Football King Bale

Shortly after returning to Manchester from London, Manchester United set foot on the road to Wales. On the evening of January 23, in the second leg of this season’s League Cup semi-finals, Manchester United will challenge Swansea away from home.

Because they had a fierce battle with Tottenham just three days ago, and in the first round at Old Trafford, Manchester United defeated their opponent 4:0, so as long as this game does not lose more than 4 goals away from home, they will advance to this year's Champions League. League Cup final, so Ferguson made a comprehensive rotation of Manchester United's starting lineup, almost with a full substitute lineup.

In the end, the "Manchester United Second Team" tied with Swansea 0:0 at the Liberty Stadium, eliminating their opponents with a score of 4:0 in two rounds and entering the final.

This is the second time Manchester United has reached the League Cup final after a year. Their opponent in the final was League One team Bradford.

Bradford defeated Premier League team Aston Villa to reach the final. In the two rounds, they won 3:1 at home. Although they lost 1:2 on the road, they still won the series with a score of 4:3.

Although there is still a full month before the start of the final, all media said that Manchester United has already taken the championship trophy into its arms. No one believes that Bradford, the "bantam" in the third-tier league, can pull teeth from Manchester United's tiger's mouth.

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Three days later, on the afternoon of January 26, Manchester United faced off against farmer Fulham in the fourth round of the FA Cup at Old Trafford.

Manchester United still attaches great importance to this game, and almost the entire main lineup will play. As for Fulham, the dashing Berbatov returned to Old Trafford for the first time after leaving in transfer.

Only 39 seconds into the game, Rooney's shot from the left rib of the penalty area was blocked, and then shot again and was saved by Schwarzer at the near corner.

However, after only 2 minutes, Manchester United took the lead. Aaron Hughes committed a handball foul when defending Smalling from a corner kick. Clattenberg decisively awarded the death penalty. Bell took the penalty kick and shot into the lower left corner. Schwarzer made an accurate judgment and touched his fingertips. He caught the ball but failed to prevent it from entering the net.

In the 20th minute, Bell made a direct pass to Evra on the left side of the penalty area. Duff obviously escaped punishment for handball. Clattenburg thought it was unintentional. However, onlookers believed that Clattenberg was considering giving Manchester United a penalty kick shortly after the start, so he was arrogant with the second penalty kick.

One minute later, Sneijder passed the ball and Rooney made a pass from the right side of the penalty area. Hernandez's shot from 8 yards was blocked by Schwarzer and then hit the crossbar.

In the latter part of the first half, Rooney got consecutive good opportunities, but he always chose to shoot instead of passing the ball. At the end of the first half, Manchester United led Fulham 1:0.

In the 47th minute, Manchester United finally expanded the score. Rooney made a breakthrough on the right. Because he was sprayed by Sir Alex Ferguson's hairdryer for a while during the intermission, Lu Xiaopang did not shoot again this time, but broke into the penalty area and went to the right. After a cross pass, the opponent's defender blocked the ball. The unguarded Bell grabbed the landing spot in the penalty area, triggering a decisive blow and giving Manchester United a two-goal lead.

In the 49th minute, Rooney finally completed the goal. Sneijder passed through the middle. Rooney broke into the goal and dunked past Aaron Hughes. He then hit the bottom right corner of the goal with his left foot. Schwarzer was beyond his reach. Manchester United 3 :0 ahead of Fulham.

: In the 51st minute, Manchester United scored another goal. Rooney made a cross pass from the right side of the penalty area. The opponent's defender blocked the ball but stopped the ball to Hernandez. Xiao Pea took advantage of the situation and scored a goal kick. Manchester United took a 4:0 lead.

In the 66th minute of the game, Manchester United took a 5-0 lead. Giggs, who had just replaced Bell, passed a straight pass to Hernandez from the middle. The latter passed by Hughes and then hit the far corner of the goal. The shot was refracted and bounced into the goal. In the lower left corner, Little Pea scored twice.

In the 76th minute of the game, Fulham got a goal back. Fulham took a corner kick and Aaron Hughes scored with a header, making the score 1:5.

In the end, Manchester United defeated Fulham 5:1 at Old Trafford and entered the fifth round of this season's FA Cup.

In the subsequent draw for the top 16, Manchester United drew Reading.

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At 8 o'clock in the evening on January 30, Manchester United ushered in the last game of January and faced the Saints Southampton at home. This is the 24th round of the Premier League this season and the second meeting between the two sides.

This is also Manchester United's 8th game in January, with an average of one game in less than four days.

In another game a day ago, Blue Moon Manchester City drew 0:0 with Queens Park Rangers away from home, so as long as Manchester United can win this game, they will lead Manchester City by 17 points!

But what happened after the game started gave Manchester United fans a bad feeling.

At 2 minutes and 09 seconds, Schneiderlin passed a diagonal pass from the left frontcourt. Carrick intercepted and picked the ball back to the goalkeeper with poor footwork. Rodriguez faced the attacking De Gea and blocked the ball first, passing Manchester United. The goalkeeper then pushed his right foot into the empty goal from a small angle on the left side of the penalty area, scoring his third goal of the season to give Southampton a 1:0 lead.

Conceding the ball early made Ferguson look unhappy. Then he subconsciously looked at the bench. After being stunned for a moment, he realized that Bell was not on the team's roster today.

Because he was going to London to challenge Fulham on the weekend, which was the 25th round of the Premier League, Ferguson made a lot of rotations in the lineup for this game, including Bell, Van Persie, Sneijder, and many other players. The main players have all taken turns.

Ferguson didn't want to do this, but the long-term weekly double matches that began in November last year made Manchester United players very tired, and he had to make such a choice.

Ferguson felt that he should probably put Bell on the bench, so that even if such a situation occurred and he lost the ball first, he would have room to maneuver.

However, now that the matter is a foregone conclusion, only the players on the field and the seven players on the bench can solve this dilemma.

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Ferguson quickly made changes to Manchester United's tactics, and his adjustments quickly bore fruit. Manchester United made a crazy counterattack and evened the score after only five minutes of the game.

In the 8th minute, Pogba passed the ball behind him from the center. Rooney stepped in in time to leave Hoiweild behind. He pushed the right foot into the lower left corner of the goal from 13 meters away to equalize the score. He also scored in his last 9 games. The 8th goal in the match.

Just two minutes later, Manchester United made a comeback. Manchester United launched an attack on the right side. Rooney knocked the ball in front of the goal and passed it to Pogba who came in behind. The French teenager pushed his left foot from a small angle in the penalty area and the ball hit the left post and bounced out.

Missing the goal that helped the team reverse the score made Pogba very angry. He put his head in his hands and looked up to the sky and sighed.

However, it didn't take long for Manchester United to reverse the score.

In the 27th minute, Pogba took a free kick from the right side of the frontcourt and took a long shot. Evra flew in front of the baseline and headed the ball to the goal. Rooney easily scored twice with his right foot from close range to help Manchester United reverse the lead 2:1. , this goal is also Manchester United's 1,700th goal in the Premier League.

In this data, as the well-deserved overlord of the Premier League, Manchester United is far ahead of other clubs. Arsenal, ranked second, has only scored 1,395 goals, and the gap with Manchester United is more than 300 goals. As for third-ranked Liverpool, the gap with Manchester United is even greater. The Red Army's current number of goals is only 1,273.

Of course, it is only in recent seasons that Manchester United has quickly widened the gap with Arsenal and Liverpool. Manchester United, which has continuously set new scoring records, has risen too fast in terms of scoring data.

In the end, Manchester United maintained the score until the last minute.

After 24 rounds of the Premier League, Manchester United, with 23 wins and 1 loss, has scored 69 points, leading the second-ranked Manchester City by 17 points.

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At Old Trafford, people once again saw the Manchester United model, and this time it was Rooney who scored twice who directed the Red Devils' reversal. This is also the fourth time in the league this season that the little fat man has contributed two goals to the team in a single game. , Rooney currently has a record of 27 double goals in the history of the Premier League, ranking fourth after Alan Shearer (46 times), Bale (41 times) and Henry (34 times).

He has a lot of experience in beating the Saints, because he personally defeated Southampton three times in the past three times. However, the history is a bit old, almost 8 years ago.

But Xiaopang soon showed a smile after the start of today's game. Although the team was defeated in the first 129 seconds, Rooney relieved Ferguson in the 8th minute.

At that time, Pogba played the ball behind him, and Rooney even stepped in and left Hoiweilder behind, and then used a calm push from the far corner to equalize the score. This goal happened to be Rooney's 100th goal at Old Trafford since joining Manchester United.

In fact, the good show of Xiaopang has just begun. 2 minutes later, Rooney returned the favor with a wonderful pass to Pogba. Unfortunately, the French youngster had poor dribbling and the ball bounced off the post. Otherwise, Pogba's number of assists in the Premier League this season would have reached 8.

His teammates didn't appreciate it, so Rooney had to do it himself. In the 27th minute, Evra received a header from Carrick's free kick, and Xiaopang shot in front of the goal to score twice.

This is the 138th league goal scored by Xiaopang after wearing the Manchester United jersey, thus surpassing George Best and rising to sixth place in the club's league scoring list.

In this data, Bell currently ranks 8th with 134 goals.

In fact, Rooney still had the opportunity to put on a "hat" and take the game ball away after the game. However, in the 81st minute, when Xiaopang got a single chance, he gave it to the Saints goalkeeper because of too much power in the last pass. Borusch's chance to save Rooney almost injured his foot.

Some fans joked: When you have Rooney, who needs Paul?

Obviously this is a joke about Balotelli's god-like single-handed ball thinking about life in the European Cup.