Chapter 165: Manchester United Falling Behind (1)

Howard's jealousy and darkness didn't pay attention at the moment, and everyone turned their attention to the post-game press conference in an attempt to dig up more material from there. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But to the disappointment of the media reporters, although they had expected that the two protagonists of the game, Li Lei and McLaren, would probably not appear at the post-match press conference, the former was habitually not attending, and the latter was too embarrassed to attend, but when this scene really happened, they still sighed in unison when they gathered at the press conference.

Looking at the smiling and amiable Ferguson on the stage and a certain assistant coach of Myburgh with a wooden face and an expressionless doll beside him, they were sighing for the "ignorance" of Li Lei and McLaren, and also sighing for their money.

However, sighing aside, there is finally a Ferguson in front of them that is worth looking forward to. When the press conference began, they went straight past the assistant coach of Myburgh, who brought the news that "Mr. McClaren suddenly felt unwell and could not attend", and began to fire at Ferguson.

"What do you think of the four times during the game, Lee went to the touchline to confront Mr McClaren after Manchester United scored?" The first reporter to be named to stand up and ask questions began to dig a hole for Ferguson.

Although Li Lei's four confrontations and retracted McLaren back to the bench were done heartily, completely venting the anger of himself and Ferguson against McLaren, this matter is indeed an offending thing, which offends not only McLaren himself, but also most of the football people and public opinion forces in England.

McLaren is no matter what, he is the promising young marshal of England that they touted, and now he is being humiliated and teased by Li Lei's naked face-to-face, which more or less indirectly swept their face. If Li Lei was white-skinned, the consequences of this might be lighter, and at most they would have deepened the color of the "bad boy" halo on Li Lei's head, but he was a yellow race.

Although Britain has long been known as a country of so-called democracy and freedom, in England, where traditional conservative forces are extremely strong, some so-called freedoms and equality only exist in name and legal regulations.

But if you really want to talk about how effective it really is, I am afraid that it is an ambiguous question that is difficult for every British politician to answer. There is no need for much evidence for this, as can be seen from the fact that the first neo-Nazi group in Europe after World War II emerged in Britain, the victorious country of World War II.

With Ferguson's veteran experience, he could certainly see the reporter's sinister intentions. And since he saw it, how could he be stupid enough to jump into the pit that this reporter dug for him again. Even regardless of his close personal relationship with Li Lei, Ferguson, as the manager of Manchester United, is unlikely to pit his own players on this issue, even if the player's relationship with him is not very good.

Although he knows very well that no matter what he says or answers, Li Lei may not be able to turn over this wave of criticism from the outside world, but if he can't turn it over, he can't turn it over, and he won't be stupid enough to add fuel to this wave.

So, he began to talk nonsense in a serious way: "Who knows, maybe he just wants to see what the person who criticized him before the game really looks like." You know, he didn't know McClaren before, and our former assistant coach left the team in '02. ”

As he spoke, he spread his hands and made an innocent expression to pretend that he didn't know.

In this regard, the reporters in the audience were silent, staring at Ferguson who was performing on the stage with resentment, as if in silent protest, you continue to act, you continue to act like this, let's just see.

However, with the hyena-like habits of these journalists, how could they let Ferguson go so easily. Finally, after Ferguson answered this first question, the follow-up of all kinds of questions with pitfalls were thrown at Ferguson's head one by one without money, and from this point of view, you have to admire the ability of these reporters to play with language skills.

"Do you think Lee's performance and behavior on the court throughout the game today were correct and there was nothing wrong?"

"Do you think your team was under enough attacking threat from Myburgh today?"

"After the game, you're going to arrange for Mr. McLaren and Lee to meet because they seem to have some minor conflicts?"

......

As long as Ferguson replied to these questions that one word was not used correctly, I am afraid that they could use the big killer of extended meaning to concoct a lot of reports that shocked other people's eyes.

But who is Alex Ferguson? He has already experienced countless ups and downs, how can he be so easy to follow their way, and the Tai Chi Kung Fu with four or two thousand catties in one hand is a perfect game, and he easily brought the problems with deep pits behind him to the distant sky, so that the reporters in the audience can only scold him with their eyes, old fox!

Seeing that it was too difficult to dig out the unfavorable material from Ferguson, a reporter finally couldn't help but stand up and ask a very serious question, for fear that the whole press conference would be Ferguson's performance and singing without any news hot spots.

"We noticed that Lee did a couple of very novel strikes in this game that made him look like a centre-back at times, what do you know about that?"

Finally hearing a normal question, Ferguson's eyes lit up, and at the same time, his heart was relieved. In the face of the bombardment of reporters, although he has always behaved calmly, he has definitely spent a lot of brain power.

Finally caught a normal question, and he could praise Li Lei, he naturally wouldn't let it go easily, and said endlessly: "Li is definitely a genius among goalkeepers." Although he has not been involved in professional football for less than a year, his super-talented goalkeeper has been recognized by all the coaches at the Carrington base. In addition to his strong physical talent, his extraordinary imagination is also where his talent lies. The way he played on the pitch today, he called it a goalkeeper play. He came up with the idea with me around October last year. ......”

Ferguson, who was in a good mood today, started to talk about it, and he didn't care about the resentment of the reporters in the audience, and threw all kinds of praise on Li Lei's head.

But Ferguson, who was in a good mood at this time, could never have imagined how gloomy and terrible his face would be at the end of the international break a week later, Manchester United's first Premier League game at home to Southampton in the round of 23.

"Toot!"

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, a pro-United commentator summed up the game by saying: "Even though it was Manchester United who won the game in the end, it was definitely not a game that would please the United supporters. Just look at Sir Alex Ferguson's ugly and cold face right now to see just how bad Manchester United's performance has been in this game. ”

'It wasn't because Manchester United were better than the visitors Southampton because we were lucky to end the game 3-2. Considering those two shots that hit the woodwork, and the three or four great chances that were wasted in front of goal by the Southampton striker, it's only natural why Sir Alex Ferguson's face was so ugly after his team's victory. Because, by no means, it is not a game that can satisfy him. ”

"Leo's suspension did deal a huge blow to our defence, but it was by no means a reason for the backline to play so badly. The centre-back duo of Wess (Brown) and Mika (Silvestre) was flawed in this game and looked no match for the youth centre-backs who had previously played in the Carabao Cup semi-finals. ”

"As for Howard, I don't think it makes a difference if he doesn't show up in front of Manchester United in this game, after all, Southampton's only two shots on target in the game have scored, right? Among them, the second shot is the kind of soft and unfast shot that seems to be unwilling to score at all. But even so, he didn't pounce, even if his soul suddenly went out of his body at that moment. In this game, it seems, he did nothing other than act as a sign in front of goal, telling Southampton players that there was someone in front of goal, warning them not to shoot blindly from a distance. ”

After this game, Sir Alex Ferguson should probably consider Lee who sat on the bench for 90 minutes on the sidelines. At least from this game, the American can't even compare to a toe of Lee......"

With the commentator's concluding remarks, the on-site director once again focused the camera on the face of Li Lei, who was walking towards the players' tunnel at the moment, with a cold face and no expression.

In this game, as long as Howard performs poorly on the court or even concedes the ball, the cameras on the scene will immediately find Li Lei, who has set off a wave of public opinion on the bench recently.

Li Lei also knew this, and he knew very well what they wanted to see from his face.

Part of the reason why his expression is so cold is that he doesn't want to add any more trouble to the current turbulent Manchester United dressing room.

Part of the reason is that he is really worried about the form that United are showing in this game, as a Manchester United player.

Maybe I'm going to have to kick that damn Yankee off the starting goalkeeper as soon as possible......

Whether it is for the sake of the individual or the team, at this moment, the idea of Li Lei wanting to immediately replace Howard Manchester United's main starting goalkeeper position has never been hotter.

On the way to the players' tunnel, Li Lei's eyes became deeper and firmer.

It's as deep as the sea!

Firm as a giant rock!

Unshakable!!

Nor can it be shaken!!