Chapter 161 Funeral and Joy
Stanley Harris knew that Tyne was now ahead of Kensington, and if they wanted to retain their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League, Sofia United had to beat their current opponent, Hurlingham FC.

Must score a goal!
He was furious in his heart.

In fact, he had a chance to score eight minutes into the game, but his shot was too straight and was caught by Hlingham FC goalkeeper Valdimar Adelstenson.

Now he couldn’t waste any more opportunities…

In the 31st minute, Sofo United launched another attack.

As the team advanced, Stanley Harris did not stay on the left wing, but moved inside to the flank.

Just as he was moving inwards, Aaron Schouten immediately sent a straight pass!
Harris changed direction and cut inside, flashing behind the Hellingham FC defense!
“Harris! Opportunity!”

Stanley Harris received the ball behind the defense line, took the ball one step forward and shot with his left foot!

Although Hlingham FC goalkeeper Adelstenson rushed up to block the angle of his shot, he still shot the ball over the opponent’s head.

The football flew to the back point, hit the bottom of the crossbar, and bounced into the goal!
“The ball goes in! A beautiful goal! Stanley Harris!! He scored the first goal for Sofo United! This is a very crucial goal!”

The commentator cheered.

A huge cheer finally broke out at the Red Stone Stadium.

The haze that had been hanging over the stadium since Tyne’s goal seemed to be dispelled.

Although even if they win this game, as long as Tyne also wins, they will still miss the qualification for the Champions League next season.

But at least there is still hope.

If Sofia United can’t even beat Hlingham FC, then what’s the point of Kensington?
Only if they win the game first will they be qualified to pin their hopes on Kensington.

If you can’t even win, then you don’t even have the right to have your destiny controlled by others.

Lindsay was relieved when she saw the goal.

But he quickly rushed to the sidelines, clapped his hands and shouted loudly, reminding the players not to be happy too early and to concentrate on the next game.

Leading by only one goal is not actually safe.

We have to keep scoring goals!

Stanley Harris scored to help Sofia United take the lead. After cheering for the goal, the home fans in the stands of Redstone Stadium shifted their attention away from the game in front of them and focused on the progress of Kensington’s home game against Tyne.

Tyne scored the goal in the 23rd minute. It is now the 32nd minute. Eight or nine minutes have passed, and there is still no news of a goal from the Kensington Garden Stadium.

This shows that Kensington was unable to quickly equalize the score.

“Fuck! What is Kensington doing?!”

“Damn it! One of the BIG6 can’t even score a goal! What a shame!”

“Why is Kensington so lame?!”

“I told you those Cockneys can’t be trusted!”

“Damn it, Kensington deserves not to qualify for the Europa League this season!”

The fans of Sofia United were cursing Kensington anxiously in the stands, without even thinking about who was the team that couldn’t score a single goal after Tyne scored nine goals three rounds ago…

But fans are such an irrational group, there is no point in reasoning with them.

Many fans choose to watch games live just to vent their emotions.

They won’t analyze the problem with you calmly, neutrally and objectively…

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Fans of Witton Hill should pay attention to the game between Kensington and Tyne, fans of Sofia United should also pay attention to the game between Kensington and Tyne, and fans of Kensington should pay attention to the game between Witton Hill and Brighton White Mountain.

Only Tyne fans don’t have to worry about other games, they only need to focus on the game in front of them.

The Sofia fans actually wronged Kensington.

Kensington didn’t want to equalize after conceding the goal, after all, they also needed a Europa League qualification.

As a top club, if the season ends without even qualifying for the Europa League, it would be too embarrassing to tell others about it…

The Kensington fans in the past must have looked down on Tyne. Now that they are playing at home, wouldn’t it be easy to defeat Tyne?

But things are different now.

In the first half of the season, Tyne lost 0:2 to Kensington at home. Now it has become very difficult for Kensington to score a goal.

In just half a season, their opponents have changed dramatically.

They certainly know who brought about this change…

When Wang Lie received the ball on the court, sporadic boos were heard from the stands of the Garden Stadium.

There is indeed no deep hatred between Wang Lie and Kensington that is worthy of scoring six goals in a game, but it does not mean that there is no grudge between them.

As the absolute main force of the competitors, how could there be no grudges between Wang Lie and Kensington, one of the BIG6?

As long as he beats Kensington, there will be grudges.

Coupled with the media’s instigation, it was normal for fans to boo Wang Lie at Kensington’s home ground.

When Wang Lie played against BIG6, there was no away game where he was not booed.

Amid the boos, Wang Lie dribbled the ball forward, but was quickly intercepted by a Kensington player.

Now Wang Lie no longer limits his position to center forward, but has a wider range of activities. Sometimes he is in the front, sometimes retreating to the back, sometimes in the middle, and sometimes going to the wing.

This makes it more difficult for defenses to guard him.

Facing the interception by Kensington players, Wang Lie passed the ball forward to Dean who was in the middle, and then ran diagonally to the right rib.

His movement attracted the attention of the Kensington defenders.

Dean, who received the ball, pretended to pass it to Wang Lie who was running diagonally, but he did not actually kick the ball out. Instead, he clamped his ankles and wrapped the ball, while turning with his left foot as the axis. His right foot followed and kept the ball in front of him.

Then he gently pushed the football forward with the outside of his right foot and swung his right leg, as if he was going to take a powerful long shot!

This caused Kensington center back Zach Ortiz, who was standing in front of him, to stretch his back and block.

After Dean’s right foot landed, he used a volley technique to kick the ball towards his left rib.

There’s Vitini cutting inside!
“Dean! Shoot…pass the ball!”

When Vitini cut inside, he actually didn’t think about receiving the ball at all. His entry into the penalty area was just a striker’s instinct.

Who would have thought that the football would be passed to me by Dean!

He raised his foot to stop the ball in a hurry and was not prepared.

The football hit the inside of his left foot, bounced out and out of his control.

As he tried to regain possession, Kensington centre-back Grant McGrath had already rushed up, pushed him away with his body and cleared the ball with a long kick.

“Vitini! Ouch! This ball! Oops! What a great opportunity was wasted!”

The commentator Luo Jin sighed to the sky.

The guest Zhao Chuanfeng said: “Vettini probably didn’t expect Dean to pass the ball to him. After all, no matter how you look at it, Dean will shoot directly…”

Luo Jin nodded in agreement: “Dean’s pass was very imaginative! It’s a pity that Vitini didn’t stop it well, otherwise it would have been a good chance to shoot! Dean is in really good shape today! He looks cool and calm, and he can score no matter how he plays.”

Vitini stared at McGregor’s back with wide eyes, and he realized what a good opportunity he had missed…

Then he put his head in his hands and looked at Dean.

I wasted Dean’s wonderful pass, so I was bound to be yelled at by him.

But in his eyes, Dean turned around and chased back without even looking at him.

“Kensington’s chance to strike back!”

Dean chased all the way back, but failed to steal the ball.

But when his teammates defended Kensington’s counterattack, he was able to immediately respond.

The ball was passed to him.

Taking advantage of Kensington’s failed attack, he turned and dribbled the ball forward, advancing at a very fast speed.

At this time, he and Wang Lie swapped roles – Wang Lie had retreated to support, and he went to the middle to temporarily play as a center.

Now he is the one retreating to get the ball, with Wang Lie playing as center forward in the middle.

After approaching Wang Lie, Dean passed the ball to him.

Then he went around it.

It was at this moment that Wang Lie gently pushed the football to his path with the outside of his left foot, and at the same time helped Dean block Kensington’s defensive player.

Taking advantage of Wang Lie’s “screen and roll”, Dean dribbled the ball forward and then took a long shot in front of the penalty area.

This time the ball went just wide. “Dean shoots! Almost there!”

Although he didn’t score a goal, the commentators still gave full praise to Dean’s performance.

“Dean has become the core of Tyne’s offense during this period. He is proficient in dribbling, assisting, and shooting… I even think he played his best performance in Tyne this season! If he could have performed like this earlier, maybe he would not have left Tyne and signed with Kensington. What a pity…”

“Kensington fans must be very conflicted – seeing Dean’s outstanding performance, they should be happy to think that such an excellent player will wear Kensington’s jersey next season. But now this player may prevent them from playing in the Europa League next season. Kensington fans should not be able to laugh anymore…”

When commentator Connor Cowley said this, the TV did give some shots of fans from both teams in the stands.

The people cheering in the camera are Tyne fans.

Most of the Kensington fans had serious expressions and really couldn’t laugh.

Regardless of what positive things Dean will bring to the team next season, at least his current outstanding performance is causing real damage to Kensington.

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Jonathan Hall glanced down at his phone.

There is still no new news about the Kensington vs. Tyne game.

Text scrolled across the screen, but they were all simple messages.

For example, “34′ Tyne attacked from the right, Dean made a cross from the wing, Wang headed the ball, but it was too high!”

“37′ Tyne counterattacks! Wang passes the ball behind Kensington’s defense! Dean successfully makes an offside! Shoot! Gorkin saves the ball!”

“39′ Kensington attacks, Hal passes the ball, Burton shoots! Misses the target…”

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From these text messages, it can be seen that Tyne, who is playing away, still has the advantage. The home team Kensington has few offensive opportunities and it is difficult to threaten Tyne’s goal.

Just then, louder cheers suddenly rang out from the Red Rock Stadium stands, shifting Hall’s attention from the phone screen to the court.

I saw that Sofol United was attacking and had already reached the 30-meter area of ​​Hellingham FC.

Stanley Harris dribbled past Hurlingham FC’s right-back Arthur Cornismagee on the wing, and the sudden increase in cheers just now came from this.

Stanley Harris shook off Cornishmagee and found an opportunity to pass the ball, and immediately kicked the ball into the middle!
The football drew an arc and headed towards the back of the goal.

Center forward Richie Weddle at the back post ran into the gap, jumped high, and headed the flying football with almost no interference…heading it!
“Videl!!”

The shouts from the stands got louder.

Even Hall couldn’t help but want to stand up and wave his arms.

As a result, Weidel headed the ball high!
“oops!!”

“Wedel wasted the opportunity Harris created for him!”

“How could this ball not go in?!”

Weidel looked up at the sky and muttered something, not knowing whether he was dissatisfied with himself for missing the chance to score.

At this time, Sofia fans saw his poor performance and wondered if they would miss the man who had “hurt” the team countless times with his goals…

Now it’s good, no one is scoring goals and no one is hurting the team.

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Vitini received the ball on the left and dribbled sideways.

Kensington’s right-back Bobby Sheppard could only follow but did not dare to kick the ball rashly, for fear that Vitini would take the opportunity to pass him.

He could only stay inside and prevent Vitini from cutting into the penalty area.

At the same time, Vitini was driven into a dead end – just ahead, his teammates had surrounded him.

Vitini began to feint his feet behind the football, performing a “hesitation step”, which eventually tricked Kensington midfielder Jeff Hall, who came up to grab him, into stretching his foot.

Vitini took advantage of the opportunity to stretch his foot, gently knocked the football to the right with his left foot, dodged Hal with the ball, continued to dribble the ball horizontally, and reached the penalty arc outside the penalty area.

After attracting more Kensington players to his side, he saw the empty space on the right, which was a no-man’s land.

So he decisively passed the ball with his right foot.

Even though there was no one there now, he knew that as long as he passed the ball, someone would definitely receive it.

Sure enough, as the ball moved, a familiar figure appeared in the empty space on the wing.

“SONNY DEAN!”

As Dean ran towards the football, he was observing the situation in front of the goal.

After completing the pass, Vitini was moving forward at high speed. His acceleration attracted more attention. His series of dribbling just now had already made him the focus of attention.

Kensington’s defensive attention was almost entirely on him at this point.

This will inevitably create gaps somewhere else…

Dean’s eyes passed Vitini and went to the back point.

There was a gap there too, but it was so small that it was barely visible.

But that was indeed the only chance in this attack that could threaten Kensington’s goal!
Then Dean knew what he should do.

He ran to the spot where the football landed, and then passed the ball directly without stopping!

The football flew high and flew towards the small space at the back!
“Dean passed the ball——”

At the same time, a figure rushed out from the dense crowd in the restricted area and jumped up!
Head the flying football!
Kensington goalkeeper Pablo Gorkin hurriedly turned back from the front point and made a hasty save, but did not touch the ball at all.

The ball flew into the goal through the gap when he turned over and dived back!
“Aha! 2:0!!! Wang Lie scored twice!! Beautiful! Beautiful! At the end of the first half, Wang Lie almost secured the victory of the game!”

“Have there been any examples of a team leading by two goals in the first half and then turning the tables in a football match? Of course there have been… but considering the form shown by Wang, Dean, Vitini… and the entire Tyne team, even if Kensington has the advantage of playing at home, it will probably be difficult for them to turn the tables in the second half! Tyne is getting closer and closer to their first Champions League trip in the club’s history!”

The Garden Stadium became much quieter after the football flew into the goal.

Many Kensington fans who had been cheering for the team shut their mouths and just stared blankly at the stadium.

Although the first half hadn’t even finished yet, many Kensington fans seemed to have predicted the team’s outcome at this moment…

Kensington head coach Giacomo Faye stood on the sidelines and did nothing.

He seemed to have run out of ideas to turn the tide.

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When boos suddenly broke out at Red Rock Stadium, it was the Sofia United players who were in control of the ball.

Hall was stunned for a moment, then he was reminded and quickly lowered his head to look at the phone screen.

Sure enough, the news that Wang Lie had scored another goal popped up on it.

“42′ Wang scored twice, Tyne leads Kensington 2:0!”

Trash Kensington!
Seeing this message, Hall cursed in his heart.

It looks like Sofia will not qualify for the Champions League this season…

When the season ends, if he fires Lindsay, there shouldn’t be any controversy – if you don’t qualify for the Champions League, I have no reason to give you a new contract…

He has contacted and negotiated with the agents of several head coaches.

If the problem of Lindsay cannot be solved, it will inevitably affect the team’s selection of head coach for the new season.

Anyway, he will definitely not let Lindsay continue to coach Sofia United, so if he loses the Champions League qualification, but can help him clear the obstacles to signing a new coach, that would be good…

Thinking of this, Hall felt better.

As a manager, you always have to find the positive side from all the negative news, otherwise how can you lead this top team forward?

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