At the end of the eighteenth round of the Premier League, Manchester United is still at the top of the Premier League list. Although they lost to Leeds United, they still have 44 points and top the list.
The second place was not Leeds United, which defeated the leader, but Chelsea. Chelsea defeated Everton by a penalty 3-2 in the current round. They then thrilledly maintained the second place in the league. Position, forty points, four points behind Manchester United.
Leeds United, who beat the Red Devils Manchester United, is now ranked third in the league. Their points are 39 points, only one point behind Chelsea and five points behind Manchester United.
Leeds United's result is already very good, the victory of this game is to let them see the hope of catching up with Manchester United.
Now ranked fourth in the Premier League is Arsenal, their points are thirty, behind the top three is still quite a lot. Therefore, they are still quite far from the Premier League title this season. Now for Arsenal, their first goal is to hold the fourth place and secure the Champions League seat next season.
This season, they will not qualify for the Champions League, which has made them very upset. Next year's Champions League qualification, they must win, must!
Behind them is the Bolton team, their points also reached 30 points. Next up are Sheffield Wednesday and Portsmouth. They all have 29 points, and then Tottenham Hotspur. They have 28 points.
These teams are very close to the Arsenal team, it is likely that the Arsenal team will be pushed down from the fourth throne in a game.
Now Leeds United are not in the mood to pay attention to the back of the matter, their eyes are looking forward, now they just think about how to catch up with Manchester United.
After beating Manchester United, Zhong Cheng led the team back to Leeds.
After returning to Leeds, Zhong Cheng set off again and led the team directly to London. Here they are going to challenge Tottenham Hotspur. This game is not a Premier League game, but England League Cup game.
One of the quarterfinals of the English League, two League Cup quarterfinals have been played the previous day.
Charlton actually lost to Weconby 0-0. Wecombe was an English Division 2 team. Charlton even lost to them. It really broke a huge upset.
It seems that the English League Cup is really a hotbed of upsets!
Another game is that Newcastle United lost to the Blues Chelsea at home. In other words, Wellcombe and Chelsea have reached the semi-finals of the League Cup.
There are two other semi-final matches between Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United and Liverpool against Arsenal. Both matches were played on the same day.
Now Zhong Cheng is leading Leeds United to London, challenging Tottenham Hotspur away.
In this game, Zhong Cheng did not send out the main battle, but sent some substitutes. It's not that Zhong Cheng doesn't pay attention to this game, but that Leeds United has too many games this season, and some of the players in the lineup that rotate between the main force and the bench also need game opportunities.
In this game, Tottenham Hotspur attaches great importance to it, the main force played.
Tottenham Hotspur are still very important to the English League Cup, but as soon as the game started, Leeds United gave them a headache.
In the ninth minute of the first half, Leeds United's backup striker Nicholas Bentner received a cross from Gareth Bell, who directly pressed Tottenham's center back and broke the header. Leeds United led the opponent by one to zero.
This ball unexpectedly surprised all Tottenham Spurs fans. Tottenham Tottenham were a little dazed.
After conceding the ball, Tottenham Hotspur were frantically attacking, all rushing to the goal of Leeds United.
However, before the end of the first half of the game, Yaya Touré received a reverse triangle pass from the front of the penalty area, and then banged the ball directly at the front of the penalty area. The football came into the net.
There is no other way, Tottenham Hotspur have no confidence in themselves.
Tottenham Hotspur quickly recovered a goal when the second half started. Then they saw the hope and immediately attacked frantically, besieging the Leeds United team.
Tottenham Hotspur desperately wanted to score a goal, the attack was a bit fierce, and Leeds United directly seized the opportunity of counterattack, and Edinson Cavani, who came off the bench, scored a goal, three to one.
Leeds United also defeated Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 and reached the semi-finals of the League Cup.
At the same time, in another game, Arsenal beat Liverpool 6-3 away and successfully reached the semi-finals of the English League Cup this season.
The semi-finals of the English League Cup have already emerged. They are Wellcome, Chelsea, Leeds United and Arsenal. In this way, the semi-final match of the English League Cup also came out, Wecombe against Chelsea, Leeds United against Arsenal.
The English League Cup is a two-way home and away game. This is the only round of home and away games in the League Cup. This game is going to go in mid-January next year, and there are still twenty days left.
Now Christmas is getting closer and closer, and many players' minds are gone with Christmas.
The sadness of the Premier League players is reflected, there is no winter break in the Premier League. Players in other leagues are on vacation, and Premier League players still have to play. And this game is more than usual and tired, which is where the Premier League players are sad.
If there is no match task at Christmas, the team will play for one or two days. But some teams have a mission during the Christmas season, in order to give the fans a Christmas, what Christmas war or something?
This week, Leeds United's game is really full. Three games a week, the average is one game every two days. Two days later, Leeds United ushered in the 19th round of the Premier League this season, Leeds United faced Fulham away.
Fulham's performance is not bad, ranking 13th in the middle of the league.
For such an opponent, Zhong Cheng has only one goal, which is to defeat the Fulham team and get three points. Because Leeds United are ambitious, they want to score three points.
Because Zhong Cheng knows that Alex Ferguson's Manchester United team will not stop and wait for them, he must ensure that every game can win, keep up with the pace of Manchester United, or even exceed Manchester United.
In this game, Zhong Cheng still made some rotations, because after three too difficult, that is, on December 26, Leeds United had another game, also a league.
So the recent Leeds United team's task is very heavy. On December 26, the English Premier League teams will almost always play for the Christmas War.
Therefore, Zhong Cheng stayed in the game. And after this round of games, Leeds United will also have a short holiday, giving players to go back to Christmas with their families. Although this distracts the players, and after many players return to the court, their minds still cannot be recovered, but Zhong Cheng still wants to do so.
Often at this time of Christmas, a lot of upsets pop up, and that's why.
In this game against Fulham, Zhong Cheng let Luka Tony, Joaquin and others all take a rest.
After a lot of main rest, Leeds United did not perform well in this game. This game was pulled by Fulham's rhythm. It seems that the minds of the Leeds United players have flew to Christmas.
This game, Zhong Cheng has been standing on the sidelines, frowning frantically, this game looks very hanging.
Was Zhong Cheng directing on the sidelines to signal that the players of Leeds United were more serious and tighter when defending, and definitely could not give Fulham a chance.
If it wasn't for the good performance of the clock card, this game, Leeds United would be behind by two in the first half.
Fulham was seeing hope of winning. In the second half, it was a large offensive, besieging Leeds United, and Leeds United was defensively counterattack.
Today, the state of Leeds United is really bad, and they cannot fight back.
However, Leeds United's luck was very good. At the end of the whole game, Shao Jiayi of the wing side inadvertently passed the goal and was hit by Fulham's center back. In the goal, Leeds United scored a three-point victory over Fulham.
After the end of the game, Leeds United took a day off, and the players of Leeds United went back to Christmas.
Zhong Cheng naturally went home with Zhong Zheng for Christmas.
After returning home, Old Cheng still didn't give Zhong Cheng a good look, but Amelia George treated Zhong Cheng well. This Christmas is okay, but there are two little demon heads around, Zhong Cheng is terribly tidy.
After a decent Christmas, Zhong Cheng returned to the team.
After the players returned, Zhong Cheng clearly felt it, and the thoughts of these boys have not been recovered. It seems that they are still quiet in the atmosphere of Christmas.
Zhong Cheng made a fate when training, and hoped that the players of Leeds United would take back their thoughts, because the next game is also very important. Leeds United face Portsmouth at home, and Portsmouth's strength is also very good.
Now Portsmouth is also very high in the Premier League. It is now in the top six of the league and its strength is very strong.
And at this time, the fans of Leeds United were very excited.
This is the Christmas battle at their home stadium. Of course, the fans of Leeds United hope that the team can win and let them have a very happy holiday.
In this game, Zhong Cheng did some rotations. Some players were not in the best form. For Cheng Cheng to win, Zhong Cheng naturally wanted to put players in better form.
At the beginning of the game, the Leeds United team showed a very strong momentum and attacked from the beginning.
However, in the fifteenth minute of the first half of the game, Portsmouth's offense broke through the Leeds United goal, which surprised the Leeds United. No one had ever thought of such a memory, Zhong Cheng was a little stunned on the side.
Portsmouth's offense was a bit fortunate. The goal had two sidelines before it crossed the ten-point mark of the bell card and became a goal.
After losing the ball, Leeds United's players continued to attack, attacking frantically.
The Leeds United team came up with all the strength and crazy attack. At the end of the first half of the game, the side of Hua Jin's side, Luka Tony of the midfielder jumped high, headered, and sent the football. Scored a goal for Portsmouth.
Leeds United equalized the score, and when the second half of the game just started, Leeds United took advantage of a quick raid and, with Darren Bent's goal, led Portsmouth 2-1.
Leeds United finally took the lead and overtook the score.
After that, Portsmouth wanted to fight back, but failed to break Leeds United's goal again, and the bell card remained very good.
Two to one, Leeds United reversed the Portsmouth team at their own home and scored a three-pointer without any risk.