Fox in the Penalty Area

The most watched game in the thirty-third round of the league is not the one between Leeds City and Tramed at home. After all, Tramed, who is ranked third, cannot pose any threat to Manchester Athletic, who is ranked first. Before the thirteenth round, Athletic Manchester led Tramed by 22 points, and Tramed had already lost the qualification to compete for the league championship.

Attention is drawn to Manchester Athletic and Thorpton.

As long as Athletic Manchester can score a point at home in this game, they will be able to win the league five rounds ahead of schedule.

Because before this round of the league, Athletic Manchester led the standings with an advantage of 18 points. Basically, the championship can be announced in advance.

It's just that for the purpose of respecting the opponent, some procedures still have to be followed.

So as long as Athletic Manchester does not lose at home in this round of the league, no matter what the result of the match between the second-placed Wijston and Sydenham, Athletic Manchester will successfully win the championship.

In the end, Athletic Manchester overfulfilled the task.

They played as consistently as ever.

The top scorer Marvin Stones scored twice in the game, and the number of goals in the league reached 27. There is basically no suspense about winning the Premier League Golden Boot this season.

With his two goals, Athletic Manchester beat Thorpton 5:2 at home.

Although on the other hand, Wiggerston beat Sydenham 2:1 at home, and it can't change the final result of the Premier League this season-with no matter what is left in the league, they are 18 points behind Athletic Manchester. It is impossible to turn over again.

Athletic Manchester won the Premier League title with an absolute advantage at home.

The biggest suspense in the Premier League this season ended five rounds ahead of schedule.

At the same time, Athletic Manchester also eliminated Ruhr Rhine in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, broke into the semi-finals of the Champions League, and faced the veteran team of the Champions League, the King of Madrid.

This will also be a genius duel between Kabanka and Meli.

By countless people's attention.

Because of the outstanding performance in the Premier League and the Champions League this season, some media and fans have already named the era after the "Four Heavenly Kings" as "Peerless Twins" in advance.

They believe that with Francis retiring, Caesar, Aylmer and Celadus are getting old, and the era of the "Four Heavenly Kings" will eventually come to an end.

After them, the mainstream pattern of world football will be Kabanka and Meli duo competing for hegemony.

Don't look at Hu Lai and Albertazzi who became popular in the European media in the first two weeks, but their "flash in the pan" cannot shake the general trend and pattern of future football.

Although Hu Lai performed amazingly last season, but after all, he is in a small team like Leeds City, so it is hard to say what the future will be. For example, his performance this season is far worse than last season.

Albertazzi is the same problem. Whether he can become a figure that cannot be ignored in world football in the future depends on his performance after he transfers to the giants Turin Bulls next season.

At present, Kabanka and Meli are two young talents who have proven their abilities and talents in various competitions. The head-on collision between the two of them in the Champions League is naturally something that everyone will pay attention to.

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Although it is said that it is putting all its energy into the Europa League, it does not mean that Leeds City has completely given up the league.

There are some games that will not occupy too much energy of the players and will not interfere with the Europa League. Clark will still try to play the strongest lineup.

This is also the way to keep the main players in the game. After all, always protecting the main players and not allowing them to play will also cause them to gradually lose their sense of the game.

When it really comes to an important game, they will lose the game because they have been unable to find their status.

So in the thirty-fourth round, because there was no Europa League match before and after, even if it kicked off on Wednesday night, Clark still let Leeds City play with all the main players.

The team's performance did not disappoint Clark and Leeds City fans.

They beat sixteenth-placed Abion 2-0 away.

This is also the first victory in the last four league rounds.

Lasky scored twice in this game and took all the goals.

These two goals brought him to fourteen goals in all competitions this season, including eleven in the league.

If Clarke hadn't raised the target, Leeds would have celebrated by now that they had settled on a red pepper rub at the end of the season.

Well now, they are six goals short of that goal.

There are still at least six games, averaging one goal per game.

Still very difficult.

However, the entire Leeds City team did not give up, they decided to give it a go.

And successfully helped Lasky score another goal in the next round of the league!

Because the next round is the first round of the UEFA Europa League semi-final against London Bridge, Clark did not send all the main players, and only used half of the main players as substitutes to face the North London Rangers at home.

Although it was a home game, Leeds City failed to win in the end. They lost to North London Rangers 2:3.

Laski opened the scoring for the team.

Hou Lai came off the bench and scored another goal.

There are still three rounds left in the league, and Leeds City is currently ranked tenth with 50 points.

Eleven points away from the sixth place in the league, North London Wanderers. It is completely impossible to qualify for the European competition next season through the league ranking.

There is only one feasible path before them - to win the Europa League and then participate in the Champions League next season in this capacity.

This road is also very difficult to walk.

Although they have reached the semi-finals, first they have to eliminate their rivals London Bridge in the league.

In the league this season, Leeds City had two games against London Bridge, one loss and one draw, without a win:

In the eleventh round of the league, they lost 2:3 away to London Bridge. That game was Pete Williams' first game back from injury, and although he scored on his comeback, he still failed to help the team beat London Bridge.

Hou Lai also scored, which also didn't help.

But there was a reason for the failure of that game, because it was followed by the Champions League group stage, Leeds City played against Vesuvius at home. At that time, the entire Leeds City team was focused on the Champions League group stage in the middle of next week.

So the strategy abandoned the league.

Of course, Leeds City did not please in the Champions League - they lost to the Serie A powerhouse Vesuvius at home by the same score, and won the first of the four Champions League group matches, accumulating three points, and there is little hope of qualifying for the group .

The second match between Leeds City and London Bridge is in the twenty-eighth round of the league, and Leeds City returns home.

There were no European games before and after this game, so Leeds City played with all the main players.

As a result, the team was in a mediocre state, and finally shook hands with London Bridge 1:1 at home.

Hu Lai started the game and failed to score.

Judging from the record of the confrontation between the two sides this season, Leeds City can't take advantage of it.

And the state of London Bridge this season is also very good. They are currently ranked fourth in the league, and they are very hopeful to qualify for the Champions League next season at the end of the season. This can be said to be a big step forward from last season-although judging from the league rankings, they have only improved by one place compared to last season, but for London Bridge, the fourth and fifth places are heaven and earth difference.

The fourth place enters the Champions League, and the fifth place enters the Europa League.

In this round of the league, London Bridge defeated Manchester Athletic 2:1 away. This is due to the reason why the team was slack after Athletic Manchester won the championship in advance, but the excellent state of London Bridge cannot be ignored.

Especially at this time, defeating the league champion can greatly boost the morale and confidence of the players, which will naturally do no harm to the next semi-finals of the Europa League.

Park Chuntae is also in good condition after returning from injury, scoring goals again and again.

Against Athletic Manchester, he contributed an assist and a goal, and he also scored in four consecutive games.

The Korean media generally believe that Park Chun-tae has the experience of winning the Europa League. His experience will definitely help London Bridge beat Leeds City in the semi-finals. This is also a key battle for Park Chun-tae to regain the honor of "Light of Asia".

Since Hu Lai helped Leeds City win the Premier League championship last season, and at the same time he won the Premier League Golden Boot, Pu Chuntai's limelight has been robbed by Hu Lai.

This made many Korean media and most Korean fans worry about it. Everyone hopes that Pu Chuntai can beat the opponent in the direct dialogue with Hu Lai, whether it is team performance or personal performance...

However, Park Chun-tae was very calm in the face of the clamor from the Korean media:

"This is not a game between me and Hou Lai, this is London Bridge and Leeds City. I will go all out to help the team win. I believe that the same will be true of Hou Lai...I think two Asian players can appear in the The Europa League semi-final is already the glory of Asian football..."

Similarly, when Hu Lai was interviewed by the Chinese media, he expressed almost the same meaning:

"This is a club game, not a national team game. I don't care about the 'Asian Derby', I only care about the team's winning or losing."

The intentions of both sides are very clear, they are unwilling to focus on personal disputes, if one of them scores more goals than the other, but is eliminated in the end, what's the point?

On Thursday, April 28, after the morning training, the entire Leeds City team set off from Leeds by bus and headed south to London, the capital of England.

They will go to London Bridge's home stadium, Southfield Stadium, for warm-up training to adapt to the venue in the evening, and then return to the hotel for the night.

To prepare for the Europa League semi-final kick-off at that stadium tomorrow night.