Chapter 12: A strong rebound

The loss of the best player has also caused the European media to report wildly, with mixed reviews.

The Spanish media cheered.

"World Sports" - finally no longer aesthetic fatigue, I'm tired of reading it all these years. Although Dong did not take away this award every year, it was really too many times, five times in ten years, this is not to give others a way to live.

"As" newspaper - Losing the best in Europe, Dong is stepping down from the altar, and Messi will compete with Ronaldo.

Italy's Milan Sport newspaper is worried about Dong Fangzhuo - it can be seen from this award that Dong may encounter more difficulties in the future. With the rise of Chelsea and Manchester City, he struggled to stand alone at Manchester United.

English newspapers are more objective, "The Times" said - from the perspective of the whole season, there is no problem with the best in Europe to Ronaldo, after all, Dong has only played for half a season, Dong is not unhappy, looking at him hugging Ronaldo, I don't know how happy he is.

The Daily Mail shouted that when Liverpool will have the best in Europe is when Liverpool will rise again.

The Manchester Evening News provoked a war – King Dong is furious, and after losing the best in Europe, Manchester United will wake up to a massacre at home this weekend, so let's wait and see! And the equally lost Messi will definitely burst out of the small universe!

The two people who did not win the award were interviewed by the Manchester Evening News one after another, Messi first congratulated Ronaldo, and then said that this year's competition has just begun, and the Ballon d'Or is the most important award.

Dong Fangzhuo's words are less, there is no taste of competition, he said: "There is no problem with Ronaldo winning the award, and the same is true for Messi, there is no problem for any of the three of us to win the award." ”

He doesn't care if he wins the prize anymore.

On Thursday morning, Ferguson brought former centre-back Rio Ferdinand back to the Carrington training ground and gave him a job teaching Marcos Rojo how to play at centre-back and how to defend.

In addition to Ferdinand, Gary Neville is also back.

If he could, Ferguson wanted to bring back all of United's top defenders......

It's embarrassing, but who told Rojo that they behaved so badly. Ferguson also has no way, he has been practicing defense for the past two days, but in a short period of time, Manchester United's defense will not be so easy to solve.

During the training break, Rio Ferdinand and Neville got together.

Both men have criticised United's defence last week and are now talking again.

"Too bad."

"I can't see it."

Anyway, with Dong Fangzhuo by his side, they are not taboo.

"In our time, can this kind of defender play in the big clubs? Gary, I'll be honest, at their level, they are staying in the middle and lower level of the club. ”

"Well, well, I can understand your thoughts." Neville nodded, agreeing with Ferdinand's point.

'If it weren't for our fitness, we would have played better than them on our comebacks and we would have only played 45 minutes.

'No, no, no, that's you, I can play 90 minutes because I'm a centre-back. These guys are completely blown out by the media, and they simply don't have such a high value. ”

In their eyes, Rojo is worthless, and he was not worthy of a wealthy family before.

Dong Fangzhuo didn't speak, and after listening to them beep for a few minutes, he spoke:

"I couldn't agree more."

"In fact, there is a shortage of top central defenders in Europe right now, and there are not so many top central defenders, so we can only rely on hype. And the price is noisy. ”

"A lot of players are really just trained professionally and then they become professionals. A lot of the attributes are actually terrible, the awareness, the positioning is ridiculously bad, in fact, the same is true for many strikers. Believe me, since you have retired, the quality of the centre-backs has been getting worse and worse. ”

"Reasonable."

"There are fewer and fewer players with characteristics in international football."

The old guys always like to point fingers at the juniors, and always think that their backs are inferior to them.

However, they also have such strength, unless the juniors can reach their heights. It's like Maradona can jump out and comment on anyone, but no one dares to say that he isn't.

It wasn't until Maradona met Dong Fangzhuo that he was questioned more and more, but it was only relative to Dong Fangzhuo.

In the past two days, Rojo and Jones have been scolded by Ferdinand, and even scolded very badly.

such as

"The dogs are better guarded than you."

"See what the media has to say about you? I'm embarrassed to look at it! ”

"This level of defense can go to Stoke City to be a gangster!"

Isn't Stoke City the weekend's opponent? Ferdinand struck purposefully. If they concede even a goal against Stoke City at the weekend, they won't be able to see anyone.

Hit!

Rio Ferdinand has been attacking them, and then instilling them with new defensive concepts, and even more tragically, it is Dong Fangzhuo who has trained them in actual combat......

Destroyed by the opponent and still confident, destroyed by Dong Fangzhuo? They really wonder if they're a defender at all.

But when they made progress, Dong Fangzhuo still comforted them.

"The defense has been good these few times, and there has been improvement. At least for someone else, the success rate is 80 percent. ”

But he quickly changed his words, "What about when you face Messi or Ronaldo? ”

"Against Messi, at least half of it could be passed by him."

"In the face of Messi, it is estimated that he has already shot with his feet."

"So, you train every day, you always think about the best players in the world, not the ordinary guys, if you can't even keep the ordinary guys, what's the point at Manchester United?"

Dong Fangzhuo put forward higher requirements for them.

In front of the best players in the world, the only way to prove them is action.

Luckily, the opponents are not strong Stoke City.

However, the spinach company specially opened the odds for Manchester United's broken defense, specifically for whether Manchester United will concede the ball, and the odds are quite high.

As a result, a lot of people bought Manchester United and conceded goals, so it can be said that Rojo has now become a joke among the fans.

Ferguson also used that before the game to stimulate them.

Outcome?

Manchester United's defence has finally risen again.

From the first minute to the 90th minute, they kept a clean sheet and Manchester United also won 4-0.

Just as the fans who bought the lottery tickets were happily hoping that the game would end like this, in the last minute of stoppage time, the opposing striker tripped Rojo in the box, and Manchester United were awarded a penalty!

The score was finally fixed at 4:1, and the United defense still conceded the goal.

The fans are crying......

However, Ferguson praised the backline after the game, believing that the team's defense has improved a lot.

He also recognized a problem, perhaps, this is not a problem of ability, as Dong Fangzhuo said, a problem of attitude?