Chapter 44: The Cruelest Competition in History

It was a little late, but it finally came.

Dong Fangzhuo was not excited, it was a little heavy anyway.

It's like knowing when you're going to die, you can't be happy.

The moment he received the fax, he thought about how to save the Chinese team.

It's been a long time, 14 years ago.

He was not in the team at the time and he was not qualified to play for the national team.

I don't have any deep memories of that game.

Just remember the final result, the Chinese team lost 0:1 to Kuwait.

Then in the final round of the group stage, the Chinese team defeated HK 7:0, but also failed to qualify from the group stage.

Kuwait beat Malaysia 6-1 at home.

With the same points and the same goal difference between the Chinese team and Kuwait, Kuwait overwhelmed the Chinese team by virtue of the goal advantage to advance, and the Chinese team ranked second in the group and was eliminated from the top ten, and the national football team won but was out.

This is the most cowardly and ironic victory in the history of the national football team in the world preliminaries.

In Dong Fangzhuo's view, the last two games of the group stage were match-fixing, of course, he never said this in front of the media, but everyone who watched the game that year should know it very well.

Regardless of whether the process is true or not,

You have left your fate to someone else, and in the end you can only let others ravage you, and you can't resist at all.

What a tragedy!

Dong Fangzhuo wanted to save the Chinese team, but that was almost impossible.

After all, the power of one person is limited and not enough to change a game.

The overall strength of the team is like that, Kuwait is not worse than the Chinese team, and after 04 years, the football level of the Chinese team is getting worse and worse.

If it weren't for the fact that he scored several goals for Manchester United after his rebirth, Alihan would not have looked at him squarely.

If he were still in Antwerp, the doors of the national team would not have been open to him.

Will Alihan give himself a starting spot?

He had to think about it.

Alas!

No matter.

Every player who is called up can only try to play the game as best he can,

As for how it turned out, I really can't control it.

It's useless to think too much, let's play Middlesbrough with peace of mind.

Dong Fangzhuo shook his head, he found that he was thinking too much......

The national team is a headache, but in fact, there are various crises lurking in the club.

With Wayne Rooney scoring a hat-trick in his opening game for Manchester United, the competition for Manchester United's forward line became brutal, arguably the most brutal in history.

The return of Ryan Giggs means that Smith will give up his position at left midfield and return to the front line.

So the United front line is all in place.

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Wayne Rooney, Dong Fangzhuo, Smith, Saha, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the first team's six strikers are all in good shape, without any injuries, and have all appeared in recent training.

Berrion, who was originally a striker, was changed to a midfield substitute by Ferguson, which shows how bloated Manchester United's forward competition is now.

Of the six strikers, at most two main players are on the field, two are on the bench, and two are not even in the squad and can only stay in Manchester to watch the game.

The reality is so cruel!

So everyone on the front line doesn't dare to slack off, once they don't perform well in training, first of all, they can't even enter the squad, let alone be able to sit on the bench.

Whether or not he can be in the starting line-up depends on the state of the game, and Ferguson is not as unavailable as he was at the start of the season, he has too many options now.

Wayne Rooney, who scored a hat-trick in his first game for Manchester United, will certainly secure a starting spot, with Ferguson not leaving an in-form Rooney on the bench and should play more.

From the beginning of the purchase of Wayne Rooney, Ferguson has cultivated Rooney as the core of Manchester United's forward line for the next decade.

As for the other starting spot, I don't know who Ferguson will send on the field, although Vanney's recent form has been a little sluggish, but the role he played in the game is incomparable to Dong Fangzhuo, the king of the penalty area is always the king of the penalty area.

What's more, the appearance of Rooney made Vanney no longer lazy, obviously, he felt that the position was impacted and threatened, so his attitude in training also became very correct.

Then there's Saha, who has been on the bench for two games in a row and has been pretty vigorous in training lately.

Rooney's appearance really stimulated everyone in the front line.

Of course, it also includes Dong Fangzhuo.

He still has to face a brutal round of forward competition before returning home.

Manchester United's two-striker tactic requires a player who can grab the ball in the box and a player who can take the ball in and out of the box.

According to this scenario, the most suitable combination would be a combination of Wayne Rooney and Ruud van Nistelrooy, or Rooney and Saha, or Rooney and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Such a combination performs very well in training, and among so many strikers, Rooney is a guy who can pass and shoot, and the impact is still very strong!

Before Rooney came, Dong Fangzhuo was only compared to Smith, because Dong Fangzhuo's running awareness and diligence made up for some shortcomings, and he didn't see anything.

But with the emergence of Rooney, such a contrast is easy to come out.

Ferguson tried several striker combinations in training, but ultimately decided that Rooney was the best to have Ruud Rooney at the core, with Ruud van Nistelrooy or Saha at his side.

So

soon

Dong Fangzhuo was squeezed into the bench lineup.

It's not that Ferguson prefers Wayne Rooney and Ruud van Nistelrooy, he just looks at the most reasonable allocation of resources for the team from a purely tactical point of view, and gives full play to the team's potential.

Even if it were for other coaches or fans to choose, they would probably choose it that way.

Dong Fangzhuo can't blame Ferguson.

Who told him that he had no advantage in technical characteristics at all?

He now has a very narrow advantage, and the goal he earned with diligence and hard work was crushed by Wayne Rooney in one game.

Talent is so important.

If you're a manager, would you rather use a player with so much talent who can score a hat-trick as soon as he gets on the pitch, who can pass and shoot, or would you rather use a player who works hard to get a pie or two?

If you can only choose one of them,

so

The answer is obvious.

Therefore, in the next away game against Middlesbrough, Dong Fangzhuo sat on the bench.

Sitting on the bench with him was Saha.

As for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Smith? They didn't even go to the bench.

Cruel, right?

The lord actually likes Dong Fangzhuo very much, at least he saw Dong Fangzhuo's contribution in the previous game, and did not leave him in Manchester City......