Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 266

On May 5, Sunderland challenged Wolves away.

Before the game against Wolves, Manchester United will play Blackburn Rovers.Before the game, the whole Manchester United team vowed: No matter what the result of the Sunderland game, they will do their best to win the game.Even so, only if Sunderland lost to Wolves could United bring the suspense of the title race to the final round.

Some Manchester United fans joked: "Isn't Sunderland a 'black cat'? How can a cat beat a wolf?"

Although this is a joke, the challenges facing Sunderland are not small.The Premier League has reached the penultimate round. Except for West Ham, which has been relegated several rounds in advance, there are still five teams struggling on the verge of relegation. I don’t know who the other two relegation "places" will be. Home.

Wolves are also one of the teams that haven't landed yet. In order to stay in the Premier League, they will do their best to try to get all three points.

If "cat" wants to win the championship, he must first pass "wolf".

Sunderland arrived at Molineux Stadium, home of the Wolves, about an hour before the game.When they arrived at the stadium, there were many media guarding the bus stop, but it was to be seen whether Anton would go out with the team.Many Sunderland fans and supporters also gathered here, and most of them were a little nervous: Anton, Anton, is Anton here?

When the players and the coaching staff got off the bus, they didn't find Anton, only the fat Russell.

Many fans showed disappointed expressions, but most of them still cheered for the team:

"Zlatan, come on! It's up to you!"

"Marco we love you!"

"Pippi, don't let the opponent score!"

"..."

No one mentioned Russell, but the "acting head coach" himself didn't care.

Russell had no expression on his face, and led the team directly to the visiting team's locker room.

这并不是他第一次独立带队，以前他也独自带着桑德兰打过凶险万分的比赛,包括2比2追平切尔西，3比2逆转热刺，还有前些天2比0赢下维冈竞技——这些比赛都是罗素的手笔。

But today was the first time that there was no influence from Anton at all.

All the tactics were figured out by the coaching staff themselves, and Anton himself stayed in Sunderland.No matter from which aspect, this game has nothing to do with Anton, it is more like the beginning of Russell's own independent coaching career.

Russell was suffocating in his heart: For Anton, he must win.

When Anton first came and he was dissatisfied with the head coach, Anton could have asked the management to fire him.

But Anton didn't. Instead, he reshaped him in the following time, so that he could have this opportunity to become a qualified head coach.

As soon as he entered the locker room, he said calmly to all the players: "Boys, we are only one step away from winning. Let's win this game and tell me if you can?"

A loud "Yes!" in the locker room could almost knock the roof off.

"Go, the starting players go to the court to warm up!" Russell's voice suddenly turned calm, at least it sounded calm, "Others stay in the locker room. Don't play with your mobile phone, think carefully about the tactics you have arranged in advance, I tell you , now you put more thought into tactics, when you reach my age, these will become valuable accumulation. When I was a player..."

The players looked at each other, winked at each other, and felt that their "Mother Luo" had begun to develop in the direction of "Mother Luo".

But all the players obeyed Russell's words and put away their phones.

So the whole team focused on preparing for the upcoming game.

Seeing that the time for the start of the game was getting closer, Russell's cell phone suddenly started vibrating.In order to "lead by example", Russell reached into his pocket and pressed the call every time.But the more he pressed it, the more the phone kept vibrating.

Russell had no choice but to take the phone out of his pocket to take a look, and quickly took it: "Anton—"

"Do you have a TV to watch?" Anton's voice sounded happily.

Russell looked around in the visiting team's locker room, nodded, and said, "Yes!"

"Turn on the TV, find Sky Sports and call all the players to your side, don't let anyone miss this moment."

Anton hung up the phone immediately.Russell didn't dare to neglect, and immediately called back all the players who were warming up on the field outside. The entire Sunderland team and the entire coaching staff gathered in the locker room.

Turning on the TV, Russell and the players realized that the game between Manchester United and Blackburn was drawing to a close, and the two teams had tied 1-1.

This means that if the score is maintained until the end, then the moment the referee blows the final whistle is the moment when Sunderland wins the championship.

The whole Sunderland team suddenly became nervous and excited.

"The Premier League is always unpopular. Before this game, who would have thought that Black would be so tough?" Nick Abraham, who was promoted to the team's assistant coach, said loudly.

All the players responded loudly, but no one thought that when it came to the biggest upset of the season, none other than Sunderland.

Seeing that the end of the game was coming to an end, Manchester United pressed the whole line in order to fight hard. Almost the whole team of Blackburn retracted to defend in the penalty area, and there was danger in front of the goal.Sunderland players shouted together in the dressing room: "Hold on, Blackburn! Hold on to Manchester United!"

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney's shot was barely above Blackburn's crossbar. Lu Xiaopang held his head in disappointment and ran away from Blackburn's goal-he still failed to reverse Manchester United's fate of losing the championship this season.

In the dressing room of the visiting team at Molineux Stadium, the entire Sunderland team broke out in a neat yell.

If Manchester United can't seize this last chance, it will be tantamount to sending Sunderland to the Premier League throne.Victory seemed to come a little earlier than they expected.

At this moment, as a member of Sunderland, who can hold his breath and wait anxiously?

In a blink of an eye, the locker room became silent again, only the voice of Sky Sports commentator Richard Keys echoed in the locker room.

"The stoppage time has all passed, and Manchester United is still launching the final attack. Berbatov kicked in front of the goal, and the ball bounced off the defender... The referee is going to whistle!"

"—The referee blew the whistle for the end of the game!"

"Congratulations to Sunderland, congratulations to Sunderland, the result of this game means that Sunderland won the Premier League title two games ahead of schedule."

"Unbelievable, unimaginable!" Richard Keith was still feeling emotional.

"Since the establishment of the Premier League, there has never been a precedent for a newly promoted horse to win the championship... Sunderland's results this season are completely a miracle. Yes, we mentioned it at the beginning of the season. The great work of the Slautern Miracle, we may call it the 'Miracle of Light'!"

But the last few words of Keith's Sunderland players could no longer be heard.

The roof of the visiting team's locker room was directly blown over by a huge sound wave. Everyone in the locker room, whether they were players or coaching staff members, whether they were starters or substitutes, everyone laughed and shouted, hugged anyone around them, and laughed heartily , shed tears...

Russell wiped his face, his face was already full of tears, but at this moment he didn't care much, he quickly took out the phone from his pocket again, dialed a call to Anton, and when he got through, he yelled loudly into the phone One sentence: "Anton, listen to it, listen to it..."

Speaking of this, Russell was choked up and could no longer speak or stand up, squatting down, still holding his mobile phone high in his hand.

— Anton, did you hear that?This is the sound of celebrating victory, if you are here now, with everyone... How good would it be?

"Bang bang bang!" The door of the visiting team's locker room was knocked loudly, otherwise the people inside would not have heard it.

Russell got up quickly, wiped his face indiscriminately, and said to Anton: "Don't worry, even if you have won the championship, with established tactics, our team will not embarrass you."

He vaguely heard Anton say on the other end of the phone: "Ha, the champion of the new league, how could he talk about embarrassment? I trust you, no problem."

"I have a little problem here. I will contact you after the game is over! Enjoy the game." Anton ended the line after finishing speaking.

On the other side, the door of the locker room was opened, and in came the field management staff of the Wolves.They are here to remind Sunderland that the time for the game is approaching, and the home team is ready to welcome the freshly baked "League Champion".

The tradition of the Premier League is that if a team wins the league championship in advance, then all subsequent league opponents will line up to welcome the champion when he enters the stadium.

Even though it has only been a few minutes since Sunderland became the Premier League champions, it is still the Premier League champions this season.Wolves players lined up on both sides outside the player tunnel at the moment. When the Sunderland team walked out of the player tunnel, the Wolves players applauded and congratulated together.

Even the "wolf" bowed his head to the "cat" at this moment.

Thousands of Sunderland fans in the stands also got the news of "early" winning the championship at this time, and sang Sunderland's team song loudly in the stands, singing extremely emotionally.Many people sang and hugged their companions and cried loudly - they have never experienced such a scene, and they couldn't help crying with excitement.

People of Sunderland: Sorry, we showed our cowardice!

The Sunderland players were extremely proud, and they stretched out their hands one by one to pay tribute to the fans in the stands.There are also those who high-five the opponents of the Wolves one by one, expressing their gratitude to the opponents who sent congratulations.

Watching Sunderland's players play in the much-anticipated game, the Wolves players were also excited: Everyone was a "Premier League lifter" before, but the opponent suddenly broke through the blockade of the major giants on the Premier League championship and won the championship. champion throne.Does this mean that, like in the Premier League, it is possible for everyone to perform a "miracle"?

——Everyone should have a dream, what if it really comes true?

Sunderland's championship this time has indirectly encouraged many teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, and even teams in the Championship, leading to more intense competition in the league in the future.This was unexpected by Anton and the others.