Chapter 68: Strive to improve yourself
Manchester United's 3-2 defeat at Arsenal was one of United's humiliations in recent years, and Arsenal have now become United's biggest nemesis in the Premier League, but they will have to wait until the second half of the season when the second cycle begins. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Crucially, the defeat made the media look unfavourably at United's next form, especially as they face Liverpool at home in three days' time, before travelling to Germany to face Bayern Munich a week later.
However, even though most of the media are singing the praises of Manchester United, all the media are unanimously optimistic about Andy and David Beckham, believing that these two talented young men are the best performers for Manchester United since the start of the season.
In this situation, the morale of the whole United team has become a little shaky, but under Alex Ferguson's hairdryer, especially his deep resentment towards Liverpool, United played a beautiful game at home, slapping those who look down on them.
Paul Scholes, who burst into the Liverpool penalty area in the first half, was pushed to the ground while battling with an opposition defender, and the referee decisively blew a penalty and captain Roy Keane slid it away to give United a 1-0 lead to end the first half.
At the start of the second half, the two sides engaged in a battle for ground in midfield, and the two sides began to run and press widely throughout the field, and in the 80th minute, Andy's striker partner Sheringham, who had just returned from injury, came on as a substitute and sent a cross from the wing, and Scholes, who passed the ball from the front of the box, a powerful long-range shot penetrated the Liverpool goal again to seal the victory for Manchester United.
After winning this game, Manchester United rose directly from 10th to 5th in the league table, and more importantly, through this game, Manchester United's confidence was boosted and they found their rhythm to win.
For the result of this game, they shifted their target after a brief report by the media after the game, after all, the result of this game is normal, although Liverpool is an old giant, but it has been lost. They are concerned that Manchester United's youngster Andy seems to be out of shape in this game, and the whole game is more about team-mates than sharp breakthroughs as before.
All kinds of reports are overwhelming, and some media even say that Andy is another shooting star, in order to increase sales, they don't care whether these are true or not.
However, there are many media outlets that are still very sensible, such as Maximi Lean of The Times, who wrote in a commentary called "The Future of England": "It is normal for a 17-year-old young player to be uncomfortable in his first season against two strong opponents in a week, saying that he just didn't score in a game, and you can't completely deny the strength of a player or team because of the win, loss or performance of a game!" We can't ask too much of a player so young. ”
However, even if many people understand these truths, more media outlets will not care about the truth of the facts, and if they can increase sales, they will hide the truth under the dirt.
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No matter how noisy the media outside is, Andy is not affected at all, he knows very well that all praise must be obtained by strength, and it is useless to be praised by everyone, and it is useless if he has no strength.
In the past few days after the game with Liverpool, Andy has been active on the training ground, but he has been very monotonous off the field these days, he has been thinking about one thing, as his popularity grows, the opposing team also pays more and more attention to him, and the opponent has implemented intensive defense against him in the game with Liverpool. …,
When there will be a tall and strong midfielder to protect you throughout the game, and there are players behind him at any time to make up for him, Andy can't form a few effective breakthroughs, and Andy, whose speed is slowed down, can only choose to make the ball for his teammates, although the effect is really good, and the game is won, but Andy is not very happy.
If I'm a weaker team, if I don't have these strong teammates around me, then I'm going to be seen dead and then I'm going to lose the game?
This thought swirled in Andy's mind, a little biased and crazy, he has been thinking about how to solve this problem for the past few days, although he also likes to cooperate with his teammates, but he prefers the feeling of scoring goals, if he encounters this situation in the future, he thinks he will go crazy.
"Sir, may I disturb you for a moment? There's something I'd like to ask you? After thinking about it for 2-3 days after this day's training, Andy found Brian Kidd, who had always been kind to him.
Brian Kidd looked at Andy, who was a little embarrassed in front of him, and said with a smile: "What's the matter, Andy, what is it that makes you wonder, you ask, I hope I can help you." ”
"Sir, you know that in these two games, the opponent has someone who specializes in defending me intensively, and I can't rush my speed up a lot of the time, I want to ask if there is any solution?" Andy spoke directly of the confusion in his heart.
"Didn't you do a good job, didn't you use your passing and pulling runs to tear apart the opposition defence against Liverpool and we won the game?" Brian Kidd was even more bizarre, he felt that the young man had done well enough.
"But sir, I'm a striker and I want to be able to score goals, not just a stumbling centre-forward and a stop-and-roll." Andy said a little upset.
"Okay, okay, Andy, I see, since you asked, I'll talk to you about it." Brian Kidd is very happy to say that for him as an academy coach, there is nothing happier than seeing the success of his players, after all, the success of young players is his success.
"There are 2 ways to deal with dense defense, the simplest is the one you are using now, and your teammates use the cooperation of long and short passes to tear apart the opponent's defense, force the opponent's foul, create a free kick in the 30-meter area, that's the team's victory, if you want to use your individual ability, that's three points, physical fitness, flexibility, skill at your feet, you already have the first two points, so my advice to you now is that you can focus on training your foot skills, after all, you have a three-year blank period, When you put these three points together perfectly, then your breakthrough will be sharper, and your speed advantage can be more vividly played. ”
Bryan Kidd patted Andy on the shoulder and continued: "You can imagine that when the opponent's guard player can't hit you physically and can only get close to you, you use your flexibility and your foot skills to pass him like a stake, the opponent's performance, you have to remember one sentence, the defender is always passive, the offensive side is active, your problem now is that the foot technique still needs to be exercised, better combined with your body, I suggest you practice more around the pile." ”
After saying all that, Brian Kidd patted Andy on the shoulder encouragingly and left.
Andy fell into deep thought after hearing this, he felt that what the coach said was right, although his foot skills are very solid, but he has not played a game for three years, once he is forced in the game, he can only play more than half of his ability.
Thinking of this, Andy, who was so pointed, stopped entering the locker room and returned to the training ground. …,
A hard work, a harvest, Andy knows that he wants to succeed, and he wants to make up for the three-year gap only by working harder than others, and he is still young, the technique has not yet been finalized, the sooner he practices, the more he can absorb, although it takes more sweat and effort to be able to gain something.
After the conversation with Brian Kidd that day, on the training ground at the Carrington training base, the team had finished training and all went home, and Andy was the only one still practicing.
Very simple training equipment, six obstacles, two by two in pairs, respectively placed in front of the top of the arc of the penalty area, on the left and on the right, each pair in the middle of the narrow distance, just one person can pass, the gap with the ball is very small.
Andy ran forward with the ball quickly, then went straight through the two obstacles directly in front of him, then to the left, then to the right, and finally shot at goal.
He practiced like this over and over again, until the sky slowly darkened, Andy lifted his jersey and wiped the sweat on his face, his eyes were sweaty, a little painful, he closed his eyes, recalled every action just now, and tried to find his shortcomings.
He knows that only by working hard and constantly working hard can he succeed, whether it is money or beauty, but also in order to always support his family and dreams, he must succeed.
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