Volume 1 Chapter 147 Three Consecutive Draws
"him, him, United!"
"Rush, rush, boys, rush up and kill Manchester United!!"
A loud shout came from the ward of Aidenbrook Hospital, if you just listened to the sound, everyone would definitely think that it was a strong middle-aged man, but in fact, it was an old man who was almost old and old, with an infusion bottle hanging on his body, waving his arms over there, blushing his face, and shouting loudly.
"Be careful, don't wave, Nick, don't get so excited!" An old lady next to her anxiously persuaded.
"That's it, be careful that you burst your blood vessels!" An old man in the next bed said very unpleasantly.
The old man named Nick immediately turned his head sideways and angrily slammed at the patient in the next bed, "Horn, you are a traitor to London, be careful with me, I will beat you sooner or later!" After speaking, he waved his fist demonstratively.
Horn was about the same age as him, and he didn't care about him after hearing it, as if he was used to the old man's irritable temperament, "If you want to beat me, you have to take care of your body, don't watch the ball game if you have high blood pressure, isn't this purely looking for death?" ”
"Don't you have a bad heart? Don't you watch it too? Nick fought back without showing any weakness.
"I'm like you, we are at the top of the table at Manchester United, but what about you Arsenal?" Horn sneered at the other party's face, "It seems to have fallen to the third place, right?" Who's second? Oh yes, Newcastle, poor! ”
"Get out, sooner or later, I'll trample you under your feet again!" Nick was furious.
"With your mouth?" Horn continued to laugh at him.
Nick immediately got out of bed, "Come down, let's have a fight!" ”
"Come on, who's afraid of whom?"
Just when the two old men rolled up their cuffs and were about to do a big job, the door of the ward was gently pushed open, and then an oriental woman wearing a doctor's assistant costume sneaked in, and immediately turned around and closed the door, as if she was afraid that someone in the corridor outside would overhear the movement in the room.
"What are you doing?" The Oriental woman is extremely beautiful and looks very affinity, but when she saw the two old men rolling up her sleeves, she immediately covered her face with frost, and her tone was a little hard.
"Dear Huang, this traitor to London, a lackey of Manchester United, dares to look down on us Arsenal, I must teach him a lesson!"
"The beautiful and moving Huang, he provoked first, and I was the defensive counterattack!" Horn has been a fan for decades, and he blurts out some football-related terms.
After Huang Chu heard this, the coldness on his face did not subside at all, "People who are dozens of years old, and the anger is still so big, you, lie back on the bed and do an electrocardiogram!" She pointed at Horn with a shallot, and Nick on the side immediately gloated and grimaced.
"And you, lie back for me and get ready to take my blood pressure!"
This time, it was Horn who gloated.
These two old men are like naughty children, they like to fight, and the worst thing is that one of them is a diehard Arsenal loyalist, the other is a Manchester United disciple, and the two live in a ward, so you can imagine what kind of sparks will be sparked.
But it's no wonder, Huang Chu's training is more effective than Nick's wife's speech, and both of them immediately lie back on the bed obediently.
Helping Horn get his electrocardiogram done, Huang Chu took Nick's blood pressure again, but a pair of beautiful eyes stared at the TV on the wall from time to time to the game that took place at Old Trafford in Manchester.
Originally, she planned to ask for leave to go to the scene to watch this game, and she also asked Eliza to keep a ticket for her, but she didn't expect that the hospital would cancel her vacation at short notice, so she couldn't go, and finally she could only sneak in the ward to watch the game, but even so, she was still late and couldn't see the beginning.
"What's the score?" Huang Chu asked casually.
“0:0!” Nick said with a smile, but immediately added, "Damn Manchester United can't do anything with Ajax's attack, I think this game is likely to cause an upset, if Ajax can finish Manchester United at Old Trafford, it will be interesting." ”
The last sentence is obviously to provoke Horn and hit this Manchester United disciple.
Sure enough, as soon as Nick said this, Horn was about to get up from the bed, but as soon as he straightened up halfway and pulled the instrument, he realized that he was doing an electrocardiogram, and immediately lay down again, ", it's only been ten minutes, and I don't know who killed whom." ”
If it was in normal times, he would definitely scold his opponent a few more words, but today he didn't scold Ajax, because he knew that Huang Chu was a die-hard fan of Ajax, and judging from a series of clues, the young head coach of Ajax seemed to be her boyfriend, so scolding Ajax was not the same as scolding Huang Chu's boyfriend?
Where would such a stupid thing be done by Manchester United fans?
"Blood pressure is a little high, don't get excited, don't get angry, understand?" Huang Chu reminded.
Like an obedient and well-behaved student, Nick immediately nodded in agreement, and took the initiative to give up the end of the hospital bed for Huang Chu to sit down.
Old Trafford is packed on TV and with the arrival of Veron this season, United fans have high hopes that the team can repeat their 1999 glory in the Champions League.
Moreover, the current group situation in Group A of the Champions League is very complicated, Boavista has completely lost the possibility of qualifying from the group, but Ajax, Manchester United and Bayern Munich are all very tight on each other's points, especially Ajax, this team won 1 and drew 2, and performed well in the three games in the group stage.
"Huang, your little boyfriend is really good!" Nick waited until Huang Chu sat down to watch the game, and then praised with a smile.
Huang Chu turned his head and looked at Nick with a ghostly face, and glanced at him angrily, but the expression on his face was a very frustrated smile, praising Ye Qiu made her happier than praising herself, so Nick's trick was unpleasant.
"Sycophants!" Horn spat him again.
"Am I a sycophant? Do you dare to admit that Ajax is already so much inferior to you Manchester United, but did you win? Nick immediately retorted, and this time he felt that with Huang Chu by his side, he was more confident.
"Think about the last week at the Arena Stadium, you just ran shit luck, if it wasn't for the late moment Van Nistelrooy scored to save you, you would have been finished, and you still look down on people over there, huh!"
Horn was so robbed by Nick that he almost jumped up from the hospital bed to find him alone, "Shit luck? You don't have to look at it, Manchester United dominated almost the whole game and created so many chances, if it wasn't for the extraordinary performance of the Ajax goalkeeper, we would have reversed a long time ago! ”
"Oh, when people perform well, they play well, and you don't count, how many must-score chances did Ajax miss in that game? If you want me to say, if it weren't for that vote of imps who became soft-footed shrimp at the critical moment, you Manchester United would have swallowed a few eggs and come back! ”
Horn was so angry that he wanted to rip off those ECG wires on his body and fight directly with Nick, "You...... Look at it, this time back at Old Trafford, Ajax is dead! ”
"I'm watching, it's still Ajax who has the advantage!" Nick Haruha laughed and shot back.
It was indeed a surprise to everyone, Ajax grabbed the attack after the start of the Arenal Stadium, so forget it, but when he came to Old Trafford, Ye Qiu continued to take the opening attack tactics as always, and now it is almost 20 minutes, and Ajax's very impactful style of play has not changed at all.
However, it is also puzzling that Ferguson, the last game has clearly proved that Veron is in the midfield, and the team plays 451 very poorly, but in this game at Old Trafford, he still arranged for the Argentine to start.
What's going on in the minds of the managers?
Just as Horn was about to refute, Ajax scored first.
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!”
A long note from the narrator on the TV made everyone realise that Ajax had already breached Manchester United's goal at Old Trafford and that it was bound to make the game more difficult down.
Huang Chu saw Van der Vaart cut inside with the ball on the right side, shook off Silvester and passed diagonally to the left, Ibrahimovic pulled Blanco, deliberately missed, and Robben at the back point followed the left pad to shoot the goal, he was so excited that he kept clapping his hands until a pair of pink and white little hands were red.
"Wow, goal!" Nick Ha laughed and teased Horn.
Horn on the hospital bed was so angry that his chest rose and fell rapidly, and he cursed in his mouth, "Fuck the defense, I can't even stop this kind of ball, I don't know what they eat?" Not as good as a bunch of kids? ”
Huang Chu was in a good mood after seeing Ajax score, especially when she saw the TV camera sweeping in front of the away team's coach's box, and when she saw Ye Qiu excitedly making a fist impact to Ferguson in front of the Manchester United home team's coach's box after the team scored, she couldn't stop laughing.
As early as a week ago, the Arena Stadium was equalized by Manchester United at the last moment, Ferguson on the one hand accused the players of poor performance, on the other hand, he also made a war letter to Ajax, saying that back at Old Trafford, Manchester United must take revenge, but what I didn't expect was that it was Ajax who still had the advantage after the start of this game.
'Ferguson is looking in a bad mood, his side have twice and three times been beaten by Ajax, who are weaker than him, and the last time they were lucky enough to equalise at the bottom of the game, will they be able to continue the luck of the last game? The narrator also teased the red-faced Ferguson.
Nick applauded hard after seeing Ajax score ahead, and then gave Huang Chu a thumbs up, "Huang, you are too discerning, your little boyfriend is too powerful, and Manchester United has no temper at Old Trafford, this is not something anyone can do, amazing!" ”
These words were somewhat flattering, but Huang Chu was very disappointed, smiled, and did not hide the joy and pride in his heart.
Horn was depressed, but he couldn't refute it, even as a Manchester United fan, he had to admit that Ajax's strength was not as good as Manchester United, but his style of play and courage were very admirable, and he was able to take the lead in scoring Manchester United's goal in both games, which is indeed not simple.
Originally, everyone analyzed the situation in Group A, and thought that Manchester United and Bayern Munich would not have much problem qualifying together, but now it seems that Ajax has surprised everyone, especially against Manchester United and Bayern Munich, this team is very tenacious, and very resilient, and it is difficult to fight.
On the contrary, Portugal's Boavista, the defense is very attentive, but there are too many small moves, and there are a lot of cards, which is not welcomed.
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As Beckenbauer said, a good strategy can help the head coach better understand the probability of winning.
Sometimes, however, tactics cannot help a weak team beat a strong team, because in terms of probability, a strong team has a higher stakes in making tactical mistakes, and they have more initiative to adjust and turn the situation around at any time.
At the start of the second half, Alex Ferguson replaced Veron with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and the team returned to 442 once again.
It was Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's 73rd-minute goal that eventually helped United draw Ajax at Old Trafford.
In the end, the two sides shook hands again, and the score of 1:1 made the managers of both sides very dissatisfied.
In the four games of the second round of the group stage, Ajax got three points from the away game against Boavista, and the remaining three games were 1:1, which allowed Ajax to only get six points.
Bayern Munich defeated Boavista 1-0 at home in this round, so Bayern Munich got 8 points with an unbeaten record of 2 wins and 2 draws in the 4 rounds of the group stage, while Manchester United also won 1 and drew 2, but the problem is that Manchester United beat Boavista 3-0 at home, and their goal difference is more than Ajax.
As a result, after four rounds, Bayern Munich occupies the first place in the group, Manchester United is in second place, while Ajax can only be in third place, and Boavista failed to get points and is at the bottom of the group.
In the remaining two rounds of the group stage, Ajax host Boavista, which is a crucial game for the team, Manchester United at home to Bayern Munich, and the last round is Ajax away to Bayern Munich and Manchester United away to Boavista.
The brutal group stage has made it necessary for Ajax to give it their all in the remaining two rounds, especially the one against Boavista, so that no matter what the outcome of the match between Manchester United and Bayern Munich, Ajax can grab more chips in the group qualification.
Ferguson also looked unhappy, in his opinion, this game is a must for Manchester United to win, but against Ajax, United only got one point, which made him very unhappy.
But if you are not satisfied, you still have to have a demeanor.
After the game, Ferguson walked to the coach's seat of the visiting team for the first time and shook hands with Ye Qiu with a stiff smile.
"You have a lot of quality and good luck, but if you want to get out of the group stage, I'm afraid you ......"
"Luck?" Ye Qiu shook his head with a smile, "Everyone seems to say that Manchester United is the one who has better luck." ”
Ye Qiu himself does not admit this point of view, because Manchester United does have a lot of problems, mainly the backline and midfield staffing, so Ajax can try again and again at the beginning of the attack, and he also temporarily changed his mind to attack after seeing Manchester United's starting lineup.
"You should be careful against Bayern Munich, they are the leaders now!" Ye Qiu laughed at Ha Luha's transfer of hatred.
Today's Champions League competition is too fierce, and the disparity between strength and weakness is completely different from later, there are strong competitors in every group, and the difference in strength of each team is not so much, even the teams of the Netherlands, Portugal, and France are not so easy to play.
Of course, this is not unique to the Champions League, and now the competition among the four major European leagues themselves is also very fierce, the Premier League is now Manchester United, Newcastle, Arsenal and Chelsea are very tight on points, Serie A, La Liga, Bundesliga are all the same, and the Eredivisie league points this season are also very tight.
PSV Eindhoven are now focusing almost most of their energy on the Eredivisie, and Gretz clearly feel that they are more confident of winning the Eredivisie than winning the UEFA Cup, so they are now chasing Ajax, with only two points separating the two teams and a bad game to turn the tide of the game.
Ferguson looked at Ye Qiu, and a smile of appreciation appeared on the corner of his mouth, "We will definitely see each other again!" The provocative meaning in his words was very strong, and it was obvious that the next time we met again, he would definitely go all out.
Of course, this is not to say that he kept his hands in both games, but that United had some problems in these two games.
"Each other, each other!" Ye Qiu fought back without showing weakness.
Ferguson was not satisfied with the result of the game, and he himself was not satisfied, the two games with Manchester United, and the game with Bayern Munich, the process of the three group games was almost the same, they were all equalized by the opponent after taking the lead, which had to cause Ye Qiu to reflect, why would the three games be like this?
Ajax's opening attack and impactful style of play are indeed very threatening, especially when the opening is full of energy, but once it comes to the second half, when the physical fitness declines, the players cannot guarantee 100% execution of tactics.
There are many reasons for this, the lack of experience of the players is on the one hand, and the team's overall rhythm is not skillful enough, Ye Qiu has always hoped to establish Sneijder as the core of the midfield, so that Ibrahimovic can become the offensive core of the team's front, these two players echo each other, forming the front and rear duo of Ajax.
Coupled with Robben and Van der Vaart's response on the wings, as well as the midfield's back-insertion attack, these can greatly exert Ajax's attacking power in positional battles, but at present, whether it is the strength of the team or the strength of the players, although it is on the rise, it is not up to the level of direct face-to-face competition with top teams such as Bayern Munich and Manchester United.
What's even worse is that as Ajax's performance is getting better and better, those giants have begun to gradually put their hands into Ye Qiu's pocket to poach.
Sometimes, even Ye Qiu himself doesn't know what to say, after this summer, there will be a few main forces left in his team.