host must win

Chapter 611
"We made several serious mistakes!"

In the post-match press conference, West Ham United coach Alan Pardew summed up the just-concluded game when he was interviewed by the media. He looked very lonely because his team had just lost ball up.

1:3, this is the final score of the game.

According to international practice, the home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

After the score was reversed by Yin Jun's goal, the West Ham players were almost in a daze, so in the last ten minutes, they were very dazed and depressed on the court.

And Manchester United performed better and better after unloading the burden on their hearts.

In the 87th minute of the game, Manchester United once again won a corner kick through Yin Jun's assault.Rooney took a corner kick on the right, and O'Shea headed into the net from 6 yards in front of the goal, rewriting the score to 1:3!

In the end, relying on Yin Jun's one pass and one shot, they defeated West Ham United in the away game.

However, Manchester United still failed to regain the top spot in the Premier League standings, because in this round, Chelsea also defeated Portsmouth with a score of 2:0 in the away game.

Therefore, after 14 league rounds, Manchester United continued to rank second with 35 points.

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Alan Pardew believes that the team's biggest problem is that there have been too many mistakes. This is the most serious problem of West Ham United so far this season, and it is very unreasonable.

"You can't make mistakes at this high level, but unfortunately, we made more than one serious defensive error, which caused us to suffer a terrible blow and eventually lost the game."

Alan Pardew believes that Manchester United's defense in this game is very good. It is difficult for West Ham to find a breakthrough. There are a lot of shots, but in fact more of them come from long-range shots, kicks in the penalty area that are really threatening Not many opportunities.

"Judging from the whole game, our ball possession time is much higher than that of our opponents. We are obviously better and have taken the initiative in the game, but we are not effective enough in the conversion rate of ball possession. We give the opponent's offense The pressure wasn't strong enough."

"To put it simply, we need to make ourselves more aggressive, but also more concise and efficient."

But Alan Pardew also admitted that this has been a problem for the team this season.As a result, the team's record this season can only hover in the middle of the Premier League standings. If this problem can be solved, West Ham United is expected to enter the European theater.

For the game, Ferguson praised Yin Jun and the players fiercely, especially mentioning Yin Jun's role as the captain of the team, and his ability to stand up at critical moments is very admirable.

The Manchester United coach also said that if it were not for the referee's misjudgment, Manchester United should have scored in the first half.

"It was a very obvious, undoubted handball. It should have been a penalty. Our players also appealed, but the referee still upheld the original decision. I believe everyone should have seen it. It was a wrong penalty. .”

As for the penalty mentioned by Ferguson, West Ham coach Alan Pardew said he did not see it.

"I didn't notice at the time whether it was a handball or not, but I think the referee made the most sensible decision in his opinion at the time. My player didn't consciously try to open his arms. That should not be sentenced to death. .”

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Two days later, Manchester United ushered in the last battle in November. In the fourth round of the League Cup, the Red Devils played at home against West Brom.

This is the second time in the history of the two clubs that they have met in the League Cup. The last time they met was in the 2003-2004 season, and it was also in the fourth round. As a result, West Brom beat Manchester United 2:0 to advance, so this game is not for the Red Devils. It is also a battle of revenge.

Because the league between Manchester United and West Ham has just ended 50 hours, Ferguson has carried out a large-scale rotation of Manchester United's lineup, and many main players, including Yin Jun, have been given a rotation.

But the strength of the starting lineup is still strong, Ronaldo, Rooney, Park Ji-sung and Gary Neville, who has just recovered from injury, all appear in the starting lineup.

This game is Manchester United's first home game after the death of the former Manchester United star Best, so before the buzzer, Ferguson and West Brom coach and former Manchester United player Brian Robson placed wreaths in the center circle, and the audience also A moment of silence was observed to express the memory and respect for Best.

After the start of the game, Manchester United performed positively.

In the 6th minute, Rooney scored a goal, but the linesman raised the flag to indicate that Rooney was offside, and the goal was disallowed.

In the 11th minute, the Senegalese Camara tripped Ronaldo in the penalty area and was whistled for a penalty kick by the referee Klattenburg. Ronaldo himself took the knife and hit the bottom left corner of the goal with his right foot.

The score of 1:0 was quickly rewritten again.In the 16th minute, Rossi broke through from the right and made a cross. Rooney stopped the ball 20 yards in front of the goal and made a dunk, and then shot with his left foot. Holt made a mistake when he pounced on the ball. As a result, the ball hit the bottom of the post and drilled goal net.

Manchester United sealed the victory in the 57th minute. After O'Shea cooperated with Rooney, O'Shea finally rewritten the score to 15:3 with a right-footed shot from 0 meters away.

Although West Brom pulled one back in the 77th minute, it was meaningless.Manchester United finally defeated their opponents with a score of 3:1 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the League Cup.

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After entering December, Manchester United's first game is at home against Portsmouth, which is the 12th round of the Premier League.

The funeral of former Manchester United star Best will be held in Belfast this weekend.

Giggs returned to the starting lineup after missing 9 games due to injury. Yin Jun, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Scholes, Van der Sar and Smith all returned to the starting lineup after taking a break in the League Cup in midweek.

Portsmouth have not won at Old Trafford since 1957 and Lua Lua returned to the starting line-up for his 50th appearance after recovering from an illness.

Manchester United has always controlled the situation on the field, and Lualua, who is cruising in front of the visiting team, is the only threat to Manchester United.

United took the lead in the 20th minute when Giggs took a left corner and Scholes headed in from seven yards in front of the goal and the ball went straight into the far corner.It was his first league goal of the season.

The two sides fell into a stalemate in the second half of the first half, and Manchester United's second goal did not come until the 80th minute.Yin Jun sent the ball from the midfielder, but the opponent tackled and tried to clear the siege but failed. The ball was accurately delivered to Rooney's feet. Rooney shot a low shot from 18 yards into the bottom left corner of the middle.

And Yin Jun scored the seventh league assists this season, continuing to rank first in assists.

Manchester United sealed the victory in the 84th minute. Cristiano Ronaldo broke through the low pass from the right to the center, and Ruud van Nistelrooy easily scored from 12 yards from the center.

This is the Dutchman's 12th league goal this season, and he has tied Yin Jun in the Premier League scorer list.

The Manchester United duo tied for the top scorer in the Premier League!

(End of this chapter)