Football King Bale
Chapter 192: New Year 1
On the first day of 2011, the 21st round of the 2010-2011 season of the English Premier League started full play. At noon, the first game of this round took the lead at the Hawthorn Stadium. It has remained unbeaten so far this season and has led the standings with a huge advantage of 14 points. The Red Devils challenged the newly promoted bloomers West Brom.
This game is the 110th league match between the two clubs. Against the bloomers, the Red Devils' historical record did not have an obvious advantage. Previously, it was only a slight advantage.
However, in recent years, as the Red Devils’ hegemony in England has become stronger, their record against West Brom has also become increasingly dominant.
In fact, since March 31, 1984, Manchester United have not lost to West Brom in nearly 13 league games, and nearly 6 league visits to Hawthorn Stadium to maintain a winning record, and West Brom has been in a poor state of nearly 10 The league lost 7 games.
In this campaign, O'Shea, Scholes and Nani were absent due to injuries, Van der Sar also hanged out of the battle card due to a cold, Kuzzak was given a chance to play, and Irving also entered the bench after he was completely injured; West On the Brown side, both Hara and Tamas were suspended for a penalty, but Brent made a comeback after the suspension period.
Because the Grandpa only had his 69th birthday yesterday, Manchester United soldiers hope to give him a late gift, which is the victory against West Brom in this game.
Therefore, after the start of the game, despite being in the away game, Manchester United still played very actively, and the luck of the Manchester United people also appeared to be good. In the opening only 124 seconds, they broke through the West Brom gate and achieved a fantastic start.
At that time, Evra took Berbatov's left wing to get rid of it and went back to do it. Bell inserted a direct cross and Rooney shot the earth 7 meters from the top and hit the bottom left corner of the goal.
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The little fat man who scored the goal was so happy that Bell, who would provide him with assists, picked up and turned around for a few circles, and then ran crazy to the corner banner area to celebrate.
It's also hard for Rooney to be a little sick. It's really that his recent state is really bad. The long-term goal shortage, coupled with the transfer slaps made in the previous period, put him under great pressure.
Because of the breakdown, the data of the “backlog” on the chubby before the goal was also immediately exposed.
According to the official game calculation, this ball is Rooney's first goal in the last 6 games and the third club goal of the season. It is also the goal in the Premier League again after 126 days.
However, because the two clubs’ goals before the season were all scored by penalty kicks, Rooney also scored a sports goal after wearing the Red Devils shirt after confronting Bayern Munich at the end of March last year. As long as 1418 minutes, the interval between goals for sports in the Premier League is 286 days.
Such a record is really embarrassing for a fat man who wants to become the top striker in the world and wants to get the top salary in football.
Fortunately, however, there was a major turnaround on the first day of 2011, and another 124-second strike was also the fastest goal for the club in the Premier League after the confrontation with Wigan in January 2009, of course for the team two years ago It was also chubby who broke the door early.
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Although they are newly promoted, but West Brom is also a team that pursues, even if they are facing Premier League overlord Manchester United, they will not be willing to fail, nor will they surrender because they lost a goal early.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the current situation of West Brom. Although there was a good start at the beginning of the season, as the season gradually deepened, West Brom showed its disadvantage as a newly promoted. However, their slightly weaker strength is not enough to keep them on the top of the Premier League standings for a long time.
Before the start of the game, West Brom played in 19 Premier League games, with only 6 wins, 4 draws and 9 losses, with the Everton, Newcastle, Liverpool and other three teams with 22 points, but because of a net of -9 He has the fewest wins and ranks 14th in the standings, only 4 points higher than the relegation zone, and there is a danger of falling into the relegation zone at any time.
Therefore, after conceding the goal, West Brom strengthened the offensive and hoped to equalize the score in the shortest time.
Although Odumwingi and Mulumbu's shot from the front of the penalty area was blocked, the home team's offense quickly paid off. In the 14th minute, Brent made a long pass. Vidic's header was poorly pressed under the pressure of Oldham Wenji. Morrison's right foot 21 meters away from the ball volleyed the ball into the top left corner of the goal to equalize the score. .
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At home, the home state of the wait-and-see team showed better performance than the visiting team. After equalizing the score, they were not satisfied. Instead, they played better and suppressed Manchester United on the scene. In the first 20 minutes, West Brom reached 60%.
Although Manchester United are not well-known for their ball-control style, as the Premier League hegemony, their possession rate in the Premier League is not low. Especially this season, Manchester United's strength is not only reflected in points, not only in the number of goals, but also in the control of the situation. In the previous 19 Premier League games, Manchester United averaged a 61% possession rate, ranking first in the Premier League and even surpassing Arsenal, which is known for its technical play.
In these 20 minutes, Manchester United's ball control was actually compressed to only 40%. It can be seen that the bloomers' performance during this time is really good.
West Brom, who controlled the scene, almost overtook the score in the 25th minute. Dolans received a long pass and was knocked down by Neville in the penalty area. However, referee Foy signaled that the game continued, and the penalty was questionable from the TV playback. .
Since then, Manchester United has still been attacked weakly, and West Brom is clearly dominant in momentum. It wasn't until the end of the half that Rooney finished the second shot of the Manchester United team. The midfield disengagement allowed West Brom not only to equalize the score but also occupy the advantage of the scene.
In the end, Manchester United was lucky to enter the halftime with a 1:1 draw.
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Throughout the first half of the game, Manchester United players not only performed poorly in the first few minutes of the game, but also performed unsatisfactory in the next 40 minutes. Even Bell, although he played very hard and did not hesitate to run on the court, but in the downturn of the team, he was also lonely and did not create any good opportunities.
At the end of the halftime, all media were not very satisfied with Manchester United's performance in the first half. ESPN reporters ridiculed: "Ferguson needs to use a'hair dryer' to wake up his disciples, except Bell and Rooney."
It turned out that Ferdinand was the first to give away a penalty in the second half, but fortunately, Odem Wenge gave a big banquet to let the Red Devils escape.
In the second half of the game, Manchester United's possession time increased significantly, but there was still no opportunity to kick in the first 10 minutes. Instead, the home team West Brom nearly exceeded the score again.
In the 53rd minute, Schalner took a corner kick to grab the point. Fortunately, the header he pushed out eventually missed the goal post.
Seeing that the performance of Manchester United players on the court did not change very well, Ferguson couldn't sit still and decided to make staff adjustments.
In the 61st minute, Ferguson replaced two of them, sent Hernandez and Gibson out, and replaced the average performance of Berbatov and Anderson.
However, Ferguson's personnel adjustment has not yet taken effect, Manchester United sent a penalty. In the 62nd minute, Thomas broke into the penalty area and was hooked by Ferdinand. The referee Foy did not hesitate to give West Brom a penalty this time.
This penalty made Manchester United nervous for the next time: Is the team's first defeat of the season going to happen in this game? Will the team's undefeated end in this field?
In the nervousness and worries of Manchester United players, West Brom's penalty kick, Odum Wenge, after deceiving Kuzzak, unexpectedly missed the goal!
Manchester United escaped again.
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This penalty kick really woke up the Manchester United players, because they really felt that the team's undefeated record distance was broken, it was only two or three inches!
The dream-waking Manchester United broke out their terrible energy, suppressing West Brom, who was previously evenly matched with Manchester United, to suppress their own half-time friction. Basically, they can't even pass the half.
However, West Brom's thinking changed quickly. They realized that it was unrealistic to want to pursue the victory of the game again, and immediately turned their goal into a point in their hands.
Subsequently, West Brom continued to tighten the defensive position, not giving Manchester the slightest chance.
Bell’s heart-scoring goal is very strong, especially after the game enters seventy minutes, UU reads the book www.uukanshu.com. After he activates the possession time of the experience card used in this field, he is full of blood and resurrected. Brown caused too much trouble.
Followed by it was West Brom's defense along with him.
For a super offensive player who has scored 65 goals in one year and has 20 assists, no amount of defensive attention can be overpaid!
And in order to give a perfect birthday gift to the coach who appreciates himself, Bell is also fighting, right, center, left... In order to get rid of West Brom defensive players, he constantly changes his area of activity.
Manchester United firmly controls the initiative on the court, everyone is also trying to find a goal.
Not only did Bell want to give the Grand Lord a victory as a birthday gift, the same is true of the rest of Manchester United players.
But Manchester United always seems to be so far away from the goal.
West Brom apparently did not intend to achieve the goal of all Manchester United goals, and then to win the game, always firmly restrict the play of Manchester United attacking line players, and Bell is the object of their special care, which makes Bell feel very depressed, but at the same time But he had to remind himself again and again that he must remain calm.
Not only the West Brom players' defensive tenaciousness, but also the Manchester United players' poor luck in scoring, even the referee is standing on the opposite side of Manchester United. In the 74th minute, Fabio, who had just come off the bench, crossed from the right. The ball hit Dorans in the West Brom penalty area and the bottom line was ejected, but referee Foy refused to take a penalty.
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