Chapter 801 The Second Battle Begins
The team was preparing for the next few days in Leicester City. However, Craig did not let Lin Feng practice with the team, but still arranged for him to conduct some adaptive training, because Lin Feng had just transferred and needed to slowly adapt to the training rhythm here. Lin Feng did not raise any objections to this, but just trained as required.
Friday.
The whole team of Leicester City took a special plane to Madrid, Spain.
This kind of treatment of taking special planes to play away is quite rare for small clubs like Leicester City. As the club's boss, Chen Mengfei also went with the team personally and awarded a promotion reward of 5 million euros for the team.
On the plane.
Shen Mengfei and team head coach Craig are next to each other.
"The media all say that we will definitely be eliminated. What does Coach Craig think? What is the chance of our team advancing?" Chen Mengfei said while flipping through today's newspaper.
"Our situation is indeed quite passive, but there is still one game that we haven't played, and our chances of advancing are still 50%. "Craig responded stubbornly.
"Fifty percent?" Hearing this, Chen Mengfei smiled softly: "It seems that Coach Craig is quite confident."
"I trained this team, so I naturally have confidence in the players." Craig responded in a deep voice.
"It is of course a good thing to be confident, but strength is another thing." Chen Mengfei shrugged gently and continued: "The first thing I did when I acquired the Leicester City Club was to invite Lin Fengkuan at a high price. However, I heard that you have not allowed him to practice with the team so far. I want to know why this is?"
"Uh, this..." Craig was slightly stunned. He didn't expect Chen Mengfei to mention this matter suddenly.
"Lin Feng just joined the team, everything is still in the adaptation stage, and we need to have a comprehensive understanding of his physical condition. Therefore, I have arranged adaptive training these days, which will help us understand his condition more." Craig responded.
"Is that so? I hope it's as you said." Chen Mengfei's tone was slightly cold, and then she said seriously: "I don't care why you arranged this way, but Lin Feng must play in this game!"
"This..." Hearing this, Craig couldn't help frowning, his face also became a little ugly.
"You may not know that our Premier League club owners will never interfere with the coach's coaching." Craig said in a deep voice.
"I'm not going to interfere with your coaching, I just hope the team can win. I don't want to get out of the Champions League just now," Chen Mengfei responded coldly.
"I'm doing this now for the team to win." Craig didn't give in.
"No, you didn't send the team's strongest lineup, only Lin Feng is the strongest among us." Chen Mengfei said firmly: "Let Lin Feng appear, just consider it my order!"
"Appointment? We're just a partnership, and this word is not appropriate." Craig faced tit.
"Oh, is it? If so, I would consider another person coaching my team. As far as I know, you were the team's assistant coach half a year ago, and it was the head coach who left you and had a chance. Then, now maybe their chance is here..." Chen Mengfei glanced at Craig with a sneer, then pointed to the team's assistant coach Benedi, Walsh and others sitting in the back row.
"This..." Craig wanted to refute, but seeing that Chen Mengfei's attitude was so firm, he hesitated. Although he was the team's head coach, he was also a worker to put it bluntly. Especially with his qualifications, he was too shallow. If the head coach opportunity that he had finally waited for was lost like this, it would be really not worth the loss.
"Okay, I will arrange it, but the roster and tactics have been determined, and I will arrange for him to come on as a substitute." Craig made a concession.
"Are you a substitute?" Chen Mengfei frowned and thought for a while, then nodded: "It's OK, but it can't be too late."
"Well, I get it." Craig nodded reluctantly.
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Another Sunday.
In the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Leicester City's match against Atletico Madrid came as scheduled.
Calderon Stadium is one of the five-star stadiums selected by UEFA. The entire stadium can accommodate more than 55,000 people, and this is the home court of Atletico Madrid.
It's exactly seven o'clock in the evening.
Half an hour before the start of the game, the Calderon Stadium was full, and Atletico Madrid fans cheered the team on various banners.
7:15.
The entrance ceremony began, and Leicester City, who played away, entered the court first. Because he was a substitute, Lin Feng's entry order was very high. However, when he appeared, the fans on the scene still cheered very enthusiastically. Although this city is known as a football city, there are many people who love basketball. Lin Feng's god-level performance in the NBA naturally attracted countless fans last season. Therefore, when he appeared at Calderon Stadium, the fans on the scene still gave him enough face.
BBC Commentary Seat.
Tom and Belkins arrived at the scene, and it was quite surprising that Lin Feng appeared and caused such a big cheer.
"Oh, I didn't expect that Lin Feng would be so popular here."
"Yes, he's very popular, and it seems that Madrid fans love basketball too."
The two of them were teasing.
Next to the commentary seat of BBC Sports Station is the commentary seat of Spanish State Television.
The commentary on the spot was that Connardo, a well-known football commentator of Spanish National Television, was his well-known Spanish coach, Lucio.
"Lin Feng appeared on the roster. It seems that he has a chance to play today." Connado said with a smile: "I am personally looking forward to seeing Lin Feng's performance. After all, I am his hardcore fan, of course, a basketball fan."
"I think you're going to be disappointed. According to the media's understanding, Craig didn't let Lin Feng practice with the team at all, which means he probably won't get a chance to play." Lucio continued: "But when it comes to basketball, it's really boring to have a NBA without Lin Feng. This year's playoffs are not as good as last year."
"Of course, last year's playoffs were just so exciting, oh, it's really an aftertaste." Connado spread his hands: "Wait, we're a Champions League game, it's better not to talk about football, haha, if our opponent on the basketball court is Lin Fengkuan, then our team is really unlucky, but fortunately it's a football game now."
"Oh, you're right. Lin Crazy will not have that kind of strength on the Green Field. However, Lin Crazy has set an unprecedented record for both playing NBA and Champions League." Lucio shrugged with a smile.
Chapter completed!