Football King Bale

At 8:00 pm GMT on January 31, 2012, after Manchester United ended four consecutive away games, it finally ushered in a home game, sitting at Old Trafford to face their opponent Stoke City in the 23rd round of the Premier League.

Sky City is not an easy opponent to deal with. After 22 league rounds, they ranked 9th in the Premier League with 29 points and 8 wins, 5 draws and 9 losses. They are a typical backbone of the Premier League.

However, because of the previous consecutive away games, the entire Manchester United team was relatively tired, and Ferguson still made a lot of rotations in the lineup. The starting lineup is 442. The goalkeeper is the team's third goalkeeper Ben Amos, the four backs are Smalling, Ferdinand, Evans and Evra, and the midfielder is Valencia, Carrick, and Scholl. Si and Bale, the double forward is partnered by Hernandez and Berbatov.

It was a lackluster game.

At the beginning of the first half, Manchester United used possession of the ball to firmly control the situation, while Stoke City retreated and stabilized their defense first. However, the first two real shots were completed by the visiting team. In the 5th minute, Walters received a pass from Palacios and missed the shot in front of the penalty area. Then Jones volleyed with his left foot in front of the penalty area and still missed. During this period, Carrick had a long-range shot, but it was directly blocked in the middle.

In the first 15 minutes, Manchester United had 65% of the ball, but failed to complete a decent shot. Bale was a little lost in the muscle jungle of Sky City, and his performance was not as crazy as before since the end of the Club World Cup.

In the 20th minute, Carrick hit Palacios with another shot from the outside and hit the bottom line. Immediately, a chaotic battle broke out at the corner kick. Carrick swung his heel, and Scholes, who was behind him, volleyed from 20 meters away and hit Huth, who was starting his 150th league game, and then missed the right post.

After that, Manchester United continued to expand the ball possession ratio, once reaching 72%. Unfortunately, except for Evra falling in the penalty area and being ignored by the referee, whether it was Evra's left-wing pass or Valencia's right-side pass, Neither China nor China posed a direct threat.

But even in such a game that was not very exciting and Bell's performance was not good, he still scored twice because Manchester United received two penalty kicks in this game.

In the 37th minute, Scholes made a wonderful pass in the penalty area. When Bell took the ball, he was tackled from behind by Pennant. The referee Mike Jones blew the whistle and awarded a penalty kick. Wilkinson protested and was given a yellow card. Bell He personally knocked down Sorensen with his right foot and hit the bottom left corner of the goal to break the deadlock, and the score became 1:0!

In the 52nd minute, Valencia entered the penalty area along the right wing. Walters was pushing and pulling his hands behind him while returning to defense. The referee Mike Jones blew the whistle again and awarded a penalty kick. Bell stood on the spot for the second time in this game. In front of the ball point, he pushed the ball with his right foot into the lower right corner of the goal. The ball rolled past Sorensen, who judged the opponent's direction and made a sideways dive, and into the net. Manchester United led 2:0.

And Bale, who scored twice,

The league goals this season have reached 40!

Later, Evra fell after being violated in the Stoke City penalty area, and referee Jones did not blow the whistle for a penalty kick. At the last moment, Berba received a pass from Valencia from the right and pushed the shot from 7 meters away.

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In the end, Manchester United scored twice with Bell's penalty kick and defeated Stoke City 2:0 at home to take all three points. After 23 rounds, they had an astonishing 22 wins and 1 loss, scored 86 goals and conceded 14 goals, with a goal difference of 72 and a score of 66 points, strongly leading the Premier League standings.

Manchester City, which blew the whistle at the same time as Manchester United, suffered a defeat at Goodison Park. Ferguson's fellow Scotsman and friend Moyes led the team to help Sir Alex and Manchester United.

As a result, after 23 league rounds, Manchester United's advantage in the standings has expanded to 15 points, and Manchester City has almost been eliminated from the championship competition!

In this game, Bell's Eastern girlfriend appeared in the stands and watched the game with Manchester United's management on the podium.

This is a special signal, because before this, including Liu Xian'er and Bell's ex-girlfriend Rosamund Pike, when they came to watch the game at Old Trafford, they always watched the game in a separate box, and never With the management of Manchester United.

It was the New Year period in the East at this time, and Liu Xianer flew to the UK at this time, not only because in the early morning of the first day of the new year, Bell told her that he missed her during the game, but she came to the UK for another reason. , that is to attend the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony with Bale on the evening of February 6th, local time in the UK.

Bell has been notified that he will receive the 2012 Best Male Athlete Award.

Since I am going to receive the award, I naturally have to bring my girlfriend with me. After all, this is a more influential ceremony than the FIFA Ballon d'Or. In the world of sports, this is the real scorpion daddy - the only one!

In fact, Bell was very surprised to receive this award. Because in his memory, this year's Best Male Athlete Award was awarded to Djokovic.

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Six days later, at Stamford Bridge, Manchester United ushered in the second season of this season's red and blue war.

Bell did not start in this game. He was not even included in the team's roster. He got the opportunity to rest.

This is his second break in the Premier League this season.

In the last game, Ferguson had noticed that Bell was a little tired. In the Muscle Jungle of Sky City, his performance was not exciting. In addition to the fact that his opponents were all physically strong guys, it was also because Bell himself was not in the best condition. Very relevant.

In addition, Bell will attend the Laureus World Sports Awards tomorrow, so Ferguson simply gave Bell a rest.

Manchester United's current advantage in the league is large enough, and a small problem in one game will not have any impact. What's more, with Manchester United's lineup, even without Bell, Chelsea may not be able to win Manchester United at home.

Ferguson has enough confidence in his team!

But when the game started, Ferguson regretted it because he found that he was overconfident, or that in this Manchester United, except for Bell, there was no one worthy of his absolute trust.

The first half of the game was relatively normal, with fierce competition between the two sides. As a result, Manchester United fell behind 0:1 in the away game due to an own goal.

In the 36th minute, Sturridge broke through on the right side of the penalty area and got rid of Evra and then kicked off from a small angle at the baseline. De Gea blocked it with his right foot and the ball accidentally hit the goal and bounced into Evans' left arm. Own goal!

If Manchester United fell behind in the first half because of bad luck, then in the first five minutes of the second half, Manchester United's performance was a disaster, and the whole team was sleepwalking.

Chelsea expanded their lead just 24 seconds into the second half. In the 46th minute, Torres received a pass from Ivanovic and passed it far from the right wing. Mata did not adjust from the left corner of the small penalty area and directly volleyed with his left foot into the middle corner to rewrite the score to 2:0.

In the 47th minute, Torres grabbed a header and missed the goal. One minute later, Meireles shot from 25 meters away from the center. In the 49th minute, Evra knocked down Sturridge on the wing and received a yellow card.

In the 50th minute, Mata took a free kick from the right to the center. Luis jumped up from 7 meters and his header hit Ferdinand's shoulder and bounced into the Manchester United goal.

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Falling behind by three goals in 50 minutes, it is hard to believe that this is still the same powerful team that has been killing gods and Buddhas in the past year or so.

The home team fans seemed to see a repeat of the drama in the first leg at Old Trafford, but the roles were reversed, as if the home and away teams were reversed.

Perhaps, Chelsea can also massacre Manchester United with 5 goals at home?

Bell, who was watching the game with Liu Xian'er in the VIP box, was not too surprised by the scene in front of him, because in his memory, this scene had happened before.

And he still remembers that if the first 50 minutes are Chelsea's performance time, then the next 40 minutes are Manchester United's performance time.

The poor performance of the Manchester United players on the field made Sir Alex's face livid. Then in the 52nd minute of the game, he made the first personnel adjustment of the game: replaced the forward Hernandez with the forward Sleepwalking Ashley Young!

Substitution is like changing a knife, and Manchester United's situation on the field immediately changed.

Perhaps, this is because the players felt the anger of the old man from Ferguson's substitution just now. This time he replaced Ashley Young, so next time he will not know who it is.

Or even, someone will be relegated to the sidelines in the rest of the season?

The entire Manchester United team seemed to have suddenly woken up.

In the 57th minute, Giggs passed the ball to the left. Evra inserted into the penalty area to protect the ball. Sturridge knocked down Evra from behind. Referee Webber blew the whistle and awarded a penalty kick. Rooney deceived Cech to shoot. The upper left corner of the goal scored a point.

In the 68th minute, Hernandez made a cross, and Ivanovic kicked Welbeck. Webber blew the whistle again and awarded a penalty kick. Rooney continued to trick Cech and shot into the left corner of the goal with his right foot. For the second time, Manchester United's last four league goals have all been scored from penalty kicks.

In the 84th minute, Valencia and Welbeck cooperated from the right side and then made a pass. Rooney took the ball in the middle and shot but Cech blocked it. Giggs got the ball and then passed the ball. Hernandez jumped up from the edge of the small penalty area and hit the goal with a header. , although Cech touched the ball, the ball still entered the net. Manchester United, which was trailing 0:3, tied the score!

In the end, Chelsea played a 3:3 draw with Manchester United at home, and Manchester United also experienced its first draw in the league this season!

Ferguson's Manchester United narrowly missed a point at Stamford Bridge, and Sir Alex Ferguson had mixed feelings after the game. On the one hand, he was pleased with the team's spirit of not giving up even though they were 3 goals behind. On the other hand, he believed that the team performed better in the game. It was especially a pity to lose 2 points. After all, in another game earlier, the same city Archrival Manchester City neatly defeated another west London team, farmer Fulham, 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium.

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