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Chapter 584 New Manchester United

When Yin Jun flew to Japan with Manchester United to continue Manchester United's warm-up journey, the Chinese team also assembled again to prepare for the upcoming second East Asian Cup.

This time, Alihan did not recruit most of the European players, including Yin Jun.

The reason for making such a decision is that on the one hand, European teams have basically started pre-match training and are not willing to release players. On the other hand, Alihan wants to investigate players more extensively.

Last month, the Chinese team unexpectedly won the German Confederations Cup. This not only greatly improved Alihan's reputation, but also made Alihan realize the huge problems of the Chinese team.

During the Confederations Cup, the Chinese team scored a total of 5 goals in 11 games, with an average of 2.2 goals per game. The offensive firepower is very fierce, but it is very embarrassing to look at the Chinese team's scorer list.

The Chinese team has only 3 names on the scorer list during the German Confederations Cup, among which Yin Jun, who scored 7 goals, topped the list. He is also the Golden Boot of the Confederations Cup.

And the second place in the scorer list is embarrassing, because the name is own goal!

In the semi-final between the Chinese team and Argentina, the Argentine scored 3 own goals unluckily!

If the origin of these three own goals is investigated, Argentine goalkeeper Lukes is definitely the first to contribute. He personally scored 2 goals and also caused the third own goal of the Argentine team.

Of the 11 goals in total, Yin Jun accounted for 7 and the Argentine scored 3. This means that the Chinese players except Yin Jun only scored 1 goal during the Confederations Cup!
This is outrageous!

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Alihan is very clear that this Chinese team suffers from serious "Yin Jun dependence". Once Yin Jun is injured or absent due to other reasons, it will show its true colors and become a third-rate team, or even a bad team. Incoming team.

This is very unfavorable for him as the head coach. In order to avoid this situation, or to prepare for this situation, Alihan made the decision not to recruit Yin Jun and others during the East Asian Cup.

After winning last year's Asian Cup and this year's Confederations Cup, Alihan's position in the Chinese team was unprecedentedly stable, which also gave him the confidence to train for the East Asian Cup.

Under such circumstances, many new faces appeared in this new Chinese team.The national youth team, which had just performed well in the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, had many players appear on the plane of the Chinese team to South Korea.

These young people are also very competitive, or they cherish the opportunity to perform in the national team very much.When Yin Jun participated in the warm-up match with Manchester United in Japan, he forced the South Korean team and the Japanese team with a score of 1:1 and 2:2.

When Yin Jun returned to the UK with Manchester United, he got the news that the Chinese team defeated the North Korean team 2:0 in the third game, thus winning the second East Asian Cup with an unbeaten record of 1 win and 2 draws. champion.

Thus, Ali Han can be regarded as a preliminary proof that he has the ability to lead the Chinese team to some achievements in the absence of Yin Jun.

Arihan therefore decided to inspect more newcomers before the start of next year's World Cup.

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Yin Jun didn't know what Arihan was thinking, at this moment he had returned to England with the team, and was nervously making final preparations for the new season.

Since last season almost all four were empty, they only won a tasteless League Cup, and Manchester United did not win the most important Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup.

Such a record obviously cannot satisfy Manchester United, so in the new season, from the head coach Ferguson to every Manchester United player, they hold their breath and vow to make changes.

In the new season, the schedules of major European leagues are relatively intensive. This is because the World Cup in Germany will start in June next year, so almost all major European leagues will end in early May.

Under such a premise, starting from the new season, the schedule will be more intensive than normal.

However, for Manchester United, they have a rare easy schedule at the beginning of the new season.Because they missed the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup last season, this prevented the Red Devils from participating in the Community Shield and UEFA Super Cup after the start of the new season, and ranked second in the Premier League last season, which allowed them to avoid the Champions League qualifying round .

In this way, before the start of the Champions League group stage, Manchester United only needs to play in the league.This is obviously very beneficial for Manchester United to start the league well and determine their advantage in the standings early.

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At 8:13 p.m. on August 7th, local time, the opening game of the new season of the Premier League kicked off at Goodison Park in Liverpool. Manchester United faced Everton, who was fourth in the Premier League last season.

Two days before the start of the game, Phil Neville, a member of Manchester United's Class of 92, had no choice but to transfer and leave because it was difficult to get a chance at Manchester United and joined Everton.Therefore, this game is also the first time Phil Neville played against his old club after joining the Toffees.

However, Moyes did not send Phil Neville to play in the end.But this strong dialogue that people imagined ended with Manchester United winning 3:0 in the away game. Yin Jun, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Rooney contributed to Manchester United respectively.

A week later, at the same time again, in the first game of the second round of the Premier League, Manchester United sat at Old Trafford and ushered in the challenge of Aston Villa, another traditional Premier League team.

In the first show at home in the new season, the Red Devils were very proactive. The ball possession rate in the first half hour exceeded [-]%, which made Villa coach O'Reilly anxiously pointing fingers outside the field.

The Red Devils' offensive was too fierce. Although Villa was very tenacious, they were still scored by Manchester United in the 34th minute of the game.Rooney's shot from 25 yards in the middle was once again blocked by Aaron Hughes.Then Fletcher uploaded, and Yin Jun poked the ball into Villa's goal before Sorensen made a clearance.

Manchester United sealed the victory in the 66th minute, and Ruud van Nistelrooy's close-range shot helped Manchester United extend their advantage to 2 goals.

In the middle of the week, the Premier League ushered in the third round.While Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool battled for a place in the Champions League, Manchester United ushered in a hearty victory at Old Trafford as they swept newly-promoted Wigan 5-0. Competitive, in this game, Yin Jun scored another goal.

Manchester United's three-game winning streak also allowed them to get all 9 points, scoring 10 goals frantically but not conceding 1 goal, and beat Chelsea with a goal difference advantage, ranking first in the Premier League standings.

Mourinho's team also performed very strong and stable. They beat Wigan Athletic 1-0 in the first round, beat Arsenal 1-0 again in the second round, and swept West Brom 4-0 in this round. Also 1 goal was not conceded.

(End of this chapter)