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Chapter 105 Premier League Player of the Month

Manchester United's first game after entering 2003 came at three o'clock in the afternoon on January 1. Manchester United sat at Old Trafford and faced the black cat Sunderland.

Sunderland is not considered a strong team, so many Manchester United fans took these three points as their own pockets early on, but no one expected that Manchester United encountered a nightmare start. In 5 minutes, Veron accidentally headed the ball into his own goal.

However, Manchester United quickly equalized the score. Yin Jun's goal 2 minutes later helped the Argentine midfielder complete the redemption.After Yin Jun scored the goal, the wizard hugged him warmly.

The game immediately entered a stalemate, and both sides were unable to send the ball into the opponent's goal for more than an hour of game time, rewriting the score on the field.

After a long confrontation, Manchester United, which is still stronger, broke the deadlock.

In the 81st minute, Macho kicked off the ball with a big kick. Ferdinand did not wait for the ball to land, and directly used the end of the arch of his foot to send the ball back to the frontcourt. Beckham stopped the ball in the chest and broke into the penalty area.

In stoppage time, Yin Jun hooked the ball from the left to the goal, Scholes headed the net and finally locked the score at 3:1.

However, because Arsenal also won this round, Manchester United is still 5 points behind the Gunners, ranking second.

The following weekend, Manchester United ushered in the FA Cup. Manchester United scored twice with Ruud van Nistelrooy's penalty kick, Beckham's free kick scored, and Scholes' icing on the cake, 4-1 at Old Trafford. Eliminated League One leader Portsmouth, advanced to the fourth round.

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On the second weekend of 2003, the 23rd round of the Premier League kicked off.Manchester United is a guest at the Hawthorns this round, challenging West Brom in bloomers.

Although the Red Devils conceded a goal first because of Ferdinand's mistake, they still reversed West Ham United 3:1 in the away game with the goals of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Scholes and Solskjaer, and continued to press against Arsenal in the standings .

Monday, January 2003, 1.

For Yin Jun, this is a memorable day, because on this day, the Premier League officially announced that Manchester United midfielder Yin Jun was elected the best player in December.

The Premier League's official best of the month is jointly selected by an expert group composed of Premier League stars and fans from all over the world. Among them, the best players and player delegations composed of club captains participated in the selection.Including Player of the Month, Coach of the Month and Goal of the Month awards.

The Premier League Player of the Month Award was founded in the 1994-1995 season. The first winner was Klinsmann who played for Tottenham that year, and Yin Jun was the first Asian player to win the award.

In fact, if it weren't for the historical change, the first Asian player to win the award would have to wait until 14, 2016 years later, when the Korean Sun Xingmin who played for Tottenham broke the ice.

It is not easy to win this award, although there are 9-10 awards for this award every season, but so far, many top superstars have not won this award.For example, the core midfielder and captain Vieira of Arsenal, such as former Manchester United legendary goalkeeper Schmeichel, and so on.

And from the rewards given by the "host" system for this award, it can also be seen that it has won the best weight in the Premier League month.

30 reputation points!
You know, Yin Jun won the World Cup silver boots and was selected into the best team of the World Cup, but he only gained 50 prestige and 80 prestige respectively!

And after getting the 30 reputation points this time, plus some reputation accumulated successively before, the total number of reputation points accumulated by Yin Jun in the "host" system has exceeded 200.

However, Yin Jun has not yet figured out how to use these reputation points, because the products in the system mall are not rich at present, and there are no products that Yin Jun particularly desires to buy.

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Yin Jun deserves to be selected as the Premier League Player of the Month for December this time. He played in 12 of Manchester United's 12 games in December and contributed a total of 6 goals and 4 assist to the team. In the 5 games, Manchester United won all of them, including important games such as beating Liverpool and Arsenal in a row.

Among them, in the Tianwangshan battle against Arsenal, Yin Jun scored twice to help Manchester United beat the Gunners 3-0 at home, which is a major contributor to the team's victory.

In the final game against Birmingham in 2002, in the face of Manchester United's previous two-game losing streak in the Premier League, Yin Jun once again used 2 shots and 1 pass performance, almost helping Manchester United defeat 4-0 by himself. defeated the opponent, thereby stopping the losing streak.

Ferguson said after the game that he really regretted giving Yin Jun a week off during Christmas, otherwise Manchester United would not be so far behind Arsenal again.

Ferguson's words show his reliance on Yin Jun.

Yin Jun told the Premier League official website after receiving the award: "It is a dream to be awarded the Premier League Player of the Month. In December, I scored 12 goals and received 5 assist. The perfect thing. I'm really happy that I made history even though I would like to have other trophies and awards."

"There is a long way to go before we start talking about titles. We have to keep working hard. Our next game is against one of the best teams in the Premier League and we know what that means for the fans, but the point It's the same: all three points."

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The next game Yin Jun is talking about will be against the Blues Chelsea at home on January 1.Currently, Chelsea ranks third in the Premier League and is an important title contender for Manchester United.

In the eyes of many people, Chelsea is a local tyrant team that only emerged after being acquired by the Russian rich man Abramovich, but in fact this view is not complete.In the first ten years of the Premier League era, although Chelsea did not win the championship, they have always been the middle and upper reaches of the league.

Especially since 1996 when Gullit, who is the hand of the Dutch Three Musketeers, has been the coach of the team, Chelsea has been stable in the top six in the Premier League. Came to their peak - the third!
In the Premier League, Chelsea can be called the nemesis of Manchester United.In the 20 matches in the past ten seasons, Manchester United's results are only 6 wins, 9 draws and 5 losses, and they hardly have the upper hand.This is very rare for Manchester United.After all, as the dominance of the Premier League in the first ten years, almost all Premier League teams were crushed by Manchester United.Even if there is a victory, it is also a small probability.

更何况，这其中还有曼联在斯坦福桥球场0:5（1999年10月2日）这样的惨败记录，也有在老特拉福德球场0:3（2001年12月1日）惨败这样的记录。

As a time traveler, Yin Jun knew that it would be difficult for Manchester United to gain the upper hand in the future match against Chelsea.This London team seems to know how to play against Manchester United innately.

It is not easy to defeat such an opponent!

(End of this chapter)