Football King Bale

On February 9, 2013, Saturday, the Eastern Lunar New Year's Eve, the 26th round of the Premier League kicked off.

At 12:45 noon local time in the UK and 8:45 pm Eastern time, Tottenham, who took the lead in the game, defeated the Magpies 2:1 at home.

Subsequently, in the several games that started at 11 o'clock in the evening Eastern time, Arsenal and Chelsea won respectively. Arsenal beat the black cat Sunderland 1-0 away, and the Blues beat Wigan 4-1 at home. sports.

On the first day of the new year in 2013, Eastern Time, a game played at 5:30 pm local time in the UK, the result was a joy for Manchester United fans. Southampton, the Saints who made Bell's debut, won the Blue Moon Manchester City 3:1 at home!

This is undoubtedly very good news for Manchester United. In the case of the same 26 league rounds, they are already 22 points ahead of their rivals in the same city. And if Manchester United wins the subsequent match, they can even temporarily extend their lead to 25 points!

The news of Manchester City's away defeat made Manchester United uneasy. Ferguson even changed his starting lineup. Despite the expedition to the Apennine Peninsula in the middle of the week, Ferguson still has the strongest lineup in his hands, except for the "injured" Bell and Van Persie.

Veteran Ryan Giggs started the field, Rooney and Hernandez partnered in the striker. For Everton, former Manchester United player Phil Neville started to face his former owner and ushered in his 300th official game in Everton. Central defender Distin was originally listed in the starting lineup and is expected to be the 400th time Appeared in the Premier League, but was accidentally injured during the warm-up and could only be replaced by Heiting.

Before the start of the game, the TV broadcast of Old Trafford focused on Bale in the VIP box, where Manchester United's number one star watched the game with his oriental girlfriend.

Careful viewers noticed that Liu Xian'er massaged Bell's legs from time to time. It seemed that the news of Bell's leg injury was true.

This scene made AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri, who also paid attention to the Manchester United game, completely relieved.

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Anyone involved with United will never forget 6 February. On this day in 1958, the Manchester United club ushered in the darkest day. The Munich air disaster killed 23 people, including 8 Manchester United players and 3 club staff.

However, this heavy blow did not knock down the Manchester United team. Sir Busby led the team to greatness again with amazing perseverance. There are many reasons for the success of the Manchester United club, but what cannot be ignored is the strong support of the youth training system. According to statistics, since October 1937, Manchester United has had its youth training players in the lineup in 3,640 consecutive games. The first youth training!

Even the "self-made products" in the team's lineup this season make Manchester United's youth training system comparable to the internationally renowned Basara Macia youth training camp.

Today's Old Trafford is full of nostalgia and fighting atmosphere. Before the start of the game, Fred, the mascot of Manchester United Club, was carrying a "55" on his back. That is because this year is the 55th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster. At the same time, the fans in the stands pulled out a huge banner with the words "We will never die!" written on it.

There is no doubt that the Munich Air Disaster dealt a huge blow to Manchester United that year. Those outstanding players not only failed to win the championship for the club but even lost their lives due to this accident, but the team's strong youth training system supported Manchester United. The team soon stood up again.

According to the "Daily Mail" report, since October 30, 1937, Manchester United has had youth players in the lineup for 3,640 consecutive games. The last time they had no "youth products" in their formation was the game against Sheffield Wednesday at Old Trafford on October 2, 1937.

In the following 76 years, Manchester United's youth training system has produced batch after batch of heaven's favorites such as Busby Babies, 92 Golden Generation, etc. There is no doubt that Ryan Giggs is one of the best.

Of course, Phil Neville, who played 300 games for the Toffees today wearing an Everton jersey, is also one of the representatives.

On May 1, 2011, when Manchester United faced Arsenal in an away game, this record was almost broken. Fortunately, O'Shea came off the bench to allow the previous record of 3,518 games to continue to this day.

During these 76 years, Manchester United won 5 Champions League trophies, 18 top league titles, 12 FA Cup titles, 4 League Cup titles, 1 European Cup Winners' Cup, 2 European Super Cup titles and 3 European Super Cup titles. This Club World Cup champion, behind the honor, the club's youth training players have contributed a lot.

From this point alone, we should not forget the name of James Gibson, the British businessman who rescued Manchester United from the brink of bankruptcy in 1931. Pathfinder Rocca fully tapped local talents and vigorously developed the youth training system. It is on this basis that Manchester United is created today.

Among the 2,286 players in the 98 teams in the five major European leagues given by the Swiss football statistics agency CIES two months ago, according to statistics, there are as many as 38 players from Barcelona's youth training, and Manchester United ranks fifth in Europe with 24 players. The first place in the Premier League, among which as many as 9 people in the current team are from the Carrington base, can be called the "La Masia" of the Premier League.

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Before the start of the game, a short video of Manchester United congratulating the Eastern fans on the big screen was broadcast on the big screen. The protagonists of the video were Bale and Liu Xian'er. This was recorded by Manchester United just two days ago.

Not only that, Dream Theater also incorporates strong oriental elements, and the billboards around it read the greetings of "All the staff of Manchester United wish you progress in the Year of the Snake" and the slogan "Come on, Manchester United!"

At the same time, the sponsors who have a close cooperation with Manchester United also took this opportunity to express their wishes to the Chinese fans, hoping to pay attention to the die-hard fans of the Red Devils, "Happy Year of the Snake, Happy New Year!"

After the opening of the first half, Manchester United played proactively.

In the 4th minute, Rooney received a pass from Rafael and shot from outside the penalty area. After that, Everton's Pienaar and Gibson's shots were blocked.

In the 10th minute, Manchester United got a chance to counterattack. Rooney made a pass, and Hernandez successfully passed Howard and then shot with his right foot from a small angle on the right side of the penalty area. The ball hit the outside of the near-end post and missed the baseline. opportunity.

After that, Manchester United continued to press and gained.

In the 13th minute, Valencia received a long pass from the right and then flew the header. Hernandez cleverly got rid of Heitinga in the penalty area and knocked horizontally. Giggs stopped 10 meters with his left foot and shot low with his right foot. Hit the inside of the right post and bounced into the net, Manchester United led 1:0.

According to statistics, since 1892, Manchester United played a total of 4353 league games, Giggs alone participated in 15% of the games.

And this goal is the 109th goal scored by Giggs in the Premier League. It surpasses "old buddy" Scholes by 2 goals in Manchester United's Premier League history and ranks second, second only to Rooney's 139 goals, and Bell's 134 goals, of which 7 have broken the opponent's city when facing Everton.

What's even more coincidental is that this goal was not only Giggs' 50th Premier League goal at Old Trafford, but also his 50th goal in the first half of the Premier League. At 39 years and 73 days, Giggs has thus become the third oldest goal scorer in the Premier League after Sheringham (40 years and 268 days in 2006) and Wendas (39 years and 235 days in 2008).

At the last moment of the first half, Manchester United scored another goal. In the 45th minute, Rafael received Rooney's goal and sent a through ball in the arc of the center circle. Hernandez succeeded in countering offside and went into the penalty area. After passing Howard, he shot low from the right side of the penalty area. To the ball, but the ball still drilled into the net.

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After taking a two-goal lead in the first half, Manchester United changed their tactics after the start of the second half, with the main purpose of controlling the rhythm of the game. At the same time, Ferguson has also replaced the main players one after another. Rooney, Sneijder and Modric have all been replaced successively to save energy for the first round of the Champions League knockout match with AC Milan in the middle of the week.

In the end, Manchester United beat the Toffees 2-0 at home, increasing Manchester United's winning streak to 14 games.

The significance of Manchester United's defeat of Everton, Henry Winter, a famous British writer, summed it up very well: "Manchester United is 25 points ahead of its neighbor Manchester City. It's getting closer. Perhaps this season, Manchester United will further refresh the record of winning the championship in advance!"

When several competitors kept losing points (Manchester City lost 7 points in a row in the last three rounds, Chelsea lost 3 games in the last 6 rounds, Arsenal won 4 games in the last 6 rounds), the stable Red Devils are still triumphant and constantly breaking the points record, allowing the Premier League Championship suspense almost ceased to exist in mid-February.

Everton did not lose much to Manchester United in the whole game. Ferguson admitted that "they dominated the game for 20 minutes in the first half and had better possession of the ball", but the champions can win those tug-of-war games. The 2:0 result not only made Manchester United score 90 goals against Everton, but also became the combination with the most goals in the history of the Premier League. The second place was Arsenal's 82 goals against Everton.

The top half of the Premier League standings this season is very tight, only Manchester United's unconventional lead makes the chasers fall behind early. Since losing to Norwich in November, the Red Devils have maintained a winning streak for 14 consecutive rounds, scoring 42 points out of the possible 42 points, almost forming a sweeping trend.

78 points in 27 rounds. This is also Manchester United's strongest score in the same period in the history of the Premier League. The original best record was last season. After 27 rounds, the Red Devils scored 76 points with 25 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

The most powerful Manchester United team in the Ferguson era was previously publicized as the champion team dominated by Cantona, Giggs, Keane and Schmeichel, but the super performance of Manchester United in the last three seasons is Let the Manchester United team led by Bell become the strongest Manchester United in the media.

Anyway, looking at Manchester United in the Ferguson era, no team has the crazy scoring rate of Manchester United in the past three seasons, and has won more championship trophies.