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Chapter 188 Defender!!!!

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The spn Manchester United team did not stop in Asia after winning the championship, and returned to the UK by plane that night.

Ferguson, the three main players who participated in the Club World Cup with the team, gave each of them a three-day holiday.

In other words, in the 15th round of the league, when Manchester United played against Aston Villa at home, Li Yu, Scholes, and Park Ji-sung would not even appear in the team's squad.

This game is the 172nd official confrontation between the two clubs. Prior to this, Manchester United had a clear advantage with 87 wins, 36 draws and 48 losses. In the past ten years, the two sides have played against Villa 24 draws and 3 losses in 21 times without a win. The league played 27 times. Villa didn't have a win and only scored 7 points, and they lost all of their last 7 visits to Dream Theater.In this campaign, the crisis of Manchester United's central defender has eased. Vidic and Brown have returned to partner in the middle, but the right back position still needs to be played by Fletcher. Rooney and Ryan Giggs both returned to the starting lineup.

But no one would have thought of the final outcome. Manchester United lost 0:1 to their opponents at Old Trafford. [

This season, the league suffered its first defeat at home, and it was also the first time in 26 years that it lost to Villa at the Theater of Dreams.

Due to Manchester United's defeat at home, Ferguson hardly answered reporters' questions at the post-match press conference, and chose to leave after commenting on his team. "In the first half, we made a lot of mistakes and let them take their chances and score. In the second half, I think we should have equalized and even won. We played against them and created a lot of chances, but it's a pity. Wasted one by one, of course, this is also a very common phenomenon.” Ferguson said that Manchester United completely controlled the game in the second half, but failed to seize the opportunity, and said that the championship battle with Chelsea has not yet officially started. It's an extremely difficult league, so we missed chances to draw again and again. If this gap can be maintained until January, then we have a chance to come back in one fell swoop."

Once Manchester United loses in a Premier League game, the referee on duty must be the first to suffer. This has also become a phenomenon of Ferguson-loses are all caused by the referee.This game is no exception. Ferguson once again bombarded the referee, thinking that they gave too little stoppage time. "They should give enough time. Although the stoppage time given was 3 minutes, in fact it only kicked for 2 minutes and 3 seconds!"

It is conceivable that when Manchester United had an overall advantage at home, in the 21st minute, Abang Laho scored the winning goal. The process of scoring also further exposed the problems of Manchester United's defense. Bonlajo hits Ashley Young on the left with a pass from the midfielder. Yang shakes Fletcher's defense and passes the ball. This is the team's 6th goal conceded in the league since Ferguson took charge, and it is also the club's 300th goal conceded at home in the league.

The goal ratio of the audience was 19:8, and Manchester United scored more than twice as many goals as their opponents. It is conceivable that such a goal efficiency will make all fans who care about Manchester United think of Lee who is still at home on vacation. Yu, if No. 2 was on the field, would it be different?

This game is Rooney's configuration as a lone striker. Although he has worked hard to get fat, but in the 0-1 loss to Villa at Old Trafford, Rooney must be the one who feels the most uncomfortable under the Manchester United team.

Fighting for 90 minutes, one shot in the lintel, one flop and yellow, 9 shots and 58 passes, "Little Fatty" can be said to be the savior who can't score the goal after exhausting all his strength, but after the game, Sky TV still broadcasts The high score was given to Rooney, and he made a succinct comment: "He is the best player in Manchester United."

In the last round of the Champions League away game against Wolfsburg, Rooney not only did not enter the squad but did not even go to Germany with the team.However, Ferguson revealed the secret afterwards: it was not to give "Little Fatty" a chance to rest, but Rooney had new injuries on his body. Fortunately, Rooney's injuries were not serious.After a week of recovery, Rooney returned to the starting lineup.

Speaking of Villa, it can be regarded as one of Rooney's "favorites" in his career, because Xiaopang has penetrated the opponent's city 5 times in the last 5 encounters between the two sides, not to mention that they are also Manchester United's most loyal boy.After the start of the game, Villa's offensive was extremely fierce, and the rhythm of offensive and defensive transitions was also fast. Of course, this was the so-called adaptation to Rooney who spared no effort. In just a few minutes after 10 minutes, Rooney sent three strikes successively. Unfortunately, Park Ji-sung and Ryan Giggs failed to understand and missed the opportunity one by one.

In the 21st minute, Manchester United's backyard caught fire, which was somewhat unexpected, but it is conceivable that the lagging Red Devils would immediately pounce to try to make up for their mistakes.In the 24th minute, Rooney fell in the penalty area and slid out of the bottom line on his stomach. The referee Atkinson did not give a penalty, but took out a yellow card to warn Rooney. Pang did not argue too much about this.Judging from the replay footage, Rooney did mean to win a penalty kick.

A Villa fan taunted Rooney in a message on bb: Rooney is a repeat offender, but this is his worst performance, because he usually handles this kind of situation well. To be able to get an inch closer would be perfect.Speaking of Rooney's diving, of course, the controversial "sexual" fall with Arsenal that led to the end of the Gunners' 49-game unbeaten record is the most classic one.The reason why few people mentioned it in recent years is all because there was an even more exaggerated diving king Luo in the Manchester United team.

Before the game, Villa coach O'Neill praised Rooney on the website, saying that Xiaopang is a better player than Luo. "After Rooney left, this season was a crucial season for Rooney. At the beginning of the season, he said that he would be willing to take on more responsibilities. Now I think he has completely done it, and he is very good. Rooney is a A world-class player, I think it should be ranked in the top five. I always think Rooney is a player with amazing personal ability and who cares about the team as a whole. As long as the team needs him, he can play in any position. Complain and go all out." Of course, O'Neill did not drug Rooney, because when he praised Abang Lahor before, he had the analogy of "Abang Lahor is my Rooney".

Rooney's overall performance was really good except for diving. He completed a high-quality shot on the left side of the penalty area shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, the ball hit the lower edge of the lintel. After that, Rooney frequently tried his feet, especially from Giggs in the second half. After taking over the captain's armband, it's a pity that Xiaopang couldn't break the city guarded by Friedel.Rooney's pass also failed to pose a direct threat to Villa fans because there were too few outflanking points in front of the goal.

Bryan Robson, who scored the only goal for the Red Devils in Manchester United's 26-1 loss to Villa 2 years ago (also the last time the Red Devils lost at home to Villa before this campaign), said Rooney was better than Drogba. "Rooney's enthusiasm for football every day, his mentality and tenacity to the game are second to none. If I could, I would like to have Drogba and Rooney, but if I had to choose one, then I would choose Rooney. Because as long as he is not injured Troubled, then Wayne Rooney can make a lot of different records."

The offense was not strong, but it still got a high media score in the end.

For the back line, the media is not so polite, pointing directly at Manchester United, they must buy a defender during the winter transfer period.

"I'm very disappointed about conceding the goal, because they didn't have too many chances to score, but they seized the best one they created." After the game, Vidic looked regretful in an interview with mutv.Abanglaho's header in the 21st minute became the turning point of the game and also influenced the final outcome.

It is necessary for us to restore the goal that rewrote a series of historical records between the two sides.Milner made a pass in the midfield, and Abanglaho knocked to the left after receiving the ball. Ashley Young shook and easily got rid of this campaign. Fletcher, who continued to play as a guest right back, passed the ball. It was too late for Nemanja Vidic, who still needed to mark Husky, to make up for it too late, and Abanglaho headed the goal from the edge of the small penalty area.

Manchester United's recent defense suffered an injury attack that was unprecedented. When they played against Wolfsburg in the Champions League, only Evra was a full-time defender, and the other three were midfielders.In this campaign, the defense situation has improved. Brown and Vidic have both come back and can work together as a partner in the defense hinterland, but Fletcher still needs to continue to fight the fire on the right. [

There are many reasons for the conceded goal.However, Fletcher's slightly amateur blocking pass and Brown's take-off and fall should be the main reasons for the city's destruction.Fletcher played very actively in this campaign, whether it was defense in the backcourt or assists in the frontcourt, but the Scot also made mistakes as a cameo.In addition to conceding the ball, in the first half, after receiving a pass from Kuschak, he was unable to deal with it and was intercepted by Abanglaho. If it weren't for Kuschak to block the former's cross with his feet, Manchester United might not be the only one. Just drop a ball.

The performance of Brown and Vidic in this game can only be described as mediocre. Brown's top fall was fatal enough, but none of the corner kicks in the frontcourt (Manchester United had as many as 9 corner kicks in this campaign) could win Drop point.Vidic did have the feat of clearing the opponent's pass from the backcourt, but judging from the performance of the Serbian iron guard staggering forward with the ball several times, he is still a long way from his best state.

A number of British media reported this week that Ferguson was considering introducing Saul Campbell to ease the personnel crisis in the defense, but was immediately denied by Sir Alex Ferguson. "Sol Campbell is a good player but he's not someone we're thinking about bringing to Manchester United at the moment. We do have difficulties at the moment, especially at centre-back, but I'm sure by January, he'll be on the injured list. Most of the players can come back." I believe that Manchester United will increase their power and compete with Chelsea in the Premier League standings.

But before all this happened, the first thing Manchester United had to face was the cynicism of the media.

In November 1983, a gang of armed thugs robbed an estimated £11 million worth of gold from a secure warehouse at London's Heathrow Airport; earlier that month Aston Villa also "robbed gold" at Old Trafford. "Manchester United captured the Red Devils 2600-2, but since then Villa has failed to return home in Dream Theater, even in the 1 away games after 2002 without a single point. In December 7, all past humiliation history was wiped out, relying on Abang Lahor's winning header to overthrow the Red Devils, and using this to get the club's 2009th away victory in the Premier League.

Before the Manchester United players stepped into the Old Trafford Stadium, Chelsea were tied 3-3 by Everton at home. According to the British media: "This news can make Manchester United fans very happy." Hours later, the report had to change direction and said, "In addition to Villa fans, there should be Chelsea fans who can smile." The reason is simple. Point Boy" Aston Villa missed the chance to tie the London Blue Lions.What does this result mean?It means that Villa has successfully "robbed" Manchester United in the Theater of Dreams for the first time in 26 years; it means that it has defeated Manchester United in the league for the first time since August 1995, during which the two sides fought 8 games; Manchester United, thus ending the embarrassment of the Red Devils' invincibility in 27 games in one fell swoop.Aston Villa, which can temporarily rank among the top three in the standings, has also become a strong team killer this season, because so far it has maintained an unbeaten record of 24 wins and 7 draws in 5 times against the top ten teams in the league.

So for Manchester United, apart from missing the opportunity to lead Chelsea in this defeat, what has been rewritten on the record book?First of all, Manchester United has swallowed the bitter fruit of losing at home for the first time in the league in nine months. This is also the second time the Red Devils have lost in the last 9 league games in the Theater of Dreams.Secondly, Manchester United lost 32 games in only 16 rounds of the league, tying the total number of losses last season.And this campaign suffered a zero seal from the opponent, making Manchester United's number of zero games reached 3, which also tied the number of times they did not score in the entire season of last season.

After the game, bb couldn't praise Villa too much: Aston Villa finally ended their 10-year long wait to defeat Manchester United. After they won their first Premier League victory at Old Trafford, they also climbed to the third place in the standings.How amazing is Vera?They were the only one of the top six teams to win on Saturday.Now Arsenal and Liverpool have the opportunity to narrow the gap between their team and the top three in the standings.

Three days later, the 3th round will be held. This time, Manchester United will face an underdog, the Wolves!

Li Yu also returned to the starting roster. The fans of Dream Theater gave Li Yu a special gift before the game started, "Lee, we need your goals!"

Rooney was somewhat jealous of Li Yu, they loved Li Yu so much, how could he always be the second child in the team!

Whether in the hearts of the fans, the importance of the club, or tactical arrangements, the role of the millennium number two has never left Rooney.

Rooney curled his lips subconsciously, but Li Yu saw this action. Li Yu was still surprised. When Rooney learned the Portuguese's little trick, he didn't notice any strange emotions from his teammates.

After the opening game, Rooney still continued the playing style of the Rogue King in the previous game, wasting several opportunities to score goals.

Only now did the media finally understand one thing. Rooney may have played with the same mentality in the last game, which is why he failed to score a goal.

Rooney wants to prove himself, but now it seems that before proving himself, he must first correct his mentality.

Li Yu is far ahead of Rooney on this point. It is more mysterious to play well than others. Comparing this is something that the media, fans, and experts do. Playing well is more important than anything else. Li Yu is good. His mentality also allowed him to perform very well in the game.

At the end of the first half, Manchester United No. 9 used two goals to give back the hope of the home fans before the start of the game.

During the intermission, Li Yu discovered the strangeness of the little fat man. Usually, the two of them would sit together, chatting and laughing, and occasionally sarcasm each other.

Not only did Rooney not sit next to Li Yu today, but he never said a single word during the entire break.

"What's wrong?" Li Yu specifically asked Rooney before going on the field.

"I need to score!" Rooney's answer was simple. [

"Okay, I'll help you!" Li Yu wanted to help without hesitation.

Rooney took a look at Li Yu just now, he didn't seem to be lying, this kid hasn't changed at all, he's still the same as before the Golden Globes.

Manchester United's No. 9 and No. 10 are just two simple sentences, which resolved some discordant factors within the team.

After the start of the second half, Li Yu retreated deeper, giving all the depth of the frontcourt to Rooney. When there is a chance to break through, the target of the pass is always Rooney.

Rooney also understood that Li Yu was playing his life to send assists and goals to himself.

He was also very touched. There are too many intrigues among football players. Players like Xiang Li Yu are really rare. However, it is most comfortable and reassuring to partner with such a person. He will be the leader on the field. A good partner will also become a good friend outside the court. No matter how you say it, Rooney has identified Li Yu as a friend this time, and the dead knot has been broken. Is a brother and a sister still so important?

Facts have proved that Rooney, who has abandoned distracting thoughts, is definitely a terrifying goal machine. In the second half, Manchester United's No. 10 also scored two goals, one of which came from Li Yu's assist pass after a breakthrough.

After the goal, the two hugged each other again, and the terrifying combination of Manchester United's striker is back!

4:0, the Wolves became the target of the slaughter.

Although Manchester United easily defeated Wolves 4-0 at home, the defending champion of the Premier League also paid a heavy price for the injury of Vidic, the core of the defense, which made the already incomplete Red Devils back line even worse. Among them, Ferguson is likely to use the young Belgian defender Delater.

In the recent period, Manchester United's defense has suffered unprecedented large-scale injuries, so that Ferguson only brought two defenders in the Champions League group match against Wolfsburg, one of which was a club with no actual combat experience. Oliver Gill, the son of David Gill, and Nemanja Vidic are just the latest addition to the Red Devils' defensive injury list.In addition to him, Evans and O'Shea have confirmed that they will miss all the remaining games in 2009; Ferdinand's comeback is far away; Gary Neville, Brown and Fabio are also injured.

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