host must win

Chapter 224 The first defeat of the new season

Returning to Manchester from Southampton, Manchester United ushered in the next game after less than 72 hours of rest.

At 9 pm on September 27th, there will be 3 more Premier League matches. Manchester United will continue their away trip to challenge the Blue Fox Leicester City.

Scholes returned to United's starting line-up at Leicester's Wolkers Stadium after missing several games with a hernia.

Although he will go to Germany next Wednesday to usher in the second round of the Champions League group stage, Ferguson still sent the strongest lineup in this game.

After experiencing two consecutive league draws, Manchester United, which desperately needed a victory, entered the state very quickly in this game.

In the 15th minute, Scholes made a beautiful pass to Roy Keane on the left. The Irishman succeeded in anti-offside. Facing Leicester City goalkeeper Walker calmly pushed and scored, rewriting the score to 1:0.

Leicester City has not yet recovered from conceding a goal. After 1 minute, Scholes' low shot from 25 yards from the right was blocked by Ruud van Nistelrooy. The Dutchman then easily scored 10 yards in front of the goal.

2:0, Manchester United ushered in a dream start in the away game.

Manchester United played more and more smoothly, and it seemed that every attack threatened to score. In the 21st minute, Yin Jun calmly dodged the home team defender's pass to Ruud van Nistelrooy, but the latter's shot was incredible.

One minute before the end of the half, Ruud van Nistelrooy received a pass from Ferdinand on the right, calmly shook defender Sinclair and scored twice, helping Manchester United rewrite the score to 1:3.

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Manchester United, which sealed the victory in almost half the game, gave Ferguson the confidence to calmly schedule and reserve strength for the away game against Stuttgart in the middle of the week.

At the beginning of the second half, Sir Alex replaced captain Roy Keane with Djimba.

Not long after the opening, Scholes cooperated with Yin Jun and passed into the penalty area, but Krittis made a beautiful tackle before Ruud van Nistelrooy got the ball.

In the 51st minute, Yin Jun passed the ball to Van Nistelrooy in his own half, and the Dutchman broke through with the ball and shot into the lower left corner from the right side of the penalty area.While performing a hat-trick, help Manchester United rewrite the score to 4:0!

After completely securing the victory, Ferguson used up three substitutions in the 60th minute, replacing Scholes and Yin Jun with Forlan and Solskjaer respectively.

After replacing Keane, Scholes and Yin Jun in a row, Manchester United's control in the midfield dropped sharply, which also gave the home team some opportunities.

In the 72nd minute, Izzet took a corner kick and Leicester City defender Sinclair scored a consolation goal with a powerful header.In the 79th minute, Bent hit the crossbar with a shot from 20 yards.

At the last moment, Fran's shot from a dangerous position was easily obtained by Walker.

In the end, Manchester United won 4:1 in the away game and continued to beat Chelsea and Arsenal with the advantage of goal difference, ranking first in the Premier League standings.

So far, Manchester United's schedule in September is over, with 9 league games, 4 wins and 2 draws. Yin Jun contributed 2 goals and 3 assists in it. The total number of league goals reached 2 goals, which happened to be an average of 5 goal per game. efficiency.

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Entering October, Manchester United's first game is the Champions League group stage, an away game against Stuttgart.

Manchester United have scored goals in the last 5 visits to Germany and have remained unbeaten in the past 3 games, but this is the first time they have come to the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium to participate in the Champions League. Has a scoring record.

After the opening, both sides played more cautiously, and this situation continued until the end of the first half.Naturally, both sides failed to score a goal in the first half and entered the break with a score of 0:0.

In the second half, Stuttgart stepped up their offense.At the beginning of the second half, Helter took a corner kick from the right, and Howard made a misjudgment. Fortunately, Scholes, who was guarding the back post, pushed out from the goal line.

However, Manchester United's defense then made repeated mistakes, causing the goal to fall for the second time within 2 minutes.

In the 50th minute, Hinkle made a long pass from the right side of the backcourt. Lahm overwhelmed Gary Neville with a header from the left. Chu calmly pushed his right foot into the lower right corner.

In the 52nd minute, Stuttgart intercepted the ball in the backcourt and launched a concise counterattack. Shobic received a diagonal pass from the left. Facing O'Shea's block, his left foot knocked to the right. Howard was forced to attack. Kuranyi was 16 meters in front of the goal. At the right foot shot into the net.

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Conceded two goals in a row within 2 minutes, which dealt a big blow to Manchester United's morale.In the next ten minutes, Manchester United fell into a great passivity on the scene.But fortunately, after taking the initiative to retreat, the team finally stabilized the defense and did not lose the ball again.After Stuttgart stormed for 10 minutes, their physical fitness also entered a bottleneck period, and they had to slow down their offensive.

Stuttgart's offensive slowed down, and Manchester United, who had stabilized their position, took the opportunity to counterattack.

In the 67th minute, Manchester United played a quick attack. Giggs made a pass from the left. Stuttgart's defense failed to clear the siege. Gary Neville knocked the ball back near the baseline. Debrand, who failed, was pulled down in the penalty area by Hildebrand in desperation.

The referee awarded a penalty kick without hesitation.

This time, Van Nistelrooy did not stand up to grab the right to take the penalty kick. He missed three penalty kicks in a row before, which dealt a big blow to Van Nistelrooy's confidence in penalty kicks.Even though he scored a hat-trick in the league against Leicester City, it still failed to restore his confidence.

However, Yin Jun took the initiative to put the football in Van Nistelrooy's hands, which surprised the Dutch striker.

Under Yin Jun's encouraging eyes, Van Nistelrooy hesitated for a while, but still took the football, walked to the penalty spot, and successfully tricked Hildebrand to score the ball.

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Manchester United's morale was boosted after regaining one city. They turned away from the away game and stormed Stuttgart's goal.However, whether it is Van Nistelrooy, Yin Jun, Giggs, Scholes, or Ronaldo, Manchester United's attacking group is not in a good state today and failed to break through Stuttgart's goal.

Under Manchester United's full attack, the defense was empty, which gave Stuttgart an opportunity.In the 80th minute, Stuttgart played a quick counterattack. Kuranyi made an emergency stop in the penalty area to get rid of it. Ferdinand brought him down, and the referee awarded Stuttgart a penalty without hesitation.

However, when defending the penalty, Howard showed an excellent state. He judged the direction of Stuttgart defender Mera's free throw and threw the ball to the right to block the ball.

At the last moment, although Ferguson repeatedly dispatched troops and replaced Forlan and Solskjaer to strengthen the attack, Manchester United, which was in poor form, failed to score the second goal of the game after all.

In the end, Manchester United lost 1:2 in the away game and suffered their first defeat of the new season.

(End of this chapter)