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Chapter 210 During the training camp

Chapter 210 During the training camp

On the first day of Leeds United's training camp for the new season, Long Bisheng met his first friend in Leeds, Huntington.

Huntington was born in 87 and is two years older than Longbenton. When Longben joined Yunjiatianyu's 89-year-old team in the Longbenton training base for a year, Huntington was already a well-known defensive backbone in Newcastle's under-19 youth team. He has been transferred to the first team. Even so, Huntington has been promoted to the first team to participate in the League Cup and other competitions several times. In order to let him gain more experience, he was loaned to Leeds United last year to accumulate experience. Based on his performance last year, I am afraid he will be able to return to Newcastle in a short time.

At the Longbenton training base, Long Bisheng had confronted Huntington quite a few times, and he almost had a certain understanding of the opponent's abilities, so Huntington was the first person to show a clear affection for Long Bisheng—however, it can be regarded as a teacher from the same school, and foreigners also talked about this.

After players have been transferred in and out, Leeds United's first team now has 25 players. This is the standard configuration for a club's first team. If there are too many players, it will not be possible to allocate playing time well, and the dressing room is prone to conflicts. If there are too few players, it is easy to be stretched.Obviously, the head coach McAllister is very satisfied with the current personnel composition. During this one-month training period, he just wants to build a complete main lineup. He knows very well that if he cannot enter the British Championship next season this season, it will be a failure.

Coaching in a club like Leeds United, which has won three English top league titles and was still the top team in England until the beginning of the 21st century, the pressure is obviously much higher than other League One clubs.

The former Irish superstar, who looks like a bald sea monster, moved to Coventry for two seasons after Liverpool reached its peak, where he was the head coach and player-this is not uncommon in English teams, and coaching Leeds is a huge test for him-there is no money, but there are still some potential rookies and experienced veterans. What should be done to achieve the goals given by the club's board of directors.

Thinking of this, McAllister is still a little proud. The flaws in the Leeds United lineup this year have almost been filled, and the defense is still complete. Goalkeeper Kasper Ankelgren has always performed very well. Among them, Delph was also selected for the England U-17 team that participated in the South Korean World Junior Championships last year. The dilemma of only relying on Beckford on the forward line has also been overcome. Suo Wenmi has a wealth of experience, and he can transfer to Long Bisheng, who scored 15 goals in Serie B last season at a price of [-] pounds.

Leeds United's defense is not bad. As long as the problem of the coexistence of three forwards can be solved, it should not be too difficult to hit the British Championship.

McAllister squinted and watched as Long Bisheng leaped high under the defense of Huntington on the training ground. He sent a beautiful header to Beckford in front of him. Beckford took a step forward to catch up with the ball, and then made a strong shot to score the ball.

As expected, he has been in Italy for several years, and his tactical skills on the field are really good.

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This month's training session for Long Bisheng was very comfortable. Leeds United has no money now, so naturally they can't do any overseas training. They just train locally in Leeds, and then invite a few teams of the same level or lower levels to play friendly matches. In these games, Long Bisheng is sometimes the main force, sometimes a substitute, and sometimes he can't play at all.

As for the training camp in Leeds, Long Bisheng didn't feel ashamed. Although Naples, who was rich and powerful, also took them to Spain to train in Naples before playing Serie B, Long Bisheng felt that training in Leeds was good. At least it was interesting to walk around the street with Ning Xi after training every day.

Huntington went out with Long Bisheng and Ning Xi a few times at the beginning - he and Long Bisheng were already very familiar, and seeing Long Bisheng and Ning Xi, a beautiful woman living together, was so envious that he was so envious - after two visits, Huntington turned down the proposal to continue shopping with Long Bisheng and Ning Xi - he knew that girls don't know that shopping is tiring, but Long Bisheng is not tired at all, and he was the one who got tired in the end!

Afterwards, Huntington also sighed—no wonder Long Bisheng can live with beautiful women, he still has two brushes!

During this period of time, Long Bisheng also began to gradually adapt to the atmosphere of English football - although compared with the Italian league, the English league, especially the lower leagues, is relatively extensive, but it is much tougher in terms of physical confrontation!Although Italian defenders are known as the strongest in the world (of course, they have gradually declined in recent years), their defense relies more on technology and judgment. A defender like Materazzi is an anomaly after all. In England, rough defense and aggressive moves emerge in endlessly. Many defensive moves that would be fouled in Italy can only be regarded as normal defensive moves in England.

Fortunately, Long Bisheng had trained in Newcastle for a year before, otherwise this difference alone would be enough for him to adapt.

But in the training camp, he still showed his characteristics. Although his physical fitness and confrontation ability are not so conspicuous here-the Leeds United players have inherited the great characteristics of English players, and they are all strong men like cattle-but in other aspects, Long Bisheng, who has received formal systematic training since he officially started playing football, and played for two and a half years in Italy, where there are endless masters of basic tactics, is much better than some wild players in terms of understanding the coach's tactics and implementing the coach's intentions.

Although Leeds United is an old team with excellent youth training ability, and most of the players in the team are from regular professional education, but it is a League One team after all, and there are many "jianghu heroes" from reckless background.

After Ning Xi's analysis, coupled with Long Bisheng's own understanding and feelings, he quickly understood what the current self needs to make up for, or what is the shortcoming in ability - that is naturally adaptability.

The players introduced by Leeds United this year, except for Long Bisheng, were all imported from England. Not to mention geniuses, at least they were old fritters who were very familiar with the English league style. Therefore, during this period of time, Long Bisheng habitually began to practice additionally—of course, he did not practice alone like a blind man touching an elephant, but dragged his new friend Huntington along...

Sometimes Long Bisheng finds it interesting in retrospect. No matter where he is, he seems to have no lack of central defenders who can fight against him. At Yunjia Tianyu Football Academy, it was Li Jie, at Qingdao Haifeng, it was Lu Dashan, at Naples, it was the good old Domizzi, and now at Leeds United, there is Huntington...

Although center forwards and central defenders are natural rivals, what is interesting is that whenever Long Bisheng goes to a new place, the first good friends he makes are almost all central defenders—except in Naples because of the relationship between Yunjia Tianyu and Li Fang. His best friend is his compatriot Chu Ran, but apart from Chu Ran, it is Domizzi who has the most dealings with him.

Long Bisheng's straightforward personality and gentle temper made it easy for him to make friends, and among these friends, the earliest friends who could get to know him were of course the defenders who were always dragged by him to fight physically. It was for this reason that the first friends he made were basically defenders.

Compared with going shopping with Long Bisheng and Ning Xi, Huntington prefers to do confrontation exercises with Long Bisheng. This tall and strong young man seems to have a strength that is ready to explode at any time. Although he is 1.9 meters tall, his turning speed is not slow, and his frontal confrontation and defensive ability are quite good. In addition, he grew up in the English football environment. Although he is not that famous, he is a typical England central defender.

After confronting for a period of time, Long Bisheng felt the biggest difference between the English defenders and the Italian defenders. If the Italian defenders are more elegant, clean and tidy when defending, then the English defenders are more ferocious when defending, and often have some incidental actions. If there is not enough confrontation with Huntington, Long Bisheng may not be able to adapt to the sudden participation in the League One.

In the day-to-day confrontation, the pace of League One is getting closer and closer.

(End of this chapter)