Chapter 660 Group First Name
After winning Manchester City 3:0, Leeds United finally ushered in a rare rest time. Li Yi was also generous and directly gave the players two days of vacation.
For the two days of vacation, Li Yina also made full use of it, went to Norwich again, and took Jiang Ying out to play for two days and two nights again.
In order to stay with his girlfriend for one more night, Li Yi stayed in Norwich for two nights, and flew back to Leeds by himself the next morning.
For this reason, Li Yi was often complained by his cousin Liu Yao. You must know that Liu Yao arranged work for Li Yi, but Li Yi went to Norwich without returning home, and even turned off his mobile phone without giving Liu Yao found his chance.
That's not all. Li Yi, who returned to Leeds from Norwich early the next morning, also went directly to the club and returned home after training that day.
Complaining is complaining, but Liu Yao still supports Li Yi in her heart. She doesn't know the pressure Li Yi is under when she is not by Li Yi's side. What outsiders see is always only the superficial scenery, and the pressure under the scenery is only known by those who are really around her.
Before Liu Yao felt that she was extremely proud to have such a brother, but this year, Liu Yao was a little worried and distressed for Li Yi.
It is no exaggeration to say that Li Yi is definitely the one who is under the most pressure of all the head coaches, which is related to Li Yi's skin color and nationality, as well as his age.
After all, the coaching industry is a rare existence at Li Yi's age, not to mention that Li Yi has achieved his current achievements as a Chinese.
Let's just say that Li Yi, who came back from vacation, is at the club except for dinner and sleep. Leeds United is in good shape at present, but this good needs Leeds United to continue to win, because there are still a group of hungry wolves behind him.
In the fourteenth round of the league, Leeds United will be a guest at Fratton Park to challenge Portsmouth. This is another team in the middle and lower reaches. When the Champions League group has already appeared, Leeds United can completely transfer the main force to the league. middle.
In fact, Li Yi did the same. In this game, Leeds United did its best, and after the game started, it was also going in Leeds United's favor.
Suarez, who has not scored in several rounds, opened the scoring for Leeds United in this game. Suarez received a straight pass from Modric and successfully completed the goal.
When the first half ended, Leeds United rewrote the score to 2:0, saying that Leeds United has maintained the rhythm of scoring two goals in the first half in recent rounds of the league.
However, Leeds United only scored two goals in this game. In the second half, it seemed that Leeds United would not score any goals at once.
Fortunately, Leeds United did a good job defending and did not give Portsmouth any chance to keep the 2-0 score until the end of the game.
With the end of the game, Leeds United ushered in another wave of consecutive victories, losing to Chelsea in the tenth round until now, Leeds United has won four consecutive victories.
However, this is not what makes Li Yi the happiest. What makes Leeds United happiest is that its competitors are left behind. This round of the Premier League's four giants has not won.
Chelsea and Liverpool drew with their opponents at the same time, and Arsenal were even worse, losing 3-0 to Manchester City. Because no suitable candidate was found, Mark Hughes was able to stay in Manchester City.
In this regard, Li Yina was very depressed. He was ready to accept the title of Peer Killer. As a result, Mark Hughes miraculously stayed in Manchester City, and also sacked Arsenal.
It is said that Wenger's team has lost a lot recently, not to mention the 0-3 defeat of Manchester City in this game, and the loss to Aston Villa at home in the last round.
With the end of the 14th round of the league, Manchester United and Arsenal have theoretically withdrawn from the title race. Manchester United lost to Arsenal after losing to Leeds United. Coupled with this round of draw, they are now behind Leeds United. 14 out of 14.
Not to mention Arsenal. After losing this round, Arsenal currently has only 23 points, which is two points less than Manchester United. It can be called the worst existence among the four giants.
Chelsea and Liverpool have the same points, but with the tie in this round of the league, they are 6 points behind Leeds United and are currently ranked second and third with 33 points.
With the current situation, if Arsenal can't adjust their state, then the chances of falling out of the top four this season will be very high. Although Arsenal has the BUFF bonus of competing for the fourth maniac, Arsenal's opponents are too strong.
The team led by Ferguson is in better shape as they go forward. On the contrary, Arsenal often fall behind in the later period, so the current situation of Arsenal is really not optimistic.
In fact, the four giants in the Premier League are not optimistic this season, because Leeds United's performance is really good. They only lost one game in 14 rounds of the league, and they firmly occupy the top of the standings with an absolute advantage of 39 points.
It is conceivable what the situation is in Leeds at the moment. The fans of Leeds United are happier than Christmas. It is no exaggeration to say that Leeds United fans watch the league standings twice a day and watch their favorite team play. There are many mountains and small mountains in the standings.
Fans can watch the standings with a happy mood, but Li Yi and his disciples can't, because they know very well that if they are not careful, they will be overtaken by the teams behind, and they want to keep their current position. That has to win every possible game as much as possible.
However, before the arrival of the next round of the league, Leeds United need to play the fifth game of the Champions League group stage, and Leeds United will welcome Marseille, the first group stage opponent at home.
After the four rounds, Marseille and Eindhoven each won a victory from their opponents, so Marseille and Eindhoven still retain hope of appearing, but this round is a life-and-death battle between the two teams.
If Marseille can win against ZL, then Marseille's points will reach 6 points, and if Marseille wants to keep hope in the opponent, it needs the help of PSV Eindhoven, and the Dutch giants must at least draw with Atletico.
Of course, the most ideal result is that PSV Eindhoven defeats Atletico Madrid, and then Marseille itself wins the battle against ZL United. In this way, Marseille will play Atletico Madrid in the final round, and the fate is completely in their own hands.
But this is only an ideal result, and an ideal is just an ideal. The reality is often cruel and skinny. When the game came to the 30th minute, when Leeds United winger Reus broke the deadlock, Marseille's hope was almost dashed, let alone another A stadium Atletico has already taken the lead.
And the next development is completely in the opposite direction of what Marseille and PSV hoped, Atletico Madrid extended their lead, and Leeds United also extended the score in the second half.
Although both of them later moved back a goal, this goal did not change the fact that they were already out. In the end, the fifth round of the Group D group stage ended with two 2:1.
With these two 2:1 victories, Leeds United and Atletico Madrid qualified hand in hand, while Marseille and PSV Eindhoven can only compete for the qualification of the Europa League.