host must win

Chapter 438 Yin Jun Vs Zheng Zhi

In the fourth round of the League Cup, Manchester United, who played from the bench, defeated Crystal Palace 2-0 at home and successfully advanced to the fifth round, which is the quarterfinals.And Manchester United's opponent in the quarter-finals of the League Cup is their old rival in the Premier League era, the Gunners Arsenal!
Immediately afterwards, the 13th round of the Premier League followed.Manchester United beat the Magpies 3-1 at St James' Park.

Lu Xiaopang scored twice in the game, and Van Nistelrooy, who returned from suspension, also scored a penalty kick.Although Yin Jun didn't score, he assisted Rooney's first goal, and shortly after Shearer helped Newcastle equalize, he created a penalty to help Manchester United surpass the score.

In the middle of the week, the last national team match day of 2004 came.The Chinese team will also usher in the last game of the top 32 group stage, playing against the Chinese Xiangjiang team at home.

Since the Chinese team defeated Kuwait in the away game on the last national team match day and advanced to the quarter-finals one round ahead of schedule, this game is not of great significance. Alihan considered the problem of traveling between players playing for European clubs. Players who played in Europe were not called up.

After all, the national team match day is in the middle of the week, and the two weekends before and after are club events.

Alihan did this for the sake of more inspections of new players.

As a result, in order to perform in front of the coach of the national team, the newly recruited players played very hard on the court even though the game was of no great significance, and played a hearty victory at home.

In the end, the Chinese team swept the Xiangjiang team 7:0 at home and ended the top 32 group stage with a complete victory.

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So far, the schedule of the top 32 matches in Asia has also come to an end, including eight teams from China, Iran, Uzbekistan, Japan, North Korea, Bahrain, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia.

Judging from the number of places for promotion, East and West Asia have formed a confrontational situation. Four East Asian teams, China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea, advanced, and four West Asian teams advanced.

The grouping principle of the quarter-finals is based on the ranking order of the results of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. As a result, Japan and South Korea were listed as the first team. China and Saudi Arabia were two teams that played in the Korea-Japan World Cup finals. It is listed as the second tier team. Iran, which won the second place in the group in the top ten Asian qualifiers in 2002, occupies a third tier. Bahrain and Uzbekistan are both ranked in the top ten in 2002. The third place in the group, and they all scored 10 points, and even the goal difference was -1 goal. In the end, Uzbekistan relied on the advantage of 13 to 8 goals to get another place in the third tier. North Korea and Bahrain is in the fourth tier.

According to the lottery rules, the four teams from South Korea, Japan, China and Saudi Arabia that participated in the finals of the last World Cup will not be divided into the same group.

As for the group draw ceremony for the quarter-finals, it will be held at the AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on December 12.

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After European and American internationals played a national team game in the middle of the week, the Premier League continued at the weekend.Manchester United hosts Bolton in another Chinese derby, as Zheng Zhi joined Bolton in the summer transfer window.

After Zheng Zhi joined Bolton, he integrated into the team quickly and is now Bolton's main force in the midfielder position.In this game, he also appeared in Bolton's starting lineup, and his position had just matched Yin Jun, who played in Manchester United's midfielder.

Although the two have a good relationship in the national team, they are now their own masters, and sparks are flying everywhere on the court.Zheng Zhi's performance was very good, at least in the head-to-head confrontation with Yin Jun, he was not at a too obvious disadvantage.

Although Manchester United eventually won the opponent 2-0 at home with the goals of two veterans Giggs and Scholes by virtue of their advantages in strength, but Yin Jun did not score a goal, but assisted Scholes. goal.

Since Chelsea was upset by Bolton at home in this game and was tied 2:2, Arsenal was also in a vicious circle of sluggishness. They were tied 1:1 by West Brom at home. Manchester United, with 35 points, was able to win in the Premier League. Chelsea leads the standings alone with 33 points, Arsenal ranks third with 31 points, and Everton ranks fourth with 28 points.

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On the evening of November 11rd local time in the UK, Manchester United continued to sit at home to face Lyon.This is the fifth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage. Although the two teams have advanced to the knockout round two rounds ahead of schedule after the last round, they still have to continue to fight for the first place in the group.

At present, Manchester United only temporarily occupies the first position in the group by virtue of their goal difference advantage.But once there is a mistake in the next game, it is very likely to lose the first place in the group.

In order to prepare for this extremely important UEFA Champions League match, Ferguson even arranged four generals, including captain Roy Keane, Ronaldo, Gary Neville and Everton, to rest in the Premier League last weekend.

In this game, Ferguson's determination to win is very firm, so he formed a combination of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Rooney and Alan Smith on the front line, and the three players in the midfield are Keane with Yin Jun and Ronaldo. His performance last weekend Excellent Giggs and Scholes are on the bench.The back line is a combination of Gary Neville, Ferdinand, Vidic and Evra.

Carroll sits at the goal. Howard's performance has been ups and downs this season, and he has gradually lost his starting position recently.

Of course, Carroll didn't fare much better.Ferguson is looking for excellent goalkeepers all over the world, hoping to strengthen Manchester United's last shortcoming.

With the referee's whistle, Manchester United took the lead.

From the first minutes of the game, Lyon consciously shrunk their defense, but did not retreat too far. Obviously, they were afraid of Ruud van Nistelrooy's dominance in the penalty area and Yin Jun's organizational and offensive abilities in the midfield. Very tight and compact.

Manchester United controlled the ball, but did not find a gap until the 3rd minute. Yin Jun passed the ball through the penalty area. Alan Smith wanted to rush to chase, but the Lyon goalkeeper made a decisive attack and fell to the ground first to hug the ball.

But soon, Lyon also played a counterattack, a long pass from the backcourt to find the striker, when the Lyon striker was dribbling the ball, he was tripped by Keane who was returning to the defense, the referee called a foul and gave Lyon a free kick in the frontcourt, but No cards were given.

Junior Juninho quickly took a free kick, but Manchester United goalkeeper Carroll took the ball off first in the penalty area.

After the start of the game, the two teams had mutual offense and defense. They obviously played more cautiously, and the rhythm was not fast. Obviously, they also focused on stability.

(End of this chapter)