Chapter 412 Wars

This is the most important game in the 115-year history of the non-professional league team Clare Club. And there has never been a non-professional league team in the sixth round in the history of the FA Cup. After winning the Manchester derby, only O'Shea and Anderson continued to stay in the starting lineup, and the brothers Hernandez and Da Silva rotated to start.

Manchester United's FA Cup match against amateur team Crowley at home is generally regarded as a Red Devil Show before the game. Optimistic fans even think that Manchester United, which has sent a large number of young players, can still win a hearty victory.

But the fact is that Manchester United did not create many scoring opportunities in the whole game, and several young talents with high expectations failed to show the legendary talent and talent. Among them, the Portuguese young player Bibby, who was highly expected by Ferguson, was prevented by a single amateur player.

Only 3 minutes after the opening, Bibby made a breakthrough with a bicycle pass on the right side and sent a high-level cross. Many Manchester United fans began to look forward to the next solo performance of the sideline monster, but they couldn't wait until the end of the game. As the game progressed, Crowley's players gradually saw through Bibby's breakthrough habits, and the tragedy began...

In the 50th minute, Bibby protected the ball on the right side, and the defender grabbed the ball with a stuck position. Bibby was awkwardly squeezed aside by his opponent with a reasonable collision.

In the 60th minute, Bibby received Carrick's pass on the left side, intending to take advantage of the momentum and was stopped by the defender. A minute later, Bi Bi took the ball on this side again. As a result, in a completely one-on-one situation, Bi Bi, who had been afraid of, did not dare to try to break through, but swangled his thighs and passed it directly. Because the ball was too obvious, the ball was blocked by the defender without any suspense. It can even be said that Bi Bi's cross was accurately bombarded. On the body of the hand.

In the 71st minute, Bi Bi Bi challenged his opponent on the left side again. This time, Bi Bi did not even get a chance to force a cross. The slow foot frequency made the opponent easily destroy the ball. Before the ball came out of bounds, it hit Bi Bi's lap. As a result, he couldn't even get an out-of-bounds ball.

Bibby, who spent 7.4 million pounds on Manchester United's transfer fee last summer, is probably more valuable than the sum of Crowley's team, but in front of Crowley's defense, Bibby's performance is more like an amateur player. In the face of amateur players, he is still explosion-proof. If he goes to the Premier League, even in the face of European giants, won't Biby be directly asked to cry?

In addition to the breakthrough being completely curbed by the opponent, Bi Bi's bad basic skills have also taken the initiative to give up the ball many times.

In the 6th minute, O'Shea's two consecutive long pass from the backfield was accurately sent to Hernandez's feet. A minute later, Bibby made the same way near the center line, but sent it directly to the opponent. A winger who broke through and transported shells for a living, but the passing link was far inferior to a golden defender who was not good at assists. This really made Ferguson in the stands entangled.

In the 18th minute, Bibby tried to break through on the right side. As a result, his lame shaking disrupted the rhythm of his feet. In desperation, he chose a strong thrust, but triped the ball directly out of the bottom line.

In the 71st minute, Bibby passed the ball to the right in a wide range on the left. As a result, the ball drew an obvious outer arc and fell behind his teammates. O Xie ran back 10 meters to successfully catch the pass. The most incredible scene appeared in the 86th minute. Bibby received a pass from O'Shea in the offside position and got the opportunity to face the empty goal after colliding with the attacking goalkeeper. As a result, Bi Bi, who had heard the offside whistle, still chose to shoot, as if he wanted to save his face with such a "goal". However, And Biby's push shot after looking at it for a long time actually slid through the door.

Seeing such an amateur's kick, does the Lord dare to let him squander the opportunity in the official game?

Admittedly, Bibby's performance in the whole game is not without highlights. In the 14th minute, Biby once sent a very hidden straight plug to Hernandez. The "little pea" had leaned on the defender to form a single knife, but was sentenced to offside. In the 59th minute, Bibby made a 45-degree cross from the left, and Hernandez almost formed a close-range attack. However, these only two flashes are far from enough to cover up Bibby's poor performance in the whole game.

OPTA's post-match statistics show that Bibby only had a poor 15-foot pass in this game, ranking first from the bottom among the 11 starters, and even goalkeeper Lindgaard had 17 passes. You should know that there are many opportunities for Bibby to catch the ball, but he has repeatedly handed over the ball to his opponent in various ways, which has become the "mission black hole" of the team.

The post-match score of Sky Sports fans was also rude, and Bibi got the lowest score in the game - 2.6 points almost without any suspense. Generally speaking, getting 4 points in this link means that the performance is extremely bad. Less than 4 points is a very shameful score. Bibby only got 2.6 points, which shows how dissatisfied the fans are with Bibby's performance.

Perhaps the aura of "Portugal winger + Manchester United excavation" made people hallucinate, thinking that Bibby would follow the road to success of Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani. Bibby's agent Rice even said, "Bibby may not reach the height of Cristiano Ronaldo, but he will definitely surpass Nani." However, now it seems that Bi Bi has no foot skills like that of the two predecessors. He has no technical content in passing movements. He completely relies on his physical fitness, and his basic skills are also very poor. The error rate of stopping and passing the ball is extremely high, and the choice of the ball and breakthrough opportunities are very failed.

Ferguson is careless about the cultivation of Bibby, and this game has continuously adjusted the formation for Biby.

Seeing that the quality of Bibby's pass is average, he let Biby turn from the right side to the left side to play the inner cut, see the continuous breakthrough failure of the left side, and then let Biby play the center, and Rooney and Hernandez make way for him.

Unfortunately, Biby performed quite hard in all positions and ruthlessly squandered the opportunity given by Ferguson. I will be an excellent Manchester United player. Bi Bi was full of confidence when he first joined Manchester United. But objectively speaking, at his current level, he is not worthy of the Red Devil's robe at all.

At the same time, the performance of another young player, Obertan, is also difficult to be satisfactory.

Obertan had rumors of leaving the team last month. The speed winger with the reputation of "French Cristiano Ronaldo" publicly declared that he was not happy at Manchester United.

Indeed, although Ferguson often gives Obertan the opportunity to play, the French player's total goal shortage of 472 minutes in the previous eight games is enough to make him feel ashamed of his performance. In this game, Obedan, who started the game, still failed to complete his self-redemption. Although only two minutes after the opening, Obertan received Anderson's heel pass and sent a very threatening low-level pass on the side, more often, what Obertan can show is only his own speed advantage.

As for the breakthrough and passing, let's take a look at the intuitive answer given by OPTA statistics: Obertan plays the whole field, but only has one pass, but the pass success rate is as low as 74%. As a winger, his breakthrough and passing skills can be seen. In the post-match fan rating of Sky Sports, Obitan scored only 2.7 points, and the situation was not much better than Bib. Compared with Bibby, who was born in 1990, Obedin will turn 22 next week, and it is not much time to prove himself.

Manchester United won Claray 1-0 at home, and Brown scored the only goal in the game.

Manchester United defeated the non-professional league team Crowley 1-0 at home and successfully reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, but Ferguson was afraid of the combat effectiveness of Crowley Town.

"What is recorded on the scoreboard today is not the truth. There is no doubt that this is their day. Based on their efforts in the second half, they really deserve a draw (second-round rematch). They make us feel very difficult, and we fall behind every time we grab the ball. This is disappointing, but many of our players may not understand what kind of event the FA Cup is. Perhaps it is the most important lesson for them. In an interview with Manchester United's official TV station, Ferguson said so.

"We played very well in the first half. We played a lot of good cooperation. We may lead with three or four goals, but in the end we only led by a narrow margin of 1-0. Sometimes all you need in the cup is promotion. We have done this in the past, and today is another example. When they play extremely well and our two full-backs are off the field, this is a big problem, but the players we have replaced are also good players.

"Anderson's toughness is a little problem, so we have to replace these players. It's not easy for you to do this, because it will make the whole team unbalanced. We finally had to let Fletcher play right-back. He did a good job, but he was still not at his best. We will look at the condition of those injuries tomorrow.

Manchester United, which used a full substitute, almost capped in the gutter, and the main force has flown to France to prepare for the UEFA Champions League knockout match against Marseille.

The two teams played against each other in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League in the 1999/2000 season, and the two sides won at home. Marseille has played against England nine times at home in Europe in the past 35 years, losing to Liverpool twice, and won the remaining seven games. Manchester United has visited France 11 times in its history, with 3 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses. Manchester United won the FA Cup over the weekend against the non-professional team. Only O'Shea, Carrick and Gibson continued to play, and Rooney, Li Yu and Nani returned to the starting line-up.

The new trident is set sail!

The result was that the Red Devil Trident failed, and Manchester United drew away with the French Champion.

0:0!

All the promotion suspense must be moved to Old Trafford before it can be revealed.

Three days later, Manchester United vented the resentment of the away draw and returned to the domestic away game.

The unlucky guy this time is the Wigan Athletic Team!

Li Yu and Rooney teamed up to score 2 goals each in the game, helping the team beat Wigan Athletic 4-0 away!

When talking about the championship situation of the Premier League, Manchester United coach Ferguson said that the league has entered a "two-horse competition" situation, and the championship will be between Manchester United and Arsenal.

If they win the game against Wigan today, Manchester United will be 11 points ahead of third-place Manchester City in 11 rounds, and 13 and 15 points more than Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea. It is unlikely that these teams will catch up.

Ferguson believes that a total score of 82 is enough to win the championship, which means that in the last 12 rounds, the Red Devils need to score another 25 points, which is a start for Wigan. What I'm talking about is that under normal circumstances, there are still two teams left to have a chance.

It seems that it will be more interesting if more teams participate, but at the end of the season, it is often the competition between the two teams. Judging from the current situation, I think the championship will be between us and Arsenal.

Manchester United is one point ahead of Arsenal in one less game. Ferguson said: "The most stable team will win the championship, so I say we must keep our focus."

Manchester United won the championship with 86 points last season, while Manchester United won the championship with 90 points in the previous season, but Ferguson believes that it won't be so much this year. It seems that maybe 82 points will be enough this season.

Manchester United will experience a series of away challenges next. Ferguson said: "I think we can get enough points in the rest of the games. You don't care whether it's home or away. Our away state is not as good as before. Now it is a severe test, and there are three away games waiting for us.

"But at this stage of the season, home and away games are not important, because they are all key games."

Not long ago, Chelsea captain Terry said that Manchester United will feel pressure in the championship stage, and when the two teams meet at Stamford Bridge, the Blues will give the Red Devils the biggest challenge. For such a psychological battle, Ferguson naturally knows how to fight back. You will always try to do this (psychological warfare). We have all done it.

"But it won't be easy (Chelsea) to recover so many points."

Ferguson also introduced the situation of some Manchester United players. Owen has resumed training and may play in Saturday's game.

"Smarin performed well, but he is only 20 years old. Considering Ferdinand's experience, if he recovers from his injury and can play against Liverpool, I will definitely choose him. I'm sure Smarin can understand."

"It's a nightmare to choose a lineup at this stage of the season, because in some important games, you have to put some excellent players on the bench. The situation is better this season, because there are currently two or three injured people, so I don't have many choices. Those players who can play all the time will be in high spirits.

The 4-0 victory over Wigan Athletic is far from as freehand as the score shows for Manchester United. In fact, Wigan, who played at home, played better than Manchester United's tired division for most of the game.

But with the Red Devil's three magical saves and an iconic long pass fast attack, Manchester United once again successfully scored three points in adversity. This time, it is not so much that the gap in the striker's grasp ability has turned an evenly match into a one-sided slaughter, but rather that the performance of Van der Sar has subverted the balance of the game.

This game is Van der Sar's 250th game for Manchester United, and the Dutch goalkeeper also presented a great gift with a perfect performance at this milestone moment.

Just 13 minutes after the opening, Van der Sar helped his old partner Scholes escape. At that time, Scholes, who caught the ball in front of his own penalty area, tried to pass O'Shea on the right side in the face of the crazy front court of the Wigan Athletic players. As a result, he was intercepted by Moses, who was killed like lightning. The latter broke into the penalty area and went to the meeting alone. Van der Sar attacked in time to block the angle of the opponent's shot, although Moses's final shot. The preparation time was very sufficient, but it was still blocked by Van der Sar, who was in an excellent position, with his shoulders.

Just five minutes later, Van der Sar made a world-class save again. Moses broke through the back pass from Oshey on the left side. The ball went straight from under Oshe's crotch and went straight to the danger zone. Nzobia hit the ball with his heels, and Watson, who followed, got an excellent shooting machine on the small penalty area line. It would be, but Van der Sar, who stood like a rock before, started almost at the moment Enzobia passed the ball, and killed it while Watson shot, devoting the opponent's must-goal goal.

In the 48th minute, Van der Sar showed people his still strong save ability. Figueroa received a pass from Caldeville and shot from a distance of 25 meters from the goal. The ball roared straight to the upper left corner. Van der Sar flew up and almost saved the ball out of the bottom line on the goal line.

It is worth mentioning that after the exchange of fields between the two sides, Wigan Athletic goalkeeper Al-Habusi was disturbed by the dazzling sunlight in the goal area many times, resulting in a mistake in judging the drop point of the ball. However, Van der Sar was in the same area in the first half of the game, but he seemed to be completely unaffected by the sun. Several high-altitude ball interceptions were accurate. The prediction ability of the world-class goalkeeper is revealed.

If Li Yu is the most indispensable key figure in Manchester United's offensive links, then Van der Sar, who is often ignored, proves his irreplaceability on the defensive end in such a dangerous game.

Ferguson said frankly after the game: "Vigan Athletic created a lot of threats in the first 20 minutes of the game. Van der Sar's great saves changed everything. The calmness he showed in the game was really detached and can be passed on to other defensive players in various ways."

What's more valuable is that Van der Sar's value to the team is not limited to the defensive end. His accurate long pass, which is comparable to an organized back, has once again become the starting point of the team's blitz.

In the 74th minute, Van der Sar's ultra-long-distance long pass accurately found Li Yu in the front court. Manchester United No. 9 leaned on the defender and put the ball directly to Rooney on his side. Rooney understood that he would send an accurate straight plug. Li Yu quickly inserted forward and completed two-to-two cooperation with Roone, and then went to the meeting to easily push the goal, for The team locked the victory.

Manchester United iron guard Ferdinand once said, "Van der Sar's footwork is even more delicate than many teammates in the non- goalkeeper position."