host must win

Chapter 261
"GOOOOOAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"

"The ball is in!"

"Go in! Go in! Go in!!!"

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The commentators in the media area at Old Trafford roared as the football flew into the Everton goal.

"This is Yin Jun's 2003th official game goal scored in 58! He is only 1997 goal away from Ronaldo's natural annual scoring record created in 1! After breaking the youngest record created by Ronaldo After winning the European Ballon d'Or, Yin Jun is likely to break Ronaldo's natural annual scoring record again!"

In 1997, Ronaldo represented Barcelona, ​​Inter Milan and the Brazilian national team respectively, scoring 59 goals in various competitions.

Of course, Ronaldo's scoring record is nothing in the history of football, not even in the top ten.

At present, the natural annual scoring record is held by the German star Gerd Muller. This goal machine scored 1972 goals for Bayern and the German team in 85. This record has been maintained for 31 years, and no one has been able to break it. No one even came close.

Before Muller set this record, Northern Ireland's Jimmy Jones set the annual record of 1957 goals in 80.

In addition to these two annual scoring records of 80+, which can be said to break through the sky, there are several players who have scored 70 goals in a year.They are Pele, Zico and Romario, all three Brazilians completed these records in Brazil.

And there are even more players who scored more than 60 goals in a year. Yin Jun's 58 goals are still not worth mentioning compared to the records created by these scoring machines.

But Yin Jun is not a pure shooter, his real position is the midfielder.In addition to having a super scoring ability, his assists are also world-class.In 2003, he had sent 38 assists for his teammates in Manchester United and China!
In other words, in 2003, Yin Jun has accumulated 96 goals for Manchester United and the Chinese team in official matches!
This data has already tied the record created by Pele in 1958, which is only one goal away from the current highest record in world football, Gerd Muller's record of 1972 goals in a single natural year created in 97. Difference!
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In the ensuing games, Yin Jun was still trying to score goals, or looking for opportunities to make contributions to his teammates, but Ferguson found that Everton players' defensive actions were getting bigger and bigger, and even Sylvester Having been shoveled off by his opponent, Ferguson, who did not want to take risks, replaced Yin Jun in the 78th minute of the game.

At this time, Manchester United still led by two goals on the field.In Ferguson's view, this is a relatively safe score.

After Yin Jun left the field, Manchester United's control on the field dropped a lot, and Everton took the opportunity to launch a crazy counterattack.

In the 90th minute, Kilbani took the ball from the left, and the players in front of the goal missed the ball. Duncan Ferguson dived into the net 5 meters away from the back post, and Everton drew 2:3.

Seeing Everton, who hoped to score points in the Theater of Dreams, came out at the last minute and attacked Manchester United's goal madly. The Red Devils fell into an extremely passive situation on the scene.Fortunately, there is not much time left for Everton, and Everton failed to score the third goal after all.

In the end, Manchester United kept the 3:2 score until the end of the game, and scored three points at home with difficulty.And Manchester United's league points also reached 47 points, 2 points ahead of No.5 Arsenal, and they were able to lock in the half-time championship of this season one round ahead of schedule.

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However, for the Premier League team, the half-time championship does not mean that they can sit back and relax, because in the history of the Premier League, winning the half-time championship is far from being the final championship.

Among them, the record of the most famous half-time champion in the history of the Premier League but did not win the championship in the end is all related to Manchester United.

In the 1995-1996 season, Manchester United had a bad start and has been playing the role of a chaser in the standings. They even fell behind the Premier League upstart Newcastle United by 10 points before the end of the half.

Subsequently, the Red Devils began to exert their strength and narrowed the point difference to 4 points after two consecutive victories.However, with two winless rounds at the beginning of the new year (one draw and one loss), Manchester United was once again left far behind by Newcastle. After 23 rounds, Ferguson's team has fallen behind their opponents by 12 points.

Fans of the Magpies thought they were about to taste the taste of the first top league championship after 1927, but it was a pity that their opponent was a team called Manchester United. The Red Devils were born with unyielding blood in their bones. Among them, "King" Cantona became the savior of the team.

Subsequently, Manchester United relied on the excellent performance of only losing one game after the New Year, and made great progress all the way, and finally completed a shocking reversal, winning the third Premier League championship trophy in team history with a 4-point lead.

This reversal to win the championship has always been regarded as a textbook, and it has become a classic case that Manchester United people talk about.However, just two years later, Manchester United became a negative example.

In the 1997-1998 season, Manchester United led Arsenal by as many as 10 points at the end of the half. Manchester United almost all began to celebrate in advance that the team had won another league championship, but when the season ended, Manchester United with 77 points only Won the second, Arsenal won the Premier League title this season with 78 points.

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A half-time reversal to win the championship seems to have been written into the blood of the Premier League.

In the 1992-1993 season of the first year of the Premier League, Manchester United overtook the half-time champion Norwich to win the championship. At that time, the competition system was still 42 rounds. The Canaries were upset and won the first place in the half-time with 40 points, but the Red Devils ranked third in the half-time. Cheng Fali won the league championship.

同样背运的还有英超时代零冠的昔日霸主利物浦，1996-1997赛季获得半程冠军时他们领先No.3曼联有4分优势，最终却落后红魔7分之多丢冠。

Last season, at the end of the half, Arsenal topped the standings, leading Manchester United by 5 points, but the final champion was Manchester United, who was only third at the half!
As the overlord of the Premier League, it is naturally Manchester United that has staged the most reversals.In addition to Newcastle, Liverpool, Norwich and Arsenal, Chelsea and Leeds United have also experienced being reversed by Manchester United.

As for Manchester United's 8 Premier League titles, 6 of them were won through a half-time reversal, which shows how fierce the competition in the Premier League is!
In fact, in the first 11 seasons of the Premier League, the probability of winning the half-time championship is not high.The final championship and the half-time championship belong to the same team. There are only three seasons, 1993-1994, 1994-1995 and 2000-2001.

The half-time champion of the Premier League can be called the worst half-time champion!
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