Chapter 418 The Outbreak of Li Yu

Manchester United has entered the last critical moment. In the 32nd round of the Premier League, Manchester United played against Fulham at home. This is a game that must take all three points.

At Old Trafford at home, Red Devils Manchester United did not have any reason to lose three points.

The Red Devils beat their opponents by 2 goals at home, but Manchester United No. 9 scored a goal. A magic performance of four people in a row made wedding clothes for others; an attempt to face the empty door made teammates unexpectedly get the empty door; but when he walked out in the 87th minute, 75,339 people in the Dream Theater stood up and gave him more than ten seconds of applause, paying tribute to the "uncrowned" achievements of this game. The king."

If you don't score a goal, Li Yu doesn't care. What he wants is a league champion!

In the comments of Sky Sports giving Li Yu (9 points), the highest score in the game, only one phrase was used - the best in the audience, and how many beautiful words describe the idle walk of Manchester United No. 9 on the court today seems to be a little superfluous.

If it hadn't been for Fulham central defender Hughes' uns unsuccessful header in the 32nd minute, which would have turned away Li Yu's empty goal opportunity and let the pie fall from the sky hit Valencia, the Portuguese would have had the opportunity to complete their "goal + assist" doubles in the Premier League this season.

If half of Valencia's goals are luck and half are Li Yu's credit, then Rooney's goal in the 12th minute of the first half is largely due to Li Yu's excellent foot skills. After catching the ball in the middle, Manchester United No. 9 first easily jumped over the shoveling Murphy, and then took the opportunity to dodge Etuhu and face the middle defender Hughes.

He skillfully cooperated with Anderson to kick the wall and calmly gave the ball to Rooney before Bailder grabbed it. The only thing the Englishman needed to do was to calmly send the ball into the corner in front of the goal. This goal is not so much a reflection of Rooney's calmness in front of the goal, but as another Li Yu's goal - passing, passing, passing... single knife, empty door!

Fulham's right-back, Northern Ireland international Baird, was blown up by Nani in the game. Manchester United No. 9 even regarded his opponent as air. He has never stalked from passing to cross, which is really unreasonable.

In the 26th minute, Li Yu passed the ball to Rooney behind him when he was stared by Baird in the penalty area, and almost successfully delivered the ball to the feet of her teammates.

Four minutes later, Li Yu received Evra's long pass and took advantage of her strong explosive power to rush to the bottom line. She shook away Byrd and sent it back to Rooney. Unfortunately, she was relieved again. In the 40th minute, Li Yu rushed to the penalty area along the left road and was interrupted by Baird's back pass twice in a row.

The nightmare of the Northern Ireland defender did not end. In the 54th minute of the second half, Li Yu received a straight plug from Anderson near the left corner flag area. When facing Baird, he kept bringing the ball into the penalty area through fake movements. At the moment when the former had no choice, Li Yu easily sent the ball to At the foot of Gibson, who was unmarked on the penalty area line, the latter's bad shot wasted a good opportunity.

Ten minutes later, Li Yu made the ball for Gibson again, and the Irishman squandered the opportunity again. If it hadn't been for the teammate's weakness in front of the goal, Manchester United would certainly not have finished with only one assist after the end of this game.

Although Li Yu's performance this season has made Manchester United fans happy that the "post-C Ronaldo era" Red Devils still do not lack world-class wingers, Li Yu's one-man show will always make people miss the Red Devils flying together in the past **.

From Best Aston, to Beckham Giggs, and then to Cristiano Ronaldo, the standard configuration of Manchester United's sideline always seems to be a dual-core drive.

Nowadays, whether it is Park Ji-sung, Giggs or Obertan, it seems difficult to meet the perfection requirements of predecessors in terms of age or personal ability.

Before February, it seemed that this problem could only be solved through introduction. But now, the Flash Valencia, who was reborn from the shadow of his broken legs, has proved that he has the full strength to insert another perfect magic wing for the Red Devils.

After the last round of league 4-2 reversal of West Ham's first assist of the season, Valencia scored his first goal after his comeback against Fulham in this round. The Ecuadorian winger has been in a red state recently.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Li Yu received Evra's long pass from the left side and broke into the penalty area. Facing the attacking Schwarzer lightly broke through the ball with his toes, and then shot at a small angle. Aaron Hughes nodded in front of the ball, changing the trajectory of the ball, but Valencia on the other side had already covered. In the face of the empty goal, Valencia easily scored the second personal goal of this season after the community shield. At the same time, it also announced that the talented winger born last season has completely come out of the shadow of broken legs.

If Valencia's guest center header is only a surprise for Manchester United fans, then the Ecuadorian's personal performance on the right side has become one of the iconic performances of the Old Trafford Dream Theater.

In the 25th minute, Valencia opened the prelude to a thousand-mile single ride with a wonderful pick on the right side. Then he played two-to-one with his teammates, and then ran a long distance along the right side, killing the opponent's defensive hinterland in one breath. In the face of the defense player, Valencia completed the shot with Nani's iconic inner cut. This long-distance attack.

Although the ball was eventually blocked by the defensive players, Valencia's wonderful solo show won the applause of all the fans. Before the end of the half, Valencia once again showed his skillful foot skills. Facing the bag of the two defensive players, he used his speed to break through the gap between the two to the penalty area, and fell to the ground and passed low in the middle at the first time. Beba and Nani had already been in place. Unfortunately, Hughes destroyed the ball first. The bottom line.

After another fight, Valencia's attack on the right side still left Fulham players helplessly. In the 48th minute, Schwarzer made a mistake in passing the ball in the backcourt. Valencia cleverly intercepted the ball and launched a counterattack on the spot.

Li Yu at the front point attracted two defensive players. Valencia calmly passed the ball to Anderson at the far end. Under the condition that the Brazilian general was completely unmarked, he rashly chose to push the ball directly outside the penalty area and pushed the ball into the near corner of the goal. He was blocked by Schwarzer without any suspense, and Valencia's wonderful pass was was wasted.

In the 55th minute, Valencia sent another wonderful pass to Beba. He lightly flashed Dempsey's interception on the edge of the penalty area, and then knocked back in the middle of the penalty area with a half-high ball. Beba shot sideways on the penalty area line. The action was extremely chic, but unfortunately the ball deviated from the goal.

OPTA's post-match statistics show that Valencia sent the highest four threat balls in 73 minutes of playing time, and Sky Sports also gave Valencia the second highest 8 points in the post-match score. Valencia's excellent performance conquered Old Trafford, making it win the applause of all the fans when it was replaced by Owen, compared with the loneliness of the former English golden boy.

Valencia has undoubtedly become the new favorite of Manchester United fans. In fact, since returning to the field on March 12, Valencia has entered the best form almost immediately and quickly locked the team's main right winger position. Previously, people questioned the recovery of his competitive state after his broken leg, but now it seems that the nightmare experience has not affected Valencia's water at all. Flat, on the contrary, it is more sharp like a quenched blade.

It is worth mentioning that Valencia participated in all six games of Manchester United after his comeback and helped the team achieve a proud record of six wins, including a 2-0 victory over Arsenal in the FA Cup and a 1-0 victory over Chelsea in the Champions League, which is amazing if Valencia could be one earlier. With a comeback, Manchester United's previous defeats to Chelsea and Liverpool in the league may be rewritten.

Just six months ago, Valencia once thought that his career was over. "That was the darkest moment of my career. When I heard the sound of fractures, I even told myself that my career was over, and I felt deeply afraid. Fortunately, the doctor told me that everything was not over, and the team did not give up on me and chose my comeback date very carefully, but I really couldn't wait to return to the field. When the ** burst out after being suppressed for six months, Valencia interpreted the true meaning of "rebirth" to everyone with almost perfect performance.

In the fierce phase of the season, Valencia, which has returned from the line of fire, has become a powerful booster for Manchester United to win the Triple Crown. As Ferguson said in the winter transfer period: "We don't need to draw, because we have Valencia."

2-0, Manchester United defeated Fulham without much effort, temporarily expanding the team's lead with Arsenal to 10 points. Compared with the last round of away 4-2 reversal of West Ham's starting line-up, Manchester United made five replacements in this game. O'Shea, Anderson, Scholes, Nani and Li Yu, who recovered from injury, replaced Fabio, Giggs, Carrick and Park Zhixing respectively.

This season, in Li Yu's starting league, Manchester United's winning rate is 89%; in the league where Li Yu failed to start, Manchester United's winning rate is only 45%. Although Manchester United have only won one game in the last four league matches with Fulham, Fulham's away record is too poor. Fulham has not won away from Manchester United in the league since October 2003.

After winning this game, Manchester United has won 12 consecutive victories at home.

This season, Manchester United has played 16 home games, with 15 wins and 1 draw, scoring 42 goals and conceding 9 goals and 46 points, averaging 2.88 points per game. The league's home record surpasses Real Madrid and ranks first in Europe. How deterrent is Manchester United's home court to the visiting team? The last time Manchester United lost a goal at home in the first half of a domestic match was on April 3, 2010. At that time, Joe Cole took the lead for Chelsea at Old Trafford and finally helped Chelsea beat Manchester United 2-1 away, taking the initiative to win the championship. At present, Real Madrid, which ranks second in the home record of the All-European League, has 14 wins and 1 loss, scoring 46 goals and conceding 7 goals and 42 points, averaging 2.8 points per game. Barcelona, ranked third at home, has 14 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss at home, scoring 42 goals, conceding 10 goals and 43 points, averaging 2.69 points per game.

In the Champions League in the middle of the week, Ferdinand returned from injury. In this game, Manchester United made a comeback with Osshea, Anderson and Brown.

After the game, Ferguson confirmed that Rafal, who had a knee injury, should be able to catch up with the second round against Chelsea.

Not only that, Fletcher, who has been suffering from viral diseases since the beginning of March, has also improved a lot. Ferguson confirmed that the 27-year-old Scottish captain is close to returning. Now, except for Lindgard, the "Glassman" Hargreaves and the suspended Rooney, there are almost no injuries in Manchester United. It can be said that there are many soldiers, which is a very gratifying phenomenon.

And luck is also on the side of Manchester United. Although Ferguson and Rooney have been suspended for improper remarks, objectively speaking, Manchester United has been quite lucky recently.

In the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals in the middle of the week, Evra's foul of tripping Ramirez in the penalty area was let go. In this game, only 12 minutes after the opening, Rooney opened the door to victory for the Red Devils, but in slow-motion playback, this goal was 100% offside first.

From escaping the 100% penalty to the first goal of 100% offside, Manchester United's good luck is still continuing. Perhaps this is what Ferdinand said. Everyone has a time to lose and make a profit. However, Manchester United's good luck happens to appear in the closing stage.

From now until the end of the season, Manchester United will play at least 8 games, which are 6 rounds of the Premier League, 1 FA Cup semi-final and 1 second round of the Champions League quarter-final; up to 12 goals will be played, possibly the FA Cup final, the Champions League two-round semi-finals and the final. Despite Arsenal's two fewer rounds, Manchester United has expanded its lead with the Gunners to 10 points, which has no room for Arsenal to make mistakes in the away game on Sunday night Beijing time.

Manchester United's current Premier League points are 69 points, 13 points away from the 82-point winning line mentioned by Ferguson. That is to say, as long as the Red Devils win 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last six rounds, the Lord thinks that the champion will not be lost.

Analyze Manchester United's schedule. In the last six rounds of the league, Manchester United played against Newcastle, Arsenal and Blackburn away, and played against Everton, Chelsea and Blackpool at home.

Among them, it is not difficult to play Newcastle and Everton at home. Newcastle and Everton are now have no desire; the home relegation team Blackpool is the planned three points. Arsenal now has 59 points, and there are 8 rounds left in the Gunners League. Theoretically, the maximum score is 83 points, but if you want to win the last 8 rounds, the difficulty can be imagined. Don't forget that in the last three rounds of the Premier League, Arsenal drew with Sunderland, West Brom and Blackburn respectively, and lost 6 points in three games. Score!

That is to say, in the last six rounds, even if Manchester United loses to Arsenal away and draws with Chelsea at home, as long as they win the other four games, at least 90% of them may eventually win the championship trophy.

The last time Manchester United won the Triple Crown was in the 1998-99 season.

At that time, in the summer of 1998, Manchester United spent 12.6 million pounds to buy Dwight-Yoke, 15 million pounds to buy Stam, and 4.4 million pounds to buy Brom Quest.

As a result, the first two became the absolute main force. York scored 18 goals in the Premier League in the Triple Crown season of Manchester United, becoming the first foreign player to win the Premier League Golden Boot, scoring 30 goals in all competitions; Stam became the mainstay of Manchester United's defense, and Bromquist also became a qualified substitute for Giggs, and He started in the Champions League final against Bayern.

Last summer, Manchester United only bought the "little pea" Hernandez, which was not very famous at that time, and bought the potential midback Smarin with limited experience in the Premier League, which was completely unmatched with the strength of the introduction in the summer of 1998, but it is expected to achieve the triple crown again. I have to say that this is a small miracle made by Sir Alex Ferguson.

In the middle of the week, the Champions League rekindled the war. The back-to-back quarter-quarter round divided the "week" starting from Tuesday into the two-line "sandwich" schedule of the Champions League-League-League. In the first round, each of the eight teams has its own victory or defeat. Back to their respective leagues last weekend, only the miners missed Wuchao in the eight teams, and the other seven teams all won, eating the league in the "sandwich" into fat meat.

In the Premier League, Manchester United beat Fulham 2-0. Chelsea beat Wigan by one goal, which somewhat diluted the frustration of being defeated by Manchester United at home, and also accumulated morale for the return of defense this Tuesday. At the White Deer Trail, Crouch, who was criticized by Lao Lei for Bernabeu's uncoldness, won two yuan in a row, helping the team narrowly beat Stoke City. Once they lose the Champions League, Tottenham Hotspur has to strive for the top four. This victory has not left them behind in the league.

Because Manchester United won Chelsea and was blood-washed by Real Madrid in the first round of Tottenham Hotspur, La Liga is likely to occupy half of the top four of the Champions League this season.

After two big victories last week, the top two of La Liga continued to advance in the league last Saturday. Real Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao 3-0 away, and Barcelona beat Almelia 3-1 at home. Before the likely UEFA Champions League version of the "National Derby", the winning advantage of the two teams in the Champions League and the pace of the league are very similar. As the most surprising result maker in the first round, Inter and Schalke also won this round of the league, among which the wins of the Nerazzurri also washed the two consecutive losses in the UEFA Champions League.

The past weekend was the midfield break of the annual UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. During this break, all eight teams rotated to varying degrees. Manchester United once rotated eight people, and Kaka returned to score a goal... After eating the league "meat stuffing" for a break, the "the second half" will continue this week!

The Premier League match between Manchester United and Chelsea is still the focus of the top eight knockout matches.