Football King Bale

Chapter 338 Entering the European Cup

With a 3-goal victory over Sunderland, Manchester United is making great progress in the Premier League and is also writing a series of new records.

It was their 21st consecutive victory in the Premier League, tying Liverpool's record for consecutive wins in England's top flight set 40 years ago.

Since October 16 last year, when they were tied 2:2 by West Brom at Old Trafford, the Red Devils have not lost a point at home in a long period of 385 days.

At the same time, this is also the Red Devils' 54th consecutive unbeaten game in the Premier League, only 4 games away from AC Milan's 58th unbeaten league game. The Red Devils' next four opponents are Swansea, Newcastle, Aston Villa and Wolves. With the current state of the Red Devils, it will be difficult for them to stop the Red Devils' progress.

Manchester United's unbeaten record in all competitions has extended to 88 games, including 6 games in the 2009-2010 season, 63 games in the 2010-2011 season, plus 19 games in the 2011-2012 season. Divided into various events, it includes 54 Premier League games, 18 Champions League games, 6 FA Cup games, 8 League Cup games, 1 Community Shield game and 1 European Super Cup game.

Including the warm-up games, Manchester United's unbeaten record has reached 99 games, just one step away from 100 unbeaten games!

For a time, the world's media once again massacred the news about Manchester United. On the one hand, it was Ferguson's legendary 25 years at Manchester United, and on the other hand, it was the series of terrifying winning streaks and unbeaten records set by Manchester United in the past year or so. .

Of course, Bell's superb performance in more than a year is also indispensable. All his performances during this year also spread throughout the world.

In addition to the good performance of Ferguson and Manchester United, there is also a very important factor that can form such a strong publicity, and that is the strong influence formed by Manchester United after many years of development.

It is not easy to become the well-deserved No. 1 football club. So far, there are only three football teams with truly global influence, the double hegemons of the Western Premier League and the Red Devils. Even Bayern, the southern giant that dominates the Bundesliga, and the three giants in Serie A are still lagging behind.

Manchester United is launching a global campaign at this time, with the goal of course targeting the FIFA Ballon d'Or. In a month's time, the FIFA Ballon d'Or will determine the final three-man squad. Manchester United does not want to be careless and lose Jingzhou, making Bell unable to even make the three-man squad like last year.

Since Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year three years ago, these two awards have been monopolized by Messi. Now that Bell has finally risen, it naturally needs to be run well.

Moreover, it is not only Manchester United that is launching the promotion of Bell, other British media are also actively cooperating. This is determined by Bell's identity, which is equivalent to Ronaldo three years ago. Bell is obviously more recognized by the British media.

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Amid the hustle and bustle, another international match day arrives.

Because most of the quotas for the European Cup finals have been determined, this international match day has received less attention. However, for Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo, who are sprinting for the Ballon d'Or, this international match day is very important because Their teams will all compete in the European Cup qualifying play-offs.

Although Wales is not a strong team and it is normal not to enter the European Cup finals, it will definitely have some impact on Bell. Especially if he can lead the team to eliminate the Czech Republic and enter the finals, it will definitely be of great help to him in winning this year's Golden Globe Award.

For Ronaldo, in 2011, when he lacked enough team honors, it was very difficult to compete with Bell. After all, in terms of personal data, he was still far behind Bell.

And the Portuguese team he plays for is a strong team in the world. Although it is not a regular ranked number one in the world like Brazil, Argentina, and Spain,

But it has also been among the top ten in the world for a long time. If he cannot enter the European Cup finals, the impact on his competition for the Ballon d'Or will be fatal, and he will not even be able to squeeze into the final three-man roster.

Just like the 43rd America's Cup this summer, the host Argentina, led by Messi, failed to even enter the top four in a competition with only 12 teams participating, which hindered his sprint for the final Ballon d'Or. certain negative impact.

As far as the performance of the national team is concerned, Bell has set a good example for his two main competitors. Before the start of the European Cup qualifiers, Wales ranked 84th in FIFA and was the weakest among the five opponents in the group. However, Bell led such a team to defeat strong enemies in succession. In the end, it was just After ranking England with a goal difference disadvantage, he participated in the qualifying play-offs as second in the group. This had a great impact on Bell's reputation in world football.

If he can lead Wales to the European Cup finals, his advantage over Messi and Ronaldo will be even more obvious in this year's Ballon d'Or competition.

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In the first leg of the 2012 European Cup qualifying play-offs on the evening of November 11, the results of the away games between Wales and Portugal were not too short. Portugal had a goalless draw with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the away game, and Wales had a goalless draw in the away game. They scored one goal first, but were reversed by the Czech Republic who scored two goals in the second half.

However, for Bale and Ronaldo, their performances were completely different. Because Wales' only goal was scored by Bell in the 17th minute of the first half. At the beginning of the second half, Bell even hoped to expand the score to 2:0 for Wales, but unfortunately his outside volley was missed today. Cech, who was wearing a new mask, made a one-handed save.

Subsequently, the Czech Republic equalized the score in the 63rd minute and scored another goal in injury time. Those who provided assists for these two goals were Arsenal midfielder Rosicky, known as the Mozart of football.

Four days later, both teams returned home and finally had their turnaround.

In the cheers of 80,000 home team fans at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, Bale showed off his power and scored a wonderful hat-trick to help Wales beat the Czech Republic 3:1 at home.

In the 9th minute, Bell received a pass from his teammate in the penalty area and headed the ball from the small penalty area line. He broke through Cech's ten fingers for the first time and helped Wales take a 1:0 lead.

In the 51st minute, Bell kicked a powerful long-range shot from the top of the penalty area. The ball hit the lower edge of the crossbar and entered the final. He scored twice and helped Wales expand the score. The total score was also rewritten to 3: 2.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, the Czech Republic immediately launched a counterattack, but they forgot that the counterattack by Wales, with Bale, was truly terrifying.

So, in the 71st minute of the game, the Czech Republic paid the price for their aggressive pressure. Bellamy intercepted the Czech pass in his own half and found Ramsey. Ramsey then made a long pass and hit the frontcourt directly.

This pass, which seemed too big to others, actually showed Ramsey's passing awareness, because he took into account Bell's superhuman speed!

When the Czech defensive players panicked and returned to defense, a red figure rushed out like lightning, and the side close to the Czech half of the center circle controlled the ball.

However, when Bell received the ball, the Czech defensive players also followed up and entangled Bell. However, Bell didn't bother with them at all and kicked the ball forward, where Welsh forward No. 9 Morrison was running forward.

After passing the ball, Bell finally got rid of the Czech defensive player, and Morrison, who was entangled by the Czech player, passed the ball horizontally to the left.

Bell reached forward and caught the ball, finally forming a single shot.

Facing Bell, Cech looked very calm. He did not choose to make the first move, but stood ready and waited for Bell to shoot first.

Cech was in very good condition today. The moment Bell took off, he pounced towards the left near post like a cheetah, blocking Bell's shot.

However, the flying ball was caught by Bell again. Faced with Bell's second shot, Cech, even a god, had nothing to do.

Bell scored his first hat-trick for the national team and helped Wales seal the victory. The total score in the two rounds was rewritten to 4:2!

Faced with a desperate situation, the tenacious Czech Republic did not give up. Of course, they still have the possibility of reversal. As long as they score two more goals, they can tie the total score to 4:4 and eliminate Wales by relying on away goals.

At this time, many Welsh players who had played for more than 70 minutes had a physical crisis. Gary Speed ​​had to choose to replace some offensive players who were exhausted. The Welsh team switched to full defense, and even Bale retreated. In front of our own restricted area.

Although the Czech Republic pulled one back in the 81st minute through midfielder Jiracek, they were unable to score a second goal against Wales' steel defense line of 11 players.

When the game ended in the 94th minute, the Czech players had to accept the fate of being eliminated. Wales was lucky enough to advance to the finals.

Bell scored a total of 13 goals in 8 qualifying games and 2 play-off games, and was the biggest contributor to Wales' promotion.

In other games played on the same day, Ireland drew with Estonia 1:1 at home, with a total score of 5:1; Croatia drew with Turkey 0:0 at home, with a total score of 3:0; Portugal played Bosnia and Herzegovina at home. , Ronaldo relied on his dominance and leadership at critical moments to lead the Portuguese team to defeat Bosnia and Herzegovina led by Dzeko with a score of 6:2 and reach the European Cup finals.

At this point, all the top 16 of the European Cup have been formed, and the draw for the finals has also been announced. Wales is undoubtedly ranked as the fourth pot.

Due to the poor performance of many veteran teams in the previous years, each of the four tiers has a well-known and powerful team. If an extreme situation occurs, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and France may be divided into the same group, which is definitely death. group.

All suspense will be revealed at the draw ceremony in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on the 1st of next month.

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