Chapter 5: Crazy Penalty Shootout
£120,000 per week. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info After Manchester United and Yu Liang negotiated the renewal of the salary increase, Manchester United announced the news as soon as possible.
The reason why this is done is to send a signal that any team that has a bad idea of Yu Liang should not play Yu Liang's idea. It's also a warning to players who are waiting to get a raise, that's all there is to the best performers last season, and the implication is that this is the top of United's salary pyramid, and you can only hover at the next level or lower.
After seeing off the Manchester United delegation and completing a new contract, Yu Liang also returned to Manchester after his vacation, and the preparations for the new season are about to start in Carrington. After completing their initial training at Carrington, Manchester United will embark on a trip to Asia in late July, taking advantage of the football fever in China. But these are not what Yu Liang cares about.
Yu Liang is now concerned about how to develop a detailed career plan.
After talking to David Jones, he couldn't wait to make a detailed career plan, even after his retirement.
It's easy to say, but it's really not that easy to actually make a detailed career plan. Yu Liang, who was scratching his ears and cheeks, took three days to complete a first draft.
At this time, the training camp had begun, and Yu Liang could only give up temporarily, and then find time to refine his career plan.
Carrington in the new season once again appeared a fresh face, after Ronaldo's transfer to Real Madrid, the old man was as frugal as ever, and spent a quarter of Ronaldo's transfer fee to buy Ecuadorian midfielder Valencia and French winger Obertan, the purpose of these two transfers is very obvious, is to make up for the vacancy left by Ronaldo's departure. However, neither of them wore the number seven shirt left by Cristiano Ronaldo, but the number seven shirt was worn by another new signing.
Wearing the number seven shirt left by Cristiano Ronaldo is none other than former England golden boy and former Liverpool star Michael Owen.
After a frustrating move to Real Madrid, Owen moved to the Premier League again, but instead of returning to Liverpool, he joined Newcastle. Owen, who returned to the Premier League, scored a goal in his first appearance and announced his return. The brilliant performance earned Owen a place in the starting line-up and the cheers of the fans, and a hat-trick in the ensuing game, and it seemed that the boy was back. But Owen, who left Anfield, did not seem to have been favored by God. Against Tottenham, a scramble hit the right foot and brought his first season back to the Premier League to an early end.
Returning Owen played with England at the World Cup in Germany, but suffered a torn cruciate ligament in the group stage, which led to the following season being reimbursed and only playing in the last three games.
Since then, although Owen has performed well, injuries have clouded Owen. After ending his contract with Newcastle, just when everyone thought Owen was going back to his hometown, he unexpectedly chose to join Manchester United.
For a time, Owen had a reputation as a traitor.
However, Owen did not seem to be affected by the outside world, perhaps after experiencing a lot of things, Owen greeted everyone with a smile on his face. A warm smile, just like a neighbor's big brother. Under the introduction of national teammates such as Wayne Rooney and Ferdinand, he quickly mingled with the players.
It didn't take long for Ferguson to appear on the sidelines of the training ground, and although he lost Ronaldo, he was still in a good mood to be able to successfully retain Rooney and Yu Liang.
"Guys, introduce you to a new signing!"
New signings?
As soon as Ferguson's words came out, Yu Liang and they were stunned, the new signings Valencia, Obotan and Owen have all appeared, is there a fourth reinforcement?
So they exchanged ears and guessed which one it was.
After a while, a tall figure appeared in everyone's sight.
Seeing that figure, Yu Liang and the others laughed.
The so-called new signing is none other than King Dong, who has been out of action for nearly a season.
After being absent for nearly a season, and not even making the squad for many consecutive rounds before the injury, King Dong is also thinking about his future after his comeback. It's just that after his comeback, he caught up with the last two games of the top 10 competition, and he was not able to talk to Ferguson in person. After the top 10 tie, he rushed to Manchester to meet with Alex Ferguson in person, wondering if he still had a place at Manchester United.
He had a good performance in the top 10 at the beginning of his recovery from a serious injury, and Ferguson's performance made Ferguson very satisfied.
After the loss of Cristiano Ronaldo, the transfer of Tevez has not been negotiated, and the forward line is in a hurry, and Ferguson certainly does not want to lose King Dong like this. So when King Dong found Ferguson, Ferguson told King Dong for sure that he would occupy an important position in Manchester United in the new season. At the same time, the club also gave King Dong a corresponding salary increase, and both parties were happy.
After the appearance of King Dong, the Manchester United team's training camp for the new season officially began.
After winning the treble in the 2007/2008 European season, they lost the UEFA Super Cup, and although they later won the Charity Shield and Club World Cup, they failed to win the Grand Slam, leaving Manchester United with a lot of regrets.
They won an unprecedented quadruple last season and start the new season with the aim of winning a Grand Slam in 2009.
After completing the Asian tour, he returned to Carrington and began to prepare for the Community Shield.
On 6 August 2009, the Community Shield was held at London's new Wembley Stadium as scheduled.
The two sides are Manchester United and Chelsea. Chelsea, who have not won the title for several seasons in a row, are also aiming for this chicken-ribbed title.
The game began with a goal-scoring battle between the two sides inside the new Wembley Stadium.
It was Manchester United who were the first to break the deadlock, as in the 10th minute of the first half, Nani cut inside and fired home from distance after receiving a pass from Yu Liang in front.
Chelsea, who have experienced successive changes of manager, continued to fight and equalized at the beginning of the second half.
Frank Lampard broke away from Yu Liang in the middle and Malouda broke through with the ball on the flank and crossed, Manchester United goalkeeper Fortes couldn't get the ball out of the way and Carvalho headed home.
Chelsea, who had equalised and boosted morale, took advantage of the victory to pursue it.
In the 71st minute, the score was overtaken. Ballack made a steal in front, Chelsea counter-attacked to form a 3-on-2, Drogba broke into the box with the ball and crossed the middle, and Lampard pushed and scored from inside the six-yard box.
Manchester United, who fell behind, fought hard in the ensuing period and eventually equalised in injury time.
In the 3rd minute of stoppage time, Yu Liang split the ball in the middle, and after Giggs shook the defender on the side, he blocked the ribs of the penalty area, and Rooney scored in the far corner with a single knife.
After a draw in 90 minutes, the two sides went straight to the penalty shootout.
From the penalty spot-on, Ryan Giggs' effort was blocked by Petr's leg and Lampa slotted home to give Chelsea a 3-2 lead. In the second round of penalties, both sides scored. In the third round, it was Yu Liang who played on the side of Manchester United, and after setting up the football, he directly volleyed into the net with a strong kick, and Cech didn't even react at all; Chelsea's third home game was Didier Drogba, who deceived goalkeeper Forties with a powerful shot from the run, but was unable to avoid the post at the new Wembley Stadium and the ball bounced off the post to make it 4-4. Both sides scored in the next two rounds, and the penalty shootout went straight to the sixth round.
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"The penalty shoot-out between the two sides has come to the ninth round, it is really a crazy penalty shoot-out......"
After eight rounds of competition, the two sides still failed to distinguish the winner. This made the atmosphere in the new Wembley Stadium, which was already full of tension, relaxed. At this point, the fans are still focused on the winner, but they have been drawn to the penalty shoot-out itself, and they are now expecting who will make the mistake first.
United's ninth appearance was youngster Evans, who deceived Petr Cech with a pause after a run-up before firing into the bottom right-hand corner.
'Roar, 8-7, look at Chelsea...... The ninth was Petr Cech, and it seems that the Czech wants to see United home himself, and as goalkeeper may ...... when he takes a penalty.
The commentator's words didn't fall before Cech took the ball out and fired it into the bottom left corner. Although he deceived Forts, he pursued the angle too much, and rolled out of the bottom line directly by rubbing the column.
There was applause inside the new Wembley Stadium, which was given to the players from both sides.
'The game is over and Manchester United have lifted the Community Shield once again......