Chapter 465 Must be quoted
In January, fans who expected Manchester United's gorgeous return will be disappointed again!
In the 20th round, a focus battle was fought in the sports goods direct sales arena. Manchester United lost 0-3 away to Newcastle, Demba Ba and Kabaye scored one after another, and Phil Jones made an own goal. Manchester United fell behind Manchester City by 3 points after a losing streak, and the Red Devils' five-game winning streak was ended.
Two consecutive defeats in the league, as the contender for the league championship, is a fact that the new coach Ancelotti is in charge of Manchester United and is unwilling to accept in any case.
In the past ten years, Manchester United suffered a non-defeat in Newcastle in the league. The last defeat dates back to September 15, 2001, when the Magpie defeated Manchester United 4-3 at St. James's Park. Pardu is unfavorable. After the recent name change of the stadium, the Northeast Powers lost two and one draw in three home games. However, no one expected that the defending champion would help them make a good start.
Before this game, Manchester United had hoped to break the strange circle that they had never won six consecutive away wins in the Premier League in the past decade, but the goals of Denba Ba and Kabaye made Ancelotti lose his mind early. This was the first time in eight years that his team lost three goals in two consecutive games.
In fact, since Demba-Ba's beautiful volley, the Red Devils' defeat has long been doomed. Since August 2009, when former Manchester United coach Ferguson was still on the team, he has never successfully turned over in the Premier League when he fell behind in the first half, with a total record of 3 draws and 7 losses.
It coincided with the outbreak of Newcastle's firepower. They scored a total of 13 goals in the previous six games, one more than the total of the previous 13 league goals. In the face of such a difficult situation, and watching Li Yu and Hernandez return in front of each other again and again, the Italian leader had to spread his hands.
It should be said that Manchester United is completely at a disadvantage in the second consecutive defeat, and it is also unfair. According to the data analysis after the game, the home team's possession rate is less than 40%, but Magpie's resolute implementation of the traditional British style of play ensures their advantage in front of the goal. Newcastle has 10 shots and 5 straight shots in the whole game, while Manchester United has 6 shots and only 3 shots. Even if all three goals are scored, it is just a draw with the opponent. The Red Devils have no choice but to take their opponents. The gap in the door reflects the downturn of the striker's state.
Li Yu was treated cruelly by her opponent, and many too rough movements were only aimed at Li Yu. Although Ancelotti did not loudly accuse the referee in the game, it can be seen from the continuous gestures that the Italian leader is dissatisfied with the referee.
It can be said that Newcastle tied Li Yu with a rough action, which was the reason for Manchester United's two consecutive defeats. In the last game against Blackburn, the same tactical arrangement was also miraculous. Newcastle fought at home and used it more unscrupulously.
I have to say that it depends on Li Yu alone, and the rest of Manchester United are in a slump. This is the rhythm of Manchester United's loss. No one stands up to support Li Yu's attack. It is not surprising that Manchester United did not score a goal in the game.
Seeing that the team was in urgent need of scores to surpass Manchester City, it pulled the deputy monitor instead. In this game, Hernandez's sleepwalking state also completely disappointed Ancelotti, and then he was replaced in the 57th minute, and the front line became a younger Welbeck, which at least to a certain extent increased the team's vitality on the field.
There was nothing wrong with Ancelottisen's substitution. In the first half, Hernandez's ball protection in the opponent's corner flag area was easily pushed away and robbed by his opponent. He didn't even chase back, so he gave up the ball.
The front line did not cheer up, and the performance of the back line was equally bad, conceding 6 goals in two consecutive games, and the opponents were not strong teams. The Red Devils' defense couldn't help but make people sweat. Phil Jones sent the second own goal of the season. What's even more frustrating is the strange cooperation between him and Lindgaard. Will General Fei lose his morale because of the losing streak? In the fourth minute of the opening, Evra gave Newcastle a perfect chance to fight back. If it hadn't been for the slippage of the foot, the score might have been rewritten long ago.
The midfield was originally the link in which Manchester United received the least impact due to injuries, but the forward line composed of Giggs, Park Ji-sung, Carrick and Nani did not even send a threatening pass in the whole game. I don't know if Scholes in front of the TV will feel chilled when he sees such a scene. In the post-match Sky Sports score, only four people in the Manchester United team passed, including Lindgaard, who lost three goals, which shows that the team is really in a bad state.
More unfortunately, Manchester United's next game is the FA Cup away game against Manchester City, the "noisy" neighbor who once gave them a fiasco this season.
Once it causes three consecutive defeats (it doesn't seem surprising), the team's confidence collapses, and it will be a disaster that the Lord can't get back in any way. Worst of all, Manchester United's schedule for the next period is also extremely unfavorable to them. From the end of January, they will face challenges from Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Ajax.
Challenge the Gunners away on New Year's Eve, followed by Stoke City, who is good at long passes, facing Chelsea and Liverpool for six days, followed by Ajax. Such a devil's schedule really tests the confidence and courage of the Red Devils. Any catastrophic collapse will be an unbearable pain in Ancelotti's coaching career.
The Sun made an evaluation of the lineup value of the top six of the Premier League at the end of last year. Among them, the value of Manchester United and Manchester City's starting lineup should be comparable (Manchester City's starting lineup is 185.6 million pounds, Manchester United is 162.1 million pounds, not injured Vidic), but in the rotatable substitute In terms of the value of the lineup, the Red Devil is 50 million pounds worse than the enemy in the same city!
This is an irreparable gap. Half of the league is over. After entering Christmas, Manchester United is full of injuries and illness, and the backwardness in the depth of the bench has long been reflected. Even in such a situation, Lord Fu still insists that he refuses to attract aid in winter, which is really difficult to understand. Considering the painful schedule that the Red Devils are about to experience, if they don't attract players in winter, it's better to congratulate Manchester City on winning the championship at this time!
What is intriguing is Ferdinand's comeback, so that An Shuai can finally send two central defenders in the main lineup. Carrick, who can't hold it, has finally ended his poor guest performance.
In addition, Lindegaard, who kept a goal in the previous five Premier League starts, and returned to the starting line of De Gea, who made a big mistake in the last round, Manchester United's defense seems to be very reliable. But the result stunned everyone. Newcastle's far less luxurious attack line played a world-class value in front of the Red Devils' defenders. Among them, Demba-Ba made Ferdinand, who had just returned, completely lose the dignity of the former Premier League's first defender.
Before the 19th round of the Premier League, Manchester United was the best defensive team in the league, losing only 14 goals in 18 games, proudly showing the strong rebound of the Red Devils after 1-6. But after losing to Blackburn and Newcastle, Manchester United's number of goals conceded has soared to 20 goals. More importantly, the goal difference between them and Manchester City has been widened to 11, and the efforts to grab points before Christmas have been squandered in just a week. The culprit of this embarrassing result is undoubtedly the team's flawed defense.
If it hadn't been for the merciness of the referee Weber, Ferdinand might have given a big gift to his opponent in the 24th minute. Demba Ba received a straight ball from his teammate and broke into the penalty area. The 33-year-old Ferdinand could not keep up with Demba at all. He wanted to stretch his legs to intercept but directly inserted his foot between Demba's legs. The Newcastle striker was severely turned to the ground, but Weber signaled to continue the game, and Manchester United escaped.
However, Demba Ba's test against Ferdinand is not over. In fact, until he was replaced in the 89th minute, Demba Ba's defense would make Manchester United's defense sound almost every time he took the ball. In the 31st minute, Demba leaned on Ferdinand to receive a long pass from the backcourt. Ferdinand rode on Demba's shoulder in a hurry and overwhelmed him, while Weber sentenced Demba to a foul, which caused the whole sports goods direct sales arena to boo.
But the referee's merciless men could not pull the fig leaf for Ferdinand. Just two minutes later, Demba Ba won again in the conversation with Ferdinand. At that time, Krull's big foot pass was bombarded directly in front of Manchester United's penalty area. Ameoby grabbed the header before Phil Jones and rubbed it. Demba Bamen. The first 13 yards of the direct volley hook shot through the goal, and the close-fitting Ferdinand failed to react like a wooden stake, and was completely reduced to a loyal audience of this wonderful goal.
Since then, Demba-Ba, who played confidently, became more arrogant, and almost all of the long passes were stopped-turned-by to bully Ferdinand, who had seriously deteriorated in speed.
In the 46th minute, Demba Ba quickly took the ball and launched a counterattack. Just a simple oblique acceleration got rid of Ferdinand. Phil Jones couldn't make up for it and knocked him down. It was Kabaye who took advantage of this free kick opportunity to help the home team expand the lead to two goals. In the 69th minute, Ferdinand, who had been exhausted by Demba Ba, almost made a big mistake in the panic. He headed the ball back but deflected the ball. Demba almost stopped the ball and hit the goal directly. Fortunately, Ferdinand used his experience to rely on Demba Ba to regain the ball, which avoided the tragedy.
In the 72nd minute, Demba-Ba defeated Ferdinand in the air confrontation again, and the header on the edge of the penalty area missed the far post.
OPTA's post-match statistics show that Ferdinand's passing success rate in this game is only 69.6%. Among Manchester United's starters, it is only higher than that of goalkeeper Lindegaard, who frequently passes back from his teammates, and his passing success rate in the front court is poor 35.7%. What's worse, Ferdinand There have been a total of 18 goals conceded, and only 6 can be recovered. As a central defender, this is simply a nightmare + sleepwalking data.
Look at the performance of the other two central defenders. Williamson has lost 7 goals and 3 counterattacks, and Colochini has lost 10 goals and 8 counterattacks. Even Phil Jones, who has lost 7 goals and 7 counterattacks. Sky Sports gave Ferdinand only 5 points after the game, and used his life to describe his embarrassment when defending Denba Ba. However, Ferdinand is not the player with the lowest score at Manchester United. Phil Jones, who has performed well for most of the game, unfortunately became the worst man in the game because of the low-level own goal at the last minute.
Phil Jones was used by An Shuai as the golden oil in the midfield for his comprehensive technical characteristics. Phil Jones, who returned to the central defender position, did not make much mistake in the confrontation with Ameoby. At the same time, 89.7% pass success rate and 7 solutions The defensive data of five shoveling and seven counterattacks is also very eye-catching, but the short circuit at the last moment of the game turned the team from a complete defeat to a fiasco.
In the 90th minute, Krull's big foot drove directly into Manchester United's penalty area. Phil Jones did not see Lindgard, who had moved in advance to control the ball, but naturally headed the ball to the middle of the goal, which turned into a tragedy. In fact, even if Lindgard did not move his position at that time, Phil Jones's bounceback was very difficult to catch. It can be seen that when the team's defeat has been determined, the young England defensive genius will inevitably have psychological fluctuations, New Edwards? He still has a long way to go.
In contrast, although the golden body of the Premier League was broken three times by his opponents this season, Lindgaard was not too responsible for the team's three goals. Not only the Danes, but also De Gea, who had been criticized for being incompetent before. I still remember that De Gea was at the top of the save list at the beginning of the season. Is it? As the goalkeeper of the defending champion, he leads the technical statistics, and everyone knows whose scapegoats the young Spaniards have innocently become. Ferguson said before the game: "David (De Gea) made two mistakes against Blackburn, but Lindgaard will be more experienced." Obviously, the rotation of goalkeepers has not brought qualitative changes to the team's defense. The weak midfield protection and tight central defender defense are the most fundamental reason why the team frequently loses the ball.
This season, Manchester United has suffered a large range of injuries, but Ancelotti, who is good at deployment, is still full of confidence in his men and proudly said: "There is no suitable target for signing in the winter transfer market. I believe that the experienced Leo (Ferinand) is the most reasonable partner with a young player. Defense combination, Leo is in very good physical condition at present, so I don't worry about the team's defense.
It turns out that the negative impact of Vidic's season reimbursement on the team can not only be compensated by An Shuai's encouragement in an interview. The alternation of the old and new on the defense line, the interception of the central and avant-garde, is still the same sentence, the Manchester United lineup left to An Shuai actually needs a lot of repair!
There is only one solution, introduction.
After losing to the league's deputy squad leader Blackburn at home, he was killed by Newcastle with three goals. This winter is particularly cold for Ancelotti and his team. The lineup is not neat, full of injuries and not enough thickness. Today's Manchester United has been pulled away again in the competition with their "noisy neighbor" Manchester City. The important reason for the gap is that although it is supported by Ancelotti's strategy and the background of the rich family, at least in terms of strength, the Red Devil has been left behind by the Blue Moon.
How to relieve worries? Only the introduction! I'm afraid that those who can cure the current Red Devils Manchester United can only look forward to the joining of a giant-star player.
According to the Daily Mail, Dutch midfielder Sneid, who passed Manchester United last summer, is now once again connected with Old Trafford. The newspaper said that Ancelotti almost signed the Inter midfielder a little six months ago, but An Shuai retreated because the latter asked for a top salary of 250,000 pounds. Now, Manchester United has once again come up with Sneid. Ancelotti needs the scheduling and organizational ability of the Dutch king in the midfield to fight against the strong Manchester City Legion.
According to Italian sources, the Daily Mail confirmed that given that Moratti's Nerazzurri have a "strong interest" in Manchester City's abandonment Tevez, Inter Milan, who suffers from no transfer liquidity, is likely to sell Sneide for cash in order to It is in a favorable position in the competition with AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain against Tevez. Now I dare not 100% guarantee that I will stay at Inter Milan, because some unexpected things will happen from time to time..." Sneid once said so ambiguously.
Of course, in the sudden transfer market, you must be prepared with two hands. According to news from talksport, Manchester United also intends to take further action against Ganso, a talented star in Brazil.
In a previous interview, Luis Oliveira, president of Santos Club, expressed his willingness to let Ganso go. If the player himself wants to leave, then we will listen carefully to the quotations from other clubs, but so far, we have not received any official quotations about him. Of course, everything is negotiable." Oliveira's ambiguous expression. However, talksport also revealed that AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain are also eyeing the Brazilian midfielder.
Another person who came into the eye of Manchester United is Barcelona young player Cuenca. According to the news from talksport, the Spanish media Daily Sports further confirmed that the Manchester United club has repeatedly sent scouts to Camp Nou to inspect the performance of the new Barcelona star. The 20-year-old Spanish flying wing Cuenca is 1.81 meters tall. After being promoted from Barcelona B team to the first team this season, he has temporarily emerged in La Liga. So far, he has scored 4 goals and 4 assists in 11 games for Barcelona in various competitions, which is another outstanding product of the current La Masia youth training camp.
Given that the Barcelona young player's contract with the club will expire in June this year, Cuenca has attracted the coveted of many Premier League clubs, including Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal. Of course, Barcelona's contract renewal negotiations with him are also in full swing. In addition, Maceda, a young player who has no chance to play in Manchester United, hinted that he would leave the Red Devils forever. The Italian had just joined Queen's Park on loan.
"Everyone is eager to play for Manchester United. This is a great club with a long history, but I have been loaned out for the second time (the last time was Sampdoria). After this loan, I will think about my future."