Four days before the game, Manchester United defeated Chelsea 2-1 at home and advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League this year. The Red Devils' 7-point lead in the league is also a gap that is difficult for Arsenal to make up. Replicating the great achievements of the treble in 1999 has become a recent success.
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The team's most coveted goal was the FA Cup, which seemed to be the easiest to win, but they fell before the finals. The Red Devils not only lost the possibility of a triple crown, but the psychological blow caused by the defeat was also likely to be engraved in the future and they would still be busy.
in a two-front battle.
Losing the FA Cup with such help once again shows the shortcomings of Manchester United's lineup this season.
Relying on their winning streak in the early games and years of accumulation, Manchester United suppressed their opponents at the beginning. As the game unfolded, they fell into an inescapable test. Li Yu missed the opportunity, Rooney was unable to help, Xiao Wandou was able to make use of it, and Owen continued to be a spectator. When
After Carrick finally conceded the goal due to a careless move, Kuzsak still looked confused in the stands.
Carrick panicked and once again proved that he was "for sale". Once the 37-year-old Giggs did not play, the Red Devils became so orderly, which is really sad.
Scholes' irrational kick showed that Manchester United was under great pressure. Losing the FA Cup and dying at the hands of their mortal enemy was a pain that the Red Devils could not let go of.
Ferguson criticized the defense after the game and criticized the Wembley turf, "Perhaps Manchester City is more adaptable to this kind of turf than us." At the same time, he defended Scholes. Ten years ago in the Manchester City Derby, Keane deliberately stepped on Haaland, and then stepped on it.
A special note in the autobiography. Ten years later, Scholes' irrational kick resulted in a three-game suspension. It happened at the most critical moment of Manchester United's season and may be an irreparable loss for the lineup.
Starting from Tuesday's away game against the Magpies, Manchester United still has three games to play in 12 days. At the end of the month, they will have a two-leg Champions League semi-final clash with Schalke 04. The two European games are also sandwiched between the two European games and a key championship battle with Arsenal. Ferguson.
Hope to regain the winning temperament on Tuesday. If they beat Manchester City last Saturday, the winning temperament of "win brings victory" is expected to envelope the Red Devils until the end of the season, but they have also lost an opportunity.
After being eliminated from the FA Cup, Ferguson performed the famous "Flying Shoe Gate" and kicked a sneaker into Beckham's face. Now a similar scene has been repeated. The British media revealed that after being eliminated by Manchester City
After being eliminated, another terrifying kick was staged in the Manchester United locker room!
"Mirror" revealed that in the visiting team's dressing room at Wembley Stadium, after Manchester United left, a big hole appeared in the wall, which looked like it had been kicked open.[
According to the newspaper’s informant, the hole is located in the “head coach’s area.” Although Ferguson’s name was not explicitly mentioned, the Manchester United coach may not be able to escape suspicion (Ferguson was suspended, but could enter after the game).
locker room).
However, according to the "Daily Mail", it is said that the hole was kicked by Manchester United's fitness coach Struvik. "The Sun" simply proposed four suspects: Ferguson, Scholes, who was annoyed by the red card,
Ferdinand, who was frustrated after failing to beat Balotelli, and Anderson, who was easily hot-headed. Various media outlets have different opinions, and who is the real "culprit" may become an unsolved mystery.
Before the second semi-final, the staff had to urgently repair the big hole so that Stoke City, who had been drawn to the visiting team's locker room, could continue to use it. Now, Wembley Stadium has sent the bill to Manchester United.
The incident was reported to the Football Association and requested to be investigated.
In the 2003 FA Cup, Manchester United was eliminated by Arsenal at home. Ferguson was so angry that Beckham lost his face. Similar to that year, this time it was the FA Cup again (and a more crucial semi-final), and the opponent was the Red Devils.
It would be even harder for Sir Alex Ferguson to swallow this sigh of relief after losing to his mortal enemy Manchester City.
This game is indeed of extraordinary significance. After Manchester City won, they said that Manchester United finally started to really worry.
The team's defender Lescott said: "I know Manchester United is ranked first in the Premier League and may win the championship, but now they are really starting to worry about the rise of Manchester City. In the next few years, we will enter the semi-finals more and more.
In the finals, we will meet Manchester United more and more times." Ferguson once disdainfully called Manchester City just a "noisy neighbor". Scholes also said that Manchester City was not Manchester United's opponent at all, but now Manchester City has ended it with its own hands.
He won the Red Devils' triple crown dream and gave his opponents a fierce counterattack.
Even Arsenal, the Premier League rivals, are now waiting to see Manchester United stumble. Wilshere, the new favorite of the Gunners, believes that losing to Manchester City will be a heavy blow to the Red Devils and may even have consequences in the Premier League. "I absolutely believe in Arsenal.
We can still win the title, but we think Manchester United will drop points. We had a slump after losing to Barcelona in the Champions League and had a difficult two weeks. The same thing may happen to Manchester United."
"Manchester United lost at Wembley and then they have the Champions League semi-finals to play. Maybe that will tie them down. In addition, they also need to go to the Emirates Stadium. If we beat them, it may put them into a bad momentum."
After Van der Sar confirmed that he would retire this summer, Ferguson inspected many goalkeepers, including Netherlands goalkeeper Stekelenborg (28 years old) and Germany goalkeeper Neuer (25 years old), but he finally chose the extremely talented goalkeeper
Spanish young goalkeeper De Gea, although De Gea has only played 50 games for Atletico Madrid's first team.
In the past week, Spanish and British media have reported that Manchester United has locked in De Gea.
The "Daily Star" published yesterday reported again that 20-year-old De Gea is confirmed to join Manchester United this summer for a transfer fee of 18 million pounds, taking over from legendary goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, who is 40 years old and will retire this summer.
De Gea will officially join Manchester United in the summer on a five-year contract, and his transfer fee has also broken the record in Manchester United's history for purchasing a goalkeeper.
The scout's trajectory also exposed Ferguson's thoughts. The "Daily Telegraph" stated that Manchester United's chief scout, Ferguson's brother Martin, appeared in Barcelona on Sunday night. The purpose of his trip was to watch Atletico Madrid's away game.
The league that challenged Espanyol inspected De Gea. As a result, Atletico Madrid drew 2-2 with their opponent in an away game. De Gea's gate was breached twice by his opponent. However, one goal was scored by the opponent after hitting Atletico Madrid defender Perea.
"Shoot" goes in.
Last summer, Hernandez joined the Mexican team Guadalajara for a transfer fee of 7 million pounds. This season, the 22-year-old Hernandez scored 14 goals in 31 games for Manchester United.
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Smalling, who also joined for 10 million pounds last summer, although only 21 years old, has grown into Manchester United's third central defender with his stable performance. Manchester United has locked in the 20-year-old De Gea, a young player purchased by Sir Alex Ferguson.
Continuation of policy.[
In addition to De Gea's almost certain joining, "tlksport" said that Manchester United has signed the Welsh defender Declan Daly with great potential. The 16-year-old Daly serves as a central defender and came to Manchester United for trial training.
Previously, Daly trained in Cardiff for 9 years. During the trial training at Manchester United, Daly performed impressively and has recently been called up to the Wales U18 squad. Manchester United is now preparing to offer him a youth player contract. It is reported that
, he will join Manchester United in early July and prepare to participate in the Red Devils' pre-season training.
By identifying the goalkeeper backup so early, is Ferguson trying to complete Manchester United's lineup as much as possible before retiring?
Returning to the Premier League, it has now entered the final stage of the Premier League. In the 33rd round, Manchester United challenged Newcastle United away.
The terrifying atmosphere in St. James' Park indeed triggered the explosion of the Magpies, and the Manchester United soldiers seemed a little sluggish. As Pardew said before the game, "I think this is a duel that Ferguson is afraid of, not because of fear."
The strength of our team is because the atmosphere of this stadium will have a great impact on the team."
In the first 30 minutes of the game, it looked like Newcastle were the leaders of the Premier League. Their hormones were racing amidst the roar of cheers at home, and waves of attacks poured into Manchester United's penalty area.
However, those overwhelming waves could not break down the towering rock in the Red Devils penalty area. The defense led by captain Vidic made Newcastle's attacks fail time and time again.
Only 4 minutes into the game, Newcastle made a breakthrough pass from the left. Manchester United's young center back Smallin missed the ball in the penalty area. Button, who was ambushing at the back point, got a good chance to shoot, but at this time Vidic was in time.
The defense was in place to block Button's shot.
2 minutes later, Newcastle made a comeback and used O'Shea's weakness on the right to tear apart the defense. However, Gutierrez's breakthrough pass was cleared by Vidic who was stuck in the front point. 8th in the first half
Minutes later, Newcastle got a free kick opportunity in front of the penalty area on the right side. Button's free kick was very threatening, but Vidic made a header to clear the ball and pushed the ball out of the baseline.
Newcastle attacked wildly in the opening 30 minutes, but Vidic stumped the Magpies like a puzzle and blocked the goal with a high pass. After withstanding the opponent's wild attack in the opening game, Manchester United gradually stabilized
However, the sluggish frontcourt of Hernandez, Rooney, and Nani made it difficult for the Red Devils' offense to bear fruit.
However, Manchester United's solid defense can at least ensure that they will not suffer an away defeat. No matter how crazy the atmosphere in St. James is, the Red Devils need to panic when Vidic is in the game. When the game reaches 72 minutes, Vidic
While competing with the opponent's striker in the backcourt, he was hit with a gash at the corner of his right eye, which was bleeding. After receiving a brief treatment on the sidelines, the Iron-blooded captain immediately returned to the court.
Opt said that throughout the game, Vidic made an astonishing 11 successful clearances, made 39 of 47 passes, and had a pass success rate of 83%. After the game, "Sky Sports" gave him a tie for the game
The highest score was 8 points, believing that Vidic "had a super performance in this game. He dominated Manchester United's penalty area and prevented Newcastle from infringing."
It is a pity that the Red Devils were not able to take all three points from the Magpies, but in fact the opponent was the better team for a long time in the game. If it were not for Vidic and Smalling's outstanding defense,
Performance, I'm afraid their advantage in the standings will shrink significantly.
This season, the old captain Gary Neville faded out of the team's lineup and finally chose to retire. The team captain's armband was worn on Vidic's arm, and he repaid Ferguson's trust with a rock-like and reliable performance.
This season, when Ferdinand has been injured and stopped, Evra's condition has declined, and Rafael at right back has also been injured, Vidic has become the anchor of the team's backcourt. His outstanding performance has made
The quality of Manchester United's defense has not declined at all, and it has performed outstandingly on all fronts.
In the English Professional Players Association's annual team of the year announced a few days ago, Vidic was also on the list and received praise. "He has been the cornerstone of Manchester United's defense in the past few seasons and was appointed captain this season.
Later, his performance went to a higher level and he proved that he is capable of being a team leader."
Last season, Vidic's performance had some ups and downs, and his contract extension with the club was not progressing smoothly enough. At that time, many media reported that the Serbian was leaving. But fortunately, Manchester United completed the contract extension with him, and now
Vidic's performance is definitely the best in the world. More importantly, he has become the team's new spiritual leader. He is the new soul of the Red Devils.
"I hope to spend the rest of my career at Manchester United," Vidic said in a recent interview. He hopes to become a part of Manchester United's history. "I have dedicated the best time of my career to the club. Anything about it.
The rumors that I am leaving are all false, I love it here."
Manchester United can still have the best defense in the world despite constant injuries this season. In addition to Vidic, it is also due to the growth of 21-year-old Smallin. In this game, Smallin has
A very good performance. His fierce attack, header advantage and excellent pursuit speed gave the team a lot of support, with a total of 4 successes.
A clearance and 1 successful tackle, and 44 of 50 passes were completed, with a passing hit rate of 88%, including 15 frontcourt passes, with a success rate of 789%. After the game, Smalling got
"Sky Sports" gave him a 7-point rating and praised him for "showing great speed and excellent physical confrontation ability. He made Newcastle's striker miserable."
At the beginning of the season, when Ferdinand was injured, Ferguson put his trust in Evans, who had grown rapidly last season. However, Evans' performance was disappointing and he kept making mistakes. At this time, Smalling seized the opportunity.
Under Vidic's words and deeds, he showed his talent and potential and never disappointed the Manchester United coach, decision-makers and fans. Together with Vidic, he built a steel defense line that gave forwards all over Europe a headache.
Taking into account Ferdinand's age and injuries, Manchester United's central defender combination will rely more on Smalling in the future, and will use more of his combination with Vidic. A new emperor-level defender is quietly being born.
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Manchester United challenged Newcastle away. In stoppage time, Hernandez fell into the opponent's penalty area after physical contact with Newcastle right back Simpson. The referee Probert showed the Mexican a yellow card, which made Sir Alex Ferguson very unhappy.
.Because, after the game, even Simpson himself admitted that he thought the referee had given a penalty kick.
Ferguson said after the game, "It was a clear penalty, but the irony is that he showed Hernandez a yellow card. The referee did a good job in officiating tonight's game. I think he did a good job
It was good, but he punished Hernandez with a yellow card, which lowered his enforcement score."
"If he hadn't given the penalty, I would have accepted it, but to give Hernandez a yellow card to punish him was simply offensive. I saw there was contact, no doubt about it. But in relation to Newcastle's complaint to Lowenkrain
After being fouled by Anderson in the penalty area, Sir Alex Ferguson said, "I didn't see that scene. I have to watch the video."
"Giggs missed a great opportunity, but in fact the defender caught the ball and the shot only missed a little. In the first 20 minutes of the first half, Newcastle played very well and had all the advantages on the field. They had all the advantages.
We did particularly well in the first 20 minutes of the first half, but as time went on and we went into halftime, I'm sure we improved a lot."
“We did a really good job in the second half, passing the ball really well, we got into a lot of dangerous areas but just didn’t put the goalkeeper in trouble, which was the only thing we didn’t do. Overall.
, it was difficult, and I think for Newcastle's fighting spirit, they probably felt they deserved a point. But, other than the first 20 minutes, we more or less controlled the rest of the game."
"I'm confident that we're in a good place and we're in a better position at this stage of the season. You also have to look at Chelsea, how they've come back in three consecutive home games and there's two more to go.
Important games are about to start, undoubtedly away to Arsenal and at home to Chelsea, but we have a better goal difference advantage than Chelsea. We reshuffled the starting lineup in tonight's game and we tried our best to make more players better.
Dynamic players came out and I think we are in a better position today.”
Perhaps in the eyes of many media, it was not the referee's missed penalty that allowed Manchester United to draw 0:0 with Newcastle in the away game, but that Ferguson did not send his strongest attacker Li Yu.
Everyone knows that the recent matches are crucial for Manchester United. Of course the old man also knows that Li Yu is allowed to avoid traveling and traveling to the away game. In fact, this is not a new trick. The problem is that Ferguson boldly changed players again and brought them back from the away game.
It's only 1 point.
The FA Cup has been eliminated, but some minor problems have arisen in the Premier League.
Let Li Yu play. Only when he is on the field, Manchester United's scoring is most guaranteed.
