"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Eland Road!" The on-site commentator, Erre Geddy, was stirring up the atmosphere with his signature opening.
Just like the first game of the season, only scattered applause came from the stadium, interspersed with shouts such as "Orientalists, get out of Leeds United!" and "Don't think you can be a coach just because you have a license!"
Li Shiguang, who had already walked to the coach's bench, chose to ignore these voices because he knew that his team would soon give these people a good slap in the face.
Just as Leeds United's new captain Milner was flipping a coin to decide which side it was.
The system's voice also quietly sounded in Li Shiguang's mind:
[Ding! Mission triggered: First win]
[Mission Objective: Today is your first match as a coach. Please do your utmost to help your team win!]
[Mission Reward: 1 Golden Treasure Chest]
After completing the previous task, the system did not issue any new tasks for a whole week, and Li Shiguang thought there wouldn't be any new tasks for a while.
I was just thinking about it.
The referee blew the whistle to start the game, and Li Shiguang quickly refocused his attention on the field.
Wolves played a standard 4-4-2 formation today. They just won the first kickoff, and after the whistle blew, striker Danny Murphy, as usual, turned and passed the ball back to his teammates.
Wolves midfielder Paul Ince, who had just received the ball, was about to pass it to the wing to launch an attack when he looked up and saw four white figures rushing towards him.
Before he could react, the tall, black guy with dreadlocks closest to him grinned and poked the soccer ball away from his feet.
The entire stealing process actually happened in just two or three seconds.
From the perspective of the fans at the stadium, the referee blew the whistle, Wolves kicked off, and then four people in white jerseys charged across the halfway line like mad bulls, and then possession changed hands.
Adebayor, who had already won the ball, didn't dribble but passed it directly to the right front, where McLean was making a high-speed run, while he himself ran towards the Wolves' penalty area.
Leeds United's opening move completely stunned Wolves. It wasn't until McLean received the ball that Wolves' center-backs remembered to move up to defend. But McLean simply took a step forward after receiving the ball and passed it back to the edge of the penalty area.
At this moment, Adebayor had already run into Wolves' penalty area, where another Wolves center-back was closely marking him. At the edge of the penalty area, there were no players from either side.
Just when everyone thought McLean had miskicked the pass.
A figure wearing a white jersey with the number 11 appeared here at lightning speed.
He stretched his arms out to the maximum, making a very standard shooting motion, and then his right foot struck the ball hard.
No curvature!
No rotation!
The football flew at incredible speed, skimming the grass towards the Wolves' goal.
Wolves goalkeeper Karl had no chance to react at all and could only watch as the ball flew like a cannonball into the bottom right corner of the goal!
As the ball nestled into the net, Herre Geddy's resounding voice echoed throughout Elland Road Stadium.
"incredible!"
"Just 23 seconds into the game, Leeds United scored a goal with a swift interception in the attacking third!"
"The goal scorer is our number 11! Let's shout his name out loud, Carlos!"
Erre Geddy paused, and then the more than 20,000 fans chanted in unison: "Tevez~~~~~"
Tevez was extremely excited after scoring the goal, which was his first goal since joining Leeds United. He immediately rushed to the bench and hugged Li Shiguang tightly.
Li Shiguang, his face flushed, patted Tevez on the back and kept shouting, "Beautiful shot, Carlos, so beautiful!"
Li Shiguang was very happy because the players executed his pre-match tactics perfectly.
When he was studying Wolves' match videos, he found that once Wolves got possession, the striker would usually pass the ball back to the starting defensive midfielder Paul Ince, but he was already 37 years old.
He then saw through the system that, apart from his match experience score remaining above 80, all of Ince's other scores had dropped to around 50.
So Li Shiguang just told his forwards about this situation in the locker room.
Surprisingly, after winning the coin toss, Wolves actually chose to kick off.
And that's how the scene just now happened.
In the following ten minutes, Wolves players also attempted to launch attacks on Leeds United's goal.
However, the monotonous tactic of crossing from the byline was not very effective against the two iron gates of Kompany and Chiellini, who basically won the first ball.
On the contrary, under Leeds United's high-pressure pressing, Wolves players made frequent mistakes.
Often, before the ball even crosses halfway, Adebayor and Tevez will be pressing forward.
Keep in mind that this was only in 2004. Klopp's tactics, which would later make him famous, had not yet appeared on the field. The Wolves players had never seen anything like this before.
In their eyes, the Leeds United forwards were like rabid dogs that hadn't eaten for days, and the ball at their feet was like a sizzling piece of roast meat. As soon as the ball reached their feet, at least two people would swarm them and press them within two seconds.
In the 23rd minute, Wolves' other defensive midfielder, Bartley, spotted an opening and kicked the ball towards the goal.
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