manchester City's No. 16 jersey, gave a straight pass to David Silva in front of him. He felt that there was only one "Shaq" in Leeds United's midfield, which was really too weak. His team could organize the offense in the midfield. This guy who failed to make an injury during the last time Manchester City played against Leeds United at home obviously underestimated the famous "Shaq".

"Bang!"

David Silva stopped the ball and then dribbled the ball to the right and shook the Met Fursarico in front. When he wanted to stuff the ball directly to Dzeko in front, a white figure suddenly penetrated across the front and poked the ball out with one kick.

Shaq!?

Baderji was shocked. He didn't expect that "Sak" who was more than ten meters away from David Silva before, actually intercepted the ball next to David Silva in the blink of an eye.

David Silva's ball was cut off, but the matter was not over yet-

"Bang!"

"ah--"

David Silva pushed the arch of his right foot on Zach Thompson's right foot, and then he felt his big toe hurt in pain. After screaming, his body tilted on the lawn.

kindness!?

Zach Thompson grabbed his hair for no reason. He glanced at David Silva who was covering his right toe: Damn! No, right? I didn't make a foul! And you kicked me, you fell down first!

Fortunately, the referee was not far from the scene. He could see clearly with his eyes that Zach Thompson did not make any foul moves. Speaking of which, David Silva kicked "Shake" on the foot.

After the game was interrupted, the Manchester City team doctor came up to treat it for a while, and immediately rushed to Mancini on the sidelines to make a substitution, and then turned his head and looked at Zach Thompson in surprise. He was really curious whether the body of this guy "Shake" is flesh and blood. After being kicked, nothing happened. Instead, he kicked someone and kicked his big toe.

Mancini was also stunned and quickly sent the most expensive player in the Russian League that he had just bought this season. Portuguese Danny, all the players warmed up when they warmed up before, so there was no need to wait anymore, but one general was lost at the beginning of the game. This game... is really hard to play!

Just three minutes later, Baderji once again saw the way "Sak" played football. When he tried to pass the ball to Aguero in front, Zach Thompson rushed out from the side again, relying on a reasonable collision, he squeezed Aguero aside, and he himself cut the ball down again.

Damn! So violent!?

Baderji was a little scared, looked at Aguero sitting on the lawn grinning, and quickly followed closely to defend Zach Thompson.

It was the first time Baderji saw someone like Zach Thompson playing football. He was the only one in the Leeds United midfielder. He actually gave Baderji a sense of danger, as if a shark had really opened his bloody mouth and was quietly waiting in the water for someone to send him to his mouth.

Baderji subconsciously became afraid of Zach Thompson, so he naturally was not so tight in pressing, but Zach Thompson did not dribble the ball. He directly stuffed the ball under Pivkovsky's feet on the right. The successor of the "Swedish God Tower" was still improved by his teammate's bonus skill points. He broke through with speed on the right, and there was no problem with crossing.

"Bang!"

Before Pifkovsky turned around, he sideways and sent the ball outside the top of Manchester City's penalty area. The "Beast" Tevez was really like a beast that was rushing out and brought the ball into the space between Bochetti and Richards.

After two steps left with the ball, Tevez suddenly turned his left foot and the ball flew to the lower right corner of Manchester City's goal!

Johart's center of gravity had moved to the corner of Tevez, and it was too late to save the game when he fell to the ground to the left. He watched the ball fly from front of him and finally fell into the depths of the net, but he could only sit on the lawn because of the twisting of the center of gravity...

Just 7 minutes into the game, Leeds United took the lead 1:0!
Chapter completed!