Chapter 231: Edwin van der Sar
However, no matter how much Li Lei is obsessed with the wonderful feeling of improving and improving in training, his training time will have to be controlled for the next week.
Because in the coming week, Manchester United will have a terrifying schedule of almost three games in a week. The FA Cup, the league and the league fixtures that have been postponed due to their participation in the Carabao Cup final add up to a busy fixture schedule for Manchester United in the coming week.
In such a situation, even if Li Lei himself felt physically strong and wanted to continue to train a lot, Ferguson would force him to rest. The old coach didn't want to get the news of Li Lei's injury in training at this time, in that case, he would really go crazy. It is no exaggeration to say that the current Manchester United defense is indispensable to Li Lei.
After the game against Manchester City, Ferguson was convinced.
After being eliminated by Porto in the Champions League, Manchester United and Ferguson only have the Premier League and the FA Cup in front of them. Although the former is almost impossible to win the championship, considering that Manchester United has now fallen to the third place in the standings, completely opened by the predicament of Arsenal and Chelsea in front, and does not want to fall to the fourth, before the start of next season, Ferguson and Manchester United, who have to play a Champions League qualifying match to enter the Champions League, will naturally have the priority of consolidating their current third position in the standings and not letting Liverpool behind them have any chance to get close.
The latter is the only trophy that Ferguson and Manchester United can aim for at the moment, and there is still hope of winning the rest of the season. An FA Cup may not be very attractive to a top club like Manchester United, but given where United have been so far this season, another FA Cup is better than just one more League Cup title over the course of a season.
Anyway, it's more or less a top-level trophy and the taste of the title is always appealing, and Ferguson and Manchester United are no exception.
So, with all of the above in mind, Ferguson publicly announced his goal in team training before Wednesday's fixture, which is to win all three games.
Playing three games in a week and winning every game is not an easy task for any team, let alone a United team that is in a rebuilding period and is in a slump.
Physically and mentally, it's a huge test for the whole team. For these three games, they must all start, and they must play the whole game, unlike Keane, Giggs and others, who have rotation breaks, and Li Lei, even more so.
Fortunately, it is not without good news for Li Lei and Manchester United. At the very least, none of the opponents scheduled for these three games are strong opponents.
First, Manchester United will host Wednesday's first opponent in the 39th round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur from north London. Although Tottenham is known to fans around the world for its fierce rivalry with Premier League giants Arsenal and the world-famous north London derby, it is a traditional powerhouse with a long history and reputation in England.
In particular, its tradition of attacking football has made it attract countless fans in England, and in terms of the number of fans in England alone, it is not inferior to Arsenal, which has become the representative of smooth and gorgeous attacking football after Wenger took over.
But it is such a traditional powerhouse in England that has fallen into a slump in recent years. In the previous two years, after Tottenham legend Childcare Hoddle became the manager, the results had improved slightly, but this season, just after six rounds of the Premier League, the Spurs legend with a tough personality and poor communication with the team was dismissed by the club, and Tottenham began to fall into turmoil this season. As a result, the results naturally could not be stabilized, and they have not slowed down so far, and they have completely fallen to the level of the middle and lower class of the Premier League.
Therefore, facing such a volatile and sluggish Tottenham Hotspur at home is not a difficult game for Manchester United. Before the game, there was almost unanimous belief that Manchester United would easily win Tottenham at home, and the final result was exactly that.
3:0, Manchester United won the game easily at home without blood. The whole game was completely under the control of Manchester United, and Tottenham had no power to resist at all. No, rather, the Tottenham players on the pitch were completely extinguished after Manchester United scored by Ryan Giggs in the opening three minutes, and there was no thought of resisting at all.
Such an opponent with no fighting spirit must be inherently aggressive, and he likes to scare the eyes of Li Lei, who is a strong enemy. But from another point of view, if it weren't for such a sluggish and unmotivated Tottenham, Li Lei probably wouldn't have spent such a quiet 90 minutes, but he saved a lot of effort, although he didn't like this situation very much.
However, after a whole game, Tottenham Hotspur did not have people who did not shine in his eyes, such as the leading striker in the Tottenham team, Irish goalscorer Robbie Keane. Tottenham had only three shots on target in the whole game, and only allowed Li Lei to make three saves, and this was all made by Robbie Keane alone.
The Irish striker's passionate passion and indomitable fighting spirit in the game even made Li Lei wonder if it was a person named Keane, who was so hard and so difficult to do.
The scene that impressed him the most about Keane occurred in the 75th minute of the second half, when Manchester United had already taken a three-goal lead and sealed the victory, and the players on both sides also put down their fighting spirit early, and they began to regain their strength and kick the health Tai Chi ball. But this Robbie Keane is the only exception, and he still pushes around the Manchester United back line and refuses to give up the game.
At this time, in the face of Brown's pass back to Li Lei, he grabbed the ball like a mad dog unless Li Lei made a low-level mistake, he would never have been able to get the ball. Even when Li Lei had already attacked in advance and came to the ball several steps in advance, he did not give up and fell directly to the ground, a big sliding shovel, sliding quickly on the grass and rushing towards Li Lei, who was about to open his big feet.
Of course, in the end, he certainly didn't manage to break the ball. When Li Lei finished kicking big, he even had enough leisure time to jump up, dodging the speeding shovel and losing control.
In the eyes of some people, this may be a stupid behavior that knows that it is impossible and still consumes energy to fight, but in Li Lei's eyes, this Robbie Keane is a real fighter and man worthy of his admiration.
So much so that in the 82nd minute of the second half, when he saw Robbie Keane sweating profusely and panting, Li Lei took the initiative to hand him his water bottle and let him take a few sips.
After this scene was captured by the camera, I don't know how many people immediately exclaimed, is this still the bad boy who is hateful and insidious in their impression, as long as it is an opponent, he will be scared? Isn't this a "damaged" image?
However, Li Lei is a person who cares what others think of him.
Moreover, this is also at this time Manchester United has locked the win, otherwise, if the victory or defeat is not scored, it is a fierce situation, how can he be so polite to Robbie Keane, and he will naturally not hesitate to scold him. Only when his side is assured of victory and the other party is no longer a threat will he show his rare friendly side to the opponent he considers to be tough.
Otherwise, what is respectable or not, as long as it is an opponent, in Li Lei's code of conduct, there is only this sentence to die.
But, in short, no matter what, Li Lei is a rare appearance of his friendly face in front of the public, and it is rare that after a game, he won the favor of the opposing player, Robbie Keane, and left a good impression, instead of the same hostility and hatred as before, and had a happy ending.
It's just that in terms of process, it is something that Li Lei, who is aggressive by nature, doesn't like.
Fortunately, there is only one such game in these three games. In the next FA Cup and league rematch matches, Manchester United will face Fulham in two consecutive home and away games, although not as famous as Tottenham, but in terms of strength and performance alone, it is much better than Tottenham this season, and it is also firmly in the upper middle of the Premier League table so far.
Against such an opposition, unless Manchester United are unexpectedly good and lucky enough to be in good shape that day, it is almost possible to imagine an easy victory over Tottenham as today.
In addition to these, Li Lei himself also has special expectations for these two games against Fulham, because Ferguson said to him on the night of the Tottenham game: "If it weren't for you, Fulham's main goalkeeper would have been bought to replace Howard." ”
Ferguson may not have noticed it, but his words happened to hit the depths of Li Lei's heart, who had been feeling a little uneasy recently.
"Who?"
"It's a Dutchman, Edwin van der Sar."
In an instant, Li Lei's eyes were blazing, like a raging fire.
Hot!
Dazzling!!
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