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96 Biscuit Man Reading

Although it has been determined in advance that he will leave New Manchester United after the season, Bruce is still as usual, as if there is no such thing at all. When the player shows even a little slack on the training field, he will make a loud roar.

I don't know if it was the result of Xiao Yu's subtle influence beside him, or other reasons. Bruce showed some signs of getting closer to Ferguson. At least his hair dryer skills became more and more sophisticated. The only regret is that Bruce's The body is also unknowingly distorted.

Many professional players will gradually gain weight after retiring, and Bruce now has great potential in this regard.

There were only three people who knew that Bruce was about to leave, so everything was as usual at the club, and everything was done step by step.

On November 1, the selection of the best coach of the National League in October was announced. Without exception, with the excellent performance of New Manchester United in October, Bruce was re-elected as the best coach of October. Kiki won the title of best player again.

On November 6, New Manchester United ushered in the first round of the FA Cup opponents, playing at home against the Margsfield team from the English Premier League, which has so far ranked 15th in the English Premier League this season. , The strength is regarded as the midfielder in the English Premier League, the offensive ability and the defensive ability are very average.

New Manchester United's home match against Magsfield has not attracted much attention. After all, this is only the first round of the FA Cup without the involvement of teams such as the Premier League and the English Premier League. Such a game is not only local fans but also No one will pay attention.

So although New Manchester United defeated Magsfeld in the 2-1 at home and entered the second round of the FA Cup, that is, the local Manchester City Evening News explained with a small piece of coverage, the space occupied is not even as good as the league.

On the 8th, the results of the FA's second round of the FA Cup were officially announced. This time New Manchester United draws an English B team, a team that Xiao Yu is familiar with, Redding!

The Reading Club is also a long-established team, founded in 1871, but has long been involved in the English low league.

In the 94-95 season, Reading was promoted to the English League again, and won the second place in the first year, but because the number of participating teams in the Premier League reduced from 22 to 20, Reading was unable to Direct upgrade, forced to participate in the play-offs, but was defeated by Bolton, failed to advance to the Premier League.

It is likely to be hit by a knockout. In the 95-96 season, Reading's performance in the English League was very bad. At the end of the season, he ranked 19th, and the subsequent 96-97 season was also unsatisfactory, and finally in the 97 -98 season fell to the English League.

After that, although the Reading club owner wanted to bring Reading back to glory, Helping ’s performance has always been unsatisfactory. As a relegated team, Reading has been in the middle of the B ranking for two consecutive years. So far, Reading is ranked 13th in the English League, and upgrading is already quite difficult.

Nevertheless, Xiao Yu also attached great importance to this game.

After analysis by Bruce and the coaching staff, Reading has had a very bad attack since this season. They have scored only 15 goals in the 18 rounds of the league, but they have not conceded much, only 21, and in the 18 rounds There were seven draws in the league, relying on the team's tenacious defense.

It can be seen that even if it is at home, the Reading team will still use the team's best defense.

Bruce responded to this, rarely ejecting a very aggressive lineup in the away game. Although it was still 442, the two full-backs were given more offensive tasks, and the midfield configuration was Little Junini Austrian partner Paulson, the two full-backs also use Krzynovic and Hleb, who is getting better and better. The forwards are Zikic and Olich.

This match at the Madjski Stadium was very fierce, even more difficult than the Manchester United away game against Kidderminster, because Reading's defense was very fierce, even in the In the face of teams that are two levels lower than them, they are not changed.

"I really doubt, why would anyone compare Reading to a biscuit?" Xiao Yu felt that the analogy was not appropriate at all.

In reality, Reading plays that kind of fierce football. They are very particular about defense. This has caused their team to be the same as the iron plate from the front to the back, but it is precisely because of this that at the beginning of the game, New Manchester United was clearly against this. This fierce confrontation felt very uncomfortable.

But Reading's tactics that worked for other teams obviously did not work for New Manchester United.

Since the little Juninho, who has shown his free-kick strength against Kidderminster, is now the main set-point expert of New Manchester United. His set-point ball is better than Darren Lyons. Whether he scored directly or assisted his teammates indirectly, he can do well.

Reading's biggest mistake in this game was that they ignored New Manchester United's frontcourt set.

In the 26th minute of the first half, the left side of the Reading team tripped New Manchester United's right forward Hleb on the left side of the penalty area. The referee awarded New Manchester United a free kick in the frontcourt.

Little Juninho walked towards the free throw point, staggered with Hleb and became obsolete. The latter made a gesture towards Junior Juninho to kill them, and Juninho nodded calmly and agreed.

And as usual, as long as New Manchester United has the opportunity to set the ball in the frontcourt, Abidal, Distin, Zikic and other tall men will squeeze into the restricted area, while at the same time, the gunner is standing on the periphery. Zinovic and Paulson have made New Manchester United's free kick tactics often work.

This time, Junior Juninho made a backward gesture first, and Ricci, who stood at the previous spot, immediately understood, almost at the same time that Junior Juninho made a free kick, he was running towards the front. , Immediately attracted the defensive players watching his opponent.

Little Juninho's free kick was very fast, a little high, but when he was approaching the back point, a quick fall came, so Abidal ambushing at the back point was under the cover of Distin. Effortlessly hit the ball into the goal, 0: 1!

The Reading team, who was one goal behind, seemed a little flustered. Their defensive determination shook and they began to want to equalize.

In this mood, the team was out of touch, which immediately gave New Manchester United a chance.

It was still Junior Juninho. In the 43rd minute, after receiving a pass from Abidal in the backcourt, the ball was plugged into the opponent's defense line immediately. The teenager Hleb was almost all the way, and the offside was successful. With all the defensive players on the other side, he faced the goalkeeper with one shot and calmly scored the goal, 0: 2!

The two goals lagging left the Reading team in a dilemma. This is the FA Cup. Unless this game is a draw, there will be only one round. So regardless of which aspect the Reading team can only attack in the second half.

In this regard, Bruce is obviously well prepared. When he was in the middle of the break, he required players to defend in the second half, and everyone must wake up to 12 points, and they could not give Reading a little chance.

You know, Reading is an English-B team. As the saying goes, there are still three pounds of broken ships. Reading can mix English-B league games without any strength.

Sure enough, things were just as Bruce expected. Reading started a fierce attack on New Manchester United in the second half.

With the introduction of speedy centre-backs such as Abidal and Distin this season, especially after playing against Kidderminster, Bruce boldly pushed New Manchester United's defense forward, and then when defending, The three lines of personnel were mobilized to form three closely coordinated lines of defense.

This kind of defense has layers, depth, width, and thickness. Together with the players at New Manchester United, New Manchester United's defense this season has become solid.

Reading's offensive power is not strong in the first place, facing New Manchester United's solid defense, they can hardly find any way.

After 20 minutes in the first half of the second half, New Manchester United's offensive momentum gradually subsided, but at this time, New Manchester United's attack once again showed its fangs.

In the 68th minute of the second half, Paulson passed the ball to Olich, who returned the ball. The latter quickly drew the ball and made a beautiful two-on-one match with the young Juninho. Zikic scored a third goal at the front of the penalty zone, 0: 3!

After leading three goals, the game also suddenly lost suspense.

After another 25 minutes, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, and New Manchester United entered the third round of the FA Cup again!

The fans' response to the team's ability to break into the third round of the FA Cup for two consecutive years has been positive. They all affirmed the team's strength in the league and the cup, but this year's situation is different.

As Manchester United will travel to Brazil to participate in the first World Championship, the FA makes an exception and allows Manchester United to participate in the FA Cup from the fourth round. Therefore, if New Manchester United wants to touch Manchester United, they can only pass the third round.

But when the results of the second round came out, fans will suddenly find that of all the teams participating in the third round of the FA Cup, New Manchester United is the lowest level and the only team from the national league. All the rest are from professional league teams.

This is not terrible. What is really terrifying is that from the third round, the Premier League and the Premier League teams will also join the FA Cup.

If the English professional league is described as a pyramid, the Premier League is undoubtedly the top of the pyramid, the English Premier League is in the middle, it seems close to the English Premier League, but there is a big difference, and the English Premier League and the English Premier League are this pyramid. The lowest foundation.

It is precisely because the team is difficult to make it through the third round, but they can not meet Manchester United, so fans are not interested in the promotion of New Manchester United in the FA Cup.

But even so, the FA's draw for the third round of the FA Cup was announced on time on the third day after the second round and was distributed to every participating club.

But unlike usual, the results of this lottery immediately caused a sensation in England! 2k novel reading network