Chapter 214: The Great War Begins

Lille Foveguet was injured and sidelined, and Reeves played as a lone striker. Manchester United have a full squad to welcome back the broken Odan van der Sar, with Rio Ferdinand, Neville, Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney all returning after missing Sunday's game, with Wayne Rooney joining Larsson, who made his Champions League debut for the Reds.

Lille do not have the advantage in strength, but they have a superior record, the two teams have met four times before, Manchester United 1-0 at home and 1-1 away to Lille in the 01/02 season, and last season Manchester United lost 0-0 at home and 0-1 away to Lille. Along with last season's defeat, United have lost just two of their 14 Champions League meetings with French sides, while winning just one of their seven visits to France. What's more, United have won just one of their last 11 away games in the Champions League, while Lille are unbeaten in nine home games.

So, the Lille are confident of a win in this game.

One of the interesting aspects of this game is that Lille and Manchester United both wear red home kits and have the title of Red Devils in their respective leagues, while Lille, who play at home in this game, wore red jerseys and Manchester United wore white away kits.

Reaves, wearing the red number 45 shirt, shook hands with his team-mates, with Edwin van der Sar, Neville, Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Paul Scholes ...... Reeves shook them one by one, they were all thunderous names in the memory of the past and present lives, and the other party's attitude was also very friendly, shaking hands while nodding in greeting, until when he shook Ronaldo, Reeves saw Ronaldo's serious hostility and the strength in the palm of his hand, obviously to give himself a dismount. Reeves knows the reason for this hostility, in the peerless double pride, Messi is introverted, Ronaldo is flamboyant, but the same is very competitive, this season his shine in the Champions League is too shining, which naturally aroused Ronaldo's fighting spirit.

Someone gave a war letter, Reeves naturally did not show timidity, and responded, pouring energy between the fingers, the two shook hands significantly longer than the others, the team paused, and the people behind them urged, and the two let go of their hands, Ronaldo couldn't help shaking his arms, baring his teeth and saying secretly: The strength is really great.

But soon Reeves also let out the same emotion, his palm was tightly held by Rooney, and he was crushed by the little fat in strength. Reeves doesn't think Rooney is avenging Ronaldo, the current relationship between the two is not good, in the 06 World Cup, Rooney stepped on Carvalho, Ronaldo rushed over from 30 meters away to encourage the referee to show Rooney a red card, Rooney pushed Ronaldo, was sent off with a red card, Ronaldo also proudly winked at the coach Scolari on the sidelines, after which the relationship between the two will reach a freezing point. And this season, Ferguson has established Ronaldo as the core of Manchester United's attack, and Rooney has retreated from the offensive core of last season to a subordinate position, and Rooney, the U20 player with the highest transfer fee in history, will naturally not be convinced.

So Reeves doesn't know where Rooney's hostility is coming from.

In fact, the reason is simple, Reeves broke Rooney's record.

In September 2004, at the age of 18, Wayne Rooney became the most expensive player under the age of 20 in world football, the former Everton supernova made his Manchester United career debut and his Champions League debut in the Champions League group stage that season, he scored three goals and provided an assist, and the Fenerbahce goalkeeper who was humiliated by Rooney was not a common man, he was Turkey's international Rustu, Rooney became the youngest player in Champions League history to complete a hat-trick at the age of 18 years and 335 days.

But that record was broken this season, with a hat-trick against AC Milan in the final group game when he was just 17 years old, and Reeves broke the record held by Wayne Rooney as the youngest hat-trick player in the Champions League.

The record is gone, and when he encounters the culprit, Rooney naturally wants to give Reeves a little color.

"It's going to be a fun game, Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Reeves are three talented young people competing together, and they all want to overshadow each other."

When the game began, it wasn't any of the three who shone first.

“gooooooooooooooal!!!!!!!! Cabaye scored! Lucky goal! I'm afraid even he didn't expect this goal to score. ”

Indeed, Cabaye was stunned for a moment after scoring before rushing to the sidelines to celebrate.

Rewind the clock to a few seconds ago, Lille attacked.

Bodemer took Reeves' knock back and fired a cold shot in front of the penalty area, which was saved by the quick-reacting Van der Sar.

The ball didn't go out of the penalty area and there was chaos in front of the goal.

Reeves stabbed the ball in the scramble and was blocked by Van der Sar with his foot, and the rebound of the ball hit the back heel of Cabaye, who was squeezed out of balance by Evra.

The ball bounced back into the net again, and this time Van der Sar couldn't stop it from rolling into the back of the net.

“1:0! Leading is ~~~ Lille! The goal was scored by ~~ Cabaye! "There was a crazy roar of DJs on the stadium radio!

Reeves rushed at Cabaye and slapped his friend's head, but Cabaye's luck was so good that the ball had to run into the goal to find his heel, and Cabaye didn't have any action at all.

Puel on the sidelines didn't care if it was a dribble, he just knew it was a real goal, 1-0 up, it was a wonderful start, Lille had not lost a game this season, and he excitedly hugged and celebrated with assistant coach Kolot.

An unexpected goal accelerated the offensive tempo of both sides, stimulated the shots of Reeves, Ronaldo and Rooney, and the chances of scoring appeared frequently.

In the 5th minute, Bastos picked up a cross from the left, and Reeves, on the edge of the penalty area, chose to hang the goal, and was tipped off the crossbar by Van der Sar.

Ronaldo was then fouled by Taflau, and Ronaldo's free-kick from 30 yards out went wide.

In the 11th minute, Debich found space on the right flank, cut inside to the box and was caught by Ferdinand and Vidic, Vidic kicked the ball out of the box, Sharme crossed from the right and Reeves fired a barb from the small penalty line, just over the crossbar.

In the 15th minute, Paul Scholes sent the ball into the box and Rooney stopped the ball from 15 yards out to shoot, but the angle was too straight and was blocked by Silva.

The two teams were evenly matched, but most of the dangerous shots came from the feet of three people.

Fierce battles are raging inside the stadium, and riots are raging outside the stadium.

More than 6,000 Manchester United fans followed the away game, but only 4,500 tickets were allocated to the visitors, and as many as 1,500 United fans were blocked outside the stadium.

In the small town of Lens, there are not so many bars to digest this part of the fans, so on the day of the game, Manchester United fans without tickets used rental projection equipment to watch the game in the square outside the stadium.

England fans can't watch the game without drinking, how can they not make trouble when they drink, Manchester United fans are no exception, not long after the game started, there are already many people who have drunk too much and began to vent their excess energy in the square.

First the fireworks were burned, and then the facilities in the square were set on fire.

Smoke and sirens sounded, making the competition even more intense.