host must win

Chapter 459 Reasons
At 1 pm on January 26th, in the second round of the League Cup semi-final, Manchester United will sit at Old Trafford to face Chelsea.

Because as long as they win one more game, they can enter the League Cup final and compete for the championship with Manchester United who advanced to the final first. Ferguson and Mourinho attach great importance to this game, and they almost all line up the strongest lineup to play.

After 90 minutes of fierce fighting, Manchester United defeated the opponent with a score of 1:0 and advanced to the final at home with Giggs' quick counterattack.

Yin Jun still failed to score a goal drought in the game.

In fact, although Yin Jun appeared in the midfielder position in the starting lineup in this game, after the game started, he switched positions with Scholes and partnered with captain Roy Keane as a double midfielder. Coles is Manchester United's real offensive brain.

Although there is still no achievement on the offensive end, Yin Jun saved Manchester United in another way.He destroyed the opponent's must-goal twice on the defensive line, trying to keep Manchester United from losing.

This is also a key factor in Manchester United's final victory over Chelsea.

When Yin Jun was replaced in the 89th minute of the game, more than 60,000 Manchester United fans still stood up and gave Yin Jun the warmest applause.

Although Yin Jun has not scored a goal for more than a month, he is still the darling in the eyes of Manchester United fans.They can see Yin Jun's efforts, especially he played a key role for the team on the defensive end in this game.

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In the manager's office at Manchester United's Carrington training base, Ferguson looked worriedly at the team of assistants in front of him.

Mick Clegg and Walter DiSalvo, who are in charge of physical training, and Rob Swell, the director of team medicine, were called to a meeting.

"What I want to know is, what's going on with Yin Jun now?" Ferguson asked worriedly.

Since his hat-trick against Crystal Palace in the 12th round of the Premier League on December 18, Yin Jun has fallen into a long scoring drought for more than a month, and everyone in the team is under great pressure.

Everyone knows that Yin Jun is the core fighting force of Manchester United. In the past two and a half seasons, Yin Jun has created nearly half of the goals scored by Manchester United.

Especially in the first half of this season, that is, before the 18th round of the Premier League, Yin Jun performed well. Manchester United scored 72 goals in the Premier League, Champions League, League Cup, Community Shield, European Super Cup and Toyota Cup. Jun scored 23 goals and 14 assists, more than half of Manchester United's goals!
During this period, Manchester United averaged 2.48 goals per game, and its offensive power can be called the champion of Europe.

After Yin Jun fell into a scoring drought, Manchester United's winning percentage and results did not seem to be affected much, but Manchester United's average number of goals per game has plummeted to 1.18 goals, less than half of the previous one!
If things go on like this, Manchester United's performance will definitely encounter huge problems.

Therefore, stimulating Yin Jun's state has become Manchester United's current top priority.

But what makes people helpless is that now Yin Jun is neither injured nor has any problems, but his performance is not satisfactory.

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"According to what you said before, I have followed and monitored him for a week. I can conclude that there is really no problem with his body. He may have been a little tired before, but he has almost recovered now." Team medical director Luo Bo Swell said with a frown.

When Yin Jun had a problem, the whole team was nervous, and everyone was under pressure.

He's Manchester United's baby bump right now.

"There is no problem with our tactics. It is no different from before. I have carefully watched the video of the last few rounds. The opponents have no obvious targeted tactics." Assistant coach Mike Phelan said.

After a pause, Mike Phelan added: "I also specially analyzed his data on the field. Whether it is running distance or others, it is quite normal, that is, the number of passes and threatening balls. As well as the data on the timing of running positions, there has been a significant decline."

"His training is normal." Mick Clegg, who is in charge of strength training, said succinctly, "In the gym, he still trains with equipment as usual every day, and everything is normal."

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Italian Walter DiSalvo only joined Manchester United's coaching team in the summer. He has the lowest qualifications and rarely expresses his opinions.Now seeing that other people have expressed their opinions, the office was a little quiet, he hesitated, and then said: "I also think he is quite normal, that is..."

Ferguson was very dissatisfied with the way the Italians only spoke half the language, so he gave him a displeased look and asked, "What is it?"

"It doesn't feel exciting enough," said Valter Di Salvo. "Especially recently, I think he has more pressure than us."

Everyone nodded after hearing this.

Yin Jun has been in the team for two and a half years, and the members of the coaching staff know him very well. He is a very responsible player, self-disciplined and full of professionalism.

In other words, Yin Jun is actually a perfectionist who wants to achieve perfection in everything.

This quality allowed him to grow from a rookie player who had just debuted to today's European Ballon d'Or and World Footballer's Grand Slam in just two or three years, which can be called the No.1 in world football.

As the saying goes, Xiao He is also Xiao He if he is successful, and Xiao He is often easy to bear a heavy burden on himself with such a character.

For example, Yin Jun, he is now the double winner of the European Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year, and is the best player in world football, so he has always demanded his best performance.

But now he is in a relatively sluggish state, and his performance is not satisfactory, so he keeps putting pressure on himself, and then he has the current state.

At this time, Queiroz also said again: "I also have the same feeling. After winning the World Footballer, I feel that Yin's whole body has relaxed. Originally, he was tense, and this relaxation caused his His state has declined, and he has continued to perform poorly, and the team's performance has been affected. He estimates that he is also under a lot of pressure."

Ferguson understood what Queiroz meant.Sometimes, the more pressure a player is under and the more he wants to perform, the more sluggish he will be on the court.

"Carlos, do you have any good suggestions?" Ferguson asked.

Queiroz pondered for a while, and said his suggestion: "Let him have a good rest. Give him a holiday, forget about football, don't think about anything, and let go of the burden. It just so happens that their traditional Chinese New Year will be in a few days. Let him go home for the New Year."

Ferguson thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

It is now the end of January in 2005. According to the calendar, this is already the last ten days of the twelfth lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar, and there are only a few days before New Year's Eve.

Since joining Manchester United in the summer of 2002, Yin Jun spent the previous two Chinese Spring Festivals in the UK.

(End of this chapter)