Chapter 60: Kill Van Gaal

On May 15, the Golden State Warriors, who are playing in the Western Conference Finals, officially announced that the team has reached a jersey advertising agreement with online ticketing website Stubhub, becoming the first team in a major North American sports league to have a sponsor advertisement printed on the jersey. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Starting with the 2017-18 season, the Golden State Warriors will have the Stubhub logo on the top left of their jersey on a three-year contract worth $20 million.

The NBA approved a jersey sponsorship proposal in April, a pilot program that will begin the 2017-18 season and run for three years, making the NBA the first of the four major professional sports leagues in North America to have a jersey sponsorship.

Starting in the 2017-18 season, Under Armour will replace Adidas as the supplier of NBA jerseys, when the Under Armour logo will appear on the top right of the jersey, and the Stubhub logo will be opposite Under Armour's on the Golden State Warriors jersey.

The Warriors had a smooth run in the NBA playoffs, and Blackburn Rovers had their first FA Cup final of the season.

Blackburn's opponents in the final were Louis van Gaal's Manchester United, the 19th time the Reds have reached the FA Cup final, having won the title 11 times before, the last time in 2004.

The FA Cup is crucial for both teams and for Blackburn, a win for the FA Rovers would see them compete for the treble in Milan with both the Premier League and FA Cup titles.

For Manchester United, the FA Cup is a lifesaver for the stormy Louis van Gaal, if he can win the FA Cup, then the Dutch coach still has hope of staying, if he loses, then he only has one way to go.

The British media also paid close attention to this final and tapped the hype points of this game from many aspects. Van Gaal can be regarded as the king of the cup, and Klopp is relatively inferior to his opponent because of his short coaching time, but if you count the final, then Blackburn after Arthur is undoubtedly more convincing.

Manchester United starting line-up (4-2-3-1):

Goalkeeper: David De Gea

Defenders: Valencia, Smalling, Blind, Rojo

Defenders: Carrick, Fellaini

Avant-garde: Mata, Wayne Rooney, Jesse Lingard

Forward: Marcus Rashford

Blackburn Rovers starting line-up (4-2-3-1):

Goalkeeper: Cech

Defenders: Cesar Azpilicueta, Phil Jones, Alderweireld, Bellerin

Defenders: N'Golo Kante, Rakitic

Defenders: Raheem Sterling, Coutinho, Mahrez

Front: Harry Kane

Because of next week's Champions League final, Klopp is on the safe side of this game and uses *** for change, but Rao is so, Blackburn's cards are also better than Manchester United.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Blackburn captain Coutinho guessed the coin to win, picked the kick-off, and the referee's whistle blew, and the game officially began.

As soon as the first half began, Manchester United began to attack fiercely. After all, the FA Cup is just the icing on the cake for Blackburn, but it is a lifesaver for Manchester United.

Raheem Sterling kicked off the ball and slammed it back to Philippe Coutinho behind him, before Harry Kane and Harry Kane swooped in on the flank, while Riyad Mahrez on the flank also sprinted down the left flank of United.

More than 20 minutes before the game, the Manchester United players were able to rely on the hard work in their chests to spin with Black, and several attacks were also quite orderly, and for a while Blackburn was deadlocked.

In the 26th minute, Rakitic won the ball on the left side of the field, broke through Rojo and crossed, Smarin pushed the ball off the line, and Rakitic won the first corner of the game for Blackburn.

Then, Mahrez's corner went straight to the front of the Manchester United goal, and the ball was rubbed by Fellaini at the front of the goal, but it did not grasp the direction of the ball, and the ball flew towards the back post.

In the mournful eyes of the Manchester United players, a big man wearing a black Blackburn away shirt jumped lightly, and the ball flew into the net like a flint!

The camera zooms in and sees a dazzling Arabic numeral 9 printed on the back of the blue jersey!

“gooooooooooooooooal! The ball is in! Harry Kane scored his fourth goal in the FA Cup this season. ”

After the goal, Harry Kane ran wildly, dodging his team-mates until he was brought to the ground by the team's players.

As the game continued, the Manchester United players looked a little dazed after conceding the first goal, while the Blackburn players began to attack like a tide, tormenting the hearts of Manchester United players and fans again and again.

In the 32nd minute, Riyad Mahrez crossed from the right, and Sterling failed to hit the ball in the small penalty area under Smalling's close marking.

In the 34th minute, it was Mahrez who took a corner from the right and Coutinho's juggling volley from outside the edge of the box went wide.

In the 41st minute, Harry Kane's header crossed the box and Kante tripped Blind behind in the box, but the referee refused to award a penalty.

Blackburn missed a chance to extend the lead in the 45th minute when Rakitic crossed back from near the bottom line on the left side of the box and Harry Kane fired wide of the far corner from 12 yards.

The controversy came in first-half stoppage time when Harry Kane volleyed a left-footed volley from the right flank of the penalty area, the ball clearly bounced off Smalling's outstretched right hand and changed direction, but the referee again refused to award a penalty.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, Blackburn Rovers couldn't score a second goal and United escaped for the time being.

"Well done, gentlemen!" Jurgen Klopp was happy to say in the dressing room: "I was happy with the first half, but the goals were a little bit less! In the second half, we have to work hard to finish them in the first leg. ”

Blackburn's players sat and wiped their sweat with a smile on their faces, and although the referee's decision in the first half was in favour of Manchester United, who were no longer the Red Devils, there was no big problem in the face of absolute strength. Then the whole team agreed to Klopp in the affirmative.

As soon as the 15-minute break passed, the two teams entered one after another and started a more tragic battle.

Less than a minute into the kick-off of the second half, and with most of the fans who had just returned from half-time still not warming up the plastic seats under their butts, the Blackburn players were already celebrating the goal again. Manchester United's players, on the other hand, were at a loss.

It turned out that after Manchester United kicked off in the second half, a long pass looked for the team's striker, but Blake's captain Phil Jones struggled to push the ball out, and Kante in the midfield made a long pass after winning the ball.

In the midst of the crowd's consternation, Raheem Sterling relied on his speed to get the ball and point it directly to his team-mate in front of him.

What happened next was a disaster for United fans, as Riyad Mahrez was already one-on-one on the way to Harry Kane's pass and easily flicked the ball past the goalkeeper and into the empty net.

With Blackburn's goal, Manchester United is completely defeated, and many players have already reserved for the big European Championship next month and started grinding on the pitch.

Since then, the game has been completely in Blackburn's hands, keeping United firmly in the opposition half.

In the 58th minute of the game, Mahrez broke through the cross from the side, and Harry Kane, who has been in good form recently, headed the top and scored the second goal of the game, scoring twice, and also raising his goal tally this season to a full 40!

3:0!

In the 62nd minute, Sterling fell down after being blocked by Fellaini at the top of the penalty area, and the referee awarded a free kick, Fellaini accused Sterling of faking a fall, but after all, the latter is an England international and is still taken care of in the Premier League.

Two minutes later, Raheem Sterling fired wide from 30 yards down the middle. In the 67th minute, from a corner kick in front of the visitors, Coutinho's 10-yard turn hook shot was confiscated by De Gea, the only man in the Manchester United defence.

In the 70th minute, Klopp began to make substitutions, for next week's Champions League final, Harry Kane, Azpilicueta and other main players to replace, so as not to be overworked, but also to let Pogba, Bale and other main players on the field to find their form.

In the 73rd minute, Mahrez made a direct pass from the right, and Pogba, who had just come on the pitch, stopped the ball in the middle of the run and fired a powerful left-footed volley from 16 yards on the right side of the penalty area, but it hit the near corner post and bounced.

Just two minutes after Blackburn's substitution, N'Golo Kante cut off Wayne Rooney's pass and sent it through, and Raheem Sterling beat the United goalkeeper again against offside and fired home into the empty net.

4:0!

In the 76th minute, Mata burst into the left side of the penalty area near the bottom line of the cross, Cech intercepted and failed, wonder boy Rashford grabbed the ball before Alderweireld and scored, Manchester United finally pulled a goal back, 4:1!

But United's goal only whetted Blackburn's desire to kill.

In the 79th minute, Alderweireld made a long pass from the back, Harry Kane leaned on Smarin's header and rubbed back, and Pogba, who came on as a substitute, shot at high speed and pushed the far corner to break the goal drought in recent games.

5:1!

In the 80th minute, Blackburn made another substitution, with Harry Kane replaced by 95-year-old youngster Deli Ali.

Last year, Harry Kane's emergence made the eyes of fans throughout the Rose Theatre shine. And this season, another young talent has made his mark at Tottenham: England's homegrown star Deli Alli. In Blackburn's 4-0 win over Stoke City in the Premier League last month, Alli and Harry Kane combined to score all of their goals, at the age of 20 years and seven days.

If nothing else, Alli will be joining Harry Kane for England at this summer's European Championships in France. In Hodgson's "Three Lions", who mainly play younger, Alli, who has six international games, will become the mainstay of the team's midfield with post-90s players such as Barkley, Henderson, and Deere. It's just that will the 20-year-old who became famous at a young age continue his magical journey in the European Championship and even in the future?

The final goal of the game came in stoppage time, with substitute Deli Alli making a long run to close the game perfectly.

6:1!

Amid the mournful moans of the United fans, United was defeated. And the score of 6:1 also made Blackburn Rovers the king of this season's FA Cup after winning the Premier League championship!

After being slaughtered by Blackburn, Van Gaal announced his resignation at a press conference, saying that the head coach should take responsibility and resigned for health reasons, and then left the press conference hall.

Winning the championship + killing the opponent's coach, Blackburn's second championship this season can be described as domineering! (To be continued.) )