Chapter 306: More than half of the league
At eight o'clock in the evening on December 14, in the sixteenth round of the Premier League, Manchester United challenged Crystal Palace away.
There wasn't much suspense in the game, Manchester United won 3-1, and Shen Peng contributed a goal.
The tempo of the game was under the control of United throughout the game, with Palace only pulling back a goal in the closing stages.
After this round of matches, the situation in the Premier League is gradually becoming clear.
Chelsea and Manchester United lead the way, with 40 points and 37 points respectively, Arsenal, who was originally third, fell to fourth because they lost, and now Liverpool is third with 34 points, and Tottenham Hotspur in sixth has 30 points, so in addition to Chelsea Manchester United, the gap between third and sixth is very small.
The seventh West Bromwich Albion is only twenty-three, and there is a seven-point gap with the sixth Tottenham, so as long as the first six teams play steadily in the following games, then the top six are basically no suspense, and the remaining teams are only competing for seventh place, although the seventh place in the Premier League does not have any effect, but the money allocated is always more.
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At half past five in the afternoon of December 17, in the seventeenth round of the English Premier League, Manchester United challenged West Bromwich Albion away.
Although the opponent is currently seventh in the league, Manchester United are on fire, completing a 5-0 slaughter, Shen Peng scored his first hat-trick in the Premier League in this game, and he also has an assist, all four goals of this game are related to him.
So far, he has four more goals than Kane in the scorer list, and it is no surprise that he has to win the Premier League Golden Boot this year.
Now, the only suspense is how many goals Shen Peng can score.
Since the Premier League was founded in 1992, the record for the highest individual goals in a single season is 34 goals, which were Andy in the 93-94 season. Kerr and Allan in '94-95? Created by Shearer.
Shen Peng has now scored nineteen goals in seventeen games, and according to this efficiency, Shen Peng's goals will reach forty by the end of the league!
Many people sighed that Manchester United really picked up a treasure this time, no, it was a treasure.
As long as you know a little bit about football, you know Shen Peng's role in Manchester United now, in addition to scoring goals, Shen Peng has nine assists this season; In addition to these twenty-eight goals directly related to him, Shen Peng's pressure on the opponent's defense line is also visible to many people, so on the whole, Manchester United's transfer fee of nearly 300 million has not suffered at all.
There is even a famous comment: Manchester United bought a Shen Peng, which is equivalent to buying an attack line, and Manchester United is now like playing eleven opponents with thirteen people.
In other words, Shen Peng alone is equivalent to three people......
Some people even directly said that this year's Premier League champion is none other than Manchester United, although Manchester United is still three points less than Chelsea, but the pressure is all on Chelsea, just like when running a long distance, running the second is more labor-saving than the first.
Moreover, now Manchester United seems to have opened up like Chelsea when they first changed formations, and their attacking power has suddenly risen......
Just when everyone was talking about Shen Peng, on the other side of the French league, they had just finished their schedule in the first half of the season.
Originally, the attention of Ligue 1 was much lower than that of the Premier League, but people were surprised to find that after half a season, the person on the Ligue 1 scorer list was Mbappe!
Mbappe has scored fifteen goals in nineteen league appearances for Paris Saint-Germain this season!
This naturally reminds people of the season when Shen Peng and Mbappe were both in Dortmund, it was the two of them who helped Dortmund complete the treble, and now although the two of them belong to different leagues and different teams, they dominate the scorer list of their respective leagues.
This makes people wonder if the two of them are still on the same team now, with their tacit cooperation, coupled with the terrifying strength of the two now, which team in the whole of Europe can stop it?
However, this is basically unlikely, after Manchester United this summer, now the age of the two is matched with the strength, the transfer fee is estimated to be sky-high, no matter which team wants to buy both at the same time...... It is estimated that at least a team of Real Madrid and Barcelona will be able to sell at least most of the main players in the team...... So objectively, it is almost impossible for the two to be on the same team anymore.
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At 3pm on December 26, when the rest of the league was on holiday, Manchester United's players ushered in their 18th round of Premier League fixtures just after Christmas, away to Sunderland.
Manchester United still won the game 3-0, but Shen Peng did not score.
It's not that Shen Peng's state is a problem, but Sunderland's defense is very extreme and doesn't give Shen Peng the slightest chance, but in this way, the defense of the other two sides is full of flaws, Ibrahimovic also scored a brace, and Pogba also scored a goal.
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On December 31, in the 19th round of the Premier League, which is the last round of the first half of the season, Manchester United hosted Middlesbrough.
The 2-0 win in the game was a relief to everyone, as United have led their opponents by at least three goals in every game since the 14th round of the game, which has suffocated all Premier League teams.
The good thing is that Manchester United have finally put an end to that momentum, otherwise the other Premier League teams really don't know how to deal with it.
However, Manchester United only scored two goals in this game, but they were in control of the game, and if Middlesbrough made a little more mistake, the score could be changed again.
Half a season is over, the Premier League's standings are still the same as before, the top three are Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool, respectively, 49, 46, 43, and 456 are Tottenham, Arsenal, Manchester City, 39, 39, 37 points; Further back, there is West Bromwich Albion in seventh, with 26 points, which is a notch behind the previous one.
Although Liverpool is still in third place, people know that when they face weak teams later, they will send warmth sooner or later, so the final title drama still depends on Manchester United and Chelsea.
At the end of half a season, Shen Peng's goals reached just twenty.
That's a number for many teams' top scorers who may not be able to complete a season.
Many media compare Shen Peng's data with Mbappe's data, and in all aspects, Shen Peng is better than Mbappe, but many people also propose that Shen Peng is two or three years older than Mbappe, so Mbappe's future achievements will definitely be higher than Shen Peng, and maybe he will break many records created by Shen Peng.
In this regard, many people who support Shen Peng are not happy: Do you have the ability to let Mbappe come to the Premier League to try?