Football King Bale - Chapter 573
After playing the World Cup, the Manchester United team did not stay longer in Japan because they are about to usher in the busiest Christmas Devil schedule of the year.
In fact, just 72 hours after the end of the World Club Cup final, Manchester United will usher in a quarter-final of the League Cup. This game was originally played in the last week, but because Manchester United came to the Far East to participate in the World Club The cause of the cup was postponed for a week after negotiations by many parties.
The quarter-finals of the League Cup was held between Leeds United and Manchester United. This is the two teams meeting in the League Cup for the second consecutive year after meeting in the third round of the League Cup last season.
In the last three League Cup games played in the last week, one of them broke out. Premier League giants Arsenal challenged the fourth-placed Bradford away from the Premier League. As a result, the Gunners did not equalize until the 88th minute after the captain Wilmaron headed in the middle post and missed the goal. In the extra time, Cazorla shot far from the crossbar. In the penalty shootout, Cazorla, Charmack and Vermaelen missed penalties. Arsenal defeated 2:3 and have stopped the quarterfinals of the League Cup four times in the past five seasons.
In the other two games, Norwich defeated Villa at 1:4 at home, and Swansea, who eliminated Liverpool, beat Middlesbrough 1:0 at home.
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Leeds United was once the enemy of Manchester United, and the hatred of the two clubs is much longer than that of Liverpool.
The origins of the grudges between Manchester United and Leeds can be traced back to the Rose War in the 15th century. The confronting parties are Lancaster and Yorkshire. The bases are Manchester and Leeds. The emblems of the two sides are red rose and white rose. The color of the rose is just right. Correspondence to the uniforms of the two teams.
The Rose War caused strong hostility to the citizens of the two places. Although the distance between Leeds and Manchester reached 40 miles, the sense of maintaining tradition and strongness can still be reflected in the two football clubs.
Every encounter between the two teams will almost create a conflict, but as Leeds United fell into the British crown in 2004, the encounter between each other is less, and the taste of confrontation is lighter.
However, for Ferguson, Leeds United is also an old opponent, he does not want Manchester United to lose to such an opponent on the road. Therefore, despite the slowdown, Manchester United still did not send a semi-main lineup, only Bell and a few main forces got the rest.
Of course, this also has a lot to do with this year’s League Cup upset. Due to the elimination of Arsenal before, only the top four teams in the League Cup as Aston Villa and Swansea Premier League teams, if Manchester United can reach the semifinals, winning the championship will become relatively simple.
In the end, the starting lineup sent by Ferguson was goalkeeper Lindgard, four guards Raphael, Evans, Smalling and Ashley Young, and four midfielders were Carrick, Kanter, Pogba and The combination of Giggs, the double forward is Van Persie and Hernandez.
Such a Manchester United team, even if they face most teams in the Premier League, is enough to win the game. However, when the game started, Manchester United fans found that Leeds United’s fighting power is much stronger than expected. They come and go with the half-main Manchester United players, and they are not in the least.
Under this stalemate, Manchester United made a mistake first. In the 38th minute, Leeds United broke the deadlock at home, Evans had an assist in the frontcourt, Leeds United intercepted the ball to play more and less, before Thomas crosses the goal on the left, Bézio outsourcing the net, 1:0.
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Ferguson was very dissatisfied with Manchester United’s performance in the first half. The midfielder turned on the hair dryer in the dressing room and sprayed the players on the field.
In the second half, the two sides fought again. The performance of Manchester United players has changed a lot. The concentration of the players is obviously much stronger than the first half.
In 47 minutes, Manchester United equalized the score. Giggs knocked in front of the penalty area. Sneijder in the middle of the road caught a shot and the ball penetrated into the lower left corner of the goal. 1:1. This is Sneijder’s competition in this season. 10th goal.
Although the two sides accelerated the offensive and defensive rhythm in the next 10 minutes, there were more passing errors and failed to pose a threat to the opponent’s penalty area. In the 58th minute Manchester United’s midfielder counterattacked the ball, Raphael received a pass from Sneijder’s right-footed pass, Van Persie’s back post defender jumped the header and the angle was too positive and was blocked by the Leeds United goalkeeper.
The draw was not what Ferguson wanted to see. When the game reached the 60th minute, Manchester United replaced two consecutive players, Rooney replaced Giggs and Bell replaced Hernandez.
After Bell and Rooney debut, Manchester United completely suppressed Leeds on the field.
In the 64th minute, Pogba and Bell continued to cooperate. Before Bell passed the goal, Van Persie failed to reach the ball.
In the 65th minute, Manchester United overtake the score, Bell left corner to the door, Van Persie grabbed the head and nodded to attack the goal, after the ball bounced into the gate near the corner, 2:1.
In the 66th minute, the Red Devils rewrote the score again. Pogba scored in the frontcourt. After Rooney took the ball and adjusted it, he shot low in the penalty area. The ball was drilled into the close corner of the gate against the turf, 3:1.
Leeds United was also unwilling to lose at home. They made consecutive substitutions. White replaced Thomas, Norris replaced Brown and McKevin replaced Diouf.
However, Leeds United has not yet ushered in scoring, but instead was once again Manchester United used a quick counterattack to break through the city.
In the 81st minute, Leeds United failed to attack. Manchester United found Bell in the backcourt. Bell unmanned the ball and went into the penalty area to face the attacking goalkeeper.
One minute later, Manchester United scored again, Pogba volleyed outside the penalty area was blocked by the goalkeeper, Bell false shots in the penalty area really passed to Van Persie in front of the goal, Van Persie easily pushed the net, 5:1.
Eventually, Manchester United reversed Leeds United with a 5:1 away attack by cutting off melons and vegetables in the second half.
After the match, Manchester United won Swansea, who had eliminated Liverpool. Aston Villa will play against Bradford, the team that eliminated Arsenal.
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At noon on December 23, Manchester United ushered in the last game before Christmas as a guest at the Swansea City Liberty Stadium.
In another match of the Premier League round 18 held yesterday afternoon, Manchester City beat Redding 1:0 at home, plus their 17th round of the Premier League last weekend, they defeated Newcastle 3:1 away, which made the Blue Moon ‘S points reached 39 points, temporarily narrowing the gap with Manchester United’s points within two digits, catching up with Manchester United by 9 points.
In this game, Manchester United continued to carry out a certain rotation of personnel. The captain Vidic returned from multiple games due to injury, and ushered in his 250th game at Manchester United.
Swansea’s new head coach Laudrup continued Swansea’s consistent high-intensity forced play, focusing on his feet, focusing on control, emphasizing offense, and achieved a perfect record at the beginning of the 2012-2013 season. Swan Sea, which has won 6 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses in the first 17 rounds of the league, is currently ranked 10th in the Premier League and is not a good team to deal with.
In addition, Laudrup used his own network advantages to play an active role in the recruitment of players. Through keen observation and calm analysis, he will introduce potential players suitable for Swansea and form a more powerful The team, among them, had to mention Mi Chu.
In fact, the relationship between the player and the team is the relationship between fish and water. They are indispensable and mutually reinforcing. It can be said that Michu completed a huge jump and turning point in Swansea, and Swansea also achieved Michu’s excellent record today. Today, Mi Chu can be said to be the best player in the Premier League. He currently ranks second in the Premier League goalscorer ranking with Van Persie with 12 goals, proving his worth.
When the game started, Laudrup’s team cheered on with more than 16,000 home team fans and played with Manchester United. It did not fall at all.
In the 16th minute, Bell took a corner kick on the right side, and Evra jumped 7 meters and was thrown to the goal by the two. The goal was sent to the left corner to help Manchester United lead 1:0, which is also the French side. Wei’s third goal this season.
But after only 10 minutes, the home team equalized the score. Swansea’s right ribs played an exquisite teamwork, Routledge went straight, De Guzman successfully counter-offside, and shot at 6 meters on the right side of the penalty area was blocked by De Gea, Michu small edge of the penalty area easily made a right foot Shooting scored his 13th league goal of the season, while overwhelming Van Persie’s second place in the Premier League scorer list, it also helped Swansea to chase the score 1:1.
This score is held until the end of the first half.
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After the start of the second half ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Manchester United took the initiative on the field, the anti-guests launched a strong attack on the big pressure, but Swansea Laudrup was fully backed down, waiting for an opportunity to fight back, which made Manchester United The offense is difficult to break Swansea’s goal, and he has also repeatedly threatened Manchester United’s goal.
It’s just that Swansea’s number one striker Michu was mainly marked by Manchester United. The other offensive players’ shots were very general. Many shots failed to threaten De Gea’s goal.
And at this time, on the court, Manchester United launched another offensive.
Modric got the ball at the front of the penalty area, tried to pass into the penalty area, but was saved by Chico. The ball fell to the left, Evra quickly rushed up and grabbed the ball before Swansea’s South Korean midfielder Cheng Yongyong, trying to pass the ball back to the penalty area to find and stay near the penalty area Van Persie of Manchester United striker.
But I didn’t expect that Evra’s pass to Ji Chengyong’s foot changed direction and flew high to the left side of the penalty area.
At this time, Swansea’s entire defensive posture was shifting from offensive to defensive, and the defense line was pushed to the front of the penalty area. Under the joint action of Evra and Ji Chengyong, this ball just passed the top of the defensive player’s head and fell back to the small penalty area. On the left.
Bell’s response was very fast, coupled with the role of God’s perspective, when the ball flew over, he had already predicted the trajectory and point of fall of the ball, and suddenly turned around, throwing away Tiendalli, his legs pressed hard , The whole person jumped up like an arrow.
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