I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

Chapter 150: The Extraordinary FA Cup Final

With the curtain of the Premier League falling, Manchester United's schedule for this season has basically come to an end. To be precise, Manchester United has two games left this season, the FA Cup final and the Champions League final.

In fact, for many other teams, the season is over.

The remaining two finals, the FA Cup final, will be held at 5:30 pm GMT on May 21st, which is 0:30 am on May 22nd Beijing time. The Champions League final is almost a week later.

After Manchester United's Premier League ended, the whole team focused all their attention on the FA Cup final.

Manchester United attaches great importance to the FA Cup, a long-standing event with a history of more than 100 years. In fact, the FA Cup has extraordinary significance for the English team. Otherwise, just for that little bonus, everyone wouldn't be so flocking to it.

The last time Manchester United won the FA Cup dates back to the 2003-2004 season 12 years ago, when they swept Milwaukee 3-0 in the final with Ronaldo's goal and Ruud van Nistelrooy's brace. I won the championship.

The last time they entered the FA Cup final was in the 2006-2007 season. They were defeated by Chelsea 1-0 in the final and missed the championship.

Manchester United has reached the FA Cup final 19 times in history, 11 of which have won the cup, second only to Arsenal, which has won 12 times.

Originally, Manchester United was the team that won the most championships in this tournament, but since Manchester United have not won the championship in the past 11 years, this gave Arsenal a chance to overtake Manchester United.

In the past 11 years, Arsenal has won the championship three times in 2005, 2014 and 2015, thus surpassing Manchester United in one fell swoop and becoming the team with the most FA Cup wins.

And Manchester United's opponents in the FA Cup, Crystal Palace, this is the second time they have entered the FA Cup final. The last time they reached the final was in the 1989-1990 season, and coincidentally, their opponent was also Manchester United. After winning 3:3, Manchester United won the replay 1:0.

Whether the FA Cup final can win this time, for Manchester United, the significance of winning is not only to tie Arsenal and become the team with the most FA Cup wins, but also to create a new era once they win the championship. History: Became the first Grand Slam team in English football history to win the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup in one season, that is, the domestic treble.

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Manchester United did not travel to London in advance, but only departed from the Carrington base at noon on the day of the game,

Take the train to London.

Because a week had passed since the last game, and the Champions League final will come a week later, Ye Su didn't hold anything back in this game, and sent the strongest lineup in his hands to play in this game.

Starting eleven, goalkeeper De Gea, back four Luke Shaw, Maguire, Van Dijk, Kyle Walker, Kanter, De Bruyne, Mata and Vardy form a diamond four midfielder, Rooney Partner with Harry Kane as a double striker.

On the bench are Romero, Koulibaly, Ashley Young, Carrick, Bruno Fernandez, Martial and Rashford.

The remaining players who did not enter the team's 18-man roster also went to London with the team. If the team wins the championship, they will participate in the championship celebration together.

Since Manchester United won the away game before the game, they wore the away team jersey in white with red stripes in this game.

For this Manchester United team, apart from Juan Mata, no other player has the experience of winning the FA Cup. And Mata also won the FA Cup with Chelsea in the 2011-2012 season four years ago.

Originally, veteran players in the Manchester United team such as Rooney and Carrick were expected to win the FA Cup in the 2006-2007 season, but in the final, they were defeated by Chelsea and missed the FA Cup. cup champion.

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Because basically everyone has never won the FA Cup, the whole Manchester United team is very motivated. As soon as the game started, the team launched a fierce offensive towards the Crystal Palace half.

In the fifth minute, Manchester United attacked the frontcourt. Luke Shaw broke through from the left and cut into the penalty area. Zaha returned to the defense and poked the ball out of the bottom line.

After leaving Manchester United and returning to the Crystal Palace, Zaha, who became the core of the Crystal Palace, has performed well in the past two seasons and is a thigh-level figure in the Crystal Palace.

For Zaha, he is the kind of player who has the ball to be a threat, but in a super giant like Manchester United, it is undoubtedly unrealistic for Zaha to want to control the ball. This made his development at Manchester United very difficult. Whether it was Moyes or Ye Su who took over, he did not get enough opportunities to perform.

Under Moyes, Zaha, who was unable to get playing time, also exposed lace news, saying that the reason why Zaha was unable to play at Manchester United was because he had an affair with Moyes' daughter, which caused Moyes to be furious.

After Ye Su took over Manchester United, the two had no grievances. Later, Zaha expressed his desire to return to Crystal Palace, and Ye Su did not put any obstacles in his way, not even setting up obstacles on the transfer fee.

However, after returning to Crystal Palace, Zaha performed very hard every time he met Manchester United in the game. Although he voluntarily asked to leave Manchester United and return to Crystal Palace, Zaha is still brooding about his nightmare experience at Manchester United, eager to show his ability in front of his old club.

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Zaha has the strength, especially for a team in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League like Crystal Palace, he can even become the core of the team, but he wants to lead Crystal Palace against Manchester United on his own, but he is unable to do it.

Under Manchester United's active attack, Crystal Palace was quickly suppressed in their own half, and there were few opportunities to attack the frontcourt.

Manchester United, on the other hand, took advantage of the advantage of controlling the ball to attack Crystal Palace's goal wave after wave.

In 10 minutes, Mata made a through ball from the left. Rashford hesitated when he broke through and shot, giving the opposing defender time to defend, and then his shot hit the opposing player and popped out of the baseline.

Manchester United immediately took a corner kick, and Maguire headed the ball wide. Maguire's height of 1.94 meters and his strong body give him a great advantage in the header competition. But his header lacks accuracy, so he rarely helps the team score.

However, this cannot conceal the fact that Maguire is a good central defender. After all, for a defensive player, his offensive ability is not the most important, and defense is his job.

Manchester United continued to besiege Crystal Palace. In 15 minutes, Wayne Rooney shot a cold arrow from outside the penalty area. The goalkeeper of Crystal Palace, Welsh national goalkeeper Hennessy missed the ball, but his second reaction was very fast. Before Harry Kane made a supplementary shot, he took the first step Qiuou is under him.

But Manchester United's continuous strong attacks put tremendous pressure on Crystal Palace. The pressure quickly overwhelmed Crystal Palace and allowed United to score.

In the 16th minute, Rooney sent a through pass from the center, and De Bruyne inserted from the left, facing Rooney's pass, the ball crossed a wonderful arc and went straight to the dead corner above the far post.

Although Hennessey made a sideways pounce, but De Bruyne's shot was heading for a dead corner. After all, he was beyond his reach and could only watch the ball fly into the goal behind him.

1:0, De Bruyne helped Manchester United open the scoring and broke the deadlock on the field.

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Only 16 minutes into the game, they were scored by Manchester United. This dealt a blow to the Crystal Palace players, and their morale was a bit low for a while.

What Manchester United is best at is chasing and fighting hard. The ideological fluctuations of the Crystal Palace players made Manchester United quickly seize the opportunity again and scored the second goal of the game.

In the 22nd minute, Mata made a sudden shot from the right. Although Crystal Palace goalkeeper Hennessy fell to the ground and barely saved the ball, Hennessy never again powerless.

2:0!

Manchester United's start is fantastic!

The new Wembley Stadium was in frenzy at this time, and more than 50,000 Manchester United fans were cheering and celebrating. They knew very well that with the stability of Manchester United under Ye Su's command and the strength of Crystal Palace, there was basically no suspense in this game. The 12th FA Cup championship in the club's history can already be announced!

Crystal Palace is a little confused, Manchester United is strong, they are psychologically prepared, after all, in the league, they were defeated by Manchester United with a score of 2:0 at home and away, and they were double-killed.

But they never expected that today's Manchester United is so strong. Just 20 minutes into the game, they were 2 goals behind.

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Manchester United did not relax their attack because of their two-goal lead, on the contrary, they continued to press towards the Crystal Palace goal.

In the 23rd minute, Manchester United got a free kick from the left side of the front court. Rooney took the penalty directly and chose to shoot directly.

Lu Xiaopang's shot was very threatening. The ball went around the top of the wall and fell quickly. It was about to fly into the goal of Crystal Palace. At the critical moment, Hennessey made another wonderful save and jumped up to hold the ball After a while, the ball finally flew out of the bottom line above the crossbar.

Manchester United continued to take corner kicks, and Mata chose to pass the ball directly into the penalty area. Van Dijk grabbed the spot, but he shook his head to attack the goal but was blocked by Crystal Palace midfielder Dienac, blocking the ball out of the baseline.

Crystal Palace's first shot in this field did not come until the 28th minute of the game.

At that time, Manchester United relaxed a little after nearly 30 minutes of strong attack. Crystal Palace took the opportunity to counterattack. Bolasier shot from outside the penalty area. Because the shot was too straight, it was easily captured by De Gea.

Crystal Palace played a wave of small climaxes and scored consecutive shots.

In the 31st minute, Zaha forcibly broke through Luke Shaw's defense on the right side, and then sent a low pass before Luke Shaw caught up. Wickham hit the goal in the middle, but Van Dijk was very focused. , Bigfoot cleared the opponent's shot.

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