Chapter 162: The First Round of the Season
The first round of the Premier League is generally very important, and British fans estimate that their ideas are a little old, and they always feel that the first round is the beginning of a series of leagues, and it is very important to win the first game.
Of course, in fact, in many countries, there is a good start, because this is football, not mahjong, mahjong may have "win first and then lose", football does not necessarily have such a statement, but it also depends on the situation.
After Xiao Yu returned to Manchester United, the first round matchup that he was about to face with everyone was the match with Aston Villa.
Sean Hall, a somewhat not-so-pretty player from this background, is still in Villa's starting line-up today.
It turned out that Hall was a little noncommittal to Xiao Yu, and always felt that the yellow-skinned little guy from China was just like that, but after the performance in the Champions League final, Hall's attitude towards Xiao Yu completely changed.
Not everyone can play so well in such a crucial game, unless they are born with a big heart, otherwise they are transcendent strength, obviously, Xiao Yu has both.
So before the start of the game, Hall showed his heartfelt smile to Xiao Yu in the player's tunnel, a person with strength will become the object of others wherever he goes, obviously Xiao Yu has won such an honor.
Be all abroad? Xiao Yu feels that today's Villa's central defender Hall is always smirking at himself, is this an ironic smile? It's not like ah, the two used to fight in Manchester, and even went to the police station, how could a few months of offseason pass, this girl showed such a flattering smile to herself?
The game began, there is a big gap between the two sides in any way, last season is good to say, Manchester United is turbulent, the player replacement is too big, resulting in Manchester United once a little unable to find the direction, but with the guidance of Mu Shuai and Ryan Giggs, as well as the player's own sense of belonging strengthened, the current Manchester United dressing room is as stable as a diamond, so the energy of such Manchester United is also huge.
Looking at everyone's tacit understanding, although there was basically no training in the off-season, back at Old Trafford, the familiar drizzle and humid climate instantly made everyone feel like each other.
Andrea didn't look at it, and directly pushed the ball forward, and sure enough, there was Balotelli, and the swarthy latter didn't look at the ball, and even the trajectory of the ball after it spun was judged correctly!
With his back against Hall, Ba Shen's hands were slightly forced, and the muscles in his back were tensed, and then the whole person rotated to the left sharply, hooked his right foot, pulled the ball over, and then pulled his leg and shot angrily, which was the direction of the goal!
Do you want to enter? The ball went to the castration very quickly, and the Villa goalkeeper didn't expect that under the pressure of Hall, Balotelli could easily complete a shot of such high quality, so the Villa goalkeeper was a little shaken.
In an instant, the best time to save has been missed, and whether this goal can be scored depends on the will of God.
Syllable! When Mu Shuai wanted to jump for joy, he saw that Ba Shen's shot was rejected by the crossbar of the Villa team, and then his excited expression came to an abrupt end, this scene was slightly embarrassing, especially when Giggs was still covering his mouth behind Mu Shuai and laughing.
With such a terrifying strike from United just eight minutes into the game, it seems that Villa will not have a good day today.
But after all, there are no weak teams in the Premier League, and when the game came to the 42nd minute of the first half, five minutes after Manchester United opened the scoring, Villa scored.
Manchester United's goal was similar to Villa's, both through a mistake in the opposition midfield, and then on the counter-attack, but on one side it was Villa striker Chris Kane who scored, and on the other side it was Manchester United's wide man Andrea.
1 to 1! The two sides went into the second half with a seemingly harmonious scoreline.
'Villa seem to have gotten a lot better than they did last season. Mensah kept shaking his feet, and it was this back iron gate in the first half that curbed Villa's countless attacks, but Villa's goal in the first half was Mensah's mistake, which was indispensable!
"None of the teams are stopping improving, and while we are improving, others are getting better, so don't take it lightly." Giggs caught up from behind, and with a stretch of his hand, he climbed directly onto Mensa's shoulder.
"But I think it's strange that Hall, wasn't he like a Ronawe dog last season, biting whoever came into the box?" Balotelli walked in front, heard everyone's discussion and turned back to participate, what he said was the strange thing for everyone, last season's Shaun Hall, still a lot of people panicked him, not how good he was, but fierce enough, last season alone, he put at least 3 players on the court in the hospital.
"Maybe I was warned by the Football Association, this style of play is too cruel, not suitable for professional football, after all, it is not positive enough." It was Neves who spoke.
The second half began, and the situation of deucing was actually acceptable for Villa, the first was because of the away challenge, and the second was that there was a huge gap between the two teams, so the performance of the Villa players in the second half was more like a turtle shell, even Sean Hall lowered his head and defended diligently in the penalty area without saying a word, and at this moment he seemed to have been polished with all his sharpness.
But Xiao Yu knows that Hall is a proud person at heart, a bit like Huaxia's player Chen Sheng, and neither of them likes to fail very much.
It's a good score for Villa, but for Manchester United, it's unbearable, playing at home, the difference in strength is so big, if it really has ended in a draw, where will the face of Mourinho and the Manchester United players go?
So the offense came, in the 62nd minute of the game, Xiao Yu gave up the opportunity to enter the hinterland of the opponent's middle and went to the side instead, while Andrea went around in a circle behind Xiao Yu and went to the middle. Andrea has gone to the middle, should the players who are marking him follow him to the middle, or continue to watch Xiao Yu on the side?
The main reason is that before the game, the manager of Villa didn't expect Manchester United to play such a game, so when Xiao Yu continued to move forward with the ball, he found that he and Andrea, who had already sprinted in the hinterland of the opponent, were empty.
Pass! Full Moon Scimitar-like arc diagonal pass, the target is behind Hall, who is fighting with Ba Shen, and Andrea, about to miss him, pointed straight at the ball; It's a very nice behind-the-back ball! Manchester United as a whole, indeed wonderful!
After the ball arrived, Andrea did not hesitate to receive the ball, entered the penalty area with a sweep, and then faced the bitter smile of Villa's access control, and hit the ball to the far end of the goal!
2 to 1! There is no suspense in shooting, Andrea has become particularly comprehensive on the offensive end, breakthroughs, passes, shots, running, tactical understanding, etc., Mu Shuai is also more and more satisfied with him, the most important thing is that other teams are afraid of Andrea.
Towards the end of the game, in the first ten minutes, Villa quickly regained his attacking sense after conceding the goal, and started to attack Manchester United, but this time Manchester United did not make another mistake, the steady Jones and Luke Shaw, plus Mensah and Neves in the back, the four teamed up to kill Villa's attack after attack.
In the 84th minute, Villa, who was too high, finally tasted the bitter fruit again, Neves broke the ball in the backfield and opened his big foot directly to find Andrea, and the latter did not stick to the ball, taking advantage of the fact that the ball did not land in the air, volleyed his legs, swept the ball to the other side, and received the ball, which was Depay, who was about to cut close to the middle.
This quick pull of left and right instantly crushed Villa's backline, and when Xiao Yu, Andrea, Depay and the single arrow Bashen were overwhelmed, everyone in Villa had already given up.
In the end, Bashen received Depay's small range of crosses in the penalty area and pushed the score, 3-1, in the first game, Manchester United handed over their own answer!
It was a not-so-stellar second half for Villa, but what they felt the most was United's bottomless quality and the unstoppable cheers at Old Trafford, which were not Villa's home stadium.
"Won?" At home, Xiao Yu was lying in the bedroom, it was quite cool in England in the middle of the night, but the phone rang, and it didn't work if he didn't answer, it was Huo Yongchao who called.
"Well, Uncle Huo, win." Xiao Yu's voice sounded quite lazy at the moment, after all, she was woken up in her sleep just now, and Yu Ting beside her stretched out her delicate arm and lay on him even more lazily, she was still in a dream.
"Why does the voice sound lazy, get up in the morning to exercise! Don't be lazy. When Huo Yongchao heard Xiao Yu's voice, he instantly exploded.
"I'm in England and it's only 2 o'clock in the night." Xiao Yu muttered dissatisfiedly, secretly saying that you are in Huaxia, it is morning, and I am only in the middle of the night! Exercise a hairy one!
"Huh? That's right! Haha, I'm sorry, I just wanted to tell you that in the last round of the group stage, you don't have to come back, that's all, bye-bye. Huo Yongchao also came to his senses, as if he had really misunderstood.
Listening to the beep on the phone, Xiao Yu's face instantly turned dark, then he rolled his eyes, reached out and bullied Yu Ting, who was sleeping next to him, a few times, and then fell asleep again holding her hand.
The next morning, the sky was just dawning, the sun in Manchester was coming slowly, and there should have been no need to train today, but the door of Xiao Yu's villa was still slammed, and the person who came was Ba Shen.
"Damn, what are you doing? Door-to-door debt collection early in the morning? Xiao Yu squinted, although the sun was not shining in Manchester today, he still didn't feel comfortable coming out of the room all of a sudden.
"Something is wrong!" Ba Shen was holding a tablet in his hand and dancing like the end of the world was coming.
"Is your house on fire?" Xiao Yu was annoyed, and secretly said that it was not the first day he knew this guy, and the big things he said were generally things like breaking the bowl, the ball leaking, and the car not catching fire.
"It's not! Boss, look, isn't this the Chinese player Tian Lin you said last time? Ba Shen raised the tablet in his hand and handed it over.
Xiao Yu fixed his eyes and looked at it, it was indeed Lao Tian, and then looked carefully, the title of this news, the former's eyes opened wide in an instant!
"Chinese player Tian Lin officially joined Real Madrid", the report said that Lao Tian's transfer has broken the transfer price of Xiao Yu when he transferred to Manchester United, and it has become the highest price in China.
Wow! This guy with small eyes and a body like a beast actually created the first transfer price in Huaxia!? Ox X! (To be continued.) )