host must win

Chapter 762 Create Your Own Legendary Number
When the time entered mid-August, the new season of the Premier League was about to begin, and the first to come was still the outpost—the Community Shield!
Since Manchester United won the Premier League and the FA Cup last season, the Community Shield of the new season will be played between Manchester United and the Premier League runner-up Chelsea.

This is also a contest between the two most champion-like teams in the Premier League in the new season.

This game is already Mourinho's ninth game against Manchester United since he landed in the Premier League.In the past eight matches between these two teams, Manchester United has a slight upper hand with 9 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses.However, in terms of goals scored and conceded, the two sides fought to a tie, each scoring 2 goals.Yin Jun is the player who scored the most goals against Mourinho's Chelsea. In the 9 games he played, he broke Chelsea's goal 6 times, which can be called Mourinho's suffering.

Since landing in the Premier League, Mourinho has replaced Wenger as Ferguson's biggest competitor.The competition between Manchester United and Chelsea is also the strongest battle in the Premier League in the past three seasons.

Chelsea is also the team with the biggest transfer moves this summer.The joining of two world-class stars Shevchenko and Ballack, as well as the addition of powerful new stars such as Kalou and Mikel, made the already extremely powerful Chelsea even more powerful.Obviously, after a season in which all four are empty, neither Abramovich nor Mourinho hope that the Blues will have no achievements in the new season.

The joining of Shevchenko also means that Mourinho has begun to march to the European continent after relying on the 451 formation to play in the Premier League. The team is moving closer to the 442 formation that is popular in the European war.Mourinho is likely to drill the formation for the new season, which will also become a highlight of this game.

The biggest problem for Chelsea is the physical fitness of the players. After flying back to London for a commercial match in the United States, they rushed to Rotterdam non-stop on the 7th. In addition, they played a friendly match with the Celtics on the 9th. Before the arrival of the Community Shield, the players Already exhausted.In Mourinho's eyes, the Community Shield is not so important anymore. The important thing is that the many international players in the team can adjust their status from the World Cup and warm-up matches as soon as possible, and make a good start at the beginning of the season.

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Unlike Chelsea, which is aggressively signing in, Manchester United did not make any big moves in the transfer market this summer after achieving an unprecedented quadruple crown last season.Although they spent 1860 million pounds to introduce Tottenham midfielder Carrick, they changed hands and sold the Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy to Real Madrid for 1500 million pounds, basically achieving breakeven.

Such a situation was already expected by the British media. On the one hand, Manchester United achieved great success last season with the current lineup, which shows that this lineup is mature and full of combat effectiveness, and there is no need for large-scale introduction of new aid. and the cleaning of old players; on the other hand, Manchester United is currently burdened with huge debts, and the team started to rebuild the Old Trafford stadium in the summer, spending a lot of money, which led to the team Shy, really can't spend much money to buy people.

However, for Manchester United and Ferguson, the biggest success is to retain the team captain and number one star Yin Jun.

This summer, the hottest topic in the transfer market is that Yin Jun may leave Manchester United. However, after a summer of ups and downs, the youngest European Golden Globe winner and World Player of the Year double winner has still completed his contract with Manchester United. Renew the contract and continue to fight at Manchester United.

Manchester United players are no more physically fit than Chelsea.Many players in the team played in the World Cup in Germany, especially the top star Yin Jun, who participated in the third and fourth finals of the World Cup, and almost persisted until the last moment of the World Cup.

Manchester United players who did not participate in the World Cup have a very heavy game schedule this summer.After participating in three non-stop commercial games in South Africa in late July, he returned to Europe and played five warm-up games against Celtic, Preston, Porto, Ajax and Sevilla. There were 5 games in just three weeks, and it was also exhausting.

Therefore, in the face of the upcoming Community Shield Cup, Ferguson's attitude is similar to that of Mourinho.

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After the start of the game, both sides focused on the midfield. Although Chelsea used the ball to take the initiative on the scene, Manchester United's tight press made it difficult for Chelsea players to adapt.

In the 9th minute, Manchester United used a counterattack to break the deadlock. Chelsea's corner kick was unsuccessful. Giggs took the ball from the left and went straight to Huanglong. leading.

Chelsea, which was behind, began to accelerate.

In the 25th minute, Baracla injured his waist muscles and was replaced by Kalou. Chelsea's lineup became 442.This change allowed Shevchenko to return to the striker and Drogba to form a double center, and also allowed the power of the "nuclear warhead" to be brought into play. He tested Van der Sar with long shots outside the penalty area.

In the 44th minute, Shevchenko's efforts finally paid off. Lampard made a long pass from the midfielder. Shevchenko succeeded in countering offside and scored a single-handed goal to equalize the score for Chelsea.

Changing places to fight again, Chelsea once again took the initiative after the kick-off, once pressing Manchester United to attack at halftime.

In the 53rd minute, Chelsea began to make substitutions. Bridge replaced Gremi. This substitution opened the prelude to the training of the two teams.

Subsequently, Ferguson replaced Yin Jun, C Ronaldo, Rooney and other players who participated in the World Cup one after another, which can be regarded as a warm-up for the first round of the Premier League starting next weekend.Mourinho also sent Diarra, Wright Phillips, Mikel and other young players to inspect the players.

The Red Devils began to regain the initiative after Yin Jun and other main players came on the field, and the scoring opportunities created naturally increased.

In the 80th minute, Cristiano Ronaldo, who came off the bench, made a pass from the left. Rooney scored with a header without guards, and the Red Devils took the lead again.

Relying on the goal of "Lu Xiaopang", Manchester United defeated Chelsea 2:1 and won Manchester United's fifth championship trophy in 2006!
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After returning to Manchester from Cardiff, the Manchester United team participated in the new season photo shoot.This can be regarded as Manchester United's official announcement to close the summer transfer window.

With Ruud van Nistelrooy's departure, his number 10 jersey became vacant.Originally, many people thought that Yin Jun might take over the jersey number representing the core of the team, but Yin Jun still chose his previous No. 8 jersey. He was determined to create his own legendary number, so the No. 10 jersey fell to the little fat man Rooney's hands.

The new aid Carrick also did not choose the vacated No. 9 jersey.He is a midfielder, and it is expected that he will not choose No. 9.The new England international midfielder chose the No. 16 jersey left by former captain Roy Keane after leaving the team.

The rest of the team basically maintained the jersey numbers of last season.

(End of this chapter)