Chapter 35
April 4, 17pm local time in England.

A match in the 33rd round of the English Premier League at Old Trafford.

Manchester United, at home against Sheffield United.

Manchester United aims to compete for the championship, and Sheffield United is committed to relegation. In this game, neither side can afford to lose.

Before the game, Manchester United coach Ferguson, after various considerations, still arranged for Fletcher to start at the right back position. He wanted to use Fletcher's experience and stability to contain the impact of Sheffield United.

Wes Brown and Heinze continue to partner as central defenders.

The starting left back is Evra.

At the goalkeeper position, Kuzchak replaced veteran van der Sar.

In the midfield position, the core Scholes and Carrick sit together, Giggs and Ronaldo are separated on both sides.

On the forward line, Rooney continued to partner with Alan Smith.

Sun Qi and Dong Fang were both sitting on the bench.

As for the Sheffield United team, Li Tie continued to raise the exemption card, and the Huaguo Derby that the domestic media touted before the game did not happen.

As soon as the game started, Manchester United had the upper hand.

In the 4th minute, after C Luo got the ball, facing Montgomery and Morgan's defense, he did not choose to rush, but crossed into Sheffield United's penalty area.

There, Carrick, who was inserted in the back row, lobbed directly from 8 yards. The ball passed the Sheffield United goalkeeper Kenny who fell to the ground and blocked it, and easily entered the net.

Manchester United made a perfect start, leading Sheffield United 1:0.

Such a goal caught Sheffield United by surprise.

After falling behind, Sheffield United had to step up their offense, hoping to score an equalizer, or even a reversal, in the hope of getting key points for relegation.

As a result of the aggressive pressure, Sheffield United's defensive line became more empty, giving Manchester United more opportunities.

Two minutes later, Carrick took possession of the ball in midfield and suddenly made a long pass, and the ball was accurately delivered to Rooney in front of the penalty area.

Rooney took the ball and dunked Sheffield United's left-back Kozluk's tackle, took advantage of the opportunity to enter the Sheffield United's penalty area, and volleyed vigorously from 11 yards.

It's a pity that Sheffield United goalkeeper Kenny has been concentrating and saved Rooney's shot with difficulty.

However, the ball fell to Rooney's feet again.

Facing the siege and blockade by Kozluk and Montgomery, Rooney, who had no room to shoot, chose to knock back and gave Scholes the ginger head.

However, Scholes' long shot from outside the penalty area went directly over the crossbar.

In the next game, Manchester United began to control the rhythm and look for better offensive opportunities. The competition between the two sides in the midfield was very fierce, and the moves were getting bigger and bigger.

Scholes fouled while defending Shelton and gave the opponent a free kick.

Fortunately, Sheffield United's free kick was not powerful and was directly confiscated by Kuzchak.

During the counterattack, when Ronaldo broke through, he was pushed and fell down by Gary, and Gary received a yellow card.

In the 20th minute of the game, Kazim Richards shoveled Evra and directly shoveled Evra.

Watching Evra fall to the ground, writhing over his feet in pain, the referee Stiles just gave a verbal warning to Sheffield United teenager Kazim Richards, which immediately aroused Manchester United's suspicion. Strong dissatisfaction.

Coach Ferguson even rushed to the sidelines, angrily protesting and complaining to the referee.

It's just that the referee's penalty has been decided, and there is no intention to change it.

In the end, Manchester United could only suffer this dark loss.

Worse news came soon, Evra was seriously injured, and he couldn't hold on to this game.

This made Ferguson even more angry and depressed.

This time, Manchester United's main defense line was basically completely damaged.

Looking at the bench, coach Ferguson hesitated back and forth between Kieran Richardson and Sun Qi.

Although he was worried that Sun Qi would act impulsively, Ferguson finally let Sun Qi replace Ivor for the first game, mainly playing the left back position.

After the game resumed, the referee's penalty was biased, which encouraged the Sheffield United players' actions.

The game had just restarted, and when Kilgalen was defending, he made a dangerous step on Manchester United striker Alan Smith, and the spikes directly tore Alan Smith's shorts.

If it wasn't for Alan Smith's timely dodge, this time, he would definitely fail.

Seeing the big moves of Sheffield United, Sun Qi narrowed his eyes dangerously.

However, this time he mainly plays left back, and his main task is still defense, and his offense is somewhat restricted.

After Alan Smith changed his shorts and played again, he was also annoyed by Sheffield United's actions.

Carrick made a long pass from the midfielder. When Alan Smith was fighting for the top, he was once again pulled by former Leeds United teammate Kilgallen with a small trick, which caused Alan Smith to fail to win the ball.

Seeing that Kilgalen passed the ball to Montgomery, and then to Kozluk, Alan Smith rushed over, with anger, directly shoveled the ball, and directly shoveled Kozluk down. on the ground.

However, such an action caused the referee Stiles to blow his whistle and gave Alan Smith a yellow card.

Such a penalty made the Manchester United players even more dissatisfied, and also fueled the arrogance of Sheffield United.

However, Manchester United's overall strength is stronger, and they still stabilized the situation, preventing Sheffield United from taking advantage of the chaos to counterattack.

In the 27th minute of the game, Giggs and Ronaldo crossed positions, changed direction and broke through Sheffield United left back Kozluk, and then passed directly into the penalty area.

Rooney outflanked the front point, but Rooney's shot was saved by Kenny again.

But the ball returned to the feet of veteran Ryan Giggs.

After getting the ball, Giggs broke through Kozluk's defense again, knocked Kozluk to the ground, and then passed it to Rooney in the penalty area.

Facing the help defense of Montgomery and Morgan, Rooney easily missed and gave the ball to Ronaldo who inserted behind.

Ronaldo shot angrily at the ball, but unfortunately, the ball hit the post heavily and missed the baseline.

After missing a goal, Ronaldo couldn't help but sighed in annoyance.

But soon, Manchester United made a comeback.

After Sun Qi steals the ball from Shelton's feet, he passes it directly to Scholes in the midfield.

Scholes passes Carrick again.

Carrick got the ball in the middle and directly passed it to Sun Qi who put in an assist from the left.

When Carrick passed the ball, Ronaldo had already started at the same time, pulling away Sheffield United's right back Kilgallen and midfielder Gary, and gave Sun Qi the space to sprint.

(End of this chapter)

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