42. Ferguson was not happy

After six rounds of Premier League fixtures, United have five wins and one defeat and 15 points, which looks like a good start. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But Ferguson was not at all satisfied.

Because in the standings just announced, his team is only in second place.

At the top of the table is neither Ferguson's 16-year-old rival Arsene Wenger, nor Manchester United's city neighbor and defending champions Manchester City, nor their arch-rivals Liverpool, who are in 15th place with just five points from six games, but Chelsea, who finished runners-up in the Champions League last season.

Roberto Di Matteo is unbeaten in the league with five wins and one draw with a group of players who have been disappointed in the Champions League, beating Manchester United by one point, which slightly surprised everyone.

Perhaps it was because they did not have European assignments, allowing them to concentrate on attacking the league; Perhaps it was the Champions League final defeat that left them breathless, or perhaps it was the new arrivals that brought a new vibe, or perhaps it was Di Matteo's tactics that worked particularly well as the Blues played the opposite of last season's first half of the season.

Of course, a one-point gap is nothing for a 38-game league game, and what really displeased Ferguson is the team's backline.

Compared to Chelsea, who have kept four clean sheets and conceded just three goals, United have kept just one clean sheet in six league games, and 10 goals are also the most of any team in the top 10 - you know, last season United only conceded 33 in 38 games, an average of 0.86 per game, and now an average of 1.67 per game, almost double last year!

And in these games, almost every game Manchester United was the first to concede the goal, and even after being poured two goals in a row, it suddenly came to its senses and launched a counterattack. Although a large part of this is due to the fact that the main defender and captain of the team Vidic has been recovering from injury, and Rio Ferdinand has just returned for two games, as the head coach of the big team and the founder of the 20-year Red Devils empire, such an amateur defensive level is absolutely unbearable for Ferguson.

So there was such a scene in Manchester United's internal training match: opposite Ferdinand, Evra, Rafael, Evans and other defensive players, there were Van Persie, Qin Goode, Valencia, Rooney and other main attackers.

"If any of you show mercy, I wouldn't mind keeping him in Manchester after three days," Ferguson said in just one sentence, "even if he's a 30-year veteran or the new king of Old Trafford!" ”

Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Chind Gurban shrugged their shoulders before proceeding to ravage Rio Ferdinand's backline.

The first two are not bad, their age cannot guarantee that they can start every game and play the full 90 minutes, but Qin Goode is different.

In the Champions League group stage three days later, he doesn't want to be left out of the starting squad because he is "too lazy in training" as the Champions League Golden Boot!

There was no immediate way to improve the team's defence, and on the evening of 2 October, United conceded again at the 25,000-capacity Dr. Constantin Ledurescu Stadium in Romania.

Less than 10 minutes into the game, Cluj's Greek striker Pantellis Capettanos blasted open the door with his own header!

Ferguson's fair face suddenly became extremely ugly.

It was an unremarkable slow push from Cluj, with United's defensive formation intact, but Evans was knocked out of position too easily and was the direct cause of the goal conceded, and in such a situation, Rio Ferdinand had no chance to fill in even if he wanted to.

This isn't the first time Evans has made a mistake, but Ferguson has no replacement – Michael Carrick has proven that midfield is the best position for him, while young Chris Smalling and Phil Jones are even less reliable than Evans.

De Gea, who finally got the chance to play, hated Evans even more, but he was also helpless, and Lindegaard's hatred for Evans on the bench finally eased a little.

The Cluj team who took the lead did not get carried away and knew that they were facing not Romanian cats and dogs, but the Premier League giants, and that United's most expensive player was worth more than their entire squad combined.

So they immediately shrunk and almost switched their lineup to 9-0-1, leaving only one quicker winger to counter-attack......

Then it was time for United to practice their shots.

Qin Goode warmed up with two long-range shots, each of which posed a big threat to the opposing goalkeeper, so Cluj's midfielder had to move closer to him to stop his possession, so Rooney, who retreated to respond, got more chances.

In the 24th minute, Rooney used an accurate through ball to help Van Persie, who was at the front, score a goal, and after joining Manchester United, General Van Da, who can score almost every game, was more active, and the Cluj team had to send someone to keep an eye on Van Persie and Rooney.

So Qin Good, who got a little vacancy, did not hesitate to score a goal after passing two people in a row.

Maybe the Cluj team can guard against one person, but it is impossible to stare Qin Goode, Van Persie, Rooney, Hernandez, Valencia all these people to death, Van Persie scored twice, Hernandez also picked up the leaks, and the Cluj defense is full of flaws, even if they pose as a defender, they have been stabbed full of holes by Manchester United's sharp blade.

At the end of the game, Ferguson left Romania with three points and a 4-1 victory: he was happy with the score and the result, but not with the poor performance of his team in the first 15 minutes after the opening kick-off.

Back at Carrington, the defenders know they're going to hell again......

When it comes to midweek cup games, Chingud tends to be very busy and time flies very quickly – because he has at least two days to spend on a plane with the team.

With more game tasks, there is naturally less time to enjoy leisure, and even the time to call family and Ether is reduced a lot - this is the price of choosing the Premier League.

If you stay in the Bundesliga, there are only 34 rounds of the league, and there is only one domestic cup competition, the German Cup, and the schedule is much shorter, in addition to a winter break of more than half a month, the pressure and excitement are much less, and of course the money is much less.

Now Qin Good, with a maximum salary of more than 250,000 pounds in the Premier League (counting the annual salary of more than 15 million pounds in various bonuses, equivalent to about 20 million euros, if you add the potential rewards of sponsors, this figure will reach a higher level), at least three or four times more than the income when he just joined Dortmund, and the sweat paid is certainly impossible to reduce.

――Of course, the current Qin Gude does not need to rely on the club's salary to eat, only the endorsement fees of Mercedes-Benz and Tencent have exceeded his salary for playing football, not to mention that Krot and Li Lei are also providing him with more big-name endorsement contracts.

But no matter how much money he attracts off the field, the salary provided by the club is the most direct reflection of the player's value and status, and Qin Goode is not a charity, he plays for Manchester United and fights for the championship, and Manchester United provides him with the salary and treatment he deserves.

Every penny he took was worthy of his performance.

On the third day after returning to England from Romania, Chingud travelled to Newcastle with the squad for a seventh-round league match against Alan Shearer's former club.

He would love to be able to play the old face of the Magpie who claimed that "it would be good for a Chinese kid to score 20 goals in a season". (To be continued.) )