Chapter 731: Derby Again
On January 18th, another Manchester derby was held at the Maine Road Stadium, the game was still full, and now Manchester City's home games are rarely full, Manchester City's outstanding results have greatly stimulated Manchester City's ball market, not to mention that this game is against the city's rival Manchester United?
Manchester City fans have always believed that the team they support is the master of Manchester, Manchester United is just an outsider, in the past hundred years of competition, the two teams have experienced too many grievances, and the hatred between them is irresolvable, even if the Manchester City team has been holding down Manchester United in recent seasons, and has repeatedly won by a large score, but for Manchester City fans, they will never get bored of such a game, if possible, they hope that Manchester City can win a hundred consecutive games against Manchester United, In these 100 games, they are willing to spare no effort to cheer for the Manchester City team from beginning to end. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
After the start of the game, the Manchester City players found that all the Manchester United players were like being blessed by the shaman in a bloodthirsty state, they were all red-eyed, as long as it was a five-five kick-off, even if they had a slight disadvantage, they would go all out to fight, even at the expense of injury, such a momentum, so that the Manchester City players were a little unprepared.
Just three minutes into the game, Keane made a sudden move to the left wing, cut off the ball at Seedorf's feet, he immediately passed the ball to the feet of Scholes in the middle, Scholes burst forward with the ball, before Makelele pressed up, he suddenly came with a cold shot from 30 meters away, Jaskelainen was not prepared, and it was still raining lightly on the day of the game, the ball bounced to the ground and suddenly accelerated, and with a strange arc, turned into the bottom left corner of the goal. It was a slightly unexpected goal that left the United players celebrating wildly, how long has it been since they have led Manchester City in a game? Paul Scholes rushed to the bottom of the stands, roaring and venting the frustration in his chest, and the United fans who arrived at Maine Road also let out a deafening cheer, no one has been more depressed than they have been in recent seasons, and now they finally have a chance to relent.
Scholes and Manchester United fans' crazy celebration, angered Manchester City fans, they with an absolute numerical advantage of the incomparably huge boos, suddenly suppressed the cheers of Manchester United fans can not be heard, some fans shouted Ding Hongxing's name, just won the European Ballon d'Or and the world footballer of the two heavyweight individual honors Ding Hongxing is of course their most reliable person, and Ding Hongxing has never let them down, every time he needs him to stand up, he can always stand up.
Manchester United's ferocious scramble and Scholes's goal also angered the Manchester City players, at the half-time kick-off, Ding Hongxing called the players together, said a few words, after speaking, the players yelled, only to return to their respective positions, in their eyes, you can see a raging fighting spirit burning.
It's their home stadium and they can't afford to let anyone go wild here, and they haven't lost a game in three years.
After the restart, the Manchester City team's scramble is also a lot more ferocious, and the two players on the pitch can often see the scene of the players on both sides turning their backs, in this case, Ding Hongxing, Makelele and Nedved, the three tough midfielders played a huge role, every confrontation they were hard-hitting, and soon, they had an absolute advantage in the midfield confrontation, and the two central defenders of Stam and Hyypia were also excellent opponents and strong players, and Manchester United's black wind and double evil did not take advantage of them at all, Lizarazu and Lake have their eyes firmly on David Beckham and Ryan Giggs, while Quinn has played at his highest level in the last two months, grabbing almost every high ball.
In such a situation, Manchester City gradually dominated the field, Ferguson waved his hand, simply let the team fully retract, take a defensive position, anyway, they are now leading by one goal, as long as they hold on to this one-goal advantage, they can win the game, in this situation, a win is the most important, it doesn't matter if the scene is ugly.
When utilitarianism is needed, Ferguson is also able to be utilitarian.
Although the Manchester City team has the advantage of the field and has a lot of attack, but in the face of Manchester United, who are dedicated to defense and are in quite good shape, they do not have much means to score, and can only rely on frequent long-range shots to threaten Manchester United's goal, but Schmeichel is also in quite good form today, his reaction is very agile, and he has saved Manchester City's long-range shots many times.
In this case, Manchester City also has an important means of scoring, that is, set-pieces, because they have one of the world's top set-piece players in their team, and he is Ding Hongxing.
In the fortieth minute of the first half, Seedorf, who was active in the attack, was knocked to the ground by Keane on the right side of the front of the penalty area, Manchester City won a free kick, and the Manchester United players negotiated around the referee for a long time, thinking that Keane did not foul, because they knew that for Ding Hongxing, the free kick at this distance was not much different from a penalty, and they did not want to give Manchester City this free kick, but the referee insisted on his opinion, and they could only leave under the threat of a yellow card.
Because it was on the right side, Ding Hongxing took this free kick with his left foot, and the angle of the ball he took was basically the same as the ball he took with his right foot, and the ball accurately drilled into the upper right corner of the goal.
The Maine Road Stadium suddenly boiled, Ding Hongxing really did not disappoint them, and the singing of "Red Star Shines on Maine Road" sounded again in the stands.
In the 31st minute of the second half, Manchester City won a free kick on the left side, because the angle was too far from the goal, this time Ding Hongxing did not shoot directly, but came to a cross, to the penalty area to compete for a header Stam jumped high, a powerful header rushed to the top, the ball into the top left corner of the goal.
Although Manchester United then fought back, but under the tough defense of Manchester City, their attack was all in vain, and in the end, with a goal and an assist from Ding Hongxing, Manchester City reversed their rivals Manchester United 2-1 at home and won the Manchester derby again.
With the victory, Manchester City are 15 points clear of second-placed Manchester United in the league table, and it looks like no team can beat their league title this season.
After the game, Ferguson took a deep look at Ding Hongxing, who was celebrating with his teammates, and then turned his head into the locker room.