Football King Bale
Chapter 327: The devil schedule starts again
At the end of International Competition Day, Manchester United has entered a new Devil schedule. In the following 22 days from October 15th to November 5th, they will compete in the Premier League, Champions League and League Cup three-tier battlefield. The frequency of one game in three days makes people sound creepy.
These seven games include 4 Premier League games, 2 Champions League games, and a 4th round of the League Cup. Especially for the week from October 15 to October 23, for Manchester United, it is really the schedule of death. They will first go to Anfield to challenge Liverpool at noon on October 15th, and then fly 2400 kilometers to Galati, a small town on the eastern border of Romania in Eastern Europe, to play a game with Champions League opponent Galati Steel. Then fly another 2,400 kilometers back to Manchester, home against a rival enemy in the same city, the strongest opponent in the league this season, Blue Moon Manchester City.
This death schedule is a startling step for Manchester United.
The first game against Liverpool has always had a special meaning for Manchester United. Although Liverpool has declined in the past two seasons, for the real enemy, no matter how bad the opponent is, it will not be taken lightly, nor will it be pityed. If it is possible, they all want to step on a foot at a critical moment and completely trample on the other party.
Not to mention, Liverpool's performance this season is quite good. After the first 7 rounds of the league, it ranked fifth with 4 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. It is a strong enemy of Manchester United. This time as a guest at Anfield, you risk losing if you are not careful. If Manchester United don't want to be defeated by a dead enemy, then this game must be handled carefully.
The third game is against Manchester City. This Manchester Derby is not only related to their face in Manchester. In view of their position in the Premier League standings, the outcome of this game may be directly related to the ownership of the league champion.
Continuous battles, even if Manchester United is in a big rotation, the players can't bear it, especially the players who have experienced two days of national team game days.
As for Manchester City, although the schedule is similar to that of Manchester United, the rapid expansion of the army in recent years has made Manchester City not only a lineup of superstars, but also the strength of the main line and the bench. The trade-offs, the 19-game winning streak at Manchester United and various undefeated momentum are in jeopardy.
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For Manchester United, the difficulty of this schedule is not only the strength of the opponent, but also the short-term expedition.
Originally, Galati Steel was the weakest of the three UEFA Champions League group matches. Both of their previous group games have lost, 1:2 away to Basel and 0:1 at home to Benfica. . With the strength of Manchester United, it is no problem to win this Eastern European fish belly, but the long journey and intensive schedule will become the variables of Galati Steel's home game.
After all, after the game on the afternoon of October 15 with Liverpool, three days later on the evening of October 18, they will go to war with Galati Steel on the road. Therefore, they basically have no time to make adjustments.
In fact, for Galati Steel, this opponent, despite its limited strength, may be unwilling to meet the other three teams, including Manchester United. The main reason is that the distance is so far!
The 2400 km distance between Manchester United and Galati is not the farthest of the three opponents, the farthest belongs to Benfica. For these two teams, it is almost the westernmost point in Europe and the easternmost point in Europe. Benfica is located in Lisbon on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, and Galati is located at the border of Romania, Moldova and Ukraine one step away from the Black Sea. The straight line distance between the two places is up to 3200 kilometers!
Even if it is relatively close to Basel, the linear distance between them and Galati Steel in the small border town of northern Switzerland has reached 1600 kilometers!
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Because there will be a death schedule next, Manchester United challenged Liverpool's England Derby away. Ferguson sent 5 central defenders. Due to injury problems, there was no substitute defender on the bench.
Even more jaw-dropping is that Ferguson also excluded players such as Bell, Sneijder, Nani, Hernandez, and Rooney from the starting lineup and placed them on the bench only.
In the end, Manchester United's starting lineup was goalkeeper De Gea, the guard line was Smolin, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra, Phil Jones and Fletcher partnered with double backs, and the avant-garde line Park Zhixing, Ji Gus and Ashley Young lined up, and Welbeck served as the single arrow.
opened in the first half, Liverpool pursued a fast pace, Manchester United tried to stabilize the scene first, but the two sides passed the ball in the early stage. With the deepening of the game, Manchester United gradually turned from disadvantage to advantage in ball control.
But in the first half, the home team Liverpool still got more opportunities. Suarez's low shot in the penalty area and Charlie Adam's free kick all posed a huge threat to Manchester United's goal. If it weren’t for De Gea’s bravery, Manchester United was already behind 0:2 in the first half.
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The second half of the game began, Ferguson still did not make staff adjustments.
Today's game, even if you can only get one point, Ferguson is acceptable. First of all, Manchester United is only a half of the bench lineup today. If they can draw Liverpool, it is equivalent to a draw with Liverpool played by the inferior horse and the superior horse. Manchester United not only won a point, but also obtained a strategy The victory on the second; the second is Manchester United's advantage in the standings. Because of the huge goal difference with Manchester City, even if Manchester City win in the subsequent games, Manchester United can still rely on the advantage of the goal difference to rank first. Then you can play against Manchester City in Old Trafford in the next game to lay the lead.
However, Ferguson's wishful abacus broke in the 68th minute of the game, and Liverpool took the lead in breaking the deadlock on the field.
In the 67th minute, Ferdinand kicked Charlie Adam to the front of the penalty area to give Liverpool a free kick, but from the playback, Charlie Adam was suspected of falling.
The free kick of Liverpool was taken by Gerrard. The Reds took a free kick from the right foot 24 meters away. The Giggs left on the left side of the wall inexplicably deliberately gave way, revealing a large gap, and then the ball Pass through the wall between Giggs and Evra, and get into the bottom right corner of the goal.
This ball looks like Giggs and Gerrard played a very successful tactical cooperation, which made Giggs very depressed.
This is Gerrard's 50th Premier League goal in Anfield and Liverpool's 1200th goal in the Premier League.
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The score was behind, Ferguson couldn't sit still, and made a substitution adjustment immediately.
When the Liverpool people celebrated the goal and the game restarted, they found that the three faces of the Manchester United players they faced changed. Rooney replaced Phil Jones, Nani replaced Ashley Young, Bell replaced Park Ji-sung, Giggs moved to the center from the left and right forward, and gave the left to Bell.
Ferguson threw three trump cards at once, showing his will to win this game.
and Manchester United, who completed the substitution, also converted from the slightly conservative 4231 formation to the traditional 442 formation.
Ferguson's substitutions quickly achieved results. After seven minutes, they evened the score on the road.
In the 75th minute, Bell took the ball on the left and broke through two Liverpool players in a row. When everyone thought he would be down, Bell suddenly chose to cut in.
This unexpected choice of Bell disrupted Liverpool's defensive formation. During the process of cutting, Bell used a continuous rhythm change, and the defensive line that Liverpool had just formed was in chaos, allowing Bell to cut in smoothly to the left of the big penalty area. Side, found the opportunity to kick.
In the arc of the big penalty area, Bell got the chance to calmly. Bell naturally would not be polite. The arc of his right foot pocketed the far corner, the ball crossed a rainbow, and then flew into the goal of Liverpool through the inside of the goal post. Reina was blocked because of his sight, and when he saw Bell take a shot, it was too late to save by flying.
1:1, Bell quickly helped Manchester United equalize the score!
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Equalizing the score of Manchester United~lightnovelpub.net~ Continue to siege Liverpool's goal. Then after another 6 minutes, they reversed the score.
After 80 minutes, Manchester United got a continuous corner kick. After Bell opened two, and the effect was not very good, the third corner was replaced by Nani.
Nani left the corner kick, the ball went straight to the left side of Liverpool penalty area, Welbeck nodded the ball before the ferry, Bell and Giggs both forwarded, forming a double ghost shot. At a distance of 4 meters from the goal, Bell, who had a faster speed and more accurate points, slammed his head before Giggs and scored twice to help Manchester United reverse the score.
In the case of leading, the enemy scored two goals in a row to reverse the score, which made Liverpool at home unacceptable. Under the command of Dalglish, Liverpool had a Jedi counterattack and vowed to win Manchester United at home.
However, today Manchester United goalkeeper De Gea is really super god, first Kuyt took a close shot in front of the left pass and was again blocked by De Gea to rescue. After the corner kicked out, Manchester United escaped in a panic.
In the 90th minute, Adam received a pass from Suarez and De Gea flew the ball with one hand to the bottom line. Adam corner kicked out and De Geto was taken out to the other side. Shoot to fly.
In the second minute of stoppage time, Henderson received a pass from the left. The header was unbelievably high with no interference from the middle.
In the end, Manchester United scored two goals in a short 12 minutes with Bell, who came off the bench, reversing the dead enemy at Anfield, and luckily scored three points.
This three-pointer allows Manchester United to continue to lead the Premier League standings with an 8-game winning streak. Even if Manchester City later defeated Vera at home 4:1, they still cannot shake Manchester United's position.