Team Spirit

Chapter 73 (Update) Twenty-five goals and seventeen assists in half a season!

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The so-called triangle offense focuses on the players' positions so that any three players can form a triangle position and each person has two points to pass the ball.

This is the basis of many passing and controlling tactics, but it is easier said than done.

The first is that it requires extremely high personal abilities of the players.

This does not apply to lower league teams.

But the special thing about Dartford is that their players are actually of very high quality and have great potential, which can be achieved through extensive training.

The second point is what I mentioned above, it requires a lot of training.

As for semi-professional and amateur teams below the fourth level, most players play football without salary and at their own expense. They have their own jobs and cannot train too frequently.

Dartford's main players are basically professional players with contracts and have enough training time.

With the addition of the [Triangle Offense], this becomes feasible.

Even so, the team began to feel uncomfortable with the transition from simple counterattacks to triangle offense.

As a result, after 21 league games in the first half of the season, Dartford was only ranked fifth in the league, barely entering the promotion zone.

The number of promotion and relegation places in the English Premier League is 2 promotions and 4 demotes.

The champions advance directly to the sixth tier.

The second to fifth place teams will play two rounds of four-round playoffs to secure another promotion spot.

However, this result still shocked the major media.

Because in everyone's prediction, Dartford should be in the relegation zone at this moment.

They ended up doing the opposite.

Who dares to believe this?
We were in the ninth-level league last season, can we really play in the sixth-level league next season?
This is too exaggerated!
The class barriers of the English football system are practically non-existent in this team.

And the reason for all this is...

Sky Sports: "Lu Dixian is still triumphant! Arsenal fans list ten sins of youth training and demand the team re-sign Lu Kai!"

BBC: "Fourteen goals and eleven assists! Lu Kai continued his incredible performance from last season, winning both the top scorer and top assists titles in the first half of the English-Irish Premier League!"

The Times: "Small teams also have great players! Lu Kai has won the Man of the Match award fourteen times in twenty-one league matches! The other four times were won by opposing players, and the remaining three times were won by Duff, An Qi, and Ashley Young!"

Les Echos: "Absolutely dominant! The performances of 15-and-a-half-year-old Lu Kai have caught the attention of the English football world. After rejecting two top clubs last season, he has now turned down offers from one Premier League, three League One, and four League Two teams!"

The Sun: "Shocking! He won't even join the first team! Lu Kai rejected an invitation from a League Three professional team, kissed the team badge and shouted "We are Famu Lei!"

These waves of news made the Dartford players excited.

Brother Lu is really loyal.

This is not leaving the team!
To be fair, if such an invitation came to other people in the team, who could say no?
With Lu Kai as an example, Eastwood scoffed at the tryout invitation from a mere fifth-tier team and refused to go!

To Madera also felt guilty for hesitating for a moment about his commitment to becoming a main player in the sixth level. For this, he had to work harder on the court.

Despite his impressive performances on the pitch, Makov's stats simply weren't improving. He enjoyed playing, but his resume wasn't impressive, and he still hadn't received an offer from a second-tier youth team.

The second level is his minimum requirement.

In addition, due to the extremely tight schedule in the first half of the season, Dartford's players actually couldn't find any opportunities to go out for trials. Let alone trials, Ashley Young hasn't been home for a long time.

His parents had forgotten they had a cub in Dartford.

After all, the brothers in their family look quite similar, so who would seriously count whether there are three or four people eating today.

By the way, where did he play football?

Watford?

Brentford?
Bradford?
Ashley Young: ???
……

In the first half of the season, Dartford fought on multiple fronts and expected to be eliminated from some competitions.

In the second half of the season, at most only one or two competitions will still be going on.

As a result, Dartford was forced to give up the third round of the Kent Senior Cup because of a schedule conflict with the Yingyi Cup.

For the rest of the events, they are still online!
In the FA Championship round of 16, Lu Kai scored two goals and had one assist.

In the Yingyi Cup round of 16, Lu Kai scored three goals and had two assists.

The most awesome thing is the FA Cup!

Dartford successfully passed two rounds of preliminaries and four rounds of qualifying. Lu Kai scored three goals and had two assists, he was so C!
This is the first time in Dartford's history that they have reached the FA Cup finals!

In the first round of the competition, teams from England's third (League 2) and fourth (League 3) leagues join the FA Cup.

Dartford had great luck in the draw, drawing Barnet, who are last in the English League Three standings.

The opponent was struggling in the league and could only use the youth training lineup. As a result, Lu Kai scored twice and the opponent was defeated at the Chi Pond Stadium.

In the second round of the main competition, Dartford was lucky again and avoided the teams from League Two and League Three, and met a team from the Northern Premier League, which was also from the sixth level.

Both sides were evenly matched and played cautiously, not giving the opponent too many opportunities.

But Dartford played a gorgeous triangle pass combination. Lu Kai, who was being closely watched, successfully passed the ball with his heel at the top of the arc. Eastwood made a powerful shot in the penalty area and scored a difficult goal.

With this goal, Dartford successfully advanced to the third round of the FA Cup!
As a result, they became the only two non-professional teams to reach the third round this season!

The other is Eastleigh in the fifth-tier league, but this team was still playing in League Three last season and is essentially still a professional team.

In any case, such a "non-professional team miracle" has not appeared for several years!
Including a goal and an assist in the Kent Senior Cup, Lu Kai had a crazy output in the first half of the season, with a terrifying stats of 25 goals and 17 assists.

You know, last season, he only scored 30 goals and 26 assists.

There's no doubt he'll break his own personal record this season.

On December 3, 2000, the FA Cup third round draw ceremony was held at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United. Premier League teams and League One teams will join the FA Cup in this round.

The opponents of the two non-professional teams have attracted much attention because they are two super gift packages.

Similarly, Lu Kai also continued to burn incense and pray to Buddha, praying for a miracle to happen.

Finally, a miracle happened...half!
Sky Sports: "A miracle has happened! Eastleigh drew Middlesbrough, the second-to-last team in the Premier League, and may have a chance to go further!"

BBC: "A windfall! Middlesbrough drew a home game, which will help them beat their opponents from the fifth level. But Eastleigh will also get half of Middlesbrough's ticket revenue, which is expected to be more than 100,000 pounds!"

(End of this chapter)