Football King Bale - Chapter 629
At 8 pm on May 14, Old Trafford Stadium ushered in a match, which is the 37th round of the Premier League and Swansea’s supplementary match. At the weekend, because Manchester United were to play the final of the FA Cup with Wigan, the game that was supposed to be played on the weekend was postponed to Tuesday night.
At the same time, this is Manchester United’s farewell at the Old Trafford Stadium this season. The 38th round of the Premier League and the Champions League final are not at Old Trafford.
In Bell’s memory, this game in another space-time was still the farewell game of the Grand Lord at Old Trafford Stadium, but for this time and space, for the moment, the Grand Lord has not meant to retire, so this There are no plans to hold a farewell ceremony for the game.
Because he only played a FA Cup final three days ago, Ferguson made a major adjustment to the Manchester United starting lineup. Moreover, the Manchester United lineup is not the 433 used this season, but the traditional 442 formation. The goalkeeper is Lindegard, the four defenders are Valencia, Phil Jones, Smalling and Ashley Young, the midfielder Pogba, Scholes, Kanter and Giggs, the striker Her partner is Hernandez and Welbeck.
At the end of last week, Scholes once again announced that he would retire after the end of the season, so this game is also regarded as Scholes’ farewell. So Ferguson included it as a starter, which is also the 717th time the “Ginger Head” wore a Manchester United jersey; in Swansea, goalkeeper Walm also hung out a free card because of a head injury, but Michu’s ankle injury recovered The starter served as a single arrow.
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This is a highly open game, because for both parties, this game has no goals to pursue. Manchester United have already won the championship early, and Swansea is currently ranked 9th in the Premier League, and there is a gap of more than ten points from the European Theater. It has long been declared completely missed.
Of course, if Manchester United can win in this game, then they will break the five league championship points they created last season, because they have scored 100 points in the previous 36 rounds of the Premier League. If they win this game, they will 103 points will be earned, surpassing last year’s 102 points.
Under such circumstances, both sides played very unrestrained.
However, it was not until the end of the first half that the two sides scored their first goal.
In the 39th minute, Giggs kicked a free kick from the right to the penalty area. Ashley Williams stopped the ball and made a low-level mistake. Hernandez’s right foot shoveled at 7 meters to the right to help Manchester United lead 1:0 .
Soon after the second half, Swansea equalized. In the 49th minute, Jones cleared the side pass and the header was cleared to the far end. Dyer returned to the middle without interference. Michu grabbed the left foot instep and shot the goalkeeper’s score at 6 meters before Jones leaned to the top The level is 1:1.
In order to maintain the game, Ferguson had Bell substitute Giggs in the 70th minute. Van Persie also appeared, and the Dutch replaced Scholes.
The departure of the two veterans was warmly applauded by more than 70,000 home fans.
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Since his debut, Bell still hopes to be able to score goals, at least to help Manchester United win the game, so that he can complete another systematic task.
Bell’s most threatening shot was in the 85th minute of the game. He made a long shot from the top of the arc in the penalty area, but this shot was saved by the Swansea goalkeeper and blocked the bottom line.
Manchester United got a corner kick, Van Persie ran to take the corner, Bell was in the penalty area, ready to grab a goal.
Van Persie chose to hang the ball directly into the penalty area. The Manchester United player who had grabbed the point before the pass, and the unmarked Bell shot at the goal at 7 meters.
This is Bell’s 39th Premier League goal this season and Bell’s 176th Premier League goal. This allowed him to surpass the legendary Arsenal scorer Henry in the Premier League historical scorer list and rank in the top three.
In front of him, only the former Manchester United legendary shooter Andy Cole, and Alan Shearer.
At the age of less than 24 years old, he can enter the top three in the Premier League history scorer list, Bell’s achievements can be called great. With Bell’s scoring efficiency in the last four seasons, next season he will definitely be able to surpass Andy Cole.
However, Bell has a gap of 84 goals from Alan Shearer at the top of the list. In a short period of time, Bell has few opportunities to surpass the other party.
But that’s 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, 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 match after three minutes of injury time, Manchester United still maintained a 2:1 lead, which also made Manchester United’s record this season has reached 34 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, with 103 points, setting a record for the five major league points just created last season.
And because there is one game left in the Premier League, they have the possibility to continue to set this record.
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At 4 pm on May 19th, British local time, the 38th round of the Premier League started.
The Premier League has a tradition, that is to ensure fairness, the final round of the game will start at the same time, so the ten games of this round of the game, all whistle at four o’clock in the afternoon.
Manchester United’s opponent in this round is West Brom.
This season’s West Brom opened high and low. At the beginning of the season, they were once in the Champions League, but with the deepening of the season, West Brom’s record began to slip. It is currently ranked eighth in the Premier League and has missed the European War.
Bell got a 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 is Hernandez.
In the first half of the match, Manchester United made a fantastic start. In the 6th minute, Hernandez received a long pass and passed near the right corner flag. Bell edged the head of the small restricted area and shot the earth to break the deadlock to help Manchester United lead 1:0.
This is Bell’s 40th Premier League goal this season. He has set a new record: the number of league goals in three consecutive seasons has exceeded the 40 goal mark!
Then Manchester United still took the initiative on the scene.
In the 9th minute, Bell’s pass was blocked and knocked sideways. Sneijder scored the ball and scored on the right. After Valencia inserted a low pass after the breakthrough, Olsen intercepted the ball and blocked the ball into his own goal. , Manchester United lead 2:0.
Manchester United’s performance did not end there. In the 30th minute, Cleverelli scored the ball to the left. After Bell got the ball into the penalty area, he shot a low angle at a distance of 8 meters, triggering a killing blow, and broke the west again. Brown’s goal changed the score to 3:0, and Bell’s league goal also reached 41 goals, but there is still a gap of 5 goals from Messi.
However, at the end of the first half, West Brom pulled back to the city. In the 40th minute, Morrison received a pass from Dolans on the right and scored a low shot with a right foot near Jones before the penalty spot.
In the first half of the match, Manchester United led West Brom 3-1 into the halftime break.
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At the beginning of the second half of the game, both sides made personnel adjustments.
Manchester United side, because next weekend we will usher in the Champions League final at the New Wembley Stadium, plus the situation on the court is good, Ferguson began to make substitutions, Bell was replaced by Giggs.
West Brom is a substitution to strengthen the offense. Obviously, the bloomers do not want to end the season with a defeat at home.
Although Bell has reminded his teammates to pay attention to the opponent’s counterattack in the second half, but the Manchester United who thought the victory was not too concerned, which made West Brom’s attack very effective.
In the 50th minute, Brent received a straight ball against the midfoot and passed the ball. Lukaku came off the bench to play with a right foot in front of the arc. Although Lindegard’s fingertips touched the ball, the ball still drilled. In the lower right corner of the goal, the score was rewritten to 2:3.
Perhaps it was stimulated by West Brom’s goal, Manchester United immediately strengthened the offense, and achieved good results.
In the 53rd minute, Valencia made a low pass on the right and Van Persie’s right foot shot from the edge of the small penalty area broke into the individual’s 26th league goal this season. ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Manchester United also once again extended their advantage to 2 goals.
In the 64th minute, Giggs took a low pass from Sneijder’s straight pass. After the home team intercepted the error at the front point, Hernandez made a close-up and easily broke the goal to rewrite the score to 5:2.
In the 69th minute, Scholes came off the bench in the applause of the fans. This was also the last Premier League game in Ginger’s career.
Subsequently, West Brom shot several times are within a narrow range. In the 78th minute, Giggs had a slightly higher volley on the left side of the penalty area.
In the 80th minute, Rosberg came off the bench with a right rib and Lukaku took the ball to the left of the penalty area and scored twice with a low left shot.
After 1 minute, Manchester United’s city was broken again. In the 81st minute, Billy Jones made a cross from the right and Mullenb’s right-footed goalkeeper chased the score to 4:5.
Ferguson immediately replaced Evans with Ferdinand, but still failed to block the goal. In the 86th minute, Ashley Young made a defensive error on the left and Ferdinand did not focus on the mark. In the chaos, Lukaku scored the ball into the net and evenly split the hat.
In the end, Manchester United lost a good game and shook hands with West Brom 5:5, failing to complete the season with a victory.
For this ending, Bell is also helpless. During the halftime break, he had already admonished his teammates, and this time the effect was achieved, allowing Manchester United to quickly expand the lead to 3 goals.
However, after the Manchester United players made several mistakes again, losing three goals in a row, Bell did not help the team change the outcome of this game.
However, after the draw, Manchester United still scored 104 points with 34 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, setting a new record for the five major league single season points. Bell’s season league goals were also fixed at 41 goals.