Chapter 469 Dangerous Pass
The two results of the match on the same day made the two Manchester teams return to the same line.
After the game, a reporter asked about Ancelotti's sale of Gibson (Everton's goal scorer) to Toffee. An Shuai smiled cunningly: "This is all part of the plan."
In addition to joking, the courage to catch up with Manchester City in the league after setbacks this season is really admirable. This is a team that has just been eliminated by its old adjugion Liverpool in the FA Cup. It is a Manchester United that has been swept by the Blue Moon 6-1 in the league, which makes people wonder whether An Shuai's days in Old Trafford have come to an end.
But during the stumbling, they have won 8 of the last ten games, and the points are not inferior to Manchester City in the early stage of the league.
Stoke City, who is a guest this time, is good at playing high-altitude ball. Originally, Lindgard was injured before the game and could not participate in the competition, which had already made the fans sweat de Gea, who struggled to prevent the high ball. However, the Spanish goalkeeper was not feeling well and left the training base during the training class on the same day. On the day of the game, the heavy burden fell on the 21-year-old young player Amos.
Can the Red Devils defender, who has just been tortured by high striker Carroll in the FA Cup, resist the potter who holds high? As a result, three points is just a routine.
Stoke City has been the boy of Manchester United for a long time.
Since the potter was promoted to the Premier League, he has met the Red Devils eight times and only got one point.
In eight league games in four seasons, Stoke City only broke through Manchester United three times and lost 19 goals. Even Tony Pulis has not changed the situation.
The potter can make Arsenal, Liverpool and other teams suffer a loss, but it is difficult for Ancelotti's Manchester United.
There seems to be a mysterious temperament lingering around the city of Manchester. After four years of promotion, he visited Manchester eight times, but lost all to his opponents - whether it was Manchester United or Manchester City.
Worried that De Gea and Amos' high-altitude ball finally proved a lot, and Stoke City did not make a few decent attacks in the Dream Theater. Amos received a pass from Pennant and saved Jerome's header early in the game, but none of them really threatened the goal. In addition, the young goalkeeper has nothing to do. Such a potter, even if Kuzzzak, who is no longer trusted by the Lord, may be able to score zero opponents.
37-year-old Scholes has fully reappeared the ginger head before retirement. He is a rare master in the Premier League where he can master the rhythm of the game by passing the ball alone, and even repeated the famous reckless two-legged shovel at the peak, so he got a yellow card.
Everything looks so familiar and beautiful. He and Carrick completely controlled the operation of football. Valencia and Park Zhixing on both sides were the biggest beneficiaries. They received a breakthrough from the wonderful pass on the side, which made the slightly slow defense of the potter miserable.
Double penalty, which is still the result of the referee's light judgment.
From the beginning of the game, scoring a goal is a matter of time. The Red Devils passed and controlled the ball in the game, and An Shuai rarely sat in the seat with a leisurely look, preparing for another routine victory in the dream theater.
The potter's tactics are not new. The tall and strong defensive players blocked the goal in the backcourt and waited for the opportunity to fight back.
Ancelotti's response is a quick breakthrough between two sides, so this game has become a game of small speed players and tall defenders. If it hadn't been for referee Mike Jones, the home team would have got four penalty kicks, proving that Pulis's tactics were completely dead in Old Trafford.
In the first 26 minutes, Manchester United had a chance to break the deadlock. Evra broke through in the penalty area and was knocked down by White Hedra. The whistle did not ring, and the game continued. However, soon after, the potter's luck was exhausted, and Park Ji-sung broke into the penalty area and was pulled down by Pennant. This time, Jones pointed to the penalty point, and Hernandez, who had just recovered from injury, did it overnight.
After changing sides, it was Valencia's turn to create a penalty. He was put to the ground by Stoke City striker Walters, who once used his physical advantage to eat Carragher to get a penalty in the game against Liverpool. This opportunity was given to Li Yu, and Manchester United No. 9 was thrilled and locked the score at 2-0.
In the 71st minute, the unlucky Evra "suspected penalty" scored twice, but unfortunately it did not win Jones' sympathy. He fell in the penalty area and was ignored by the referee again.
Manchester United was eliminated by Liverpool in the FA Cup last Saturday. However, the team that appeared at the Dream Theater on Tuesday was completely different in spirit and temperament, playing "calm" and "confident", An Shuai commented. In the game, they passed almost four times more than their opponents, monopolizingly suppressing the potter. This is also a Manchester United with a double-digit number of injured players. The goalkeeper Amos and striker Pogba have made their league debuts respectively, with slightly immature experience.
It is not a miracle to reverse Manchester City according to the current situation.
After playing Stoke City, it is already the best news to score points to equal Manchester City. But after the game, Ancelotti released more good. "There are also injured people who start training in the middle of the week and will return to the field soon, among which Cleverley will be two weeks later; Mata can come back this week, and he will train with the team on Monday and Tuesday. After these players came back, the midfield had enough choices to cope with any occasion.
Manchester United's first team was injured by 11 people in this round, which is the club with the most injuries in the Premier League. Ferdinand's comeback has just stabilized the defense line. Lindgaard and De Gea hung their guard cards at the same time, and the injury list continued to break through a new high. The injury camp of 12 people is enough to give any Premier League leader to drink.
If the young Manchester United in this season reverses Manchester City's championship, looking back on the whole season, the smartest one may be Scholes coming back. Fletcher and Cleverley were absent for most of the season, making Manchester United's midfield tight. Scholes's comeback is to ease the pressure of the intensive schedule next winter, and wait for Cleverley, a hopeful new star, to return to the field, which is enough to cope with the double-line battle between the Europa League and the league.
Joe Jordan, the assistant coach of Tottenham Hotspur, who has played for Manchester United for four years, has his own views on the competition for the Premier League. "The last time Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United won the league championship dates back to the 1960s, and it is difficult for both teams to return to the peak after such a long time.
In recent years, the Premier League championship has been basically monopolized by Manchester United and Chelsea, and they know better how to win the trophy.
Especially Manchester United, they have received a lot of doubts this year, but there is no doubt that they have excellent players, and more importantly, they know how to back and come to the top.
Manchester City, the sworn enemy in the same city, defeated Fulham 3-0 at home in the ice and snow. The Premier League leader Manchester City Club finally rebounded a little after experiencing the recent landslide, and the Italian young coach Mancini can finally relax a little. One day after watching the fierce battle between Chelsea and Manchester United in a relatively relaxed mood.
"The important thing is that we win and regain the initiative to win the championship. Take off this crucial 3 points, and the pressure is equal to Manchester United. Adam Johnson, the hero of the game, said so.
However, despite the big victory, Manchester City coach Mancini is not in a good mood at all. The reason is no other than that his disciples are "disciplinary" again. According to the Daily Star, Manchester City players launched a mutiny against the Italians in the locker room!
The Daily Star used the word "MUTINY" to describe what happened at that time and wrote bluntly: "I'm afraid that the rebellion that Mancini is facing will take Manchester City out of the track of the championship. ( ROBERTOMANCINIisfacingarevoltthatcouldderailManchesterCity'stitlechances)" The newspaper said that the cause of the matter was a charity friendly match: in order to give Genoa to Jaahon After raising money, Mancini agreed to lead his team to Italy for a friendly match with the team composed of Sampdoria and Genoa.
In such a critical period of league championship, people have to be distracted by insignificant charity games, which has attracted great dissatisfaction among all veteran players and coaches in Manchester City.
It is well known that Italian young coach Mancini has a deep Samp background. His Manchester City Legion originally wanted to lead a group of marginal players and youth team players to form a "miscellaneous team", but he was informed that he must play in the first team lineup, so that Manchester City, including Mancini, could go to the next time. I'm at a loss: You should know that this game has been scheduled for 4 days before Manchester City's away game against Villa!
In 4 days, he returned to Manchester across half of Europe + the Mediterranean and then visited Villa. Such a hard work will definitely affect Manchester City's championship plan. Mancini's move has attracted strong dissatisfaction in the locker room!
"The players are all pale, and even the coaches are very disappointed and unhappy. Our team has been short of major generals due to injuries and the African Cup, and now we have to fly to Italy to play some charity games!" An internal official of the Manchester City Club revealed. Some players expressed their opinions and their own worries, but they found that all these protests were in vain, because Mancini did not have any communication with them at all. A coaching staff member has decided directly that he will not go to Italy to play.
The neighbors are very noisy, and Manchester United is preparing for a battle with Chelsea.
Just as the two teams met in the first round of Old Trafford, the game was also full of drama. Chelsea took a 3-0 lead in 50 minutes. Just when most people thought that the Blues would easily achieve revenge, Manchester United took over the game in the following games and equalized the score with Li Yu's two controversial penalty kicks and Hernandez' header.
From 3 to 0 to 3 to 3, what happened during this period? It can be said that it was Ancelotti's substitution who became the winner of the game. In the 53rd minute of the game, An Shuai replaced the injured Mata with Hernandez, and the Mexican striker lived up to the coach's expectations.
As soon as Hernandez came on the court, there was a chemical reaction with Welbeck and Li Yu.
In the 67th minute, Li Yu and Hernandez played a wonderful wall-to-wall cooperation in front of Chelsea's penalty area, but Li Yu's shot was confiscated by Cech. In the 68th minute, Li Yu passed the ball, Hernandez turned around on the edge of the penalty area and shook three Chelsea defenders and passed it across. Referee Weber sentenced Ivanovic to stumble. Inverted Welbeck, Li Yu scored a penalty again.
In the 74th minute, Romeu made a mistake in passing the ball. Hernandez received Giggs's pass and shook David Lewis' low shot in the penalty area, and the ball missed the far corner. In the 84th minute, Hernandez finally waited for his goal. Valencia broke through from the right and passed the ball. Li Yu's strong shot was saved by Cech, and Giggs's penalty area. After taking the ball from the left and passing it to the middle, Hernandez headed the ball in the penalty area.
This is a typical "Hernandez-style" goal. When Giggs took the ball, "Little Pea" was originally behind David Lewis, who was defending him. He alertly circled in front of the Brazilian and jumped high to score the ball, helping Manchester United tenaciously equalize the score, with a total value of 32 million pounds. Ersi central-backs Gary Cahill and David Lewis, one is on the top and the other is not tight. Both of them have become the best foil for Hernandez's goal picture.
After the game, Ancelotti was also very grateful for his substitution that determined the outcome of the game. He said in an interview with Sky Sports: "To be honest, I may have put Hernandez on the court from the beginning. After he came on the field, it was like putting Chelsea players on the oven. He put a lot of pressure on them with his running position and movement. Welbeck has always been excellent. He will definitely become a top player in the future, but when Hernandez played in the second half, the whole game became different.
In 37 minutes, he made 2 shots, 1 shot and scored 1 goal. Hernandez interpreted what "super substitute" is with efficient performance. In the post-match one-hour scoring session of Sky Sports, Hernandez, who came on as a substitute, scored 7 points and tied for the third highest score. In the post-match score of Goal.com, Hernandez got a high score of 7.5. The comment sent by Goal.com was: "He is excellent. The run made David Lewis lose his way and scored a representative header.
After a fantastic debut season, Hernandez's performance this season did not meet people's expectations. The Mexican striker seems to be facing the problem of "second-grade syndrome", but Ancelotti is not worried about it. He said in a previous interview: "Hernandez has met this season. When it comes to injury, but his current training state is excellent, and it is always good to have more choices in the striker position. If Hernandez can open his firepower, it will bring us a lot of help.
To Ancelotti's satisfaction, Hernandez did it. After breaking his goal drought for more than two months with a penalty in the last round against Stoke City, Hernandez scored another goal in this game, and the number of goals in the league also rose to 8, unconsciously. He has surpassed Welbeck to become the second top scorer in the team's league after Li Yu, and his recovery will certainly provide a lot of help to Manchester United on the road to the championship.
Although he is only 23 years old, the young Hernandez has a "big heart" and can often score goals to turn the tide at the end of the game.
According to statistics, of the 21 league goals scored by Hernandez in the two seasons, 10 goals occurred in the last 16 minutes of the game, accounting for nearly half (48%) of the total goals, which is the highest among the major scorers in the Premier League.
We have witnessed the miracle of "Little Pea" twice this season. In addition to the header in this game, it was Hernandez's goal in the 81st minute of the game that helped Manchester United retreat from Anfield in the league when Manchester United drew 1-1 away to Liverpool.
Little Pea is also the only player in the Premier League so far this season who has scored both away from Anfield and away from Stamford Bridge. It seems that the nickname "New Solskjaer" given to him by Manchester United fans is very appropriate, but if he wants to really take over the manor of his predecessors, Hernandez needs to continue to work hard. Manchester United will next usher in two key battles against Liverpool and Tottenham, and "Shendou" will continue to be tested.
Although it has been less than two years since he came to the Premier League, Hernandez seems to be particularly "predestined" with Chelsea. In the Mexican Premier League debut season, Hernandez broke through Chelsea's door three times, including the lightning goal that directly determined the championship in the 37th round of last season. Unfortunately, it is also David Lewis.
Will Hernandez's golden header in this game play the same role in Manchester United's championship this season? Time will give us the answer.
It is worth mentioning that this game is the third time in history that Manchester United has been tied and unbeaten with three goals behind since the establishment of the Premier League.
The first two times occurred in the 92-93 season away against Sheffield Wednesday and the 01-02 season against Tottenham Hotspur. Twenty years ago, the Red Devils tied their opponents with three goals in a row in the second half when they were 3-0 behind Sheffield Wednesday. In the game against Tottenham Hotspur, the Red Devils reversed and won the opponent with the goals of Cole, Van Nisne, Blanco, Peron and Beckham. Beckham also scored his personal 50th goal in the Premier League in the game.
Counting today's game, all 11 goals recovered were scored in the second half of the game! Ferguson's training and scheduling in the midfield are indispensable.
After this game, Manchester United continued to catch up with Real Madrid in the away record ranking of the UEFA Europa League.
In the 12 Premier League away games at the end, the Red Devils achieved 8 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, leading all giants with 27 away points. In this scoreboard, the Red Devils scored 6 points more than Manchester City (Weibo), which ranked second, and the background of the strong team can be seen. At present, in this table, the leader in Europe is Real Madrid, with a record of 9 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, slightly better than Manchester United. Juventus, the away king of Serie A, only got 20 points.
After the draw with Chelsea, the English derby between the Red Devils and Liverpool is coming. Former Reds star Hansen recently said that "Manchester United's performance in the past 18 months has been very bad" and that he can't remember that Manchester United's last two consecutive seasons of such a bad performance was When.
In response, Ancelotti responded firmly: "Hansen's role is a commentator, and he needs to be responsible for his words. I can understand what he said before our match with Liverpool. It doesn't matter to me... Don't forget that Manchester United won the championship by nine points last season and reached the Champions League final. We are not as bad as he said.
If Hansen still remembers that Ferguson's "92 Golden Generation" was once teased as the "Hanson Generation", then he should pay more attention to his wording in the BBC's "Game Day" program to avoid leaving the world a laughing stock.