Football King Bale

At 8pm on May 14th, there will be a game at Old Trafford. This is a make-up match against Swansea in the 37th round of the Premier League. At the weekend, because Manchester United was going to play Wigan in the FA Cup final, the game that was supposed to be played on the weekend was postponed to Tuesday night.

At the same time, this is also Manchester United's farewell game at Old Trafford this season. The following 38th round of the Premier League and the Champions League final will not be at Old Trafford.

In Bell's memory, this game in another time and space was Sir Alex Ferguson's farewell game at Old Trafford. However, in this time and space, as of now, Sir Alex Ferguson has no intention of retiring, so this time There are no plans to hold any farewell ceremony for this game.

Because the FA Cup final was played just three days ago, Ferguson made major adjustments to Manchester United's starting lineup. Moreover, Manchester United's lineup in this game is not the 433 that has been used more this season, but the traditional 442 formation. The goalkeeper is Lindegaard, the back four is Valencia, Phil Jones, Smalling and Ashley Young, the midfield four is Pogba, Scholes, Kante and Giggs, and the forward Above is the partnership of Hernandez and Welbeck.

Last weekend, Scholes once again announced that he would retire at the end of the season, so this game can also be regarded as Scholes' farewell game. Therefore, Ferguson included him in the starting lineup. This is also the 717th time that "Ginger Head" has played in a Manchester United jersey; for Swansea, goalkeeper Vorm also suspended the game due to a head injury, but Michu recovered from his hamstring injury. The starter serves as a single arrow.

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This is a highly open game as there are few goals to pursue in this game for both sides. Manchester United has won the championship early, and Swansea is currently ranked 9th in the Premier League, more than ten points behind the European competition, and has long been announced that it has completely missed the chance.

Of course, if Manchester United can win this game, then they will break the five major league championship points they created last season, because they have already scored 100 points in the previous 36 rounds of the Premier League. If they win this game, they will Will get 103 points, thus surpassing last year's 102 points.

Under such circumstances, both sides played very unrestrainedly.

However, the two sides did not score their first goal until the end of the first half.

In the 39th minute, Giggs took a free kick from the right into the penalty area. Ashley Williams made a low-level mistake when he stopped the ball. Hernandez scored with his right foot from 7 meters on the right to give Manchester United a 1:0 lead. .

Shortly after the start of the second half, Swansea equalized the score. In the 49th minute, Jones passed the ball from the side and headed the ball to the far end. Dyer passed the ball back to the middle without any interference. Michu took the lead from 6 meters before Jones dived over to clear the ball and scored with the instep of his left foot from 6 meters away. The draw is 1:1.

In order to maintain the game status, Ferguson asked Bell to come on as substitute for Giggs in the 70th minute. Also on the field was Robin van Persie, who replaced Scholes.

The departure of the two veterans was warmly applauded by more than 70,000 home fans.

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Now that he is on the field, Bell still hopes to score goals, at least to help Manchester United win this game, so that he can complete another systematic task.

Bell's most threatening shot came in the 85th minute. He took a long shot from the top of the penalty area. However, the shot was saved by the Swansea goalkeeper and blocked from the bottom line.

Manchester United got a corner kick opportunity. Robin van Persie ran to take the corner kick, while Bell stood in the penalty area, preparing to score the goal.

Van Persie chose to hoist the ball directly into the penalty area. The Manchester United player who was rushing for the point missed it, and the unmarked Bell swept the ball from 7 meters and scored.

This is Bell's 39th Premier League goal this season and also Bell's 176th Premier League goal. This allowed him to surpass Arsenal's legendary striker Henry and rank in the top three on the Premier League's historical scorer list.

In front of him, only former Manchester United legendary striker Andy Cole is left.

and Alan Shearer.

At less than 24 years old, he was able to enter the top three scorers in the history of the Premier League. Bell's achievement is great. And based on Bell's scoring efficiency in the past four seasons, he will definitely be able to surpass Andy Cole next season.

However, Bell is still 84 goals behind Alan Shearer at the top of the list. In a short period of time, Bell does not have much chance to surpass his opponent.

But this is only about two seasons, because in the past four years, Bell's average number of goals has reached 43.5 goals. According to this number of goals, in the next two seasons, his number of goals will be Beyond Alan Shearer.

Bell's goal was the last goal of the game. When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the three-minute injury time, Manchester United still maintained a 2:1 lead, which also made Manchester United's record this season reached 34 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, and they scored 103 points, breaking the five major league points records that were just set last season.

And, because there is one game left in the Premier League, they still have the possibility to continue to refresh this record.

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At 4pm local time on May 19th, the 38th round of the Premier League begins.

The Premier League has a tradition, that is, in order to ensure fairness, the final rounds of games will start at the same time, so the ten games of this round all have the whistle blowing at four o'clock in the afternoon.

Manchester United's opponent in this round is West Brom.

This season West Brom has started high but has gone low. At the beginning of the season, they were once firmly in the Champions League. However, as the season progressed, West Brom's record began to decline. They are currently ranked eighth in the Premier League and have missed the European war.

Bell got the chance to start this game, but Van Persie continued to sit on the bench at the beginning of the game. Manchester United's starting center was Hernandez.

In the first half of the game, Manchester United got off to a fantastic start. In the 6th minute, Hernandez received a long pass and passed it near the right corner flag. Bell jumped up from the edge of the penalty area and hit the ball with his header to break the deadlock and give Manchester United a 1:0 lead.

This is Bell's 40th Premier League goal this season. He has set a new record: his league goals have exceeded the 40-goal mark for three consecutive seasons!

Subsequently, Manchester United still took the initiative on the scene.

In the 9th minute, Bell's pass in the middle was blocked and then knocked crosswise. Sneijder got the ball and distributed it to the right. When Valencia broke through and passed low to the middle, Olsen intercepted and accidentally blocked the ball into his own goal. , Manchester United leads 2:0.

Manchester United's performance did not end there. In the 30th minute, Cleverley passed the ball from the center to the left. After Bell got the ball and entered the penalty area, he shot low into the far corner from 8 meters away, triggering a decisive blow and breaking through the West again. Brown's goal rewritten the score to 3:0, and Bell's league goals reached 41, but there is still a 5-goal gap from Messi.

However, at the end of the first half, West Brom pulled one back. In the 40th minute, Morrison received a pass from Dorrance from the right and scored with a low shot with his right foot near the penalty spot before Jones.

In the first half of the game, Manchester United led West Brom 3:1 entering the halftime break.

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At the beginning of the second half, both sides made personnel adjustments.

On Manchester United's side, because the Champions League final will be ushered in at the new Wembley Stadium next weekend, and the situation on the field is good, Ferguson began to make substitutions to save strength, and Bell was replaced by Giggs.

West Brom made substitutions to strengthen their offense. Obviously, the Knickerbockers did not want to end the season with a defeat at home.

Although Bell had reminded his teammates to pay attention to the opponent's counterattack in the second half when he was in midfield, the Manchester United people who thought victory was in hand did not pay too much attention, which made West Brom's offense quickly achieve results.

In the 50th minute, Brent received a through ball and stepped on the ball in the middle of the confrontation. Lukaku, who came on as a substitute, hit the goal with his right foot in front of the arc in the penalty area. Although Lindegaard's fingertips touched the ball, the ball still penetrated. Entering the lower right corner of the goal, the score was rewritten as 2:3.

Perhaps stimulated by West Brom's goal, Manchester United immediately stepped up its attack and achieved good results.

In the 53rd minute, Valencia made a low pass from the right, and Van Persie shot with his right foot from the edge of the penalty area and scored his 26th league goal of the season. Manchester United once again expanded its advantage to 2 goals.

In the 64th minute, Giggs received a through ball from Sneijder and made a low pass from the left. After the home team intercepted the ball in front and made a mistake, Hernandez easily scored from close range and rewritten the score to 5:2.

In the 69th minute, Scholes came on as a substitute to the applause of the fans. This was also the last Premier League game of the ginger head's career.

Subsequently, West Brom missed many shots. In the 78th minute, Giggs' shot from the left side of the penalty area was slightly higher.

In the 80th minute, Rosberg, who came on as a substitute, made a pass to the right rib. Lukaku dribbled the ball into the left side of the penalty area and scored twice with a low shot with his left foot.

One minute later, Manchester United was breached again. In the 81st minute, Billy Jones made a pass from the right, and Mulumbu hit the goalkeeper with his right foot to tie the score at 4:5.

Ferguson then replaced Evans with Ferdinand, but still failed to stop the ball. In the 86th minute, Ashley Young made a defensive mistake on the left, and Ferdinand was not tight in marking. In the chaos, Lukaku headed the ball into the net in front of the goal line to tie the score and complete the hat trick.

In the end, Manchester United lost a good game and shook hands with West Brom 5:5, failing to end the season with a victory.

Bell was also helpless about such an ending. During the halftime break, he had already warned his teammates, which had an effect, allowing Manchester United to quickly expand their lead to 3 goals.

However, Manchester United players made many mistakes again and conceded three goals in a row. Bell failed to help the team change the outcome of the game.

However, after the draw, Manchester United still accumulated 104 points with 34 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, setting a new single-season points record in the five major leagues. Bell's league goals for the season were also fixed at 41 goals.