Football King Bale

Chapter 675: Falling from the top spot

A 5-0 away win over Leverkusen allowed Manchester United to secure first place in the Champions League group.

Immediately, Manchester United returned to England to prepare for the next game.

After the international match day in November, Manchester United will usher in an extremely long schedule. From late November to late January next year, Manchester United will maintain a double-match schedule for two months. Ultra-high-intensity game rhythm. Especially in mid-December, I have to fly to Morocco in North Africa to participate in the Club World Cup.

Compared with previous years, the only good news is that it is much closer to compete in Morocco than in Japan in the Far East. There is less pain of traveling and no need to endure the pain of adjusting to jet lag.

In this two-month period, not surprisingly, Manchester United will play up to 19 games, including 11 Premier League games, 2 Champions League games, 3 League Cup games, 2 Club World Cup games and 1 Football League game. Total Cup competition.

In such a high-intensity game rhythm, it is impossible for the players to persist without rotation.

Therefore, after returning to England from Germany, in the 13th round of the Premier League, when Manchester United challenged Tottenham away, Ferguson made a large rotation of Manchester United's lineup. Except for Robin van Persie, who has just recovered from injury, neither Bale nor Modric, the two core players, have entered the squad for this game.

Ferguson did this, on the one hand, to allow the two of them to avoid games with their old club. Although there was no such clause in the original transfer contract, what he did made Bale and Modric feel slightly better. , Secondly, there is the need for rotation. Since this season, Bell and Modric have played a lot of games, and the next ultra-long Devil schedule will require more efforts from Bell and Modric. Reasonable Rotation is a must.

For Manchester United, Vidic returned to partner with Evans to guard the center of the defense. Welbeck was allowed to start. De Gea and Smalling both wore Manchester United jerseys for the 100th time.

For Tottenham, Adebayor's groin injury has not healed and Eriksson, Rose and Kane are all absent. Defoe started as a single arrow, and Dawson made his 300th appearance in the English League.

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At the beginning of the first half, Manchester United had a slight advantage in possession of the ball. However, Smalling and Evra committed serious fouls, but the referee Dean was merciful and did not take out the card.

Tottenham took the lead in breaking the deadlock on the field. In the 18th minute, Evans knocked down Paulinho in front of the arc of the penalty area and was awarded a free kick in the threatening area. Kyle Walker took the free kick 23 meters away from the left rib and hit it hard with his right foot. After shooting, the ball rolled over the feet of Rooney and Smalling on the left side of the four-man wall and into the net. Tottenham led 1:0, which also ended the embarrassing record of three consecutive rounds without scoring. Manchester United has eight consecutive Premier League games. Conceding goals in every away game, Walker ended his one-year and seven-month drought in the Premier League.

After losing the ball, Ferguson looked very ugly. On the one hand, it was because of Evans' reckless foul in the dangerous area, and on the other hand, it was because of the performance of Manchester United's defense in free kick defense.

After scoring the first goal, Tottenham took advantage of the situation and attacked fiercely, once beating Manchester United's defense into chaos.

In the 29th minute, Paulinho broke through the left rib and passed to the far end. Defoe inserted 10 meters on the right side and hit the goalkeeper with the ball into the stands.

In the 31st minute, Defoe sent a through ball and Lennon stepped in. Evra was unable to follow up. Lennon's shot from the edge of the penalty area was blocked by De Gea. Lennon passed the ball to the far end to find Paulinho, and the result was direct. Get out of line.

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It is said that those who survive a disaster must be blessed later. Manchester United, which had just escaped disaster due to De Gea's world-class save and avoided falling behind by two goals within half an hour, quickly scored.

In the 32nd minute, Jones made a pass from the right side of the frontcourt. Walker made a mistake in stopping the ball and assisted. Rooney pushed and shot with his right foot from the edge of the small penalty area when Sandro was not marking tightly and tied the score at 1:1. Xiaopang He scored 6 goals against Tottenham in his last 6 Premier League starts.

In the first half of the game, Tottenham and Manchester United entered the halftime break with a 1:1 draw.

Early in the second half, Spurs deliberately slowed things down.

In the 54th minute, Dembele responded. Sandro knocked down Cleverley with the ball and then volleyed with his right foot from 28 meters away. The ball flew into the upper right corner of the goal with an arc.

2:1, Tottenham once again exceeded the score.

However, the situation on the field changed again 2 minutes later.

In the 56th minute, Welbeck was thrown to the ground by Lori when he was passing the ball in the penalty area. The referee Dean whistled for a penalty kick and warned Lori a yellow card. Rooney took the penalty and deceived Lori with a low shot with his right foot and succeeded in the middle. The second kick tied the score again.

In the next game, Ferguson and Villas-Boas mobilized their troops, hoping to change the score again, but in the end it failed. As the substitute Hernandez scored in injury time, The header went wide, and referee Mike Dean blew the whistle to end the game.

In the end, Tottenham and Manchester United shook hands 2:2 and each scored one point.

As Arsenal beat Cardiff City 3-0 away from home, Wenger's team once again overtook Manchester United and took the lead in the Premier League standings.

Bell was very disappointed with such a draw because it meant that a five-star mission was gone.

In the task list issued by the Ball Saint system at the beginning of the season, breaking Manchester United's own record of 104 points set last season was a five-star task. But now after only 13 rounds of the league, Manchester United has had 5 draws. Even if they win the next 25 games, Manchester United will not be able to break last season's points record.

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A 2:2 draw with Manchester United at home meant that Tottenham had stopped their losing streak. Although he still lost four rounds, coach Villas-Boas complained bitterly at the post-match press conference, and even got into a rare verbal spat with a reporter from the "Daily Mail". This also made the press conference less popular. The atmosphere was very tense for a time.

Since Tottenham's 0:6 defeat to Manchester City, the "Daily Mail" has been hyping the topic of Villas-Boas' dismissal, from Capello to Luis Enrique, from Laudrup to the old Redeker Knapp has been put on the table as a candidate to replace Boas.

The good thing is that one of the reporters who wrote these articles, Neil Ashton (the other is Martin Samuel), was arranged to sit in the front row today. When the reporter asked Boas a question, the little Bird suddenly became furious.

"I think this is crystal clear and I don't need any explanation. Some of you are sitting here and you are insulting my sincerity and professionalism with your pen and your articles and insulting what I have done at other clubs. Achievements, and arbitrarily defining a person's success and character without even knowing him or her, is a lack of respect in my opinion and is an outright attack on a person."

Afterwards, Ashton asked Boas reluctantly when he had talked to those people. Boas was full of fire: "You have always been an inquisitive person. You always like to attack others, like to attack others for their incompetence, and even You don't know that guy at all. You have no chance of sitting here and you can't until I give you a chance. Your and Martin's article is complete nonsense and that's my opinion."

Ashton responded: "I'm entitled to my opinion, too."

Afterwards, the two argued again about how Tottenham should be ashamed after losing 0:6 to Manchester City. Villas-Boas said: "I never said the players should, I said 'us', and that's also true." Including myself, every time."

Ashton asked: "When you say, 'We should be ashamed of ourselves,' do you include yourself?"

Villas-Boas replied: "Obviously, don't you think so? We are who we are, and that includes everyone in the club!"

Seeing that the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense, the press officer had no choice but to smooth things over and said, "Now is not the time to discuss this..."

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Three days later, the 14th round of the Premier League started, and Manchester United sat at Old Trafford to face Moyes' Everton.

Since Ferguson did not retire this summer in this time and space, Moyes naturally failed to take charge of Old Trafford this season, so many stories did not happen.

Everton, led by Moyes, has also performed very well this season. After more than ten years of building, Moyes has completely mastered Everton.

Before the start of this round of games, Everton had 6 wins, 6 draws and 1 loss in 13 league rounds, beating Manchester City with 24 points to rank fourth in the Premier League!

However, facing his Scottish predecessor Ferguson, Moyes' record is a bit embarrassing: Moyes' Everton has never defeated Ferguson's Manchester United in a Premier League game at Old Trafford!

In this game, Everton led by Moyes faced Ferguson's Manchester United and still did not take advantage.

For Manchester United, Phil Jones accumulated 5 yellow cards and was punished and suspended. Robin van Persie continued to be absent, and Carrick also got a rest. However, Bell and Modric started, and Giggs became the successor to Sheringham, Strachan and Phillips. Later, the fourth non-goalkeeper player aged 40+ to appear in the Premier League; for Everton, Baines, Darren Gibson and Cone were all exempted due to injuries, and Lukaku served as the single arrow.

In the 29th minute, Bell shot low from the front of the penalty area and the ball went straight into the dead center of Everton's goal. Manchester United led 1:0.

At the beginning of the second half, Bell stepped in from the left and scored a goal. He scored twice and helped the team expand the lead to 2 goals.

In the 71st minute, Bell took a left corner kick. Evra's header from 6 meters was blocked by Howard on the goal line. Welbeck's header was blocked by the crossbar. Immediately, Vidic was blocked by Jagielka and fell in the penalty area. There was still no penalty. After Bell got the ball, he triggered a killing blow in the small penalty area and scored a hat trick. Manchester United led 3:0.

Everton pulled one back in the 85th minute. Lukaku's diagonal shot from the right side of the penalty area missed. De Gea rushed to attack. Oviedo rushed to the edge of the small penalty area and scored with a low shot into the far corner.

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