Football: I can see player entries.

Chapter 9 Continuous Battles and Successful Victories

Murphy was promoted to the first team by Li Yanqing and used as the starting center forward.

While the tall Ogradi is good, he is not suitable for starting because he is practically useless except for heading.

They are better suited to be used as substitutes or surprise players.

As for the team's original starting center, Bevin, he is already 32 years old and his performance has declined significantly.

Li Yanqing planned to drop him.

Soon, the next day of the competition arrived.

Burton Athletic will host Birmingham City.

The opponent is a decent team, a mid-table team in the Championship.

It will be a tough nut to crack for Burton Albion.

Fortunately, this time the home team's stands were no longer empty.

In their last match, they rallied to win by coming back from three goals down, but few of their own fans were present, much to the regret of those who had just tasted victory.

As soon as things started to look good, they immediately waved their flags to cheer on the home team.

The newly appointed head coach, Li Yanqing, made his first appearance in front of the fans.

As he passed through the players' tunnel, the fans gave him a very enthusiastic round of applause.

Clearly, after learning of the home team's victory, they all watched the replay and learned that the home team had hired a temporary coach.

The fans are much more genuine. Regardless of whether it's temporary or not, as long as it brings victory, they are willing to give their applause and cheers without reservation.

However, when Li Yanqing's troop deployment appeared on the big screen, it inevitably made them feel somewhat uncomfortable.

No Jami, no Pamo, no Chaudhry, no Ogradi...

The team's former offensive stars seem to have been relegated to the bench.

Clearly, the fans were unaware that Pamo and Choudhury had been relegated to the reserve team.

Fortunately, Quinn, who scored the winning goal in the previous game, and their captain Bradford are both starting this time.

Li Yanqing's arrangement was certainly planned; the team's main task in the first half was defense.

Therefore, he specifically arranged a 4-5-1 formation, leaving only the newly promoted Murphy near the center circle.

The rest of the team focused on defense.

In the second half, Jami and Ogradi were used as surprise weapons again.

This match is extremely important; if he wins, his position will be completely secured.

But will it really go that smoothly?

From the start of the match, their opponents put a lot of pressure on them.

In less than ten minutes, he had taken several shots.

Fortunately, they were all blocked by their own defenders who arrived in time.

The opponent was stronger than Li Yanqing had anticipated.

The team has several skilled attackers.

The good news is that he didn't see any long-range shooting attributes like "Cloud Piercer" or "Heavy Gunner," so the probability of the opponent suddenly launching a surprise attack and ending the game is not high.

"Li, I'm a little worried..."

Chris did not question Li Yanqing's tactics, but he felt a vague unease in his heart.

Do you remember how they won the last game?

It's because it forces the other side to defend to the death.

"Don't worry, the situation is different."

Li Yanqing shook his head. In the last match, they dominated the game mainly because they took advantage of the opponent's low morale.

In this match, with sufficient physical strength, it's actually not so easy to concede a goal.

The situation is exactly as he described.

The opposing team launched a barrage of attacks in their own half, but failed to score.

Burton barely got possession of the ball until the 30th minute when they finally managed to launch a decent attack.

After intercepting the ball in the backfield, right winger Miller dribbled past defenders and delivered a solid through ball.

Murphy broke the offside trap and created a one-on-one opportunity, giving him a chance to face the goalkeeper directly.

However, the final shot was too straight and the opposing goalkeeper caught the ball easily.

"pity!"

Li Yanqing and Chris were both filled with regret; such an opportunity was unlikely to come again.

Young people really do suffer from a lack of experience.

......

Some old sayings are absolutely true: missing an opportunity will bring retribution.

Just as the first half entered stoppage time, the opponent finally seized the opportunity, creating space in the penalty area and scoring smoothly.

The home team is trailing 0-1.

They had almost finished the first half when they conceded a goal in stoppage time.

Li Yanqing was somewhat helpless, but conceding only one goal in the first half was still within his acceptable range.

The opponent had been attacking for fifty minutes and had already exhausted most of their strength.

It will be their turn to perform soon.

As for the players' condition, there are no problems for now.

Most of them are "preferences", only a few with a bad attitude have become "neutral".

For example, their goalkeeper...

In the 55th minute of the second half, Li Yanqing substituted center forward Murphy and a midfielder, bringing on Jami and Ogradi.

No need for further explanation; everyone knows this is the signal for a counterattack.

The opposing coach was clearly aware of this, so he also called out his substitutes to warm up.

To his astonishment, the score had been tied in an instant before he had even finished warming up!

Jami, who had just come on, dribbled past several defenders and delivered a cross.

Bradford, who was seething with anger in the first half, stormed into the penalty area, won the ball at the far post, and sent it into the goal!

"Woooo! Captain! Our captain!"

The home fans at the stadium were incredibly excited, waving their flags and singing the club's theme song.

They had waited far too long for this moment.

Although they missed all three goals in the last game, it doesn't matter, there will be countless more goals waiting for them in the future!

Bradford roared on the field, venting all the frustration he had accumulated in the first half.

What a wild and untamed player!

Li Yanqing hadn't expected the effect to be so immediate.

This time... I guess I was just lucky?

"Change him! Change him immediately!"

The opposing coach was almost furious. He started preparing his strategy at almost the same time, but the score was tied less than two minutes after you came on as a substitute.

Before coming to Riverside Stadium, they never expected things to turn out this way.

Is this the script a newly promoted Championship team should be following?

It must be said that their response was actually quite good.

They specifically deployed fast full-backs and tall center-backs for targeted defense.

However, this also caused their attacks to become ineffective.

The roles of attacker and defender have completely reversed.

Now it's Burton's turn to launch a fierce attack.

This is indeed very "bitter".

Birmingham City is not a weak team like Brentford; their players are significantly better.

Theoretically, they should have had the advantage, but due to the lack of strength of Burton's players, they were bogged down in a tug-of-war with the opponent and found it difficult to penetrate the penalty area.

Eighty minutes later, there was still no improvement.

At this moment, Li Yanqing finally prepared to use his last substitution.

The situation was very tense, with many good free-kick opportunities. At this time, a free-kick expert was exactly needed.

Veteran Williamson has finished warming up.

"Once you're on the field, all the free kicks are yours. As long as there's an angle, shoot them into the opponent's goal!"

"Don't worry about anything!"

"Understood, boss." Williamson nodded, then ran onto the field.

They quickly earned several free kicks, but the positions were not very good.

It wasn't until his third free kick that he finally got a good opportunity in a good position.

As the match neared its end, veteran Williamson lived up to expectations, delivering a beautiful knuckleball to seal the victory.

“gooooooooal!”

"Kill!"

Burton Albion have pulled off another comeback!

"Two consecutive wins!"