Chapter 160 Seller Show
Fifteen minutes after the game started, a real-time standings appeared on the TV broadcast.

With the current score, Tyne is ranked fourth with 67 points.

Sofia is ranked fifth with 67 points.

Both teams are now tied.

If the game ends with the current score, Tyne will qualify for the Champions League next season.

At this time, the TV broadcast showed the image of Sofia United’s interim head coach Danilo Lindsay.

The commentator said: “Although Sofo United was eliminated from the Europa League semi-finals after taking over the team. But I think the management of Sofo United should seriously consider offering Lindsay a new contract. Everyone thought Sofo United would collapse completely, but under Lindsay’s leadership, they still held on to Tyne and kept the suspense until the last round of the league. I think this alone is worth a new contract.”

The TV broadcaster seemed to have heard the commentator’s words and immediately cut the screen to the podium. Jonathan Hall, general manager of Sofia United Club, and owner John Buckle appeared on the screen.

Buckle had a serious expression on his face, and Hall beside him lowered his head. It was not clear what he was doing, but the commentator guessed it:

“I guess Hall is checking his phone, following the news from another stadium, haha!”

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Another stadium.

Kensington fans exclaimed.

On the right side of the penalty area, Sonny Dean swept the ball towards the middle!

Wang Lie was not there, but he moved sideways to pull away Kensington’s defenders, revealing Vitini behind him!

The Brazilian boy kicked the flying ball towards him!
At this critical moment, Kensington’s Venezuelan midfielder Wilken Adila came up from the side and interfered with the shot, causing Vitini’s shot to go high…

The exclamations of the Kensington fans turned into a sigh of relief: “Huh!!!”

“Vettini! What a pity! He wasted a good opportunity!” commentator Luo Jin shouted regretfully.

Guest commentator Zhao Chuanfeng shook his head and laughed, “Oh! This kick… But Dean’s series of ball handling on the wing just now was very beautiful. He relied entirely on his personal ability to tear open Kensington’s defense on the wing and break into the penalty area…”

Luo Jin nodded in agreement: “Yes. Dean was in very good condition today and was very active from the beginning of the game.”

Zhao Chuanfeng laughed and said, “It could be a ‘seller show’!”

Luo Jin was also amused.

Their guess can’t really be said to be wrong.

Dean has already confirmed that he will move to Kensington next season. This game will be his last game for Tyne, and he will also have the opportunity to show his abilities in front of the fans of his new club.

On the premise of confirming his joining the team, the better he performs, the happier the Kensington fans should be, because they will get a strong signing next season.

Of course, Kensington fans will hope that Dean performs well individually but that Tyne loses.

It’s a win-win situation.

Seeing Adila help interfere and disrupt Vitini’s shot, the Kensington fans in the stands applauded after the initial exclamation.

Applause went to Adila for his contribution to the team’s defense.

However, Kensington’s head coach Giacomo Faye still had a worried look on his face, and he was not happy at all because his team had defended Tyne’s attack.

Because the situation has not changed.

His team is still at a disadvantage at home.

One of the BIG6, the West London giants, was beaten by a previously unknown team at their home ground… Even if they managed to defend against their attack once, it was really not worth being happy about.

Due to his poor performance as a coach, his position as coach is in a precarious situation.

Forget about qualifying for the Champions League, he still wants the team to qualify for the Europa League and fight for his position.

Although the club management did not promise that he could stay if he qualified for the Europa League.

This season has been extremely unlucky for him.

The performance was normal in the early part of the season, but from the middle of the season, widespread injuries occurred and the team’s performance began to plummet.

It has continued to fall to this point.

Looking at Sonny Dean who was performing actively on the opposite side, he sighed inwardly.

Signing Dean in advance was not his decision. Of course, as the head coach of the team, not the manager, the team’s transfer work had little to do with him.

When he first learned that the club had signed Dean, he had ridiculed the club’s operation, saying that he didn’t know the point of buying a useless player who couldn’t even play in a relegation team.

Now he really hopes that Sonny Dean can be in his team in the second half of the season.

It is hard to say whether we can qualify for the Champions League, but fighting for a Europa League qualification should not be so embarrassing.

Dean is performing so well now, but when next season comes, he won’t play for himself…this is damn fate!
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I don’t know if the conversation with Wang Lie last night played a role.

Today, Dean was extremely focused when facing his new club, without any hesitation.

In the eyes of outsiders, this game should be a “dilemma” for him:
If he had performed well and helped Tyne win the game, Tyne would have qualified for the Champions League next season. But it had nothing to do with him.

Because he will be in Kensington next season. And Kensington may lose the Europa League qualification because of his outstanding performance. That means after he transfers to Kensington next season, he will not even be able to play in the Europa League, and can only watch his former teammates participate in the Champions League on TV…

And in order to play in European competitions next season, perhaps he should hope that Kensington beat Tyne?
This way, the dreams of his current teammates will be shattered, but he will get the chance to participate in the Europa League.

But Dean hadn’t actually thought about this issue at all.

He is wearing the Tyne jersey now and he should play for Tyne.

As for next season, we will talk about it when he comes to Kensington next season.

Without the qualification for the European Cup, he helped Kensington get it.

Dean didn’t feel regretful that his cross just now didn’t result in a goal.

The game had only started for a dozen minutes, so he still had plenty of time.

If it doesn’t work this time, then next time.

If it doesn’t work once, try again more times.

Wang Lie also noticed Dean’s condition after the start of the game, so when he was able to take the initiative to attack, he passed the ball more often to where Dean was.

At the same time, he will move closer to Dean and cooperate more with him.

So in this game, the right side where Dean was located became the main attack direction of Tyne.

Vitini’s side turned into a cover for the feint attack.

“Sonny Dean–!” commentator Connor Cowley roared. Dean used Wang Lie’s running cover, suddenly cut inside and shot!
The football flew forward along the grass and headed straight for the lower left corner of Kensington’s goal.

Fortunately, Kensington goalkeeper Pablo Gorkin was focused enough and was not distracted by Wang Lie’s running position. He immediately dived to the ground and pushed the ball out of the baseline with his fingertips…

After a corner kick, Gorkin jumped high again and punched the ball into the midfield before Katic.

Kensington tried to use this opportunity to counterattack, but the ball was eventually caught by Tyne left-back Charlie Cohen, who immediately made a long diagonal pass to Dean’s side.

Dean met the flying football on the sideline and pushed the ball inward with the arch of his right foot, and the ball was passed to Van Ginkel.

At the same time he immediately moved forward.

Van Ginkel delivers a cross pass.

Kensington’s defensive midfielder Wilken Adila followed the ball.

Dean swung his right leg towards the rolling football and pretended to pass it directly.

After tricking Adila into jumping up, he kicked the ball towards the middle with his right foot.

However, Adila’s reaction was quick enough. He turned around and pounced back as soon as he landed.

Unexpectedly, Dean gently pushed the ball with the outside of his right foot, and the ball went between Adila’s legs.

At the same time, Dean used both hands to shake off Adila’s hand that was trying to pull his arm, and completed a complete breakthrough!

“Dean! Beautiful! He’s in the penalty area!”

Dean, who had caught up with the football, had already entered Kensington’s penalty area.

Kensington center back Zach Ortiz rushed up to intercept, but was shaken off by Dean who pulled the ball to the left with the sole of his right foot.

Ortiz, who is 1.9 meters tall and weighs 88 kilograms, is a tall central defender with excellent frontal air defense capabilities, but he is clumsy and slow, and he has few options when facing a nimble striker like Dean.

Shaking Ortiz off allowed Dean to get a wider angle to shoot, and he also swung his left foot, as if he was really going to shoot with his left foot.

Both Kensington goalkeeper Gorkin, who was guarding the near corner, and Grant McGregor, the second Kensington center back who came up to defend him, were naturally attracted by his shooting action at this time. One lowered his center of gravity and made a preparatory move before saving the ball, while the other rushed forward and stretched out his foot to shovel the ball. But Dean did not shoot. He used the outside of his left foot to bounce the ball to the middle.

There was a gap there, and Wang Lie was rushing out from behind Kensington midfielder Jeff Hall!

When Hal came to his senses and tried to free himself, he found that Wang Lie had appeared beside him and poked him with his foot!
The football flew into the empty goal in front of him without any suspense!
“Dean…cross! Wang Lie!! Goal! Goal!! Beautiful!! Assist from Dean! Tyne leads Kensington 1:0 away from home! They are one step closer to the Champions League!”

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Jonathan Hall was absent-minded about his team’s game. He put his hands between his legs, holding his mobile phone in his hands, and kept glancing down at it from time to time.

On the phone screen was a text live broadcast of Kensington’s home game against Tyne.

He was paying attention to another game that could decide the fate of Sofia United.

Live text broadcast?

Why not live video?
Because the signal pressure at the Red Rock Stadium was packed with 75,000 people was very high, the high-bitrate live video would freeze the screen into a PPT, making it impossible to watch.

In order not to miss out on key information, the ancient text live broadcast is more reliable.

I don’t know how many times I lowered my head and looked at the phone screen. Suddenly, the screen flickered, and then a huge text stood out in the flickering:

“GOAL!!”

The goal appeared!
Hall’s heart was pounding.

Because it only indicated that there was a goal, but he didn’t know who scored it or where it was scored, so his heart was in his throat.

Fortunately, the answer did not make his heart wait too long.

After the flashing text reminder, a new message popped up:
23′ Tyne leads 1:0! Scorer: Lie Wang!

“FUCK!!”

Jonathan Hall couldn’t hold it in and cursed out loud.

John Buckle, the boss next to him, heard the curse word and turned his head to look at him.

Seeing that the boss had been alarmed, Hall quickly pointed to the screen of his mobile phone and reported:
“Tyne scored, they are leading now…”

Buckle had no expression on his face, he just said, “Got it.”

The news was soon known to the Sofia fans at the scene, as sporadic boos began to be heard from the stands.

The commentator of the live broadcast of the game also said: “Ah! There’s news of a goal from another stadium! Tyne scored! Wang helped Tyne take the lead! Now Sofol United is in a desperate situation – even if they take the lead, they are still behind…not to mention that Sofol United hasn’t scored a goal yet!”

The Sofia players on the field actually don’t know what happened on the field in London, but the Sofia fans in the stands will remind them.

In the first row of seats near the stadium, Sofia fans used hand gestures to inform their rivals of the situation.

“Tain scored! They are leading Kensington 1:0!!”

“You guys need to hurry up! Don’t dawdle! Attack! Attack!”

“We need goals! We need to win!!”

The fans’ shouts attracted the attention of the Sofo United players on the field. They kept looking to the sidelines to get information from them.

There was some chaos on the field during this period.

Thanks to the fact that Herlingham FC really had no desire, the attack launched during this opportunity did not threaten Sofia United’s goal.

Otherwise Sofia United might fall behind at home.

That would be really “when it rains it pours”, extremely unlucky.

When Hlingham FC striker Mohammed Kutari missed a chance, Sofia United head coach Danilo Lindsay was anxiously yelling on the sidelines:
“Focus! Where are you looking?! Look at the field! The field–!!”

With his constant roar and exaggerated body movements, the players of Sofo United finally turned their attention back to the game.

Now that Tyne is already leading, they should put aside all other thoughts, ignore their opponents, and try to score a goal first.

There was no need for them to focus on how Tyne was doing until they won this game.

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The news that Tyne was leading made Sofia United fans very unhappy.

But at another stadium, the Lowlands Stadium, home of Witton Hill, there were cheers.

In the last round of the league this season, Witton Hill faced Brighton Whitehill, their direct rival for European qualification, at home, who were ranked seventh and had one point more than them.

If they can beat Brighton White Mountain, they will surpass their opponents in points and qualify for the UEFA Champions League.

But wouldn’t it be better to qualify for the Europa League?
This depends on Kensington losing to Tyne at home – then they can finish sixth in the league and get a ticket to the Europa League.

Just eight minutes into the game, the motivated Witton Hill took the lead over Brighton White Hill.

Next they waited for good news from the Garden.

Now comes the good news!
The live broadcast even passionately announced: “Tyne 1:0 Kensington! Goal scorer – Wang!!”

The Witton Hill fans in the stands burst into deafening cheers.

“China Wang! China Wang! China Wang!”

They even called out Wang Lie’s “honorable title”.

Feng Qiyuan, who was playing on the court, also attracted attention.

Taking advantage of a dead ball opportunity, he cast his eyes towards the stands.

Looking at the jubilant Witton Hill fans, he smiled and shook his head.

I remember that in the 31st round of the league, Witton Hill lost to Tyne at home.

After that game, he even saw Witton Hill fans cursing Wang Ge on the Internet…

It turns out that there are no eternal grudges on the football field, only eternal interests.

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Wang Lie’s goal caused boos at Kensington’s home stadium, the Garden Stadium.

Kensington fans knew what this goal meant.

On the other side, Witton Hill led Brighton White Mountain 1:0 at home.

After the goal was conceded, the live broadcast screen showed the real-time league standings:

根据现在泰恩1:0领先肯辛顿，索福联0:0平赫林汉FC，威顿希尔1:0领先布莱顿白山，沃尔瑟姆1:0领先利兹的比分。

In the league standings, Tyne ranked fourth with 69 points, Southampton United ranked fifth with 67 points, Witton Hill ranked sixth with 56 points, Waltham ranked seventh with 56 points, and Kensington fell to eighth, completely out of the European competition and not even eligible to participate in the UEFA Champions League.

A complete and utter failure!

Kensington head coach Faye was yelling angrily on the sidelines, very dissatisfied with the goal.

The reason for the goal was that the Kensington players were distracted by Dean’s continuous breakthroughs, so they missed the most threatening Wang Lie.

After scoring the goal, Wang Lie pointed at Dean who passed the ball to him and ran over.

Dean opened his arms and retreated towards the corner flag area, waiting for Wang Lie to pounce on him.

Then the two hugged each other.

More Tyne teammates came up to hug them and celebrated amid the boos from the Kensington fans.

“Tyne has taken a one-goal lead away from home! Judging from the past 20 minutes of play, both Wang and Dean are in great shape. Not only them, but the entire Tyne team has entered the game state faster – before the game, everyone was still worried about whether the inexperienced Tyne would fail in such a crucial game. Now it seems that this worry may be unnecessary!”

Connor Cowley sounded excited and in a good mood.

As a neutral commentator, he actually has some bias in his heart – any neutral person who sees Tyne’s performance in the second half of this season should hope that the team can eventually successfully enter the Champions League next season.

Because it is an amazing miracle.

The football field should be a place where miracles are born.

So rather than Sofia qualifying for the Champions League, he would rather see a new team emerge in next season’s Champions League.

He was very curious about what would happen when Wang Lie led this team that had never played in the Champions League to participate in the Champions League next season…

By then, how will the 38-year-old Wang perform in the Champions League?

(End of this chapter)