Football King Bale

In the devil's schedule, Manchester United is ready to face the next game.

The main players of Manchester United returned to Manchester from a week's stay in London. Ferguson gave most of the main players two days off, but he himself and the coaching staff had to bring an almost completely different Manchester United team with them to embark on the journey. Journey to Wales.

Because just two days later, on the night of the 24th, Manchester United will play Cardiff City in the second leg of the League Cup semi-finals at the Cardiff City Stadium.

This is really a completely different team from the Manchester United team that challenged Arsenal before. The team members are all composed of fringe members of the first team, reserve team players, and youth team players.

In this game, many players made their career debut with the Red Devils, including the young French player N'Golo Kante signed by the team in the summer.

Although they are marginal players and youth team players, they cherish their hard-won opportunities to play in the first team, especially in important games such as the League Cup semi-finals. Therefore, they competed very well against Cardiff City in the away game.

As a result, after a bloody battle, Manchester United's second team fought the home team 2:1 at the Cardiff City Stadium on the road, with the home team in front.

As a result, the total score in the two rounds became 2:2.

There is no away goal advantage in the League Cup semi-finals, so although Manchester United had an away goal, the game was still dragged into overtime.

In overtime, both sides had serious physical problems. As a result, both sides were unable to change the score and the game was once again dragged into a penalty shootout.

In the cruel penalty shootout, this young Manchester United team had problems. Their psychological quality was obviously not as good as the more mature and stable home team. As a result, they lost with a score of 4:5 and were unfortunately eliminated from the League Cup. finals.

However, in such a losing game, two players came into Ferguson's sight: Pogba and Kante.

Pogba made many appearances in this year's League Cup and performed well. He even scored the equalizer and scored in the final penalty shootout.

But it was the first time that Kanter really came into the old Sir Alex's sight. In today's game, Kante, who serves as the team's defensive midfielder, can be called a wall in front of the defender. He has a huge running range and excellent interception. Without him, Manchester United would definitely have lost more than one goal in the ninety minutes today. .

Moreover, in the subsequent penalty shootout, Kante volunteered to be the first to take the penalty, which places high demands on the players' psychological quality. Kante performed well.

The first goal was scored steadily.

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The team's absence from this year's League Cup final was the first time since Bell joined Manchester United that the team missed the final of the year. Manchester United will never be able to repeat the miracle of the previous year's seven crowns this year.

Ferguson felt a little regretful. After all, the final was just around the corner, but Manchester United regretted missing out.

He felt that maybe if he put a few main players on the roster of this team, even if they did not start the game, they might come on in the later stages of the game or in overtime, and the team might win the game.

Of course, the best choice is to put Bell in. With his ability to grasp opportunities, the result will definitely be different.

However, everything is a foregone conclusion and the results of the game are out. Manchester United can only look forward to next year's League Cup final.

One day later, at Anfield Stadium, the Red Army Liverpool, which won 1:0 away from Blue Moon Manchester City, faced the challenge of their opponents.

After 90 minutes of fierce fighting, Liverpool fell behind twice at home and finally drew with Manchester City 2:2 and advanced to the final with a total score of 3:2. The Red Army will compete with Cardiff City for the League Cup championship.

In the first half, De Jong received an assist from David Silva and kicked off the world wave. Agger created a controversial penalty kick and Gerrard equalized the score with a penalty kick. In the second half, Dzeko received a cross from Kolarov and once again helped Manchester City take the lead. , Bellamy received an assist from Glen Johnson and equalized the score again.

However, Liverpool had no time to celebrate that the team had advanced to the final and was very likely to win a championship trophy in a month's time - the past two seasons had been too hard for other British teams, first Tottenham won them all The championship of all domestic competitions that year, and then it was Manchester United's turn - because after Liverpool sent away a powerful Manchester team, they ushered in an even more powerful Manchester team: the mortal enemy Red Devils Manchester United!

This is the fourth round of the League Cup this season.

Taking advantage of the morale gained from eliminating Manchester City, Liverpool wants to make persistent efforts and eliminate Manchester United from the FA Cup. This can also be regarded as revenge for being beaten three times by Manchester United last season and losing the league to Manchester United this season.

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The day of this game was the 34th birthday of Liverpool's deputy Carragher, and Dalglish also arranged for him to start in this game. For Liverpool, the goalkeeper position is still Reina. Kelly and Enrique appear on both sides of the defense, and Agger and Skrtel appear in the middle. In the midfield, Liverpool uses veteran Carragher instead of Adam. In addition, there are Gerrard and Henderson, Downing and Maxey appeared on both sides, and Carroll served as center.

For Manchester United, Ferguson also attached great importance to this game and sent most of the main team to play. After all, it was a game against a rival team. Bell and Welbeck are the front line, and in the midfield, Giggs, Scholes, Carrick and Valencia start together; in the defense, Smalling and Evans partner in the center, Rafael and Evra Plays as full-back; goalkeeper position is De Gea. In addition, Rooney, Nani, Sneijder and other main players also came to Liverpool with the team and temporarily sat on the bench. If something goes wrong, they will go into battle.

The home team Liverpool took the lead. In the 4th minute, Maxi Rodriguez tried a long-range shot with his right foot after receiving a pass from Gerrard. The ball was saved by De Gea.

As a rival team, Manchester United was naturally unwilling to lag behind and quickly responded to Liverpool with goals. In the 8th minute, Valencia made a pass from the right, Giggs returned it to Bell, and Bell volleyed with his left foot from the top of the arc in the penalty area, breaking the gate guarded by Reina.

The new Mr. Golden Ball told the Liverpool players with a beautiful curve ball: This is what Mr. Golden Ball is capable of!

Just before the game, Liverpool fans attacked Bale in the stands, believing that he did not deserve the Ballon d'Or.

However, it didn't take long for Liverpool to equalize the score. In the 21st minute, Maxi Rodriguez took a corner kick from the left and Agger succeeded with a header from the penalty area.

Manchester United naturally would not make Liverpool happy. Before the end of the first half, they exceeded the score again. In the 39th minute, Rafael cut inside from the right and then passed the ball to the middle. Giggs shot from 15 yards in front of Skrtel before he could block it. Reina failed to block it, and the ball came in for the second time in the game. Flying into Liverpool's goal.

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After the start of the second half, the two sides fought actively in the midfield and played very cautiously.

In the 57th minute, Enrique passed the ball from the left. Carroll got the ball and turned around and shot. The ball was blocked by Smalling and then made a clearance.

In the 59th minute, Manchester United retaliated. Bell dribbled the ball from the left to press the Liverpool defense, and then suddenly passed the ball back to Giggs behind him. Wang Laoji got a chance to shoot, but he missed the shot due to interference from the defender.

In the 66th minute, Gerrard took a free kick and the ball took a perfect arc, but it was saved by De Gea, who performed well.

The next minute, Manchester United responded to Liverpool's demonstration again. Bell went to the right in front of the penalty area, almost 40 yards away from the goal, and fired a stunning elevator kick. Reina had enough of the ball. The torture of the weird arc was to witness the ball flying past him and into the goal.

3:1! Bell scored twice, extending the lead to two goals.

Bell's super performance made Liverpool feel very desperate. Facing such an almost unreasonable opponent, they felt that it was really difficult to defeat Manchester United.

However, Liverpool is a very resilient team, especially their team spirit Gerrard, who is a player who will never give up until the end of the Yellow River. Even though Liverpool is two goals behind, he is still tirelessly pursuing goals. Only three minutes after the game restarted, Gerrard came out of the blue and suddenly tried to kick the goal. Fortunately, De Gea reacted very quickly and Gerrard's idea did not succeed.

After the start of the second half, the two sides fought actively in the midfield and played very cautiously.

In the 57th minute, Enrique passed the ball from the left. Carroll got the ball and turned around and shot. The ball was blocked by Smalling and then made a clearance.

In the 59th minute, Manchester United retaliated. Bell dribbled the ball from the left to press the Liverpool defense, and then suddenly passed the ball back to Giggs behind him. Wang Laoji got a chance to shoot, but he missed the shot due to interference from the defender.

In the 66th minute, Gerrard took a free kick and the ball took a perfect arc, but it was saved by De Gea, who performed well.

The next minute, Manchester United responded to Liverpool's demonstration again. Bell went to the right in front of the penalty area, almost 40 yards away from the goal, and fired a stunning elevator kick. Reina had enough of the ball. The torture of the weird arc was to witness the ball flying past him and into the goal.

3:1! Bell scored twice, extending the lead to two goals.

Bell's super performance made Liverpool feel very desperate. Facing such an almost unreasonable opponent, they felt that it was really difficult to defeat Manchester United.

However, Liverpool is a very resilient team, especially their team spirit Gerrard, who is a player who will never give up until the end of the Yellow River. Even though Liverpool is two goals behind, he is still tirelessly pursuing goals. Only three minutes after the game restarted, Gerrard came out of the blue and suddenly tried to kick the goal. Fortunately, De Gea reacted very quickly and Gerrard's idea did not succeed.

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