In the end, Manchester United won 5-0 away from home in Greece. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

With this victory, as well as a narrow one-goal away win over Arsenal in the previous game, Manchester United, which was widely regarded as unfavorable before this season, has once again become the biggest favorite to win the Premier League title in the new season.

Previously, Southampton's one-goal defeat in the league was also beginning to be seen as a momentary negligence and misstep on the part of Manchester United. In terms of the odds of winning the championship by major bookmakers, Manchester United also overwhelmed old rival Arsenal for the first time in the new season and climbed to the top of the table.

Returning to the league front, Manchester United's courageous performances of beating Leicester City and Birmingham City by at least three goals in two consecutive games seem to confirm the validity of this view.

As a result, a new round of public opinion on Manchester United has become more and more popular.

However, after returning to Manchester from Greece, Li Lei, who never got a minute to play in the first team, began to gradually disappear from the public eye, and the popularity of the previous news began to decline.

This is also a natural thing, after all, Li Lei, who has only played a few good games, has not changed his impression that he is just Manchester United's firefighting goalkeeper in the eyes of the outside world. No matter how well he plays in these games, his young age cannot give the outside world a very stable and reassuring image, and at most he is regarded as the successor to the future Manchester United goalkeeper position.

Under such circumstances, when Howard, the regular goalkeeper, returned to the starting lineup and performed steadily, it was only natural that he, the "substitute" in the eyes of outsiders, began to disappear from the public.

After all, the goalkeeper is the least noticeable character on the football field, and the goalkeeper's substitute is the most unnoticed marginal role of all the substitutes.

From the previous all-England attention, to the current lack of attention, this seems to be a huge gap that almost all young players cannot accept calmly for a while.

Fortunately, Li Lei is not among them.

For him, only the money in the account is real. And those outside attention and media pursuit are all dispensable.

At the beginning, if it weren't for the media's remarks that were too hateful and chasing after him, he probably wouldn't have said a word to the media reporters.

Therefore, it is not so much about loss, but about the daily training life without strangers to disturb at this time, which is the one that makes Li Lei feel more comfortable. Apart from the fact that he was unhappy not playing in a first-team game, he had little to complain about.

In this way, without anyone disturbing him, Li Lei returned to his previous busy training routine, and conducted various training in the goalkeeper position under the leadership of Richard and Jimmy and others all day long.

At his request, goalkeeper skills other than saves, such as big feet, basic inverted feet and wall arrangement, became the main training content of his training during this period. The training effect is no longer very obvious, and the tennis training that has temporarily entered the bottleneck has been temporarily put in the back position by him.

He was well aware that his ability to save at this point would probably have ensured him to play in the first team.

At this point, what he lacks most is skills and experience other than saves. If he wants to get rid of Howard and become Manchester United's starting goalkeeper as soon as possible, what he needs most is to grow in these areas.

While he was devoting himself to the heat of training, the otherwise smooth United were in trouble after the international break.

First of all, they were the biggest upset of the Premier League when they hosted the Premier League's mid-tier team Fulham in the ninth round of the Premier League, and were cleanly beaten by the visitors with a score of 1:3.

After the game, the United team's messy performance on the pitch became the focus of media attacks, with no one from goalkeeper Howard to striker Ruud van Nistelrooy escape the criticism of reporters. Among them, Alan Hansen, who is a famous Liverpool legend, commented on the game after the game, "They are not the Manchester United players in our impression at all, in the Theatre of Dreams, they are like a herd of tame cows, allowing the Fulham players to act arbitrarily, I almost thought this was Craven Farm." ”

Such a poor performance of the team naturally did not satisfy Ferguson. At the post-match press conference, Ferguson did his best to defend his disciples, even at the cost of a verbal confrontation with a sharp-tongued Sun reporter.

But in private, the Manchester United players were criticized by Ferguson one by one because of this game, and a hair dryer was angry. Even Li Lei, who sat on the bench on the sidelines throughout the game, and the angry Scottish coach did not let go.

In this regard, no matter how wronged Li Lei felt, he could only admit it. Even he didn't dare to tease Ferguson's tiger whiskers when he was angry.

The only thing that made him feel a little regret was that Howard, who conceded three goals in this game and was by no means a good performer, was not the one who was most criticized by Ferguson.

This time, most of Ferguson's frustration was vented on the attacking line, which showed little performance throughout the game. Howard also benefited from this, and his poor performance was overshadowed by the poor performance of the whole United team.

However, this is also the norm in world football, unless the goalkeeper makes intolerable low-level mistakes, otherwise, even if the team's overall performance is bad, he will not bear the biggest blame, which is also the biggest benefit of the goalkeeper's position with the lowest exposure.

In any case, judging from Ferguson's performance after the game, he has not yet had any obvious dissatisfaction with Howard's performance. What Li Lei expects to see, the scene of Ferguson's loss of confidence in Howard, still needs to be patient.

But the world is so tricky, just when Li Lei was mentally prepared to stay on the bench for a long time, the turning point of things suddenly appeared in front of him.

Just after the home defeat to Fulham, they were on their way to Germany to play away to Bundesliga side Stuttgart, and Manchester United, who played in the second round of the group stage, suffered another unexpected defeat.

Originally, Ferguson privately hoped that Manchester United could win away at Stuttgart, so that this victory could be used to regroup and sweep away the discouragement of the previous heavy defeat to Fulham, so that the morale and form of the whole team can return to the good form before the national team break.

However, in the face of Stuttgart's backline, which has not conceded in the first 10 league games of the Bundesliga this season and was only breached in the first round of the Champions League, Manchester United's lack of attacking power that has been questioned this season has once again been exposed.

United's attacking players didn't create too many chances throughout the game, except for a penalty from Cristiano Ronaldo after Stuttgart's two-goal lead and Ruud van Nistelrooy converted the spot to save a point. Since then, however, United's frenzied comeback has never had much chance against Stuttgart's solid defence, with the score being held at 2-1 in midfield.

If the weakness of the attacking line is still within Ferguson's pre-match estimates, then the rout at the back is something that Ferguson cannot tolerate.

In the first half, the Reds' defence continued to make no mistake as both teams played cautiously and did not create many dangerous attacking chances. But from the start of the second half, when Stuttgart began to step up their attack, the poor form of United's backline was completely exposed.

Among them, Stuttgart's left wing-back Lahm has caused endless problems for Manchester United's right side defence, and even Gary Neville looked a little embarrassed in front of the youngster in this game.

At the start of the second half, it was Lahm's strong burst that almost ate Gary Neville raw and went straight into the Manchester United penalty area. In the end, if he hadn't reluctantly fallen to the ground and slid the ball to destroy the football, I'm afraid Howard's gate would have been in danger.

At the same time, Howard's unstable shortcomings, which Li Lei had expected before, were also revealed at this time. If the previous defeat to Fulham was too good for Howard to be too harsh. Then, his performance in the second half of this game was absolutely not satisfactory to Ferguson.

First, he made a mistake in the attacking corner created by Lahm, and in the end, Stuttgart centre-back Mera would have slotted home with a header from a corner from Hult had it not been for Scholes' thrilling goal-line save at the far post.

While Howard was lucky not to concede the ball due to his mistake, the mistake was just the beginning of his poor performance.

Just three minutes later, Stuttgart right-back Hinkel made a long pass in the backfield, and it was the teenager Lahm who used his strong speed and impact to eat Gary Neville raw, and he grabbed the high ball above Gary Neville's head, and successfully completed the header ferry.

At that moment, Howard, who was about to return to the middle of the goal from the near post to prevent the Stuttgart player from shooting, accidentally slipped on the goal line, allowing Sobic, who had received Lahm's header in the middle of the box, to easily finish a push in the face of the half-empty goal, and the ball slipped into the bottom left corner of the goal without any defense.

At the same time, Manchester United's defender Rio Ferdinand also collided with Stuttgart's attacking player, which directly caused him to go off injured. This made the already stormy Manchester United backline even more fragmented.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, just two minutes later, Stuttgart launched another quick counter-attack and caught the Manchester United backline off guard. A simple long pass completely penetrated the Manchester United backline.

And Howard made a big mistake again in this defense. It was his easy attack that allowed Shobic to easily create an easy chance for Kuranyi to face the empty net. An effortless push doubled the lead for Stuttgart.

Since then, United have completely lost control of the situation on the pitch. Although Ruud van Nistelrooy scored a penalty later, Manchester United, whose overall performance was sluggish, was unable to recover, and finally had to hate Daimler Stadium.

"You shit! You don't deserve a Manchester United shirt at all!! You're wearing a great Manchester United shirt!! You shit! Bastard!! On the court, you're like soft! No, even the girls will be more resistant than you!! You're not even as good as a!! ...”

In the face of such a terrible defeat, the furious Ferguson couldn't help but be furious on the flight back to Manchester, and erupted into madness.

In the end, if it weren't for the efforts of Ferran and the others to dissuade him, he was afraid that he would have been able to scold all the way back to Manchester.

But even so, the atmosphere of the whole Manchester United team has been in a quiet and low state, and there is not even a person who dares to speak loudly.

Among them, Li Lei naturally didn't say a word with a cold face. Although the poor performance of Howard, which he had been waiting for, finally appeared, as a Manchester United player, he could not be happy at this time.

It's just that he thinks like this, but it doesn't mean that Howard thinks like too.

The American, who had performed badly in this game, was particularly uneasy and frightened at the moment, and he couldn't help but shudder every time Ferguson's cold gaze swept over him, and then the image of Li Lei proudly replacing him as Manchester United's starting goalkeeper began to appear in his mind.

Such a picture filled his heart with dark jealousy and resentment.

In such a distorted psychological state, for a while, he forgot about his bad performance, and concentrated all his grievances and dissatisfaction on Li Lei, who watched with a cold face and didn't say a word.

This damn Asian kid must be very proud in his heart now, this damn villain! Bastard!! No, I can't lose to him, the position of Manchester United's main goalkeeper is mine! No one can snatch it away!! Looking at Li Lei's cold expression, he thought so cleverly.

With such thoughts, when the whole Manchester United team was disbanded and went home, he alone blocked Li Lei, who was about to leave.

Looking at Howard, whose face was distorted to a little hideous in front of him, Li Lei didn't say anything, didn't do anything, just looked at him with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and looked at him with contempt.

And this made Howard think that Li Lei was gloating, Li Lei didn't show it before, he was just forbearing.

"Not too proud, yellow-skinned monkey! You won't stand a chance! I promise!! ”

Howard's face was fierce and he let out cruel words, but Li Lei still didn't say anything, sneered, and looked at him with contempt.

The way he looked made Howard's anger even worse. But he didn't dare to say anything, he didn't dare to do anything, Li Lei singled out Carol's amazing combat power, and he didn't know it.

In the end, he just glared at Li Lei angrily, and after snorting coldly, he turned around and left.

Looking at his back, Li Lei's eyes flashed with cold light.

It's like a sharp sword, about to be unsheathed!

It's going to kill!!