The sixth professional football player who started with Manchester United

Chapter 54 Manchester City
The next overtake was a matter of course. In the 83rd minute of the game, Dabao blasted the goal with a heavy kick from the outside. The football bounced off the post. Rooney, who reacted the fastest, followed up with a kick to help Manchester United. Scored the last goal of the game.

In the end, after 90 minutes of confrontation, Manchester United defeated Reading 4-3 away.

This also ushered in his own 15-game winning streak in the league.

However, in the next 16th round of the league, Manchester United will usher in the first Manchester Derby of the season.

In the past fifteen rounds of the league, Manchester United naturally ranks first with 45 points, followed closely by Manchester City in the same city. Manchester City has achieved 9 wins and 6 wins in the past fifteen rounds of the league. They have a flat record, but they are already 12 points behind Manchester United in points.

It’s no wonder that many media are saying that the Premier League has become a dominant oligarchic league.

There are even some media who are afraid of chaos in the world and call for restrictions on Manchester United, otherwise the Premier League will gradually lose a lot of competitiveness if it continues like this.

After the 15th round of the game, The Sun published an article titled "Manchester United is taking the Premier League backwards!" The article even said that if Manchester United continues like this without restrictions, it is very likely that it will be halfway through. It will make the league championship battle lose suspense.

Even in the article, he called on the FA to start paying attention to this issue, saying that Manchester United may ruin the efforts of the Premier League in recent years.

Ferguson was naturally very annoyed at such a statement. The old man knew that this f*cking shot hit the top bird. After the Sun newspaper made such a move, the people from the FA will definitely embarrass them on the refereeing issue.

However, these external events did not affect the team's preparations.

On December 12, Manchester United sat at Old Trafford and ushered in their last game in the Champions League group stage.

In the end, Manchester United played in the second team lineup and lost 0 to 1 at home to visiting Cluj, which also ended all their games in the UEFA Champions League group stage this season.

With the end of this game, all eight group matches in the Champions League are also over.

Group H is the group that Manchester United is in. Manchester United won the first place in the group with 4 points from 2 wins and 12 losses. The second place is Galatasaray with 3 points from 1 wins, 2 draw and 10 losses. Although Japan and Japan have 10 points, but because of the relationship between the two teams, Cluj can only be ranked third to play in the UEFA Cup.

In the other groups, Paris Saint-Germain with 5 wins and 1 loss in Group A with 15 points and Porto with 13 points joined hands to enter the round of [-].

In Group B, Schalke 12, who scored 04 points, and Arsenal, who scored 10 points, got their tickets to the Champions League knockout rounds.

The results of Group C were somewhat beyond the expectations of some people. It was Malaga who won the first place in the group, and AC Milan won the second place in the group.

Group D is the death group of the Champions League this season. Dortmund won the first place in this group with an unbeaten record of 4 wins and 2 draws, while Real Madrid became the second in this group with 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. What is disappointing is Manchester City in this group. They only scored 6 points in 3 group games, and they didn't even qualify for the UEFA Cup.

Chelsea, the defending champion of Group E, had a better fate than Manchester City. In the end, Juventus won the first place in the group, Shakhtar Donzne was second in the group, and Chelsea was eliminated. Fortunately, there is still the UEFA Cup. A fig leaf.

Bayern and Valencia finished first and second in Group F, and together they reached the top [-] of the Champions League.

Group G qualifying is Barcelona and Celtic.

The time came on December 12. In the afternoon, the entire Manchester United team arrived at the Etihad Stadium by bus.

Today's derby in the same city also attracted the attention of many people. When the Manchester United people got off the bus, the reporters who had been waiting for a long time also swarmed up and directly surrounded the Manchester United people.

Ferguson is naturally the most attractive as the team's head coach, and Dabao has also received a lot of attention.

When Ferguson was asked about the Sun newspaper's article about the threat to Manchester United, Ferguson's attitude was also scoffing.

"I don't understand what kind of person with a dark mentality can write such an article. Our victory is due to the hard work and seriousness of the players, and through everyone's fair and just victory over every opponent. Our victory is well deserved. , I don’t think we have reduced the influence of the Premier League. On the contrary, I think that only in this way can the influence of the Premier League become greater. Only in this way can everyone seriously study how to make themselves stronger. I suggest that the Sun Such unprofessional journalists should be fired and we should find a professional to report on football.”

With almost 10 minutes left before the start of the game, the starting lineups of both sides also walked out of the player tunnel.

In this game, Manchester United's Ferguson once again returned the formation to 4222. There were not many changes in the starting lineup. De Gea had some wrist problems before the game, so Ferguson arranged Lindegaard as the starting goalkeeper and defender On the line there are still Rafael, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra, Dabao and Carrick serve as double midfielders, Valencia is the midfielder on the right, Ashley Young is on the left, and Robin van Persie and Rooney are on the forward line. .

Manchester City also has a 442 formation, goalkeeper Joe Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Talic, Maicon on the back line, Nasri, Yaya Toure, Barry, David Silva, with Aguero and Dzeko up front.

In fact, speaking of Manchester City, as a local tycoon in the Premier League, Manchester City won the Premier League championship last season, but Manchester City did not actually sign much this summer, and its main lineup has not changed much compared to last season.

The only transfer was the cost of £1200 million to bring home-grown central defender Rodwell from Everton.

Using the words of head coach Mancini in an interview with reporters, it means that Manchester City's current lineup has unparalleled competitiveness whether it is facing the league or facing the European war, so Manchester City's actions in the summer transfer market will be very small. .

But the elimination of the Champions League group also caused Mancini to be questioned.

In addition, they are already 12 points behind Manchester United in the league, which also casts a shadow on Manchester City's defense of the league title. Therefore, before the start of the game, Mancini also said in an interview with reporters that Manchester City will definitely keep the victory in this game. At the Harder Stadium, many media also believe that if Manchester City loses this game, then Mancini's position may become unstable.

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