Chapter 0155 - Selected for the Team of the Season
Marcus Rashford's inclusion in the PFA's two Best Six shortlist has not yet passed, and another decision made by the PFA has once again caused a stir in English football.
In the early morning of April 22, local time, the English Professional Players Union (PFA) announced the 2015-16 Premier League Team of the Year, Leicester City has four players this season, followed by Tottenham Hotspur also has three selections, and the two teams are also the biggest favorites for the Premier League title this season.
According to statistics, a total of 8 grassroots players were shortlisted for this year's PFA Best Team; In terms of the big clubs, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City did not make the cut, with only Manchester United's David De Gea and Marcus Rashford, and Arsenal full-back Bellerin saving some face for the big five.
It is worth mentioning that this season's Premier League assist king Mesut Ozil and Manchester City's leading goalscorer Sergio Aguero were both selected and became the biggest controversy.
In the end, the PFA team of the year was the 433 formation, the goalkeeper was David De Gea from Manchester United, and the back line was Bellerin from Arsenal, Morgan from Leicester City, Alderweireld and Danny Rose from Tottenham; The midfield trio are Leicester City's midfield core Mahrez and N'Golo Kante, West Ham's brain Payet; As for the striker, they are Manchester United's striker Marcus Rashford, Tottenham's leading goalscorer Harry Kane and Leicester City's striker Jamie Vardy.
In this line-up, Marcus Rashford has been placed on the left wing, perhaps because of the fact that the front three are so good that it would be a matter of great controversy to remove them.
In fact, in the game, Rashford will often pull the side and complete the switch with Anthony Martial, which is also an important reason why the English professional players' union put Rashford in the left winger position.
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The release of this best team, in addition to bringing more controversy to Rashford, also brought him a lot of benefits: the football emperor star system rewarded him with 20 attribute points and 10 skill points, which is equivalent to completing a five-star difficulty task.
After receiving these rewards, Rashford did not hesitate to use 20 attribute points to improve his heading ability to 79/79, and the remaining 3 attribute points were temporarily accumulated by him.
As soon as Marcus Rashford scores a goal against Crystal Palace in the next game, he can improve his header to 80/80, and then he can plan to improve his other abilities.
As for the newly obtained 10 skill points, plus the remaining 3 skill points before, Rashford has accumulated another 13 skill points, and he will naturally not continue to keep them.
In the end, after thinking about it for a while, he spent 9 skill points to increase the passing skill Croquette to level 5, and used the remaining 4 skill points to increase the heavy artillery laser skill to the maximum level.
In this way, Rashford not only has a stronger long-range shooting ability, but even the ability to break through people is also greatly improved, and the level 5 croquettes are definitely a sharp weapon for passing people in a small area.
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In the midst of all the disturbances, the time came at 8 o'clock in the evening on April 20, and the 30th round of the Premier League Manchester United vs. Crystal Palace rematch started at Old Trafford.
The focus of this game is naturally Rashford, who has caused heated discussions in the major media and the Internet in the past two days.
Marcus Rashford was named to both the 2015/16 PFA Player of the Year Six and PFA Young Player Six squad released on Monday, making him one of two shortlisted players at the same time, the other being Tottenham's leading goalscorer Harry Kane.
Many believe that this match is the litmus test of whether Rashford is worthy of the two best nominees.
If Rashford continues to perform well, his inclusion in the top two nominees will be much less controversial. But once he can't continue his previous performance, I'm afraid the criticism will only increase.
Many people think that Manchester United is taking a bad move to put this young kid in these two lists, and they are putting this kid on the fire.
If Manchester United really love Rashford, what they should do at this time is to keep a low profile and let him be as little disturbed by the media as possible.
However, the media didn't know that Rashford scoffed at their statements, the so-called pressure from the outside world had no effect on him at all, and what he valued was things that could improve his current strength, such as attribute points and skill points!
So, even if his best team is the result of Manchester United's operation, it can bring him attribute points and skill points, and that's good.
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The two teams have met 47 times, with Manchester United winning 30, drawing 10 and losing 7, while Manchester United have 23 wins, 8 draws and 6 defeats in the league. Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 15 league games against Crystal Palace with 12 wins and three draws, and have won all of their last eight league games at home against Crystal Palace, whose last league defeat was in the old First Division in 1991.
Manchester United Michael Carrick continued to play, Schneiderlin, Juan Mata and Wayne Rooney played in the middle of midfield, Anthony Martial returned to the starting line-up, and Marcus Rashford remained a lone arrow.
Crystal Palace made seven changes to last weekend's game against Arsenal, with the likes of Bolassi, Ward and Dane missing.
It wasn't Marcus Rashford who was the first to take the lead from the start of the game, and while he looked very positive in the game, it was Italian Darmian who shone brightly in the early minutes, creating an own goal to help United break the deadlock early.
In the 4th minute of the game, Darmian crossed from the left, and Delaney kicked the ball into his own goal, giving Manchester United a 1-0 lead.
Delany Delany shouldn't have been an own goal because there are no United players within 5 metres of him.
Subsequently, Crystal Palace goalkeeper Speroni became the best man of the game.
In the 8th minute of the game, Juan Mata fired a left-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area, which Speroni saved.
In the 11th minute, Juan Mata crossed from the right and Jesse Lingard did it back, but Rashford's shot from the edge of the box was blocked.
In the 22nd minute, Marcus Rashford passed the ball and Anthony Martial cut inside on the left flank and fired a right-footed shot from 14 yards out, which Speroni saved.
In the 25th minute, Anthony Martial passed the ball and Rooney's long-range shot was saved by the goalkeeper.
In the space of less than 20 minutes, Speroni had saved four of United's must-have goals, not least of which was the volley from outside the box that Marcus Rashford, which he saved in the 11th minute, left Old Trafford silent for a short time.
Originally, when Lingard returned the ball to Rashford, the moment Rashford got up, he thought that he must have scored this goal, but he didn't expect Speroni to play superbly, and lifted his inevitable and powerful long-range shot over the crossbar, avoiding the fate of Crystal Palace falling behind by two goals in less than ten minutes of the game. I want to talk about "The British Emperor" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~