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Chapter 798 An Unpleasant Ceremony

On the evening of December 12th GMT, Manchester City Stadium.

This is the last round of the UEFA Champions League group stage this season, and it is also Yin Jun's first home game after winning the European Ballon d'Or four times.

Before the game, Manchester United prepared a simple ceremony for Yin Jun, allowing Yin Jun to show his fourth European Ballon d'Or to more than 5 home team fans at the scene.

Seeing Yin Jun holding up the European Ballon d'Or trophy amidst the cheers of the fans, Ronaldo's eyes were full of envy.

Ronaldo also selected this year's European Ballon d'Or 50-man squad and finally ranked 16th.And he was also included in the shortlist for World Footballer of the Year.This is already the best performance in his career, but Yin Jun, who is 2 days younger than himself, has already won four European Golden Globe Awards and two World Footballer of the Year awards, and is very likely to win them in twelve days The third World Footballer's trophy, Ronaldo has an inexplicable emotion in his heart.

After the brief ceremony, the pre-match ceremony of the Champions League followed immediately, and then the game officially started.

"...The game has been going on for a while, and Manchester United, which is playing at home, has the advantage. After all, in terms of hard power, Manchester United is better. In the historical confrontation between the two sides, Manchester United also has an absolute advantage. 6 games 6 And there are many young players in Benfica. Although these young players have good talents, they only have good potential and lack strength..." After the game entered a period of calm, Huang Jianqiang finally had the energy to explain Some things that don't have much to do with the game.

Manchester United has locked the first place in the group ahead of time, but they are more active than Benfica, which must win to qualify.From the beginning of the game, they aggressively pressed in the midfield and suppressed the visiting team.

Benfica is younger and more impactful, but also lacks experience and is slightly inferior to Manchester United.

Although Benfica is also one of the 14 top giants in Europe, there will be ranks among these 14 teams.For example, Manchester United is the giant among the giants, while Benfica is worse than Manchester United-both now and in history.

Benfica has only won the Champions League once in the history of the club, while Manchester United has won the top of Europe five times.

As for the gap between the Portuguese Super League and the Premier League, it is self-evident.

On the field, Manchester United can be said to be fully suppressing Benfica, so Benfica's offense is not running smoothly, like a machine that lacks lubrication.On the other hand, Manchester United carried forward their advantages on the wing. Amidst the deafening cheers of the home fans, they launched wave after wave of offensives against Benfica's goals like a tide.

However, it was the visiting team Benfica who scored the first goal in the game.

After overcoming Manchester United's opening onslaught, Benfica, who had a firm foothold, began to counterattack and took the lead in the 27th minute. Simao broke into the penalty area and passed back from the right side. Nelson shot from 25 yards from the right. The ball went straight into the upper left corner and into the net. .

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At the moment when Manchester United lost the ball, the noise over the Manchester City Stadium was very loud, as loud as a gust of wind blowing in this stadium.

This kind of hustle and bustle is not the singing of the team anthem by more than 5 Manchester United fans before the game, nor is it cheering for their team's performance. It is the voice of Manchester United fans expressing dissatisfaction.

"When the game was approaching half an hour, I didn't expect that it was not the home team Manchester United that scored first, but the visiting team Benfica!" John Mortenson said excitedly, "From the very beginning of this game, Manchester United at home seemed a bit Aggressive, like wanting to swallow Benfica in one bite. But Benfica beat Manchester United's onslaught, and broke through Manchester United's goal with a quick counter attack..."

After 5 rounds of the group stage, Benfica temporarily ranked second in the group with 7 points, one point ahead of the Celtics.But this does not mean that Benfica has the initiative to qualify, because they will face the mighty Manchester United in the final round, while the Celtics are challenging Copenhagen in the group.

However, Benfica will definitely strive to advance to the Champions League knockout rounds, which is the dream of any team participating in the Champions League, so Benfica will definitely fight Manchester United away.

But everyone thought that under such a background, the Benfica players would be more nervous and might not be able to show their full strength, after all, this is an away game.Although Manchester United temporarily moved to Manchester City Stadium to play due to the demolition and reconstruction of the Old Trafford Stadium, the atmosphere of Manchester United's home court has not changed because of this, and the City Stadium has become their new devil's home stadium.

A life-and-death battle, or an away game against the powerful Manchester United, the pressure on the Benfica players can be imagined.

Under such circumstances, their performance may not be very good.

After the game started, the scene was indeed as everyone imagined. Manchester United suppressed Benfica in an all-round way. The game was like a half-time offensive and defensive drill for Manchester United.

But why did Benfica score first?
That's why the Manchester City Stadium scene is so buzzing.Manchester United, which is known for its offense, conceded the ball first when its home team pinned the visiting team within 30 meters of the half-court. How could this not make Manchester United fans feel outraged?

There were a lot of boos mixed in with the din, but I don't know if the boos were for Benfica or Manchester United, or both?
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Carrick moved forward amidst the great uproar.At the same time, he turned his head and looked around to observe the situation on the field.

Because Manchester United's attack after losing the ball was too fierce, they pushed Benfica's midfielder to the front of the penalty area, almost pressing together with the back line.

This means an opportunity for the offensive side.

After taking the lead, although Benfica thought that Manchester United would definitely counterattack, it seemed that they did not expect that Manchester United's offense could be so fierce, so they were not prepared enough and were a little flustered.

Carrick habitually went to Yin Jun first, wanting to see where Yin Jun was.

It was found that Yin Jun was surrounded by Benfica central defender Luisson—he had already run into the penalty area and was standing next to Luisson.

After confirming Yin Jun's position, Carrick raised his hand to ask his teammates for the ball.

Cristiano Ronaldo passed the football to him from the right. Carrick did not pass the ball to Yin Jun, but moved to the left, giving it to Giggs over there.

Giggs didn't stop the ball from the wing, kicked the ball from Carrick directly to the middle of the goal, and made a cross!

In front of the goal, Yin Jun and Luisong were entangled and jumped at the same time.In the end, Louisson relied on his physical advantages to push the football out first.

(End of this chapter)