FA Cup, League Cup, English Championship.
These are the three domestic cup competitions that a League Two team can participate in.
The three champion prizes are 2 million, 1 million, and 100,000 respectively, which should be able to show their respective status and weight...
For Wimbledon, they have just entered the round of 32 in the FA Cup, and have reached the finals of the League Cup and the British Championship respectively.
In other words, theoretically speaking, they are only two games away from winning the "double crown".
But unfortunately, the first opponent they encountered was a huge monster.
Chelsea!
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"Jose, what do you think of Wimbledon?"
On February 20, when Chelsea was tied 1-1 at home by Burnley , their head coach Mourinho heard such questions.
He barely hesitated and blurted out:
"Wimbledon? The tennis open there is very famous. As you all know, I have always been a fan of Murray. I was very sorry that he failed to successfully defend his title last year, so I would wish him to win the championship there this year."
The reporter was stunned for a moment, and then saw Mourinho suddenly realize something:
"Ah, sorry, sorry, I misunderstood your question. You are asking about our League Cup opponent, right? They are very strong and have shown great dominance in the English League Two. They are more ahead of the second place by more points than us. This will definitely be an exciting game!"
The reporter curled his lips:
[You are such a bad old man! ]
But he immediately opened his laptop and typed out a very standard article title:
"Mourinho: Wimbledon? The tennis there is famous!"
Anyway, you said it yourself, so I can’t be considered a clickbait, right?
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Just 10 minutes later, Wimbledon players saw the video through the developed online media.
Li Polo also heard Mourinho's friendly wishes to Murray, and then... nothing happened.
The clever self-media reporter simply cut out the subsequent supplementary remarks, portraying Mourinho as arrogant and rude.
But, isn’t this what the spectators like most?
"Madman" and "the most special one" are the labels that Mourinho's current public image carries. Obviously, he himself is happy with it and even enjoys it.
Among coaches of his generation, he is undoubtedly the one who is best at using the media, no doubt about it!
It can not only build momentum for yourself, but also interfere with your opponents!
The group of players from the Crazy Gang was filled with curses:
"This Portuguese guy is really crazy!"
"Tomorrow I'm going to go to London and blow his head off!"
"They can't even beat Burnley, who are ranked 19th, so how can they say they can beat us?"
"We were able to slaughter Manchester United 4:0. Even if Chelsea is a little stronger than Manchester United, we can at least win 2 games!"
Seeing his teammates making such uncalm remarks, Li Polo simply turned off his phone and took off his pants.
What's the point of scolding people now
Go take a shower and go to bed!
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Due to the conflict with the FA Cup, the 31st round of the league was also postponed. Including the previous 28th round, Wimbledon has missed two league games.
Having played two games less, their advantage in the standings has shrunk from the previous highest 17 points to the current 10 points. Shrewsbury, Burton and Wycombe Wanderers, who are in the second group, seem to have seen hope of catching up.
On the betting platform, the odds for the English League Two championship finally showed a slight loosening, with the odds of the Crazy Gang winning the championship dropping from 1 to 1.35 to 1 to 1.65.
Just one day after Mourinho released the video blessing Murray, on February 21, Wimbledon almost overturned in the 32nd round of the league.
Facing Luton, which is ranked fifth, the Crazy Gang, who made a lot of rotations, were forced into a 2:2 draw in the 90 minutes of regular time!
Adre had no choice. He had to play two games a week almost all the time, so he had to arrange stronger players to play in the cup games. The only players who could participate in this league were rotation players such as Aziz, Frankamp, ​​Connolly, Moore, Reeves, Suitland, Sweeney and Wallner.
Li Polo, Dubis, and Rigg, the absolute main players, were directly excluded from the 18-man roster. Fortunately, the two captains, Fuller and Smith, recovered from their injuries in time, otherwise Adre could only temporarily transfer two young guys from the U18 team to make up the number of players in the back line...
However, it must be said that Adre was lucky enough. Veteran Connolly, who came on as a substitute at the last moment, scored a winning goal in the third minute of injury time, turning a draw into three points!
In other matches of the same round, Shrewsbury, unexpectedly suffered a setback and lost 2:3 away from home to Tranmere, which was ranked 22nd. Not only did it fail to catch up with the points difference, but it was overtaken by the third place behind it.
Wimbledon continues to lead the standings with 74 points, and now ranked second is Burton with 63 points.
Their lead increased from 10 points to 1 point...
Who can be blamed for the poor performance of competitors?
The spinach odds quietly changed from 1:1.65 to 1:1.30.
You go up and down every day, aren’t you tired?
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Since the league advantage is obvious, Adre simply gritted his teeth and implemented the rotation system to the end.
In order to make way for the League Cup, the 33rd round of the league was brought forward to February 25.
Although the players only rested for less than four days, Adre still put out this rotation lineup, allowing main players such as Li Polo to continue to rest.
After all, the opponent was just Hartlepool, the bottom-ranked team.
And then... this time no one created a miracle. Wimbledon played against their opponents for a full 90 minutes away from home, but neither side was able to score a goal and could only draw with a score of 0:0.
Burton, ranked second, was even more unfortunate than the Crazy Gang, losing directly to Newport 0-1 at home.
Shrewsbury, ranked third, lost 1-2 to Northampton.
Fourth-placed Wycombe drew 2-2 with Stevenage.
Thus, Wimbledon's lead in the standings with 75 points was expanded to 12 points...
It doesn't matter if you don't play well.
It’s the same in any industry, it all depends on peers!
When the England national team has not won a major championship for decades, they should change direction and look at some superpowers with thousands of years of civilization and more than one billion people.
Forget about winning the World Cup, they haven’t even played in the World Cup many times!
I'm talking about you, India!
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February 28th.
There are only 24 hours left until the 2014-15 English League Cup final.
For the first time, Li Polo came to the holy ground of British football - Wembley Stadium.
As the home ground of the England national team, this stadium certainly has five-star hardware and software facilities.
In fact, the new Wembley Stadium, which was rebuilt in 2007, is the largest stadium in Europe and is almost universally recognized as the greatest football stadium in the world.
The four-story stands have 90,000 seats, which is nearly 20 times the size of the King's Turf Stadium!
If calculated based on the minimum ticket price of 30 pounds, that would be 2.7 million pounds!
According to the distribution ratio of the organizer, Wimbledon can get at least 1 million pounds in ticket revenue!
From this final broadcast live around the world, they can also get hundreds of thousands in broadcast revenue!
Even if you don’t win the final championship, the runner-up can still get a prize of hundreds of thousands!
Kuangbang general manager Powell couldn't stop smiling.
He could already imagine that after this game, he wouldn't have to worry about financial problems for the next three years!