The first round match day between Leeds United and Manchester United is 16:00 on August 19, and Simon Grayson and his disciples arrived in Manchester on the evening of August 18.

The "Youth Guards" have been promoted to the Super League, and the benefits have been improved. There is no need to rush to the away game on the day of the game to save some accommodation, allowing the players to keep the hard work of boats and rides.

Of course, Ken Bates, the stingy old man, showed his stingy side. The hotel Leeds United was only a three-star hotel. Fortunately, assistant coach Eric Black arrived in Manchester in advance and booked a hotel with lawns for Leeds United to conduct simple training. Leeds United only needs to pay an extra thousand pounds for this.

Even if they returned to the ranks of super teams, even if Leeds United had just defeated Manchester City and won the Community Shield Cup, the attention they received was still very low. In the hotel they were staying, there were only two media and four sports reporters from Leeds who followed them. While the players were not disturbed, Simon Grayson also received a simple interview in a good mood. The main thing was Leeds' defeat of Manchester City in the Community Shield Cup, followed by the goal of the "Youth Guards" this season. Of course, Simon Grayson said that the team still had relegation as the first goal.

Only when talking about the fourth round of the UEFA qualifying match did Simon Grayson show such a little ambition: "We haven't made our voice in European football for a long time, because we haven't had the opportunity to participate in European events for a long time, so we will never give up even a single UEFA Cup match. The Red Stars of Belgrade is a very powerful team, but my players and I are full of confidence in winning the game and entering the Europa League group stage. We are ready... How far can we go? Haha, of course, it's better to go as far as we can!"

Leeds United's first leg match against Belgrade Red Stars is on August 23 after four days of the match against Manchester United, and Leeds United will wait for their opponents at their home court, Elland Road Stadium.

The new season has just begun, and the age structure of his team can be said to be very young. The players' physical fitness is quite excellent. Zach Thompson, Jonny Hausen, Ben Parker are all young players. Red, Clegg Dawson and others are also very young. Bentley and Tevez are even in their years of playing. There are only Papache, Whitehead and Ameobi in the team are considered thirty-year-old veterans, so Simon Grayson is still very confident in the physical fitness of his team. The game they defeated Manchester City was also because of their excellent physical fitness and using crazy running to win. This also gave Simon Grayson a good inspiration, that is, his team can fully make full use of this advantage and compete with their opponents in the league to compete for physical fitness and fighting spirit, rather than using their own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strengths and play with their skills and consciousness.

Relying on the youth of his team, Simon Grayson has no intention of letting go of any game.

At four o'clock on August 19, the game between the newly promoted Leeds United and last season's Premier League runner-up Manchester United started on time. 75,797 people flocked to the Old Trafford Stadium, which can accommodate 76,212 people, and reached a full state. All the fans of the "Red Devils" are already impatient to compete in the new season. Last season they lost the final round of the game and lost the championship. This summer, the team added two stars, Van Persie and Ganso. The "Red Devils" in the new season have really made them look forward to for a long time.

The "Old Sir" Ferguson did not disappoint the fans. In the first game of the new season, he arranged a combination of Rooney + Van Persie on the front line, but Ganso did not appear in the midfield. The combination of Giggs, Franny, Fletcher and Nani is still the most experienced, fast and combat-ready in Ferguson's heart. Due to Vidic's injury on the back line, he has not recovered yet. Ferguson only arranged for Evra, Evans, Rafael and Ferdinand to start, and the goalkeeper is still the young Spanish goalkeeper De Gea.

Manchester United fans are still full of expectations for the team's lineup. Although this is not Manchester United's strongest lineup, it is not far from it. Although Ashley Young, Welbeck, Gansu and others on the bench did not play, they can already prove the thickness of Manchester United's bench. The team's strength this season has become even stronger. Coupled with Ferguson's leadership, the league championship is almost in the pocket.

Besides, if you play a new Premier League team like Leeds United, a small promoted team, will the "Red Devils" still be facing a big enemy?

There are actually many Manchester United stars who have the same mentality as the fans. Although Leeds United had just defeated the powerful "Blue Moon" just a week ago, everyone who has watched that game will think that Leeds United does have the strength and they are indeed very brave, but the victory in that game... it is really just that they are lucky enough, and Manchester City is too unlucky.

After the game began, the performance of both sides seemed to confirm this. Leeds, who took the lead in kicking the ball, just passed the five-foot ball, and the ball was snatched by Fletcher from Snold Grass' feet.

Then Giggs on the left dribbled the ball and launched an offensive. Giggs, who was about to turn 39, seemed to be back at the age of youth. He dribbled the ball on the left and rushed quickly, shaking it and passed Kongori, and then sent the ball to the small penalty area on the right of Leeds United in the distance.

Van Persie, who was officially played for the first time in this game, performed very positively. The Dutch rushed to the point of the ball quickly, but unfortunately Ronegan, who attacked, took the lead and picked the ball from the air...

"Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow..."

The cheers sounded at Old Trafford Stadium turned into applause. This was given to Giggs by Manchester United fans. The Welshman has played for Manchester United for more than 20 years. He has contributed to the team with his words and deeds. Even if Giggs has a scandal, his existence has long become a symbol of the "Red Devils" themselves.

Although Van Persie felt that Giggs' passing quality just now was just average, and he could pass the ball faster and farther, so that he could get a chance to shoot, he still grinned and gave a thumbs up in the direction of Giggs. Van Persie would not provoke this Manchester United boss.

Seeing that their team started to suppress their opponents as soon as they came up, Manchester United fans seemed very happy. It seemed that they could easily win this game. And then Manchester United always suppressed Leeds United. They continued to launch offensives from the left, center and right, causing almost ten crosses in just a few minutes. Unfortunately, every attempt they tried was blocked by Leeds United.

But even so, Manchester United fans were still very happy in the stands and laughing and jumping. The team began to gain an advantage. All they had to do now was to wait for the goal, but their good mood lasted only for seven minutes!

Just seven minutes!

When the game reached 6'31', the ball was sent to Manchester United midfielder Flani.

The 24-year-old Franny transferred from Everton to Manchester United at a high price of 19 million pounds last season. The media jokingly claimed that Moyes was doing early work for himself to succeed the "Old Sir". Unfortunately, Mancini and "Blue Moon" eventually disrupted Ferguson's wish to win the championship and retire, so Moyes had to wait a little longer.

However, Flani, who is under Ferguson, performed quite well. Last season, he played 15 games for Manchester United, scored 6 goals and assisted 3 times. In general, he is worthy of the £19 million paid by Manchester United for him. This season, he was promoted to the main lineup by Ferguson on an important task.

But this time, Franny encountered the "Shaq" who had only emerged last season. The Belgian midfielder actually knew Zach Thompson's strong defensive ability early in the morning, but he also knew that Zach Thompson was used to "bullying" his opponents most of the time, and then intercepted the ball when the opponent lost balance. So after Franny turned around and received the ball, he just controlled it for a little while and passed the ball horizontally.

But just as the ball flew out from Fleniy's feet and rolled towards Fletcher against the ground, a figure slid on the ground and blocked the ball!

"Bang!"

Zach Thompson raised his left foot slightly and poked the ball towards Snold Grass who was retreating forward to get the ball!

"Shake!? A perfect interception!"

The commentator exclaimed, and the Manchester United fans at Old Trafford were also looking at the scene in surprise. No one could have thought that the ball would be cut off. This young "Shake" is indeed a steal madman. Just like the evaluation given to him by England coach Hodgson, this kid is born with a sense of intuition to judge the opponent's passing route!

Snodgras is an organizational striker. He has never been a high-profit shooter. He only scored 9 goals in 39 games last season, but his assists reached 10 times. In this game, he also replaced Bentley and appeared in the starting lineup, playing the role of transporting shells behind Ameobi, Tevez and Becchio. The reason is that Simon Grayson discovered after the last game that the cooperation between Bentley and the forwards was still a bit unfamiliar, and it was not obvious when facing weak opponents, but it was shown when facing Manchester City, and the connection between him and the forward line could easily be cut off.

"Bang!"

Snodgras, who was standing in the middle circle, did not do much dribbling. After turning around, he stuffed the ball to the front left, behind Ferdinand, in the space between him and Raphael.

When Ferdinand turned around, he saw a tall figure rushing up from the left like a gust of wind...

Ameobi!?

Ferdinand was shocked. Before, he had always focused on his former teammate "Beast" Tevez. He knew very well how huge energy the short body of this small Argentine man contained, but he didn't expect that Ameobi, who was suddenly ignored by him, would explode.

"Bang!"

After Ameo rushed up the diagonally, he directly rushed into Manchester United's penalty area with one kick, and rushed up with a few big strides. Although his speed was not very fast, Ferdinand was not fast either. When Ameobi started first, Ferdinand could not catch up with him.

Although De Gea, who was standing in front of Manchester United's goal, was young, he still responded very quickly and directly abandoned the goal and rushed out.

Unfortunately, with Ameobi's rich game experience, how could he make the mistake of being confiscated by the goalkeeper when he dribbled the ball?

In the middle of Manchester United's penalty area, before De Gea, Ameobi directly fell to the ground and shot!

"Bang!"

Ameobi's right foot pressed very low, and he actually kicked to the bottom of the ball. Then the ball bounced upwards and had already run to the penalty spot De Gea watched the ball slowly fly from the air on his right side, and then fell into his own goal...

“GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

After scoring the goal, Ameobi got up and rushed to the camera near the corner flag. His dark face was very ferocious when he roared, making him look like a roaring chimpanzee. Then one Leeds player after another pounced on him...

The moment the ball flew into Manchester United's goal, the "Old Sir" Ferguson, who was sitting off the court, couldn't help but glared, and then chewed the chewing gum in his mouth a few times, and the expression on his face returned to calm.

However, the old man's tight fists still betrayed his uneasy heart: Leeds now... is really strong!
Chapter completed!