host must win

Chapter 198 Rookie Wall?
At 2003 pm on August 8, 16, a focused match was held at Old Trafford. The defending champion Manchester United played at home against Bolton, who were lucky enough to avoid relegation last season.

The coaches of the two teams, Ferguson and Allardyce, are good friends. It was even rumored that Ferguson called Allardyce at the end of last season and asked Allardyce to help stop Arsenal and help Manchester United win the championship. statement.

However, for the two teams, the relationship is not good.

The grievances between the two teams have to start with the Munich air crash 45 years ago.

In 1958, Bolton staged the famous Manchester United sniper battle in the FA Cup final, defeated Manchester United 2-0 and won the FA Cup for the fourth time.In addition, some Bolton fans spread their arms and made a plane crash posture during the game, which angered all Manchester United people, and the two teams have since forged a grievance.

Originally, this grievance was somewhat forgotten in the later period, because Bolton fell into silence, and the two teams had not played against each other for many years.But with Bolton's return to the Premier League in 1995, with the two sides meeting every season, the anger among the fans gradually picked up again.

In the last two seasons, under the leadership of Allardyce, Bolton has a very good record against Manchester United. They have defeated Manchester United at Old Trafford twice in a row, including last season in the league here. Beat Manchester United with a score of 1:0.

In this game, Bolton naturally came with the goal of defeating Manchester United three times in a row at Old Trafford, and the fans of the two teams had taunted and attacked each other with singing before the game started.

There are about 3000 people of Bolton fans coming with the team, and they all gather in one corner of the stadium.On the left and right are fans of the home team, separated by two rows of policemen in yellow reflective vests.However, this does not prevent the fans of both sides from choking each other.

As for the police who maintain order, as long as they don't do anything, they don't care how the fans of both sides greet each other's female relatives.

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While fans from both sides greeted each other in the stands, players from Manchester United and Bolton were waiting in the tunnel.

Unlike the mutual hostility among the fans, the anger between the players of the two teams is obviously not that great.

On the one hand, it is because the coaches of the two teams have a good relationship, and on the other hand, it is caused by the strength of both sides.Manchester United is the overlord of the Premier League, while Bolton was the relegation team last season, and the strength gap is obvious.

Has anyone ever seen an elephant and a mouse hate each other?

Ferguson's starting lineup is exactly the same as the Community Shield.Compared with last season's championship lineup, American goalkeeper Howard is the only new face.Butters didn't even qualify for the bench.

Before the game, Ferguson personally presented Van Nistelrooy with the award for the top scorer in the Premier League last season.

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In the two games against Bolton last season, Yin Jun missed all of them by mistake, so this is the first time he played against Bolton.

However, in Yin Jun's memory, in the next two seasons, under Allardyce's leadership, Bolton will grow into a strong team in the Premier League and even qualified for the UEFA Cup.Therefore, he did not dare to neglect this team.

Although Yin Jun made these preparations, after the game officially started, he still felt the tenacity and ferocity of the opponent's defense.

Although the Bolton players have not played against Yin Jun, but Yin Jun's performance last season was too good, and he left a very deep impression on all the Premier League teams.In the new season, Yin Jun is destined to become the player that the opponent focuses on in any game.

This game was no exception. At the beginning of the game, he was closely marked by Bolton.Allardyce sent their star man, Kevin Nolan, who had humiliated Butters with a volley at Old Trafford, to mark Yin Jun.

Kevin Nolan is from Liverpool, so he naturally doesn't like Manchester United. He is also very happy with the task of marking Yin Jun, the core midfielder of Manchester United.Not long after the game started, he completed the defense against Yin Jun without saying a word-when Yin Jun was holding the ball, he suddenly went around to defend, stabbed the football under Yin Jun's feet, and destroyed Manchester United's attack.

Yin Jun, who was intercepted by the ball, didn't seem upset. The game had just started, and he didn't believe that the opponent could not give him a chance in nine 10 minutes.

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Because of Yin Jun's great success at Manchester United last season, domestic attention to the Premier League has been unprecedentedly high. After careful consideration, CCTV finally made up its mind in the summer and negotiated with ESPN to win the broadcast rights of the Premier League for the 2003-2004 season. , broadcast in five sets.

As for the broadcasting rights for the three seasons starting from next season, we have to wait until the beginning of next year to start bidding, and we don't know what will happen then.

Of course, CCTV also broadcast this game.On the one hand, because this is a game between Yin Jun and Manchester United, on the other hand, the time slot is not bad. The game that starts at [-] o'clock in the evening is still acceptable to domestic audiences. It will affect the work the next day.

"Yin Jun seems to have been heavily marked by the opponent..." He Wei, who commented on the game, said after watching the game for a while.

"It's also normal. After all, Yin Jun performed so well last season and has grown into one of Manchester United's core..." Huang Jianqiang said, "If I were Bolton's head coach, I would let the team focus on Yin Jun's defense of."

He Wei nodded and said: "Well, this is the so-called 'rookie wall'. Generally speaking, players who shine in the first season are easy to suffer greatly in the second season. It is because the first The opponents did not know enough in the season, but after the second season, the opponents know more and pay more attention to it. It will become difficult to play the same performance as the first season... We all hope that Yin Jun will be in the second place in the Premier League. This season can perform well, but everyone must be mentally prepared. The long season has just begun, so don't be anxious because of the temporary ups and downs..."

The league has just started, and the two commentators have already begun to vaccinate the Chinese fans in front of the TV.

The so-called rookie wall is a brand-new concept that has emerged since 1998. In the top sports leagues in Europe and the United States, it is used to describe the absence of players who encounter various incompatibility in the first two rookie seasons when they turn from amateur players to professional players. status of the situation.

This kind of incompatibility appears sooner or later. The early one will come in a few games after the first show, and the late one will come after one or two seasons.It is mainly caused by physical strength, psychology, and technology being thoroughly studied by the opponent.

(End of this chapter)