Chapter 10 Always Reverse

Before Manchester United's game against Stoke City, the Red Devils maintained a very interesting record. Their past 11 league goals were scored by 11 different players. The number of goals scored by Manchester United in the league has suddenly reached 13, and this number is rare in the whole European football world!

In the first eight rounds of the Premier League, Manchester United has scored 21 goals, which ranks first in the Premier League. In the five major leagues, Manchester United's offensive firepower is second only to the Bundesliga leader Bayern's 8 games with 26 goals and Barcelona's 8 games with 24 goals ranked third. What is more frightening than the number of goals scored by Manchester United. That's a lot.

Among these 21 goals, including Van Persie (6 goals), Rooney (2 goals), Raphael (2 goals), Shinji Kagawa (2 goals), Welbeck, Hernandez, Scholes, Nani, Powell, Batner, Evra, Evans and Clever, a total of 13 players have tasted Man. The taste of the joint goal. In addition to the UEFA Champions League and the League Cup, Carrick and Anderson also scored, which brought Manchester United's total number of goals to 15.

At present, Manchester United leads the giants in Europe in the number of goals scored in the league. In the Premier League, Manchester City has 10 goals in the league, which is the closest team to Manchester United; although Chelsea leads in the league, only 8 goals are scored; in La Liga, Barcelona has 9 goals in the league, Real Madrid has 5 goals, and Serie A, the leader Juventus has 12 goals.

Ancelotti was satisfied with the number of goals scored by the team in an interview after the game: "We have 15 different players who have scored, which is very good."

Due to the arrival of Van Persie and the presence of Li Yu, people are looking forward to Manchester United's combination of gold and silver boots in the Premier League last season.

However, the sharpness of Manchester United's attack cannot hide their weak defense. Taking this game into the game, Manchester United has lost the ball in six games in the first eight rounds of the Premier League. Although Manchester United won back four of them and earned 12 points, they always win in this way, which is frightening.

According to historical data, the number of goals conceded by Manchester United after 8 rounds is their worst in the past 10 years.

In the 03/04 season, Manchester United conceded only 3 goals in 8 rounds. The number of goals conceded in the following seasons was 7, 6, 5, 5, 5, 8, 11, 6. Last season, Manchester United only lost 6 goals in the same period, but this season this season is 11, which is the same as the 10/11 season. This season, Manchester United have played 3 games 3 to 2 (3 to 2 win Fulham, 3 to 2 to Southampton, 2 to lose to Tottenham), a high score of 4 to 2, and lost 9 goals in these 4 games alone!

After the vertical comparison, we will compare the number of goals lost by Manchester United with other giants in Europe. In the Premier League, Chelsea conceded 6 goals, Arsenal lost 6 goals, and Manchester City lost 8; in Serie A, the leader Juventus lost 4 goals, Inter conceded 6 goals, and Milan lost 10; in La Liga, Real Madrid lost 7 goals, and Barcelona, who beat Raco 5-4 in this round, also lost 11 goals. In the Bundesliga, Bayern scored 26 goals and conceded only 2 goals. That is to say, looking at European football, Manchester United's current defense is the weakest of the giants.

The exposure of Manchester United's defensive problems this season is related to the lack of defensive personnel. Smarling and Phil Jones did not participate in the pre-match training of the new season because of surgery. Vidic also had another operation on his knee meniscus not long ago. At one time, Manchester United's defense could only rely on reserve team player Wootton to help.

Fortunately, Smalin has returned from injury and may be able to play in the next round against Chelsea, and Phil Jones can come back before the match against Arsenal at the beginning of next month. According to the latest news, captain Vidic has also been able to get out of bed for simple restorative training, Manchester United The dilemma of backward defense may be alleviated by the return of the injured.

Since Manchester United spent a lot of money to sign Van Persie this summer and used Van Persie and Li Yu to form a new front-line combination for Manchester United, Manchester United fans have begun to look forward to the day when the pair will be together.

However, it was not until today's Manchester United's match against Stoke City, the eighth round of the league of the new season, that the pair opened and closed in the same game for the first time.

Although Li Yu and Van Persie have been in a very hot state recently, it is not Li Yu, the king of Manchester United, but "General Fan" Van Persie, who really dominates this good show.

The start of this game is quite funny for Manchester United. Manchester United, who is at home and aspires to win three points, was scored by Van Persie in the 11th minute of the first half.

However, before the end of the first half, Van Persie made up for his skills and helped Manchester United overtake the score in time with one pass and one shot: in the 26th minute, Manchester United scored the ball in the middle, Van Persie picked up the ball on the left side, and the ball drew a nearly perfect arc, bypassing the Stoke City iron guard Shawcross at the front point, to help Li Yu easily headed the ball in front of the goal and achieved "redemption" in a quarter of an hour.

In the 44th minute, General Fan took his own action and scored a goal for Manchester United: Li Yu scored the ball to the right in the middle. Valencia shook against Stoke City defender Wilson and sent a low-level pass. The ball accurately passed between Wilson's legs, and there was no one to defend the front point bag. Van Persie unexpectedly turned his ankle and pushed the ball to the far corner of the goal.

Stoke City goalkeeper Bergovic obviously failed to respond to Van Persie's imaginative shot, so he had to see the ball roll towards the dead corner, and Manchester United overtook the score! This is the 102nd goal scored in the Premier League in Van Persie's career.

Van Persie has scored 6 goals and 3 assists for Manchester United in 8 league games this season, and one has scored 9 goals. Compared with the same period at Arsenal last season, Van Persie's data is 5 goals, 1 assist and 6 goals, that is to say, Manchester United's Van Persie is 1.5 times stronger than Arsenal's Van Persie in the same period!

After Van Persie's transfer to Manchester United, there is a view that it is difficult for Van Persie to play at the same level as at Arsenal in Manchester United, but Van Persie responded to this question with data. In the Premier League scorer list, Van Persie scored 6 goals with Demba-Ba and Michu topped the list, but counting the number of assists, Van Persie's data of 9 goals in 8 games is also unmatched in the Premier League.

Because he is also a Dutchman, Van Persie has always been compared with Manchester United's legendary striker Van Nis. However, in terms of data, Van Persie is also better than Van Nisman in the same period. After Van Nisneth and joined Manchester United in the 2001/02 season, Van Persie scored only 4 goals in the first eight rounds of the league, while Van Persie scored 6 goals. According to Van Persie's current scoring efficiency, it is not difficult to surpass Van Nisman United's 23 goals in 32 games in the first season.

In addition, the most terrible thing about General Fan is that all the goals and assists he has sent to Manchester United this season directly determine the trend of the game and the ending of Manchester United's 3-2 reversal of Fulham in the second round of the league. Van Persie's first goal in the 10th minute of the game equalized for Manchester United.

In the third round of the league, Manchester United 3-2 reversed Southampton again, and Van Persie directly arranged all three goals of Manchester United. In the fifth round of the league, Manchester United defeated Liverpool 2-1, and Van Persie resisted the pressure and was sent to the penalty for the Reds in the 6th round of the penalty league in the 80th round. -3 regretted the loss to Tottenham Hotspur, Van Persie's exquisite direct assist for Shinji Kagawa in the 53rd minute helped Manchester United narrow the score gap to one goal and completely ignited the fighting spirit of the Red Devils.

It seems that General Fan's pace of scoring goals and assists will never stop, but even if he is proud on the court, there is no lack of trouble in Van Persie's life recently.

Due to elbowing Kabaye in the last round of the league against Newcastle, Van Persie was in danger of being banned for three games by the FA some time ago. Fortunately, the subsequent Sky Sports report confirmed that Van Persie would not be given an additional penalty for that elbow attack.

However, only a week later, Van Persie was once again pushed to the forefront of the news of going to the red light district with his teammates after the World Cup qualifiers in the Netherlands and Romania. Fortunately, Van Persie can always come up with more eye-catching goals and assists than lace, just like his performance today. As long as General Fan can continue to block and kill Buddha, people's attention to him will inevitably fall on the ball under his feet.

On the other hand, Terry's racist turmoil has not really subsided. Manchester United defender Leo Ferdinand took the lead and planned to establish the "Black Players Association", and Premier League players are facing division.

According to the Daily Mail, due to his dissatisfaction with Terry's only four-match suspension and a fine of 220,000 pounds, Leo Ferdinand intends to make further moves. He has privately contacted a number of well-known black Premier League players and intends to set up his own organization.

In the last round of the Premier League, Ferdinand refused to wear a T-shirt of "kicking racial discrimination out of the court" to protest against the organization's inability to fight against racial discrimination, and some black players responded, such as Manchester City's Lescott, Queen's Park Rangers and Everton's players, while Ferdinand is still seeking An organization called the Black Players Association has been established, and he will meet with some people in London several times in the next few weeks.

Nowadays, Ferdinand's establishment of the organization has received more and more support, and many black players in the Premier League have responded. According to the Daily Mail, Ferdinand is likely to be elected as the first president of the association, and some retired and influential black players will also participate in the organization.

Once the "Black Players Association" is established, it may cause division and opposition between Premier League players, and the differences and estrangements between black players and white players may be put on the table. In future Premier League games, events such as Little Ferdinand's refusal to shake hands with Terry may become a large-scale unified action of the organization, and the Premier League may enter a period of racial antagonism like the "American Civil War era".

In this regard, former Manchester United defender Gary Neville expressed concern. He believes that if this goes on, there will be serious divisions and antagonism in England. Neville wrote in the column: "Football has a direct response to many social problems. What the Professional Players League should do is to ensure that the 'Berlin Wall' will not be Stand up."

came to the Champions League. With Hernandez's second goal and Evans' goal, Manchester United scored three goals in a row when they fell behind 0-2 at home, thrillingly reversing Portugal's strong team Braga, and winning all three games in the Champions League group stage.

In this game, Manchester United fell behind 0-2 in the first 20 minutes, which is the eighth time they have conceded a goal in various competitions this season.

When asked by the reporter what he thought of this phenomenon, Hernandez, the hero of the goal, said jokingly, "I was thinking, oh, we only need to score 3 more goals to win and get 3 points!" We started the game a little badly, but thank God we scored three goals, and we are looking forward to the next game. This game has taught me a lot. When I get a chance, I have to do my best.

In fact, in the first half, Hernandez scored one more goal but was awarded offside first. Through the slow-motion replay, the linesman's penalty is debatable. Hernandez said: "That's not an offside, but everything is important. The most important thing is 3 points."

In this game, Ancelotti let veteran Ferdinand take a break and chose to let Carrick play the central defender, but it was Carrick's attention that made Manchester United lose the second goal.

Ancelotti said after the game that there was no problem with his decision: "I think we made the right choice. It's not Carrick's fault. I think you have to consider Leo's age. Next, we will play against Chelsea (Weibo), the League Cup or Chelsea, and then Arsenal. We lost Vidic, Jones and Smarin. Although Carrick was not the best choice, he completed his task well.

For another reversal of victory this season, Ancelotti said: "This is the usual practice at home this season. It's a bad start to lose the ball first, and then save the game. This is what the striker did for us. Some of our performances in this game were wonderful, but the loss of the ball made me worried.

The little pea, who has been playing the substitute role this season, scored twice in this game. The outbreak of the four strikers also gave Ancelotti a headache: "Little pea's training is very good. He has been improving. His goal rate is excellent. His second ball is so wonderful! He deserves my consideration. With him, as well as Van Persie, Li Yu and Welbeck, to be honest, I really don't know what to do.

Maybe the victory of the game made Ancelotti feel a little relaxed. In fact, An Shuai was not so calm at halftime. At that time, Manchester United fell behind 1-2. In an interview with ITV, he publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the linesmen: "I can't believe that we were behind in the opening 1 minute and 20 seconds. We played some wonderful cooperation, but a good ball was blown away by the lineman.

In a highly controversial game, Manchester United beat Chelsea 3-2 at Stamford Bridge. Red Devils coach Ancelotti admitted that the team had a little luck after the game. However, An Shuai believes that Torres deserves the red card that Torres was sentenced to a "fake fall".

"It has been ten years since we last won the league here," Ancelotti said. "I said before the game that we have experienced some shocking penalties in this field. The game here is very difficult, and it is difficult to make all the referee's judgments in your favor. The cheering fans played a role. They performed well and supported their own team. We were very passive during the time around half-time.

"I think we reassemgregated well and returned to the game. They said that the winning goal was offside, so we were a little lucky.

"But our start was so good that our performance at that time was absolutely extraordinary, but then about 10 minutes before half-time, we were a little out of control. To be honest, I was looking forward to the half-time break. They scored the second goal in the second half, but from then on, we began to play normally, and I think we did it.

Chelsea were sent off two people in the game, and Ancelotti was also asked about his opinion on these two red cards. He said, "The penalty for the opponent's right-back (Ivanovic) was sent off is a turning point for us. I think we will win the game from that moment on. I changed to Hernandez, and he got the winning goal. At that time, I thought the momentum of the game was on our side.

Torres was sentenced to a "fake fall" and got the second yellow card, which is one of the biggest controversies in the game. Ancelotti commented that T9's playing card is "deed": "Tores may have continued to move forward. Did he intentionally fall? I think he is. I think Evans may have met him a little, but you can choose to keep running forward, which is what Torres could have done, or fall down.

Torres could have continued to run and scored. That's where I don't understand the shooters. I will never give up that opportunity. I will seize this opportunity at any time, and I will not fall down. Torres fell to the ground, and he had a yellow card before, so it was his own fault, and he deserved a red card.

Manchester United's Valencia was also sentenced to get a yellow card. Ancelotti explained, "I think that penalty is a little strange. I can't understand Valencia's card, because he has broken through and he has no reason to fall to the ground. The referee took his sentence for granted, because it was Mikkel who competed with him. If he is sentenced to a foul and plays a card, because he has a card, he should be punished, so the referee can only judge like this.

Ancelotti praised Chelsea's performance: "You must praise Chelsea. They never give up. Look at David Lewis. He runs around like an ascetic. That's his desire to fight back to the game. Chelsea gambled and obviously lost, but they showed a strong desire to win the game, and you must give them recognition and praise for it.

Mexican striker Hernandez, who scored the winning goal for Manchester United, said that he didn't care about the controversy. When asked if his goal was offside, Little Pea said, "We don't care. We won and got three points. This is the only thing we consider. Maybe it's controversial for some people, but not for others. For us, we won three points. It is very difficult to come to Stamford Bridge to get three points. We are very lucky and happy.

When asked about the offside ball again, the little pea said, "Maybe it's offside, and I went to see the linesman. It's just a habitual action. This is a really difficult game, because they caught up at the last moment of the first half, but we were lucky to score the last goal. Every time we played against the direct opponent for the championship, every game was very difficult, so we were very happy to get three points.

Torres fell to the ground under Evans' tackle, and then was awarded a "fake fall" by referee Kratenberg, showing a second yellow card. The client, Evans, admitted after the game that there was physical contact between him and Torres. At that time, I felt that I didn't have physical contact with him, but I watched the video again and had a little contact. At that time, I felt that it was not enough to make him fall to the ground. He may realize that he can't get the ball, and I think it's the right decision for the referee to send him off.