Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 591 Europe Chapter 2003 Dream Theater

Due to the reason for participating in the third round of the Champions League qualifying round, the two teams Chelsea and Newcastle, which received great attention this year, were acquired by foreign capital and caused huge waves in the transfer market, failed to participate in the first round. League, so the second round of the league is the first appearance of these two unrecognizable teams in the Premier League.

The lineup is unrecognizable, but the results have not changed drastically. After paying the price of a red card, Newcastle's small victory over Birmingham can only be said to be barely satisfactory, while Chelsea's results are typically unsatisfactory. It’s true—they faced the already down-and-out Blackburn, but they were scored twice by the opponent’s veteran Andy Cole. They relied on Mutu’s single-handedly and Hasselbaink’s penalty to save one point. Duff Veron's performance was mediocre, and Crespo didn't play because of injury.

After Pei Wei and Abramovich entered the Premier League at the same time, Newcastle and Chelsea were always inadvertently compared, especially in the signings of this season. A group of experts conducted detailed research on these two games. , came to the inference that Newcastle's signings are more powerful than Chelsea - they have sufficient evidence, the rookies introduced by Newcastle performed well in this game, although Ibrahimovic was sent off with a red card after only playing 41 minutes , but his performance on the field was quite good. Nie Fei connected the midfielder, Makelele stabilized the defense, and Hart even scored with his best direct free kick. Except for Lucio, he was not used to the Premier League Outside of the game, the other players performed well. For Chelsea, the four stars who spent more than 500 million pounds, except for Mutu scoring a goal, Duff only made a few breakthroughs and was a bit threatening. Long Ze was replaced by Lampard after only playing halftime, and Crespo did not play. Judging from the performance of the first round, Newcastle's new players are undoubtedly more worthy of their worth.

In fact, everyone knows that it is a very stupid thing to use a game to measure the success of a player, but fans always have something to watch, and the only purpose of these boring comments is that.

Newcastle could not care about this comment. They rested for a day after the game, and then immediately rushed to Manchester to prepare for the first round of make-up matches in four days. Their opponent is the defending champion, the ten-year Premier League The most powerful team, Manchester United.

In the second round, Manchester United defeated Bolton [-]-[-] at home and showed great strength in their debut. Veteran Giggs scored twice, Scholes and Ruud van Nistelrooy added icing on the cake. The most important transfer before, Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal played in the second half. Although he didn't score a goal, he revitalized Manchester United's right-sided attack and created a penalty. An attack, helping Giggs scored twice, Manchester United scored only one goal in the first half, but scored three goals in the second half. From this aspect, it can also prove what Ronaldinho has brought to Manchester United.

The victory put an end to Manchester United's two-game losing streak against Bolton at Old Trafford, giving them the confidence to welcome Newcastle.

In the war of words before the start of the season, Mourinho did not respond to Ferguson's second provocation. Sir Alex obviously didn't want to let it go. On the second day after Newcastle arrived at Manchester United, Ferguson started to fire again : "Newcastle's 8000 million is not as good as our 220 million (meaning that none of Newcastle's new aids performed better than Ronaldinho), this is the gap between the championship team and the average team... For us Saying that there will always be only one person worth noting at Newcastle, Shearer, I really worry about what Newcastle will look like when Shearer retires."

This time Mourinho will not be polite, he immediately gave a sharp counterattack: "I think Sir Alex Ferguson's eyes can only see others, but not himself... Maybe he forgot that after Cantona retired How did he struggle to find a new striker? Van Nistelrooy is not young anymore. I also doubt whether Manchester United can find a center forward with a stable scoring rate after he leaves... This problem is any one Teams will meet. When a great, reliable striker leaves, it takes two to three years for any team to find the next goal. I don't see why there is any concern. Anyone will When they get old, there will also be younger people to replace them, whether they are players or coaches. Sir Alex Ferguson should worry more about who will lead the Manchester United team when he retires."

This sentence hit Ferguson's heart. Although he thinks he is old and strong, he can still work at Manchester United for at least ten years, or he will not leave until he trains the next batch of "Generation [-]" , but the question of the successor is really bothering him.

Ferguson, who was hit, did not continue the war of words-but no one would think that he was afraid of Mourinho. This is the benefit of being famous. Mourinho stopped the war of words first, and the media would say he was afraid Ferguson, and Ferguson stops the war of words, the media will say that Ferguson does not have the same knowledge as Mourinho-often the media is so snobbish.

But Mourinho doesn't care about these things. Ferguson's reputation has been accumulated little by little in more than 20 years. Mourinho believes that when he is in his 60s, his fame will definitely not be less than that of Ferguson—— — He believed in his own abilities.

And now, there is a time for him to prove his ability-beating Manchester United at Old Trafford, this is undoubtedly a shortcut to fame.

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Old Trafford, Manchester United's home stadium, is called the "Dream Theater". Among the Premier League teams this season, this stadium can accommodate the largest number of fans, reaching more than 8000 people, and this number will continue to increase. It is expected that after the end of this season, the number of seats at Old Trafford will increase to 8. This is also a considerable advantage for Manchester United. Having more seats means more fans Entering the stadium to watch the game means that there will be more ticket revenue-you must know that although the stadium capacity of the Premier League is not too much, their attendance rate has always been what they are most proud of. Can't keep up with them. Although the San Siro Meazza Stadium owned by the Milan duo can accommodate more than [-] people, it is rarely full. Juventus is even worse. The Alpi Stadium, which can accommodate nearly [-] fans, often Only [-] to [-] spectators, and a large number of empty stands made the Juventus club even have the idea of ​​​​moving to a stadium with a smaller capacity, because the atmosphere at home will be more enthusiastic.

From this aspect, Italian fans are really not as enthusiastic as English fans. Of course, this may have something to do with Italy's economic downturn for many years.

Before the game started, the fans of both sides in the stadium competed. Although the fans of Newcastle were obviously at a disadvantage, the fans of England were never afraid of the huge number of home fans. Amidst the singing of Manchester United fans, The Newcastle fans were unmoved, and sang Newcastle's team song "coming home Newcastle" on their own, and used their actions to contribute to the away warriors.

When the Newcastle players were warming up on the field, it was after hearing this familiar team song that they turned a blind eye to the boos from the Manchester United fans. After successfully completing the warm-up, they returned to the dressing room.

The sound insulation effect of the dressing room at Old Trafford is very good. Although the loud sound waves from nearly 7 people outside can make the air hot, but when the door of the dressing room is closed, the whole dressing room immediately looks incomparable. Quiet, to use a sentence that Chinese primary school students like to use to describe it is "you can hear a needle drop on the ground".

"Okay, the game is about to start." Mourinho broke the silence: "This year, Newcastle has changed a lot of players. Even my head coach came to Newcastle this year and started to lead you. But, this It doesn't mean I don't know what happened last year, last season, on this pitch."

The old players of last season will naturally not forget, and the new players of this season have also heard about it-five to three, a considerable score, Newcastle lost this game, although they did a good job on offense, but the defense However, the opponent scored five goals in a row, including two conceded goals within 3 minutes after the start of the second half.

"I think you should be very clear." Mourinho smiled. Just when the players thought he was about to say the inciting words of "revenge and revenge", he unexpectedly said People's eye-popping words: "Now, what we have to do is to forget about that game."

"The current Newcastle is not the Newcastle of last season, and our defense is not the same as last season, so for us, there is no need to bear any burden for the [-]-[-] or [-]-[-] at home. Last season was last season, now, now. What we are going to compare with Manchester United is now!"

"They were champions last season, so what? Just because they were champions once doesn't mean they'll be champions forever, and if we haven't been champions before, it doesn't mean we'll never be champions... If that's the case, So what kind of league do we still play in? Just arrange the seats according to the results of last season, why bother to play so tired."

It was rare for Mourinho to be so humorous in the dressing room before the game, and the players also laughed, yes, what does last year's game have to do with this year?The current Newcastle is not the Newcastle of last season-otherwise, wouldn't the chairman's £8000 million be wasted?
"Okay, now let's go! This will be our performance moment in the Theater of Dreams!"

PS: The update of the 440th ticket, the fifth chapter is finished...

Haha, it's still early, I can finally go to bed early today, there will only be one chapter update tomorrow, and it's still at night, brothers, don't break the monthly pass.

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